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Studies consistently show that quality leadership development programs pay off for companies -- in the form of shareholder returns, market share growth, and sales. However, many companies have inadequate leadership development programs. This book challenges traditional views of leadership development with a perspective that focuses on recognizing leadership as a source of competitive advantage. If you're a manager or an HR leader,
The Leadership Gap offers the practical, effective strategies you need to close the leadership gap in your organizations, unleashing leadership potential for better business results and a sustainable competitive advantage.
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Organization Behavior and Change Managing Human Resources for Organizational Effectiveness
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The Major Histocompatibility Complex Region of Domestic Animal Species (Crc Series in Comparative Immunology)
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The major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) is one of the few identified gene systems in domestic animals that is associated with quantitative traits such as disease resistance, immune response, growth, and reproduction. As knowledge of this important system increases, we move closer toward the reality of genetic enhancement of animal welfare and production efficiency. This book represents the current state of knowledge on the Mhc of agriculturally important animals and explores the latest advances in technology. For the first time, the unique findings of recent Mhc research are presented in a single source. The Major Histocompatibility Complex Region of Domestic Animal Species begins with a discussion of the evolution of Mhc. The chapters are then organized with respect to specific species, with a chapter devoted to each. The Mhc of mice and humans are used as a common reference for comparisons between diverse species. The text concludes with a look at future strategies and directions in Mhc research. Comparative immunologists and geneticists, veterinarians, animal breeders, researchers, and university and postgraduate students will all benefit from this detailed look at the evolution, structure, and organization of Mhc.
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From single-celled embryo to fully grown human, Dr. Betts charts the major systems of the body, its interrelated organs and the revelations of microbiology. Find out why you couldn’t live without bacteria or cholesterol; how your kidneys and lungs are mirror images of each other; and why you are a mix of your grandparents but only a meeting of your parents. Illustrated with rare historical engravings and beautiful contemporary drawings, The Human Body charms and informs as it reveals how the most complex organism in the world fits together.
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Beware! This may be a small book for you but a giant leap forward for us all!.......2005-08-20
Dr Moff Betts really did it ! So nicely too! He wrote perfectly well for novices and deep enough for medical specialists alike. He also wrote in a manner which is intelligent beyond description, for he didn't forget what makes us all fit together. Who would believe that in the age of information overflow, such a small pamphlet could still raise more than eyebrows and still be so fulfilling... Here is a medical doctor who mentions everything in the human body, complete with something-definitely-not-flesh-and-bones alone. The book starts unexpectedly with a strange illustration of a human iris. From anatomy to kundalini and from energy to irismeisters it's all here, in less than 70 pages. So here you are reading about an author who knows the fine details of his trade. He professes that special brand of medicine which is neither conventional nor alternative, but " true medicine ". And what on Earth is this " true " medicine ?
It's medicine which is the same over millennia. It's medicine which works for a given patient at a given time, irrespective of what Big Pharma might think, like us to think, or only pay others to think about... I once lost faith in official medicine, you know, the one sponsored by the Big Fives, the one where you don't touch the patient but you work through piles of paper, and the one which cuts, poisons and burns bodies... I've been a different person eversince that blessed vision came to me. This author also seems to share official and " integral " views on medicine when he writes " The clearest piece of living tissue you can see without cutting into someone is an iris ; looking at someone else's avoids the left-right flip in the mirror. Not two are the same, not even in one head. Irismeisters can see your whole body mapped onto the iris... ". Is this " conflict of interest " the same brand of conflict as the one so famously reported by USA Today ? That one concerned the Food and Drug Administration paying for " objective " assessments the same people who were paid by the drug industry to promote the same products for, allegedly " not having enough competent judges " ? Definitely not ! Anyway, if you still fit together, it's not because of industrial medicine, but because Somebody still cares to think about you in terms of integers...
A wonderful and beautiful book.......2004-09-03
This is the most beautiful book I have yet seen on the Human Body, and it's tiny! It was reviewed as follows in THE LANCET, the top British medical journal, in Aug 04: "The renaissance of anatomy heralded by Vesalius in 1543, and the physiological discoveries of the ensuing centuries, "has exploded us into innumerable bits, mostly studied in dead humans or half-dead furry mammals, a far cry from a whole". So writes Moff Betts, a Welsh doctor, in the first of nearly 30 short and witty passages accompanied by beautiful woodcuts in this pocket-sized gift book. Descriptions of DNA, the cell, embryology, and the heart are curi-ously interspersed with the ancient humours, the odd numerology of bodily proportions, and eastern systems of chakras and kundalini. Betts fosters a sense of overall connectedness despite chasms of scale and religion. I felt I was reading a distillation of ancient alchemical tomes, a 19th-century Matt Ridley, or perhaps even Paracelsus for Dummies, and while the text is beguilingly simple, it is neither dumbed down nor stripped of scientific vocabulary.The descriptions are rich and artful, and typically within a stone's throw of modern scientific understanding. An example: "the thymus shrinks after your first birthday, and by dotage it has all but been replaced by fat cells. So as the years roll by, the school of discrimination between self and nonself gradually fades, a thymic idea of what one life is." If some chapters reach too far into cleverness, or fail to escape the necessary triteness of explaining molecular biology in a page, these sins are forgivable. Betts delights in connections between the molecular and the cosmic, conveying a sense of mystery and a love of his subject. One chapter ends: "the cockles of your heart are warmth-sensitive organelles whose anatomical location has yet to be discovered." Feel your chest as you finish reading this book-there they are.
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Very Informative and Well Researched.......2006-05-09
Matthew A. Billie has written a wonderful book, for anyone fascinated with the continual search for the rare and unclassified in the Animal Kingdom. There are so many possibilities of the maybe still out there, that there is hope for even the most endangered. And this book brings out so many times, the times we thought we had lost a species, only to rediscover them in some hidden locale. And I like that.
Broken into three parts, we first are wowed with the many recent discoveries, even late into the 20th Century. Recent Discoveries.
Then we are enlightened about the thought-to-be-extinct, but rediscovered. Presumed Extinct.
And lastly, we enter into the world of the unknown. At least to the non-locals, for to many of the natives, they are just another species they are very aware of. The Mystery Animals.
Mr. Billie has done his research well, and shows great knowledge of the animal kingdom. Hopefully, more works in this area will follow from this author.
cryptozoological book.......2003-10-01
this is the definitive book on cryptozoology, although short in length. it is very informative and the author has shown a rare intellect and avoidance of sensationalism; if you're looking for bigfoot or loch ness monster, look elsewhere. this book belongs in the science section of a bookstore, not new age. very critically reasoned and an important work. i wish it was longer and more lavishly illustrated. must buy
Who'd ha' thunk it?.......2001-06-29
There are more things in heaven and earth... and, remarkably, Matt Bille has tracked a lot of them down. Furred, hooved, beaked and feathered Bille has assembled a parade of lost, found, forgotten and never suspected creatures. Exhaustively researched, well organized and extremely well written this book ends with a fascinating excursion into the what ifs of the animal kingdom. Anyone who has doubts about the importance of doing our utmost to protect the environment and by extension the diversity of the natural world should be offered this book as proof of the value of preserving both.
Excellent presentation of unknown & barely known animals.......1997-04-05
Bille does the cryptozoological world a favor by this book which updates recent discoveries, losses, and new leads on unknown and undiscovered animals. It could be argued that, with the amazing discoveries coming out of the Viet Nam jungles, a book of this sort is necessary on a yearly basis, just to keep up! The author does not pursue the "spectacular" cryptids, such as sasquatch or lake monsters, but focuses instead on the very real small primates, fishes and reptiles that make up our world. If I have one complaint, it would be that the author owes us a book on the spectacular ones now
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This is a 192-page 'How-to" book that lets you in on the mobile lifestyle that millions are enjoying. It covers what you need to consider before you make that big decision to go on the road full-time or for an extended time. It gives you ideas on what you need to take, and how to get rid of remainder of your "stuff." The author suggests ways to maintain relationships with church, family, and friends. She tells how you might find part-time work if you need to supplement your retirement income or how to go about volunteering to let your finances grow for a few months.
The book discusses insurances, what to consider if you take up a new state residence, and how to deal with mail-forwarding and telephone problems. One chapter deals with safety, another how to cross the borders into Mexico or Canada. You will learn what organizations are available and the pros and cons of buying a new or used RV. Chapter three shows you Minshall's monthly budget, and the proposed budget of someone who was just starting into full-time RVing. It will give you ideas on what to consider.
In getting down to the nitty gritty of extended RVing, you can learn from the author's years of experience in daily full-timing, black and grey water sewers, credit cards, logs, voting, and information sheets. She also goes into attitudes, hobbies, and possibility-thinking as far as where to go and what to do. Between informational chapters, there are "Tween Chapers'"that give you insight into humorous and/or the more thought-provoking "moments in time" of this author RVer.
Get the straight scoop from someone who has lived the lifestyle and continues to love it well into her thirteenth year. The book is non-technical, easy to read, and informative.
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Great Comprehensive Fulltime Lifestyle Book.......2002-11-06
The previous individual to comment on this book seems not to understand what the word "approximate" means. This is one of the most comprehensive "How to" books that my wife and I have read concerning our chosen way of life. Ms. Minshall has included many of the minor details that other fulltime lifestyle books on the market today have left out. We can guarantee you that without knowledge of these "minor details", inevitably small problems will become major ones. "Charlie" has shared this information with wit and humor and in a writing style that allows the reader to stop, re-read the last sentence or paragraph, and then proceed without losing the main thought. We find this book a "must-read" for anyone contemplating a fulltime lifestyle on the road
Sharlene can't do the math !.......2002-10-15
In her introduction, the first two pages, Sharlene tells us she left her home on June 1st but was delayed by engine problems and unable to depart until June 2nd and arrived at her daughter's home on June 12 yet it still took her 12 days between June 2nd and June 12! She brags about being able to cash in on her "over 62 years of age" senior discount but she is losing "time" somewhere. Then, this is a direct quote "I spent approximately $400 on gasoline, paying roughly $1.59 to $1.99/gal (just outside Yosemite). I normally get six-mpg and I probably average fifty mph, but I was still having engine problems that were finally fixed in Leavenworth. I drove $1,800 miles in twelve days and it cost me $33 a day for gasoline."(unquote). She says she gets 6 mpg, drove 1,800 miles, paid between $1.59 to $1.99 per gal for a total of $396.00! YOU DO THE MATH!
My husband and I want to sell our home, buy an RV and travel full time. We have spent $100's of dollars on books researching the full time lifestyle. I was totally turned off by this book...
Gutsy Grandma's Good Advice.......2001-03-27
Charlie Minshall has logged more than 200,000 miles over the highways and byways of the northern hemisphere and that rightly qualifies her as an expert RVer. However, she is a crackerjack of a writer, too. So, if you find yourself afflicted with a strong wanderlust, reading her book, "Full-Time RVing: How to Make it Happen," just might introduce you to a perfect cure for your ailment while entertaining you mightily.
Minshall combines a wonderful sense of humor in her style of writing together with some down-to-earth common sense. She covers the basic how-tos of traveling full-time as well as the equipment necessary to make an RV a home. This is one knowledgeable grandma! Have some family members who discourage your adventuresome cravings? Minshall shares how she continues to enjoy family and maintain close relationships even while exploring all the wonderful nooks and crannies of this country. If you are considering adopting the RV lifestyle, this book is a must-read.
Full-Time RVing How to Make it Happen.......2000-08-24
This book by Sharlene Minshall was very good once you dug past the cutesy talk and "down-home" phrases, and stories. There is a lot of information about taxes, voting, mail forwarding and other things to do before you leave on your RV. The chapter dealing with travel in Mexico and Canada were very helpful, giving a lot of insight into crossing the borders. The back of the book holds a great resource section and a glossary for those of us not quite familiary with RV life. All in all, I would say this was a good book.
This book makes you want to hit the road!.......1999-10-11
Sharlene Minshall has written a book that makes avid Rvers ready to hit the road with sights set on new adventures. Whether desiring to be a full-time Rver or simply just a weekend camper, this book is chocked full of vital information to make any trip a success. Ms. Minshall shares exciting adventures, thoughtful advice, and helpful tips. This book is bound to make the reader want to jump off the couch and hit the road on a new RV adventure!
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New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross, according to this book's preface, is said to have asked writer James Thurber once, with bewilderment, "Is Moby Dick the man or the whale?" Well, even Homer nods (Horace). But, Harold! Thou shouldst be living at this hour (Wordsworth). Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions is a Big Rock Candy Mountain (American folk song) for anyone who feels amid the alien corn (Keats) when it comes to understanding allusions everyone else seems to grok (Heinlein). Thanks to the blood, sweat, and tears (Churchill) of authors Elizabeth Webber and Mike Feinsilber--compiling this allusional Rosetta stone must have taken a Herculean, nay Brobdingnagian (Swift) effort--we can come in from the cold (popularized by le Carré) of the dark night of the soul (St. John of the Cross) and dine out on (G. Gordon Liddy and others) these allusions for years to come. --Jane Steinberg
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A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.
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years old, but still fun and educational to read.......2007-05-19
This is like a shorter, more accessible, and American version of Brewer's Dictionary, which this book does cite as a reference. Other differences are that this provides a pronunciation guide for certain words and that contextual examples are drawn mostly from periodicals pre-1999.
It includes allusions to poems ("snows of yesteryear" and "waste its sweetness on the desert air"), the Bible ("Sodom and Gomorrah"), 20th century novels ("Peyton Place" and the "Snopes family" in Faulkner's works), Latin usage ("ex cathedra") and TV ("Eddie Haskell" and "Ozzie and Harriet").
There are explanations of such terms as Daliesque, scorched earth, ignorant armies (forces blindly fighting with each other with no understanding of whom they are fighting or why), gnomes of Zurich, Walpurgis Night, zero-sum game, Mobius strip, Peter Principle, Heimlich maneuver, and non-denial denial.
Reading it, I also learned that the NSA was known as the "puzzle palace."
Fabulous!.......2006-09-30
I am addicted to this amazing little book. If you are at all a fan of language, or if, as many have mentioned, you simply wish to be entertained, this is your book. As would perhaps be expected, its authors are quite erudite themselves, and the journalists and writers that they quote are also top notch. This is my #1 read and I take it everywhere!!! Great for improving one's cultural literacy.
Lots of Content.......2003-08-14
The Merriam-Webster's dictionary of allusion has far more information than the Oxford Dictionary of Allusion. In addition, the allusions are more contempory than the Oxford. Over a week's time I read the dictionary from cover to cover. I came away with a week's entertainment, a better understanding of some phrases, and understanding of some phrases I had totally misunderstood for years. A fine book, I wish I had bought a hard cover edition.
This book is fun........2003-04-20
I own this book and have given copies away to family and friends. Most people who pick this book up and open it to almost any page will learn something, be reminded of something they forgot, or maybe get straightened out on a misconception they had. Rarely will they put it down without having enjoyed the experience.
When was learning ever this much fun?.......2000-02-21
Open Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions to any page and you're bound to learn a thing or two..or three...or more. You'll also smile at the journey that brought you to new insights. The authors have done a masterful job of illuminating the language with scholarship and wit. So much brighter, lighter, enlightening and fun than most reference books--but no less useful.
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The second of three books published by the Center for Environmental Structure to provide a "working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning," A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own. Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design.
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"Brilliant....Here's how to design or redesign any space you're living or working in--from metropolis to room. Consider what you want to happen in the space, and then page through this book. Its radically conservative observations will spark, enhance, organize your best ideas, and a wondrous home, workplace, town will result"--San Francisco Chronicle. This classic handbook presents a language which ordinary people can use to express themselves in their own communities or homes, and to better communicate with each other.
Customer Reviews:
a patatern language.......2007-10-03
This is an amazing book for anyone interested in building, remodeling or buying a home. It points out basic tenents of architecture that go across cultural lines. It is easy to read and retain.
A must-read for the custom home builder........2007-09-14
I knew nothing about this book before the purchase other than it was something I might want to read in preparation for building a house.
Originally published in 1977 by the Center For Environmental Structure, Berkeley, Calif, A Pattern Language is #2 in a series of 3 and reviewed as a working document for a new theory of architecture, building and planning.
It definitely is that and so much more. In fact, the total tonnage of information contained in this book would stop a team of oxen in it's tracks.
As a practical purchase, this book definitely fills the bill. At half the cost at publication, you can't go wrong.
A Pattern Language.......2007-09-05
A must read for anyone designing their own house. I talks about the functional relationships in a house rather than the construction itself. Every community or home architect should read this book.
you'll have fun with this one.......2007-08-04
my cousin built her thick walled adobe home in northern colorado using the ideas in this book. they work. the home is a delight to be in; cozy and warm and strong and earthy at the same time. the book is a very idealistic view of the world as it now stands; it's inspired by the basic drives in all of us for community and privacy and deals admirably with the trade-off. it's not just about spaces we live in and how to make them nurturing and compelling. it's also about how to create communities that entice rather than alienate. we all know strip malls are appalling at a very fundamental level. this book explains why and offers valid alternatives. unfortunately, builders and developers don't get it or make more money their way so to see healthy, working examples of a pattern language you have a much easier time finding examples in old europe (mediterrnaean villages in particular).
"One of the great books of the century"........2007-07-25
Alexander tried to show that architecture connects people to their surroundings in an infinite number of ways, most of which are subconscious. For this reason, it was important to discover what works; what feels pleasant; what is psychologically nourishing; what attracts rather than repels. These solutions, found in much of vernacular architecture, were abstracted and synthesized into the "Pattern Language" about 20 years ago.
Unfortunately, although he did not say it then, it was obvious that contemporary architecture was pursuing design goals that are almost the opposite of what was discovered in the pattern language. For this reason, anyone could immediately see that Alexander's findings invalidated most of what practicing architects were doing at that time. The Pattern Language was identified as a serious threat to the architectural community. It was consequently suppressed. Attacking it in public would only give it more publicity, so it was carefully and off-handedly dismissed as irrelevant in architecture schools, professional conferences and publications.
Now, 20 years later, computer scientists have discovered that the connections underlying the Pattern Language are indeed universal, as Alexander had originally claimed. His work has achieved the highest esteem in computer science. Alexander himself has spent the last twenty years in providing scientific support for his findings, in a way that silences all criticism. He will publish this in the forthcoming four-volume work entitled "The Nature of Order". His new results draw support from complexity theory, fractals, neural networks, and many other disciplines on the cutting edge of science.
After the publication of this new work, our civilization has to seriously question why it has ignored the Pattern Language for so long, and to face the blame for the damage that it has done to our cities, neighborhoods, buildings, and psyche by doing so.
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