China's Emerging Global Businesses: Political Economy and Institutional Investigations

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China has become one of the biggest exporters of goods into the global economy. Yongjin Zhang offers a detailed account of the political and economic context, both domestic and international, in which China's nascent global businesses began to emerge in the late 1980s. The analysis of changing policy regimes for China's outward investment is combined with an institutional investigation of the rise and operation of three prominent Chinese multinationals. The first systematic study available of the political economy of China's emerging global businesses, this book fills a significant gap in the literature on the transformation of the Chinese economy.

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In the world of business, nothing is as constant as change. Managers at all levels need to be able to cope with the initiation and implementation of change in organizations, departments and teams. This new book offers practical advice on managing all aspects of the change process, with hands on techniques to help managers improve their skills. Packed with mini-case studies, examples and worksheets, this guide offers essential information on-

Analyzing changing situations

Dealing with resistance and survival issues

Preparing plans and budgets for change

Monitoring results

Co-published with the Industrial Society as part of the successful How to Be Better series

Packed with tips, examples and exercises

A practical approach to a subject usually presented in the abstract

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Delightful little book on change management.......2005-09-22

This little book by David Hussey is a useful companion for those who wish to effectively and smoothly manage change in their organisations. Although the book is small, it is packed with practical advice and guidance on how to manage the change process in organisations or departments within organisations.

The rapid changes that characterise the current operating environment means that managers are almost always engaged in managing change of one form or another. To cope with the challenges of initiating and managing change can be a daunting task for most managers. I found the book to be very useful to me in managing change in my department. The areas I found most useful were on dealing with resistance to change and preparing plans and budgets for change.

The book is divided into six chapters namely:

* Introduction
* Choosing the right level of participation
* Assessing the implications of a change management situation
* Dealing with resistance and survivor issues
* Working through the change process
* Applying the change process

The book is small enough that even a busy executive is able to finish it is a short period of time. I read most of it during a long intercontinental flight. The various scenarios (small case studies) reinforce the issues presented in the book. I recommend the book to those who need a simple, easy to follow guide on how to effectively manage the change process.

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The British epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease, is only one in a series of mysterious and often fatal afflictions that have baffled scientists for more than 40 years. Deadly Feasts is a compelling account of decades of research into a family of diseases ranging from kuru in primitive human tribes to scrapie in sheep. Richard Rhodes traces the attempts of scientists to understand these strange diseases, which are now known to be transmitted by ingesting the brain or nervous tissue of infected creatures, even though the pathogen itself is an enigma that seems to be neither bacterial nor viral. Deadly Feasts is packed with historical, anthropological, and epidemiological detail, and is graphic and occasionally even alarming in its speculations.

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In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France -- and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. In a new Afterword for the paperback, Rhodes reports the latest U.S. and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat.

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In a non-fiction narrative that reads like a medical thriller, Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France -- and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. A new Afterword assesses what needs to be done to prevent a fatal epidemic. "An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry....Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully". -- John Schwartz, The Washington Post

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Engaging look at a scary set of diseases.......2004-08-20

Deadly feasts: tracking the secrets of a terrifying new plague by Richard Rhodes is one scary book. It tracks the discovery of prions, the mishapen proteins responsible for mad cow disease, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt Jacob disease. Following human cannibals in the jungles of New Guinea in the fifties, bovine cannibals of the British Isles in the eighties, and the bizarre history of sheep scrapie from the 17th century on, Rhodes does a great job of presenting the history and discovery of this bizarre group of diseases. I especially enjoyed the characterizations of the scientists, from the Noble Laureate who so enjoyed the New Guinea that he often regretted rejoining civiliziation, yet brought thirty natives back to the USA and helped them through school, to the hyper-competitive scientist who named the molecules even though he wasn't quite certain what they were.

But this isn't just a story of scientific discovery. As the foreboding subtitle blares, Rhodes explores some of the scarier aspects of prions. These include spontaneous formation, responsible for the known early cases of Creutzfeldt Jacob disease, trans-species infection, including mad cow disease and scrapie, the long long incubation period and lack of immune system response, and hardiness of the disease. One scary factoid: a scientist took a sample of scrapie, froze it, baked it for an hour at 360 degrees (celsius), and was able to re-infect other animals from this sample.

For all the uneasiness this book inspires, it certainly doesn't offer any answers. A condemnation of industrial agriculture, a warning that it's unknown whether vegetarians are even safe, and a caution against using bone meal for your flower garden do not make a recipe for handling this issue. To be fair, it was printed in 1997--perhaps things are under control now.

First, Last and Foremost.......2004-02-04

When Richard Rhodes published Deadly Feasts in 1997 it all seemed doubtful and futuristic. His investigations followed the development of this horror from the first, to 1997, and predicted the future (now). Rhodes insisted that if practices weren't changed the US would be plagued by infected cattle. Practices weren't changed, and recently cattle from the US were banned from most of the countries to whom we export. And practices still haven't changed.

If you want to read more about the future I'd suggest you read this book. Despite the passage of years there's not a better source of information about Mad Cow Disease, the protection of the US food supply, regulators bought and paid for by the regulated industry, and what the future holds for all of us.

Do Vegans Worry About Mad Eggplant Disease?.......2004-01-17

When I was an undergrad--way back in the late '70's--we were told that no concrete evidence of cultures that practiced cannibalism existed. This was back when "primitive" societies were depicted as being pure and uncorrupted by modern woes, like MTV and carjackings.

But, in fact, cannibalism has been a thriving tradition among some peoples, and has only recently been wiped out. (Maybe.) And among those who ate nervous system tissue (which would NOT be my first choice, had I been born a cannibal), kuru sometimes reared its ugly head.

Kuru is yet another variation of the encephalopathy that turns the consumer's brain into sponge, which is eventually fatal. Rhodes, always a riveting storyteller, spins the tale of research into kuru, and its parallel prion-based diseases like Mad Cow and scrapie. He also examines the cut-throat academic dispute that led some early researchers (Prusiner) to the Nobel Prize and led others, equally deserving, into oblivion.

Now, Mad Cow is in the news again. It seems we in the U.S. weren't safe, after all! Our meat processing industry has, for years, chosen to ignore warnings that selling "downer" cattle for human consumption is just WRONG. Also, we have been tweaking the diets of many food animals--not just cattle--with brain tissue-based protein, so who knows where it will turn up. We may be reading about Mad Chicken disease in a few years.

It seems that the public is either in complete denial that this is a problem, or else convinced that this is the plague of the 21st Century. I don't think we'll know for another generation, when the effects will have started to appear.

Not only that, but Chronic Wasting Disease, which affects deer and elk, has already infected at least two (that we know of) hunters who ate venison. As much as the media tries to play up the issue, and as much as the "authorities" try to play it down, we do have a problem that won't go away for awhile.

I think that, for those of us who are confirmed carnivores, we really should patronize ranchers who can offer "organic" products. That may also have the effect of increasing the number of smaller agribusinesses.

And we should be informed about this. Rhodes offers a primer on the subject that is as fascinating as it is chilling.

Cuts Through the Baloney.......2004-01-08

The spins and factual errors I was hearing on news reports about "mad cow" in the U.S. sent me back to Rhodes's excellent work for another look. Deadly Feasts is basic to a layman's understanding of the problem.

If more people read this book, we could build a better support base in this country for reforming operations of our food industry, especially how we feed and test animals to be processed for our dinner tables.

If we cheat ourselves of this knowledge, however, we'll be making the same mistake we made in the 1940s and 50s. We ignored scientific evidence of the harmful effects of radiation from atomic fission, and we sent people out to test sites just to see what might happen to them.

I don't care what the information or precautions or necessary reforms do to "the economy." I don't want my children's and grandchildren's brains wasting away 20 years from now because of the slow but relentless effect of "mad cow."

Excellent documentary but somewhat unprofessional.......2004-01-06

Deadly feasts is an extroardinary, readable, tale anyone interested in public health, medicine, and biology will enjoy reading. The tale is especially relevant now because of the spread of mad cow disease to the United States. I urge people to read this book because it will assist them in understanding the current risks facing the U.S. food supply. I also recommend the book because it is fascinating. Prion diseases are 100% lethal and transmitted in a way that defies conventional wisdom and may not be completely understood to this day.

Mr. Rhodes admirably reports that controversy remains regarding the method of transmission of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. However, I think he goes over the deep end by personally attacking/criticizing the activities of Dr. Pruisner--one of the nobel prize recipients who helped elucidate the "carrier" of prion diseases. If Dr. Prusiner intentionally tried to supress publication of alternative theories, then he has certainly violated good scientific practice. But, as Richard Feynman points out, "nature cannot be fooled," and the truth will eventually emerge regardless of what Dr. Prusiner thinks or does. Mr. Rhodes goes to the point of criticizing Dr. Prusiner for passionately advocating his own theory--maybe at the expense of delaying our arrival at the ultimate truth. We don't know what the ultimate truth is though (Dr. Prusiner may be correct) and science is a market place of ideas that eventually leads to that truth. I think Dr. Prusiner has the right to advocate his own theories, providing he reports his data accurately and fully.

A much more reprehensible matter in the book is entirely glossed over. While Dr. Prusiner's behavior is punished for pages and pages, hardly a sentence is written about the alleged sexual misconduct of another prominent nobel prize winning recipient who helped elucidate the nature of prion diseases. When placed side by side, the alleged immoral behavior of Dr. Prusiner pales in comparison to that of this other character. Mr Rhodes' fixation on criticizing Dr. Prusiner, but his comparative disregard for this other character suggests an unprofessional bias engrained in this book.

Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
Richard Stark
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4 and a half stars, really.......2004-12-02

I started reading Westlake in about 1988, and have picked up a novel every year or two since then. "I Gave At The Office" is definitely one of my favorites. If you have never read Westlake, you could hardly pick a better one to start with. I might recommend the very first, "Adios, Scheherazade" also. Like many of my favorite artists, Westlake has done some great ones, and some not so great. If the term "great" is appropriate to Westlake at all, this book is right up there.

Westlake is a rare bird, and a writer's writer, so to speak; and a pundit's pundit. His novels all speak very much of Donald Westlake himself, and his worldview. He started out with a cynical career in dimestore novels, with a worldly bent that speaks volumes about life in the way a man shakes hands, wears a hat, or drives a car, and a blunt sense of humour. He seems to especially love detective and action novels. He also has always been chimpy nutz with intense and wacky humor, and a strong delivery of aforementioned humor. "I Gave At The Office" is one of the most hilarious.

Set in the early '70s, this is the story of a down-at-the-heels news writer assigned to report on a U.S.-financed Carribean insurgency in the making, one that the news agency is so intent on that on finding nothing there, they proceed to help with said financing themselves rather than go home empty-handed. A classic Catch-22 like Westlake was the best at, save, uh, Joseph Heller. A very easy read, and hilarious, this novel would grace the back of any potty.

Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

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Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track
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Shirley Muldowney - Tales From the Track

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Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track
Shirley Muldowney , and Bill Stephens
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In the 1970s, when the idea of a woman competing successfully with men in any form of motorsports was radical notion, a young woman from Schenectady, New York, began her singular quest to change the chauvinistic mindset that prevailed in professional drag racing. Shirley Muldowney not only broke the gender barrier in the National Hot Rod Association, but also completely rewrote the record books in Top Fuel Eliminator, the sport's quickest and fastest category. She was the first woman ever to receive a Top Fuel license from the NHRA, and none other than "Big Daddy" Don Garlits was one of the veteran drivers who signed off on it. Between 1977 and 1982, Muldowney won three NHRA Top Fuel championships--the first female ever to win a title in any professional motorsport--and added an AHRA Top Fuel championship to her resume, as well. She won the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals in 1982 and, before her retirement at the end of the 2003 season, had become one of the most recognized and celebrated race car drivers in history, male or female. She was recently inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Novi, Michigan, and has been the subject of countless features in newspapers, magazines, and network television from coast to coast. Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track is an unabashed collection of stories, anecdotes, and opinions in her own unvarnished style of storytelling, laced with her straightforward, take-no-prisoners approach. She has spent her entire lifetime telling it like it is, standing up to the establishment, and refusing to do anything other than in her own way. Politically correct? Hardly. Readers are encouraged to strap themselves in when she shares her manytales. It's the whole truth and nothing but the truth according to the legendary Shirley Muldowney.

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Shirley Muldowney - Tales From the Track.......2005-11-30

Raced her 6 times in 1965 at Fonda dragstrip; won 3, lost 3. Great driver and amazingingly courageous to get back into racing after a terrible car explosion but a thoroughly unpleasant personality.
Some nice pics in the book. Book format is easy reading.

100-percent Shirley.......2005-03-19

This book is a must read for any drag racing fan interested in knowing the TRUE stories that come from one of the world's best ever drag racing champions. For those who know Shirley's background, you know she's a straight shooter and tells it the way she feels it is..most times right, sometimes not. She skillfully tells her story of what really happened in her career, from her struggles to gain entrance into a male dominated fuel racing society to becoming an NHRA champion.
All of the early days, from street racing to her first passes in real race cars, are cronicled in an easy to read format that does not allow putting the book down. Some of the best reading is when she "reviews" many, many personalities in the sport and tells how she felt about them, past and present. I've been priviledged to be a very small part of the drag racing scene, from announcing duties at Numidia Dragway in the Seventies to competing on the track with a low buck operation, and enjoyed many events where Shirley match raced at Numidia. Much of what she says is gospel, and when you decide to buy this book, buckle in your easy chair as Shirley takes you from start to finish in blazing style. She doens't cut any corners (of course not, she's a drag racer) and her feelings about how things were, how they are now, and how she encountered many drag racing "stars" will leave you feeling she's sitting right next to you telling you the way it is. If you wronged her, you get nailed in this book. If you treated her right, she also gives you credit. It's one of the best books we've read lately. You'll read about her TV appearance on Johnny Carson, years with Connie Kalitta, match race days, (much, much more) to her years of mending from her near fatal crash in Canada. Again, a must buy.

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For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate level, in jail cells and public housing projects, in convents and seminaries, in youth at-risk programs, and with groups of the terminally ill. Now, in Writing Alone and with Others, Schneider's acclaimed methods are available in a single well-organized and highly readable volume. The first part of the book guides the reader through the perils of the solitary writing life: fear, writer's block, and the bad habits of the internal critic. In the second section, Schneider describes the Amherst Writers and Artists workshop method, widely used across the U.S. and abroad. Chapters on fiction and poetry address matters of technique and point to further resources, while more than a hundred writing exercises offer specific ways to jumpstart the blocked and stretch the rut-stuck. Schneider's innovative teaching method will refresh the experienced writer and encourage the beginner. Her book is the essential owner's manual for the writer's voice.

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Thank you Pat!.......2006-08-22

I'm 50+, with education in creative writing. I've written privately and with others most of my life. Pat is the teacher for whom I've been waiting. Her voice and style are empowering. Her ability to cast light on creativity and how we teeter between fiction and non, is among the clearest I've read - balancing craft with magic. Her practical advice is just what I was looking for in leading writing groups - she is honest and approachable.

An Essential Writing Guide.......2005-10-25

If you are a writer, a prospective writing group leader, or are interested in joining a writing group, do yourself the kindness of buying and reading this book by the founder of the AWA method. I have read many books on writing over the last couple of years, including all of Natalie Goldberg's and If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland, and have found Schneider to be an unparalelled treasure trove of wisdom, gentleness, and practical advice. She speaks from many years worth of experience with writing, leading writing groups, and helping underpriveleged people find their voices in writing. She is inspirational and is the most trustworthy teacher of writing I've come across so far. She is also a excellent writer and poet herself.
In the first section of this wonderful book she gives advice to the writer writing alone, including lucid chapters on dealing with fear and maintaining discipline, and practical advice about exactly how to start and keep on writing-- what to do when you put your pen to the page-- that other books rarely give. In the second section she deals with writing groups, and the ethics of maintaining safety within those groups. Even if you are a solitary writer, this section is enlightening and moving, and if you are a writing group leader, or hope to be one, or are thinking of joining a writing group, this section is invaluable. She also discusses at length writing groups focused on empowering the underpriveleged; I found this information eye-opening and incredibly moving. In the final section she offers scores of writing practice exercises developed through countless writing group sessions. These are exercises relevant to all levels of experience in writing, which can be used for the solitary writer or in a writing group.
This book is a must-have for any dedicated writer, and Pat Schneider joins Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg, Brenda Ueland, Anne Lamott, Susan G. Wooldridge, Annie Dillard, and Virginia Woolf as an essential and luminous writing guide.

Now I know I can........2005-09-24

If you have toyed with the idea of someday becoming a writer, this book will encourage you to pursue it. Many of us doubt that we can write; Pat Schneider convinces you that you already are a writer. Whether for pleasure or for publication anyone can write. This does not, however, diminish those with extensive formal educations in writing. She means to say that anyone with the ability to take pen in hand can relay information from their heads to the paper. She does not promise a career in publishing or that others with enjoy your writing; she merely strengthens your confidence in your ability to articulate your thoughts in a physical form.
This book is the text for a my college-level writing class. The encouragement in the first chapters has everyone in the class excited about writing and anxious to get started on our projects. Some of my classmates and I have even spoke of planning a trip to Pat Schneider's home town to attend one of her workshops.
I would recommend it, however, for anyone with an interest in expressing themselves in written form. Whether you want to document your family oral history or someday publish a novel, you will find something here to help you along the way.

Destined to Be a Writing Classic.......2004-11-26

I teach several writing teleclasses and teleseminars and workshops and I am always on the look out for writing books which will both serve me as a writer and as a facilitator AND will serve my students.

"Writing Alone and With Others" by Pat Schneider does that and more.

Schneider's tone is a perfect blend of the business of writing and the sacredness of writing and the individuality of each writer.

She writes of genius within each writer - and she goes further to say "Genius needs a lifetime of dedicated practice." In this book one would certainly find a companion to nurture that dedicated practice with such a wide variety of writing exercises that anyone and everyone would find gold.

My favorite chapters include: Chapter 3: Toward a Disciplined Writing Life and Chapter 7: Growing as a Writer. I had really looked forward to hearing Schneider's take in Chapter 9: The Ethical Questions: Spirituality, Privacy and Politics. I wasn't sure why or how Spirituality fit into that equation, and I still don't after reading the chapter.

In re-reading it, I see how Schneider speaks of "ethical questions in writing will of necessity touch our most primal spiritual orientation" so seeing that, perhaps the chapter would have been better titled differently. Even so, it doesn't detract from the content of the book, it is simply a moment of saying "Hmmm. That is interesting. I wonder what is up with that?"

I can not recommend this book highly enough for all writers at all stages of creative growth. It is expansive and expanding, intriguing and evocative. It is bound to become a classic - if the writers of the future are especially blessed..

"Eureka!" Finally a book on what REALLY is "writing".......2004-11-15

It was only two or three pages into the introduction of this book before I realized that Pat Schneider had given me the one book on writing I had looked for my entire life.

The great barrier between each of us and our own unique genius is fear. Writing -- at least deep, personal writing -- results from a direct confrontation with that fear. Some writers abandon their genius for fear of the pain of introspection. Others develop the courage to face themselves and move forward. Genius can flourish within an incubator of safety, self-confidence, focus, and practice. A nurturing environment allows some the freedom to take greater risks and plumb greater depths of personal understanding than those trapped within the cycle of their own fears.

By perfectly articulating the unspoken dread that many writers face when they seat themselves before the empty page, Schneider puts a face on the unseen enemy -- the writer him- or herself -- and allows one to move forward and deal with issues that otherwise may remain unidentified. Schneider demonstrates how to confront these scenarios not only to the solitary writer, but within the group workshop experience as well. As someone who has participated in workshops AND faced the terror of "alone," I can attest that her book can touch in a single sitting what sometimes years of therapy fails to unmask.

As theraputic as the book may be for one's writing, it may or may not be a therapy for the writer. As Schneider says in her book, "Whether or not writing heals the writer is irrelevant. What matters is the power of the work itself." This book is about writing and resolution, not about self-healing, though often the two go hand-in-hand.

This book should become a staple for all high school or university creative writing classes or for any writing class -- fiction or no -- that aims to put the writer in touch with his inner voice. In the beginning each of us brings so much unnecessary baggage to the pen or to the keyboard. And there is so much to regret for the needless time we lose in learning to know ourselves. Let's get on with it.

The Writer As an Artist: A New Approach to Writing Alone and With Others

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It's a pretty good start, but...
An Inviting Way to Look at Creativity
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This book offers help to individual writers and leaders of writing groups. Included are 50 writing exercises and a complete description of the Amherst Writers & Artists workshop method. "I'm excited to see this useful and eloquent book." -Peter Elbow. "A kind of love letter from one writer to other writers... this most reassuring book on writing." -Sojourner

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It's a pretty good start, but..........2003-02-18

This book won't give the same results for everyone precisely because of the approach it takes. Like so many other writing 'how to' books, it straddles the line between instruction and self-help therapy. In the same vein, Schneider chooses to focus largely (but no exclusively) on would-be writers who are damaged and female.

The AWA method (pioneered by Schneider) is an established and sometimes incredibly useful way to workshop for many people. But it's not for everyone. This book unfortunately will be too touchy-feely for a lot of writers who are looking to simply strengthen and improve their craft. The exercise ideas are good, often great. But the text itself slides toward the 'writers must bare all their private pains and anguishes to be able to write anything worth the effort' philosophy so popular these days.

The truth is, this is just one way of looking at writing, and I would say it is an approach that's counterproductive in the long run. It is capable of sometimes producing extraordinary writing, but far too often produces introspective self-flagellating drivel. Write what you know, write what's inside, yes! But turn outward, too, and write what you see and experience and can describe! Find a nurturing environment, yes! But challenge yourself and visit dangerous places outside your head, too!

I have heard that a second edition of this book is in progress. I am optimistic it will reach further and strive for more depth. Otherwise, it may feel like this first edition: it tries to be a great book about the writing process, but too often succumbs to the temptation to become a poor-man's psychoanalyst.

An Inviting Way to Look at Creativity.......2001-06-29

This book is outstanding! Out of the many books I have recently read about writing & art, this far the best. The author has a way of inviting you in as an writer of many genres, having you feeling legitimate in your aspirations to write and create. This book is inspiring and nurturing in its content and delivery. Her methodology for writing is one that I personally plan to pursue (The Amherst Writers and Artists Method). This is a must read book for the spoken word artists!

Schneider's Suggestions Work.......2000-10-27

As a writing teacher in a maximum security women's prison, I meet with great reluctance from students when it comes to writing. Many of them have had terrible school experiences wherein they've suffered humilation and failure. Who doesn't remember having an essay returned with a zillion red-penned corrections? Thus, it's essential to create a safe environment before students can even begin to find their voices. Pat Schneider's gentle technigues ensure an atmosphere where trust develops, and marginalized women can begin to share their stories. The exercises in The Writer as an Artist are appropriate for a wide writing population, and Schneider provides step by step suggestions for establishing a writing community where self-expression can flourish. As a teacher and writer, I am grateful for the book's practical advice, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in writing alone or in a group.

Sensible Advice and Excellent Writing Exercises.......2000-08-09

This book is an invaluable resource for writers and for people who lead writing groups. It's the book I use to help me lead my own writing workshops. It's also the book that I recommend most often to writers in my workshops, both new writers and people who have written a lot already. Everyone always gives this book a rave review and thanks me for telling them about it. The book is full of encouraging advice and a long list of writing exercises. The writing suggestions are varied and well-presented. This is definitely a book about writing that should be better known. It's my absolute top pick of all the books on writing that are out there.

Sensible Advice and Excellent Writing Exercises.......2000-08-09

This book is an invaluable resource for writers and for people who lead writing groups. It's the book I use to help me lead my own writing workshops. It's also the book that I recommend most often to writers in my workshops, both new writers and people who have written a lot already. Everyone always gives this book a rave review and thanks me for telling them about it. The book is full of sensible advice and a long list of writing exercises. The writing suggestions are varied and well-presented. This is definitely a book about writing that should be better known. It's my absolute top pick of all the books on writing that are out there.

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Pat Schneider
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Capturing The Magic Of Light: In Watercolor
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Capturing The Magic Of Light: In Watercolor
Susan D. Bourdet
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Capturing light is a challenge all watercolorists struggle with. Whether depicting sunlight, backlighting, shadows, or even textures, these artists need the instruction in Capturing the Magic of Light in Watercolor to create realistic-looking paintings. By breaking down the topic into simple concepts, best-selling North Light author Susan D. Bourdet shows watercolor artists at any level how to:

-Take reference photos with exciting light and translate them into a believable composition -Develop their painting skills, including masking, washes, glazing and textures -Use color and light hand-in-hand to build form and shape -Bring light out in a range of subjects, from wildlife and gardens to interiors to everyday objects

With over 20 step-by-step demonstrations, mastering this perennially popular topic has never been easier.

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Book as gift.......2007-01-04

This book was purchased as a birthday gift for our daughter-in-law, who is an amateur painter. It arrived just in time and we thank you for the service.

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