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The authors—two highly-respected economists and educators—have revised this best-selling book to include more current, modern topics and events while maintaining its hallmark features.
This book begins with an introduction to economics, and moves through coverage of the foundations of microeconomics, market imperfections and the role of government, and the world economy.
For financial officers and economics professionals making pecuniary decisions and analyses.
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Find out what it takes to become an effective consultant!
In order to succeed as a change agent and consultant we must clarify our own purpose, motivation, and relationship with our careers. The Conscious Consultant--a book in The Practicing Organization Development Series--offers a much-needed road map and powerful tool that consultants can use to perform a personal assessment of foundational principles in order to achieve greater integrity and alignment with personal values and career. The book's Active Change Model creates an understanding of what it takes to become an effective consultant who practices wisdom by making conscious choices in a thoughtful and wholehearted manner, choices that will positively influence the work that is done with all clients.
"At last! A much-needed book primarily and effectively focused on the consultant's continuing quest for personal awareness--both looking deeply for one's true inner self and outward for that self in relation to clients. I do strongly agree with the author's basic thesis that we cannot expect our clients to embrace change unless we personally embrace it ourselves."
--Bob Tannenbaum, emeritus professor of the development of human systems, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National OD Network
Customer Reviews:
Great Book!.......2002-10-28
This is a great book for anyone, not just consultants. It clearly explains the value and process of personal and organizational change. The material is useful, practical, and immediately applicable. I highly recommend it as a book that you will use again and again.
Great Book!.......2002-10-28
You don't have to be a consultant to enjoy this book. It's a wonderful explanation about personal change and how it is accomplished. One person told me that it contained everything she had learned through years of therapy, in an elegant, enjoyable style. I will use this book over and over. My business has already expanded because of what I have learned from it.
Effective Consulting.......2002-10-22
I have always focused on the client, but this book deftly describes how my own thoughts and process help or impede a positive outcome. It is correctly titled because it truly does bring the "conscious" to the consultant. I highly recomended it.
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A Day in the Life of a Victorian Farm Worker
Frank E. Huggett
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Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland
W. E. Vaughan
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This is a study of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland between the great famine and the land war. Based on a remarkably wide range of primary sources, most notably collections of estate papers, it is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis, in which W.E. Vaughan explores evictions, rents, tenant right, estate management, agrarian outrages, and tenants' resistance to landlords. Dr Vaughan questions many assumptions about landlord-tenant relations that have previously been uncritically accepted.
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My Secret Life: The Sex Diaries of a Victorian Gentleman: Adventures on My Aunt's Farm, Vol II
Walter
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ASIN: 1845883470 |
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Adventures on My Aunt's Farm is the second volume of the collected diaries in which the author's debauchery continues apace. The provocative follow-up to Early Memories, it provides yet another look into the dark realm of Victorian-era sexual exploitation.
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A Victorian Farm House
Margaret Bateson ,
Herman Lelie , and
Maggie Bateson
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ASIN: 0312089317 |
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Charming!.......2004-12-24
I bought this for children, but adults find it irrisistable too! We ended up keeping it on a coffee table for the holidays, and all company insisted on playing with it, looking at details, and calling out their findings to each other.
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Victorian Farms
Roy Bridgen
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The Victorian Village
David Souden
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The laboratory exercises in this manual are coordinated with Human Biology, a text that has two primary functions: 1) to understand how the human body works and 2) to understand the relationship of humans to other living things in the biosphere. This laboratory manual can be adapted to a variety of course orientations and designs. There are a sufficient number of laboratories to permit a choice of activities over the length of the course. Many activities may be performed as demonstrations rather than as student activities, thereby shortening the time required to cover a particular concept.
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Fitzgerald's powerful photos and Hasselstrom's inspiring text present this awesome beast in its ancient and contemporary grandeur.
Customer Reviews:
Monarch of the Plains.......2007-06-27
This is a beautiful book, very well done. The photos in it are excellent. We give this book out to our Speakers at conferences. It is a great coffee table book.
Some very nice pictures, not a lot of information.......2005-03-16
I found this book to be interesting, with a lot of nice pictures, but sort of short on information. It's 128 pages long, many of them full page photos (which no doubt cut down the number of possible information pages)and is divided into several sections. Much of the book is done from a sort of American Indian perspective telling of their traditions and uses, conflicts with the white man. Later on you get some stuff on the buffalo hunting period, that's also interesting if not entirely error free (in one place the dates are given as 1934 and 1947, that should be 18, not 19. They also call buffalo rifles .50 caliber when one photo clearly shows mention of other calibers).
Apparently a huge number of animals were killed even in the early pre- 1870's years.
The last part of the book tells of efforts to save the remainders of the great herds and how that's worked out as well as hopes for the future.
I'd liked to have had much more information (there are notes & a reading list at books end)but did really appreciate the large selection of photographs, most of them modern but some historical, that included not only the buffalo but some of the things made from or related to them. This is the real reason to buy the book.
Outstanding photography.......2001-12-16
If you love the Great Plains and have a heart for the prairie, this book will delight you. The photography in here is outstanding. After working with buffalo earlier this year, this was a book I had to get. Some of the photos, including the cover photo, bring not only the sights but also the smells and sounds of the giant herds to mind. These photos are worth more than 1,000 words... because they speak to my prairie heart.
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Revised and updated. This is a short topo guide to the most popular of the great routes and crags of Yosemite Valley. The intent is to give an overview of the major routes on El Capitan, Half Dome and the cragging areas of Cookie Area, Glacier Point Apron, and Arch Rock.
Customer Reviews:
Rock Climbing Yosemite's Select.......2006-11-11
A good overview of a lot that the valley has to offer. Not a whole lot of detail on anything in particular though.
keep shopping.......2001-08-21
This book is not good at all. I lived in the valley for 2 months this summer and have learned to hate it. Despite the previous rating, Don Reid is DEFINITELY no master at getting you to the climb itself. He often has only a sentence or two telling you how to get to hard to locate climbs. Furthermore, the so called stars by the "best climbs" often mark some of the worst cracks....
Disappointing..........2001-08-10
I thought this book looked just great. And reading the introduction increased my enthusiasm. The discussion of common causes of disaster is both fascinating and educational.
Unfortunately, the brevity of this book has resulted in a lack of crucial information. The staggering magnitude of the rock faces at Yosemite means that a lot of pages of topos are needed, and this book seems to have over-economized. We set out to climb the North Buttress of Middle Cathedral (DNB), and wandered back and forth for hours trying to identify the route from the scanty description. Nor was this the only disaster: we then wandered up the valley and repeated the sorry experience looking for another route.
Verdict: very pretty, but if you are going to do any climbing, look for a more comprehensive guide instead.
All Guide Books Should Be This Good.......2001-01-09
The most important function of any climbing guide book (in my opinion) is getting you to your selected route. Great topos are vital, but if you can never find the route...what does it matter. Don Reid is a master at both getting you there and great topo beta. Even if it is your first time in the Valley, the book gives such great directions you would be hard pressed to get lost. And, as always, Don is a master topo "artist". Don't accept any cheap substitutes, this is the book to have.
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Cajun Self Taught: Learning to Speak the Cajun Language
Compact Disc Audio Companion to the book, Cajun Self Taught, provide the listener with Rev. Daigle's actual pronunciations of the words and phrases in the book.
Set of three audio compact discs.
Customer Reviews:
BIG BOOK.......2007-06-01
My first impression of this book was about its size. It is big, REALLY BIG. I mean in physical size. You are not going to be able to throw this book into your backpack and carry it with you as you travel. There will be no pulling it out to read on the train or in bed before going to sleep (unless you want to use it as pillow). Currently it is the biggest book I own. Keep in mind that I don't think the size is a bad think, just an inconvenient thing.
This book assumes that the reader is somewhat already familiar with Cajun French. The author goes a long way in trying to get the point accross to the reader that there is nothing wrong with Cajun French. This is likely a response to the U.S. government's policy of trying to prevent the use of French in Louisiana that continues to this day. It is also likely a response to many of the French speakers who attempt to constantly correct Louisiana French speakers in grammar and speach. Rev. Daigle takes the possition that there is nothing wrong with the way Louisiana French is used in Louisiana if communication is taking place. If French people from France don't think it is correct "French" then it must instead be a New Language. The book looks to Louisiana French speakers to be the buyers and promotes itself as the text book they should have learned from in school if it weren't for unjust laws that prevent the teaching of French.
If you don't already know French or do not have access to a primer or grammar text this book would be tough for you. Getting a teacher would help a LOT. The book focusses on the building of vocabulary and idiom usage and doesn't give basic material for complete beginners. The intended audience of this book again are Louisiana French speakers and this book attempts to get them literate and well spoken in a language they already know. One of the best features of this book is the phonic code that shows a lot of work. However, this is yet another English to French phonic system to get to the correct French pronunciation. The tapes that should also be purchased help a great deal to get the hang of the phonic system.
The Cajun French presented in this book is essentially regular French that is intelligible to any other French speakers. This book is a great resource to get into the mood of Cajun French once basic French is achieved. The big lesson to learn from this book is that you shouldn't try to correct Louisiana French speakers or try to stop French from being spoken or they just might start calling their language a new language and not listen to you.
Learning Cajun Made Easy.......2007-03-22
I was so greatful to find a tool that would help me expand my knowledge of my native tongue. This book is easy to comprehend and gives you great information about this beautiful language and culture.
A good Cajun tutorial if you already know standard French.......2003-01-06
Probably the most important feature of this book is its existence - without the work of people like Rev. Daigle Cajun French might die out entirely. That said I'm not sure that I entirely agree with all of the good father's opinions, starting with his decision to call the language Cajun rather than Cajun French. I've known my share of Cajuns that failed French at LSU but I suspect that's because they were taking it in an attempt to get out having to study a foreign language and consequently didn't put much effort into their studies. Many, if not most, of the differences in grammar and pronunciation with standard French that Father Daigle points out are common features of spoken colloquial French in France today, particularly among rural people in the parts of France where Cajuns originate. The biggest difference between the languages is in vocabulary and as Father Daigle points out, this is a natural outgrowth of over two centuries of life in Louisiana separated from standard French and being surrounded by an English speaking country. The fact that Cajuns speak of "les pickup-trucks" and such is not sufficient to constitute a separate language. Placed in a room together, a Cajun and a Frenchman will quickly figure out how to communicate and where they have difficulties it will most likely be because of differences in American and French culture rather than the language. My father can relate a story of a French engineer from the utility company in Paris arriving in New Orleans for a conference. She was able to converse quite freely in French with the Cajun engineer who picked her up at the airport although they used English to conduct business, as the Cajun engineer did not know the "correct" French electrical engineering terminology.
With that said, I feel that if you speak Cajun French then you probably don't need the book (although the dictionary might be useful) and unless you live down in Cajun country or can study Cajun French at LSU or one of the other universities in Louisiana that offer it, it would be best to study standard French first and then use the book to see what the differences are. This book simply doesn't constitute a language course either alone or with the dictionary and tapes and there just aren't enough resources available to make the study of Cajun French practical without resorting to some standard French references.
Cajun Self-Taught : Learning To Speak The Cajun Language.......2000-12-05
I have really enjoyed reading and learning the language.I would recommend this book to anyone interested. I strongly suggest the audio tapes also.
Book Description
Cajun Self Taught: Learning to Speak the Cajun Language
Audio Cassette Companion to the book, Cajun Self Taught, provide the listener with Rev. Daigle's actual pronunciations of the words and phrases in the book.
Set of four audio cassettes.
Customer Reviews:
Speaking Cajun.......2006-03-26
I would give this five stars if I had the book with it. Practice makes perfect and I my relatives are impressed with how this method is so true to Cajun accent!
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The Watercolorist's Answer Book features 425 popular tips, techniques and solutions selected from North Light's industry-leading library of watercolor instruction books.
This authoritative guide to the art of watercolor features the combined expertise of eight successful professional artists and includes:
-A thorough introduction to the fundamentals of watercolor painting for beginners -In-depth discussion of advanced watercolor topics such as materials, value and light, and composition and design -20 step-by-step demonstrations covering all aspects of watercolor painting, including brush techniques, color usage, and wash techniques
No question, the Watercolorist's Answer Book is a book every watercolor painter will want!
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