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First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his metageography of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language, play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and creolization of cultures. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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Title: First Globalization: The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800.(Book Review)
Author: Chris Baker
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Volume: 35
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Today, most organizations are involved in some kind of workplace initiative. Whether it is reengineering, system automation, rightsizing, total quality, or mass customization, all face a similar problem-loss of momentum after the initial implementation of the endeavor. It has been suggested that the failure rate of improvement initiatives is as high as 75%. Battling the Barriers to Success offers readers more than 50 ways to ensure the success of their improvement enedeavors. This guide includes action to address obstacles that readers need to overcome in order to improve the success rate of their initiatives. Each action item, categorized for easy reference and application, includes: What-The action item. Why-The importance of this action item to the success of any improvement initiative. How-a recipe for taking action.
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Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences
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Bioethical issues have become the increased focus of public attention in recent years, with debate continuing to rage over issues including genetic modification, animal cloning, and 'designer babies'. With public opinion often driven by media speculation, how can we ensure that informed decisions regarding key bioethical issues are made in a reasoned, objective way? Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences offers a fresh, balanced introduction to the field of bioethics ideal for any biosciences student who is new to the subject. The opening section, 'The Theorectical background to Bioethics', introduces students to the nature of bioethics and ethical theory. The book goes on to lead students through a broad range of bioethical issues relating to people, animals, plants and the environment, before concluding with an overview of bioethics in practice. With a focus on developing the students' power of reasoning and judgement, the book presents different perspectives to common themes in an impartial way, fostering debate and discussion. The current generation of students will become the next generation of decision makers. Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences is the perfect introduction to a field with which every biosciences student should be familiar. Online Resource Centre Features a web link library and latest further information sources, updated on an ongoing basis, to give students ready access to a broad pool of additional resources
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Life, Love and Children: A Practical Introduction to Bioscience Ethics and Bioethics
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Discussion of bioscience ethics requires understanding of the science that underpins biological systems impinging on our lives. Unencumbered by the formal structure of ethics, bioethics presents a forum for discussion of practical matters of individual and collective concern. This comprehensive text is a guide to the essentials of bioscience ethics and an interface between applied science and applied bioethics.
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The Wing-T from A to Z - Volume 1: The Base Plan provides coaches at all competitive levels with a useful tool that can enable them to better understand the intricacies of the wing-T offense. In this comprehensive overview, the fundamentals and nuances of the wing-T offense are presented in great detail. Volume 1 provides an excellent guide to understanding and developing a sound base plan for the wing-T offense, featuring chapters on philosophy and organization, goal line attack, and movements.
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Complete and accurate.......2005-07-28
The more important plays of the more important series (20, 30, 60, 80) are described in detail vs different fronts (50, 4-3, 4-4), plus a goalline and short yardage guide. Very well done !
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The beefy 260+ pages in this definitive resource on the wing-T by coach Dennis Creehan provide an excellent guide to undertanding and developing a sound base plan for the wing-T offense. The book features chapters on philosophy and organization, goal line attack, and movements (20 series, 30 series, 60 series, and 80 series). It's easy-to-read and apply and features dozens of diagrams. An unparalleled resource on its own, and made even more powerful when combined with Creehan's second volume--The Wing-T from A to Z: Installing the System.
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First Rate Book.......2000-09-29
Coach Dennis Creeham of Rutgers University has simply written the "Bible" of wing -t books. This book and it's companion book on installing the wing-t are outstanding. After reading both books you will know all there is to know about this exciting and productive offense. Simply the best book I have ever read on installing any kind of offense.
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Pun lovers and grammarians rarely tire of the humor found in everyday use and misuse of the English language, and Richard Lederer is happy to provide us with a regular supply of such witticisms. An addition to his "Anguished English" series, The Bride of Anguished English is filled with hilarious language-related goofs. Each chapter focuses on a particular group of mishaps, including classic malapropisms, headlines, menus, kids' homework, poor interpretations of lyrics, and politicians' doublespeak.
This is not a good book to read in one sitting; each page is funny enough that you'll wind up with tears and a stomachache if you try to plow through it all at once. From "he's got one of those sight-seeing dogs" to "I don't want to cast asparagus at my opponents," the malapropisms are delightful, and the chapter even includes a short history of Mrs. Malaprop's character, and why she was found to be so entertaining by 18th-century theatergoers. The chapter on song lyrics introduces the word "modegreen," and provides some hilarious examples; would Bowie recognize his classic "Major Tom" by the singing of "clown control to Mao Zedong"? Christmas songs may never be the same, if we start singing them the way kids hear them--although "we three kings of porridge and tar" may well be the hit of the holidays. Headlines like "New Vaccine May Contain Rabbis" and "Uneasy Clam Settles Over Michigan" are not only funny, but reading them will help train your eye to seek out such boo-boos in your own local paper. Perfect for teachers, editors, nitpickers, and the annoying punster who shares your office, this absurd and entertaining book is sure to delight. --Jill Lightner
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Fans of Lederers beloved Anguished English series will cherish this newest installment of the gifts and gaffes of our oddball language. Chock-full of his trademark intelligence, humor, and down-to-earth advice, The Bride of Anguished English will delight readers again and again.
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Funny and Excellent Learning Tool.......2007-05-26
This book is a collection of blunders, bloopers and other mistaken uses of the English language. While it should be required reading for every American, I doubt that many people will read it, which is a shame.
The book is funny and will cause a chuckle, or out right laugh, only if you understand what the mistakes are. I found it a little disturbing that I missed some of the mistakes, because they are so common place that my eye just read what was supposed to be there...not what was actually written.
My only complaint is that the book does start to get redundant after a while, making it more suitable for short stretches of reading. Trying to read this book in a "straight through" manner gets tiring.
This book is easy to read, makes a great "bathroom" book, and could be used to teach about common mistakes in our language. Buy it and let your kids read it. Maybe they will figure out that they can write more clearly
Not QUITE as funny as its predecessors........2002-11-06
Still, this book is a marvellously funny romp through a collection of snippets of tortured English. Delightful for those capable of seeing the humor in a sign that reads:
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My only objection to this book was that I've seen too many of these entries before; between those that are in the chapter-ending "hall of fame" sections, that have appeared in previous books by this author, and those that I have seen in other similar books (Jay Leno's "Headlines" books, for instance) there were just too many that were too familiar to be entirely bizarre. Still, there was plenty of new material, and it was ALL funny, even the recycled parts.
This one's RICH.......2002-07-27
Is this the best of the Anguished volumes? The author Richard Lederer says that he believes "that my Bride is the best written of my four Anguished English books." I totally agree. "Bride" is a fantastic faux-pastiche of verbal blunders, a written equivalent to a whole season of TV's Best Bloopers plus America's Dumbest Home Videos.
Aside from its amusement value, "Bride" is also handy for English teachers and anyone wishing to improve their writing skills. Selected gems from the book can illustrate WHY you need to be careful about dangling participles, careless spelling and mixed metaphors. It's one thing to hold forth on the value of good English grammar, it's another to gaze with horrified astonishment at actual printed headlines such as:
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I sure hope that's not all...we could all use some more Anguish like this. If you liked Richard's previous Anguished volumes, this one will not disappoint you.
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This course will demonstrate communication techniques that build customer loyalty, and how to defuse customer anger with attentive listening and empathy, focus on the customer's needs without blaming, and respond to personal accusations without becoming defensive. Customers are your most important assets, but sometimes they get upset. It's critical to learn what steps to take to address the situation quickly and tactfully, and what can be done to keep the customer coming back. You will learn how listening, nonverbal communication, feedback, and management all help to deal with an unhappy customer, and turn the situation into a positive one.
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The Best Guide to Calming Upset Customers.......2007-07-06
This is a very simple, short book, and that's good--unlike most business books, it doesn't fill its pages with unnecessary fluff to pad the page count. The exercises are fun and easy, and this book is highly recommended for anyone that has to deal with customers.
Easy to Implement.......2005-09-07
This book is easy to read, easy to understand and easy to put into action.
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Learn what gets customers upset, what they want, and how to calm them. Assess your calming skills and attitudes. Know why it's important to calm these customers and turn them into satisfied customers. Understand how to avoid upsetting them in the first place. Make sure to use words that defuse defensiveness, rather than make the customer erupt. Know how to compose yourself and serve the next customer after the altercation. And managers, learn guidelines for what to do with your upset employee.
Having sold over 100,000 copies, this business best seller has been featured in USA Today, Oprah Winfrey, Home Office Computing, and National Public Radio.
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Should be given out to new employees.......2003-04-17
"Calming Upset Customers" is basically a workbook for dealing with difficult customers. It is not a deep text that delves into the psyche of customers and would be used in a college level business course. What it is is a basic workbook that explains the basics of why customer satisfaction is so important and the various things that can be done to convert an upset customer into a happy customer. This is front line stuff at the employee level. It is about solving basic problems at the employee level before they become major problems.
While manager level professionals should receive more advanced training in working with upset or difficult customers, this book is an excellent resource for anyone who has to deal directly with customers. The workbook format with various exercises throughout make this book an excellent training tool. It is a recommended read, but probably its best use would be to purchase a stack of them and hand it out to all new employees when they are hired. This is the minimum that every person involved in customer contact should know.
Calming Upset Customers benefits everyone in the workplace........1996-08-28
Morgan's book is practical and packed with workable strategies.
With the US workplace seeing a rise in violence, this is a skill to develop and use as if your life depended on it. "Calming Upset Customers" is set up in seven easy-to-complete sections with questionnaires for analysis of coping strategies, hints on danger signal to watch for, and constructive suggestions on how to avoid "them fightin' words." The lessons focus on developing practical skills in dealing with customers, and working through this inter-active book will strengthen your ability to handle hassle. From knowing when to forget a customer, to what to do when a valued employee is in the wrong, this book will be valuable to managers creating an environment for customer satisfaction. This book is in the top ten best sellers for Crisp Publishers, and it has been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish and Korean.
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Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: A New Reform Agenda for Australia
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A bold contemporary statement for an economic and social reform agenda, this book draws on contributions from a wide range of Australia's leading thinkers across academia, politics, public service, business, unions, and community groups. Seeking to bridge the gap between political dialog and real needs, it addresses topics such as unemployment and welfare reform, education and innovation, population policy and family, and aging and retirement. It concludes that, after a generation of market-based economic reform that has fostered a strong economy, there is a new approach emerging seeking to maintain the momentum of economic performance, but placing more emphasis on the human dimension.
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The Free Trade Adventure: The WTO, the Uruguay Round and Globalism--A Critique
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Free trade lies at the heart of the new era of globalization. This superb account explains the theory of free trade and how it has been put into practice. The author reviews the history of 20th century trade agreements. He traces what happened to GATT, with its quite narrow ambit, before the USA pushed the world into the Uruguay Round. He also examines the benefits and hidden costs of the WTO Agreements in both economic and non-economic terms.
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