All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization

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The trouble with books about globalization is that so many of them seem to focus on economics to the exclusion of everything else. In All Connected Now, author Walter Truett Anderson treats economics as no less important to globalization than culture, politics, and even biology. ("Far less frequently cited than Moore's Law, but likely to be at least as significant for all the world's economics and ecosystems in the years ahead, is the doubling time of genetic information.") The result is a helpful primer on what globalization may have in store for us, written by a two-cheers advocate. Anderson says we now live in a world of open systems: "There are no longer any closed cultural systems in the world, nor are there any closed biological systems; every culture develops new points of articulation with other cultures, every ecosystem is visited by exotic foreigners and affected by global events." "The emergent global civilization" will face many challenges, but it also holds out the promise of "individual human lives richer in meaning and experience than we have ever before imagined possible." --John Miller

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A vivid description of the cultural, political, economic, and environmental changes that globalization will bring to our world.

Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change - economic, political, cultural, biological - all of which are now accelerating, driven by the increasing mobility of symbols, goods, people, and non-human life forms.

Anderson describes how we are entering an "age of open systems" as systems of all kinds - organizations, nations, ecosystems - change in similar ways. Boundaries around systems are penetrated, challenged, renegotiated, relocated. Systems that were once relatively isolated develop new connections and linkages to other systems. Anderson argues that this globalizing world is radically "uncentralized" even though people and societies are richly interconnected. All Together Now shows how globalization is advanced even by anti-globalization movements, while global-scale problems such as climate change draw us together into the first global civilization.

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A readable discussion of the complexities of Globalism.......2004-01-31

Walter Anderson's gift is to synthesize and explicate complex social issues in an intelligible, readable, and coherent manner. There is not a lot of news in this book. It is a fine overview of the complexities of globalization and all the different ways it manifests itself in our lives. It pulls together a lot of information on the ways in which our world is changing, how this change effects us, and how we effect the process of change.

Anderson also provides an overview of how people are thinking about and conceptualizing our changing, globalizing world. In short, it is an excellent primer or introduction to the processes of globalization and how people are responding to it. It is not a ponderous academic tome, but it does have a bibliography that you can use as a springboard for further explorations.

It helped me to get a handle on a lot of materials and information I was familiar with, but never had the time to read, study, and think about systematically.

One thing which I found helpful was the symbolic references to the Treaty of Wesphalia which ended the 30 years war in the 17th Century. It marks the transition from the world of the Holy Roman Empire to the world of the sovereign nation state. The current era is post-Wesphalian in that the boundaries that defined nation states are becoming more permeable and oftentimes irrelevant. Environmental, medical, economic, political and social problems do not begin and end at national borders, hence new ways of thinking and new forms of global governance are emerging to deal with these problems. Our post 9-11 world has seen efforts to strengthen national boundaries in response to a globalized threat, but it only affects a small part of the globalization process.

Another thing is the intersecting dimensions of Globalist-antiglobalist and political left-political right continuums. This could be conceived as a four fold table: globalist-left, globalist-right, antiglobalist-left, antiglobalist-right. I prefer to think of it as an x-y axis that defines a two dimensional grid.

This categorization scheme captures some of the ambiguities and paradoxes of responses to globalism. Anderson uses it to explain different perspectives offered by various writers and actions by various activists. It also helps me understand my own conflicted feelings about globalization (free markets, immigration, multi-culturalism, global warming, the aids epidemic, etc.)

Ultimately All Connected Now is a good place to start thinking about globalization. If you have already been thinking about globalization, this is a good place to pause and review your thinking, and the thoughts other's have had, about globalization.

Globalization is much more than economics........2003-06-20

Anderson provides an enlightening and accessible look at the multitude of changes taking place today that are usually characterized by the word 'globalization'. As he so clearly points out, these changes are not merely economic, although such changes are important, but also political, cultural and biological. This broader framework is likely to be important to those who would better understand (and perhaps alter) the course of globalization.

Anderson notes that nations are increasingly losing their closed character (and becoming more open), a development exemplified by the demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In consequence of this, individual nations have less control over their economic, political, cultural and biological dimensions, and there is an increased need for associations of nations. It should be noted, however, that Anderson is skeptical about the likelihood of the emergence of global government.

A particularly useful part of Anderson's book is the classification of attitudes toward globalization that he presents in Chapter 12 ("Global Visions and Divisions"). They are: the globalist right; the globalist left; the antiglobalist right; and the antiglobalist left. With this classification in hand, one can better grasp the discomfort many people feel with the process of globalization, as well as why some people are working so hard to advance it.

What Anderson does, therefore, is develop a more nuanced view of what globalization is and a more nuanced view of individual responses to globalization. He makes globalization more complex, but it is surely not something to be addressed in a simple-minded fashion.

Groundshaking.......2001-11-10

The day I read the title of this book, my fears of the last 30 years were gone. It was stating the obvious, so obvious that not many managed to grasp it. Since humankind started to record history 5500 years ago and maybe long before, we are living in the First Global Civilisation. A civilisation that spans the planet and already goes beyond with human space missions, satellites, probes and robots.

It started with Columbus and global travel. Then this new civilisation which was born thanks to long distance communication (telegraph in the 19th century, later phone, telex, fax, internet) is reshaping our lives in different ways: at home, in cities, in our workplace, in our environment, in our information, in our bio-information, in the perception we have from ourselves.

In this perspective one understands the meaning of the 20th century, a transition between a set of civilisations gradually conquered by the West that took their independance but that remained connected into a global civilisation with multiple centers influencing each other.

We are a sentient specie (author calls us a global animal) rather than an American, an European, a Japanese and our problems are not national problems but global or human problems.

Global civilisation because it allows us to have a global vision of our planet (remember this picture taken from the Moon in 1969 showing Earth as a blue oasis in the middle of nowhere), to realize we have an ecosystem to which our survival is attached, to see the multiplicity of our beliefs and religions, the interraction of cultures, those who accept an open society and take ideas from abroad and those who refuse and fight against it. Sometimes the same people but on different subjects.

Global civilisation does not only have states (more than 200 ranging from tiny Monaco or Vatican to US, Canada, Russia, India and China), NGOs (US Aid, Red Cross, ... ) but 400 international organisations including the UN, NATO, ASEAN, the Arab League and the European Union, 38,000 transnational or global corporations (global because because they adapted to the environment faster than others), non-state actors (billionaires, drugs lords, terrorists), religions (many with the biggest being Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism all calling for more than 1 billion members), citizens as individuals or organised in communities and organisations. All those interract to form our present world.

It does have an informal governance, a reunion of different spheres of the global civilisation but no global government (note: civilisations with multiple polities and no centralized government are numerous in the past: Mesopotamia, Greece, Mayan civilisation, Western Europe, India and China for some periods of their history).

This global civilisation triggers reactions, vision and divisions: anti-globalization, environment movements, labour movements, etc...

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Title: Globalization's Growing Pains. (book review)
Author: Victor Ferkiss
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: 36 Issue: 2 Page: 57(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Provides a framework for thinking about and organizing a culture of continuous innovation.
* Based on ten years of research with over 200 organizations.

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A breathtaking account of the "unnatural" history of consciousness and human intelligence

Taking its cue from The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan's 1977 classic and New York Times bestseller, Up from Dragons traces the development of human intelligence back to its animal roots in an attempt to account for the vast differences between our species and all those that came before us. In a book that will spark a storm of debate, neuroscientist John Skoyles and awardwinning author Dorion Sagan introduce a controversial theory of the origins of human intelligence that may hold the answers to questions that have haunted scientists about mind, consciousness, and the evolutionary odyssey of humankind. It also introduces the revolutionary concept of "mindware"the human, evolutionary equivalent of computer softwareand describes how the evolution-accelerating symbol-using programs that make it up have empowered us with the unprecedented ability to take charge of our own evolutionary destiny.

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Not What I'd Hoped For.......2006-06-17

I can't support the glowing views of the others here. Overall, I found the book lacks a clear central focus and development. At times the associations the authors are tying to make wander as we shotgun through examples and analogies and variations to the point that you wish for a more clearly stated concept. There is a substantial amount of useful information here, and some things to ponder. There is some good discussion on neural networks and plasticity. Beside that, however, one of the overriding weaknesses is the failure to examine contrasting view points, as a good science discussion generally does. Their opinion is that learning to think symbolically was the evolutionary pressure that generated human divergence but make an unsubstantiated case for this. There is no anatomical evidence that early humans had the capacity for symbolic associations, modern imitation studies included. While fundamentally important, most evolutionary timelines place that as a very recent development. To confuse matters even worse, the authors state on page 260, "Our evolution up until 100,000 years ago left our brains dumb. We lacked even the knowledge that it was possible to do new and unimagined things." That's when symbolic representation probably did accelerate modern human development, but the authors' attribute its influence all they way back to Australopithecus. There is no anatomical or anthropological support for this. Genetics is dismissed almost without mention and the contrary beliefs of Steven Pinker and others that subconscious daemons regulate consciousness is also ignored in total. And when its all said and done, we really haven't covered the evolutionary process very well at all. All the pop analogies with familiar experiences and modern culture only diverted from the theme. The time would have been better served with more discussion of the evolutionary past. The chapter on consciousness is almost juvenile. I would suggest Merlin Donald's Origins of the Modern Mind for a much more balanced discussion of evolutionary human intelligence since contrary views are given their justifiable recognition in this still embryonic science.

Its a magnificient path indeed.......2006-05-25

The evolution of human brain from that reptilian is a fantanstic journey. Phantoms in the brain stops short of giving more insights into consciousness, but this book covers that aspect and the explanations are convincing. The role of pre-frontal lobe in unifying our senses and giving us a feeling of self is well explained. Now, I am not so clueless about consciousness, which was bothering me for a while now.

The evolution of society and its characteristics was kind of boring for me. Though the evolution of politics/culture is entertaining.

This book gives some interesting clues about the origin of self, politics and culture. The examples of primate culture/politics give credible evidence for the ideas put forward.

The book delas with questions like, "Why do we sleep?", "Why do we have dreams?". Beneath, all of us have some reptilian characteristics, which are analysed and explained in the book. The lack of temperature control for a brief periods in our sleep is a reminder of our ancestral(reptilian) lifestyle.

Very good.......2006-04-28

This book was very interesting. It shows how humans are not always who they think they are

The only book on our origins that will be read 100 years on.......2003-07-03

"The only book on our origins that will be read 100 years on". Surely not? But this book hides the nuts and bolts of a new answer to an old question that will reshape the sciences of human nature - below I give details and let you decide whether this is indeed the next big thing.

But first that old question: what turned the human brain -- initially evolved 100,000 years ago to be, and only be, a smart hunter-gatherer -- into a brain that in each of us is superfitted for our hi-tech modern life. The problem is an embarrassment to science. No neurologist or paleoanthropologist can explain why your brain so obviously not evolved to read this, does so, like with so many other nonevolved modern skills, with such great finesse. Human evolution lacks foresight and so could have made no preparation. It is a big question. Evolutionary psychology offers no explanation. But the genius of Skoyles and Sagan provides a clear and plausible account.

Before summarizing what that is, a criticism. You start off thinking this is Dragons of Eden: The 25 year Sequel -- but Carl was a science populariser; this book, though averagely well written, lacks illustrations and has rather too many notes and references - more a book for getting out of the library than buying for a holiday read. That said, you soon realize that, with all respect to Carl Sagan, this book is much more important than anything he wrote.

Request, even buy, and get it, for its explanation of that old problem. Chapter 14 lays out its core story one which fits together the jig-saw puzzle pieces that the authors have earlier assembled in chapters 3-13 that describe the latest findings in neuroscience and paleoanthropology. The synthesis they offer is a radically novel, reductive and unexpectedly powerful new neurobiological and anthropological theory of symbolism.

Two theories intertwine. First, that the radical changes in cognition and behavior that make us unique are piggybacked upon earlier evolved primate cognitions and emotions. Symbols - stand-ins - they show are at the heart of the human revolution. Evolved primate cognitions process innate inputs - but culturally transmitted nonevolved signs can co-opt their innate processes. The co-optation just needs (and humans are good at this) the ability to learn abstract associations. When symbols co-opt innate ape psychology, it is like an engine being put into a new chassis -- ape psychology is refitted thus into doing something radically new -- human psychology with all its nonevolved cognitions. For example, the core process of fear in apes uses the innate inputs of snakes, spiders, angry faces and blood. But humans can uniquely hock on novel sign inputs such as swastikas, the radiation sign, evil eyes and the thoughts of God - and so use them to power the radically new behaviors that make us cultural.

But what enables humans to put a new culturally derived `chassis' on the ape brain? Here is their second theory. Symbolic co-optation arose from the prefrontal cortex working memory acting as an abstract association "catalyst" upon neural plastic networks. Many molecules would meet too rarely to react unless another molecule - a catalyst puts them together. The same with the neural connections that underlie the abstract associations of symbolic cognition - the `catalyst' in this case being the working memory of the prefrontal cortex that can 'tutor' new neural links. And the new associations that it creates happen thanks to the recently discovered phenomena of neural plasticity which allows old cognitions to rewire to do radically new tasks. The theory uses bits of already established science. It is theoretical innovation at its best - clear "mechanical" sound processes with no hand waved `dues ex machine' processes. Simple - yet overlooked - perhaps because of the breadth of knowledge they bring together -- by those whose business it is to invent such ideas.

You have to read the argument to appreciate its explanatory power. For a hint, consider how our social attachment is both different and not different from that of other apes. Both ape and human attachment depends upon the same limbic processes. But in nonhuman apes, the inputs to such process arise entirely from the actual physical presence of another individual -hugging, grooming, facial reactions, and the feel of warmth. Symbolic culture puts new a chassis on these limbic processes by adding new inputs such as wedding rings, name changes, and rituals. In doing so, the new `symbolic chassis' enables our ape limbic brain to create human specific forms of social bonds - such as those of marriage, with distant kin, the supernatural and society. This idea is simply an act of genius since reveals how neuroscience and grammatology so easily fit under anthropology and even such fields as cultural studies.

Further, the authors make the breakthrough of showing how what is a transient and private emotion in other apes could by a simple scientifically analyzable process become one that in humans is resistant to separation (symbols can stand-in for missing people and relationships with them), and embedded in communities (symbols allow societies to define relationships and so build up social complexity). One hates the phrase "scientific revolution" or "new paradigm" but these authors have done it - the core problem of our origins has been found. They call their idea, the missing link of human evolution. And they are right.

The resulting approach is not only elegant, simple and powerful - but the stuff of which I bet further science discoveries will be born. It is the first book that can be properly called `neuropaleoanthropology'. It is the beginning of something big. The oddly titled book - a wrong title if there ever was one -- does what evolutionary psychology should have done, but has not - reveal the biological dragons under our anthropological Eden.

Hilarious! "B" movie sci-fi for narow minded snobs.......2003-04-12

This is a fairly well written book, and the author does a credible job of trying hard to link together and postulate connections between unrelated and spurrious data. So, if you are a naturalist and a fan of poorly writen and campy sci-fi, this book is for you. Read it at parties and try to appear intellectual. Truly a hilariously bad attempt at trying to seek, desparately, naturalistic origins of human intelligence. The only proof being the authors and fans of the book illustrate that perhaps they do in fact have the intelligence of lizards. Proof after all?

Up from Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence

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Up from Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence
John R. Skoyles
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OG2RAQ

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Plasminogen is the inactive precursor of the blood proteinase plasmin, the enzyme responsible for the dissolution of fibrin clots. It has been recognized for several years, however, that plasmin has a broad substrate specificity and can cleave a number of other proteins, including several components of the extracellular matrix. Specific cell surface receptors for the two major plasminogen activators exist on a number of cell types and probably play an important role in controlling plasminogen activation. The identification of plasminogen fragments that lack enzymic activity but affect cell growth and migration, and the discovery of the plasminogenrelated growth factors, has highlighted previously unsuspected links between blood coagulation and fibrinolysis on the one hand, and regulation of cell behaviour on the other. This book brings together these two lines of work and discusses two main areas: first, the evolutionary and structural relationship between plasminogen-related growth factors and second, the role of plasminogen activation in cell regulation. Chapters in the book deal specifically with the evolutionary and structural links between the clotting and fibrinolytic proteins and the plasminogenrelated growth factors; the role of individual domains for enzymic or receptor binding activity; general features of the receptors for plasminogen-related growth factors and signalling via these receptors; the role of plasmin and the plasminogen-activators in cell regulation and organogenesis; the role of plasminogen-related growth factors in development, in the regeneration of epithelial organs and in angiogenesis; and the role of these growth factors in cancer and in atherogenesis.

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Dead Poets Society meets Stand By Me as 5 real 12- and 13-yr.-olds ride their bicycles 5,000 miles across America. They want to see if their country is as wonderful as their teacher says it is.

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seems self-published.......2005-09-01

can't remember why i had put this on my list, but my husband placed an order and this was waiting in the cart, so...

this book is LONG, and seems like it didn't really have an editor. i like the idea, which is of some kids and two adults biking around the us.

Great Book Wish John Would Write More.......2003-09-03

Having read a lot of books on bike tours,translate I did a research paper on bike touring in college. The adventures in this are the greatest. Although the tour was done about 10 years ago, the book is totally readable. Prepare for the totally unexpected and enjoy the adventures.
I just wish John or one of the other teachers in his school would write more about their adventures.

This was not a ride done in poverty, or with commercial support. Surviving a tornado alone with one other adult and 5 kids when you don't know it is coming. Fighting traffic, and weather from blistering heat to frigid cold, from no breeze to gusty winds.

Meetings with families from Plantations to a replacement tire being shown from the back of a jeep to replace a tire a young rider has being riding on held together by duct tape.

This was a great book.

Wonderful book to read to your kids.......2003-07-03

Great book to read to your kids. I did a little editing as I was reading it aloud (my kids are 7 and 8 years old). We picked up maps from our automobile association and traced their journey from start to finish. My kids learned about human behavior, predjudice, generosity to strangers and geography! Well, we're off on a bike ride!

motivation.......2003-04-12

in fifth grade, about eleven years ago, this book inspired a teacher at my elementary school to train any fifth graders interested, to be able to ride from the colorado river, to carlsbad beach in san diego. this was a 280 mile bike ride that took about 6 1/2 days to complete. i myself did this ride in fifth grade, and because of it, i can later in life be able to tell myself that i can do whatever i want to do. thank you to the authors of this book that inspired my teacher to begin doing this eleven years ago, and to continue to do it for years to come!

You Can't Put It Down.......2003-02-18

This book is fabulous, I read it all week-end. My daughter started reading it in the afternoon and finished it in the wee hours of the next morning, not a smart move for the mohter of a night owl toddler.

I do hope John and Lynn do more books.

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The modern conundrum: while the art of letter writing is fast extinguishing, the need for expressive, impressive, appropriate letters is as great as ever. The result? A mortifying amount of miserable missives that sadly miss the mark. E-mail informality is all very well for one's sister in Toledo or one's colleague three cubicles down, but when one needs to promote a product or raise funds, seek a job or request a favor, effectively complain, apologize, or reprimand, or send a letter of condolence, the typically confident and competent achiever gets noodly in the knees. Write a thank-you letter? The prospective correspondent is suddenly busy cleaning his or her desk and organizing the office files.

All you really need is a template to show you the way, and that's where Harold Meyer's Lifetime Encyclopedia of Letters excels. There are 981 letters covering most every business or personal occasion, organized in 600 categories, and followed by a comprehensive index. From Declining Requests (subdivided into "Invitations," "Applications for Credit," and "Donations," among others) and Requesting Favors to Sympathy, Apology, and Thank-You notes, Meyer shows an array of approaches, discusses effective techniques for various intended results, and instructs you on which tone to pursue, depending on whom the letter is going to and what you're trying to achieve. The encyclopedia won't actually write the letter for you or affix the stamp, but it provides proven formats to help structure your thoughts, and smooth starter and closer sentences--typically the hardest to write--to jump-start your communication and end with style. --Stephanie Gold

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With over 1 million copies sold, this classic letter writing resource is now available with CD-ROM, making composing the perfect letter quicker and easier than ever. Covering 625 distinct categories, this hands-on guide provides nearly a thousand ready-to-use letters for every conceivable situation--from seeking out new business to collecting debts to extending congratulations. To compose the perfect letter in a snap, all a stymied writer needs to do is find the appropriate topic in the index, read the brief lead-in comments, and follow the blueprint. Now including a CD-ROM for the first time in this third edition, adapting model missives are even quicker, freeing writers from the tedious task of re-keying. This targeted, user-friendly collection includes expertly crafted letters for: •

Requesting favors, from a deadline extension to an extended stay with a relative. •

Saying "no," politely but firmly, to sundry pleas, demands, and invitations. •

Selling and fund-raising to get bottom-line results. •

Seeking employment, and reprimanding and terminating employees. •

Making and responding to complaints with impact. For writers determined to draft from scratch, author Harold Meyer offers crash courses in "How to Do It," with step-by-step outlines, interest-arousing openers, and clincher closers for each letter group. Sweeping in scope and eminently useful, Lifetime Encyclopedia of Letters is the ultimate reference for writing it right, whatever the occasion.

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Lifetime Encyclopedia Of Letters.......2006-12-24

I am a proud owner of this book and recently ordered one second hand on Amazon for a girlfriend of mine, whom I got tired of writing letters for. I have recommended it to many friends who assume I'am a certified paralegal because of my letter writing skills. this book is a must have for anyone who needs to learn how to formulate a letter correctly.

Mediocre.......2005-03-06

This book is mediocre. I'd expect a book on "letter writing" to provide examples of unusual and creative letters; letters that would catch and leave a fresh impression on the reader, but it's not the case.
The professional section is OK, even though the letters are boring, dull, and predictable. The personal section is simply dreadful: tactless and unimaginative. Letters of sympathy and condolences are some of the worse ones.
I'd not have bought it if I'd have taken a closer look at it.
If you're already a good letter-writer, then this book is a good tool to provoke your OWN writing. If you're not, look for another guide.

For a small business owner not the average consumer..........2003-11-27

I purchased this book thinking that the author provided a voice to capture my thoughts when dealing with merchants. Why I ever doubted my ability to write my experience with a product or services, I do not know.

I agree that this book provides a template. If you use a Wordprocessing software application it already comes with one.

I would not recommed this as a purchase for the average consumer.
This book is written more for the small business owner, who for example, is attempting to collect bad debts or negotiating for better pricing on business services.

As a template, THE BOOK is very useful.......2003-06-26

The Lifetime Encyclopedia of Letters has come in handy for me on several occasions (both business and personal). The book itself is broken down into categories, and within these are outlines, models, indexes, open/closing sentences, and example letters for each category.

The "How To Do It" outline provides you with a step-by-step process for each letter. This helps to keep your letter focused. The explanations in the outline is brief, and somewhat vague, but if you follow through with the model letter, you can see what direction your letter would take.

There are also suggestions for opening and closing sentences. This will help jog your inspiration. I never used any of the suggested sentences, but it did give me a clear idea of how I should open and close my letters. Many times, hesitation has been a result of not knowing how to start... this book helped solve that problem for me.

The best feature of this book is the variety of letters. Some are more aggressive than others, and this can be tailored to what you are trying to "sell" or say. The contrasts in letter presentation gives you a chance to choose the most appropriate letter for those who will read it.

The personal letter section is useful for the more "delicate" correspondence (compliments, reprimand, gifts, etc...). This book guided me with proper etiquette through some very nerve-wracking letters. It also provided me with the confidence to write more letters for appropriate situations. I have actually received compliments from letter receivers!

This book is meant to be used throughout your lifetime, for business and personal uses. My copy is pretty old, and I still use it. The letters I write using the encyclopedia are absolutely my own. Because I view this book as a template of standards, I merely adapt it to suit my own personal style and needs. I recommend it to anyone who needs to write a letter and wants to do it right with the best results.

A Good Reference Item.......2001-12-14

I'm confused by the previous reviews. It seems like the objections are to the CD-ROM...our copy didn't come with one. I work in a library, and when I have trouble writing a letter or more often coming up with wording for a condolence card (I'm hopeless at this) I run to the stacks for this book! I find it most useful for appropriate ideas not necessarily a complete letter. If I don't find the subject matter I need I plunder other letters for the right words...sometimes just a sentence can get me started. I've recommended this book to other staff members who have found useful information in it. I just ordered a copy for our professional reference collection!!! This book is a great resource, but perhaps not the answer to ALL letter writing ills.

MODERN DISPLAY ALPHABETS 100 COMPLETE FONTS
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MODERN DISPLAY ALPHABETS 100 COMPLETE FONTS
Paul E. Kennedy
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JWFXAG

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