The State of Working America, 2002/2003 (State of Working America)

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The State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty-data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the living standards of the American people.

Praise for previous editions- "The State of Working America has become a fixture on the bookshelves of policymakers and analysts."-Chicago Tribune

"Its . . . pages are packed with facts and figures about the U.S. labor market and written up in a challenging and punchy style. No recruitment company or human resource manager should be without a copy."-Robert Taylor, Financial Times

"No other publication in America is as valuable in assessing what's happening to working men and women."-John J. Sweeney

"Read The State of Working America to appreciate how growth is generating benefits very unequally."-Harvard Business Review

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Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heather Boushey, The State of Working America 2002/2003.(Book Review): An article from: Labour/Le Travail
Robert Shaffer
Manufacturer: Canadian Committee on Labour History
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009GQAJ0
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1285 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heather Boushey, The State of Working America 2002/2003.(Book Review)
Author: Robert Shaffer
Publication: Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Issue: 54 Page: 316(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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Biological Psychology is a comprehensive survey of the biological bases of behavior that is authoritative and up-to-date. Designed for undergraduates enrolled in Biological Psychology, Physiological Psychology, or Behavioral Neuroscience, the book continues to offer an outstanding illustration program that engages students, making even complicated topics and chains of events clear. The book offers a broad perspective, encompassing lucid descriptions of behavior, evolutionary history, development, proximate mechanisms, and applications. New coauthor Neil V. Watson brings his expert knowledge of the field and the course to the Fourth Edition. This edition is designed to make the book even more readable. Each chapter has been made more concise and now begins with a brief narrative relating the topic to the human condition. The new edition boasts hundreds of new references, including research students may have encountered in the popular media. Yet critical thinking skills are also honed as the reader is alerted to the many widely-held myths about the neuroscience of behavior (different parts of the tongue detect only certain flavors, dogs are color-blind, sleep deprivation makes you crazy), and educated about facts that sound so unlikely to the uninformed (some people cannot feel pain, in some animals only half the brain sleeps at a time, ears make sounds, some people cannot form new memories, experience alters the structure of the brain). Thorough and reader-friendly, Biological Psychology reveals the fascinating interactions of brain and behavior.

Key Features

* The book has an outstanding full-color art program, including hundreds of original drawings that make it easy to understand structures, mechanisms, and processes in the brain.
* Each chapter opens with a brief narrative illustrating an important aspect of behavioral biology that will be made clear to the student by reading the rest of the chapter.
* Chapters end with a summary of the main points and offer recommended reading for students who want to learn more.
* Icons alert students to important methods, clinical issues, competing hypotheses, and instances in which genes, evolution, or neural plasticity are at work.
* Every copy comes with Learning Biological Psychology, an electronic study referenced from CD icons throughout the text.

Customer Reviews:

A good tool.......2007-03-09

Book came quickly. It's good if you like to learn... otherwise it would work better to beat yourself in the face with.

Warning! This is NOT the TEXTBOOK!.......2006-08-15

You'll never guess from this page, but this volume is NOT THE TEXTBOOK if that is what you're looking for and thinking you've gotten it dead cheap.

This is the "Cram101 Textbook Outlines" 74-page textbook OUTLINE! Includes "highlights, outlines, and notes for the textbook" "never highlight a book again!"

Now go back and buy the textbook, if that's what you need -- it's over fifty bucks even used, so suck it up and click Order. But don't get the wrong, like I did, and lose the time sending it back.

Great Introductory Text.......2000-06-07

I have used both the first and second editions of this text in courses for first-year graduate students in a Psy.D. program. The text is clear, the illustrations excellent, as are the color overheads. This is at exactly the right level for students who will be clinicians using this information in understanding and dealing with clients directly (as opposed to researchers).

good end of the second millenium.......2000-05-02

I had the chance to give a overlook to prof. M.Rosenzweig text "Biological Psychology...", talking with my assistant teacher, I said, at last a nice, and good text for undergraduate student that are not going to be medicine student, but other profesional. This is the text for a change in the teaching of neuroscience; the result of it use will be clear at december 2000. the reasons for this: - clear use of history. - great use of design in each theme treated. - all the aids (cd, etc) are exactly what a beginnig student need. - the use of real neuroanatomy part, are perfectly complement by the pictures, diagram in the text. profs. M. Rosenzweig, A. leiman & S.M. Breedlove thanks from Chile.

Please try again Mr.Rozenweig.......1999-12-16

This book is a course textbook for my course, but to be honest I find it badly set out, espacially in the index where it's impossible to find anything. I know the guy's an expert in his field but the relevent information is hard to extract from the very dry tone. I've been tempted on more than one occasion to simply use it as a computer stand. This may sound like any other textbook but when you compare this to Kalat's book of the same name, the difference is unbelievable. As a student I'll take this rare opportunity to say 'good try Mr.Rozenweig, but I think you should take it back and work on it a little more'

Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience, Fifth Edition

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Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience, Fifth Edition
S. Marc Breedlove , Mark R. Rosenzweig , and Neil V. Watson
Manufacturer: Sinauer Associates, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover

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Release Date: 2007-04-16

Product Description

Biological Psychology is a comprehensive survey of the biological bases of behavior that is authoritative and up-to-date. Designed for undergraduates enrolled in Biological Psychology, Physiological Psychology, or Behavioral Neuroscience, the book continues to offer an outstanding illustration program that engages students, making even complicated topics and processes clear. The book offers a broad perspective, encompassing lucid descriptions of behavior, evolutionary history, development, proximate mechanisms, and applications. The Fifth Edition has been redesigned to help students study and learn more effectively. Optional advanced topics are available on the Web as A Step Further, streamlining the printed text to emphasize the important points. Each chapter begins with a brief outline and an engaging narrative relating the topic to the human condition. Bold-faced terms are defined in margins and at the end of the book to aid students in remembering key terms. The new edition boasts hundreds of new references, including research students may have encountered in the popular media. Yet critical thinking skills are also honed as the reader is alerted to the many widely held myths about the neuroscience of behavior and educated about facts that sound unlikely to the uninformed. Thorough and reader-friendly, Biological Psychology reveals the fascinating interactions of brain and behavior.

Study Guide to Accompany Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience

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Study Guide to Accompany Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience
Neil V. Watson , Mark R. Rosenzweig , Arnold L. Leiman , and S. Marc Breedlove
Manufacturer: Sinauer Associates
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0878938648

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Facts about Alaskan animals interspersed with Alaskan humor about Bush living, hunting, fishing, boating, snow-machining. Richly illustrated with cartoons by well-loved Alaskan cartoonist Chad Carpenter (creator of the Tundra comic strip).

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The Future of Golf

The most important golf book now in publication.

An update on a hot topic

Eye-opening and inspiring.

The Future of Golf: How Golf Lost Its Way and How to Get It Back
Geoff Shackelford
Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1570614563

Book Description

The Future of Golf reveals how the sport has been kidnapped by equipment manufacturers and knowingly deregulated by its governing bodies. A mix of commentary, analysis, and essays, the book chronicles the misguided strategies made by the once-respected United States Golf Association, showing how the momentum from Tiger Woods's popularity is being squandered by manipulative manufacturers and celebrity worship. Author George Shackelford urges the USGA to re-shoulder its responsibilities to the game while suggesting how the PGA Tour can restore excitement to its championships. He offers solutions for making golf fun, affordable and exciting again by emphasizing course design elements, common sense ideals, and tradition-based values.

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The Future of Golf.......2007-03-21

If you, like me, are concerned about what is happening to golf and feel that technology has gone too far, then this book is a "Must".

The most important golf book now in publication........2006-04-11

This is nothing less than the most important book on the game of golf now in print. It is the most important golf book of the last 25 years, and is probably the most important golf book since the writing of C. B. Macdonald, Bernard Darwin and even Bob Jones.
It is not an elegant book; others, including Shackelford himself have written books that are far more beautiful in terms of lavish publications. But the comparisons that have been made between this book and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" are apt. This book is a call to arms in the golf technology arms race.
These are direct, pithy, clear-eyed essays that will provoke any reader to challenge about half of what is becoming the accepted state of affairs in the world of golf.
You cannot be a serious-minded student of the game of golf in the 21st Century without reading, and indeed studying, this book.

An update on a hot topic.......2005-11-24

The subjects of technology, design, and price in golf have been with us for a long while (perhaps longer than most realize), but few books tackle them head on. Here, Geoff Shackelford points out where not only he but many professional tour players, course architects, and even voices from the past believe things have gotten off track.

For anyone who has lost interest in golf on TV, is tired of 6 hours rounds at even "high-end" public facilities, and would love to know why exactly the latest and greatest in driver technology "just keeps getting better" (and more expensive) when, supposedly, the USGA put a roof on it, you will want to read this.

On a final note, while much of the information has been updated for this revised edition, much of the writing will be very familiar to those who regularly follow Geoff Shackelford's articles. First time readers will get much more out it.

Eye-opening and inspiring........2005-06-05

Finally someone is saying exactly what needs to be said about the current state of golf. "The Future of Golf" opened my eyes to the problems the game is now facing; problems that so many are trying to cover up. As a golf lover I am horrified at the direction the game is going and this book nailed what these problems are, and what needs to be done to fix them.

This is probably Shackelford's best work, as well as his most important, and I'm afraid it will not be recognized as such because of its controversial nature. If this book does not reach an enormous audience it will be an absolute tragedy. I urge everyone who cares about the game of golf and our great courses to read "The Future of Golf". One way or another I am going to get a copy into the hands of every golfer I know. We must start wherever we can and take back the game of golf before it's too late.

The Future Of Golf In America: How Golf Lost Its Way In The 21st Century And How To Get It Back

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Someone saying what needs to be said
A Must Read for Golfers

The Future Of Golf In America: How Golf Lost Its Way In The 21st Century And How To Get It Back
Geoff Shackelford
Manufacturer: iUniverse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595307930

Book Description

A galvanizing new book from one of America's leading golf writers, The Future of Golf in America reveals how the tradition-rich sport has been kidnapped by equipment manufacturers and knowingly deregulated by its governing bodies.

The author of eight previous books including The Golden Age of Golf Design and Grounds for Golf, Geoff Shackelford charges that the slumping golf industry responds to unregulated technology by lengthening and narrowing courses at great expense, even as golfers flee the sport because golf takes too long, is too difficult and too expensive.

Offering new commentary and analysis, along with essays from the Los Angeles Times, Links, Golf Magazine, Golf World and Golfdom, Shackelford chronicles several astonishing mistakes made by the once respected United States Golf Association. He observes that the momentum gained from Tiger Woods' positive effect on golf's popularity is being squandered by an ill-advised emphasis on manufacturer interests and celebrity worship.

Shackelford urges the USGA to re-shoulder its responsibilities to the game while suggesting how the PGA Tour can restore excitement to it's championships. He offers solutions to rejuvenate golf by emphasizing course design elements, common sense ideals and tradition-based values can make golf fun, affordable and exciting again.

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Someone saying what needs to be said.......2004-10-26

Without criticism, any endeavor is likely bound for failure. Rarely do we see a government, a writer, or even a pursuit (such as golf) go through its existence without being given words of advice and warning, and though much of this warning can amount to mere clamber by unknowledgeable groups and people, some of it is true to the heart and represents what a silent majority feel ought to be happening.

Geoff Shackelford is a true lover of golf, not because he follows the tour every week or spends every waking minute on the tee or at the range, but because he has spent his time learning the game's history and traditions, and seeks to adhere by them (at least, those still in keeping with the times... no "return to discriminatory member policies" here). What this means for most is simply not wearing denim and remembering to tip your caddy. For Mr. Shackelford it means bringing the excitement and intrigue back into the game.

Although some may regard this as a preachy volume intended to ruffle feathers rather than convince an obstinate audience of what problems plague modern golf, all of the ideas here are relevant to all: an overemphasis on power at the expense of skill, overdone course construction that makes the game too expensive, odd rule inconsistencies the USGA seems loath to fix, etc.. Perhaps the greatest shock is that few of these are new problems. Distance questions due to better balls date back over half a century, and added course costs have been hitting average income families of golfers for the last few decades.

It should be noted that this is not a long list of woes about the modern game. Solutions are included, and also very vivid pictures of what the game was and could be once again if action is taken. This is a book that should be read by anyone that for some reason cannot stand pro golf on TV but enjoy the game, or even those who wonder why their 5 hours on a course that used to only take 3 1/2 costs them nearly a week's wages.

A writer by trade, the book is easy to read. The only problem is the numerous typos. It is a book that needs to be updated frequently to keep up with its subject matter, which could mean the first edition will be obsolete by year's end. We will hope a new, corrected and updated edition is forthcoming.

A Must Read for Golfers.......2004-09-19

I happen to agree with everything Shackelford, a guy who is mad as "heck" and doesn't want to take it anymore, writes in this book. Whether you will or not is another question, but you ought to read it anyway. For some odd reason, Shackelford thinks golf is a game and that "playing a game" should be fun. Not new material, "The Future of Golf in America" is a compilation of the author's previously published articles, essays really, on what's wrong with golf in America today -- everything from the USGA to equipment makers to Hootie Johnson to televised golf to many course architects, and so on. Shackelford argues for a return to classic design characteristics, playable courses, and limitations on ball and equipment design. Will it happen? Probably not, but it's nice to dream.

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very limited helpfulness

Where is the editor?

The Awp Official Guide to Writing Programs

Manufacturer: Dustbooks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Creative Writing MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students

An Insider's Guide to Creative Writing Programs: Choosing the Right MFA or MA Program, Colony, Residency,Grant or Fellowship

Portable MFA in Creative Writing (New York Writers Workshop)

Poets & Writers Magazine

Writing Creative Nonfiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs

ASIN: 0913218103

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Fairly General.......2006-07-22

The AWP guide is fine if you're looking for general information, but it doesn't go into a lot of depth about any of the programs. The standard guide that everyone recommends is Amy Holman's An Insider's Guide to MFA Programs, which is actually outstanding. The MFA Handbook by Tom Kealey is okay too, but it's pretty subjective and not always accurate and a lot of people seem to distrust it. I haven't actually seen it so I can't say, but that's what I've heard.

I don't think it would hurt to have the AWP Guide as a resource, but if you're only going to buy one I'd go with the Insider's Guide.

very limited helpfulness.......2006-04-19

Overall I cannot give this book higher than two stars, even if I did find it quite helpful because it could have been about twenty times more helpful than it was.

I think that this book did help me in some ways: it is a compact list of every place you can go for a writing program (at least probably 98% of what was available at the time of print). For example, I did a lot of research for M.F.A. programs, but I decided almost last minute, only a little while after I got this book, to go to an M.A. program instead, and this helped me to make the switch on a dime.

But as a previous reviewer noted, the information throughout is significantly lacking. It's inconsistent, says little beyond what can be found on websites, and often is somewhat misleading. However, in the book's defense, I got it as soon as it came out and, after I selected fifteen or so M.A. programs (a good number to apply to since each program is so selective and the faculty at each school will have different tastes) literally six of them changed to M.F.A.s this fall. So things change much more quickly than can be traced.

My advice: look at the colleges you're hoping to apply to and check if they have a (preferably national) literary journal, good faculty (read one or two of their short stories--if the style doesn't grab you right away, then move to someone else), and assistantships (you don't want to get out with a bunch of debt and no experience teaching in case that's what you need to do before your big break).

Bottom line: This book is helpful as a place to start--more so than gradschools.com--but ask professors, look up the MFA creative writing guide (just search amazon... it's by Tom Kealey, a former Stegner fellow at Stanford), and keep reading these professors works. This should not be more than the first resource you look at, and should certainly not be the last.

Where is the editor?.......2005-06-25

I bought this book for its graduate programs, and I am disappointed with what it has to offer.

This book is a collection of advertisement with minimum editing work. The inconsistency among schools is disturbing: Few schools list their tuition for year 2004-2005; some list their acceptance rates; some don't have their URLs listed; some (5 - 10%) don't have any information other than their names; some list low-residency under "Type of Program", some under "Length of Residency", and some bury the information in description.

There is very little effort put into the indices section. Schools are only listed by states and degrees, but not by emphases (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.), length of residency, scholarship, literary magazines, etc. Unless you know which geographic area and degrees that you are interested in, you have to go through the whole section (231 pages).

I understand that books will always be outdated the day they come out (both U of British Columbia and U of Nebraska offer low-residency programs now), but the sloppiness of the book is troubling.

Official Awp Guide to Writing Programs 1994-1995 (Awp Official Guide to Writing Programs)

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Official Awp Guide to Writing Programs 1994-1995 (Awp Official Guide to Writing Programs)

Manufacturer: Dustbooks
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0916685411

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Official Awp Guide to Writing Programs

Manufacturer: Dustbooks
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hmmm.......1999-04-16

Don't you hate it when things are out of print? So do I. More beer here

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CALLIGRAPHY A HANDBOOK FOR BEGINNERS
BEVERLY AMOS
Manufacturer: BLITZ EDITIONS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SI0GYY

Calligraphy-a Practice Handbook for the Beginner.

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Calligraphy-a Practice Handbook for the Beginner.
Muriel M. Parker
Manufacturer: Bonanza Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S60X30

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Calligraphy: A Handbook for Beginners
Beverly Amos
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Australia
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0731800540

Book Description

Designed for the beginner, this practical book will teach you how to quickly become an accomplished calligrapher.

Well-known teacher Beverley Amos has put together this simple, step by step guide. The book covers:

* Practical requirements -- materials, work environment, how to hold your pen, ruling guidelines.
* Letterforms -- basic alphabets with historical information, practice strokes and finished examples.
* Design features -- choosing the right type and layout, decorative effects, colour.
* Calligraphy for every occasion -- from posters and envelopes to company logos.

Calligraphy has many uses and it is also fun to do. Enjoy using your new skill!

Customer Reviews:

mediocre.......2002-02-02

This is a terrible book. Why do editors keep publishing books like this one is beyond me. The book is for beginners but when it
comes to advising them to buy tools and materials, all this would-be author says is, "well, there are many types and sizes;
better consult with your local arts supply store clerk." For that
we wouldn't need a book, would we? Moreover, her final advice to left-handers is the pits: "have you considered becoming right-
handed?" In the introduction(Preparations) in the section
"Getting to know your pen" she devises exercises more fitted for
advanced calligraphers(They could very well be in those Ornate
Pictorial Flourishes Dover books!)The lessons on the hands look
like a hodge-podge; there's no organization at all. Methodology
is not in this author's vocabulary.A beginner would be at a loss
to start. In short, don't waste your time and money. Get Calligraphy by Don Marsh if you're a beginner. Or better yet, if
you favor a particular hand, get books on it.

Italic Handwriting and Calligraphy for the Beginner

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Italic Handwriting and Calligraphy for the Beginner
Charles Lehman
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CALLIGRAPHY - A HANDBOOK FOR BEGINNERS
Beverley Amos
Manufacturer: Blitz Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: B000K5MSP0

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CALLIGRAPHY - A HANDBOOK FOR BEGINNERS
Beverley Amos
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ASIN: B000K5MJGS

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CALLIGRAPHY: A HANDBOOK FOR BEGINNERS
BEVERLEY AMOS
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