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This work offers a path-breaking analysis of the nature of the urban condition at the start of the new millennium. Adopting a global and interdisciplinary perspective, it reveals how new technologies and increasingly privatised systems of infrastructure provision--telecommunications, highways, urban streets, energy, and water--are supporting the splintering of metropolitan areas across the world.
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Aggravating.......2005-01-06
This explores the sociopolitical causes and ramifications in the development of modern infrastructure. But due to continual stating and restating of simple points, a reader loses track of what the authors are attempting to train his attention on. With all the research the authors have done on the subject matter, you might expect that; but it could take you a year of poring over this to get the full thrust of this. It certainly isn't concise.
The books real problem is the writing style. The text is a hybrid of bureaucratic and academic writing, defensively constructed to obviate charges of ambiguity or assumption. Here's a typical sentence:
"Thus we could argue that the supplementation of state forms of collectivised infrastructure development that supported the modern ideal with privatised regimes that need to attract international finance capital seems very likely to support the splintering of integrated and bundled networks into a myriad of individually financed and managed infrastructure projects."
You can go a few pages before encountering a sentence that hasn't been overworked like this. Torpid.
The other big problem is it's design. What you get out of it will depend on whether you can overcome the disruptive format. Just when you've finally bit into a passage of that writing, a new heading in boldface interrupts both the text and your concentration. This occurs once or twice a page for 400 pages. It isn't helpful. Is this a book, or is it six hundred short articles? Frequent sidebars also induce reader distraction.
reworking urban thinking.......2002-04-14
Graham and Marvin change the way we look at the city. Borrowing from architecture, geography, urban planning and sociology they demonstrate how infrastructure, mobility and urban life are intertwined in messy, fragmented configurations. Splintering Urbanism illustrates the increasingly segregated city, describing the unequal access to infrastructures of energy, information and transport - where providing corporations `cherry pick' the most potentially profitable users. The books major value is its integration of a corpus of diverse theoretical and practical approaches to the urban. This book is likely to reinvent the imagining of the city for academics, planners and architects alike.
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Title: Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. (Planners Library). (book review)
Author: Harold Henderson
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Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2002
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 68
Issue: 2
Page: 44(2)
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Applying for a home loan does not have to be your worst nightmare. The key: Be prepared! This mortgage guidebook takes you through the entire home loan process where you will learn what type of loan is right for you, how to "clean up" your credit report, how to pre-qualify yourself, and what to do if you are turned down. Plus a lot of insider tips for saving time, money and avoiding problems.
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Good, concise, to the point infosec title.......2003-04-20
It is ironic that the advent of the computer promised to dramatically reduce paper usage; today's 1,000-page-plus computer-security tomes have probably single-handedly deforested whole regions of the earth. A happy exception to this trend of titanic texts is Enterprise Security: The Manager's Defense Guide; which is relatively concise yet highly informative.
It provides a good overview of core information security issues and concepts. It takes a big-picture approach to information systems security, not bogging down the reader in arcane minutiae.
Overall, it has a more management- and process-oriented look at security and it a valuable title for anyone needing to know about information systems security without sacrificing a forest in the process.
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- Are You Cut Out to Be An Entrepreneur?
- How to Set Up Your Own Small Business by Max Fallek
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Are You Cut Out to Be An Entrepreneur?.......2000-11-28
Anyone thinking of taking that leap into the unknown arena of being your own boss in your own business can gain a solid reality check by making an investment in Fallek's 2-volume small business ownership guide.
Like learning howto pilot an aircraft, Fallek has written this planning guide in a logically-ordered step-by-step format. The writing, using many visual aids, is clear, with simple terms that develop into action steps to make real the business principles and practices of getting into, operating, and succeeding in a small business enterprise.
How to Set Up Your Own Small Business by Max Fallek.......2000-08-23
This is an exceptional guide to starting up a small business. The two volumes are broken down into easy reference chapters. Within these pages are simply worded examples on everything from procedures for incorporation(general info) to tax benefits of using an accelerated depreciation schedule for business plant assets (specific info). All this range of information and links to real people and places. Buy the June 1999 Revision.
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Public speaking always ranks first in surveys of everyone's greatest fears. Nevertheless, presenting your ideas and results is essential to professional success. What to do? With
Successful Presentations For Dummies, you discover proven techniques for everything from researching and organizing your material to projecting confidence through your voice and body language. With nationally acclaimed speaker, author, and attorney Malcom Kushner as your personal mentor, you quickly understand the principles of creating effective visual aids as well as ways to handle panel discussions, question-and-answer sessions, and whatever else pops up.
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Excellent resource.......2005-03-06
This book is a comprehensive guide to the art and science of public speaking. It covers all the basics and then some. I am a professional speaker and a professional member of the National Speakers Association (www.nsaspeaker.com). I teach public speaking skills and always recommend this book. I totally disagree with a previous reviewer who says the way to better public speaking is through practice. Experience without foundation is not the best teacher where public speaking is concerned. There is much to be learned about presentation technique, content development, preparation, etc. The book also gives great tips for using humor to make your point, using audiovisuals appropriately (so many people use them inappropriately), handling questions and so much more. Whether experienced at speaking or a novice, everyone can glean something from this book.
Great resource for revisting and revising your style........2003-09-26
I've had a copy of Successful Presentations for Dummies on my bookshelf since 1996 and found it to be a great reference and source of ideas for presentations as I have moved forward in my professional career. The book is broken up into various sections that address the most common problem areas for presenters and is easily referencable when you just need a quick review. I recommend this book, but it is now out of print.
Great resource for people who want to make an impact!.......2000-04-09
As a professional speaker, I found this book full of useful information. The author covers everything from how to be introduced to how to end your presentation effectively. He tells you how to involve your audience, how to use humor, how to design your presentation, and more. It's full of tips and examples. While it's true that the best way to improve your public speaking is to just do it, this book will shorten your learning curve by years!
Too long to read!.......1998-11-28
The section on humor is very good, but if you want to improve your presentation skills, it's no point reading a big book, you have to practice to improve.
This book could have been more useful if it were more concise.
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Military professionals from all branches of the service gain valuable skills and experience while serving their country, but they need resumes and cover letters that translate their background and capabilities into "civilian language." Booklist described this book as "a guide that significantly translates veterans' experience into viable repertoires of achievement." Contains valuable advice on interviewing and salary negotiation as well as more than 100 resumes and cover letters used by real job hunters to transition into civilian careers. All resumes and cover letters actually worked! Satisfaction Guaranteed!
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Translating military to civilian is key.......2007-10-23
Bradley-Morris, Inc. (BMI) commends Ms. McKinney for endeavoring to assist transitioning military. As the largest military to civilian placement firm, we have found that the most successful military job seekers who utilize our free services are the ones who construct a resume that clearly translates their military skills into civilian terms. This book and other web sites have good examples of how to do this, and having your resume communicate in this manner will help you obtain an interview. Then, the advantages of your military service (training, education, leadership, reliability) can take over. Being confident in your value to Corporate America, and being able to discuss your military experience in terms that a civilian hiring authority will understand will help any former-military servicemember succeed in winning the job.
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Graduation is supposed to a blast, but the transition from college to the real world can seem rough and very confusing. How does one manage it? Take a deep breath, relax, and read this book.
The Princeton Review walks the reader through this, step by step, and helps make sense of it all--from finding a place to live and a job to entertainment on a budget.
Everything new grads need to know is in here, including:
• Exploring career choices and getting the best job
• Finding a place to live--without going crazy
• The skinny on networking, internships, temp agencies, and other ways to get a foot in the door
• Eating inexpensively, without living on ramen and pizza
• Recreation beyond TV and dollar draft nights
• Working out a budget that new grads can really live with and tips for surviving on the cheap
• Alternatives to the 9-to-5 grind, from dot-coms and the arts to working abroad and grad school
• Taking care of opening bank accounts, paying bills, and getting insurance
• The Tao of home furnishing: selecting the essential pieces
Contents Include:
I Mental and Emotional Preparation
II What You Want
III Helter Shelter
IV Good Food
V The Practical Details of Living on Your Own
VI Now That's Entertainment
VII On the Cheap
VIII Starting Early
IX Where do I Find a Job?
X How Do I Get the Job?
XI I Got the Job--Now What?
XII The Life of a Dot-Com
XIII A Career in the Arts
XIV Putting It Off
Customer Reviews:
This girl knows what she is talking about!.......2002-10-03
I read this book after I made a sudden decision that I needed to be out on my own after college. I had not made any plans, I didn't have a job or a apartment of my own, or really have clue how to be an adult living in the real world on my own. It was something I had to do, but I was kind of freaked out about and I didn't know where to start. Reading this book really helped me. I loved the ways she writes, she's funny, witty and her advice is relevant. It's not some cheesy help book with advice you'd never use, this girl knows what she is talking about. This book helped me to empower myself and look forward to the adventure ahead. I keep it with me wherever I go, and I have moved around a lot in the last year. With advice like this, it helped give me a heads up to what I had to look forward to.
Too little detail.......2001-08-15
The book was pretty good overall. It offered a wide variety of information. Just like a survey course, however, she glosses over certain parts. For example, she talks about different types of insurance while mentioning, but not defining, a deductible. Other sections of the book seem scattered and unorganized.
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Title: The machine ate my vote: e-voting may make us nostalgic for hanging chads.(TRENDS)(Electronic voting)
Author: David Batstone
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Sojourners (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
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Volume: 33
Issue: 9
Page: 19(1)
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This volume contains an authorized interview of Henry Ford on his philosophies in regard to America, American life and industry. Contents: machinery, the new Messiah; my philosophy of industry; success; why I believe in progress.
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Sketches of My Culture.(Review): An article from: Sojourners
Larry Bellinger
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Title: Sketches of My Culture.(Review)
Author: Larry Bellinger
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Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: Sojourners
Volume: 30
Issue: 5
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This digital document is an article from Business Communication Quarterly, published by Association for Business Communication on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2845 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: Talking back with walker Gibson: helping students gauge tone. (My Favorite Assignment).(analysis of Walker Gibson's "Tough, Sweet and Stuffy")
Author: Diana Saluri Russo
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Business Communication Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Association for Business Communication
Volume: 65
Issue: 4
Page: 114(9)
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