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pobost@yahoo.comBooksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-25723735537618039262013-01-11T10:36:00.000+08:002013-01-11T10:36:11.856+08:00Citizen's Primer Against Corruption by Conception C. Asis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Chapter 4, The Moral Dimensions of Corruption, shifts the war against corruption from the battlefield of civic action to the domain of personal discipline. Chapter 5, Survey of Philippine Laws against Corruption, presents a legal overview of existing laws, administrative orders covering the conduct of government offices and employees in the government which include legal remedies. Chapter 6, Governance at the Core of Corruption, presents how corruption challenges governance. Chapter 7, Corruption in the Electoral System, is a presentation of fraud and corruption in the elections of 2004 and 2007, before the poll automation. In Chapter 8, Citizen's Participation in the Fight against Corruption, governance is the core in the fight under a democracy; it presents remedies and strategies on how to fight corruption. Chapter 9, Recommendations for Reforms against Corruption, is a brief discussion of proposals and plans for reforms. Chapter 10 is the conclusion.<br />
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Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-15240143775160124712012-09-18T18:40:00.000+08:002012-09-18T18:40:24.359+08:00Workplace Wisdom Edited by R. Hechanova-Alampay, M. Teng-Calleja, R.A. Ortega-Go<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This book is a compilation of articles published in the column "Workplace Wisdom" of the Philippine Daily Inquirer from 2009 to 2011. The research-based articles seek to harness knowledge that comes from Filipino workers and empower our leaders and organizations to manage workers and organizations in the Philippines effectively.<br />
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These articles are clustered into six themes: The Philippine Workforce; Leadership in the Philippines; Developing Employees; Employee Wellbeing; Issues in the Workplace; Developing Organizations.<br />
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Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-34645908744524383722012-04-19T09:19:00.000+08:002012-04-24T18:47:01.259+08:00Obama's Wars<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>by</i> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bob Woodward</span></span><br />
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In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.<br />
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At the core of Obama's Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War.<br />
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"So what's my option?" the president asked his war cabinet, seeking alternatives to the Afghanistan commander's request for 40,000 more troops in late 2009. "You have essentially given me one option.... It's unacceptable."Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-3249150095443738982012-04-19T09:15:00.000+08:002012-04-24T18:47:32.298+08:00Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">by Pamela Constable</span></i><br />
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A volatile nation at the heart of major cultural, political, and religious conflicts in the world today, Pakistan commands our attention. Yet more than six decades after the country’s founding as a Muslim democracy, it continues to struggle over its basic identity, alliances, and direction. In Playing with Fire, acclaimed journalist Pamela Constable peels back layers of contradiction and confusion to reveal the true face of modern Pakistan.<br />
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In this richly reported and movingly written chronicle, Constable takes us on a panoramic tour of contemporary Pakistan, exploring the fears and frustrations, dreams and beliefs, that animate the lives of ordinary citizens in this nuclear-armed nation of 170 million. From the opulent, insular salons of the elite to the brick quarries where soot-covered workers sell their kidneys to get out of debt, this is a haunting portrait of a society riven by inequality and corruption, and increasingly divided by competing versions of Islam.<br />
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Beneath the façade of democracy in Pakistan, Constable reveals the formidable hold of its business, bureaucratic, and military elites—including the country’s powerful spy agency, the ISI. This is a society where the majority of the population feels powerless, and radical Islamist groups stoke popular resentment to recruit shock troops for global jihad. Writing with an uncommon ear for the nuances of this conflicted culture, Constable explores the extent to which faith permeates every level of Pakistani society—and the ambivalence many Muslims feel about the role it should play in the life of the nation.<br />
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Both an empathic and alarming look inside one of the world’s most violent and vexing countries, Playing with Fire is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand modern Pakistan and its momentous role on today’s global stage.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-91759502497392871142012-04-19T09:07:00.000+08:002012-04-19T09:07:07.568+08:00The Interrogator: An Education<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1568586736/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Interrogator: An Education" border="0" height="400px" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41IfyEt3rrL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><br />
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To his friends and neighbors, Glenn L. Carle was a wholesome, stereotypical New England Yankee, a former athlete struggling against incipient middle age, someone always with his nose in an abstruse book. But for two decades Carle broke laws, stole, and lied on a daily basis about nearly everything. “I was almost never who I said I was, or did what I claimed to be doing.” He was a CIA spy. He thrived in an environment of duplicity and ambiguity, flourishing in the gray areas of policy.<br />
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A career clandestine-services officer in the CIA, Glenn Carle drew an unusual assignment in the fall of 2002. He was sent to serve as the case officer of an Afghan merchant who had been seized and rendered, and who was believed to be Osama bin Laden’s “banker.” Carle quickly discerned, however, that the Agency’s suspicions were unjustified — what followed was a frustrating effort by Carle to win his release. In The Interrogator: An Education, Carle describes his struggle against the lethargy and self-protective instincts of the U.S. intelligence community. In the process, he discloses a great deal about the renditions process and the Agency’s reticence to acknowledge or act on its own mistakes. I put six questions to Glenn Carle about his book:<br />
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1. Your book was published following a year-long struggle with the CIA Publications Review Board, which insisted on redacting large amounts of material before it approved the work for publication. Even the fact that you speak fluent French has been blacked out. But a great deal of what was redacted is perfectly obvious or can easily be derived from the public record — for instance, we note in “Unredacting The Interrogator” that CAPTUS is in fact Pacha Wazir, that you first interrogated him at a location jointly operated by the CIA and Moroccan intelligence near Rabat, and that the prisoner was then removed to the CIA’s Salt Pit prison in Afghanistan. The PRB claims that it redacts to protect national-security-sensitive materials. Do you think the heavy redaction of your book was appropriate?<br />
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Click here: “The Interrogator”: Six Questions for Glenn Carle—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-35627589660578832182012-04-19T08:51:00.000+08:002012-04-24T18:48:54.928+08:00Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche<div style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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The U.S. exports plenty of things that much of the world would gladly send back: the Golden Arches, Jerry Bruckheimer movies and Baywatch, to name a few. But in addition to the cultural flotsam that drives the rest of the world crazy, America is literally exporting its mental illnesses. "In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been, for better and worse, homogenizing the way the world goes mad," writes journalist Ethan Watters. He traces how conditions first widely diagnosed in the U.S., such as anorexia and PTSD, have spread abroad "with the speed of contagious diseases." The growth of Big Pharma and the widespread adoption of U.S. health standards have made the ailing American psyche the primary diagnostic model. By 2008, for example, GlaxoSmithKline was selling over $1 billion worth of Paxil a year to the Japanese, who didn't know they had a problem with depression until drug marketers informed them. Though Watters' indignation can be wearying at times, he is on to something worth pondering.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-84421356241660170692012-04-19T08:41:00.000+08:002012-04-24T18:49:07.899+08:00When Gadgets Betray Us<br />
Official selection of the Scientific American Book Club and the Science Fiction Book Club<br />
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Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and what personal details these gadgets might reveal about us.</div>
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Robert Vamosi, an award-winning journalist and analyst who has been covering digital security issues for more than a decade, shows us the dark side of all that digital capability and convenience. Hotel-room TV remotes can be used to steal our account information and spy on what we've been watching, toll-booth transponders receive unencrypted EZ Pass or FasTrak info that can be stolen and cloned, and our cars monitor and store data about our driving habits that can be used in court against us.<br />
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When Gadgets Betray Us gives us a glimpse into the secret lives of our gadgets and helps us to better understand—and manage—these very real risks.<br />
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Watch Robert Vamosi on Bloomberg TV and TechCrunchBooksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-48793955950424836582012-04-19T08:33:00.000+08:002012-04-24T18:49:36.529+08:00The Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement + Changing the World<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/158008561X/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Young Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement and Changing the World" border="0" height="300px" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uuRlcS1kL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="300px" /></a>Publication Date: February 22, 2011 <br />
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If you want to make a significant and sustainable impact on the health of our planet, this powerful and practical guide can help. Author and activist Sharon J. Smith shares proven strategies and lessons learned from the winners of Earth Island Institute's Brower Youth Awards--America's top honor for young green leaders. Here are all the tools you need--from planning a campaign and recruiting supporters to raising money and attracting media attention--to turn your ideas into actions and make changes that matter. <br />
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Throughout this book Sharon spotlights stories from youth like Jessie-Ruth Corkins, who saved her school $90,000 by greening its heating system for a science project, and Billy Parish, whose small student group became one of the most influential coalitions in America addressing climate change. These eco-heroes have made headlines for passing legislation, founding nonprofits, and raising millions of dollars for sustainability--all before their twenty-third birthdays.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-6976173278938646082012-04-19T08:27:00.000+08:002012-04-24T18:50:51.554+08:00Between War & Peace: How America Ends Its Wars<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1439194610/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars" border="0" height="200px" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51he2X4vPvL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="200px" /></a>Publication Date: January 11, 2011 <br />
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An emperor bows abjectly before his conquerors on the deck of a battleship. As smoke yet rises from a bloody battlefield, a dejected general proffers his sword to his victorious opponent. Frock-coated ministers exchange red leather–bound treaty books in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. These are iconic images of war’s end, but even when they are historically accurate, they conceal more than they convey. Not all wars end decisively. Indeed, the endings of most wars are messy, complicated, inconclusive, and deeply intriguing. As the United States attempts to extricate itself from two long and costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nothing could be more relevant than a look back at the ways America has ended its major conflicts in the past. It is a topic that has been curiously overlooked. <br />
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Edited and with an introduction by Col. Matthew Moten, a professor of history at West Point, Between War and Peace explores the endings of fourteen American wars, from the Revolution to the first Gulf War. Here, with incisive insight, narrative flourish, and strategic detail, some of America’s leading historians examine the progress of America’s wars: their initial aims—often quite different from their ends—their predominant strategies, their final campaigns, the painful journeys out of war, and the ramifications of the wars’ ends for the nation’s future.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-53487412132060642532011-10-28T12:30:00.001+08:002011-10-28T12:30:01.155+08:00Featured Book - Sisa's Vengeance: Jose Rizal & the "Woman Question" by E. San Juan, Jr.<link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDina%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDina%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDina%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Entangled in this seductive chronicle of amorous affairs, we take a moment to interpose mindful distance and ask: what is Rizal’s ultimate assessment of women’s actual virtue and potential? None of his biographers has contributed anything substantial on this, perhaps intimidated that if they venture to engage with “the woman question” they would provoke a Pandora’s Box of adversarial criticism that might expose vulnerable biases and unconscionable presumptions.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-23782883935447241132011-10-24T07:52:00.000+08:002012-04-23T17:10:45.271+08:00The Mozart Effect: Tappling the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit<a cmimpressionsent="1" href="http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/FrameBase?content=/en/imagegallery/imagegallery.shtml?si=t%26images=http://isbn.abebooks.com/mz/85/38/0380974185.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind and Unlock the Creative Spirit: Don Campbell"><img alt="The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind and Unlock the Creative Spirit: Don Campbell" class="square" height="320px" id="isbn-image" src="http://isbn.abebooks.com/mz/md/85/38/the-mozart-effect:-tapping-the-power-of-music-to-heal-the-body,-strengthen-the-mind-and-unlock-the-creative-spirit/md0380974185.jpg" title="The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind and Unlock the Creative Spirit: Don Campbell" width="221px" /></a><br />
Anyone who has ever seen a two-year-old start bouncing to a beat knows that music speaks to us on a very deep level. But it took celebrated teacher and music visionary Don Campbell to show us just how deep, with his landmark book The Mozart Effect.<br />
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Stimulating, authoritative, and often lyrical, The Mozart Effect has a simple but life-changing message: music is medicine for the body, the mind, and the soul. Campbell shows how modern science has begun to confirm this ancient wisdom, finding evidence that listening to certain types of music can improve the quality of life in almost every respect. Here are dramatic accounts of how music is used to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, and even mental illness.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-87155432330794951832011-10-24T07:36:00.001+08:002012-04-23T17:10:58.978+08:00Re-Imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age<a cmimpressionsent="1" data-bn-options="{url:'http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/imageviewer.asp?ean=9780756617462&imId=',name:'ThumbnailImage',width:'720',height:'900',scrollbars:'yes'}" data-bn-role="ui:popup" href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/reimagine-tom-peters/1007440227" itemprop="url" jquery1319412797801="31" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" xmlns:exslt="http://exslt.org/common"><img alt="Reimagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age by Tom Peters: Book Cover" height="246px" itemprop="photo" jquery1319412797801="36" src="http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/14620000/14628519.JPG" width="185px" /></a><br />
Tom Peters is back with a call to arms and a passionate wake-up call for the business world, educators, and society as a whole. In Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age, America’s most influential business thinker profiles seven distinct and very different companies that exemplify Peters’ new business ground rules where screwing up, destroying, and “thinking weird” rule the day. Each of the companies profiled faced revolutionary business challenges and responded by inventing entirely new opportunities. Each had to re-imagine the nature of work itself—and did so by soliciting the energy and engagement of each and every one of their people. <br />
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To writers, particularly unpublished ones, editors can seem imposing figures determined to thwart their success. They won't take calls, they don't offer feedback--sometimes they don't respond to queries at all. Guess what: Editors don't lug home hundreds of pounds of manuscripts to read each year because they aren't looking for good writing. "An editor gets off," says Lerner, "on the thrill of discovering a new writer." Editors crave "succinct, well-written cover letters," inspiration that comes from within (as opposed to from the bestseller list), and "catchy, clearly targeted title[s]." They detest unsolicited phone calls, "query letters that sound as if they were penned by Crazy Eddie," and writers who offer to "write it however I want it" (it's "like saying I'll be straight or gay; you tell me, I have no preference"). Lerner is aware of how excruciating it is for a writer to wait for feedback on his or her work. But she also lets writers in on a little secret of her own. "I'm always anxious about the author's response," she confides. "Will he or she take to my editing?Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-70780058308894191132011-10-24T07:19:00.000+08:002012-04-23T17:11:19.309+08:00Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende<div class="mainContentFloat">
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Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile, a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of Fortune. <div class="col">
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Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past. <br />
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Starting with the publication of their seminal best-seller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today's high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. And once again, they provide a startling, penetrating, coherent way to make sense of the seemingly senseless. <br />
Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow's wealth will be created, who will get it and how. But 21st Century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here about everything from education and childrearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and lies to what they call our "Third Job" --- the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in our country. <br />
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Blazing with fresh ideas, Revolutionary Wealth provides readers with powerful new tools for thinking about -- and preparing for -- their future.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-67113779545962646912011-10-24T07:09:00.000+08:002012-04-23T17:11:34.389+08:00Modern Criticism & Theory<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0582015987/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="AmazonHelp"><img alt="Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader" border="0" height="300px" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ci4Er4N7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="300px" /></a><b><i></i></b>This work contains a selection of important and representative work from all the major theoretical schools or tendencies in contemporary criticism and looks at them from an historical and thematic point of view. It also takes into account the impact of structuralist and post-structuralist theory and the disciplines from which it has drawn many of its terms and concepts of linguistics, psychoanalysis, philosophy and Marxism.<br />
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Modern Criticism and Theory has long been regarded as a necessary collection. Now revised for the twenty first century it goes further and provides students and the general reader with a wide-ranging survey of the complex landscape of modern theory and a critical assessment of the way we think – and live – in the world today.<br />
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David Lodge is Emeritus Professor of English Literatureat the University of Birmingham, where he taught from 1960 until 1987. He is well-known as one of the most significant British novelists and critics of recent times. His work, fiction and non-fiction, has been translated into some twenty-five languages.<br />
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June Cotner is the author of more than a dozen anthologies, including the bestselling Graces; see more June Cotner Anthologies. She lives in Poulsbo, Washington.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-82037986843924741492011-10-24T00:42:00.000+08:002012-04-23T17:13:07.552+08:00Principle-Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0671792806/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Principle-Centered Leadership" border="0" height="300px" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RGVRilmwL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="300px" /></a><span style="font-family: Times;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">How do we as individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve falling so short in real results despite the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being spent on them? How do we unleash the creativity, talent, and energy within ourselves and others in the midst of pressure? Is it realistic to believe that balance among personal, family, and professional life is possible? Stephen R. Covey demonstrates that the answer to these and other dilemmas is <i>Principle-Centered Leadership</i>, a long-term, inside-out approach to developing people and organizations. The key to dealing with the challenges that face us today is the recognition of a principle-centered core within both ourselves and our organizations. Dr. Covey offers insights and guidelines that can help you apply these principles both at work and at home - leading not just to a new understanding of how to increase quality and productivity, but also to a new appreciation of the importance of building personal and professional relationships in order to enjoy a more balanced, more rewarding, more effective life. </span>Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-73642316369134207082011-10-24T00:32:00.001+08:002012-04-23T17:13:19.432+08:00The Case for Make-Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1565849701/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Case For Make-Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World" border="0" height="300px" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4125Na2pcbL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="300px" /></a><br />
In the critically acclaimed Consuming Kids (The New Press, 2004), Susan Linn, the nation's leading advocate for protecting children from corporate marketers, provided an unsparing look at modern childhood molded by commercialism. In her new book, THE CASE FOR MAKE BELIEVE, Dr. Linn argues that while play is crucial to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, the convergence of ubiquitous technology and unfettered commercialism actually prevents them from playing. In modern day America, nurturing creative play is not only countercultural—it threatens corporate profits.<br />
At the heart of the book are gripping stories of children at home, at school, and in a therapist’s office using make believe to grapple with real-life issues from entering kindergarten to the death of a sibling. In an age when toys come from TV shows, dress-up means wearing Disney costumes, and parents believe Baby Einstein is educational, Dr. Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity, and health, showing us why we need to protect our children from corporations that aim to limit their imaginations.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-63480042255330186532011-10-24T00:11:00.001+08:002012-04-23T17:13:26.915+08:00Living in the Shade of Islam<div style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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Islam, which literally means peace, submission, and obedience, is the religion of the whole universe. The universe is orderly, a cosmos whose parts are linked together and work together for the same purpose <br />
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<br />Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-28862823457514342952011-10-23T10:48:00.001+08:002012-04-23T17:13:34.787+08:00On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0805078533/ref=dp_image_0/280-5418985-6254134?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="AmazonHelp"><img alt="On Intelligence" border="0" height="300px" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RX7302GNL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="300px" /></a><b><i></i></b>From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines.<br />
Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.<br />
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Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines.<br />
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The brain is not a computer, but a memory system that stores experiences in a way that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and their nested relationships and making predictions based on those memories. It is this memory-prediction system that forms the basis of intelligence, perception, creativity, and even consciousness.<br />
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In an engaging style that will captivate audiences from the merely curious to the professional scientist, Hawkins shows how a clear understanding of how the brain works will make it possible for us to build intelligent machines, in silicon, that will exceed our human ability in surprising ways.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-6972310662195197392011-10-22T09:26:00.002+08:002012-04-23T17:13:58.247+08:00Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0226092046/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><i><img alt="Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change" border="0" height="300px" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511We9y1rxL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="300px" /></i></b></a><b><i></i></b>William H. Calvin<br />
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Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are declining, hurricanes are strengthening. The debate about climate change is over: there’s no question that global warming has made the Earth sick, and the outlook for the future calls for ever-warmer temperatures and deadlier results. Something must be done—but how quickly?<br />
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With Global Fever, William H. Calvin delivers both a clear-eyed diagnosis and a strongly worded prescription. In striking, straightforward language, he first clearly sets out the current state of the Earth’s warming climate and the disastrous possibilities ahead should we continue on our current path. Increasing temperatures will kill off vegetation and dry up water resources, and their loss will lead, in an increasingly destructive feedback loop, to even more warming. Resource depletion, drought, and disease will follow, leading to socioeconomic upheaval—and accompanying violence—on a scale barely conceivable.<br />
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It is still possible, Calvin argues, to avoid such a dire fate. But we must act now, aggressively funneling resources into jump-starting what would amount to a third industrial revolution, this one of clean technologies—while simultaneously expanding our use of existing low-emission technologies, from nuclear power to plug-in hybrid vehicles, until we achieve the necessary scientific breakthroughs. <br />
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Passionately written, yet thoroughly grounded in the latest climate science, Global Fever delivers both a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the future of our planet.Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-75175498402679470062011-10-22T09:20:00.002+08:002012-04-23T17:14:06.593+08:00At the Hand of Man: Peril & Hope for Africa's Wildlife<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0679733426/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="AmazonHelp"><img alt="At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife" border="0" height="300px" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518Y6Q6TWAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="300px" /></a><b><i></i><span style="font-size: large;">At the hand of man: peril and hope for Africa's wildlife</span></b><br />
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In a book often shocking, always passionate and inevitably controversial, Raymond Bonner brings desperately needed illumination to one of the most important and emotional issues of our time: the threat to Africa's wildlife, and especially to the elephant. In cutting through prevailing misinformation to documented truth, he makes abundantly clear that unless we address the needs of Africans in their poverty and despair - instead of attempting to impose culturally biased Western solutions - the people will out of necessity destroy the wildlife, no matter how much Westerners protest. For Westerners, elephants are the stuff of exotic safaris and television nature shows. But it is the Africans whose land has been taken to create the parks, whose children are killed and whose subsistence farms are destroyed by elephants run amok, whose ecosystems are ruined by oversized elephant herds in countries like Kenya that can't support them (something we've heard little about). Bonner reveals and documents for the first time the ways in which some wildlife organizations suppress facts and ignore opinions of forward-thinking conservationists - opinions that might get in the way of good public relations. Examining these organizations as no one has done before, he has obtained internal documents that contain cautionary revelations: in one wildlife group, for example, a scientific consensus to oppose an ivory ban fell victim to expediency - the ban was supported with a campaign that played to the emotions for fear that otherwise fund-raising would suffer. Bonner finds hope in Africans who are practicing "sustainable utilization", whereby they profit from the animals and therefore want to protect them. InZimbabwe, for instance, impala herds have been culled and the meat given to farmers and their families. However, imposed solutions from Westerners, whose record of preserving their own wildlife has been atrocious and whose knowledge of Africa is mostly inaccurate or nonexistent, threaten to scuttle whatever modest success has been achieved. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions. That is the hope for Africans, both man and beast, and that is the courageous purpose of this book.More »Booksellers to Booklovershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02060245724446432669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536096184350821078.post-32306347340778915782011-10-22T02:15:00.006+08:002012-04-23T17:14:19.760+08:00Beyond Light Bulbs: Lighting the Way to Smarter Energy Management<div style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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Deborah Brodie is a book editor who has made a sideline occupation of collecting quotes about writing and creativity. The 627 "best" appear in this pretty little volume, Writing Changes Everything, accompanied by charming illustrations. At turns witty and pensive and contradictory, these literary nuggets come from unlikely sources such as Rudolf Nureyev, Morrissey, Albert Einstein, and Satchel Paige. The quotes that sing the clearest come from expected authorities; among them are Mark Twain ("The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning-bug."), Samuel Johnson ("Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."), Iris Murdoch ("Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."), and Erica Jong ("We make up the ocean--then fall in. But we also write the life raft."). <br />
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This inspiring and lively book brings together novelists, short-story writers, biographers, playwrights, and poets, along with literary agents, editors and publishers, all sounding off on writing and the creative life. Witty, cranky, wise, jubilant, and eminently repeatable, these quotations will surprise and delight anyone who loves books and writing. <br />
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Recommended Reading in the Spring 2011 issue of University of Texas McCombs School of Business Magazine</div>
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