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What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
Author: Thomas Nagel ISBN 0-19-505216-1. A Small Taste Of Academic Success to Begin the Scholarly LifeDuring that first week of the first semester of the freshman year of college, before the social fraternities might have planned and executed their first parties for the year, before the sports tryouts, play auditions, talent shows, and football games can begin in earnest, for those very few days, the meaning of college and a scholarly endeavor can still be shaped by a teacher. In those two or...
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1-25-2007
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Build To Laugh: How to Construct Sketch Comedy with the Fast and Funny Formula
Author: Cherie KerrISBN: 0-9648882-2-X“So George Washington is Standing there in the Boat and He says…” Build to Laugh: How to Construct Sketch Comedy with the Fast and Funny Formula is no recent release. Still in print and readily available, the book has already encouraged a decade of emerging comedy writers to think about their material in deeper ways. The long shelf life came from its clarity and its playful explanations. It actually helps writers learn to be funny. My own reasons for...
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3-26-2007
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Funny Business: How to Make You Laugh on the Job Every Day
Author: Cherie Kerr:Jim Doody, Illust. ISBN: 9780976597018You’ve Tried ‘Excellence?’ Now try ExuberanceCherie Kerr teaches professionals how to “lighten up.” But for those of us unable to attend a seminar, Funny Business, summarizes her approach to maintaining peace of mind by offsetting daily and unavoidable stress with good doses of healthy laughter. A more elegant phrasing is--in the author’s words-- “For every down experience on the job, we need an up one to achieve balance.” And Kerr...
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1-4-2007
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Hobgoblins: A Novel
Author: Jacob Jaffe. ISBN: 0-595-38421-8. A Series of Fortunate CoincidencesHobgoblins, by Jacob Jaffe, is a story of intertwining webs set to a political thriller. The story centers on a young man, Marty Ritter, who is a psychology graduate student. As the plot opens, Marty works as an intern at a psychology clinic. Under the supervision of the dictatorial Bartlett, Marty is unfairly punished for having avoided Bartlett's seminar and for having a dissenting opinion concerning...
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3-18-2007
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Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
Author: James S. RobbinsPublisher: Encounter BooksISBN 1-59403-141-X “Boys Will Be Boys:” Confusing Dash with Leadership James S. Robbins’ Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point will thrill readers who have already embraced the notion of Civil War officers as “gods.” Robbins mined the Special Collections Library of the United States Military Academy and now presents a vivid description of how these “gods” got their various starts. The book’s premise is engaging....
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1-26-2007
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Talent Force: a New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business
Authors: Rusty Rueff and Hank Stringer. ISBN: 0-13-185523-9 It’s People! Everything Depends on Recruiting, Mobilizing, and Retaining People. Back in the olden days of “B school,” several--ahem--decades ago anyway, we were all economists and sports writers. To determine the business value of an enterprise, we learned to “line up” the last five years of audited financial reports, calculate “batting averages” and financial ratios, project historical performance into the future, and then “call a...
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3-22-2007
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Saving Babylon: The Heart of an Army Interrogator in Iraq
Author: Paul Holton. Perihelion PressISBN: 978-1-933434-00-1. Chief Wiggles has Been There…He Knows Here we have the personal memoir of Chief Warrant Officer Paul Holton, (a/k/a “Chief Wiggles”) the “morale officer” in a Utah National Guard Unit. When not in uniform, Holton works as an account manager for Federal Express Corporation and travels as a missionary with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Holton’s National Guard unit reported for mobilization in February 2003....
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2-8-2007
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How We Reason
Author: Philip N. Johnson-Laird Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-8569769Removing the Brackets from Context and Advanced Cognitive ProcessesWorld shaking intellectual projects have been rarely contained within the boundary lines of any solitary academic field. Nor did they all happen near the turn of the seventeenth century. From Copernicus, to Kant, to Leibniz, to Husserl, and to Einstein, some of these ideas and their originators were overlooked in their first published editions....
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5-22-2007
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Azriel The Angel Chronicles
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Mark D. ChevalierISBN: 978-1-59526-697-2 In a modern day world, an angel sent from God showing up in the middle of Chicago would cause much confusion. Imagine the media and police trying to understand a being with wings falling from the Sears Tower, hitting the ground, and running away unscathed. In Azriel The Angel Chronicles, Mark D. Chevalier writes just that very tale. The story is of a thirty year old man, Scott LeClair, realizing...
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7-16-2007
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The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Author: Robert B. MarksPublishers: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group ISBN: 10: 0-7425-5419-8 An Innovative Pedagogical Device! Each semester, history instructors must select the required reading materials for the next semester’s classes. A conscientious teacher might drown in the many options. There are always new titles to fill the captive demand for required purchases. Increasingly, these options come with new bells, whistles, digitized archival collections, and promises of the...
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2-21-2007
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A Writer at War: a Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Author: Vasily GrossmanTranslated by: Antony Beevor and Luba VinogradovaVintage Books/Random HouseISBN: 978-0-307-27533-2. The Other Side of The Nightmare It is now fashionable to detect substantial improvement in Politburo attitudes during the Nikita Khrushchev years. Unquestionably, his widely-trumpeted “deStalinization program” included a new tolerance for carefully selected literature that might be considered critical of earlier Soviet behavior. Works including Solzhenitsyn’s mildly...
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4-5-2007
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A Dialogue of Civilizations: Gülen’s Islamic Ideals and Humanistic Discourse (Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy)
Author: B. Jill Carroll: Forward by Akbar S. Ahmed. ISBN: 13: 978-1-59784-110-8. Who Speaks for a Civilization? Theologian, B. Jill Carroll, a lecturer in Humanities and Religion at Rice University, presents a laudable idea. Dr. Carroll wants to set up a hypothetical dialog between civilizations. On one of her hands is the Muslim world; on her other the rest of humanity. Because of her respect for a very prolific Islamic cleric named Fethullah Gülen, Dr. Carroll would like to...
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5-8-2007
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Noni Benegas’ Burning Cartography
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author:Noni Benegas: Translated by:Noёl ValisPublisher: Host Publications ISBN: 978-0-924047-43-5. In focus: a Translator’s Contribution to World PoetryPoised between some great Spanish poetry, in this case Noni Benegas’ Cartografia ardiente, and its English readers who can now embrace this collection in new ways, stands a gifted translator who faces several impossible tasks at once. A poem is more than a meta-expr
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8-2-2007
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Islands of Illusion
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12-22-2007
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The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War
Author: H. Robert Baker. ISBN 0-8214-1690-1. Dramatic Scholarship, Timely Gist, and Courageous Subtext During the early half of the nineteenth century, more than three million Americans were still being held in chattel slavery by neighbors who backed up constant intimidation with often brutal episodes of violence. These, so called, control measures were intended to demoralize an already desperate people and to block their collective demand for the individual liberties and ethnic dignities...
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1-9-2007
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