The Americano Dream: How Latinos Can Achieve Success in Business and in Life

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Lionel Sosa's extraordinary achievements in advertising have made his San Antonio-based firm the leading consultant to Anglo corporations looking to break into the multicultural market. Now he turns the tables, showing Latinos how to market themselves to a wider base of American business cultures. Sosa draws on his own experiences as well as those of other successful Latino politicians, entertainers, sports stars, and business people to illustrate the obstacles that Latinos must overcome and the power of their heritage. By showing in detail how Latinos can compete and win in American society, The Americano Dream is unique in the marketplace, and will quickly become the business bible for a new generation of Latino entrepreneurs.

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Latino Success Story.......2005-12-22

The author worked his way up from a poverty-stricken childhood in San Antonio to become an advertising executive in the upper echelons of the business world. Henry Cisneros felt the book "captures the essence of being Latino in the U.S. today. It is a book that will touch many people deeply".

Disappointing.......2002-07-03

The book follows the typical self-help recipes: positive attitude, self-appreciation, hard work, etc. But it starts flopping when it attempts to bind those recipes with sociocultural subjects.

For example: the Spanish spoken in certain regions is, according to Mr. Sosa, inherently servile (by the way, not so with English or Portuguese????).

Negative behaviors, he essays to explain through ... anthropology and anti-hispanist slogans.

The only real asset of the book is that, when you are done reading it, you are left totally determined to succeed in life, if for nothing else, to prove Mr. Sosa that renege one's cultural inheritance is not the way.

Read it if you are a minority!!.......2000-12-05

Mr Sosa has a brilliant message. You can succeed even though you may belong to a minority or 'disadvantaged'. Although, he shares the Latinos' experiance and the Americano dream, his story is applicable to anyone who has persistence and determination to succeed. I live in a city state where most of us come from immigrant origins and have thrived. Mr Sosa's practical and sound advice in the book is something you can immediately put to use.

The voyage begins here.......2000-08-08

When I started to read this book I knew right away that this man had the answers I was searching for. He is on target with what it takes to make it the present US economy. I not only gained knowledge, I gained pride in my culture. I highly recommend it.

MARCH ON AMIGOS!.......1999-10-02

IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, A BOOK LIKE THIS HELPS YOU TO WANT TO DO YOUR BEST TO MAKE YOUR LIFE WORTH LIVING. IF YOU WISH TO NETWORK W/OTHER LATINOS OR ANYONE GO TO MONSTER.COM, GO INTO CAREER RESOURCES, THEN INTO CAREERS FOR LATINOS TOWARDS THE BOTTOM & WE CAN DISCUSS ISSUES RELATING TO THE BOOK & OUR LIVES. CHK IT OUT

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Use of argumentation methods applied to legal reasoning is a relatively new field of study. Many vitally important problems of legal reasoning can be profitably studied in light of these new methods, even if they cannot all be solved in any single monograph. This book provides a survey of the leading problems, and outlines how future research using argumentation-based methods show great promise of leading to useful solutions. The problems studied include not only these of argument evaluation and argument invention, but also analysis of specific kinds of evidence commonly used in law, like witness testimony, circumstantial evidence, forensic evidence and character evidence. New tools for analyzing these kinds of evidence are introduced, like argument diagramming, abductive reasoning, an analysis of conditional relevance and a new dialectical model of explanation.

Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law

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Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law
Douglas Walton
Manufacturer: Springer Verlag
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Binding: Hardcover

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Covering a broader range of techniques than the first two volumes in this series, Theory and Application of Tracers is required reading for all students and researchers interested in the use of isotopes to solve research problems in the biological and earth sciences. It convincingly demonstrates that isotope techniques may be applied to a wide range of disciplines and problems areas. Theory and Application of Tracers covers fundamental methods for the use of isotopes in environmental biology, plant physiology, marine chemistry, soil science, isotope geochemistry, and related disciplines. It outlines many elements and techniques, presents examples, and gives extensive literature references. This volume also emphasizes current applications such as global change and other interdisciplinary studies.

Key Features
* This concise guidebook describes:
* Use of isotopes in ecological studies
* Use of isotopes in global change studies
* Modeling of isotope flows for studying biological system processes
* Applications to research in ecology, plant physiology, soil science, biogeochemistry, and global change
* Techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, and autoradiography
* Safety and laboratory procedures

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The Bible for Every Radioecologist.......2000-09-27

The bible for every scientist who wants to apply isotopic techniques in his research. Wide approach to the use of radioactive tracers of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur in biology. The reader will find many examples of research where tracer methodology enabled to explain circulation of elements in the land, water and air environment. The author presents the system of biological compartments, which are considered during tracer research. Thus, we do not deal with the absolute quantity of radioactive substance in an environmental sample, as used in radioecology. We can create a model explaining physiological processes that are evolved. What is important, some processes show the fractionation due to the isotopic chemical effect. Inexperienced researcher can find mathematical approach to this problem. Finally, Schimel describes some principal isotopic techniques and methods applied in the isotopic laboratory. Basic file on the safety rules is also included. Generally speaking, "Theory and Application of Tracers" is a good comprehensive handbook of isotopic methodology.

TRACER METHODS FOR VIVO KINETICS - THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

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TRACER METHODS FOR VIVO KINETICS - THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
REGINALD A. - RICHARD E. CLARK SHIPLEY
Manufacturer: Academic Press Inc.,U.S.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHK8QU

Tracer Methods in Vivo Kinetics Theory and Applications

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Tracer Methods in Vivo Kinetics Theory and Applications
Reginald A. & Richard E. Clark Shipley
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QCBFBU

Tracer theory with application in geosciences (Environmental Sciences Division publication)

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Tracer theory with application in geosciences (Environmental Sciences Division publication)
Aharon Nir
Manufacturer: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Jesus Demystified

Don't think twice. Buy it at once!

A totally depressing book, a great man broken by culture

Amazing book on Life!

The murder of Christ by the victims of the emotionnal plaque

MURDER OF CHRIST P (Emotional Plague of Mankind)
Wilhelm reich
Manufacturer: Touchstone
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Jesus Demystified.......2006-09-01

Reich exposes Jesus as all-in-one with nature, and not as a supernatural power, nor dying for men was his OWN choice. Morality and men's judgement of their own sins led to his murder...

Don't think twice. Buy it at once!.......2006-04-18

This book is a masterpiece.
Instead of describing it, i will mention only 1 point:
When you read it, you will either read it again and again and again, or you will burn it before finishing it.
It depends of your "inner" situation.
In both cases it is absolutely worth to read it.
It is a unique book, written from one of the most genious and surely the bigest physician and natural scientist on the world ever.

A totally depressing book, a great man broken by culture.......2005-06-22

This is a profoundly depressing book, along with its companion Listen Little Man. In fact when I first read this book seriously in the mid-1970s when I devoured everything Reich wrote, reading those two books cast me into a near-suicidal depression. They are sad commentary on how Reich was destroyed, and many others of his generation was destroyed by the collapse of revolutionary communism and the imposition of STalinism.
Put simply, this book is autobiographical. Reich posits that the problem of the world is that great epoch making prophets and leaders come into the world at each major stage of history. These men--and in Reich's telling of this tale they are all men with no thought of women at all--are somehow possessed of greater vision because somehow they are not orgone deprived--orgone being the basic natural energy released in healthy sex among other places according to the Wilhelm Reich from the late 1930s until his death in the 1950s--like the normal neurotic weaklings, but they suffer and are killed and ignored by the normal neurotic weaklings.

This speaks to the flaw in Reich's system. He had begun as an assistant to Frued. Yet, Reich was familiar with the Marxist answer to Freud's view of the permanence of the Edipus Conflict that most of human history we had non patriachial structures and not the nuclear family of modern Europe. Moreover, Reich was also influenced by the Malinowski and other anthropologists who discovered relative sexual freedom, particularly for youth, in prepatriarchal societies in the South Seas and elsewhere.

Armed with these ideas and the spirit of revolutionary Marxism that swept Western Europe after the Bolshevik Revolution (Reich was born in Hungary of Austrian-Jewish parents and lived in Vienna and later Berlin before fleeing to Norway and the US after Hitler came to power), Reich began a radical scientific psychological extension of Freudian pyschology to eliminate the conservative and idealist concepts Freud integrated in the system when Freud realized that his concepts of sexual repression clashed with the conservative family morality of middle class Europe that Freud believed in.

This materialist and political aspect of Reich's work is hard to find because after his development of "orgone theory" in the late 1930s all of his works were reedited to reflect it.

Reich was not only widely successful as a pyschoanlyst, but launched a political movement for sexual freedom, particularly for the youth that won thousands of supporters in pre-Hitler Germany. His best work "The Mass Pyschology of Fascism" even with its current orgone editing shows how a battle of for sexual rights for the youth, equal rights for women, abortion rights for women, could have cut into the Nazi's support among the Youth.

Reich was expelled from the Communist Party of Germany for "Trotskyism" and fled to Scandanavia when Hitler came to power, for he was surely on Hitler's death list. Across the 1930s, his belief and faith in buidling a political movement waned, and his belief that a sexual energy called orgone was emitted during good sex was born. By the 1950s, when this book was written, Orgone energy was not restricted to sexual union, but had become a basic underlying energy of the universe with which Reich proposed to cure cancer, built plans to shoot down Soviet jets, and proposed to power spaceships.

In the 1920s and early 1930s, Reich understood great events in the world and mass movements such as he had witnessed and participated in in Hungry, Austria, and Germany during those years and a revolutionary movement could allow people to look beyond the limitations of every-day conservative life, and see a bigger picture and create radical change. Yet, by this time, Reich tended to believe all problems were due to orgone deprivation and more and more began to have the insane and paranoid belief that he was specially infused with orgone and a heroic view of the world because his mother had produced him through an affair with an extraterrestial!

Facing this, there seemed no way to resolve the conflict between the great visionaries like Reich and Christ and orgone deprived masses whom this book despises. Great visionaries are doomed to death. Christ is murdered, and poor, delude Reich believed he was doomed to be murdered by the conspiracy of the orgone deprived led by Stalin.

Sadly, this led him to send many of his papers and documents to the CIA and the US Air Force which made it easy for the government to frame him up as a quack doctor--though Reich only did experimental medicine and psychology in the United States.
He was thrown into prison. All of his books were banned and burned by the federal government. I can remember reading bootleg copies of his masterpiece The Mass Pyschology of Fascism in the late 1960s when the ban was still in effect.

Oh well, if you want to see the grandeur of a revolutionary vision of how the neurotic problems of capitalist mental health can be overcome read his early writings like the Sexual Struggle of the Youth and The Sexual Revolution. If you want to read an outstanding analysis of why conservative "family values" politics are essential to capitalist society and how they can be defeated by a struggle for women's rights, sexual freedom, and true liberation, read The Mass Pyschology of Fascism.

If you read this one, make sure to keep the number of the suicide hotline handy!

Amazing book on Life!.......2004-06-25

When Reich wrote this book in the early 50's He was supposed to have gone mad. After a first read of the book, you will find He was unusually lucid, much more than Nietzsche himself in the account of a Life ruling principle.

Do not be afraid of any comment. Just enjoy reading it!

The murder of Christ by the victims of the emotionnal plaque.......1999-09-06

In this book Wilhem Reich, revolutionnary scientist, explore the Myth and history of Jesus in a functionalist perspective...and depict what he calls 'the emotional plague'

He expose in a philosophical manner the responsibility man continually evades...

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The murder of Christ: Volume one of The emotional plague of mankind (Noonday)
Wilhelm Reich
Manufacturer: Noonday Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007HKGGY

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The murder of Christ;: The emotional plague of mankind
Wilhelm Reich
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007F354G

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History of the Discovery of the Life Energy. The Emotional Plague of Mankind Volume I: The Murder of Christ
Wilhelm Reich
Manufacturer: Orgone Institute Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H7GPUU

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The Murder of Christ (Volume One of: "The Emotional Plague of Mankind")
Wilhelm Reich
Manufacturer: Pocket Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000TW267E

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Murder of Christ Volume One of the Emotional Plague of Mankind

Manufacturer: NY 1974.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IG41BA

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The breathtaking landscapes of America's national parks reveal the processes that shape our planet.

Many of our national parks, monuments, and seashores were established because of their inspiring geological features. The geysers of Yellowstone, the volcanoes of Hawaii, and the granite peaks of Yosemite bear witness to the "national park idea" as one of our country's greatest contributions to society. Parks and Plates explains the fascinating geological processes that formed the mountain ranges, volcanoes, shorelines, and other dramatic landscapes of America's national treasures.

Robert J. Lillie, a gifted teacher and expert on park geology, takes a unique approach to the subject. By structuring each section of Parks and Plates around major geological features, Lillie highlights geologic patterns across many different parks. He explains these fascinating landforms using examples from over 100 park sites to introduce and illustrate plate tectonics, a simple yet eloquent way to visualize geological processes. Lavishly illustrated throughout with full color photographs, diagrams, and maps, Parks and Plates will enrich the National Park experience for curious travelers and armchair explorers alike. 336 full-color illustrations.

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Robert J. Lillie's 'Parks and Plates' is a wonderful book.......2005-12-21

Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments and Seashores clearly and concisely describes the geological processes which formed the most spectacular, familiar and beloved landscapes in America. Balancing the fast-moving text are richly illustrated explanations of geological ideas and terminology and helpful color photographs depicting specific examples. The author identifies which parks reflect which geological forces leaving the reader with a desire to pack up and visit each park.

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At D.H. Lawrence's suggestion, a nurse and author, Mollie Skinner wrote about a young Englishman's reactions to late nineteenth-century Western Australia; then Lawrence completely rewrote it. This is the first critical edition of that novel, The Boy in the Bush. The reading text eliminates publishers' censorship and the miscopyings of typists and typesetters. The compositional development and the variants of the typescripts and first editions are given in the textual apparatus. Explanatory notes distinguish local and historical material. Appendices include maps, an outline history of the colony and two of Lawrence's essays about the collaboration, one of which appears here for the first time in English.

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Mixed Oz.......2006-09-19

Late in the nineteenth century, Jack Grant arrives in Western Australia: he has been sent there by his parents to start a new life with their Australian relatives. Jack struggles to adjust to the new country - will he ever settle in properly?

This is a kind of mixture of a rites of passage story with observations on the clash of cultures between the old world and a newly emergent nation (the latter being the sort of thing explored by Lawrence in "Kangaroo"). Of course, you get a fair amount of Lawrence's views on relationships and the role of men and women too.

The book has come in for some harsh criticism, and certainly it's nowhere near the standard of Lawrence's better works. It was a collaborative effort, and certanly reads like that: there are large sections where the plot and narrative are effectively becalmed - the work as a whole feels uneven, choppy.

But that's not to dismiss it outright - there are good descriptive and reflective passages to enjoy. The rivalry between Jack and Easu is also interesting; the main question being whether they are enemies because they are so different or because in fact they are really so similar. Lawrence's examimation of whether or not life in a new country can mean that long-held social mores can be dismissed, and the parts of the plot dealing with the role of women are worth the effort to read.

Not great, but not a total waste of time.

G Rodgers

A minor work, not really worth reading..........2004-01-24

"The Boy in the Bush"

In this book - first published in 1924 - D.H. Lawrence recasts a manuscript which was originally written by one Mollie Skinner, a woman he met when he was travelling in Australia.

Theme: Jack Hector Grant, aged 17, has been been kicked out of his agricultural college in England, as the book opens. His mother was a native Australian, his father is in the army, both prefer travelling the world rather than living a life in England, so Jack has seen little of his parents during his boyhood, having been left in the charge of others. Jack is sent from Bedford, England, to live in Australia for a while. As the book opens, he arrives at the sea port of Fremantle, Western Australia in 1882, having travelled there on board a wool ship, to take up residency, and is placed with a family already settled there there. Thus begins his new life in Australia.
The book traces his journey from the age of 17 into maturity - his relationship with a family he lives with initially; his loves; his battles; his work and where it takes him; his relationship to the world in general, and to women in particular; and shows how he gradually changes and evolves as a person and becomes wilder, and one with the land, after being exposed for a long time to the hardships of the rougher and more solitary side of life in a young Australia.

This isn't a book I would recommend anyone to read. It is not the best of literature one could find. The book is too slow and laboured and long-winded (391 pages); the language is protracted, deliberately drawn out too long, and often repetitive; the ideas wander unnecessarily, on and on; the story itself is not particularly unusual or sufficiently interesting to amount to a reason to read the book; the account is overall too long; there is no actual climax, but simply a historical account following the progression of the youth through to the man; and there isn't enough to be gained from the book to make the long journey through it worthwhile. (But do read it if you want to, these are only my views.)

Two and a half stars.

Minor Work.......2000-05-09

The Boy in the Bush is a minor work being a collaboration between Lawrence & Mollie Skinner. It is still a interesting read containing "Laurentian" ideas more fully worked out in his other novels.

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