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This completely revised edition of Making a Living While Making a Difference updates the rapidly expanding career opportunities in socially responsible and green business, industry, commerce, and non-profits. Unlike traditional career guides that focus on defining skill areas, Making a Living While Making a Difference focuses on personal, social, and environmental values as the driving force for career decisions. Expanded and updated self-assessments, exercises, and visualizations point the reader toward defining their personal area of commitment.
Whether you are a new job-seeker, job-changer, or someone who would like to make a difference right where they are, this book is the definitive "how-to-make-it-happen" guide for anyone who wants to customize their work lives to reflect their values more fully.
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Biased towards environmental careers and not much else.......2002-09-09
I'm going to offer a point of view different from the rest. I think this book focusses almost exclusively on environmental issues, and practically equates "making a difference" to "saving the environment". Well, yes, there are remarks about "improving society", but no clear path to doing any of those things. (...) The book does not contain any lead into careers that address world poverty or undernourished children or any of the other burning issues that affect the world everyday, unlike a dwindling dolphin population. Not that I don't think that a dwindling dolphin population is an important issue, but it is less important than starving children groping through some rubble heap in search of food. In fact, unless that part of the "starving population" is reeled out of poverty, they will continue to have dire impact on the environment faster than any socially-responsible fund manager can write out "green" dividend checks. This book provides "first-world denizens" the distorted view that fixing environmental issues is all there is to it (and calls itself "The Expanded Guide"). This is most likely related to the author's own background and focus on environmental issues. But it doesn't measure up for me.
Excellent!.......2000-10-18
(From Planeta Journal) - This is a guide to "creating careers with a conscience." Can we ask for anything less? Authored by Melissa Everett, this second edition is an excellent resource guide for anyone interested in making the world a better place. The book provides a 10-step program for career development and offers advice to career counselors. It is an imaginative and valuable tool for anyone thinking about their career. Highly recommended.
Making a Life and Career of Difference.......2000-06-28
As you move through college you learn simple things like find out what makes you happy and do more of that. At least that's the way my undergraduate experience evolved. However, after reading Melissa Everett's book I realized that my happiness is not the only issue at hand in planning the shape of my career. We all have a responsibility to our families, communities, moral and ethical codes, as well as our dreams. If you've felt that you aren't participating in a larger pattern that connects your environment, family life, work life with a sense of responsibility, then you should read this book. There are helpful and thoughtful reflective exercises, logical advice as well as tons of examples from real lives that illustrate how you can make change in your life toward deliberate responsibility and empowerment. The book examines our personal growth and maturation as well as our current situation through a series of workbook style exercises and clearly stated topics. If you are unhappy with work or your life, I would suggest you invest in this book.
This is one of the best career guides ever written........1999-11-11
Melissa Everett has done all of us a great service by writing this book. Her ten-step process alone is worth the price of admission. As a career advisor with The Environmental Careers Organization, I tell anyone interested in a socially-responsible career - get this book!
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Making a Living While Making a Difference is a timely and highly informative guide to a working life built on principled choices and an entrepreneurial attitude. It's “about” greener enterprises and technologies, socially responsible business, innovative nonprofit work, and reinventing government. It's really about putting the pieces together with creativity and hope.
Working people everywhere are realizing that personal success is interconnected with healthy communities and the environment. We are all looking for our unique “creative edge” with work that allows us to make an impact -- close to home and in the world.
The substantially revised third edition of Making a Living While Making a Difference acknowledges that while the path to finding a life's work that is satisfying, sustainable and financially feasible is not easy, there are simple steps to follow. An empowering ten-step program includes:
- Paying attention to what you most care about.
- Stabilizing your life with regard to time, money and relationships.
- Assessing your core aptitudes and attitudes.
- Cultivating the entrepreneurial skills to create the workplace you want, whether or not you are in business for yourself.
With dozens of rich personal stories, and a thorough look at the options, this is the comprehensive life/work guide for people who care about their communities and the planet.
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Helping building designers, developers, and constructors refine and improve their understanding of efficiency in building operation, this judicious, clear, and succinct book explains and details building heating and cooling requirements and ensuing utility costs, and proposes design opportunities and equipment choices that can produce comfortable, energy-efficient buildings. Quantifies building heat losses and gains, and describes heating-cooling operations. Integrates heating-cooling components with building structure and construction, providing specific building examples for heat/cool loads ; size air distribution components; HVAC options and HVAC zoning; annual heating/cooling costs. Evaluates energy conserving alternatives, and presents passive ("sustainable") design opportunities, such as solar control.
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The Many and Few: A CHRONICLE OF THE DYNAMIC AUTO WORKERS
Henry Kraus
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The many & the few;: A chronicle of the dynamic auto workers,
Henry Kraus
Manufacturer: The Plantin press
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Finally in paperback, the story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rocks do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. Our Band Could Be Your Life is a sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith that is already being recognized as an indie rock classic in its own right. Among the legendary bands Azerrad writes about: Black Flag, the Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Minor Threat, Hsker D, the Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr. Fugazi, Mudhoney, and Beat Happening. The story of the American indie underground has never been told in depthuntil now.
Customer Reviews:
Rose colored histories.......2007-08-26
So much of this book is tripe. What you get is a cut/ paste of old interviews alongside higly romantisized band biographies. Everyone talks so highly of Azerrad's writing, but that's just make-up covering a lack of substance.
Its not really a bad book, I just think its a rather pointless book. Like I said, most of these interviews have been around for a decade or more, and I don't really need to hear some fan-boy gush over his man crushes with seminal 80's rock icons.
'Cides, if you're into the bands, then you probably know most of this stuff already.
This book could be your guide.......2007-07-21
I don't know what all the complaints are about. Azerrad has written a solid account of the punk/underground music scene in 1980s America, and it is authentic, because he was partaking of the scene at the time. I still snicker when I recall big-media coverage of the breaking "alternative" scene in 1991-92, and slick magazine hacks writing clueless articles about supposedly groundbreaking bands like Nirvana (who played loud and screamed, like
no one had ever done before). Azerrad isn't about that, he clearly knows and loves the music of the bands he's chosen to profile, and as far as I'm concerned, having seen several of these bands perform in cramped clubs in the Decade of Reagan, he is accurate. And we get the warts too: his profile of Sonic Youth is not particularly flattering from a personal standpoint. So if you weren't around to see giants like Husker Du and Minutemen at the time and want to know how amazing they were, or if you want to revive your memories of those exciting years (when, to quote the Germs, "what we did was secret...SECRET!"), get this book.
At the very least, this book is largely responsible for the revival of the careers of Mission of Burma and Dinosaur Jr, so it gets five stars just for that.
On the con side: why no discography??
Has everyone forgotten how to ask questions?.......2007-04-16
What is it with books on hardcore punk that have come out in the last few years? This one is much the same as many of the others that have come out (the God awful Blush American hardcore, Dance of Days etc) The problem with this book is it's just painting by numbers journalism. Nothing is challenged.
This book covers some of the most well known bands in punk, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Big Black etc but the whole books is just a "Band started in year blah blah, made a few demos, blah blah blah, toured blah blah blah, split up in year blah blah blah. You may as well read the back of an album cover! How about asking some of these people some challenging quesions. How about putting Ian Makaye on the spot about the song "guilty of being white" (something only MDC have bothered to do over the years) How about putting Steve Albini on the spot for some of his numerous comments? Punk was (and still is) all about challenging. Speaking your mind what it seems to have become is just another form of music. Green Day and Fall out Boy on MTV, bit of eye make up, spikey hair, stupid clothes (t-shirt and tie) and thats punk. Now we have books like this about how the bands "stuggled to make it"
I mean for Gods sake! You have people here such as Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Buthole Surfers, The Minutemen and Mission of Burma. Steve Albini like him or hate him at least if a half decent journalist spoke to him (you would assume) he/she would find something worth putting to print. Even if much of this book is a collection of already compiled material Azerrad has to be able to find better than this.
I mean the title says it all "Our band could be your life" When I see books like this I cant help thinking of the Crass song "punk is dead" Amazing in that that song was written more than 20 years ago!
An interesting look at Punk.......2007-03-04
I'm not a huge fan of this genre of music, but as a very part-time musician, this book was recommended by a fellow friend and musician. I liked this book alot and found it education and entertaining, even if the subject matter was not of immense interest. This is definitely not the fault of the author, who did a fine job of making this subject engaging.
Thus, I found the read illuminating to no small degree. I learned alot about the roots of punk, how it spread and rose, and the end of it. By correctly defining the terms of the book "The Indie Years", we only see what happens to the bands in their formative years. Once they sign with a major label, their story is ended. This was both a good idea and frustrating one, as we see the birth and growth of bands, but not what happens to them (in most cases) once they hit a major label. Frequently, signing with a major label creates/expands both the zeniths and nadirs for a band and I would have liked to have known what happened from there.
Regardless, this book is well-written and a great read for any person who likes the bands included in the book.
Is this book accurate?.......2007-01-12
I picked up this book specifically because there is a chapter devoted to one of my favorite bands, Big Black. As I read the section devoted to Big Black, I was upset to find several mistakes regarding song lyrics and titles. The first was when lyrics to the song "Deep Six" are attributed to the song/title track "Racer X." The second mistake was the song "Grinder" is referred to as "Grind." This left me wondering how well-researched and accurate this book really is. If such simple things as double-checking lyrics and song titles slipped under the radar, what else has?
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Body Politics and the Fictional Double
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In recent years, questions concerning "the body" and its place in postmodern discourses have taken center stage in academic disciplines. The contributors to Body Politics join these discussions by focusing on the challenges women face when their externally defined identities and representations as bodies--their body fictions--speak louder than what they know to be their true selves.
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Mystifying Math Puzzles
Steve Ryan
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These sensational new math puzzles are packed with lost, hidden, and missing number challenges that will have you searching the outer limits of your imagination. All will test your I.Q.--and patience. However, you don't have to be a math genius to solve them. Most just ask you to apply basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division--they're intended to trick your thinking, not your math. So come on in, and play your way through dozens of magic squares, mazes, devious dissections, logic problems, weight and date puzzles, coin and matchstick maneuvers, and numerical word games. 96 pages, 130 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
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If you've been avoiding high-definition video because in order to edit it, you would have had to purchase a secondary card (not to mention an HD TV to view it on), you can finally hop on the HD bandwagon. With Final Cut Pro HD, you can now import, edit, and export HD video over FireWire--no extra hardware or media conversion required! Knowing you won't want to waste a second getting up to speed on it, video pro Lisa Brenneis has completely updated her best-selling guide on the topic. In this task-based guide, step-by-step instructions combine with loads of visual aids and time-saving tips to move you quickly through Final Cut Pro basics and on to more advanced topics like creating transitions and motion effects, and filter and rendering options. In the process, you'll learn about all of the program's most important features, including those new to HD: real-time color correction, the ability to toggle between full-resolution, high-quality playback or preview mode, and more!
Customer Reviews:
Good book.......2007-05-25
Simple to follow and was recommended by an instructor in School of Visual Arts, NYC.
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