Book Description
"America's Top Medical, Education & Human Services Jobs" is especially good for people who would like to work in the medical, education, or human services fields, but who need more information about the kinds of jobs that are available. Each of the 88 descriptions is packed with a wealth of information on some of the most desirable jobs in the labor market including working conditions, required skills, education and training, and typical pay and benefits.
Average customer rating:
|
Struggling with "Iowa's" Pride: Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877
Wilson J. Warren
Manufacturer: University Of Iowa Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Labor & Industrial Relations
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| State & Local
| United States
| Americas
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Iowa
| State & Local
| United States
| Americas
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Labor & Industrial Relations
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Labor Unions
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Women's Studies
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0877457131 |
Book Description
Totally Guitar is the biggest and most complete book on the world's most popular instrument, full of expert tips and fascinating stories for both beginning and advanced players. An unrivalled guide to the guitar, here are the stories behind 100 key electric guitar makers, from Alembic to Zemaitis, with fabulous color photos of all the greatest models from the 1930s to the 2000s. Here too is advice on how to string, tune, set up, clean, maintain, and store a prized instrument. Add 1,250 bars of music, 250 chords, the biggest glossary of guitar terms ever assembled in one book, and hundreds of essential tips on 10 hot playing styles from acoustic to rock 'n' roll and the result is a modern bible for the guitar-obsessed.
Customer Reviews:
Totally Guitar...Totally Awesome (sorry, it was too easy).......2007-05-31
This is a great book...voluminous. Easy to follow visuals. Great depth in a variety of styles.
totally guitar: Totally heaven.......2007-05-19
I love guitars and this is the perfect book for me. I can sit and see the beautiful pictures of guitars (on beautiful paper by the way)and read the in depth information on so many topics to do with guitars. I was reading about the different sounds made by the different woods last night. It has the history of the guitar presented in such a way that for once I didn't have to fight off sleep. I'm just into it, and already I am so pleased. Not a wasted cent.
Every Guitarist Should Have This.......2007-02-05
This book has a little bit of everything, lessons, tips, maintenance intructions, history, everything. Great value for this price! I bought it and not one penny went to waste.
Totally guitar.......2006-11-04
simply the best info that can be found about guitars are gathered into this single book. great deal.
highly recommended for all level guitar players
Nice catalog ;-).......2005-11-04
I'm glad I checked the contents of this book. Otherwise I would have been mighty surprised to find that half of it is a guitar catalog. If that's what you're loking for then buy it. You'll get half a good book about the IMPORTANT stuff you should know along with your catalog. This is not a 600 page book about how to play, how to maintain, repair... your guitar. Otherwise it's fine. I like Tony Bacon's books - I have many of them.
Customer Reviews:
new age twaddle.......2007-06-21
I read some of this book, a real study in wishful thinking. One of the reviewers mentioned that the book is 'not new age'. Hmm ... begs the question, what his new age, considering the first page starts off with:
"The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin to crumble and people of the heart sing out a new truth. .... [E]ach of you plays a part in bringing forth the new dawn."
If it reads like new age, smells like new age and dances like new age --- it IS new age. In this case, Christian new age.
There is no compelling empirical evidence to suggest that human or global history is on the brink of any significant cultural or biological watershed. If anything it looks like humanity is poised for extinction. And that's not a bad thing.
I really do not understand this desperate urge to save the human race, which has arguably caused more damage to the planet than any other species ever has or ever could. If you want to save the planet, let the human race die off. If you want to save humans and the planet, you have your work cut out for you and even if hundreds of thousands of new-agers contemplate a better future, it is highly unlikely to change the course the human race has set for itself over the last century.
A Really Nice Surprise.......2007-06-04
I began reading this book expecting to find another goddess spirituality book telling us about how we need to go back to the "good old days" when women ruled the world, when we were one with nature in idyllic Roussean bliss, and how the presence of male energy on the planet should be eradicated so that women can create a perfect paradise - just like they once used to.
What I found was something else altogether - a detailed and balanced account of the historical, cultural and philosophical development leading to our current culture. While she uses the metaphor of the chakra system to trace this development, it is perfectly syncronous with Spiral Dynamics and other sophisticated models of human development. In other words, there is a total absence of magical, New Age superstition and a great presence of balance, perspective and wisdom.
The book is a clarion call to action, to understand the context of our emergence, appreciate the gravity of our current situation and take total responsibility for it on the level of our personal lives. This is all done without guilt tripping or demonizing any aspect of our development, while not denying much of its brutality.
Having studied both Ken Wilber's and Don Beck's work, I find this book in perfect alignment and the author another in a growing chorus of voices urging us to evolve at the level of consciousness in service of the entire race.
Elegantly written, full of heart and perspective, this book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand why we're where we're at and what the next step must be.
An Invitation to Kindom........2006-11-08
Waking the Global Heart creates an understandable picture of cultural evolution. More importantly it creates a hope for what humanity can yet become, if we can begin to awaken to what is possible instead of living with what we have come to accept. As a United Methodist pastor, I found Judith's anaylsis of Christian history to be especially helpful for revealing the process of adjusting Christianity to fit political purposes of the Roman Empire. While Judith's summary of this history could not possibly cover all the nuances of that history, her approach reminds us that the heart message Jesus proclaimed and lived was co-opted by the love of power that dominated that time and this. From the perspective of Jesus message of the heart (the power of love), I have long struggled with the use of the word "kingdom"of God to describe Jesus' goal. While Jesus' call is clearly to create a world based on God's love, "kingdom" carries too much of the "love of power" model. I especially appreciated Judith's coining of the word, "kindom" to describe the goal of social evolution. Waking the Global Heart gives us an excellent model as to what the world can be, if we can move past doctrine to discover unity of spirit in the image of the heart chakra. Dana Wimmer
A roadmap for what humanity needs to JUST DO! .......2006-09-24
WAKING THE GLOBAL HEART, will be kept were I can refer to it often. Anodea Judith has touched all the right nerves to awaken humanity's sleeping giant. As J. Krishnamurti put it, to produce "A radical mutation of the mind." She describes the human condition as an adolescent emerging with the crushing awareness of adult choices. Like a teen age girl staring in disbelief at the drug store pregnancy test that signals a personal Tsunami, a 9/11 and a New Orleans, humanity stands in the postmodern era with no MAPS and no consensus. Like a deer frozen in the headlights, we trouble in disbelief at the chaos we see rushing at us with hurricane speed. Anodea's book is a welcome new MAP, and her words ring true as I recognize the truth of her message: "Humanity's Rite of Passage from THE LOVE OF POWER to the POWER OF LOVE." At first glance her three-part index seems to over simplify the world problematique, but the depth of this luminary volume soon changes everything. One realizes, even in the preface, when she describes her love of untangling strings in her mother's kitchen drawer, that Anodea manifested early the tenacity and the patience needed to create this master work. Thank God she had the perseverance and the chutzpah to write this book! It is a handbook for navigating the transformations urgently needed to heal a world in crisis. Anodea draws frequently from some of my favorite visionaries, Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Dr. Fritjof Capra, and Ken Wilber. Her depth of understanding spans the ancient wisdom, years of experience as a therapist soothing pains of the soul, and the history of humanity's rise to walk on the moon where we saw island earth as the only home we have. Read it once, read it twice, and then take my advice and simplify your Christmas shopping. Keep it close at hand as you struggle to come of age in the generation needed to save the world from ourselves. Anodea's book reminds me of the famous line from Walt Kelly's cartoon character POGO, "we have met the enemy and he is us." She makes it clear in her passionate hope, "Someday we will be the ancestors that I pray will be remembered with gratitude rather than resentment." and "...the current crisis will call forth global cooperation like nothing ever has before." I pray she is right! If she is it will be because she and thousands like her with compassion, love, and a noble spirit inspired us all to create the world our children's children can love in peace and joy.
The time is NOW for co-hearts in the kin-dom to ACT!.......2006-09-12
Anodea Judith is a noted teacher and author on the subject of the ancient concept of the chakras. The chakras correspond to various energy centers of the human anatomy and map to various levels of consciousness and stages of development.
Anodea has taken the same chakra system and applied it to the history of mankind's social, political, religious, and technological development over the past 30,000 years. She has mapped this history against various chakras chronologically demonstrating man's social evolution from the lowest chakra (Earth) to the highest (Spiritual) chakra.
Ms. Judith's thesis is that humankind is in the process of an evolutionary transformation, presently in a state of adolescence and entering a challenging time - the rite of passage - moving to adulthood, where the "higher" chakras, in particular the Heart chakra, will come to dominate mankind's future evolution of political, social, economic, and spiritual systems.
Her conclusions are unapologetically optimistic in citing that there is in-fact a groundswell of individual action towards the attitudes and behaviors necessary to reverse the chaos and conflict endemic in the world today. Indeed, today's chaos is seen as symptomatic of mankind's adolescence and necessary transition to adulthood.
That the jury is still out as to whether we make this transition before we destroy ourselves and/or the planet's ecosystem is clearly acknowledged, but the conclusions overall are highly optimistic that the long-term outcome will be positive. The rite of passage may be rather unpleasant however!.
The book is eminently readable and the various mappings of the chakras to human history are helpfully summarized in numerous charts and tables.
For me, the first three chapters (part one) and the conclusions in part three were by far the most powerful portions of the text. The actual chronological mapping of human history to the chakras was intriguing and indeed the core of the thesis being advanced. However, the passion and intensity of Anodea's arguments come through loud and clear in the first and third parts.
Regardless of whether one is convinced that the mapping of the chakras to historical time periods is firm evidence of an inevitable path of human evolution or a convenient model for the purposes of advancing the conclusions is, I believe, less critical than the heartfelt plea that it is getting very, very, late in the game and that "we", the human species, have little time to clean up our act.
That a significant "transformation" is about the only thing that will save the human species seems abundantly clear to most interested observers. Whether framed in the model of the chakras and the transformation to "species adulthood" or some other form, the central thesis is really that things had better happen fast. Utilizing the chakras, and in particular the Heart chakra, provides a compelling set of guideposts with regard to the direction and types of changes that must occur.
Now from a, "glass half-full, glass half-empty", perspective one is left wondering whether this book and many others like it, are desperate attempts to see light at the end of the tunnel - where there is none - or whether humanity really has the will to manifest the enormous transformation that the author believes is essential. The analytical model used - the chakras - indicates that it is not only desirable, but an inevitable result of an evolutionary process. Let us hope she is right!
Once again, the "think globally, act locally" idea is presented. This book may greatly assist those who are concerned, but immobilized at present, find the will, energy, and determination to organize and act decisively in order to be a part of the essential transformation.
Book Description
What could Dick Tracy characters, the Muses, state residents' nicknames, JFK's inaugural address, and decathlon events possibly have in common? Each is the theme of a puzzle in Volume 3 of Stanley Newman's delightful trivia-inspired crossword series.
Based on the best-selling Random House Reference title 10,000 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia, which Stanley coauthored with Hal Fittipaldi, each volume in this series features 50 brand-new crosswords whose themes come directly from 10,000 Answers. In addition, every puzzle is overflowing with general trivia, in both its clues and its answers. With over 25,000 facts and 10,000 entries to draw on, this series is sure to be a hit with puzzlers and trivia buffs everywhere
Book Description
The complete, authoritative DEITEL™ LIVE-CODE™ introduction to programming with the Java™ 2 Platform Standard Edition, JDBCT™, Servlets and JSP™
Java™ has revolutionized software development with multimedia-intensive, platform-independent, object-oriented code for Internet-, Intranet- and Extranet-based applications. This fifth edition of the world's most widely used Java textbook explains Java's extraordinary capabilities, presents an optional object-oriented design and implementation experience with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) from the Object Management Group™ and introduces n-tier Webapplications development with JDBC™, Servlets and JSP™.
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized corporate training and content-creation organization specializing in Java™, C++, C, C#, Visual Basics®, .net, Visual C++® .net, XML, Python, Perl, Internet, Web and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of several worldwide #1 programming-language textbooks, including Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e and C++ How to Program, 4/e.
In Java How to Program, Fifth Edition the Deitels introduce the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in Java. Key topics include:
Applications/Applets
Swing GUI/Event Handling
Classes/Objects/Interfaces
Encapsulation/Inner Classes
OOP/Inheritance/Polymorphism
Data Structures/Collections
Files/Streams/Serialization/NIO
Networking/Client-Server/Internet/Web
JDBC™/Servlets/JavaServer Pages™
Graphics/Java 2D™/Images/Animation/Audio
Exceptions/Multithreading
(Optional) OOD/UML/Design Patterns
Java How to Program, Fifth Edition includes extensive pedagogic features:
Hundreds of LIVE-CODE™ programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
Extensive Internet and World Wide Web resources to encourage further research
Hundreds of tips, recommended practices and cautions—all marked with icons for:
Good Programming Practices
Software Engineering Observations
Performance Tips
Portability Tips
Look-and-Feel Observations
Error-Prevention Tips
Common Programming Errors
Java How to Program's teaching resources include Web sites with the book's code examples (also on the enclosed CD) and information for faculty, students and professionals; an optional CD (Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom, 5/e) with solutions to about half the exercises in Java How to Program, 5/e, interactivity features—including hyperlinks and audio walkthroughs of the code examples; and access to the authors at
deitel@deitel.com
Customer Reviews:
Doesn't do the job.......2006-03-31
I am an experienced programmer who wants to learn Java. Every time I reach for this book I am disappointed. Today I wanted to learn about servlets, but the chapter on servlets is so confusing that I'm going to look for an on-line tutorial instead. The authors completely skip the very important fact that most servlets are invoked when the user first displays an HTML file. Instead, they jump right into showing the code of a very simple servlet instead of taking things from the top, which would be an HTML file.
The writing is very wordy and technical. The authors need to use other writing techniques such as step-by-step lists instead of relying on these long paragraphs of text.
In general, I find that these authors try to cover every topic on the sun, and end up only touching the high points in the most superficial way, leaving out important aspects of their topics.
Great for Beginners.......2005-10-03
My Java 2 teacher recommended this book. I like it so far. If you are new to programming, this is the right book for you. If you like topics explained thoroughly, this is the right book for you. The book explains the code line by line. Also, if you have a different programming language background, this is the right book for you.
A very good introduction.......2005-09-03
This is a vey good introduction to Java. In a way, it assumes that you have had little programming experience. The result is that, at times, the explanantion of concepts become too wordy.
But if you be intelligent enough to skim through portions that you are familiar with, it is an excellent introduction.
At the end of the day, your programming skill will depend on whether you take the exercises seriously. There is no shortcut to being a good programmer. Attempt the hard problems and do the coding.
Worst Book..........2005-08-25
I am a Computer Science student. I recommend that if your school doesn't require you to have this book, DON'T BUY THIS DEITEL BOOK to study Java. The "Good Programming Practice", "Performance Tip", "Common Programming Error"... tips in the book, will disconnect you from the flow of thinking while reading. Moreover, the book mainly focuses on the detail of programming ethnics. The fundamental concept of Object-Oriented-Programming which the students need is not clearly described in the book.
Don't reccomend for experienced -or- beginners!.......2005-03-13
I cannot reccomend this book to experienced programmers learning Java or to beginners. The experienced will find it cluttered and watered down, and beginners will end up with a very novice, incomplete, and probably incorrect comprehension of the more complicated aspects.
The first few chapters are ok for someone new to programming but beyond that the text is extremely bloated and only explains complex topics with "for dummies" examples that will leave you unable to perform in a real enviroment.
Books:
- America's Top White-Collar Jobs: Detailed Information on 110 Major Office, Management, Sales, and Professional Jobs (America's Top White-Collar Jobs)
- An Outline of Careers, a Practical Guide to Achievement By Thirty-Eight Eminent Americans
- Art and Work: A Social History of Labour in the Canadian Graphic Arts Industry to the 1940s
- Ask The Right Questions: Creating the Answers That Work
- Canada's Top 100 Employers: 2003 Discover the Best Places in Canada to Work (Canada's Top 100 Employers)
- Career Development and Counseling of Women
- Career Development and Vocational Behavior of Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Contemporary Topics in Vocational Psychology Series)
- Career Guide to America's Top Industries: Essential Data on Job Opportunities in Over 40 Industries (Career Guide to Industries)
- Career Guide to America's Top Industries : 1998-1999 (3rd Ed): Essential Information On Opportunities And Trends In All Major Industries
- Career Information Center
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
- Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th Edition
- Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity
- The Culture of the Cold War
- Smarts: Are We Hardwired for Success
- The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
- Songs of the Earth: A Tribute to Nature, in Word and Image
- Performance Indicators for Tourism Destinations in Asia and the Pacific Region
- Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History
- Old Beeswax: Raphael Semmes
