A Realistic Job Search (Lifeworks)

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This training manual is part of an innovative training program, developed in conjunction with the North American Transportation Management Institute (NATMI). It utilizes a seminar format that concentrates on all levels of hazardous materials training. Transportation of hazardous materials by the trucking industry is covered in depth, as well as issues of compliance of carrier companies and individual truck drivers with Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations. Coverage meets the needs of carriers to provide HazMat refresher training that is required at least once every three years. Issues of safety and security of trucking fleets, including HazMat handling, are also addressed to help ensure that the carrier's safety management team fulfills the task of making sure that truck drivers are trained on the transport of hazardous materials.

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This book examines the movement of domestic and sex workers to Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey and demonstrates that gender, race (ethnicity), and nationality are crucial elements in the constitution of the desire economies which are informed by the dominant neoliberal understanding of globalization and its neocolonial logic: the desire for power and security, and the drive to consume the labor and bodies of the Other.

The Global Political Economy of Sex : Desire, Violence, and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation States

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The Global Political Economy of Sex : Desire, Violence, and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation States
Anna M. Agathangelou
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTHHMQ

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His work is "smart, funny, touching" (The Oregonian) and guaranteed to "make every dog lover smile" (Best Friends). Now dogumentarian Jeff Selis sets off with a plane ticket to London, a Polaroid camera, and a mission to meet and photograph every dog he can find in Great Britain. He arrives home with a whole slew of stories and photographs of his new four-legged friends. Meet Mendoza, who can smell danger when a block away; Lolo, who loves kicking it at Hampstead Heath; and Billie, who'll slurp the froth off a Guinness any day. And don't forget Gromit, whose cool is rivaled only by Snoopy. Everyone knows the British are batty about their dogs. Dog Save the Queen lets the dogs of Britain speak for themselves. Turns out they share an irreverent lust for life with canines the world over. Once again, Selis's dogs manage to wag, bark, swim, hunt, and drool their way into the staunchest of hearts.

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God SAVE Jeff Selis!!!!!!!!.......2004-06-12

What a jolly terrific book! As soon as I picked up this book and saw the excellent trademark joking going on in the title, I knew I was in for a treat! This book is excellent!!!! Author/photographer Jeff Selis hits another canine homerun with this book featuring cute and wonderful dogs from England and some of the smaller countries around it! The anecdotes are all interesting and extremely funny and even though I have never been to the "Old World", his stories made me feel like have! I recently suffered a tragedy in my life with the tragic passing of my cat, Mittens (car) and the release of this book couldn't have come at a better time. How can one be sad looking at so many wonderful "jolly' English dogs! I gave this book five stars, but it deserves TEN! Revise your rating system Amazon.com!!!!!!!

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First to be published in the series was THE ART OF FRENCH HORN PLAYING by Philip Farkas, now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at Indiana University. In 1956, when Summy-Birchard published Farkas's book, he was a solo horn player for the Chicago Symphony and had similar positions with other orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Kansas City Conservatory, DePaul University, Northwestern University, and Roosevelt University in Chicago. THE ART OF FRENCH HORN PLAYING set the pattern, and other books in the series soon followed, offering help to students in learning to master their instrument and achieve their goals.

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Still the best instructional book for all horn players.......2007-08-30

A wealth of information. Techniques, warm-up scales, alternate fingerings, transposition, practice music to improve different areas such as range, intervals, pitch. Learned about this from a horn player in the Dallas Symphony when I was in high school, found it very useful when I played with the Guam Symphony, and used it regularly when I returned to playing after several years of absence. Given it to young players across the US and overseas.

This is indeed the french hornists' bible!.......2006-05-07

This book is my favorite of all time-- and for a teenager, that may seem strange. I have played horn for about four months, and this is my reference for any issues from technical problems, to practice advice, to encouragement and warnings. Philip Farkas speaks in a way that I love-- he offers frank advice and talks to the reader in a voice that clearly states that he is a fellow hornist, a friend helping a friend. His tone is clear, honest, and very distinguished-- I found it very encouraging that he does not speak to the reader in a condescending way. I am extremely encouraged that he offers such a wide variety of advice, though I do question some of his techniques, such as sitting while practicing and advising not to hold the horn "free". I do agree with his preference of a dark, mellow tone, but I believe that can be achieved while holding the horn free if the right hand is in the correct position. Furthermore, Mr.Farkas's book is the bible of french horn and should be commited to memory by each and every hornist that is serious about this art.

Great.......2004-08-19

95 pages full of advice for any hornplayer, beginner, advanced or pro. Maybe the fotos and the layout are not best quality, but finally its the content that counts.

A must-have for any serious student.......2004-01-04

As a Horn teacher for many many years, this is required text for all my students. The "manual" for Horn playing.

Wow.......2004-01-02

This book is awsome, it is a wealth of information that every horn player should know. I love it to death, as has been said before it truely is the bible of french horn playing. If your not the reading type you may not appreciate this book's full potential, but for everyone else: BUY THIS BOOK!

The art of French horn playing;: A treatise on the problems and techniques of French horn playing

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The art of French horn playing;: A treatise on the problems and techniques of French horn playing
Philip Farkas
Manufacturer: C.F. Summy
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007DNM50

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Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered--and forever transformed--American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow's first appearance.

Along with the prompt scripts of nine plays performed by Rice--never before published as their original audiences saw them--W. T. Lhamon Jr. provides a reconstruction of their performance history and a provocative analysis of their contemporary meaning. His reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness, but also how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow's sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by ordinary people of all colors in antebellum America and early Victorian England.

Upstaging conventional stories and forms, giving direction and expression to the unruly attitudes of a burgeoning underclass, the plays in this anthology enact a vital force still felt in great fictions, movies, and musics of the Atlantic and in the jumping, speedy styles that join all these forms.

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W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture.(Book Review): An article from: African American Review
James V. Hatch
Manufacturer: African American Review
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Binding: Digital

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Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from African American Review, published by African American Review on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1267 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture.(Book Review)
Author: James V. Hatch
Publication: African American Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: African American Review
Volume: 38 Issue: 2 Page: 337(3)

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There's one for every day of the year--but do you really have enough willpower to limit yourself to solving just a single cryptogram at a time? They're simply too much fun! What makes these special is that all these quotations come from a celebrity who celebrated a birthday on that particular day. (So, you'll probably jump right to the one who shares yours.) If you've never solved a cryptogram--sentences in code, where each letter stands for another--you'll get directions and hints at the start.

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A Fun Way to Decode Celebrity Quotes.......2006-04-08

"365 Mind-Challenging Cryptograms" is filled to the brim with celebrity quotes. Your challenge is to decode both the quote, and the name of the person who said it.

There is a good set of instructions for solving this type of puzzle right at the beginning - which makes this a great book for the cryptogram novice and pro alike.

I really like how the author arranges the hints so that you can receive the hint without having to see the whole answer. You can choose a level 1 hint - which tells you the profession & birth date of the celebrity who made the statement - if you're still stuck, you can move on to the level 2 hint - which gives you a more direct hint for either a letter or a word within the puzzle. If you're still stumped, you may want to check out the index - which provides a list of all of the celebrities quoted in this book. And, if all else fails, you can find the complete answer given at the end of the book.

Overall, I found this to be a fun collection of cryptograms. The only reason that I gave it 4 starts instead of 5 is because I found there to be too little room to write the answers - the coded letters are too close together - so I wound up having to write really small.

Occupy idle hours with an eclectic selection of coded quotes.......2004-06-04

This inexpensive, sturdy, entertaining book contains a one-a-day collection of 365 amusing, insightful and even witty quotes, drawn from a rich group of personalities whose birthday is celebrated on date under which they are featured. Ranging from poets, novelists, artists and movie stars, to scientists, politicians and philosophers, the quoted authors include William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Degas, Sophia Loren, Isaac Newton, Richard Nixon, Albert Camus, and 358 others. All the quotes are encoded in substitution cipher, each letter standing for another, and with varying degrees of difficulty they are guaranteed to keep you busy for hours as you find yourself using your intuition, your knowledge of spelling and syntax, and even your familiarity with each quoted personality to figure them out.
The book also includes an introduction that gives us general hints for solving cryptograms. Two sections with clues on the solution of each puzzle, one stating the occupation and year of birth of the celebrity being quoted and another stating the correct substitution for one or more letters, are included at the back, along with the solutions for each puzzle. An index of authors for those searching for quotes from a particular individual is also included.
If you love cryptograms, buy this book. I guarantee that you won't be able to do them just one a day.
--Reviewed by Maritza Volmar

Keeps Your Mind Sharp........2002-07-20

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Great Code-Cracking!.......2001-10-18

If you like clever cryptograms, you'll like this book.

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You can show prospective clients Web site after dazzling Web site, but for some it's still not enough. They want that magic seal of approval--Macromedia Flash MX 2004 developer certification--to prove that you have the Flash chops required to deliver the sites they desire. Get this guide, and you'll have 'em. With an organization that mimics that of the test itself, this study guide offers comprehensive coverage of the features of Flash, including those new to MX 2004: CSS support, predefined Behaviors, Timeline effects, and more. You¿ll learn how to identify requirements, design and code ActionScript, and test, deploy, implement, and troubleshoot Flash MX 2004 applications. Best of all, this essential information is conveyed in clear, direct language complimented by well-explained code examples and loads of sample questions to reinforce the knowledge. Also included are references to recommended reading and extensive tips, notes, and cautions--in short, everything you need to prove your Flash worth!

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Good preparation - No substitute for experience.......2005-09-03

Having just passed the certification after my first try, I am glad I bought this book and studied the areas that I do not use frequently. The section on classes is a bit out of date. If you don't have a Java background, I suggest boning up on this by perusing Colin Moock's ActionScript 2.0 Definitive Guide. Also, in places, the practice quiz answers were wrong - it looked like bad editing. When in doubt, Colin's books are where I go.

The book is great for a broad overview and a refresher for things you might not have used for a while. You will not find the practice questions in the exam. Truthfully, using Flash every day on the job for the last five years is really what got me through. I'm glad. I think this makes certification actually mean something.

Es un buen libro para pasar el examen de certificación.......2005-07-30

Es un buen libro para pasar el examen de certificación, claro está que solo es una guía, los años de experiencia no lo da un libro, así que solo te servirá si ya sos un desarrollador con experiencia.

Great Refresher.......2005-04-14

If you're looking to learn Flash then this book is NOT for you.

As the book description says "this STUDY GUIDE offers comprehensive coverage of the features of Flash" - and this is exactly what it delivers.

Does it give you the answers to the exam questions - of course not. And if you think that by reading this book and doing the online quiz's you'll pick up some of the actual answers in the exam then you're only kidding yourself.

Sure there are a few typo's but they hardly detract from the main point of the book i.e. to ensure that as a Flash developer you have all the "broad" bases covered in preparation for the certification exam.

As one of the earlier reviewers mentioned. This book does have both AS1.0 and AS2.0 examples which makes sense as AS2.0 was introduced with Flash MX 2004. I actually found this helpful in making comparisons between the two languages.

I took (and passed) the exam and whilst I have been using Flash for a few years, I certainly didn't buy this book expecting to learn anything new. If I wanted to learn something new I would have bought one of the other great Flash reference books out there. I bought this book to make sure that I had "some" degree of knowledge about what "might" be in the exam and have all my bases covered. It did exactly that !

Great light-weight refresher for some of my weaker points - 5 stars!

Covers the exam foundations.......2004-11-08

Due to the author participating in the writing of the Flash developer exam questions he is the obvious candidate to write this book, and as such I think does a good job.

Having taken (and passed) the exam (after reading the book) I found that the majority of the questions I encountered in the exam were covered in broad (not specific) detail in the book.

The main thing I found difficult to study for was ActionScript 2.0 and this book doesn't cover it in huge detail (although the updated terminology is used eg: Class Vs Prototype Object). I did note that a few of the other reviewers found the lack of ActionScript 2.0 a problem. I think the main reason for this is probably because the author had to cater for both the ActionScript 1.0 and ActionScript 2.0 camps and couldn't be seen to ignore one or the other. This is obvious by the way he swaps between the two during some of the chapters (which can be slightly confusing for an ActionScript 2.0 newbie like me).

Bottom line though, this book is not a reference or learning book (like Colin Moocks ActionScript 2.0) its a Study Guide for the Flash Developer exam and as such I think it works well.

Good content overview, but poorly edited.......2004-10-21

Executive Summary:
Overall the book helped me prepare for the exam, and I'm glad I had it for that purpose.
It is good for giving a broad overview of exam topics, but read it with caution and be prepared to research the content if it doesn't seem to make sense -- otherwise the occasional unclear writing and bugs in example code listings will give you grief.

Positive:
Since the author was one of the subject-matter experts for the test, he presumably knows the range of topics which will be covered on the exam. This book gives a good idea of what those topics will be, and provides a good introduction/overview to most of them.
Some other reviewers have mentioned that the practice questions don't match well with the actual exam questions. This was one of my biggest concerns going into the exam. I personally found that the practice questions match very well with the real exam questions, specifically in terms of how question style and difficulty. What doesn't match is that there are too few practice questions (even including the extra ones on the book's web site) to adequately cover the breadth of each chapter. So there are many areas that don't have any practice questions, but which are still tested on the exam.

Negative:
This book is in great need of editing for technical details and, in a few cases, clarity of writing. Here are my gripes:
- The book was apparently just adapted from the previous (Flash MX) edition of the book. There are numerous references to Flash MX which should have said Flash MX 2004. (There are also some legitimate references to Flash MX.) Most of these are benign, but it still makes me question the quality of the book. I found at least one case where the information was correct for Flash MX but is wrong with MX 2004.
- There have been a handful of places where the writing was unclear and gave a strong impression that the author was just skimming over the content and had difficulty explaining it clearly. In two such cases, I thought the writing was really confusing so I looked up the topic in the Flash help, only to find that (in both cases) the confusing text is word-for-word out of the Flash help!
- The book is plagued with bugs in the example code (most commonly changing variable names mid-way through the example).
- There are several examples of the (somewhat deprecated) ActionScript 1.0 Object-Oriented Programming. Some of these appear in early chapters which are talking about much simpler topics, which would have been very confusing had I not already read a book on OOP in AS1. I don't remember seeing anything using the AS1 style OOP on the actual exam.
- The code and content in the chapters on how to write ActionScript 2.0 classes are all very wrong and will not compile (and give misinformation and don't give important details). I honestly don't think that they tested the code on even an early Beta of Flash MX 2004 or they presumably would have found these things out. Admittedly this is a particular sore point for me, since I am a big fan of the new AS2 OOP model; it didn't seem to make a difference from what I saw on the exam. Don't expect to learn any valid AS2 from this book. (See Colin Moock's Essential ActionScript 2.0 for stellar coverage of that topic).

Note: I originally wrote this review before taking the exam. After taking the exam, I came back and made some changes based on how I think it really compares to the exam. So if you read it before, that is why it may look different now!

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Certified Developer Study Guide

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Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Certified Developer Study Guide
Matt Voerman
Manufacturer: Macromedia Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUHTQY

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