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The contributors to this special issue on community involvement discuss the topic from a variety of perspectives drawn from psychology, sociology, and education. In total, they present an overview of the recent history and trends associated with community involvement, including definitions, goals, major movements, and examples of specific models. In the course of this set of papers, contributors discuss the functions, processes, and theoretical underpinnings of community involvement, and specific types of involvement such as community service, service-learning, and volunteerism. A special emphasis is given to service-learning programs and the factors that produce beneficial outcomes for all relevant constituencies. Specific themes such as education, power relations, and motivation are highlighted as they emerge from the discussion of community involvement.

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This study promises to take the reader on a privatization drive: it covers the political, economic and socio-cultural dimensions and points out the impediments and hazards on the way, providing a preview of the path ahead. Asha Gupta provides insights into the UK, East Germany, post-communist societies, developing countries and India.

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Wonderful insights.......2002-10-15

Dr. Asha Gupta has given the woderful insights about privatization around the globe. Her views not only matches with the political science, but also with the modern managemnt perspectives. It gives the real state of privatization and its concepts in a simple vocabulary and language.

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This is the first book to address, within a common analytical framework, the numerous instruments or tools the public sector uses to carry out its objectives. Each has its own characteristics and consequences for program operations. Many problems attributed to poor management of public programs are really a consequence of the choice of tool that is made. Must reading for those who seek to understand not only how public programs work, but also how they should be designed.

Beyond the nation-state: privatization of economic sanctions.: An article from: Middle East Policy

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Beyond the nation-state: privatization of economic sanctions.: An article from: Middle East Policy
Gary Clyde Hufbauer , and Barbara Oegg
Manufacturer: Middle East Policy Council
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Middle East Policy, published by Middle East Policy Council on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 4627 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: Beyond the nation-state: privatization of economic sanctions.
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Publication: Middle East Policy (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Middle East Policy Council
Volume: 10 Issue: 2 Page: 126(9)

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Defense seeks savings in outsourcing, privatization: Review will look beyond A-76 competitions.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Set-Aside Alert

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Defense seeks savings in outsourcing, privatization: Review will look beyond A-76 competitions.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Set-Aside Alert

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This digital document is an article from Set-Aside Alert, published by Business Research Services, Inc. on January 25, 2002. The length of the article is 788 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: Defense seeks savings in outsourcing, privatization: Review will look beyond A-76 competitions.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Publication: Set-Aside Alert (Newsletter)
Date: January 25, 2002
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The Political Economy of Special-Purpose Government (American Governance and Public Policy)

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"Specialization is for insects"

The Political Economy of Special-Purpose Government (American Governance and Public Policy)
Kathryn A. Foster
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"Specialization is for insects".......1999-06-15

Foster points out that the rate of formation of specialized districts has been rising rapidly. She provides a system for classifying them and notes all of the historic stimuli for their development. She then focuses on the two main reasons for their development: the influence of developers and increasing fiscal pressures on state and local governments.

The strength of the book is in its empirical analytics. One of my favorite parts is where she enumerates specialized districts by geographic scope and property taxing power. Over half of all district have this ability. It is these that may pose potential future problems to the residents and businesses they tax since the districts are not run by elected officials. Hence officials will be able to raise (and lower) taxes and yet are free from significant repraisal.

Although thorough, Foster finds her data often limit the scope of her analysis. But she makes the most of what she has. She finds, for example, that special districts tend to spend more per capita on a specified public service than do general-purpose governments (states, counties, townships, cities, boroughs). She points out that they may provide a different type of service, however, which may justify the extra expense (she points out that they are also more capital-intensive). Because of this upward spending bias, metro areas that rely on them also have a greater share of their public spending concentrated in the typical functions of the districts.

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In the 1990s, numerous Latin American nations privatized their public pension systems. These reforms dramatically transformed the way these countries provide retirement income, and they provoked widespread protests from workers and pensioners alike. Retiring the State represents the first book-length study of the origins of this surprising trend.

Drawing on original field research, including interviews with key policymakers, Madrid argues that the recent reforms were driven not by social policy, but by macroeconomic concerns. Countries facing growing financial pressures chose to privatize their pension systems largely to boost their domestic savings rates and reduce public pension spending in the long run. The author explores his arguments through detailed case studies of pension reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, a survey of social security privatization efforts in East Europe and Latin America as a whole, and a quantitative analysis of pension privatization worldwide.

The State, Markets and Development: Beyond the Neoclassical Dichotomy

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The State, Markets and Development: Beyond the Neoclassical Dichotomy
Amitava Krishna Dutt , and Kwan S. Kim
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Classic Trillin.......1999-04-21

This is a real classic. It's an especial bargain at this price because it's two cassettes of Trillin reading various pieces compiled from his delightful, massive repertoire of work. No single piece stands out. They're all wonderful: funny (of course);humane; brimming with his usual unexpected, brilliant observations on everything from fruitcake to things like an exegesis of the origin of the famous expression, "Smart as a Chinatown chicken". What's more (and unlike alot of other books available on tape), the collection is unabridged (there doesn't seem to be a hardback or paperback equivalent so I guess that goes without saying) but maybe its signal virtue is that it can be listened to over and over and over again. For a Trillin fan, it's impossible to get tired of these tapes. If you have never heard Trillin reading his own work, this is the place to start. His reading is terrific: guileless, self-effacing and perfectly tuned and faithful to his writing as a whole. Also, for the uninitiated, this is a perfect place to make Mr. Trillin's aquaintance because the range of topics covered in this collection really illustrate his top-notch ability to take the reader anywhere and write about it like he'd known about it and thought about it everyday of his life. It seems to me this would be a perfect gift, too. Not just because it's an excellent representative sample but because it provides the listener with a full, clear 'earful' of his seemingly boundless ability to capture and communicate the humorous aspects of just about anything. Maybe even more importantly, if you're aiming to turn someone on to Trillin, it's a perfect place to start because this collection so faithfully reflects his standing as a humorist without malice. Bottom line: it's worth every penny, G-rated and demonstrates Trillin beautifully at what I think he does best: sizzle civilly and weild our language as well (and for the most part better) than anybody else out there. P.S. I gave it four instead of five stars because I wanted MORE and would have gladly paid for it. It lost that star on a mere technicality or, better put, on account of avarice and greed on MY part.

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From his legendary Sun Studio days in the 50's, to years of self-destruction and drug abuse, to his famous prison albums and his critically acclaimed American Recordings, Johnny Cash emerges as a distinct and eloquent voice in the vast musical spectrum.

In this perceptive new biography, Stephen Miller chronicles the life and career of The Man in Black, revealing Cash's extraordinary presence in the history of popular music.

Includes 24 pages of black & white photographs.

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GREAT BOOK ABOUT A COUNTRY LEGEND!.......2007-03-11

It is worth to read this book about "Johnny Cash".
Very detailled and well known described.

I love it!

You can feel Johnny Cash's pain!.......2005-07-06

With an intention to skim, I became wrapped up in the life of Johnny Cash. This was a complete chronicle that focuses more on the entertainment side of Cash's life.

Cash endured lots of pain that starts with losing his brother in a freak accident, the pain & destruction of a druggie lifestyle, trials & tribulations of trying to stay on top, exhaustive touring, pain of aging, and most of all, the pain of poor health & debilitating disease.

You won't get too much out of the very personal deeper relationship with June, only what we already knew, how she struggled to save him from himself. There is very little about his daughters, in fact, there are no pictures of the daughters except Roseanne. We only learn how absent he was in their lives, and while he was home, he was still absent!

It was rumored that June was not the best singer and their son John Carter Cash best was not talent. His voice was weak compared to his father. In the book, the author provides some quotes of sharp criticism toward young Carter Cash. Johnny Cash kept family close and they always performed with him.

Many aspects of Cash's life were covered chronologically. Knowing how celebrity stories change through the years, the author provided more than one interpretation of an incident. What I appreciated is that the author gave several versions, interpretations, or stories about the man and incidences, because with celebrities, few versions appear.

This book reveals so much about the album hits & misses. It is surprising how many albums he made, and how many didn't make it to the top. You get a full sense of his druggie lifestyle, and the damage that goes with that. Much is written about Cash's religious influences and how he incorporated it to his musical career.

And then, of course, the health problems, you just can't help but feel his pain. Although Johnny wanted to perform til his was dead, he pretty much did that... and maybe he should not have. It's difficult for us to see our idols age!!

An epilogue was inserted to reflect the death of June and mention of Johnny's death on Sept. 12, but there isn't much on the deaths.

What is included is a huge selective discography and a lengthy index. The author mainly received his info from sources that included articles, books, etc. It's clear that he didn't get much from the Cash family but did speak with brother Tommy Cash and close friends.

Note: Don't get distracted by the use of English spelling, such as recognise, harmonise, programme, etc.

If you are into a blow by blow account of his professional and religious life, read this one!.....MzRizz

I Walk The Line..........2004-05-25

This is a rather different approach to a biography.The author admits that he never actually met Cash,but researched a lot of what has been written by and about him over the years.It is a good place for someone who doesn't know much about Cash to start and there are numerous references and leads to follow up on.The tone of the book is very much like a textbook and has very little in the way of passion either about Cash or his music.There are a lot of references to liner notes and other written material;but little if anything that is new or original.There is also no indication that the author had any love or admiration for Cash the person or his music;but just decided to review what was available (of which there is an awful lot) and produce a book.It is a good book to add to others about Cash;but is completely overshadowed by "Johnny Cash"the Autobiography with Patrick Carr.(see my review on it).
I thought it might hav been titled "An Encyclopedia of Cash";but it is too superficial for that.The list of albums and books is too incomplete for even that.Nonethelessit is still a good read.

Liner notes.......2004-01-16

This author was in need of serious editing. The book with all of its distracting English spellings was nothing more than a complilation of album liner notes. The rest has obviously been cribbed from other publications. Reminded me of a high school term paper albeit a tad more lengthy.

Disappointingly flawed........2003-12-15

As a lifelong Cash fan, a book like this was a long time coming during Cash's own lifetime. Overall, while adding some interesting insight into some aspects of Cash's life and career, it's a missed opportunity to clarify many misconceptions about the life and legacy of Johnny Cash and only supports and adds to the inaccurate misconceptions by obviously failing to correct them using more thorough research. Miller tends to rely way too much on previosuly published material by other writers that was just as inaccurate then as it is now - facts any serious Cash fan would easily be able to point out. How anyone can justify a 372 pg. biography without including even one sourced footnote - something a high school student is required to include in any term paper - is beyond comprehension. In comparison, Peter Guralnick's brilliant 1994 biography on Elvis, "LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS," included over 40 pages of notes and acknowledged a list of hundreds of people who contributed personal and professional input. Miller, however, relies way too much on the comments of only a very select few directly involved in Cash's life and career which comes across more as rumor or innuendo rather than fact. Hopefully, the next major Cash biography will be written by someone more able and interested in using accurate facts. If you're looking to read a definitive Johnny Cash biogrpahy, you'll have to wait because this isn't it.

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Changed how I understand the postmodern.......2005-02-11

I've been interested in the postmodern for a while now (metanarratives, floating signifiers and all that). But this book has changed the way I look at it. For one thing, David Lyon is less interested in rarified philosophical discussions than he is in investigating the social structures in which we live. He's less interested in the ivory tower discussions on postmodernism than in our shared cultural and social context -- where we actually live.

David Lyon is a Christian sociologist who has studied religion for decades, and so he approaches the subject matter as a sympathetic professional. He has also done a lot of work on the idea of postmodernity and information technologies (especially how new technologies enable surveillance). He has a knack for drawing on a wide range of scholarship, and making subtle and complex ideas accessible for the intelligent non-expert. His book on secularization from 1985, The Steeple's Shadow, has helped me more than any other single book in understanding the social dynamics of this secular age (and he covers some of the same ground in Jesus in Disneyland). He made the effect of modernity on religion clearer. In Jesus in Disneyland, he provides the same, useful service here, but in regard to postmodernity rather than moderntiy.

He begins his analysis by telling about a Christian event held at Disneyland at Anaheim, California, USA. Some saw an unholy mingling of the holy with the secular, of the Savior with the Mouse. The participants saw it as a way of using a popular venue to reach others for Christ. Who was right? Does using Disneyland trivialize the faith, or make it more accessible to seekers? The answer, which he spends the rest of the book unraveling, is, of course, "Yes"- that is, both are true. Disney becomes a metaphor for the way postmodernity, with its accent on image, consumption, entertainment, globalization, etc. changes the way we understand what is deepest about reality.

One of the reasons I trust Lyon to guide me through this complex terrain is his balance. He doesn't play a cheerleader for postmodernity, announcing its arrival with a sort of breathless, quivering excitement (Douglas Ruskoff is the quintessential example, but it's also a pitfall that Brian McLaren falls into quite a few times). Neither does Lyon play the prophet of doom and gloom, announcing the end of all that is good and true and bright (a role I've seen Christian analysts play far too often). Rather, he soberly assesses both the corrosive effects of the new social situation and the potential opportunities.

So what is postmodernity? For Lyon, it is a complex social situation where some of the dynamics inherited from modernity are emphasized, some are de-emphasized, and some are distorted beyond recognition. He cites two dynamics as key for understanding postmodernity: the advent of computer information technologies, and consumerism. Computers have made the world smaller, faster. And they have made identities more fragmented. Global consumerism has marked a shift in understanding ourselves. We used to understand ourselves as producers. Now we understand ourselves as consumers, recipients of entertainment (I thought his chapter on consumerism, "Shopping for a Self," was itself worth the price of the book). He also looks at how these two dynamics (computer information technologies and consumerism) compress time and space. Now we demand (and get) information and images in an instant. And we get this information from anywhere. We simulate history and the future and other places on the globe, and take it for knowledge. And all of this has a decisive impact on how postmodern people view religion.

He spends the last, summary chapter, trying to point a way forward for the Christian Church. He suggests that the Church can spawn "communities of resistance" that go against the flow of consumerism. He argues that churches must be involved in the new media, fully knowing that such involvement runs the risk of being relativized as just another choice on the web. But it is a risk that churches must take, or be sidelined as a social movement. The church can also be a haven, an alternative to the speed of the postmodern world, a place to slow down.

One suggestion that I felt was missing was that Christians can be an important source of face-to-face relationships, providing a sense of wholeness for increasingly fragmented postmodern people. One sociologist has said that the world is becoming more hi-tech and low-touch. What people really needed, he said, was a place to come where the order of the day was low-tech, hi-touch - i.e. where a person could come and be appreciated as a human being, and find warm, secure relationships. But that in itself is a small omission. The only other omission that I see is that, having been based in Canada and England, he pays Continental Europe very little attention. But I believe that many of the social dynamics he examines in Canada, Britain and the U.S. also have continental analogies.

Overall, the book is fascinating, well researched, and gives a lot of food for thought. If you are going to know the social situation, you'd be well advised to read this book carefully.

For the 100th time, we heard you.......2003-12-15

I understand that alot of people like this book but I don't think that I should have to be subjected to the torture of reading through this whole text. I had the opportunity of reading just one chapter of this book and it would not have mattered if I had read the whole book. Lyon is repititive and boring and honesltly, I couldn't the book aloud without the temptation to fall asleep. I can't give a book to read instead but I can tell you a book to stay away from. That book is Jesus in Disneyland. This book could have been summarized in 5 paragraphs, not over 100 pages. He says something on one page and then says the exact same thing on the other page except he uses new sociological ways of saying. I think I can speak for all of my classmates when I say, I HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME!

A budding undergraduate,
Derek Martin

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Exactly what it promised.......2000-05-19

This suppliment is just that: a suppliment to a game setting and system, not a rules compendium. The book is well written, there is variety while avoiding some of the cheap printer's tricks White Wolf has used in the past to "spice up" their books. Solid, firmly based in the setting, and especially valuable for new players. Even for those unhappy with the current direction of the line, this tome has some well formed ideas for any player or Storyteller. While not a must have, it is worth having for the fan of the Mage line.

Not a gaming book........2000-04-12

Well, mainly, not. The real reason to pay this price for this book is because you'd like to read some short vignettes by unknown authors within a setting contrived for an RPG, not general fiction. I realize some of you like your White Wolf books that way, and you're welcome to them. I just found it monumentally frustrating that the book contains a small pamphlet's worth of actual information I can use, an none of the information I was really buying the book for. I feel I was deceived.

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A moving story of Faith and Survival

The Bitter Road to Dachau
Robert L. Wise
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Christian Reger's quiet, storybook world collapsed in the frenzy of l939 prewar Germany. Joining the Confessing Church to protest Adolf Hitler and Nazism, the fury of the Reich was unleashed. Ending up in the Dachau concentration camp where 10 percent of the prisoners were men of the cloth, Reger struggled to survive. Crammed into the Pastor's Barracks with other ministers, the clergyman came face to face with man's inhumanity to man. His struggled to endure asked tough questions about God, suffering, and life itself.

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A moving story of Faith and Survival.......2006-01-21

When religious sect means nothing because of your love for Christ bonded through persecution. A church pastor resists Nazi Socialism and is imprisoned at Dachau prison camp. He and fellow minister are placed in the "pastor's barracks" and humiliated and some tortured to death. The lesson: Faith in Christ in the face of persecution. "All things work together for the good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose."

A great read!! Non-stop!

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The Bitter Road

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The Bitter Road: A Lenten Journey with the Suffering Christ from Bethlehem to Calvary and the Garden

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The Bitter Road: A Lenten Journey with the Suffering Christ from Bethlehem to Calvary and the Garden
John H Baumgaertner
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THE BITTER ROAD LENTEN MESSAGES
John H. Baumgaetner
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The road to computer literacy: A scope and sequence model

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The road to computer literacy: A scope and sequence model
Gary G Bitter
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Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures .......2007-09-30

Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures was delivered sucessfully. I enjoy the book.

used book for the iccp database administration exam.......2007-01-10

This was a good introductory book about all the different
terms and concepts in generic database administration.

This book does more to cover from the managers perspective of all the
extra stuff that managers would think about in terms of data
loss, disaster recovery, recovery, etc.

The DBA Book.......2006-04-06

I've forgotten how many times I've recommended this book to people. It's well written, to the point, and covers the topics that you need to know to become an effective DBA.

- Scott Ambler
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Highly Recommended.......2003-07-19

This is a well-written, well-organized guide to the practice of data base administration. Unlike other books on general database theory or relational database theory, this book focuses more directly on the theory and reality of database administration as practiced by database professionals today, and does so without catering too much to any specific product implementation. As such, Database Administration is very well suited to anyone interested in surveying the job of a DBA or those in similar but more specific roles such as data modeler or database performance analyst.

Yet, even with that direct focus on database administration, the author succeeds in covering a great deal of ground and cutting a rather wide swathe across the database spectrum, doing so with rigor and expertise and the benefit of experience. While the book will not and is not intended to serve as a reference substitute for product documentation, it will nonetheless enhance your knowledge, and I find it of such quality and utility that I recommend it to anyone in the database field in general. Consider it a base text to serve alongside Date and Codd.

Among the nice touches, the author includes discussion of database denormalization, often missing in discussions on database design. Chapters end with both a set of review questions and a Suggested Reading section, and I find myself in agreement with most of the suggestions. An excellent Bibliography section follows the text. I would have liked to see some discussion of the difference between relational domains in theory and their implementation in practice, particularly as it impacts the design of integrity constraints. Even so, Database Administration is an excellent book and I highly recommend it.

- Sal Ricciardi

A great referecne on database administration.......2002-07-08

1. This is one of very few titles on general database administration. Most other similar books focus on particular DBMS products.
2. It has a very comprehensive and broad coverage on the subject. The table of contents speaks for itself. Due to its extensiveness, the coverage by and large stays at the strategic and conceptual level, which serves its purpose very well.
3. It compares features of major database products on handling similar jobs.
4. The author clearly has extensive real life DBA experience with different DBMS products and has shared that with a very easy to understand language.
5. It has good resource links.
6. This book would be a great introduction and reference to those who are not only interested in a particular DBMS product but would also like to have a holistic view of database administration.
7. Finally the book has 660 pages before the index rather than 352 pages as stated on this site.

Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures

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Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures
Craig S. Mullins
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
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