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Kompass Espana 2001 (Kompass Spain, 31st ed, 2001)
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Kompass Espana 2001 (Kompass Spain, 31st ed, 2001)

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The Volunteer Recruitment (and Membership Development) Book
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Very Informative

Somewhat Dated, Some Nuggets

Invite, don't plead!

Good advice for volunteer and membership recruitment

Good advice for volunteer or membership recruitment

The Volunteer Recruitment (and Membership Development) Book
Susan J. Ellis
Manufacturer: Energize, Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0940576252
Release Date: 2004-11-22

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Crammed with innumerable recruitment ideas and recommendations! Starts with designing assignments attractive to new volunteers and continues by addressing organizational image, where to look for volunteers, why people volunteer or do not, how to select the right recruitment technique, what "diversity" means to an organization, and the impact of trends in volunteering today. Includes a full chapter on membership development for all-volunteer organizations and an appendix on how to use the Internet for volunteer recruitment.

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Very Informative.......2007-01-10

I really enjoyed this book. There was quite a bit of information that I was already aware of, but Ms. Ellis dove into it quite a bit more.

There were "hands on" exercises and plent of workable suggestions to improve not only your recruiting but your retention as well.

Definately a "must read" for any volunteer recruiter whether you are paid or a volunteer yourself!

Somewhat Dated, Some Nuggets.......2002-07-23

This book (acutally an 8.5 by 11 manual), originally published in 1994 and based on 1980's readings, is somewhat dated and has been only marginally updated. It falls into the second rank of the four books that made the cut from among the many available. Helen Little's "Volunteers: How to Get Them, How to Keep Them" stands alone as the single "must buy." This book is co-equal to two others, each recommended as supplementary reading because each has something to offer at a secondary level: Sue Vineyard and Steve McCurley's "Best Practices for Volunteer Programs" and Jarene Frances Lee with Julai M. Catagnus, "Supervising Volunteers: An Action Guide for Making Your Job Easier."

There are two aspects of this manual by Susan Ellis that I did not see in the other books: first, her emphasis on casting a wide net and reaching as many potential volunteers as possible....("Most people do not say 'no'; they simply never knew you wanted them to say 'yes'.) While I am skeptical of wasteful advertising programs in this time of diminishing leisure hours, there is something to this. The other vital chapter that this manual offers is the one addressing the importance of image, i.e. the public perception of the organization seeking volunteers, the reputation that it can specifically draw on as a resource.

There are a few flakey notes (e.g. one vignette about recruiting people to call parents and offer support as they are getting kids out the door to school. Any normal parent, especially if one parent is absent or has an early work start, would be furious at any volunteer daring to call in the midst of the chaos that charactizes getting three kids out the door to three different bus pick-up times.)

This manual does have an index. Bottom line: dated, some nuggets, if volunteers are vital to your success, worth getting.

Invite, don't plead!.......2002-03-17

The Volunteer Recruitment (And Membership Development) Book by volunteer recruitment expert Susan Ellis is a straightforward and practical guide to successfully finding and recruiting volunteers for non-profit organizations and other causes and movements. Chapters cover recruitment techniques (invite, don't plead!), appealing to target audiences, where to look for volunteers and much more. The Volunteer Recruitment Book is an absolutely useful "must-read" for anyone charged with the responsibility of finding -- and keeping -- new volunteers!

Good advice for volunteer and membership recruitment.......2000-08-03

Ms. Ellis's book provides a lot of good advice. As the current president of a volunteer run professional organization, I started reading her book looking for ways to recruit more people to serve on our board or in our volunteer role and run the nominations process more effectively. I ended up with ideas about that, but also possibly more importantly it prompted me to spend a lot of time thinking about how our group presents itself to the public, to it's members, and what we do. In other words, it prompted me to think about our group on more strategic levels.

Ms. Ellis strategy is to have you think about what you want to acocmplish before soliciting volunteers, and also to think about how your group can push it's boundaries and think creatively about who it's members are, who it's constituents are, and untapped resources for volunteers. I mention members a lot, because a lot of what she says could transfer to either kinds of recruitment, depending on your need.

A lot of the volunteer information is a little more oriented towards groups that need or could use lot of volunteers (say a social services group, or hospital). But a small group like ours which is all volunteer run, can also benefit from this book.

Good advice for volunteer or membership recruitment.......2000-08-03

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The experience of privatization of social security has been predominantly in the Latin American region. Eight countries have undertaken either full or partial privatization of pensions: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. What did the policymakers expect? Were expectations realized? Can we learn anything from the collective experience of these countries? Can they be applied to other countries that are aspiring to privatize? How did the World Bank and other international institutions affect these policies? Pension Reform in Latin America and Its Lessons for International Policymakers analyzes in detail these important questions.
The book begins with a detailed account of economic conditions in Latin America. It then discusses various models that policymakers rely on. Starting with a purely demographic model, it lays out advanced models of overlapping generations of Samuelson. The book gives extensive details of privatized pensions in each of the eight reforming countries. Two chapters are devoted to analyzing the reform in each country. Finally, detailed lessons are drawn that will help shape the debate for policymakers in other countries.

Pension Reform in Latin America and Its Lessons for International Policymakers. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article) (book review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance

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Pension Reform in Latin America and Its Lessons for International Policymakers. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article) (book review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Ian Webb
Manufacturer: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
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ASIN: B0008IJ9LA
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Risk and Insurance, published by American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc. on September 1, 2001. The length of the article is 777 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: Pension Reform in Latin America and Its Lessons for International Policymakers. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article) (book review)
Author: Ian Webb
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
Volume: 68 Issue: 3 Page: 531(3)

Article Type: Brief Article, Book Review

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Notes of a Nervous Man: Notes of a Nervous Man
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Lileks is Lileks

Don't compare him with Dave Barry - Lileks is Lileks!

Notes of a Nervous Man: Notes of a Nervous Man
James Lileks
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Lileks is Lileks.......1999-12-24

James Lileks has been compared to Dave Barry, and in many ways you might find the comparison apt because there is of course an overlap in attitude and "content". Of course "content" is not an issue in either of these great guys' books or columns. Both can write about absolutely abything and make it tear-wrenchingly funny. But that's about it for the comparison. Lileks will strike many as a more seriously funny writer, if you can imagine what that means. Dave Barry can keep you giggling throughout a piece, whereas Lileks is staid for several sentences - then makes an devastating, or devastatingly funny, observation or comparison that seems to come straight from heaven, and it hits straight through everything to, not just the funny bone, but to your very heart and soul! One reviewer for a newspaper said, "Lileks sparkles, he leaps out at you from the page." He was trying to convey the feeling I'm talking about, which is very difficult to do, and which you'll understand only after reading some of Lileks' stuff. There is a personal intensity about this writer that makes a deep impression on you, if humour can be said to make an impression. "Notes of a Nervous Man" is his best book, and a straightforward place to start if you haven't read James Lileks before.

Don't compare him with Dave Barry - Lileks is Lileks!.......1999-12-19

James Lileks has been compared to Dave Barry, but I supposethat is only because of the fact that both are great humorists. As for style and content, is is obvious that there will be some common elements, because what people laugh at is predictable to an extent. The main difference is this: Lileks strikes you as a vastly more INTELLIGENT person, and his lines and observations are very, very INTELLIGENT. Dave may keep you laughing at a giggly tempo throughout, but Lileks... it's different. You're generally staid, and when he shoots off that climactic observation, it strikes you as something so manically funny that it knocks the wind out of you. You laugh as though you'll never laugh again in your life, and there is this urge to compare Lileks to God, to the Sublime, to ... That cannot be said of any other American writer. I would not go so far as to compare Lileks with Wodehouse... but if anyone had to have the title today of an aspiring Wodehouse, it has to be Lileks. There is a scintillating sublimity about him, something holy, something that makes one feel like praying... one feels closer to God after reading some of Lileks' greatest lines, even if such are only five in a whole book. That said, maybe someone wants to know what I'm talking about. The bottomline is this: either you'll find Lileks not very funny, maybe mildly so, maybe someone like Dave Barry but not so funny -- or you'll swear by everything I've said here! Notes of a Nervous Man is among his funniest, but no one can say which is THE funniest, because it's only those occassional zappers that strike you, and those are pretty evenly distributed over all his books so far. He even has a website - (hey hey hey, I'm not a PR agent for him!...

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Newsday called it "the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives...of the oft-scrutinized group." In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend and business manager of the band-and the best man at John and Yoko's wedding-looks at the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century. Written with the full cooperation of each of the group's members and their intimates, this book goes beyond the glitter to tell the inside story of the music, the marriages, the drugs, disagreements, and divorces-everything that made the Fab Four the phenomenon they are.

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The love you make .......2007-05-14

This was the most amazing journey through the lives of the young Beatles, their experiences and their growth. Also a great social commentary on the sub culture, politics and fashion that the Beatles inspired. Even if you're not a great fan of the Beatles, this is a fantastic read! Best book I've read in ages!

GET IT, IT'S GOOD.......2007-02-27

There are some very bitter reviews of this book out there. But consider this if you will: All of the people described in this book are - or were - very wealthy. If any of them were libeled, there would have been a lawsuit. Particularly with Paul McCartney! In fact, this book does NOT paint Paul in a negative light at all. No way. If anything, the author gives Paul the benefit of the doubt. This book also does NOT paint Yoko Ono as being evil. He describes the primary reason for the Beatles' breakup as having been John's heroin addiction. And the way he goes about it makes complete sense. I have heard George Harrison's report that this book is "utter rubbish." Well, I can understand why he said that. It was always part of the Beatles' agreement to keep things quiet, and George was "the quiet Beatle." More importantly, this book reveals some incriminating things about George's divorce from his first wife, about Eric Clapton's involvement, etc. Rather than confirm that he screamed at his wife, pushed her in a car and roared off, rather than confirm that only his first solo album was a creative success, why not call the whole book "rubbish?" If George had been libeled he would have sued. The book sold quite well, and George could have claimed quite a few pounds for himself. He did not. THE DOWN SIDE to this book is quite small, actually. The author DOES NOT DESCRIBE THE MAKING OF THE MUSIC. He does not describe George Martin in great detail, does not describe how Martin brought the best out of the group, how he liked THIS song the best, encouraged them to use horns on THAT song, etc. George Martin was considered the "fifth beatle." But here Peter Brown calls somebody named Neil Aspinall the fifth Beatle, says Aspinall "was just as much a Beatle as any of them." Well, why? The author mentions Aspinall many times, but never in great detail. That disappointed me, and together with the exclusion of George Martin's role in the music making cost this rating one star. Otherwise the book is fantastic.

Great Beatles biography.......2007-01-21

I used this biography in my senior term paper in high school. I found it to be an interesting and easy read. A plus is that it was written by Peter Brown a close associate to the Beatles(he's even mentioned in the Ballad of John and Yoko).

A loveless take........2006-12-05

This book is thick with opinion.
the author clearly has a very negative perspective, the book is full of obvious misinformation.

bitter and two dimensional.

A great biography of John Lennon.......2006-04-09

WARNING: don't let this be the first Beatle book you read.

Although the book is said to be about the Beatles, it's really about John, John and his first wife Cynthia, John and his second wife Yoko, Brian Epstein, more John, some Paul, Cynthia after her divorce, a little more John, and then those other two Beatles, George and what's-his-name. John is a drug-addicted maniac, but even while trashed on heroin he's still a better person than Paul, who is an ego-centric sap whose every song is "saccarine," and George, who's boring and bitter. Oh, and Ringo...all I remember about him from the book is that he was incredibly spendthrift and really in the end was just lucky to be there. There is also a significant amount of the book dedicated to John's first wife, Cynthia, and their supremely awful relationship. Much of it was painful to read.

I don't think a biography has an obligation to make the protagonists look better than they are, but this book seems to go out of its way to villianize people and make them look awful. Ironically, of course, the two people who come out of the book looking the best are John and Yoko, who just about everyone agrees were incredibly destructive individuals. I don't think it's a coincidence that Peter Brown was name-checked in a John Lennon song, and not a Paul or George song.

On a positive note, the insight into Brian's life is the most complete of all the Beatle books I have read; some people complain the book makes him look awful, but in reality he did the best he could with his limited knowledge of how to manage a band. And there are plenty of fun stories about the boys...to have been mentioned by name in a Beatles song means that he was definitely in the right places at the right times.

Although my guess is that because the original edition of this book was released very soon after John's death, the editors wanted more John content to appeal to the renewed interest in his life. However, decades later, the book is uneven and unfairly dismissive of Paul, Ringo and George. Paul really gets the shaft in this book...Lord knows he's not perfect but this book makes him look worse than Allan Klein, who is regarded by just about everyone as the devil himself. And Ringo and George don't really look bad...or good...it's hard to look like anything when you're given about a paragraph in every chapter, if that. Cynthia Lennon gets mentioned more than they do.

And what about the music? Obviously Peter Brown wasn't involved in the music production side of things, but to only rarely MENTION their songs or anything about them seemed a little ridiculous. I don't want Billboard charts or technical breakdowns of the song structures, but some insight into the songwriting, their personal feelings about the songs, or the guest artists they brought in (Eric Clapton's guest stint on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is given a one-sentence mention; Billy Preston's guest appearance on the "Let It Be" album is totally ignored) would have been nice.

While this book did have a lot of secrets and stories and other content unknown before it was published, that was years ago, and there are newer books on the Beatles that have all the information from this book, as well as more inside stories and more factual information about the music, and are more pleasant reads and are fairer to the boys. "A Day in the Life" by Mark Hertsgaard provides information about the boys and will fill you in on the musical side of things as well. And my favorite Beatle book so far has been "Magical Mystery Tours" by Tony Bramwell, a friend of the boys and eventual Apple employee, gives generous insight into the lives of the boys, while being honest and fair.

The Love You Make : An Insider's Story of the Beatles

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The Love You Make : An Insider's Story of the Beatles
Peter; Gaines, Steven S. Brown
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THE LOVE YOU MAKE: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
Brown Peter And Gaines Steven.
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The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
Peter, and Steven Gaines Brown
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The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
Peter Brown , and Steven Gaines
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Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles.

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In this folkloric examination of mass-produced material culture in the United States, Jeannie Banks Thomas examines the gendered sculptural forms that are among the most visible, including Barbie, Ken, and G.I. Joe dolls; yard figures (gnomes, geese, and flamingos); and cemetery statuary (angels, sports-related images, figures of the Virgin Mary, soldiers, and politicians).

Images of females are often emphasized or sexualized, frequently through nudity or partial nudity, whereas those of the male body are not only clothed but also armored in the trappings of action and aggression. Thomas locates these various objects of folk art within a discussion of the post-women's movement discourse on gender.

In addition to the items themselves, Thomas explores the stories and behaviors they generate, including legends of the supernatural about cemetery statues, oral narratives of yard artists and accounts of pranks involving yard art, narratives about children's play with Barbie, Ken, and G.I. Joe, and the electronic folklore (or "e-lore") about Barbie that circulates on the Internet.

Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender
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Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine
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Adventure Divas

Adventure Divas

Awakening the nomad

Morris in Theroux League

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Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine
Holly Morris
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After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited producer-mother, Jeannie, and a whole lot of chutzpah, Morris tracked down artists, activists, and politicos–women of action who are changing the rules and sometimes the world around them.

In these pages, Morris brings to life the remarkable people and places she’s encountered on the road while filming her PBS series Adventure Divas and other programs. We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi’s chief of police, who revolutionized India’s infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government’s strict stance on art.

Along the way, Morris herself becomes a certified Adventure Diva, as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia.

Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling details of place, Adventure Divas is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity, ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our own adventures.

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Adventure Divas.......2006-08-14

Morris launched the television show Adventure Divas to showcase women around the world--activists, artists and politicians--creating social and political change. In its companion book, readers hear how the crew filmed in Cuba, New Zealand, India and Iran for PBS (now on DVD). Like its short, playful name, the project invokes a broad audience and indicates the challenge of broadcasting hopefulness alongside complex global concerns. Unfortunately, Morris's book often breezes through women's stories and could minimize the focus on her own divadom. Nonetheless, interesting stories abound. Adventure Divas' mission of bringing women to the forefront through media delivers inspiration. Most importantly, it provides a model for future media divas to build on

Adventure Divas.......2006-07-03

I love it! Love it! Holly writes with pure honesty, vision, openness and salted with tongue-in-check humor. For any women who has ever dreamed of travel, new adventures and meeting the unmeetable, this is the book to read. It left me wanting more!! By the way, Im Debbi, Roberts wife.

Awakening the nomad.......2006-06-25

As an aspiring travel writer who has been relatively stationary for awhile now, I found it hard to put down Holly's book. Her writing brought life to lands and people I've only dreamt about seeing/meeting someday. What I love is how her sense of self came through--she is honest in her pursuits. The book is a perfect combination of her own thoughts, well-chosen dialogue, and historical references.
Her words and stories awoke the nomad inside me that has been under forced dormancy for too long. She made me want to grab my dusty backpack and hit the road once again to continue making my own discoveries.
I look forward to reading about all the new adventures someday soon!

Morris in Theroux League.......2006-05-20

Holly Morris did an incredible job with this book. As a traveller who has been to 150 countries, I have digested a lot of travel writing. Holly's style is fresh, inciteful, exciting, real. She really puts you in the scene, and those scenes are often fascinating. I like her writing as much as Paul Theroux and hope she not only continues her world adventures, but also shares them with us.

Bill Kizorek, CEO, Two Parrot Productions

Grrl Power!.......2006-03-20

As a woman working in a male dominated profession, I am always on the prowl for soul sisters, women, who like myself, are not afraid to slog waist high through cypress domes or machete their way through the rainforests of central Honduras. We women of nature and exploration are a tribe of our own and I was grateful that Holly Morris put her experiences together in this book. It is refreshing and invigorating to read about women world wide who live unapologetically on their own terms.

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Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques, a well-known favorite that delivers the essential information you need in a fun, well-written, easy-to-read style. Rather than detail every mind-numbing feature of Photoshop, Willmore's compact book cuts through the fat to focus on the concepts, features, and techniques that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop 7 every day. If you've ever wanted to understand complex concepts like curves and channels, or learn the logic behind Photoshop's keyboard commands, look no further.

Fully updated to cover the new features of Photoshop 7, Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques starts with the working foundations of Photoshop--thebasic tools, palettes, layers, and masks--and quickly moves on to real-worldproduction techniques, such as how to sharpen scans, correct and optimizeimages, and use color curves to your advantage. By the time you finish thebook, you'll have explored the creative aspects of Photoshop, such as how toblend or enhance images, master colorizing techniques, and create advancedtype effects. Included is an entirely new chapter on color management thatgives you practical instruction on implementing a color-managed workflowfrom monitor to press. A section on Web graphics rounds out the book, withchapters on image slicing and rollovers, creating effects for interfacedesign, animating effects, and optimizing images for Web. If you want to getbeyond conventional step-by-step instruction and become "Photoshopenlightened," this is the book for you.

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