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Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. Whatever the "organization" is--as small as a household or as large as a government--the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to depend on that solution, despite its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories with a rich variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality.
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prompt delivery, product in condition advertised.......2007-03-10
The book arrived within two weeks of my ordering it and was in the condition advertised.
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Almost all you want to know about women and unions.......1998-06-16
Forty authors contribute to this anthology of essays discussing issues such as the gender wage gap, work and family benefits, temporary and part-time work, and female leadership in unions.
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This digital document is an article from Dollars & Sense, published by Economic Affairs Bureau on July 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1289 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: Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership. (book reviews)
Author: Rose Batt
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Date: July 1, 1994
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Over 450 authentic bluegrass licks and how to apply them to create your own solos, fills, and backup. Special sections on riffs using double stops, riffs using upper positions, and different ways of playing Orange Blossom Special.
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Good if you can Read music........2003-10-19
This is a good book generally. I does have 450 licks of 2 or 3 measures. If you can learn all of these it would vastly improve your playing. However, the included Cd only has 75 of the licks in the book so if you are not adept at reading music you might not be able to utilize all of them. Some of the recordings seem to be slighty out of pitch.
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The truth is in here..........2000-02-28
It is impossible for any urban dweller not to notice the vast array of merchandising that has sprouted from the success of the television show, "The X-Files". That is, of course, the point. Urban dwellers, aged eighteen- to forty-nine comprise a "quality demographic" in the surveys of advertising executives and have therefore become the contemporary focus of television producers, as we are told by Jimmie Reeves in his essay "Rewriting Popularity", one of the collection edited by David Lavery, professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.
"Deny all knowledge: Reading the X-Files" is in part an attempt to capture a section of that demographic. However, a swift perusal of other material on offer at your local X-Files vendor (pusher?) reveals that this understated volume might well have been misplaced from its original shelf, nestled between Lacan and Levi-Strauss. There are no photos (save for a semi-abstract 'flying saucer' on the cover), no celebrity interviews, no episode synopses. It seems that this tries, much like the foisting of Gregorian chant on a classically-naïve public, to sneak in some 'highbrow' material on the crest of a wave of immense popularity.
In large part, the cult-nature of the X-Files has been fostered by the presence of an active on-line community, many of whom are academics. It is perhaps to this audience that the volume is aimed. What better way to combine work and play?
The passion of the authors is undeniable and all of the essays display extensive familiarity and understanding of the series. They are not grounded by the need to justify the existence of the X-Files phenomenon, nor are they constrained by the necessity to interweave their subject matter with perceived fan interest.
Leslie Jones' excellent essay on myth and folklore in the X-Files is lightly-tinged with humour while providing a fascinating account of Indo-European mythology. Further gems are found in Reeves, Rogers and Epstein's history lessons on the development of cult-TV, which rationalises the ascent of this media-format in terms of political and economic change. Allison Graham's description of the evolution of conspiracy-theory consciousness and Michele Malach's chronicle of the change in representation of the FBI-man in popular culture both provide historical detail whilst using the X-Files legitimately as subtext. This type of lateral-thinking exercise for the intelligent reader, supported by reasoned argument (and copious footnotes) is both stimulating and informative.
Less enlightening are the often partisan accounts mired in psychoanalytic theory, which can leave the lay-reader reeling from the non-intuitive terminology. A case in point is the piece by Lisa Parks which reads rather like an answer to the examination question: "Discuss Haraway's proposition of female as cyborg with reference to 'The X-Files'".
Since the breadth of material covered and implied by the X-Files as-a-series is large, it is also dismaying to see that over a third of the essays in this volume have gender as subtext. Certainly, the series has been noted for its iconoclastic representation of gender stereotypes, but one well-written overview would have sufficed, instead of four rather specialised arguments. Thankfully, the editors have seen fit to consign most of these pieces to the latter part of the book, where those of a sturdy constitution may see fit to venture. (A remark which would probably be characterised as supportive of the patriarchal Symbolic Order)
Academic essays are not ostensibly intended to entertain. They may provide a corpus of knowledge on which other academics may draw, but this cross-fertilisation is dependent on an assumed understanding of the established language. In spite of this, many of the academics represented here are also good writers; their ability to communicate clearly obviates the need to take refuge in received semiotics. For the rest, their assumptions of knowledge in this volume mirror an aspect of on-line X-philia described by Susan Clerc: "to those who have been around, Frequently Asked Questions can be extremely annoying. They want to discuss the series, not basic questions that have already been compiled and answered by dedicated fans in FAQ files. To newcomers, this attitude reeks of elitism and snobbery." Perhaps Professor Lavery should maintain an FAQ.
INTERESTING, BUT NOT FOR EVERYONE.......1999-12-31
Overall, this is an interesting and entertaining volume, but these essays are not for everyone. The essays approach the show from a wide variety of critical angles, which I found quite intriguing. The only major problem I had with the book is that although the writers had 49 episodes to derive material from, they not only chose the same ten episodes to write about, most of them used the same quotes from those episodes. It's almost as if the writers were given these quotes and told to use them in an essay. The best essays in the volume were Leslie Jones's "'Last Week We Had an Omen,'" and Elizabeth Kubek's "'You Only Expose Your Father'"(but perhaps I say that because they were the most helpful for the paper I'm writing), but all of the essays were able to pique my interest at some level.
I hope that someone undertakes a second volume of _X-Files_ criticism soon, as some of the essays in this one are becoming rapidly out-of-date, due to developments in the show.
Deny All Knowledge: read review.......1999-05-30
The book "Deny all Knowledge" is one my mom bought me for Christmas, I am 14 years old and one of the biggest X-Files fans on the face of the earth. I found this book VERY hard to understand, yet, I finished it. The words are hard to make out and I don't recommend it to anyone under 16 yrs of age.
Superficial, Pseudo-Scholarly, Skippable.......1999-04-04
I was hoping for a deep and detailed analysis of some of the themes that run through the X-Files. I did not find it in this book. I found an ill-assorted set of disjoined essays on various aspects of the show, lacking even the depth of insight of a moderately erudite fan. Definitely skip this book.
Academic yet entertaining........1998-12-01
At first glace this book seems overwrought with metaphors and overblown interpretations of the show; these authors delve into details that I, as the most avid of fans, would never have noticed. If you are willing to put this aside, and enjoy it for what it is, this is a must have for fans you want more than the trivialities found in many of the other unauthorized books out there. The take on the Mulder/Scully relationship is interesting to say the least, and it provides a look at the online fan base like so few of the other books have. The essay on gender liminality was a highlight. The footnotes were excessive in many segments, but this book wasn't intended to be a purely fun read. If you want trivia and Mulderisms you might do better to try one of the other books, there are many great ones out there. If you like a slightly more weighted look at television, and are not afraid of "big words" than you will probably get a kick out of this.
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Her own words as expressed verbally and through writing!.......2005-06-17
I purchased this book expecting to bathe in the luxury of Oprah's soothing whirlpool bath of motivational language, and I was not disappointed! I come to Operah through my long and growing interest in Dr. Phil, her advisor and close personal muse, and I was right in thinking that the acorn doesn't fall far from the original acorn. While Phil (Dr.) concentrates on homespun advice about how to be more like him (not tall, but living a good life, I mean), Oprah talks about motivational talking and finding your "spirit place", and although her "spirit place" often involves a separate home in the woods with waterfalls and a brook passing through the living room, you can get the same effect in a tent with a small fan or other noisy machine (one time I just left my car running and that seemed to do the trick - make sure your garage door isn't closed though!). I only give this book 3 stars because apparantly Oprah did not make this book herself but rather people followed her around and wrote everything down that she said without her noticing or hearing them. Still, though, it gives off her magic and essence, and is therefore worthy of your attention. Huzzah!
Words more important than packager.......2002-10-11
You can get lost in the fact that this is a collection of quotes by Oprah and not thoughts written by Oprah exclusively for this book.
Or you could be smart and glean wisdom from what she has to say.
How she grew up, what she learned from her errors, what she thinks of money and herself in relationship to it, the mental preparation to receive the abundance that she has and how she stays centered.
What I think thsi book is valuable for is insight, and perhaps personal inspiration for how to manage one's self in certain situations. The goal is not to become Oprah, it is to become the best YOU possible.
You take or you leave it, but you integrate it into the lessons and challenges of your own life. The same with John D. Rockefeller, Bill Gates, Jenny Jones (hahhahahaha----kidding).
A chronology of quotations.......1998-08-24
While this is a very interesting and well researched book on Oprah, keep in mind that it is an unauthorized biography. This book is basically a chronology of Oprah's life, and Adler does a decent job of stringing her quotes into a coherent history. A nice bonus is the section of short quotes on a wide variety of subjects. If you love Oprah, you'll probably love this book!
An unauthorized book of Oprah Winfrey quotes........1998-08-14
Bill Adler has taken past interviews, articles, and speeches of Oprah Winfrey and complied _his list_ of her best quotations. It's an unauthorized book - meaning Oprah didn't write it nor was she involved in the production. Some quotations show the source of information with a date and some don't -- which makes it a bit disappointing not to have the history or context pertaining to the quote. If you have an extensive Oprah collection, you'll want this book just to say you have everything, otherwise there are many other good Oprah biographies available.
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How to Use Lotus Notes R6 provides the beginning user with a straight-forward, visual approach to learning. It presents the most used tasks in an easy-to-follow manner, with simple directions using icons and full-color illustrations and graphics. Readers also find How-To Hints, which provide helpful shortcuts and tips for getting the most out of the software. The book is designed to give the reader the skills to handle everyday events at work such as receiving, creating, and sending email, as well as setting up meetings and appointments.
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This is a must have book for end users for Lotus Notes .......2007-06-28
This is a end user book for sure. I didnt' waste anytime when this book was received, it was put directly to work.
Great little book for knowing how to utilize the Lotus Notes software.
How to Use Lotus Notes R6 ***GREAT***.......2005-09-21
Excellent tool to learn all about the ins and outs of Lotus Notes. The beginning of each chapter provides a summary to further explain the function's use.
Regarding delivery, it arrived earlier than expected. :)
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