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Title: The collaborative management of the metropolis.(Book Review)
Author: James A. Visser
Publication: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Kansas
Volume: 14 Issue: 2 Page: 257(7)

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Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments.(Book Review) : An article from: Publius

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Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments.(Book Review) : An article from: Publius
Ernita Joaquin
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This digital document is an article from Publius, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 906 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: Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments.(Book Review)
Author: Ernita Joaquin
Publication: Publius (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
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Volume: 35 Issue: 4 Page: 637(3)

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This book is the first full-length historical study of the attitudes of the British Colonial Office towards industrialisation in the colonial Empire. Dr Butler challenges the prevailing assumption that London and the Colonial governments colluded to frustrate industrial initiatives, leaving a legacy of under development. Taking colonial policy towards West Africa as a case study, he shows that, during the 1940s, the Office evolved a policy of encouraging colonial industry as part of a broad programme of development intended to prepare colonies for eventual independence. He also examines problems faced by the Colonial Office in implementing its new industrial policy, particularly the difficulties arising from wartime and post-war constraints on Britain's ability to supply capital goods and other exports necessary for development.

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Home Is Where The Humor Is: Funny Family Stories
Patricia F. D'Ascoli
Manufacturer: Booklocker.com
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Binding: Paperback

General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1591136571

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Since the 1990s thousands of individuals have embraced the zine revolution and DIY music-making. Amy Spencer champions the unsung heroes and heroines of the lo-fi scene.

A first comprehensive study of lo-fi culture and DIY production of records, CDs, zines within the alternative scene-including interviews with leading musicians, writers and promoters. The book focuses on the lo-fi movements of the UK and US, and across the globe, introducing the various communities who adopted the DIY ethic, the 1950s beat movement, Riot Grrrl, Queercore and Social Activism.

Amy Spencer is a former zine-writer and record-label founder, current member of promotions collective 'The Bakery' and a key player in the establishment of Ladyfest, the UK's fastest-growing women's arts festival.

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Good for historical info, but not for analysis.......2006-03-23

This book read really quickly, and was full of neat information that I never knew before, but I can't help wishing it had been better written and edited. I caught several (as in way, way too many) grammatical errors and typos. On top of that, the style was close to awful, with strange sentence construction that distracted from the point of the work.

Like I said, the information was neat, but the analysis was bare bones, and mostly made huge assumptions in the reader's familiarity with the subject matter. I very much enjoyed learning all the historical details I never knew before, like that sci-fi fans wrote the first real zines in the 1930s. But when it came to the more modern stuff, the eras I know more about, there was little in the way of new or exciting information. Thought-provoking analysis would have made up for this, but it just wasn't there.

I got this book on a recommendation from one of the feminist magazines I read, and I'm not terribly upset to have it in my collection. It'll make a good source to cite for clear historical info. Other than that, it's pretty lackluster.

Lots of facts, but little cohesion.......2005-09-07

This book is a wonderful collection of facts, giving you a wave of information about DIY music and publishing (although she mainly sticks to 'zines, not self-published books or anthologies) The style of writing is pretty dreadful, and it made for slow going, and there was little cohesion between areas. Rather than have a thesis, the book concludes just about every chapter with comments like "And that's part of DIY culture." or "DIY culture is really important"

If you're looking for basic information on DIY music and publishing, and don't mind the lack of a coherent flow, it's a great book. However, if you're looking for insight on the world of DIY, you won't find it here.

Fascinating, rigorous and entertaining.......2005-06-28

I knew nothing about this topic before I picked up this book. I didn't even know that there was such a topic for me to know anything about. But now this book has opened my eyes. Lo-fi culture is all around us and growing. How could I not have noticed it? The truth is, I had simply never considered it in the way that is set out by Amy Spencer in such an eloquent and entertaining fashion.
She guides the reader through a lot of fascinating information, telling a story you can really get to grips with by putting everything in its cultural context.
It's riveting in a way that I never expected! And now that I've finished reading it, I do find myself looking at the world - the cultural world at least - in a new way.

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Hailed by reviewers as a brilliantly insightful look at Parisians and France, this best-seller on two continents (80,000+ copies in print) by Montreal daily newspaper La Presse's Paris correspondent gives the reader a detailed view of how French society really works, with its hidden codes, unspoken rules, tribal loyalties and attachment to the past. French society's strange love-hate relationship with money, for example, which must be spent to excess but never, never discussed in public is revealed here, as is France's obsessive attraction to all things American, along with its simultaneous demonizing of all things...American. This a treasure trove of biting, satirical and bang-on pieces on anything and everything French from King Louis XIV to Charles de Gaulle, from EuroDisneyland to the French schizoid view of money, love and country, from Catherine Deneuve to François Mitterand describes a country of excesses and opposites, where the wine and olive oil culture from the South competes with the beer and butter culture from the North, where a monarchist movement is strong in the country that beheaded its last king, where classical music is adored but dreadfully composed, and where the art of brilliant conversation is taken to dizzying heights. France is a country, in sum, which might in fact be another planet, distant and obscure but absolutely mesmerizing. Few foreigners know France as well as Robitaille, who arrived in 1965 to become a novelist, and stayed as a reporter. He knows EVERYONE of importance in Paris and has interviewed hundreds of writers, actors, politicians and cafe owners in the course of his career. His interviews with Isabelle Adjani, Celine Dion, Mavis Gallant and many more make for page after page of fascinating reading. A new section on Americans in Paris has been added specially for this translation and the preface by Nouvel Observateur columnist Jean-François Kahn puts it all in perspective. The France-Inter radio network said, about this terrific page-turner of a read, it is clairvoyant, penetrating writing by a real journalist.

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Convoluted and Poorly Written.......2003-01-23

This work is beset by problems of both style and substance.

Stylistically: this book has numerous spelling errors (Chili instead of Chile, for example.) and is translated into a verbose English. It's possible to remove at least 50% of this book by shaving needless adjectives and redundant sentences. There is no logical organization; it seems the author just began writing one evening and didn't pick up his pen until after he was finished.

In matters of substance this book has even more serious problems. First, the author is writing from the perspective of the literary "chic" crowd. His self consciousness is evident throughout when he constantly points out what the French may think of you if you live in one of the less fashionable districts of Paris, if you criticize a popular writer, or commit any of a few dozen minor social gaffes he has listed. While this may be the case for the literary crowd he associates with, it by no means is representative of the French. This book should be retitled, "And God Created the Self-Styled Parisian Literary Elite."

Most of the points he raises are universal in nature. If you flaunt your money or dress in a gaudy manner, you will be looked down upon whether you are in France, New York, or even Moscow.

His political insights are trivial. In no way does he explain the French political or business sectors before coming to his outlandish conclusions. The only people who could get anything at all out of this book are those who don't know anything about France. (For those who don't know, this book gets two stars. For those that do know, it's only 1 star) Unfortunately, this very audience needs the author to present some basic background information before diving into the conclusions.

Another main problem is that a lot of the material is marginal to his main story. Why does he feel the need to keep bringing up Jews and anti-Semitism every couple pages? If he wanted to write a book about anti-Semitism in France, then that is exactly what he should have written. He writes, at length, about Louis-Ferdinand Celine just to mock his "anti-Semitism." Another topic which perplexed me, was the young French Orientalist who lived in India as an "untouchable." I'm fascinated by India's caste system, but I don't see why he has to spend half a dozen pages writing about it in a book on France. When I want to read about a caste system, I will read a book by many informed Orientalists. And when I want to read about France, I would like to find a book actually about France and not a book written about everything and nothing at the same time -- about the Parisian literary elite, anti-Semitism in French literature, India's caste system, and some dimwitted perceptions about the United States.

Pick and choose in this one.......2000-06-01

Robitaille says some interesting and funny things, but in general I found his book hard going. The prose is quite dense (this may be the fault of the translation), and the author expects his readers to be as au courant with the details of French political and social life of the last twenty years as he is. If you're not up to speed, you'll be left scratching your head about the significance of this strike and that strike, this gaffe and that gaucherie, this change of minister and that, and on and on. But there are some very entertaining general articles in this collection, so I recommend that the Average Reader (in this case, someone generally but not intimately familiar with matters French) hunt them out and enjoy them, and leave the rest to the specialists.

Amusing at times but could have contributed more insights.......1999-11-01

For well over thirty years, I have been visiting France for a minimum of one month per year, and feel very fortunate to have many French friends.

While I found the beginning of the book most amusing, I did not appreciate the "puff" pieces. I wish, after his having spent twenty years in France, M. Robitaille would have given us his insights as to why the French still do not buy automobiles with automatic transmission, or why General De Gaulle was never promoted to Marshall of France, or the contribution McDo (McDonald's) has made to France, or why Disneyland Paris is now a success, or consider that M. Mitterand did actually have a lovely apartment where he lived with two others, or why Jean Moulin continues to be honored, etc., etc.

Parisian doesn't mean french.......1999-07-12

I'm french and lives in the United States. I read that book but I think there's good things and bad things about it. First, the author seems to spend a lot of time depicting the parisian intelligentsia rather than really depicting a french picture. Paris and province are very different. And most of the french people don't have a Bishop or a noble for dinner. So why talk about it that much ? Also who cares about EuroDisney that much ? Not french people. There's good & bad things about France but at 33% of the book seems to talk about things that doesn't really seems relevant to a french. Otherwise some parts are really funny.

Scintillating prose, different than anything I read before.......1999-05-25

-A seamlessly translated read, and most amusing, from the view of this strictly American 52 year old pediatrician, who has not kept up with international affairs to any great degree, and who has not been in France for over 20 years. Scintillating prose, effortless translation, yet retaining elements of the sparkling scintillation of the French language. Descriptions of Paris and of the use of language and "code" were incredibly interesting and very amusing. I am impressed with the strength of English in business, yet the flexible depth of French in the arena of diplomacy.

-I AM returning avec epouse this Juillet spending 5 days SATURATING in Paris. I am avidly resuming my French language studies. Your conjectures into the French ethos were different than anything I had read, and I feel prepared to be......mystified with silent awe in our trip. -Mes meilleurs felicitations,.....vous avez vraiment fait un grand tabac (?syntax).

Cordially,

(Veuillez agreer, Messieurs, mes salutations distinguees)

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AND GOD CREATED THE FRENCH

Manufacturer: Robert Davis
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HFDJPG

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And God Created the French
Louis-Bernard Robitaille
Manufacturer: Robert Davies Pub
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RBUIV8

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And God Created the French : Value Edition
Louis-Bernard; Sinkler, Donald (translator) Robitaille
Manufacturer: Robert Davies Multi Media/Book Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K3KQPG

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He leaped from his chair, ripped off his microphone, and lunged at his ex-wife. Security guards rushed to intercept him. The audience screamed, then cheered. Were producers concerned? Not at all. They were getting what they wanted: the money shot.

From "classy" shows like Oprah to "trashy" shows like Jerry Springer, the key to a talk show's success is what Laura Grindstaff calls the money shot—moments when guests lose control and express joy, sorrow, rage, or remorse on camera. In this new work, Grindstaff takes us behind the scenes of daytime television talk shows, a genre focused on "real" stories told by "ordinary" people. Drawing on extensive interviews with producers and guests, her own attendance of dozens of live tapings around the country, and more than a year's experience working on two nationally televised shows, Grindstaff shows us how producers elicit dramatic performances from guests, why guests agree to participate, and the supporting roles played by studio audiences and experts.

Grindstaff traces the career of the money shot, examining how producers make stars and experts out of ordinary people, in the process reproducing old forms of cultural hierarchy and class inequality even while seeming to challenge them. She argues that the daytime talk show does give voice to people normally excluded from the media spotlight, but it lets them speak only in certain ways and under certain rules and conditions. Working to understand the genre from the inside rather than pass judgment on it from the outside, Grindstaff asks not just what talk shows can tell us about mass media, but also what they reveal about American culture more generally.

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Read if you're curious what's real & what's fake.......2005-06-15

I found this book very informative, and it answered my many questions about the truth behind talk shows. The author presents the industry from all angles, from studio audience to home audience to guests to producers. The only drawback is that I found some parts of the book overloaded with "big words" that are not necessary, and are distracting from the substance of the book. For example: "Such practices do not guarantee fireworks and drama, but they help because they locate the potential for dramatic interaction in the strategic juxtaposition of participants rather than (or in addition to) individual performative competence." I consider myself to be fairly skilled when it comes to vocabulary, but I found myself having to reread paragraphs on many occasions. If you're genuinely interested in the topic of talk shows, as I was, it will probably be worth your while to read. It will probably answer all of your questions, if you're willing to pluck the answers out from behind the excess wording.

Going Back Stage.......2002-10-23

I am, unabashedly, a talk show junkie. At some level my interest is undeniably scatalogical. Still, as a sociologist, my real fascination is with the culture of such programming and its impact upon American culture. Grindstaff's ethnographic exploration of two American talk shows answers many of my questions about how such programs are produced (the mechanics), the people involved ('ordinary' guests, 'expert' guests, those working behind the scenes, and the hosts), and offers insight into why we are hooked on this type of spectacle. Her treatment of the subject and those involved is even handed and avoids the obvious pitfalls of stereotyping and villifying.

For those interested in popular culture, American ethnography, issues of authenticity, and cultural studies, Grindstaff's text should find its way to your bookshelf ASAP.

Television Talk and Blow-by-Blow Commentary.......2002-08-24

Grindstaff has produced an excellent book exposing the underbelly of daytime talk show production. Her profuse detail gathered through extensive ethnographic fieldwork pays off in an effective account explaining the production process associated with the talk show. We see how the offbeat topics are formulated, guests recruited, and production secured on numerous talk show episodes. We are taken behind the scenes and understand that it is a small miracle that the television format manages to survive on a daily basis. The writing is precise and the volume is well annotated.
A fan of these talk shows will gain greater appreciation of how the process is structured and the impact upon producers, talk show guests, and studio audience members. This is a magnificent analysis that should be read by everyone curious about the talk show phenomenon.

Exploiting the Undervalued. (Books).(Brief Article): An article from: American Journalism Review

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Exploiting the Undervalued. (Books).(Brief Article): An article from: American Journalism Review
Carl Sessions Stepp
Manufacturer: University of Maryland
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 993 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: Exploiting the Undervalued. (Books).(Brief Article)
Author: Carl Sessions Stepp
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: 24 Issue: 7 Page: 69(1)

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Money Shots.(The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows)(Book Review) : An article from: Art Journal

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Money Shots.(The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows)(Book Review) : An article from: Art Journal
Kelly Dennis
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ASIN: B000CC41DI
Release Date: 2005-11-14

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This digital document is an article from Art Journal, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 3413 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: Money Shots.(The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows)(Book Review)
Author: Kelly Dennis
Publication: Art Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 64 Issue: 3 Page: 119(4)

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The Money Shot : Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows

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The Money Shot : Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows
Laura Grindstaff
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OP2TXC

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Delivers the proven solutions that make a difference in your Cisco IP Telephony deployment

Learn dial plan best practices that help you configure features such as intercom, group speed dials, music on hold, extension mobility, and more
Understand how to manage and monitor your system proactively for maximum uptime
Use dial plan components to reduce your exposure to toll fraud
Take advantage of call detail records for call tracing and accounting, as well as troubleshooting
Utilize the many Cisco IP Telephony features to enable branch site deployments
Discover the best ways to install, upgrade, patch, and back up CallManager
Learn how backing up to remote media provides both configuration recovery and failure survivability

IP telephony represents the future of telecommunications: a converged data and voice infrastructure boasting greater flexibility and more cost-effective scalability than traditional telephony. Having access to proven best practices, developed in the field by Cisco® IP Telephony experts, helps you ensure a solid, successful deployment.

Cisco CallManager Best Practices offers best practice solutions for CallManager and related IP telephony components such as IP phones, gateways, and applications. Written in short, to-the-point sections, this book lets you explore the tips, tricks, and lessons learned that will help you plan, install, configure, back up, restore, upgrade, patch, and secure Cisco CallManager, the core call processing component in a Cisco IP Telephony deployment. You’ll also discover the best ways to use services and parameters, directory integration, call detail records, management and monitoring applications, and more.

Customers inspired this book by asking the same questions time after time: How do I configure intercom? What’s the best way to use partitions and calling search spaces? How do I deploy CallManager regionally on my WAN? What do all those services really do? How do I know how many calls are active? How do I integrate CallManager with Active Directory? Years of expert experiences condensed for you in this book enable you to run a top-notch system while enhancing the performance and functionality of your IP telephony deployment.

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How to get the most out of CallManager.......2005-07-08

Want to kn ow how to get the most out of CallManager???

this book is it!!!!

Very, very helpful.

A great book for experienced IP Telephony engineers ........2004-12-25

Cisco CallManager Best Practices is a very well written book with plenty of useful information. However, please note, this is not an introductory book for Cisco IP Telephony. As its name implies, this book provides "best practices" for installing, running and optimizing an IP Telephony network. Thus, this book should be used by experienced IP Telephony engineers in order to plan new deployment or optimize existing IP Telephony networks.

Beyond that one caveat, I highly recommend this book. It is well written and has very good information. I did not find any errors and found the technical information very in-depth and thorough.

I particularly liked Chapter 6: Securing the Environment. While obviously slanted toward IP Telephony, this chapter provided detailed security practices that should be applied to all networks. This chapter focuses on how overall network security leads to secure IP Telephony environments, which is the way security should be approached. By simply securing your IP Telephony assets (CallManagers, Gateways, etc), but not implementing standard security technologies (private VLANs, ARP inspection, 802.1x, etc) engineers will still leave their IP Telephony network subject to attack. Rightfully so, this chapter explains how IP Telephony is just a part of overall security, and then explains basic security technologies with an inkling toward IP Telephony.

My only complaint about this book, and why it only received 4 out of 5 stars, was its lack of flow. Chapters did not build on one another, despite appearing that way from the Table of Contents. Each chapter started fresh. However, I think this may be a factor of the book's purpose: providing "Best Practices" and not laying out a step-by-step process for IP Telephony deployments. As I mentioned above, this is not a book to use for someone new to IP Telephony or for your first deployment. This book should be used by experienced IP Telephony engineers to enhance their knowledge for new deployments and bolster existing IP Telephony networks.

Michael J. Morris
CCIE #11733, MCSE

How to get the most out of CallManager.......2004-11-09

Telephones used to be so simple. You called Ma Bell, explained a few things like number of individual telephones, you waited a while, then the equipment showed up and you started writing a check each month. Data transmission was at best a secondary requirement (maybe not even that high). Not so anymore.

Today you buy bandwidth and it's pretty much up to you to decide what to do with it. Cisco has been in the absolute forefront of handling bandwidth, and with their Call Manager system is in the forefront of IP Telephony.

Note that the title of this book says it is about best practices. The book is based on the questions that customers asked (the authors are all Cisco employees who talk to customers) about the CallManager system. It is intended for the voice and data networking professionals who either have CallManager installed or are considering installing it.

The idea is to go beyond what the manuals say, to enable you to use the equipment in ways that make it more functional for your particular installation.

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