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Trading in the daily grind and living a life of financial independence is simpler to do than you might think. With this new model for real estate investing success, you can transform the way you think about investing and set your course towards financial independence. Finally, you can have the time, money, and peace of mind to leave the rat-race behind and live the life you have always dreamed of living. This could be the last real estate investing book you will ever need. You will discover how to: **Turn inexpensive houses into virtual money-machines that consistently churn out returns of over 400%! **Transform a small nest-egg into several hundred thousand dollars of equity in as little as 24 months part time! **Generate large up-front payments from your tenants that you can use to purchase more properties! **Negotiate leases where your tenants willingly accept the majority of responsibility for upkeep and repairs! **Build competition among prospective tenants and have them clamoring to pay you above market rents! **Sidestep the risks and hassles of landlording and put your investing on autopilot! Apply these simple, proven techniques to create your own virtual money-machine that generates income for you and your family 24/7.
Gary Keller, New York Times Best-Selling Author, "The Millionaire Real Estate Agent" and Co-Founder, Keller Williams Realty International
John . . . You Rock! In reviewing [your book] I think it definitely can be of true help to anyone serious about wealth building!
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An absolute "must-read" for any prospective real estate investor.......2007-09-06
Real estate broker, licensing instructor, and investor John A. Michailidis presents Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth Buying Houses: The Foolproof Roadmap to Real Estate Riches Without the Risks and Hassles of Landlording, a straight-talk guide to amassing a personal fortune through real estate assets. Defining wealth as "automatic income streams that are independent of your personal labor, and that are sufficient to maintain your chosen individual lifestyle indefinitely," Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth Buying Houses proves especially valuable to readers who are relatively new to real estate. While buying properties with intent to turn them around and resell them - "flipping" - is covered, Michailidis stresses that this form of real estate investment requires expert-level knowledge of local market conditions, and that and ordinary people can easily get burned. Instead, the primary focus is on how to acquire properties and use them to generate revenue streams through renting, or better yet, rent-to-own arrangements. Houses are recommended for beginners since they tend to attract more stable and reliable tenants than apartments. Chapters cover the economics of single-family houses, the right way to present offers, how to attract quality tenants, proven negotiation tactics, and much more. An absolute "must-read" for any prospective real estate investor, as well as anyone who dreams of becoming financially successful and secure.
Begining Real Estate Investor? Read This Book First.......2007-08-08
This is an excellent book for beginning - and even seasoned - investors.
I've been a real estate broker for 29 years and know a thing or two about real estate investing. I try to keep abreast of all new books that come out on the subject.
Most real estate books are complicated, full of formulas and lots of theory. Some are so dull you can't get through the first couple of chapters. The author of this book writes in a very easy-to-read, conversational style.
I found the investing method in this book to be sound and easy to implement. It's not about making a million bucks in a couple of months like so many other books on the market today. It's a very safe, low- risk system that can slowly but surely lead to wealth. In my opinion it is a great way to invest a portion of one's IRA or pension plan - in real estate instead of just stocks.
If you are new to the world of real estate investing, I would certainly recommend making this your first book on the subject.
Simple explanation of a daunting process.......2007-07-25
I read this book cover to cover in a single day. I could not put it down.
Author takes a difficult process and makes it so incredibly simple. Obviously there is homework involved, but even that is laid out for you in an easy to follow process. I can see real evidence of the author's e-myth style of setting up process and making the system do the work for you.
If you are looking to start investing in real estate, like we are, this is both the push we needed to jump in and the safety net of someone else's experience rolled into one.
Very well written, easy read.......still found some shortcomings.......2007-07-20
Don't let my title fool you, i thoroughly enjoyed this book in fact, i usually never write these reviews but felt i should share this with others as I've read every review before purchasing the book.
This is a very "easy" read, probably the fastest book that i remember completing. I loved how the author got very detailed into how to conduct the transaction from beginning to end. The only issue i found was that I personally do not live in an area where a "nice home in a nice neighborhood" costs under 200K. I didn't see the author provide any direction to this issue if this was the case for the investor. I also had a hard time navigating the website they mentioned at the end of the book and couldn't find how to order the forms from the CD online.
Still a great book and a must read !!!
Great book for beginning investor, without the fluff!.......2007-07-17
This book was so interesting I could not put it down! Everything one needs to lease purchase property. The author speaks in great detail without confusing you and not over your head. Enjoyed it immensely.
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Endless Prospects gives salespeople 301 proven tips and strategies for prospecting, marketing, and increasing their business. Weylman shows frustrated marketers how to open closed doors, approach the right people in the right way, and reach those customers who are potentially the most valuable prospects for their company. Combining proven business values with shrewd marketing and prospecting tactics, Weylman's easy-to-apply strategies will help sales reps focus, position, and increase their visibility--and ultimately lead to increased sales, access and new business.
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A Compendium of Prospecting Ideas.......2006-06-21
As Weylman puts it "successful selling starts with successful prospecting." This book has remained a well-used resource for generating ideas for successful prospecting for my clients and for myself. With over 300 (well, 301) specific ideas for identifying, generating, cultivating and maintaining prospects, this book could be overwhelming and unapproachable. However, Weylman has organized these ideas in six articulate sections and 18 thoughtful strategies that allow the reader to understand the theory behind the ideas and thus shape them to best advantage in specific situations.
I highly recommend this book to people who need a solid "block and tackle" approach to filling up the sales pipeline.
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As the new economy continues to emerge from the rubble created by the dot-com disaster and the events of September 11, 2001, re-insurers, carriers, and agencies, along with the five million people working in the insurance industry, are scrambling to redefine their place in the market and return to prosperity. Hard Market Selling: Thriving in the New Insurance Era provides them with the tools to do so.
Hard Market Selling guides each reader down a path of self-discovery and performance improvement. Starting with a state-of-the-industry: what's right, what's wrong, what needs to change, and how the changes will effect the market, the reader is challenged to cast aside traditional, "legacy" presumptions, historical performance benchmarks, and antiquated selling styles and replace them with an innovative, relationship-driven client development and service strategy that promotes value delivery, integrity, and partnership.
Novel as this approach will appear, it's based on ten years of functional, hands-on field experience. Hard Market Selling is not another "how to" book about the process of selling and servicing products. There are already plenty of those, and none of them effectively weigh in with any remedies for the real-life, day-to-day struggles of the professionals in the insurance industry.
Hard Market Selling brings methods and motivation together in the context of the down-to-earth reality experienced by the average producer, underwriter, account executive, agency principal, and customer service representative. It is an insider's guide for survival and achievement within an industry that is rapidly redefining itself.
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Excellent Book and Concepts.......2007-02-18
In 2005, I had the good fortune to meet Scott Primiano and begin an incredible journey - both personally and professionally. For our business (a risk management consulting company), Hard Market Selling has transformed the way we do business... It showed us how to properly develop referral opportunities and cross sell. It described a structured and logical approach to delivering Value Added Services, and brought us the ability of "Priority Management," so that we were spending our time on what is titled as "High Payoff Activities." However, the results speak for themselves. As a company we increased our sales by 250%, and we're on our way to similar growth in the years to come. We are grateful to the jewels found in Scott's book and approach to developing companies. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Steve Thompson
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Simply Excellent.......2003-12-01
Hard Market Selling is a must read for anybody in the Insurance Industry. By far the best book that I have ever read regarding the ins and outs of selling and servicing a book of business. Scott knows his stuff! The book is very specific and offers usable tools, techniques, and strategies for production, differentiation, retention, and providing value.
Finally - a book on selling that works!.......2003-11-21
I've read so many sales and service books before - none have been as good and as useful. Hard Market Selling is making me a better producer and a better person. Thanks Scott!
It's about time.......2003-11-09
It's about time someone wrote a DEFINITIVE book on sellng Porperty and Casualty Insurance in a tough marketplace.
But hard or soft market aside, Hard Market Selling is a "MUST" book to read, hold, refer to and distribute to anyone in the sales business.
We've referred it to our 2500+ insurance agency force...and will keep on doing so, no matter the difficulty of the marketplace.
It is purely and simply the best book I've ever read on selling in our industry...or any other for that matter.
Customer Reviews:
Don't waste your time with this.......2007-03-10
Being an insurance sales professional I am always looking for anything that will give that edge to increase sales. With today's advent of no-call plus competition from banks and other agencies "peddling policies" us real agents must strive harder in order to compete.
However this book offers no help at all. It is a scant 63 pages total with only 52 of that being the book itself. Even then the type is large, the margins overly generous and most of the backside pages are blank. It is in effect 27 one page chapters on the most basic of tips.
Chapters include: Form relationships built on trust, hold meaningful meetings, diversify, get help when you need it, prepare for objections, etc.
If you have read any sales book in the last 20 years you will find Nothing new here.
I bought my copy used for 3 bucks and even then it was a ripoff.
If you want some real guidance go with Ben Feldman, John Savage, Sid Friedman, or the Kinder Brothers, not to forget Frank Bettger.
This one is a waste. Good success selling.
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This audio CD contains information about marketing in real estate today. This is relevant information that can help many people struggling in this market. It also contains a 30-minute interview with a master marketer detailing how to make today. Most salespeople and brokers are struggling and this CDROM is the answer. Discussed are marketing, real estate strategies and just how to go "back to the essentials" in this hard real estate market.
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The classical econometric approach to modelling has been to specify a model up to a finite-dimensional parameter vector, and estimation and testing techniques have been widely used on these finite-dimensional parameter spaces. In the last fifteen years or so however, new methods have been developed to allow more flexible models which utilise infinite-dimensional parameters. Simultaneously, methods of moments estimation have also become more widely used and applied. In this book, the author provides a survey of these modern techniques and how they are applied to limited dependent variable (LDV) models. As well as covering many classical approaches, the topics covered include: instrumental variable estimation, the generalized method of moments, extremum estimators, methods of simulated moments, minimum distance estimation, nonparametric density and regression function estimation, and semiparametric methods for LDV. As a result, many graduate students and research workers will appreciate this up-to-date account. An appendix describes the use of the software package GAUSS to implement these methods in conjunction with some real data sets.
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A Modern Counterpart of the Maddala's Book.......1999-08-24
Ph.D students and researchers in applied microeconomics will enjoy this book, because this book is, to my knowledge, the first reasonably coherent and complete overview of semi-(non)parametric microeconometrics.
translated from Kwantitatieve Methoden 55, 1997 May.
a useful book for an otherwise daunting field.......1998-09-04
The book does a very good job of surveying the literature on semiparametric methods for modeling choice. This is an important field, and is not well covered in other textbooks. Of course the book requires some sophistication on the part of the user, namely a graduate level backround in econometrics.
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This book provides a comprehensive account of the theoretical structures, database, computation and application of ORANI-INT. ORANI-INT is a multi-period elaboration of ORANI, a well-known computable general equilibrium model of the Australian economy.The implications of assuming that expectations are model consistent are contrasted with those of the alternative assumption that expectations are static. A generic algorithm for solving a wide range of economic models is described in detail. The algorithm is portable because it is implemented in GEMPACK, a commercially available software package. The major application reported in the book addresses the issue whether tariff reform policies should be announced ahead of their implementation. Many of the multisectoral models used throughout the world are static. The methodology presented in the book demonstrates that such models can be easily embedded into an intertemporal framework.
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A GREAT book about friendship!.......2004-04-04
I LOVED this book! It was funny, heart-warming and refreshing. I couldn't put it down. I loaned it to a friend who read it cover to cover and returned it in less than a week!
Becky Freeman is a REAL mom with lots of stories to share that every woman can relate to and laugh with. She has a wonderful sense of humor about herself and her hilarious situations. Yet, she is inspiring in many ways. This is the fourth book I have read from this author and I am collecting as many as I can--as fast as I can!
I agree, too much name dropping.......2003-07-27
While this book has some good recipes and quotes, the stories that Freeman tells of her friends are not what I was looking for. It would be interesting to read about different types of friendships, not one woman's account of going to the movies with so-and-so and every detail that happened. I was disappointed.
Delectable Friendship.......2002-07-26
COFFEE CUP FRIENDSHIP AND CHEESECAKE FUN
I had never liked coffee or cheesecake until it was served up with fanciful flair by gourmet
humorist Becky Freeman in her delightful book Coffee Cup Friendship and Cheesecake Fun.
Without the calories or caffeine, Freeman captures the sweetness and stimulation that only a
good, strong friendship affords. This queen of Christian comedy always has something
delicious perking in sometimes silly, often sensitive true vignettes, where her own life usually
becomes material for jesting. With humility and vulnerability Becky laughs at herself, and we
laugh with her, and just maybe as a result, gather courage to laugh at ourselves. Most of all,
Becky gives us the gift of learning how to cultivate camaraderie with our friends, loving each
other through thick and thin. This book is chocked full of recipes for fruitful friendships, ripe
with hilarity, tears, encouragement, challenge, and joy. It also contains scrumptious dessert
and dinner recipes guaranteed to please the palate. No doubt the pleasure will be all yours as
you pull up a chair, pour a cup of coffee, slice a piece of cheesecake, and devour the insights
of this delectable book!
-Lynn D. Morrissey, author & speaker
Friendship at it's funniest!.......2001-12-21
Becky's book is such a wonderful combination of wit, wisdom and wonder. After laughing my way through this quick read, I realized that it's Okay to have different kinds of friends for different seasons of life and different activities. This book is worth the price of admission.
Friendship at it's funniest!.......2001-12-21
Becky's books is such a wonderful combination of wit, wisdom and wonder. After laughing my way through this quick read, I realized that it's Okay to have different kinds of friends for different seasons of life and different activities. This book is worth the price of admission.
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It’s the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels beyond his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighborhood in New York City. Between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighborhood.
With its cast of unforgettable characters, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue is a comedy of cultures, of the old and the new. It’s about struggling to hold on to life in a rapidly changing world, about food and sex, and about how our lives are shaped by love and guilt.
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In his eagerly awaited debut novel, critically acclaimed author Mark Kurlansky entertains readers with a brilliant story bursting with the vivid events and culinary delights–even recipes–that made bestsellers out of his nonfiction works Cod, Salt, and 1968.
Nathan woke up on a Friday morning with the unshakable sense that during this day he would commit a catastrophic error in judgment. Something had been written by the gods, and Nathan Seltzer knew this was one Friday that he would regret.…
It’s the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels beyond his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighborhood. Between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighborhood.
With its cast of unforgettable characters, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue is a comedy of cultures, of the old and the new, of Latinos, Jews, Sicilians, and Germans. It’s about struggling to hold on to life in a rapidly changing world, about food and sex, and about how our lives are shaped by love and guilt.
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Cultural kaleidoscope of a neighborhood caught on the cusp of conversion.......2007-08-22
Mark Kurlansky, author of best-selling non-fiction niche histories about Cod, Oysters, and Salt, tackled this fiction work, that integrates his Lower East Side upbringing and love of pastry, early on in his career. My version was an audio rendition, narrated by a Broadway actor whose name I can't recall, who really provided color and atmosphere to the reading.
The story revolves around a middle-aged Jewish man and his family, who have lived in the neighborhood for several generations. It's hard to say exactly what the plot is; as I reflect on it, it seems mostly to deal with the man's guilt-ridden affair with a German baker's daughter. Also prevalent, plot-wise, are: a dilemma about selling the family business as the neighborhood grows and becomes more expensive; the travails of a Dominican (or is it Puerto Rican?) trying to get out of the drug business; a murderer stalking the local ATM machines; an uncle's search for the German baker's nazi past; and more.
I was impressed with Kurlansky's intimate knowledge about the neighborhood's ethnic cultures and characters, many of whom must have been far removed from his own American/European background. I lived in the neighborhood during the same period, and he brought forth here vivid details about people who I saw but interacted with only superficially. This seems to me to be the triumph of this book: its wonderland mix of ethnicity, whose unique apsects Kurlansky makes vivid. Stamaty's chaotic cover really nails this aspect of book, and the virtuoso narrator's uncanny & subtle characterizations in the audio version make it a listerner's delight.
Unfortunately, this may be the book's downfall too, as there are so many characters that I became confused... and with all the plot lines, the book loses any natural trajectory it might have had if Kurlansky had focused on fewer characters and plots. I might not have finished the book had I not gotten the audio version. Still, I enjoyed it, thought it illuminating and interesting, and certainly an accurate and heartfelt portrayal of a neighborhood that has, sadly, greatly changed since the 1980s.
is that a way to talk?.......2007-05-08
a book for New Yorkers - if you're from there, currently living there, once lived there, you will recognize the territory. Otherwise it will all be Greek to you (pastries aside)
the writing is uneven, sometimes annoying, at times poignant. needed more time in the oven.
Lots of laughs.......2007-04-08
I listened to this book on CD while driving, and I was often laughing out loud at some of the language and characterizations. Unlike one of the publishd reviewers, I found enough story to keep me attentive; and even if I hadn't, the characters, the talk, the absurdities were worth listening through all 11 CDs. I miss the neighborhood already....
Delicious Slice of New York.......2006-01-28
I read this book and was pleased to find a fantastic jumble of characters, philosophies, and pathos. Each character, even the "bad" ones, is treated humanely by the author. The last moment of the simpatico culture of this New York neighborhood in the late 1980's is captured joyfully.
An incredibly sweet novel (in a very good sense).......2006-01-08
On at least three occasions during my reading of this novel, I found myself in tears. Not from sadness, but from joy at the beauty of Kurlansky's writing. I can't really explain this reaction, except to say that it is a perfect depiction of Manhattan's lower east side, and its inhabitants, at the end of its role as the melting pot of immigrant culture, and the beginning of what it is today- the melting pot of American yuppy transplant culture.
The time frame of this novel is the late Reagan period, when drug sales were an engine of economic development for many striving Caribbean immigrants, and something affecting the previous generation of Jewish immigrants' scions. But this is merely one aspect of this multi-faceted mini-saga. Ultimately, this is, in the Seinfeldian sense, a novel about "nothing". But it's a vastly entertaining and engrossing "nothing".
Not being conversant with Kurlansky's other works, I was slightly shocked at his post-conclusion chapter of recipes for dishes mentioned in the plot. I would normally avoid food-themed novels like the plague. However this one could work with or without the recipes or the loving (and lustful) depictions of pastry-making in the "plot". Foodies can consider this aspect as a lagniappe- non-foodies can stop there, and not miss a thing.
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Few events during that whirlwind of movements, conflicts and upheaval known as "the sixties" took Americans more by surprise, or were more likely to inspire their rage, than the rebellion of those who were young, white and college educated. Perhaps none have been more maligned or misunderstood since. In A Fiction of the Past, Dominick Cavallo pushes past the contemporary fog of myth, cold disdain and warm nostalgia that shrouds the radical youth culture of the sixties. He explores how the furiously chaotic sixties sprang from the comparatively placid forties and fifites. The book digs beyond the post-World War II decades and seeks the historical sources of the youth culture in the distant American past. Cavallo shows how the sixties' most radical ideas and values were deeply etched in the American soul.
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Must reading for Rockers, Republicans and Theater Critics.......1999-06-19
Come one, come all and see before your very eyes how the 60s lives, once again! This book is for anyone who either missed or misunderstood the origins of discontent that led to the radical 60s in America.
This book is not heavy reading. Cavallo masterfully locates the roots of American counterculture in 1950's child-rearing and popular culture as well as specific historical movements of the late 18th and the 19th century that made this brand of radicalism clearly American. Cavallo begins with an examination of popular child-rearing practices that he terms "the cult of security." The "cult of security" is, in part, a blend of post World War II parental determination to build character in their children based on a love of independence and fierce determination to succeed. This was a mid 20th century secular version of the 19th century Protestant struggle with individual "free will" and the external constraints of God's Kingdom here on earth. But what has this to do with social, cultural and political rebellion in the 1960s?
Cavallo points out that in order to rebel against traditional forms of authority (SDS), to reconsider the structure and functions of the family (communes), and to reject mainstream art and music (rock & roll and street theater) is not to be accomplished by the faint of heart. For this kind of self-disolving and self evolving activity, character formation in childhood and early adolescence requires a blend of parental love, a demand for independent thinking and a fierce determination to achieve success. This is the stuff of strong ego formation-the glue that cemented a rebellious spirit to the harsh demands of emotional and physical participation in social unrest. Even that icon of moral childhood socialization, Walt Disney, reinforced this emerging independent spirit through none other than Jimminy Cricket who exhorted all children whao were watching to "always let your conscience be your guide." Some cartoon, heh. Ironically, while parents never wavered in their determination to provide updated soldiers for capitalism harnessing their children's independent spirit to hard work ala Bill Gates, what they got instead was sex, drugs and rock & roll in the persons of Timothy Leary, Jimmy Hendrix and Jerry Rubin! Trust Cavallo on this one, this was not what mom and pop had in mind.
Cavallo's deft touch weaves together a tapestry of popular imagery from Parents Magazine, television's Marlboro Man and non-fiction from the Organization man to The Female Eunuch to disclose the soul of a new American manhood and feminism-- a transition from "McCarthyism" to the underbelly of "Camelot," 60s radicalism. Where other writers serve up moral platitudes and half baked opinions tagging 60s radicalism as naive, bizarre or a communist plot, Cavallo sheds light on how close the rebellion of youth was to mainstream values and cultural antecedents in the late 18th and the 19th century.
Cavallo, for example, links rock & roll and street theater to mainstream values of hard work and professionalism. This synthesis would have even been tough for G.W. Hegel, but Cavallo succeeds nevertheless. In fascinating chapters that read like a tour guide, Cavallo takes us on a "trip" down a San Francisco street where we encounter the "Diggers," the pied pipers of street theater and street games. Stopping traffic, they hold up a big picture frame right in front of you to provide you with a "new frame of reference." Or walk with Cavallo into one of the Diggers "free" stores in Haight Asbury where, by definition, stealing is impossible. By the time that Abby Hoffman would write, "Steal This Book," the Diggers had already "been there, done that" nearly a decade before. In fact, these Shakespeare of the streets according to Cavallo, were even branded as too weird and excluded by more practical political rebels like the SDS. Did he say "practical"?
Cavallo reserves his best insight for the chapter on Rock & Work. Unlike their popular image that Rockers are self indulgent, irresponsible, and morally bankrupt, Cavallo lets us in on a little secret through the personal letters of rock stars and through media interviews-Rockers worked hard, took pride in their work as professionals and fought for artistic integrity often at the expense of fame and moolah. Hard work and integrity truly lied center stage in 60s Rock & Roll exemplified by rock stars such as Janis Joplin. Joplin masked her middle class determination to be the best female blues vocalist through a regimen of hard work with a boosey-bluesy radical political interpretation of down-home Texas blues. Cavallo demonstrates that it was not only about hard work and professionalism. It was also control about who would control their own music and how to protect it from homogenization by the Robber Barons of the music industry at firms like Capital records. Cavallo examines these struggles through (among others)bios of rockers Neil Young and Bob Dylan--clearly rebels with a cause. But that's not all. Through other bios Cavallo gives us a glimpse of what really went on in the recording studios; continuing to emphasize the brutally hard won independence from musical commercialism through the eyes of Frank Zappa, Gerry Garcia and many other stars.
There's more to come from Cavallo, however, who constantly takes time-out from his 60s tour-de-force to remind us of historical context embedding this decade in the political and social movements of the two preceding centuries. Turning to the origins of radical 60s political thought, Cavallo takes us back to the Constitutional radicals of yesteryear, the Anti Federalists, recovering their debate about the meaning of democracy and the evil inherent in the centralization of power in national government and placing SDS thought and practice smack in the middle. The American version of communal living and independent free will like all forms of life began in the water, in this case the waters of Walden Pond embodied in the social experiments of Emerson and Thoreau. Then there was the fashion statement of the 60s "do your own thing" ( if you recall, it wasn't always pretty and it didn't always smell so good). Appropriating the dress of the 19th century frontier-a combination of cowboys and Indians-from boots and stove-pipe Jeans to long-hair, headbands and fringed leather jackets, 60s radical chic came more from Tombstone than from the English dandies of Barnaby Street. Once again making sense out of nonsense to further support the origins of the frontier fashion statement, Cavallo cleverly merges history with the 1950s western craze that swept television from Gunsmoke to Bonanza. Even the TV show the Untouchables was a western with Italians replacing the Indians and dressing weird too. If ever there was validation that "clothes makes the man" putting on the outfit of a 19th century gunfighter (without the gun) produced a feeling of rugged individualism and rule by conscience the very spirit of 1960s radicalism.
Finally, through the use of biography of 1960s activists, Cavallo explores the many contradictions that riddled 60s radicalism. For example, contrasting the struggle for male independence from the suffocating grip of a "straight" corporate career with their inability to see and to treat women's struggles for independence from men as equally important. Nowhere is the conflict of machismo and feminism more evident than in the mini-biography of Digger Emmett Grogan who befriended an Indian, left San Francisco and wandered off into the wilderness to commune with nature and to get back to his primitive self. While seeking to be the new man, Grogan consistently mistreated his girlfriend limiting her "new" experience to part-time maid and concubine, ultimately shedding her when she no longer suited his needs. In Grogan's quest for purity of purpose, he frequently overlooked the impact of his own behavior on others as he morphed himself into his new, radical desocialized self. Cavallo introduces us to other ultra weirdoes like Grogan's fellow Digger, Peter Coyote, but let me not spill all the beans. Buy this book, Grogan's big adventure alone is worth the price
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 945 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: A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History. (book review)
Author: Nelson Ouellet
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Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
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Modern Cable Television Technology, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)
ASIN: 0133063828 |
Book Description
Since January of 1993, specific tests have been mandated by the FCC to maintain minimum quality levels. This practical, easy-to-read handbook helps cable television technicians and engineers keep up with system growth and technology advances by explaining how cable operators should make the tests required to comply with the new FCC 76.605 regulations, and by providing a complete introduction to the optimum use of spectrum analyzers. Updated to include the new FCC 76.605 regulations. Covers TV signal and CATV distribution; measurement parameters; test instrumentation; performance measurements with signal analysis; noise measurements with the spectrum analyzer; antennas for radiation measurements; and AC power supplies for field testing. For all engineers and technicians in the Cable Television industry responsible for maintaining and conducting tests of systems. Previously announced in the 9/94 PTR Catalog.
Customer Reviews:
Everything any CATV tech or eng will need for testing........2001-10-21
Thoroughly described and perfectly organized, this book encompasses from the basics power-level measurements to those complex distortion calculations. A must have for the Engineering Department at any cable TV company.
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive guide to the usage and syntax of the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS). Two major BPEL4WS servers, the Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 are covered in detail, and an overview of other major BPEL4WS servers is provided. The book contains practical examples on using BPEL4WS.
Web services provide the core functionality for distributed e-business applications using SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. These building blocks can then be orchestrated into a complete business process using BPEL4WS.
Web services provide the basic technical platform required for application interoperability. They do not, however, provide higher level control, such as which web services need to be invoked, which operations should be called and in what sequence. Nor do they provide ways to describe the semantics of interfaces, the workflows, or e-business processes. BPEL is the missing link to assemble and integrate web services into a real business process
BPEL4WS standardizes process automation between web services. This applies both within the enterprise, where BPEL4WS is used to integrate previously isolated systems, and between enterprises, where BPEL4WS enables easier and more effective integration with business partners.
In providing a standard descriptive structure BPEL4WS enables enterprises to define their business processes during the design phase. Wider business benefits can flow from this through business process optimization, reengineering, and the selection of most appropriate processes.
Supported by major vendors — including BEA, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, SAP, Sun, and others — BPEL4WS is becoming the accepted standard for business process management.
This book provides detailed coverage of BPEL4WS, its syntax, and where, and how, it is used. It begins with an overview of web services, showing both the foundation of, and need for, BPEL. The web services orchestration stack is explained, including standards such as WS-Security, WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction, WS-Addressing, and others. The BPEL language itself is explained in detail, with Code snippets and complete examples illustrating both its syntax and typical construction. Having covered BPEL itself, the book then goes on to show BPEL is used in context. by providing an overview of major BPEL4WS servers. It covers the Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 in detail, and shows how to write BPEL4WS solutions using these servers.
Customer Reviews:
Could be a great book.......2007-05-30
This is a good book for those seeking an initial view of process and BPEL. The book covers the basics of BPEL profile 1.1, and until chapter 4 is a good resource of information. I don't like books that binds the technology to an specific implementation, and that's the case of the book after chapter 4, it binds examples to Oracle BPEL process servers (which I've already used in production and find it a poor implementation) and Microsoft Biz Talk (never used it). It would be much better if more real world examples could be provided instead of specific providers mechanisms for deploying, creating etc. This should be a readers choice, and the product manuals take care of that. I'm a great fan of the author, have read many of his books, this one had everything to be on my top shell, but, if only there was no more chapters after the 4th.
Just my 2 cents.
BPEL just may be the future of business data communications.......2006-03-29
There have been an entire bowl of alphabet soup regarding various kinds of distributed processing systems. All of them, in their time, achieved a certain level of usage. None of them has done much to change the basic way we do business communications. That may be changing.
The development of the internet from a little system to exchange technical papers to a worldwide set of sites, all speaking internet protocol, have generated the expansion of broadband services all across the world from New York City to small towns in the third world. The basic ability of an individual to seek information has subsequently been expanded with XML so that information can be exchanged between computers of different types with different operating systems easily and without having to understand the characteristics of the computer at the other end. XML is a very open standard and it has some weaknesses. Enter BPEL to establish a set of standards, some common ways of doing things, and a generally more organized approach.
BPEL servers have been developed by, and there are URLs to: Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, BEA, Sun and at least four open-source implementations.
While this is a beginners book in so far as BPEL is concerned, it is presumed that the reader has some experience with XML, web services, and some kind of web services developent system such as J2EE or .NET.
A response from Packt Publishing.......2006-01-21
This is a response from the Publisher, Packt, in reply to the two reviews below...
The code examples in the book have been written for the Oracle BPEL Process Manager version 2.x, which has been one of the few working BPEL engines at that time (2004, former Collaxa engine). In the mean time, Oracle BPEL Process Manager has been upgraded to version 10.1.2 and code examples required some minor modifications. New code examples have been available from the publisher's web site (www.packtpub.com). If Oracle BPEL Process manager is installed appropriately, code examples definitely work.
Please notice that the 2nd Edition of the book is about to be published in January 2006. The 2nd Edition has been improved, particularly with the introduction of SOA and BPEL, and coverage of advanced features of Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Microsoft BizTalk.
This answers the complaints in the last two customer reviews, thank you.
Packt Publishing
book needs a revision........2006-01-17
This book introduces bpel using oracle bpel engine beyond that this book fall short of introducing the bigger picture in terms of soa. the book also needs a revision. this book also suffers too much repetition and poor editing.
Good Intro to BPEL - Poor examples.......2006-01-02
The book really did a good job about introducing the BPEL Spec..saves much of your time from Google. Beyond that, the examples using Oracle BPEL Engine are poorly written and too confusing. After the first 3 chapters, the book chapters stretches in different directions and I doubt the editors/authors did a final review together. The code examples are not working ! This means ..I regret to say 60% of book is not worth reading.
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