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Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism During the Basf Lockout (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
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Timothy J. Minchin studies one of the longest labor disputes in American history, a lockout involving the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers' International Union and BASF, a German-based chemical manufacturer. The dispute ran from 1984 to 1989 at the BASF plant in Geismar, Louisiana, and was resolved only after the union applied an unusual strategy of alliance with environmentalists in order to bring pressure against the company from several directions at once. Minchin examines the range of innovative tactics applied by the union, from joining with Greenpeace on a "Toxic March" through Louisiana to raising concerns about possible links between plant emissions and residents' health problems, especially the state's high cancer rate. He also documents how the union used workers' awareness of past environmental practices to disrupt the company's efforts to expand operations at the site.
Minchin's research challenges the prevailing notion that unions and environmental groups have conflicting interests. He demonstrates how the workers' alliance with environmentalists led to a lasting transformation in the way that both groups view environmental issues, and he documents subsequent union involvement in a variety of environmental projects. Minchin also proves that the 1980s were not exclusively an era of defeat and decline for U.S. unions--that they could still win disputes, especially by reaching out to new allies.
Drawing on previously unseen union and company records, supplemented by interviews with a variety of both union and company members, Minchin's account is remarkable for its balanace, lively insight, and accessibility. In tracing the five-year contest between OCAW and BASF, he documents the reversal of a cultural stereotype of passive southern labor in a case where it successfully struck back against a giant multinational corporation and even took the battle to the corporate headquarters in West Germany and reached out to unions in Europe.
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Foodservice Cost Control Using Microsoft(r) Excel(r) for Windows
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More than just the core concepts...Helps students learn to think critically and make informed management decisions
This remarkable text/workbook/template package quickly gets students up and running with a solid working knowledge of all essential foodservice cost control concepts. More importantly, by supplying dozens of hands-on spreadsheet applications that require students to manipulate and analyze cost control data from every phase of a foodservice operation, it helps aspiring professionals learn to think critically and make informed management decisions. Assuming little or no prior experience with Microsoft(r) Excel(r), this versatile package was also designed to help hospitality and foodservice management students master the basics of this indispensable tool of the trade, quickly and painlessly.
An ideal supplement to any foodservice cost control textbook.
- Lessons cover everything from income statements and storeroom cost control, to recipe/portion cost analysis and menu engineering.
- Each lesson includes complete instructions for executing the Microsoft(r) Excel(r) applications necessary for the cost control topics presented.
- Hands-on spreadsheet applications help students learn to think like professionals and make informed management decisions.
- Exercises are arranged around two highly realistic restaurant scenarios
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A real dissapointment.......1997-01-31
Foodservice Cost Control using Microsoft Excel was a real disappointment. The first few chapters led me to believe that the entire book was structured as a tutorial with a lesson in the beginning and spread sheet examples at the end. The was true for several chapters but fell through in chapters 6 and 7.
Another major shortfall is that rather than generating new Microsoft Spreadsheet it appears that they simply copied the original spread sheets from the precursor of the is book (Foodservice Cost Control with Lotus 123, for the DOS version of Lotus) and converted them to DOS style sheets with no Windows formatting.
The content of the book is very good but the editing and conversion over to a Excel version is very disappointing. For an almost $50 softcover book I think they could have spent a little more time!
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Using Computers in Hospitality
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Provides a clear, no-nonsense introduction to understanding where, how and why computers are used in the hotel and catering industries. The book explains the workings of the hardware, the software and the systems, and places theory in context through the use of examples and case studies from leading European and global hospitality organizations.
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Using Computers in Hospitality provides a clear, no-nonsense introduction to understanding where, how and why computers are used in the hotel, catering and leisure industries. The text explains the workings of the hardware, the software and the systems, and places theory in context through the use of examples and case studies from leading global hospitality organisations. This new edition has been completely rewritten and updated to reflect the latest trends in this rapidly evolving field. The book is packed with mini case studies, exercises and discussion questions and is an ideal text for students of hotel, catering, and hospitality management.
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The Worst of Truly Tasteless Jokes
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Trash.......1998-03-24
Remember when you were a kid and some other kid would tell you a joke about dead monkeys falling out of trees? Did you find that funny? If yes then this book is definately for you. If not then you now have an understanding of what you are getting yourself into if you waste the bucks of this peice of junk.
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This handy booklet includes 120 of the most commonly used chords, as well as information on chord theory and easy-reference diagrams.
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As Advertised...........2007-03-16
A poster with chords on it. If you hang it on your wall, you will be able to see the fingering for chords. Then you can play them and people nearby might even dance.
Limited usage.......2007-01-18
I was hoping to get a quick reference to different chords I encounter in worship music, but this seamed to only have the basic chords and not the "non-normal" chords that are often used in music now days.
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Providing solutions to problems all scholarly journals share.......2004-11-08
Translated from the French by Maureen Ranson, Scholarly Journals In The New Digital World provides an important survey of the major challenges facing scholarly and nonprofit journals at the start of this new century. If they are to survive, their publishers are faced with making fundamental changes in distribution and creation: Scholarly Journals In The New Digital World charts the choices, the changes already underway, and how these early innovators are providing solutions to problems all scholarly journals share. Essential reading.
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Behind the flashy glitz of the ever-changing Internet and its promise of a brave new media, disturbing facts persist:
* Media mergers are rapidly creating one huge news cartel, with just five conglomerates now close to controlling most of what you see, hear and read. * These mergers further corrupt the news process by creating new conflicts of interest for journalists. * Mergers have forced many news organizations to go public, allowing Wall Street to demand higher profits every quarter. * This pressure to maximize profits is forcing news organizations to cut down on serious coverage of Washington and the rest of the world.
The result is drive-by journalism, an emphasis on entertaining people for quick profits rather than informing them for a stronger democracy. Serious journalism is being replaced by a newsamuse business that is causing widespread ignorance of public affairs and record voter apathy.
This allows elected officials to favor wealthy private interests that pay most of their campaign costs. Public demands (through polls) for reforms in campaign financing, health care, gun laws, tax policies, etc., are not answered.
Drive-by journalism has fostered widespread trashing of government, the destruction of politicians on unprovable charges, the shaping of politics to media needs and the swapping of political news for political ads. It also leads to exploitation of the First Amendment for commercial purposes, lets advertisers and publicists shape the news and tilts the media even further toward the privileged few.
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Wall Street Conquers the Fourth Estate.......2001-06-11
In Drive-by Journalism, Arthur Rowse makes a convincing case that a lack of reliable news is crippling American democracy.
As a result of deregulation of the news and entertainment industries, a steady series of corporate mergers has concentrated the media into a five-firm oligopoly of unprecedented power. We may think we have a lot of channels to choose from, but they all come from the same handful of sources, all of which are more interested in satisfying corporate investors than in producing an informed electorate. Rather than compete, the media conglomerates collude like mafia bosses, divvying up the available markets, using every available second of air time to sell us products, services, and a consumer lifestyle. This does not speak well to the likelihood of our getting trustworthy news.
Rowse deftly slaps down the ridiculous yet pervasive myth that the mass media are liberally biased and demonstrates conclusively that quite the opposite is true. Although many reporters have liberal tendencies, they are not the ones who determine which stories get reported. News networks have become lap dogs for their parent companies, and these media giants are as conservative as they are powerful. Moreover, they respond to advertisers, not the viewing public. NBC, for example, wouldn't dream of reporting on General Electric, the most notorious polluter in the nation, because GE is now NBC's parent company. The same is true of ABC and Disney, CBS and Westinghouse. In fact, every major network is now owned by the biggest advertisers in the nation. Don't think that isn't affecting what gets reported on the 6 o'clock news.....
According to Rowse, about 40% of what we see on the news these days is not even the product of investigative journalism; it is pre-packaged propaganda "donated" to the networks by political and corporate public relations firms. By accepting these gracious handouts, the networks can reduce the number of expensive journalists they employ. The result, of course, is that networks no longer investigate; they merely serve as conduits through which powerful organizations deliver their pre-fab images to the public.
Perhaps Rowse’s most frightening point is the link he makes between poor news reporting and citizen apathy. With nothing but info-tainment and scandal stories on the news, Americans have no viable means to choose between one candidate and another, between one policy and another. So they don’t bother. With voters thus sidelined, well-funded corporate lobbyists have the undivided attention of our lawmakers, whom they outnumber 40 to 1.
This book is well-documented, well-organized, well-written, and vitally important in our times. Better still, it’s truly interesting. Rowse provides fascinating insider anecdotes that bring all his statistics to life. Very highly recommended.
Should be on the shelves of every community library.......2001-02-09
In Drive-By Journalism: The Assault On Your Need To Know, Arthur Rowse sets for a compelling and persuasive argument that we are being lulled into political and social apathy by the steady beat of media produced "news-amuse" journalism. Rowse points out that media mergers are rapidly creating a huge news cartel with just five conglomerates controlling what most people see, read and hear in television news broadcasts and major urban center newspapers. Profit-at-all-costs pressures have created a kind of "drive-by" journalism with an emphasis on trivia and tragedy ("If it bleeds, it leads!). News producers must nowadays showcase information in a recreational or entertainment framework that prefers sensationalism over substance, sound bites over insights. That's why such critical matters as health care, gun control, tax equity, campaign reform, and the environment are made subservient to personality and horse race style coverage. Drive-By Journalism should be on the shelves of every community library in the country, and required reading for journalism students, media activists, and those charged with the responsibility for gathering, analyzing, and disseminating the news of the day.
a great wake-up call for the public.......2000-12-10
"I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns. They took the babies out of the incubator ... and left the children to die on the cold floor."
Casual news observers will recognize this quote, or at least the essence of it.
During the build-up to the Gulf War, this story, told by a teen-age Kuwaiti girl, was repeated again and again in the news media. As much as anything else, the anecdote softened public resistance to American intervention in Kuwait - a huge military undertaking that never completely shed its mercenary hue, but which enjoyed broad public support nevertheless thanks largely to a media that seemed ill-equipped or unwilling to get beyond the veneer of official proclamations and gee-golly techno-wizardry to the tough business of covering a war.
Less casual observers might know that the story was a pure fabrication. In fact, it took two curious reporters relatively little effort during the war's aftermath to discover what the entire Washington press corps had missed - not only was the story not true, but the girl who told it was the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador.
What very few of us probably realize to this day, however, was that the tale was just one piece of a coordinated propaganda campaign conducted by PR flacks on behalf of the Kuwaiti royal family. All told, the Kuwaitis spent $11.5 million to win the hearts and minds of their American saviors, most of it paid to Hill & Knowlton, one of the largest public relations firms in the world. For that relatively modest sum, Kuwait was able to summon the sympathy and might of the world's most powerful democracy, despite Kuwait's own questionable commitment to human rights. And going along for the ride the whole way were the American media.
The victory of public relations over reportage prior to the Gulf War is just one of the fascinating nuggets found in Arthur E. Rowse's Drive-By Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to Know, a blistering indictment of the current state of American journalism. A veteran journalist and media critic who has worked for National Public Radio, U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, Rowse writes like a man who knows how the sausage is made and isn't too pleased about his grandchildren having to eat it.
His book chronicles a spate of journalistic cardinal sins and exposes a rogues'gallery of media decision makers who have turned the sacred business of informing the public into a scramble for ratings and profits.
Elian, Monica, O.J. and JonBenet are just the tip of the iceberg, and, in Rowse's view, symptoms of a much more pernicious dynamic than just the public's demand for sensation and scandal.
At the heart of the media's current reliance on fluff, trivia and sensationalism, he argues, is the trend toward corporate ownership of media outlets. While journalism has always been a business, the profit motive was once far more balanced by - even subordinate to - journalistic standards.
In the 1960s, when CBS head Bill Paley was questioned by a member of his news division about the cost of his ambitious plans for news coverage, his response was more typical of that era: "Don't worry about that. I've got Jack Benny to make money for me. You guys cover the news."
Since then, says Rowse, mainstream media outlets have fallen all over themselves to slash staffs while favoring grislier, more sensational, more irrelevant coverage. Thus, crime reporting has become more frequent and more strident even as crime has dropped, while stories with emotional impact like the Elian Gonzalez saga supplant coverage of policy decisions that affect millions of Americans.
And instead of discussion about candidates' qualifications or stances on pressing national problems, campaign coverage is dominated by trivial horse race issues like who's raised the most money.
This hasn't just made us more uninformed, argues Rowse. We've also become much more susceptible to disinformation. Eager to fill the hard news gap left by the media have been special interest lobbyists, public relations flacks and think tanks - well-funded and well-organized groups with agendas to sell.
Rowse also explores the well-worn canard that our mainstream media are predominantly liberal. Not only does the prima facie evidence - that media are increasingly coming under the control of profit-driven corporations - suggest a conservative tilt, a look at the opinion pages of daily newspapers, where aggressive spin is encouraged, tells a different story as well. Of the top political columnists in the nation, the far-right Cal Thomas, with 537, is syndicated in the most dailies. George Will is second with 450. In fact, based on client numbers, Rowse counts a 3-to-1 advantage for conservative columnists over liberal ones. Add in talk radio, which is almost exclusively the province of right-wingers, and the liberal media myth explodes.
Other disturbing trends cited by Rowse are the increase in "gotcha" journalism; a snowballing, media-fueled cynicism about government's ability to address national crises; and a tendency to tilt reporting toward advertisers and affluent readers at the expense of broader coverage. (If the stock market is this strong then inflation-adjusted wages couldn't possibly have fallen in the last 20 years, right?)
If there's a criticism here it's that Rowse is woefully short on solutions, and those he does offer feel like spit in the wind. Perhaps the only real recourse, then, is for us as individuals to simply smarten up. Drive-By Journalism is a good first step down that path.
A Life Jacket for the First Amendment.......2000-09-19
If ever the First Amendment needed a life jacket, this is the time. Rowse tells how good newspapering, that is tough, honest reporting, is drowning thanks to the media giants and the corporate villains who control them. Whether its politics, economic disasters for the working poor, pollution or corruption, America is being denied a saving hand from the very institutions that the Founding Fathers provided us. Here is a lighthouse book offering a way out of our troubled journalistic waters. And it's a page-turner, as well.
Very Interesting Book!.......2000-09-15
It's quite alarming to learn how the failure of the press to report responsibly on government and politics (versus scandal, crime, and drama) is affecting the demise of a living democracy. Four out of ten Americans don't even know who the vice president is (although I have to believe in this year with the VP running for president, that might be different)! The book documents quite well how the press is methodically contributing to the decline of interest in politics and the power and political influence of the owners of media giants. A good read!!
Rob
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CJKV Information Processing covers all major writing systems for Vietnamese (including Quôc ngu, chu Nôm and chu Han), Japanese (kana and kanji), Korean (hangul and hanja), and Chinese (hanzi), plus the various means of integrating multiple character sets and systems for transliterating these languages into the Latin alphabet. Author Ken Lunde explains what's involved in taking input in the various languages and goes into great detail about output, including some detailed coverage of professional-quality computer typesetting with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese (CJKV) characters.
But CJKV Information Processing doesn't restrict itself to input and output issues. There's extensive coverage of the special issues that arise when you attempt to work with multibyte characters inside programs--especially Java programs, since that language is especially adroit at internationalization tasks. You'll find ready-to-use algorithms for detecting and converting characters among the various sets.
Almost half of the book is consumed by exhaustive character tables listing every CJKV character set ever defined by a standards body, software vendor, or other organization. Comprehensive is the operative word here--Lunde even gives space to 145 hanzi characters defined by Hong Kong's Department of the Judiciary. You'll find a full suite of keyboard mapping tables, too. With the same thoroughness and clarity that made his Understanding Japanese Information Processing such a hit among members of the Pacific Rim crowd, Ken Lunde provides an unparalleled guide to computing with the CJKV character sets. --David Wall
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CJKV Information Processing is the definitive guide for tackling the difficult issues faced when dealing with complex Asian languages -- Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese -- in the context of computing or Internet services. Unlike the English alphabet with a mere 26 letters, these complex writing systems use multiple alphabets comprising thousands of characters. Handling such an unwieldy amount of data is formidable and complex. Until now, working with these writing systems was an unattainable task to most, but this book clarifies the issues, even to those who don't understand East Asian languages. This new book contains revised information from Ken Lunde's first book, Understanding Japanese Information Processing, and supplements each chapter with meticulous details about how the Chinese (hanzi), Japanese (kana and kanji), Korean (hangul and hanja), and Vietnamese (Quoc ngu, chu Nom, and chu Han) writing systems have been implemented on contemporary computer systems. This book is unique in that it does not simply rattle off information that can be found in other sources, but rather it provides the reader with hitherto unexplained insights into how these complex writing systems have been adapted for use on computers, and provides the user and developer alike with useful and time-saving tips and techniques. Information on today's hot topics, such as how these writing systems impact contemporary Internet resources like the Web, HTML, XML, Java, and Adobe Acrobat, is also provided. This book is of incalculable value for the developer, programmer, user, and researcher -- anyone who comes into contact with these characters in the context of computers or the Internet needs this book. Topics covered in this book include:
- Writing systems
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- Dictionaries and dictionary software
This volume also contains a host of valuable appendixes, such as code conversion tables, character set tables, character set indexes, mapping tables, Perl code examples, a glossary, and a detailed bibliography.
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Buy this if you write international software - it's that simple.......2005-06-30
From this book I learnt (about 3 years ago) to add support for Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Korean to a number of top-selling PC Games (plus support utils). The tables within it *are* useful, despite what other reviews have said, as a way of testing your onscreen output. I also found the author to be very helpful when I emailed him with the odd query , and he was encouraging when I shared my findings on Thai (not covered by this book, but principles learnt from it enabled me to work it out) with him. One of the best reference books I've got.
Chinese edition of this book.......2004-06-06
Why amazon.com do not provide order for the Chinese version of "CJKV Information Processing"? I think it's more useful for Pan-Chinese customers.
Fantastic but too big.......2002-08-01
I agree with all the postive comments posted here. Working in Japan, this book has saved me repeatedly.
But I have a serious concern about the size, of 1000 pages there are 400 pages of tables, huge lists of Chinese characters which are of very little value and makes the book difficult to use.
The bible for coding Asian languages.......2001-12-29
Lunde's book is essential to anyone in the software localization or internationalization business. It simply covers everything. Want to know how to do regular expressions in Japanese? Page 445. The actual definition of "Mincho" (as in the Mincho font)? Check the Glossary. Postscript clones that handle Chinese? page 391.
The book is intended primarily for software engineers, but the subject matter is treated so comprehensively that it is an essential desk reference for translators, information developers, project managers, production managers, and marketing executives.
Just get it, Ok?
Code page tables poorly organized.......2001-11-28
I recognize that this book is really definitive on this topic. So I cannot help but assume that if I had the patience to figure out how to use it properly it would be worthwhile. BUT...
Being somebody already reasonably familiar with using eastern languages on a computer, I have no desire to read the text in the book from the beginning. The majority of the book is code-page tables, which is an important reference. (They are actually of limited utility, since they are only indexed one way: code to character, with no reverse indexing. Understandable, since that would be very difficult, but still limiting.)
But worst of all, the code page tables are laid out in a way that I do not understand. And I could not find an explanation of how these tables corresponded to byte-values in a data stream.
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