Wet: True Lesbian Sex Stories

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Intense and vibrantly real lesbian erotica in the spirit of Skin Deep, these quick and dirty true stories revel in hot lesbian sex. As they peek into the diary of a very busy (and very bad) girl, readers will be panting hungrily as women from around the world reveal their most intimate lesbian encounters.

Nicole Foster edited the best-selling books, Skin Deep, Awakening the Virgin, Body Check, and Electric. She undresses in front of her window in Los Angeles.

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Sexy Lesbian Love.......2007-05-10

Both lesbians and anyone interested in lesbian sex will enjoy this erotic collection of short stories. The title says it all!

GOOD BEDTIME STORIES.......2007-04-04

Not a lesbian, but LOVE this book.
Great, real stories.
HOT!!! The Title says it all.

Title Says It All.......2007-04-04

This book is great I loved all the stories. I bought an erotica book prior to this but I wasn't too pleased with it. The stories were made up and some submitted by men. I don't want to read about some strange man's fantasy. This book was really great though. I descretely brought it into school and read it during my study halls... It made my day again and again with every page I turned. If you're looking for some great, true stories. This is your book.

Soaking wet.......2006-10-01

Loved it! What a turn-on. Another great new book is "The Call Girl Actress, Confessions of a Lesbian Escort" by Erica Black.

The Name Says It All.......2006-06-26

This book definitely lives up to its name. I was hooked from the introduction on.

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The response of American workers to the advance of the Industrial Revolution, showing how labor suffered severe losses and sought to hold on to its economic status.

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The reaction of American industrial society to the advance of the industrial revolution.......2007-07-12

Although historians of the two decades preceding the Civil War have focused on the slavery issue, one of the major notes of American life during the period was created by the Industrial Revolution. The social and industrial upheavals that followed from it were remarkable for their vitality and resource. While the results of this revolution largely please us today, then it was repugnant to an astonishingly large number of Americans. The loses of status and independence among industrial workers were severe and troubling, but they lost ground also as consumers and producers - and in the face of national prosperity. In protests grounded in religion and politics, the workers sought first to preserve those freedoms they feared they were losing, later to win material gains. What remained of the moral force of this reform agitation was, as Mr. Ware writes, swept into the slavery struggle. His illuminating book analyzes the conditions which brought on the Industrial Revolution, and traces and interprets the labor movements and experiments that developed in response to the factory system.

Mr. Ware "writes with vigor and with refreshing freedom from traditional viewpoints...He raises real problems and throws light upon them."
New Republic

Noam Chomsky recommends.......2005-01-09

Noam Chomsky: "Actually one of the most interesting books I know, and if you haven't read I'd urge you to, is the first modern book on labor history I know of. ... It's mostly quotes from the labor press, which are just fascinating. ... It's very interesting, it's very eloquent, very well-written."

The Industrial Worker 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Worker 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution
Norman Ware
Manufacturer: Quadrangle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NUSDHY

The Trouble With Prosperity: A Contrarian's Tale of Boom, Bust, and Speculation
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Contrarians of the World Untie

A Primer on the History of Modern US Economics

Grant Was Right

Grant couldn't have been more wrong.....

A must-read for anyone in the stock market

The Trouble With Prosperity: A Contrarian's Tale of Boom, Bust, and Speculation
James Grant
Manufacturer: Crown Business
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Microeconomics | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0812929918
Release Date: 1998-02-24

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Contrarians of the World Untie.......2006-07-14

James Grant is a stock market analyst and historian of Wall Street. In the Trouble with Prosperity, he recounts investment movements in the United States during the twentieth century and brings them to life without dull painstaking illustration or by selling an investment tool. This book along with "Money of the Mind" shows that he is no slouch in his understanding of U.S. financial history.

As an amateur economist, the section of the book most interesting to me was called the "Consequence of 3%" where Grant shows why he is critical of modern central banking with its dependence on loose credit. He follows the analysis of William Roepke and other "Austrian" economists in discovering the faults of a government managed credit system. One should not dismiss this assessment out of hand because of its Austrian roots. Even neo-classical economists have lately become interested in some of the ideas of Knut Wicksell, who by following Walrus and Bohm-Bawerk sought to discover the consequences of price floors and ceilings on credit markets.

Grant mashes the history in with theory and comes up with this highly insightful book.

A Primer on the History of Modern US Economics.......2003-06-02

History has a way of repeating things. Our economy is NO exception. James Grant writes a great book on the history of money,interest rates and the stock market in this country. Starting with a building at 40 Wall completed in 1930 the year after the market crash and taking you through the history of many of its tenets. Grant is able to show the many Boom and Bust cycles in our economy and why they happen. A MUST READ to understand the cyclicality of our markets....And the foolishness of our politicians and Central Bank heads into believing that they can manage the economy into a virtual up economy all of the time. The lesson learned in this book is that artificially inflating assests will cause major reccesions to happen.

Grant Was Right.......2003-01-11

According to James Grant, this is what goes wrong during good times: "Of all the consequences of sustained prosperity, none is so powerful as the delusion that markets always go up." Not many people wanted to hear that when it was first published in 1996. Which is probably why he added this redundancy: "They do not always go up."

Grant chronicles periods of boom and bust. He is effective at this. For example, he quotes The Journal of Commerce during a bear market in 1952: "Many bankers visualize a return to the conditions of 150 years ago, when many sections of Wall Street and environs were residential and retailing districts." It's difficult to imagine that Wall Streeters would be that bleak. It's also difficult to imagine that investors would be as unrealistic as they were in the 1990s: "In response to warnings that dividend yields were too low, or that price-earnings yields were too high, the public only invested more, thereby sending yields even lower and price-earnings multiples higher." Four years after Grant wrote that the S&P 500 began to decline.

The Trouble with Prosperity is not a "how to get rich book" for "dummies" or "idiots." This is a serious discussion of financial history which gets heady at times. For instance, the author applies theory from the Austrian school of economics. "In the Austrians' judgment," he explains, "there is one principal source of collective error: interest rates. Set them too low and people will overreach." The central bank is the culprit. "The quarrel I have with the Federal Reserve", proclaims Grant, "is not so much that it creates credit as that it pretends to know the interest rate at which that credit (in the form of bank reserves) should be lent and borrowed." Alan Greenspan, in other words, is not omniscient.

James Grant is not a cheerleader for the stock market. He is a genuine contrarian, a skillful writer, and he was right.

Grant couldn't have been more wrong............2002-08-22

I'm sitting here in August of 2002, looking at Jim Grant's 1996 prognosis for the stock market. At the time he presumably was writing his book, the NASDAQ (the major over-the-counter, technology-laden index)was in the 1,200 to 1,400 range.

At that time, Grant apparently was suggesting that stocks were "too expensive", and that a bubble existed, which would soon burst.

Well, after his book was written, the market continued to rally strongly for another 4 years, and now that the bubble has burst, we find it's a different bubble entirely than Mr. Grant assumed it was.

Because after the bursting, the NASDAQ index is down from the 5,000 level reached 4 years AFTER Jim Grant said prices were too expensive, and is now rallying up from a double bottom at the 1,200 level.

In other words, Mr. Grant back in 1996 was claiming we were near a top in the market, but he was totally in error! After all that has happened since his book was written, we are still at or above the stock price level that he claimed was "too expensive". Apparently the author's ceiling has become the FLOOR of the stock market, which means he was about as wrong as he could have been.....

A must-read for anyone in the stock market.......2000-10-29

When I first started investing in stocks, I read two financial books with two very different slants on the markets. The first was Peter Lynch's "One Up on Wall Street" - a breezy, everyone-can-do-it, "buy what you know" feel-good primer. The second was this book, James Grant's "The Trouble With Prosperity", a real wake-up call to anyone who thinks that investing is easy, stocks ought to go up forever, and that the good times will always last. My investing life was probably spared several times over by Grant's book.

Let me spill the beans right here: the trouble with prosperity, in Grant's view, is that people begin believing it will never end. As a result, financial decisions begin to be made - both by individuals and by institutions - during prosperous times that are based on too rosy a view of the future. When reality sets in and conditions turn out not as expected, those poor decisions end up creating imbalances in the markets that need to be corrected before economic health can begin anew. So lenders made more and more unwise loans in the late 80's... leading to a banking crisis. Real estate values rise on speculation and then crash. We are seeing at this writing some wrenching corrections and volatility in tech stocks based on too-optimistic views of their future earnings. And the list goes on.

Grant's view of the corrections are that they are painful but necessary, sort of like the occasional brush fire that clears out the old undergrowth and allows for new growth to begin again. His is an urgently needed message in an age of electronic brokers and cheerleading financial media. Read and heed what Grant has to say to help guard against your own 'irrational exuberance' in whatever market you are in and to help see your financial future in light of both prosperous times and their inevitable corrections.

The Toilet Zone: A Hilarious Collection Of Bathroom Humor
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A Must for your Bathroom Library

The Toilet Zone: A Hilarious Collection Of Bathroom Humor
Dan Reynolds
Manufacturer: CCC Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 157644094X

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A Must for your Bathroom Library.......2000-01-22

Bathroom humor at it's very finest. This hilarious compilation of toilet-related one-paneled cartoons will make an excellent addition to anyone's bathroom library. What's that? No reading material in your bathroom? Then the only thing to do is to order Dan Reynolds' book today, and learn to enjoy every future bowel movement to its fullest. (It's also funny if you chose to read it outside of the bathroom.)

Journeys into the Toilet Zone: A Reservoir of Life Essays

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Journeys into the Toilet Zone: A Reservoir of Life Essays
Jan Bowyer
Manufacturer: Sunland Pub
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Binding: Paperback

Blink 182: The Unauthorised Biography in Words and Pictures
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Really Good...

Blink in the Raw

Blink 182: The Unauthorised Biography in Words and Pictures
Tim Footman
Manufacturer: Chrome Dreams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1842401688

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Not since Punk's glory days in the late 70`s have a bunch of `oiks` like Blink 182 appealed to so many. In the space of just two albums, in as many years, they have captured the attention of millions of fans who identify with their schoolboy sense of humor and anthemic, guitar driven melodic rock. Having sold close to 15 million albums, and picking up new devotees consistently, the time couldn't be better for the full story of this incredibly popular band to emerge.Blink 182 - The Unauthorized Story in Words and Pictures, provides the ultimate reference source for fans old and new. Ideally presented for the target audience of 13 - 25 year olds, encompassing equal parts text and photos, with a pocket money sized price tag to boot, the first ever book on this enormous band is sure to appeal universally.

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Really Good..........2003-10-18

I thought this book was really good. And just a little advice to Maria up there ^^ Anne Hoppus is Mark's SISTER not his mother... But the book was AWESOME, I thought that it was really good, I mean, if you like blink you will love this book :)

Blink in the Raw.......2002-11-24

This book is not the greatest and could be done a little better but who cares? If you are truly into blink, I highly suggest purchasing this book to learn more about them in their earlier days before enema of the state and take of yout pants and jacket. I got this book thinking that it was going to be horrible, and in some aspects it is, but personally I am a sit in my room obsessing about blink, so I like it. If you want a Blink 182 book that is more well done and more recent, check out tales from beneath you mom, written by Anne Hoppus, Mark Hoppus's (the bassist of Blink)mother. Also Urethra chronicles 1 and 2 are great videos to check out. I advise all those Blink fans out there to get this book (even though it has its flaws) because this book does contain some good and fun info! ENJOY! GO BLINK 182!!!

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"For years, anthropologists have been interested in jogo do bicho as a key Brazilian institution. We now have an English translation uniting Roberto DaMatta's theoretical acumen and knowledge of Brazil with Elena Soárez's field work. In Eagles, Donkeys, and Butterflies, they combine a stunningly effective analysis of the game in terms of rituals and symbols with an enlightening analysis of the structural and symbolic significance of the animals and the numbers associated with them. This is a welcome addition to the literature on the game's cultural meaning and its place in the context of Brazilian society." —Conrad P. Kottak, University of Michigan

"This book is fascinating and marked by a richness of detail that keeps a reader's attention. It constitutes an important contribution to the understanding of Brazilian and Latin American culture." —Thomas E. Skidmore, Brown University

Roberto DaMatta, one of Brazil's foremost anthropologists, and scriptwriter Elena Soárez approach the question of gambling in popular culture in general and its treatment in social anthropology in particular. They focus on the "animal game," a kind of popular Brazilian gambling entertainment or lottery in which locals bet on a list of twenty-five animals. The authors argue that the success of this game, which originated in 1882 with the founding of the first zoo in Rio de Janeiro, and the social release the game provides are significant aspects of Brazilian social history and identity. Within the animal game, players "totemize" and identify with various animals. DaMatta and Soárez use this identification as a lens through which to view present-day Brazilian society, the significance of gambling, and the role of animal images in Brazilian and American popular cultures.

Appearing for the first time in English, this well-written work moves smoothly between comprehensive analysis and field observations of specific behaviors and practices, such as the lucky tricks and devices invested with magical thinking by those who play the game.

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Addressing the controversial issues of the blurring boundaries between news and entertainment and the movement toward sensationalism in broadcast journalism, this study examines these distinctions: how boundaries are constructed and by whom; how they are enforced or broken and why. Rather than reflecting essential attributes by which news can be distinguished from other kinds of communication, "boundary setting" is viewed as a social construction, determined and changed by journalists wishing to assert their jurisdiction and authority and the prestige of the profession. Four instances of "boundary-work rhetoric" are examined in depth: (1) the development of roles and "rules" of television journalism during the early years of television; (2) attempts at Congressional and FTC regulation--broadcasting codes defining "bona fide" news; (3) responses to a 1992 journalistic scandal over a "Dateline NBC" story on exploding GM pickup trucks, and (4) reporting sex scandals during recent political campaigns, such as the allegations of Gennifer Flowers of her involvement with Bill Clinton. In these and other cases, journalists developed strategies to minimize harm to the profession.

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Interesting book about journalism.......1997-05-09

The premise of Mapping the Cultural Space of Journalism is that the boundaries of journalism are socially-constructed, and do not rest on any essential elements. Winch's research shows that journalists try to "construct" boundaries by arguing both within and outside the journalism profession that journalism has essential, distinctive characteristics--and that it is different from entertainment.
Recent disputes regarding the proper role of journalism are discussed in several chapters, and will spark interest in many readers. For instance, one of the chapters examines discussions among journalists about the newsworthiness of allegations of womanizing by Bill Clinton which were raised by Gennifer Flowers during the 1992 presidential election. Another chapter examines the uproar over a 1992 Dateline NBC story about exploding GM pickup trucks in which sparking devices were used to insure fiery video footage. Another chapter shows how early television journalists felt pressure to make their genre of news more entertaining and easier to digest (and hence, more profit-centered), than traditional forms of journalism.
Although the information is presented as scholarly research, the subject matter will interest non-academics alike, and Winch's (my) writing style is very readable.

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Mapping the Cultural Space of Journalism
Samuel P. Winch
Manufacturer: Praeger Paperback
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORGF0S

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Proviides a roadmap to technical workforce management.......2002-07-29

I've been a strong, but frustrated, proponent of the P-CMM since its inception. This book goes well beyond the original SEI documentation by thoroughly describing the rationale behind the CMM and making a strong business case with respect to the tangible and intangible benefits that accrue from implementing it.

This book contains something for managers, particularly upper management who needs to not only endorse the P-CMM, but also need to commit to it and sponsor it in order to make it happen. The chapters of the book that apply to them are:
1 -The Process Maturity Framework, portions of 5 - Interpreting the People CMM (Organizational Factors, and commitment and Ability to Perform), and 7 - Experience with the People CMM).

For technical line managers the entire book will be relevant because it covers the reasons, structure and key process areas in great detail. In addition, once a P-CMM initiative is given the go ahead, the implementation team and all primary stakeholders will also benefit from large portions of the book because it also covers implementation issues and an approach in detail.

Overall, this book presents a maturity framework that contains goals for any organization that understands the relationship between the morale and management of a technical workforce and the resulting impact on the business bottom line. I'll go so far as to state that if this book is followed and a successful implementation of the P-CMM results, attaining the corresponding level of the SW-CMM will be relatively effortless.

Hope this finally catches on.......2002-03-26

In the seven years since the 1995 release of the P-CMM, version 1 I've not encountered any sincere effort by any US client to implement the process. My personal theory is that the P-CMM was little known outside of the software engineering community, especially the DoD-related community, when it should have received wider dissemination to human resources and higher-level management. This book from a mainstream publisher should change that. With respect to the model itself, the previous reviewer has done a remarkable job of describing the model and how this book supports it. I have a few additional notes to add:
(1) This book is about version 2, which corrects some flaws in the first version which had team building at level 4. In the version, 2, described in this book team building has been placed at level 3.
(2) Another change from version 1 to version 2 is the alignment of the P-CMM to the CMMI, especially with respect to integrated product and process development.
(3) Version 2 adds institutionalization goals to each process area.

If you have previous experience with the older versions of P-CMM, or CMM-SW, or the newer approaches as set forth in later versions and CMMI, you'll note that there are two implementation models: staged and continuous. The staged approach is the only supported implementation for P-CMM version 2.

The book goes into extraordinary detail about the P-CMM and how to implement it. You can easily use this book as a roadmap to achieving levels 2 through 5 of the P-CMM, or as a resource for improving the people part of the people-process-technology triad that defines IT. As such you need not have certification as a goal to gain value from this book. If you do decide to pursue certification at level 2 or higher, however, I strongly recommend that you also get a copy of Kim Caputo's 'CMM Implementation Guide'. That book, while focused on implementing the CMM-SW, contains sage advice and a sound approach to dealing with the real problems that you'll encounter: organizational inertia and resistance, training and implementation issues and obtaining they key ingredient - commitment to perform.

People was the missing part of the SEI's models, no longer.......2002-01-07

The software development is an activity that involves both social and engineering aspects, addressing the problem with this in mind, in an holistic way will deliver much better results that doing it partially. The People CMM address the human side of software development and completes the engineering side that at the three levels, Organization, Team, and Individual are covered by SW-CMM, TSP and PSP.
The book is divided in three parts, the first one gives the reader a clear understanding not just of the model but the principles that define it. Also very valuable are the briefs of the case studies and specially the first chapter "The Process Maturity Framework" is very helpful to understand the basics of all the CMM's.
The second Part describes the practices that are part the People CMM in a very detailed way, these practices are not any thing new , the real value of the model is defining a framework in which these practices really will deliver sustainable results, thus we may say the whole is larger than the simple sum of the parts, finally the third part, the Appendices, provides a lot of information to support the practioneer.
Definitively this book is for any body involved in a software process improvement programs that wishes to obtain better and lasting results.

Correlation between Quality Management Metric and People Capability Maturity Model

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Correlation between Quality Management Metric and People Capability Maturity Model

Manufacturer: Storming Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423500148

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon and assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows.The quality of software management in a development project is a major factor in determining the success of a project. The four main areas in which a software project manager can affect the outcome of a project are people management, requirements management, estimation/planning management, and risk management. People management is the management area with the highest influence on project success. In this thesis, a quality management metric (QMM) was evaluated with respect to its conformance with an established people capability maturity model (P-CMM). The survey elements of the QMM were mapped to the processes described in the maturity model. The analysis indicates a high level of conformance of the QMM with the P-CMM. The results of applying the QMM can be used to characterize the quality of software management. Based on the correlation of QMM survey elements to processes of the maturity model, the results can then be used to identify processes that need improvement to increase the likelihood of program success. Future work includes further refining and assessing the QMM. As new models in the field of software development management evolve, the QMM will need to be re-evaluated with respect to these new models. (17 tables, 16 figures, 20 refs.)

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People Capability Maturity Model
et al Bill Curtis
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OORE6U

People Capability Maturity Model[registered trademark]: (P-CMM[registered trademark]) : version 2.0 (Maturity model / Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute)

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People Capability Maturity Model[registered trademark]: (P-CMM[registered trademark]) : version 2.0 (Maturity model / Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute)
Bill Curtis
Manufacturer: Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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