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Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention when he built a forensic lab like no other: The Body Farm. Now, this master scientist unlocks the gates of his lab to reveal his most intriguing cases-and to revisit the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, fifty years after the fact.
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In this memoir, Bass, a premier forensic anthropologist, recounts how a life spent studying dead bodies led to the creation of "The Anthropolgy Research Facility" (aka the Body Farm), a plot of land near the University of Tennessee Medical Center where Bass and his colleagues monitor the decomposition of human corpses in various environments. The book is structured around the 1981 creation of the Body Farm, and the early chapters focus on some of Bass's trickier cases to demonstrate his need for more information about the science of forensics. The later chapters take a closer look at how the scientific analysis of Body Farm corpses has helped Bass and other anthropologists solve some of the toughest and most bizarre cases of their distinguished careers. Though professional and conscientious when describing the medical facts of each case, Bass, writing with journalist Jefferson, proves to be a witty storyteller with a welcome sense of humor. He also does a nice job balancing accounts of death and decomposition with decidedly not-so-morbid tidbits from his personal life. Furthermore, the poignancy of how he reacts to the deaths of his first two wives reflects the compassion he feels for the dead and their surviving family members he encounters in his working life. Bass may deal with the dead, but he has a lust for life that comes across in his writing. While the grisly details may not make this a must-read for everyone, those who do pick it up might just be pleasantly surprised by how Bass brings death to life. Foreword by Patricia Cornwell
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Death's Acre : Inside The Body Farm.......2007-10-11
If you are interested in forensics, this is the book for you! It tells how the study of forensics developed and how Dr. Bill Bass was involved in devoloping and establishing it as an instrument to solve crimes and identify bodies. It is very readable and easy to understand without a medical or legal background. The book however is not for the squemish or faint of heart. It gives extremely detailed descriptions of bodily decay and crimes in the recent past. I found the book to be very interesting and informative. Well worth my time and money!
Great read - couldn't put it down.......2007-09-09
For all you csi fans, this is a great book. Wonderful history of how it all began along with chapters of stories about real dead people. Congratulations to Dr. Bass and all his staff who have made inroads into helping the police and other entities solve crimes.
Watch out where you step.......2007-08-24
Another great Kay Scarpetta book. Not as good as some, but better than others. Cornwell's earlier writings are her best, her later books seem to lack heart, and detail. This one is in the middle. It is a good read, but not her best one. I wish she would take writing seriously again, and find the "eye of the tiger", or whatever she needs to get herself back on track. Maybe someone is giving her bad advise, or something has distracted her. She needs to return to whatever she was doing, when she first started writing. I miss her good books, and hope she can snap out of it soon. I should have given this one a 3, but I respect her so much, I gave it a 4. This is really her last good book she has written.
Gotta brag.......2007-07-13
I got to attend a personal tour of the Body Farm with Dr. Bass. It was an experience of a lifetime (is than an oxymoron?). Dr. Bass is the real deal. He knows his stuff and has a no-nonsense approach to his profession. It would be hard to estimate how many criminals have been removed as threats to society based on the work of Dr. Bass and his associates. He's a true pioneer.
A Must Read For Everyone!.......2007-06-08
Though some readers might be apprehensive due to the subject matter that the title insinuates, Death's Acre tells the story of the unsung heroes and an autiobiography as well. This is truely insightful to every person as Dr. Bill Bass shares stories that educate us on the people who help the deceased tell their story. The story of the author himself narrorates with humor and makes for a facinating read. It doesn't take a science buff to read this or be touched by it.
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There's No Place Like Work: How Business, Government, and Our Obsession with Work Have Driven Parents from Home
Brian C. Robertson
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Confronting the abundant evidence that children suffer when their mothers leave them for the workplace, Mr. Robertson asks why it has nevertheless become the norm for mothers to work. The rise of feminism seems the obvious answer, but until the 1960s, the women's movement zealously fought against mothers' being forced to abandon their homes for wages. The important change, Mr. Robertson discovers, has been in society's view of work, which we once saw as a means of supporting family life but now pursue as an avenue of self-fulfillment.
Accompanying this cultural sea-change were coercive new policies in business and government that deliberately stacked the deck against one-income families. The response of both political parties to the needs of families, Mr. Robertson shows, has been laughable. Democrats embrace the new feminist mania for working mothers, and Republicans will not threaten the corporate grip on parental priorities. He concludes with an outline of sane family policy and an account of how some intrepid men and women have prevailed against the anti-family current.
Mr. Robertson takes a dim view of the scientific pretensions of much of the literature on work and family. Ideological prejudices have proved easy to hide in a forest of statistics and data. Studies and polls are useful only if the interpreter is grounded in the truth of the human person and the indispensable role of the family.
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This book changes everything.......2003-05-15
I'm a 20 year-old highly motivated student at a prestigious university. My entire life I've worked diligently so I could have a successful career. However, after I began reading this book, my thinking has been turned on its head. Now I can see that I've been motivated by all the wrong things: ego, self-aggrandizement, money, and status. This book has helped me understand all that motherhood used to be and could be. It is not a banal existence; there are beautiful possibilites open to the imaginitive mind. Our country was founded on the Protestant ethic that the most noble thing one could do is to be selfless, to give everything you have to your children and your family. My words are like gravel in the mouth compared to Robertson's eloquence. I wish I could capture the beauty of his words here. Please, read this book. It changes everything.
Extremely informative.......2003-05-10
Robertson shows how the best care is maternal care and why society is in denial of this fact. I found this book very informative and enlightening, and has forever changed the way I look at alternative child care and the media, whose refusal to tell the truth about parenting is causing the millions of children to be neglected.
Time for a rethink.......2003-05-09
The West is struggling with the related issues of women in the workforce, childcare, maternity leave, and family breakdown. The usual wisdom is to say that we just need to try harder to balance work commitments with family responsibilities. But Brian Robertson, a writer living in Washington DC, believes the answers lie elsewhere.
Indeed, from a historical perspective, the current crisis is really an anomaly. The modern feminist movement of the 60s taught that the only good woman is a career woman, and that homemaking and motherhood were to be despised and fled from. But interestingly, the womenýs movement prior to that fought for the right of a mother to stay at home with her young children, and not be conscripted into the paid workplace.
Thus the struggle for those in the earlier years of the womenýs movement was to protect women from the encroachment of market forces, and to prevent them from being forced into career at the expense of their families. Motherhood and homemaking, in other words, were seen as honorable and valuable ends in themselves.
But with the late 60s and onwards, the new wave of feminists took a totally different line: only in the paid workforce can a woman find meaning, freedom and dignity. Thus the vitriolic attack on mothers and the family. Betty Friedan therefore could call the home a "comfortable concentration camp" while Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown could label a mother and housewife as "a parasite, a dependent, a scrounger, a sponger ý a bum".
A womanýs freedom, said these feminists, meant that a woman should and could be independent both in the economic and the reproductive realms. Women just do not need men, and are better off without them. Establishing a career and gaining financial independence is the first goal of the modern woman. And millions of Western women bought this line of thought.
Of course now the inherent contradictions are coming all too clear. Women who were told that they could have it all are now fining that they have very little. They may have a good job, but they have no husband or boyfriend, no children and no family. And many today are deeply regretful of this fact.
But it is not just women who have suffered at the hands of feminist orthodoxy. Children have been the big losers. Millions of children today are being raised by strangers. Yet all the social science research shows that children desperately need their mums and dads. No day care system can ever compete with the love and attention of a mother and a father.
Yet as Robertson documents, while the social research on all this is quite clear, very few are willing to promote the findings, for fear of incurring the wrath of feminists and of making working mums feel guilty. So although the research is clear, that attachment is important for infants and mother-child bonding is crucial, millions of mothers are ignoring the evidence, and their maternal instincts, and are abandoning their children in droves.
The harmful effects of extended periods of time for young children in day care are well documented in this book. Even child care workers admit that they would not dare to leave their own children in day care. Yet many mothers have been so indoctrinated into believing that their needs and desires must come first, that they are offering their children second best.
And seeking to alleviate the problems by better day care, more workplace flexibility, or seeking to obtain an unobtainable balance between work and family just is not sufficient. And it is not just short-sighted governments offering these inadequate solutions. The corporate world in effect has bought the feminist myth as well that women can have it all. But the truth is, they canýt have it all, at least not at the same time. Thus more corporate day care centres will not solve the bigger problems.
Indeed, the corporations are shooting themselves in the foot here. The really productive worker is the worker who has a happy and satisfying home life. But the corporate world, even with generous paid maternity leave policies, cannot stop the hemorrhaging of the family. Maternal deprivation is harmful to children, and unhappy children make for unhappy families, and unhappy families result in poor workers.
Governments also lose, as they seek to press women into the paid workplace, and do not deal with the root causes as to why so many families are forced to have two incomes. By bribing mums into the paid work place, whether by child care subsidies or other financial incentives, the growing problem of falling fertility rates, for example, will only increase. Less people mean less taxable income, and the inability to pay for expensive social welfare programs.
Thus both governments and businesses need to radically rethink what family-friendly workplaces actually mean. Robertson concludes by proposing some radical measures to put the interests of families first. These are predicated on the principle that human societies need the traditional family structure with a mother as the principal caregiver. Marriage and family are non-negotiable first principles. If that is accepted, then the following steps can be explored:
-Treat families as a unit in the tax code
-End "no-fault" divorce
-Replace the current welfare system with one that does not encourage illegitimacy and undermine intact families
-Pare back affirmative action legislation and programs
-Give all parents, not just those in the paid work place, child care credits or tax breaks.
These and other proposals, will help to ensure that real family-friendly policies are pursued. Yet Robertson knows that legal and economic change alone is not enough. The much harder cultural element needs to be addressed. But we have to start somewhere. And this volume is a good beginning point.
An excellent book by a clear and reasoned thinker.......2002-03-22
...This book is a wonderful distillation of Brian's views on the workplace, political and social movements and most interestingly his work here is a roadmap for the analytical process he undergoes to arrive at his conclusions.
Brian's book is an outstanding example of constructive critical thinking...one feels envigorated, enlightened, and most importantly tested and forced to confront deeply held truths and defend those ideas within that are found lacking.
It is a book to be proud of and I enjoyed it, unreservedly.
Agree with him or not, give him a chance to make his case in this book which addresses the foundation of a polite society, family.
Help in Understanding Some Negative Trends.......2001-04-09
I believe that this book should be required reading for anyone who is concerned about the debilitating trends in our society: students shooting their classmates, breakdowns in family relationships, high divorce rates, and out-of-wedlock childbirths. The author presents significant evidence to show that these may all be symptomatic of adult America's obsession with work outside of the home, and subsequently leaving young America to try and invent its own culture and morality.
Recent studies have shown that today's youth suffer from a far higher rate of mental illness than those who grew up just a couple of generations ago. Social disconnectedness and a sense of impending doom have driven many of our youth toward immediate gratification and away from a long-term interest in education and work. At the same time, technological change and the knowledge explosion makes a successful vocation even harder to attain. This is especially true among young men, whose participation rates in postsecondary education, in the electoral process, and in civic activities are at an all-time low and declining rapidly.
Although Robertson's book is deep and well documented, it is very readable. He is at his best in the chapter where he discusses the contrast between the work of a full-time mother with that of a "career woman." Homemaking, which was considered the ideal by feminists as recently as the middle of the twentieth century, is now looked upon as demeaning and destructive of self-esteem, while a "career" outside of the home is viewed as something highly desirable and worthy of achievement. "The work of raising children requires constant hidden sacrifice, unacknowledged and unrewarded by society, often unacknowledged and unrewarded by one's own family-particularly the children themselves. ... A society that measures success exclusively in terms of material or professional attainment is unlikely to accord much status to the hidden work of the mother in the home."
Especially upsetting to those who believe that the traditional family is the foundation of civil society is the palette of economic incentives that government and business offer to the mother who chooses to select "professional" childcare. Childcare credits, tax-exempt childcare flexible spending accounts, and higher IRA savings limits abound for the two-earner family, while the mother who elects to raise her own children receives no benefits in exchange for sacrificing a dual income and striving to make ends meet on a single income.
Robertson offers criticism for Republicans and Democrats alike. Neither major political party has found a way to support the concept of the traditional family, despite their continual touting of "family values" and "family-friendly legislation" that further drives wedges between mothers and their children. Instead of discouraging divorce and/or out-of-wedlock childbearing, welfare policies have forced mothers to accept out-of-the-home childcare so that they can go to work full time.
"There's No Place Like Work" offers a well documented examination of current destructive trends in family and workplace dynamics. It is certain to stimulate provocative discussion, and I hope it will receive the wide readership it deserves.
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Perspectives on Leisure Toward a Quality Lifestyle.......2007-01-22
After discussing the importance of leisure and defining the term, this book looks at leisure from a historical perspective, it's importance in human development, and the role of leisure in community and the larger society. The last 50 pages are exercises that correspond to each on the 20 chapters.
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Perspectives on Leisure: Toward a Quality Lifestyle
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34 Hit Parade Extras-College Songs On Parade
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Over 30 famous college fight songs, featuring: Across The Field * Blue And White * Hail Purdue * Illinois Loyalty * Indiana, Our Indiana * Notre Dame Victory March * Rambling Wreck From Georgia Tech * Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi.
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Contents: After Youre Gone, Anniversary Waltz, Basin Street Blues, Canadian Sunset, Captain Hooks Waltz, Carolina Moon, Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Drifting and Dreaming, Enjoy Yourself, Five Minutes More, Ill Walk Alone, I Still Get Jealous, It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane, Its Been a long Long Time, Ive Gotta Crow, Ive Heard that Song Before, Kentucky Babe, Linda, Little Child, Mister Sandman, Pistol Packin Mama, Riders in the Sky, Sentimental Journey, Serenade of the Bells, Sioux City Sue, Sposin, Story Book Ball, Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, Sweethears on Parade, Tenderly, Tender Shepherd, When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver, You Call Everybody Darling, You Call It Madness But I Call It love.
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Hit Parade: An Encyclopedia of the Top Songs of the Jazz, Depression, Swing, and Sing Eras
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Die Hit-Parade: Studie zu einer Vermittlungsform von Popular-Musik
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Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
Dian Eaton
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Broadcast/Cable Programming: Strategies and Practices
Susan Tyler Eastman
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This course discusses the electronic media programming process and the kinds of issues and strategies that are prominent in the field today.
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Very Informative!.......2003-11-11
This textbook provides a thorough overview of the field of broadcast/cable programming. Industry terms are clearly defined and incorporated into the description of the various topics covered. The book is divided into easily identifiable cataegories, which assists in digesting the material.
It's appropriate that a book of this nature start with a discussion of the central theme, in this case programming. That is done quite well in the first chapter. The constraints unique to the broadcasting industry are at the core of the industry and are addressed in that manner.
Audience research is essential to professional program executives doing their work well. That's the topic of the second chapter. Again, industry terminology is explained.
Numerous broadcast experts had their insight to the various issues throughout the book. There is a diversity of perspectives presented. Various organizational structures are included. Radio, television, cable, national, local, and non-profit are all part of the mix. This book is an excellent overview for readers seeking to be introduced to the subject matter.
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Programming for TV, Radio & The Internet, Second Edition: Strategy, Development & Evaluation
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ASIN: 0240801288 |
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Programming TV, Radio, and Cable provides an in-depth look at the roles and responsibilities of television, radio and cable programmers.
You will discover how programmers come up with ideas, how those ideas are developed into programming, how the show ideas are pitched to the
buyer, how the program schedule is created, how the success or failure of individual shows and the program schedule as a whole is determined and what, if anything, can be done to save shows. Each topic is explored, then applied to three different media: television, radio and cable. Numerous illustrations and real-life examples bring this topic alive and present you with a realistic view of today's programming issues.
The foreword is by Grant Tinker.
Over 150 illustrations and numerous real-life examples.
A complete overview of television, radio and cable programming needs, practices and issues.
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Radio, Tv, and Cable Programming
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The purpose of this book is twofold: First to describe what needs to be done to internationalize XML documents and applications; second to describe how the XML data can be localized efficiently.
There is currently almost no information on these two topics grouped and organized in a single reference. In addition, while XML has evolved a lot the past 2 years, it has now reached a point of global acceptance, as evidenced by the many international XML working groups addressing trading partner agreements, electronic document exchange, business processes, and eBusiness.
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A truly excellent book.......2002-03-13
This book was truly a pleasure to read. A good writing style, a lot of information, and a tight editing job that really makes both the messenger and the message look better. What more could a person ask for?
XML is definitely out there, and it seems to be a lot more than just a buzzword. Finally there is a book that makes it seem more accessible to international markets.
Well, not everything was perfect. But it was so much better than some of the other books out there, that it definitely deserves 4/5 stars.
Excellent book on "XML tools for Internationalization".......2001-09-15
Yves Savourel's book on XML Internationalization and Localization is an excellent resource and definitely worth reading for anyone working with XML in an international environment.
I found the first part of the book especially helpful, the second part is very focussed on translation processes, assuming that web content internationalization and localization occurs in a similar fashion to software product development, which is not necessarily the case. "XML Tools for Internationalization and Localization" might have been a more appropriate title.
The comparison of translation tools is very long and difficult to read, with unnecessary screenshots showing all samples. A tabular overview on standards compliance and supported features, together with one set of testcases, would be sufficient. The XML database chapter, on the other hand, could be expanded with more information on native XML databases.
Typographical conventions leave room for improvement, including the choice of fonts, indentation in structured example and the overuse of line continuation characters in places where line breaks are not significant.
Great book - sorely needed - just in time.......2001-07-26
Yves Savourel has a firm grasp of the technical aspects of XML development - completed by a wealt of experience in the product globalization arena. The writing style in XML internationalizaion and Localization is clear and unambiguous - easily understood by the novice and guru alike, and using terms that are familiar to anyone working in the internationalization and localization industries. The book's content is comprehensive with useful and practical examples, directly applicable to the real world. Thorough, interesting examination of one of critical development formats for entrprise, database and internet computing, the book is much needed! I hope there is more to come.
Well worth the money - essential for Product Globalizers.......2001-07-26
This is a great book for the 'doers' in the product globalization technology fields. Well worth the money. Extremely credible combination of industry guru Yves Savourel's content with some additional flavoring of content from globalization expert Ultan O'Broin of Oracle Corporation provide a wide-ranging discourse on how to design, develop and build XML content that is multilingual and fully globalized and easily translated. For the first time we see the words "pseudo-translation" mentioned in a book at this level (please take note Nancy Kano et al) as well as the treatment of the localization process as a business activity (and not some kind of warm armpit partnership between developers and translators). Brilliant. I hope the book heralds a new departure in content creation and also attitudes in the internationalization and localization industry - it's badly needed. My only quibble is the lack of CD-ROM with example XML files that we might have used to evaluate our own XML tools and processes with to compare with the books findings.
Single Most Important Book in the Industry in 5 Years!.......2001-07-12
At last! A book that addresses a key instructional and informational need in the localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n) industries. To date, there is no single authoritative source on the subject of XML l10n and i18n, despite the fact that XML is a key driver behind the growth of the Internet, B2B, content management and large-scale data exchange and will be increasingly important in the future, and central to e-commerce and globalization in general.
Up to now, most writings on XML, that I have seen, are generally non-l10n and i18n specific, and only make reference to these areas in passing, as part of a wider technological discussion. There is development information available on the Internet about XML standards, which includes sections on i18n, but this is divorced from any business logic or discussion on practical deployments within the localization industry. The best discussions I have seen on the possible applications of XML tend to be piecemeal, such as white papers or magazine articles in publications. This book changes all that.
The structure is very good - comprehensive without being overwhelming and it is well thought out and illustrated with code samples and screen shots. Content ranges from a practical and clear education on XML technology, through to where XML i18n and l10n fits into the product development cycle, content authoring and localization processes. Central to the book's appeal is it's practicality and relevance to modern day industry developments such as XLIFF, ITS, online translation, translation memory use and even WML and Flash too! The book is aimed at doing, not at theorizing, and it fills a key gap in the market.
Potential for this book’s influence is huge given the trends in business models and product/service deployment globally over the Internet. I think this book could become more important than Nadine Kano’s "Developing International Software for Windows 95 and NT". It should be on the bookshelf of every serious content development house NOW, nestling up to "The Lexus and The Olive Tree" (Thomas Friedman) and "Translating Into Success" (Robert C. Sprung, Eds.) as a well-thumbed, coffee-stained source of reference for anyone seriously interested in developing and maintaining a globalization presence.
I would certainly recommend the book to all content developers, and translation tools development teams. I would envisage the book could be useful for content authors and developers of all types - DB architects, content managers, documentation writers, ML website developers, etc. Anyone who needs to develop, manage and maintain global content, which has to be localized and deployed in multiple languages.
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- Dinosaurs!: The Biggest Baddest Strangest Fastest
- Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
- Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology
- Excel 2002 for Dummies Quick Reference
- Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family
- Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology
- Grandmother Remembers a Written Heirloom for My Grandchild
- Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
- Hello Kitty, Hello 2005! Wall Calendar
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- Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition
- The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual
- The New Finance: The Case Against Efficient Markets
- The Lomy Convention Business Law Handbook
Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel (Body Farm Novels)
Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel (Body Farm Novels)
Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Bodies We've Buried : Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School
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