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Answers to a Serious Problem!

A ground-breaking book. There's nothing like it

A good read from both sides of the fence

An Important Book!

An Innovative And Accurate Look at Employee Theft from A Pioneer in the Field

Biting the Hand That Feeds: The Employee Theft Epidemic--New Perspectives, New Solutions
Terrence Daryl Shulman
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Fresh off his ground-breaking first book Something for Nothing: Shoplifting Addiction and Recovery and subsequent appearance on Oprah, Mr. Shulman tackles the Employee Theft Epidemic in a whole new light! He debunks the myths and exposes a problem that affects us alloffering unique personal and professional insights from his decade of working with theft addictions and disorders. A one of a kind book!

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Answers to a Serious Problem!.......2006-07-11

Finally, someone isn't just "talking" about the problem, but "solving" it! Dr. Shulman shows us again (in his second book) that he is the authority on employee theft and shoplifting. Considering the huge financial losses companies experience due to employee theft, it only makes sense that this book would be the best investment they could possibly make. Also, a MUST READ for anyone who works in crime prevention, probation, security and loss prevention.

A ground-breaking book. There's nothing like it.......2006-02-11

I was researching for books on employee theft from a humanistic first person perspective and this was the only book on the topic that addressed this. Without making excuses for why people steal from work, this author included many personal stories of those who did steal from work and how they got into that, what the consequences were, and how they stopped. I found it very interesting and think most people could relate to the mindsets of why people do it. I also enjoyed reading the perspectives of loss prevention and company owners. I think the author is on to something here and hope others read this book because we sure could use a different angle on why there is so much stealing in the world.

A good read from both sides of the fence.......2005-11-17

Whether you "borrow" or steal from work, or have employees. Theft from work IS happening. Whether time, resources, or property a lot of people feel entitled to do it. This book has tools and insight on both sides. Even if you don't wear the "loss prevention" hat. Employees and managers are involved and have vested interests in employee theft. So much money is lost due to "shrinkage" - invest in your company and buy the book.

An Important Book!.......2005-11-12

I recently saw the author on The Early Show and was very impressed with the balance he struck between holding people accountable for employee theft while acknowledging that all kinds of people steal from work for different reasons. As an employer who has been stolen from many times, I have often been bewildered by how some of my best employees could "bite the hand that feeds." After reading this book--which has stories from those who have stolen as well as business owners like me--I have much more insight into this problem and what to do about it. This is an important book and one of the more in-depth and progressive-minded on this topic. I recommend it for fellow business owners who have their heads in the sand about how prevalent this problem is and what you need to know to survive. I truly hope, as the author states in this book, that many people can be helped who have found themselves in the destructive pattern of employee theft. Thank you for an interesting and provocative read.

An Innovative And Accurate Look at Employee Theft from A Pioneer in the Field.......2005-10-12

This book is a must read for anyone who is interested in understanding the "why" in how employee theft occurs. It doesn't excuse theft, but helps the reader understand the addictive process that occurs in the average person that leads to employee theft. This book would be especially helpful for the therapist working with clients who have been in the legal system due to employee theft or have theft addictions. It would also be beneficial to attorneys, judges, probation officials and loss prevention departments who sometimes have less than an "open mind" when dealing with theft. Hopefully this book can help them see the human side to the issue.

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This course on nuclear physics leads the reader to the exploration of the field from nuclei to astrophysical issues. Much nuclear phenomenology can be understood from simple arguments such as those based on the Pauli principle and the Coulomb barrier. This book is concerned with extrapolating from such arguments and illustrating nuclear systematics with experimental data. Starting with the basic concepts in nuclear physics, nuclear models, and reactions, the book covers nuclear decays and the fundamental electro-weak interactions, radioactivity, and nuclear energy. After the discussions of fission and fusion leading into nuclear astrophysics, there is a presentation of the latest ideas about cosmology. As a primer this course will lay the foundations for more specialized subjects.

This book emerged from a series of topical courses the authors delivered at the Ecole Polytechnique and will be useful for graduate students and for scientists in a variety of fields.

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Laser approaches to combustion diagnostics are of considerable interest due to their remote, non-intrusive and in-situ character, unlimited temperature capability, and potential for simultaneous temporal and spatial resolution. This book aims to make these powerful and important new tools in combustion research understandable. Focuses on spectroscopically-based, spatially-precise, laser techniques for temperature and chemical composition measurements in reacting and non-reacting flows. Following introductory chapters on basic spectroscopy, laser physics, experimental methods and practical considerations, treats each of the major techniques in some detail, replete with measurement examples and references. Concludes with a treatment of field methods which employs the various techniques to perform measurements simultaneously over a two-dimensional slice of the medium being probed.

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Bible on Laser Diagnostics for Graduate and Undergraduate Students .......2005-08-22

I consider this book as Bible for graduate and undergraduate students just starting out a project on Laser Diagnostics in Combustion. This book provides a very comprehensive and in-depth review on most of the common laser-based diagnostics techniques. Even though lot of improvements and new findings on the common laser-diagnostics methods are made since the book is published, this doesn't change the fact that one needs to understand the basics before appreciating the improvements. It is true that this book doesn't provide a very thorough review on Polarization Spectroscopy or Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing, but if you look around and see what people are applying in most of the applications relevant to the design and characterization of combustors you will find that the diagnostic techniques covered in this book are in the forefront of applications.

If you are reading this then you know this is a good book.......2005-07-20

Chances are, you have searched for this book because of the numerous times its been referenced and the numerous times its been recommended to you by others. It is inarguably the definitive book on laser diagnostics for combustion. Of course, that doesnt really say much because how many books are there on such a topic? Nevertheless, it is an excellent book to give one an understanding of all the diagnostics that are available to the combustion scientist. It goes into all the gory math and physics of the techniques, but that is to be expected since all the diagnostics rely heavily on their modern physics backgrounds. Sometimes it can be extremely overwhelming to someone just wishing to use the diagnostic and not develop them, so it is not a practical book in that regard. However, when it comes time to understanding why a particular technique works the way it does, then the book serves well. Unfortunately, this book will make most sense to someone with a strong (and I mean a masters in modern physics) background in physics and most users of the book probably dont have that. One does wish that a similar book existed which outlined the techniques as used in practice. But alas, Eckbreth's is the only one out there and hence has all the details. It is not a standalone book, you must still sufficiently read other journal papers on the individual techniques. But it is not a neanderthal book and will remain to be referenced by many in those very journal papers even after other books on the topic have been written.

Outdated (neanderthal) and burdensome.......2003-01-02

The book appears to have been written by an individual who has not practiced in the field in more that 20 years. The material is hopelessly outdated - neanderthal is a word that comes to mind. The style is also somewhat overbearing and cumbersome. I would not recommend this book to anyone, anywhere. They would be better served by reading well written, current papers on the subject.

Book for all needs.......2001-03-16

I find this book to be filled with excellent explanations of fundamentals and practical information. It has been a great reference book during graduate school and beyond. I have been able to apply its content not only in the area of flame diagnostics but other investigations as well.

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Myopic Judgmentalists.......2007-08-17

Whenever you put in a search for material in support of Creation, and find a book you would like to buy, naturally, you want to read the reviews. That is what is so great about amazon.com. Almost no other website offers you a bonafide choice; and such an opportunity to browse - just as though you were in a brick and mortar book store.
In the virtual aisle where you will find Creation Science, you will also find other theories. This makes it all the more critical to have the opportunity to scan the reviews. In searching for these books, having discovered that there are alternative points of view some 7 years ago, I found that I keep 'bumping' into virtual customers whose views differ from mine. I can't help but notice, and other reviewers in this virtual aisle have also noticed, that the evolutionists can be so close minded. They are not open to new ideas. It is as though they stand guard to prevent anyone from considering another point of view.

Imagine a judge on the bench, hearing your case in court, a false accusation by a disgruntled former spouse planning on taking you to the cleaners....but the judge refuses to hear your side of the story!
This is precisely what one finds among those who treat evolution as though it were a sacred cow, whose cowpies don't stink.
I caution all of you hoping to find a nice bite sized book such as this to peruse, to skip all the one star rating reviews. Sadly, their vehement party line discourses are all too often chacterized by snarling, drooling vituperation. That should be a clue that these poor souls are regressing...devolving, as it were, into mythological neanderthals. No fair minded judge would consider their faith based belief system. They are certain that the solar system came about by the accretion disc method five billion years ago...really? Why would not our sun collect planets as it journied through space around the great wheel of our galaxy? You see what I mean by faith based belief system. They are not at all aware of the degree to which their so called bedrock science is based entirely upon inchoate gas.

Fables About Fossils and Floods.......2006-10-24

More Young Earth Creationist (YEC) dreck - lowbrow "creation science" literature exemplifies research by regurgitation - and this book hurls steaming chunks of fetid faith-based nonsense at every topic it maddingly meanders into. Meunier, an agronomist, falls off the turnip truck when he endorses a quote that defines evolution as:

"The natural development of animal and vegetable life from dead matter; and of the many-celled form coming from a one-celled form; and of the coming of eyes and ears and feet and hands and liver and lungs and digestive apparatus and heart into being by natural processes. An so the evolutionary theory is that reptiles come from fish, birds from reptiles, mammals from birds, and man from mammal. - John R. Rice"

Wolfgang Pauli (Nobel Prize for Physics, 1945) would have characterized this miscarried definition as "not even wrong." Darwinian evolution has nothing to say about the "natural development of animal and vegetable life from dead matter." Scientific research into the emergence of life is known as abiogenesis. Evolution takes over once life is established - and consequences such as "the coming of eyes and ears...into being by natural processes" come about as random mutations are acted upon by decidedly non-random natural selection. Evolution never claimed that "reptiles come from fish" (they came from amphibians descended from lobe-finned fish), or that evolution produced "mammals from birds" (mammals evolved from therapsid reptiles, birds from theropod dinosaurs). Rice finally gets "man from mammal" right although man from primate would be more germane.

Theory conflation (abiogenesis and evolution) is a stock-in-tirade creationists use to develop strawman caricatures they thump - along with bibles - to frighten, fleece and coerce befuddled flocks with nonsensical arguments.

Here's another Meunier howler concerning pterosaurs: "Theoretically, these creatures gradually developed wings, this means that at some point the flying reptiles supposedly had wings that were about 25% of their eventual size. But imagine how cumbersome such wings would have been. Those wings couldn't have allowed flight due to their small size. Reptiles would have had to drag those appendages around. These one quarter sized wings would have prevented them from either catching prey or escaping danger."

Again "not even wrong." Tiny pterosaur wings didn't just appear fully formed via some saltational fluke and then increase in size until capable of sustaining flight. Evolution shaped pterosaur wings and flight out of available limbs, digits, musculature, and metabolic resources - every intermediate step was a functional adaptation. Meunier's hallucination channels special creation, not evolution.

Pterosaurs probably evolved from a bipedal archosaur in the late Triassic period (about 225 MYA). Their early history is poorly understood due to limited fossil remains. Pterosaur wings were supported by an elongated forth digit and other morphological flight adaptations, such as a keeled sternum for the attachment of flight muscles, a short and stout humerus, and hollow limb and skull bones. Specialized epidermal fibers acted as wing supports, while others formed hair-like structures to provide thermal insulation. As a group pterosaurs thrived for 140 million years, but Meunier's timeline inexplicably terminates about six thousand years ago.

On that note let's wrap up this review with a special YEC "Happy Birthday" to the Earth. According to bishop Ussher's infamous calculation the Earth poofed into existence on October 23, 4004 BC - the same month and day that this review was written - and a date that Meunier implicitly agrees with. This makes today the planet's 6,010th birthday. Unfortunately for Meunier and his book the Earth hasn't aged well. She looks like she's about 4.54 billion years old!

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The aims of the International Conference on Physics Education in Cultural Contexts were to explore ways towards convergent and divergent physics learning beyond school boundaries, improve physics education through the use of traditional and modern cultural contexts, and exchange research and experience in physics education between different cultures.

A total of 45 papers have been selected for this volume. The material is divided into three parts: Context and History, Conceptual Changes, and Media.

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Bittersweet with funny moments

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Small Island: A Novel
Andrea Levy
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Andrea Levy's award-winning novel, Small Island, deftly brings two bleak families into crisp focus. First a Jamaican family, including the well-intentioned Gilbert, who can never manage to say or do exactly the right thing; Romeo Michael, who leaves a wake of women in his path; and finally, Hortense, whose primness belies her huge ambition to become English in every way possible. The other unhappy family is English, starting with Queenie, who escapes the drudgery of being a butcher's daughter only to marry a dull banker. As the chapters reverse chronology and the two groups collide and finally mesh, the book unfolds through time like a photo album, and Levy captures the struggle between class, race, and sex with a humor and tenderness that is both authentic and bracing. The book is cinematic in the best way--lighting up London's bombed-out houses and wartime existence with clarity and verve while never losing her character's voice or story. --Meg Halverson

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Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction
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Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve.

Told in these four voices, Small Island is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of that most American of experiences: the immigrant's life.

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Bittersweet with funny moments.......2007-09-17

This is a part of British history that the UK is only admitting to, its something that happened in our lifetime only 60 years ago, how the non white immigrants from the New World were treated by the Mother country.
This story concentrates on two immigrants from Jamaica, the four main characters are complex, neither totally likeable or totally characters that you would hate.
Hortense - a mixed race Jamaican, with a white father in a society that worshipped the fair skinned, due to her white heritage (tho illegitimate) she manages to get a reasonably good education but things don't go exactly as planned with her career so believes England is the answer to all her problems. She is the character I sympathised with the least but she does become almost likable in the end.
Gilbert-her husband, a match made in convenienece, with the same background but he is legitimate,a young man who sees the war as an adventure and a new life in England better than the life in Jamaica
but characters are in for shock when they realise Mother England may want them but their English 'siblings' do not.
Queenie/Bernard - the english couple in the story, who represent the different treatments that the immigrants recieved when the arrived. One welcoming and the other hostile.
The book meant a lot of me it was like getting a glimpse of the things my grandmother must have experienced back in the day. 2008 will be the 60th anniversary of the Windrush experience, I look forward to hearing their story told more often, they deserve it after what they had to go through.

A Great Summer Read.......2007-08-10

This book was a surprise. I had a slightly difficult time at first due to the Jamaican dialogue, but quickly got absorbed in the characters. Ms Levy's description of the war was excellent. This is the first time I felt like I understood what happened in England and India. I could feel the blast, smell the smells, feel the dirt and grime- when Queenie found herself in the middle of it. In some ways it was a tough read because the descriptions of war were so graphic and the racial prejudice so sickening.

Ms Levy pulled everything neatly together towards the end. I really enjoyed this book.

One Great Read!!.......2007-05-30

I so enjoyed this marvelous book [by a new author, for me]. Characters are so likeable -- especially Gilbert & Hortense. I especially liked that they spoke in their voices [chapters devoted to each character]. Learned much about Jamaica, emigration to England from Jamaica, the RAF, as well as the enormity of the human spirit & heart. This terrific read has alittle of everything -- including how true "newly weds" behave/adjust, mystery, etc. Another eye-opener [shamefully so!] regarding racism. The book is well orchestrated. Buy it & enjoy!

Falls short of earlier promise.......2007-03-27

This book is about the 2 small islands of Jamaica and Britain and has a good start but it's all downhill from there, the book fails because the characters are for the most part unlikable it was hard to care about any of them. The premise of this book seems to be that racism exists everywhere even in the small predominantly black island of Jamaica. Where Levy loses her footing is when she claims one form of racism is better than another. How this book won any prizes is beyond me, I am baffled by all the glowing reviews. The story centers predominantly around the characters of Hortense, Gilbert and Queenie.

The bulk of the book focuses on Hortense, a light skinned black woman living in Jamaica. Because she is lighter she has opportunities and is given breaks that she does not deserve(ie she is given high grades in cooking and it is shown in a comical way later that she obviously cant cook). Hortense glides through life as a light skinned woman in Jamaica and looks down on darker blacks as being "rough" or "coarse" but when she arrives in England and the tables are turned she is viewed with the prejudices that she had reserved for others. Because she is black most of the English people she meets thinks she is dirty, and lower class. Does all of this force Hortense to rethink her earlier views and prejudices that she had for other darker Jamaicans? Sadly the answer is a resounding No! Instead Hortense cries and feels sorry for herself because of the discrimination and racist attitudes she faces in Britain conveniently forgetting what went on in Jamaica. She feels it's okay for her to benefit from skin color discrimination in Jamaica but it's not okay when discrimination is used against her in England. Hortense never comes to any self-awareness but goes on to the end of the book with the same small minded attitudes and prejudices that she had when the book started. It was very hard to care at all about this character as she is also very selfish, narrow minded, and never experiences any personal growth or enlightenment. She goes through the book thinking the world revolves around her, she uses her friends, and when things don't go her way she cries and feels sorry for herself at what she see as the horrible injustice of her not always getting her own way.

Gilbert, Hortense's husband, doesn't fare much better. He also glides through life, and doesnt seem very bright. He puts up with a lot of Hortense's crap and seems pathetically grateful when she is nicer to him. Hortense only warms up to her husband when he gives her what her friend wanted(a nice home in London). Which goes to show how pathetic Hortense is as a character she doesnt even have her own dreams but is content to steal the boyfriend and dreams of another.

Queenie is the most likable character, but her story is the most absurd. She marries her husband Bernard for reasons that are not entirely clear. She doesn't love him, doesn't particularly seem to like him and is relieved when he goes off to war. Then inexplicably when he doesn't return to her after the war she is desperate to have him back. After the war she takes in black boarders because she knows her husband wouldn't like it and is hoping he will hear of it and come back to her. A few chapters later however, it is revealed that she doesn't love her husband but is in fact in love with another man whom she is desperate to be with. This contradicts what was said earlier but it only gets worse from here.

The whole baby part of the story was completely unbelievable. An overweight woman could hide the fact that she was pregnant but Queenie is described as very thin. Bernard even says when he sees her after the war that she is much thinner than he remembered, there is no way that she could hide the fact that she was in her last few weeks of pregnancy. I don't care how tightly you bind yourself the belly is going to show. It's also pretty silly because Bernard comments on her flat stomach when he sees her in her nightgown and then two weeks later flat stomach Queenie has a baby. When liberal minded Queenie rejects her baby because he is too dark, considering her earlier views and the fact that she claims to be madly in love with the baby's father, was just too silly for me. It was also unclear why she didn't leave for Canada like she wanted to when she found out she was pregnant. The time frame also didn't work. For the whole England part of the story to take place in the space of 10 months was also not believable.

Bernard is given a few chapters in the book but he is not very bright, more of a caricature than a character. He is the stereotypical British man, who is sexually repressed, racist, and a bit on the stupid side. Thankfully only a small section of the book is devoted to him.

Levy is a good writer and the book is at least readable even though her characters are not likable. Unfortunately Levy's message seems to be that Jamaica's racism and prejudices that has a darker underclass is better than Britains prejudices that views all blacks, regardless of skin tone the same, but that Britains racist attitudes is better than Americas racism because America has institutionalised racism. It would have been a much stronger book if the message was you shouldn't judge someone based solely on their skin tone. Hortense is upper class in Jamaica because she is light but lower class in England because although light she is still black. Racism is racism and one form of it is not better than another.

Small Island Review.......2007-03-21

This book was interesting and thought provoking but was unfortunately dragged out so that I found myself wishng she were less wordy

Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel Small Island by Andrea Levy

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Bookclub-In-A-Box Discusses the Novel Small Island by Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy
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Small Island is a delightfully entertaining and probing book about Jamaican immigration to Britain in the days after WWII. Bookclub-in-a-Box looks at how Levy presents the black and white issues of post-war London which include questions of class, race and Empire. Her parents were part of this immigration movement and Levy is interested in examining the perspective of people like her parents. Bookclub-in-a-Box introduces readers to the immigrants Gilbert Joseph and Hortense Roberts whose mutual dream has always been to move to Britain, the mother country of the colony, Jamaica. After arrival, Gilbert and Hortense move into the boarding house run by Queenie Bligh while her husband, Bernard, is away fighting the war. Through these four characters, Levy explores the impact of immigration on both the immigrant and the citizen. This Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion will guide the reader to uncovering the following: The impact and legacy of the history of the British Empire and its colony, Jamaica. The significance of the title, Small Island. Levy illustrates intolerance, stereotype and prejudice in a country which had just fought a war against intolerance, stereotype and prejudice. The question of immigration asks who is more changed, the immigrant who arrives or the people who accept them? Bookclub-in-a-Box guides you through the serious themes and perspectives that Levy brings out in her very amusing, yet emotionally poignant, scenes involving each of her four main black and white characters. The reader will navigate through their accepting and generous or judgmental and small-minded dealings with each other. The ultimate irony in the novel is that although everyone's common language is English, no one understands the other. Every Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide includes complete coverage of the themes and symbols, writing style and interesting background information on the novel and the author, as well as a complementary RAG (Read-Along-Guide), a quick reference pamphlet offering interesting facts and questions to consider while reading the novel.

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Small Gathering offers most genuine view of Jamaica Gay life

A Small Gathering of Bones
Patricia Powell
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It's 1978, and Dale Singleton is becoming alarmed as his friend, Ian Kaysen, is afflicted with a mysterious and seemingly untreatable illness characterized by pneumonia, lesions, and dementia. This novel of the first days of AIDS is viscerally affecting, as it conveys the shocked puzzlement of those troubled by Ian's condition while simultaneously documenting Jamaican society's struggle to accept the dignity of gay love. Dale's world collapses, yet his experience of being gay in a middle-class culture circumscribed by church, family, and compulsory heterosexuality is hauntingly memorable-and familiar.

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Small Gathering offers most genuine view of Jamaica Gay life.......1998-09-18

"A Small Gathering of Bones" offers one of the most genuine renderings of Gay life in the Caribbean in print. It shows with refreshing accuracy the spaces Gay men have created within Jamaican society as well as their challenges. Powell's writing creates surprising and intimate textures of male life. "Small Gathering" gives the lie to many stereotypes of Gay life in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

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