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Presents five approaches—strong visible leadership, "thinking" literacy, overcoming functional myopia, creating effective learning teams and managers as enablers—essential to create a true learning organization. By focusing on the learning requirements of employees, companies can impact major change initiatives such as reengineering and TQM.

Re-Educating the Corporation : Foundations for the Learning Organization

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Re-Educating the Corporation : Foundations for the Learning Organization
Daniel R. Tobin
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This volume arises from the conference Sediment Transport and Deposition by Particulate Gravity Currents held in the UK in 1998. The field of particulate gravity currents ranges from turbidity currents in the oceans, lakes and reservoirs to pyroclastic density currents and avalanches, debris flows and lahars, grainflows, powder snow avalanches, effluent dispersal and ancient gravity current deposits.Although the sub-division of particulate gravity currents into discrete sub-categories (such as grain flows, turbidity currents or debris flows) provides a convenient descriptive shorthand, it undermines the sense of process continuum needed to describe many natural flows. The structure of this volume reflects an integrative aim, with papers grouped by research approach. The first section of the book contains six papers on theoretical and numerical modelling of a range of flow types. The following four papers are focused upon combined theoretical and experimental modelling approaches. The next section contains four papers describing experimental modelling and the final section includes five papers detailing field-based studies.The volume stands as a testament to the broad range of research carried out on particulate gravity currents, and hints at the enhanced rate of progress that is likely to be achieved through further integrated studies.

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NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers in Solution and in the Solid State provides reviews and original papers on the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for polymers. Both synthetic and natural polymers are covered. This book also discusses both solution and solid state NMR.

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The Comprehensive Sourcebook of Bacterial Protein Toxins, Second Edition, provides an up-to-date description of the great advances made in our understanding of the structure, genetics, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of action of bacterial protein toxins over the past decade. This work follows and expands on the first edition (published in 1991), with 70% totally new content and full-color illustrations. Molecular biology, microbiology, immunology, cell biology, protein engineering, structural biochemistry, and clinical research in infectious diseases are brought together to provide a complete overview of the field.

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Medical Microbiology, 24th edition (Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology)

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The landmark clinical guide to the role microorganisms play in human health and illnesses -extensively revised and updated

Linking fundamental microbiology concepts with the diagnosis and treatment of clinical infections, this one-of-a-kind, portable text delivers an essential overview of the organisms and agents involved in clinical microbiology. In addition to brief descriptions of the organisms, you'll find vital perspectives on pathogenesis, diagnostic laboratory tests, clinical findings, treatment, and epidemiology. The book's purpose is to introduce basic clinical microbiology through the fields of bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology giving you a far-reaching, yet accessible review of the discipline that you can't find anywhere else. Supporting this acclaimed coverage are more than 300 informative illustrations and tables, each designed to clarify and drive home important chapter concepts.

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Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry

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Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry

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Among the vast and rapidly growing field of AIDS research, there is an ample body of evidence supporting the fact that psychiatric treatment can decrease transmission, diminish suffering, improve adherence, and decrease morbidity and mortality. There is probably no other illness in which the connections between mind and body are so inextricably woven. But until now there has been no comprehensive textbook of AIDS psychiatry to guide clinicians towards providing much needed care. Using a biopsychosocial approach, this 41-chapter volume offers insight into the interface between the psychiatric, medical, and social dimensions of HIV and AIDS. Drawing on clinical experience as well as evidence-based medicine, this textbook provides a basic understanding of the comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions that cause distress, morbidity, and mortality in persons with HIV and AIDS, while at the same time examining the epidemic from the viewpoints of public health and public policy experts.

Comprehensive Virology (Physics of Atoms and Molecules)

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Comprehensive Virology (Physics of Atoms and Molecules)
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
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Comprehensive Virology 15: Virus-Host Interactions: Immunity to Viruse

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Comprehensive Virology, (Advances in Primatology)

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Comprehensive Virology: Viral Cytopathology Volume 19 (Comprehensive Cytopathology)

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Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again. . . .

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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.......2007-09-13

I love the movie version. Watch it about once a year. The book fleshes out the beloved characters very well. The book is a keepsake to be re-read often.

A Treasure.......2007-07-26

First off, the title is one of the best ever; and everything about this book lives up to it. Not a story that is reeled out in a straight cast but payed out slowly- under and over stories artfully woven. The character's names, the place, the times, the sounds of the train, the smells of all that fabulous pre-health conscious stuff frying on the grill. Boy oh boy!
The hope of life against the odds. This is one classic book.

I quite liked it!.......2007-07-18

Whenever I see a movie that was originally a book, I always want to read the book. Then i got on amazon and saw how many people were just lovin the book! So i got. And here I am, to make my own rave review.
Although the book jumps around alot, somehow I never got confused or annoyed. It just still fit seamlessly together, ninny telling her story and the rest being filled in. And then it tells the story of Evelyn, who's struggling with depression and her want to die. And then it goes through with her as she suddenly becomes angry, calling herself Towanda.
I'd say that it's definately worth the money.

Better than the movie!.......2007-07-09

Read the book, it's better than the movie and you will be glad you did.

Book.......2007-07-03

I loved it. I watched the movie first and now am reading the book and it's just fantastic!

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Slight inaccuracies, but on the whole well-researched

A Tudor soap opera

Okay, but....

Worth reading, if only for comparison

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The Last Boleyn: A Novel
Karen Harper
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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ASIN: 0307237907
Release Date: 2006-02-28

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She Survived Her Own Innocence, and the Treachery of Europe’s Royal Courts

Greed, lust for power, sex, lies, secret marriages, religious posturing, adultery, beheadings, international intrigue, jealousy, treachery, love, loyalty, and betrayal. The Last Boleyn tells the story of the rise and fall of the Boleyns, one of England’s most powerful families, through the eyes of the eldest daughter, Mary.

Although her sister, Anne, the queen; her brother, George, executed alongside Anne; and her father, Thomas, are most remembered by history, Mary was the Boleyn who set into motion the chain of events that brought about the family’s meteoric rise to power, as well as the one who managed to escape their equally remarkable fall. Sent away to France at an extraordinarily young age, Mary is quickly plunged into the dangerous world of court politics, where everything is beautiful but deceptive, and everyone she meets is watching and quietly manipulating the events and people around them. As she grows into a woman, Mary must navigate both the dangerous waters ruled by two kings and the powerful will of her own family in order to find a place for herself and the love she so deeply desires.

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Karen Harper is the author of a bestselling series of Elizabeth I mysteries, which includes The Poyson Garden, The Tidal Poole, The Thorne Maze, and The Queene’s Christmas. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, and Naples, Florida.

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Slight inaccuracies, but on the whole well-researched.......2007-02-07

Having read both this and The Other Boleyn Girl, I find this to be the more accurate of the two. Mary Boleyn was the eldest of all three Boleyn siblings, born somewhere around 1499, Anne 1501, and George 1503. Anne was the sibling sent to study in the Netherlands, but this was not known until recently. Mary was actually sent home at the age of 20 in disgrace after sleeping around Francois's court in France (where she was his mistress), became Henry's mistress, and married Will Carey when she was about 21. The affair with Henry (which wass initiated after she married Will Carey) lasted two years at the most. Her eldest child was the son named Henry, not Catherine as in The Other Boleyn Girl. His paternity is questioned, but he is generally accepted to be Will Carey's son, and was born about two years after Mary and Henry parted ways. Mary's daughter, Catherine, is indisputably Carey's child, born five years after their affair ended. Some dates are slightly inaccurate, as Mary was pregnant with Catherine when Will died of the sweat. There is no evidence Mary had an affair with William Stafford while she was still married to Will Carey, and there is no record of Andrew, only a son who died at the age of ten. Philippa Gregory's version of their child, Anne, is rumored to have been real, but there is no real evidence of her existence. Other slight inaccuracies include the color of Mary Tudor's hair, Catherine of Aragon's title after the separation, the length Mary was Henry's mistress, etc. Also, Mary was older than William Stafford, by somewhere around 14 years. On the whole, however, Harper's facts are more accurate, which makes the book more enjoyable than Gregory's.

A Tudor soap opera.......2007-01-11

Always love anything portraying the soap opera that was the Tudor dynasty. A little bit of a slow start, but picks up nicely and then I had trouble putting it down. Was confused at first at the spelling of Boleyn as Bullen throughout the vast majority of the novel and knew there had to be an explanation, but it didn't come until very close to the end; would have been nice to see a reference to it sooner. I have already read THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL by Philippa Gregory (one of my favorite books ever and also about Mary Boleyn), but enjoyed this version as well. If memory serves me; however, I believe that the Gregory version portrayed a different outcome in Mary Boleyn's life after being cast aside by King Henry-which is right? This version got a little too romantic for me at times, but nonetheless, enjoyable. I do recommend reading this.

Okay, but...........2006-12-25

The writing itself is done well, but there are too many factual errors that kept annoying me throughout the novel. As mentioned earlier, Mary Tudor is described as having "raven" hair, Katharine of Aragon is called the "Duchess", not "Dowager Princess" of Wales, and Jane Parker is known as Jane Rochford in her maidenhood, when she did not acquire that title until much later and then only through her husband. I also thought having Mary become Francois's mistress before she married and became Henry's was a bit too much. Mary is not as likable as in "The Other Boleyn Girl". On the whole, I would recommend this book to readers who have already read that title and would like to compare the two.

Worth reading, if only for comparison.......2006-05-12

(both with other books about the era and with Karen Harper's later work)

Anyone who needs a dose of humility regarding just how little we know about history should read this book (originally published in 1983 as _Passion's Reign_) in conjunction with Philippa Gregory's _The Other Boleyn Girl_. Although the portrayal of Anne Boleyn's sister Mary as well as the basic plot outline, following history, is similar in the two books, the details, interpretations of relationships and behavior, and many other things are completely different. Some of this is due to advances in historical research. For example, it was originally accepted that Mary was the elder sister; now Anne is generally believed to be, but the fact is that as members of the relatively minor gentry the years of their births were considered to be to unimportant to be recorded at the time. Much of the difference, however, is just due to different emphases and the interpretations of the individual authors. What was Mary's relationship with William Carey (her first husband) like? Did she marry him when barely into her teens or after she already had caught King Henry VIII's eye? Was he or the king the father of her children? When did she meet her second husband? The records are not always clear, and this leaves a lot of room for authorial creativity.

In the highly-regarded Elizabeth I mysteries, I have generally found Harper's historical research to be impeccable, but it is quite a bit more shaky here. For example, numerous references are made to the Duchess of Suffolk's daughter "Margaret," when a glance at any basic genealogy would have shown that there was no such person. Either Harper is referring to the daughter and namesake of Henry's other sister or to one of the Duchess' daughters, whose names were Frances and Eleanor. Things such as this may be minor, but they can be annoying, especially when repeated several times. The Duchess of Suffolk, the famous "Tudor Rose" who is well known to have shared Henry's coloring, is also referred to as having "raven" hair.

On the whole, however, I found this novel to be fairly well-written, and it kept me reading, even though I knew the basic storyline. The historical Mary Boleyn is an incredibly sympathetic character, and as a pawn of her father and husband in their paths to the king's favor, it is easy to feel sorry for her, but as she seems to have done in real life, she eventually finds the courage to stand up for herself and her right to happiness. Harper's portrayal of Anne is much more sympathetic than Gregory's, although I still don't get enough of a sense of her first "great love," the thwarting of which is supposed to drive much of her later career. (I also have to say that I cannot imagine Anne Boleyn giggling, as she does at least twice in this book!) Mary's parents and her second husband William Stafford are also clearly and convincingly drawn, although "Staff," as he is known throughout, is a bit too much the clich?d "masterful lover" of the romances for my taste. The well-known figures of the era such as Henry himself are not so vividly portrayed, nor are the machinations of court life, although an intriguing and slightly (but not entirely) sinister cameo of his minister Thomas Cromwell is provided. In addition, there are many other masterful touches, even though this must have been one of Harper's earliest novels.

Skip this.......2006-05-11

The Last Boleyn is the story of Mary Boleyn, older sister to Anne Boleyn. At a young age she was sent to the French court, where she quickly attracted the atention of King Francois. Upon her return to England, Mary became the paramour of Henry VIII and the mother of his children. The book follows Mary's relationship with him, as well, as he relationship with her husband William Carey and lover, William Stafford. It ends climactically with Anne Boleyn's execution--though the reader will have already guessed by that point that that's where it would in fact end.

The story of the Boleyn family in its entrely is an interesting on,e and it is easy to see how an author might be inspired to write about it. But The Last Boleyn Girl simply rehashes material and gives us no new insights into the lives or personalities of the persons involved. Mary Boleyn comes across as an extremely unlikeable person, as does her sister Anne and King Henry (though, to give the author credit, historically he wasn't such a nice guy).

This book was not one of the best historical fiction I have ever read. The author becomes too bogged down with historical facts and data that she doesn't focus very well upon the story at hand. I reccommend Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl instead.

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