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Creativity in Virtual Teams offers a well-researched and practical resource that outlines a new model for attaining high levels of creativity in virtual working arrangements to anyone who designs, manages, or participates in virtual teams. Written by Jill E. Nemiro—an expert in building organizations and virtual teams—Creativity in Virtual Teams provides a valuable tool that takes you beyond mere theory. Within these pages, the author leads you through a series of diagnostic tools, questions for reflection, checklists, and exercises that will help you assess and develop the five key components—design, climate, resources, norms and protocols, and continual assessment and learning—that will foster creativity in your virtual teams. In addition, Creativity in Virtual Teams is filled with illustrative lessons learned from nine highly successful and innovative virtual teams.

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A Masterful Work.......2005-01-01

Dr. Nemiro has raised the standard on books on virtual creativity. Her expansive and detailed rendering of the subject should help this book find its way to a number of re-issues. As a magazine editor who works with writers from all over the continent, I can appreciate the comparison of differing virtual models. I only wish that I had had Dr. Nemiro's book a decade earlier before I began my career in publishing. Regardless, I am grateful for this book - for the precision work of a fine mind.

Highly recommended.......2004-10-17

Working in the film business and having been a member of virtual teams in the past, this book has helped me understand why some teams have worked while others haven't. In particular, I enjoyed the section on climate and interpersonal communication and bonding. With the future promising increased use of distance collaboration, this will be my reference for being part of a healthy, productive team. I highly recommend this book.

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Health can be defined in any number of ways, from the simple fact that you're not lying on a hospital bed to an overall sense of well-being and connectedness. One person may not feel healthy unless he's carrying around mounds of gym-built muscle, while another doesn't feel healthy unless she's eating an intestine-scrubbing macrobiotic diet and practicing an hour of yoga each day.

Dr. Andrew Weil looks at every aspect of health in Natural Health, Natural Medicine. He's quite cynical about bodybuilding and the emphasis on protein in our diets, while making a strong case for paying more attention to the way we breathe and the degree to which we interact with family, community, and nature. An interesting--but, unfortunately, short--section on loving says that most people have no idea what to do when they fall out of romantic love with a partner, which helps explain the high divorce rate.

Other sections of the book focus on healthy self-care practices ("nasal douching" is recommended for sinus sufferers), supplements (he believes most benefits that seem to come from these are placebo responses), and natural home remedies for an A-to-Z list of problems (the section on depression states that people experience low mood because they constantly seek highs; eliminate the quest for highs, and you eliminate the rebound experience of lows).

Many regard this book as the bible of natural healing; but even those who are on the fence about alternative medicine should find it to be an entertaining, informative, and highly opinionated beginner's guide to achieving better health without conventional medicine. --Lou Schuler

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As health care costs continue to skyrocket and the national debate on health care reform rages on, Americans are taking greater charge of their health. This revised edition of Natural Health, Natural Medicine equips readers with the latest information on prevention and treatment of many common ailments using alternative methods that are safe, natural, effective, and not as expensive as standard medical treatments.

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Good Advice If Used Properly.......2006-01-29

Dr. Weil has always given good advice. Alot of it is common sense, which is in short supply nowadays.

I would like to comment on others that have said that Dr. Weil is against weight lifting. This is 100% untrue. He is not against weight lifting or strength training. He disagrees with bodybuilding to the extent that it's more about appearance than health. He states in his book that women who do weight-bearing exercises have better protection against calcium loss and osteoporosis and have increased metabolism.

There is no author/doctor that you should blindly follow. Do your own homework and use peoples' advice where it best fits your own situation. Read a variety of authors such as Dr. Weil, Gary Null and others. Learn about your own situation and what would be best for you to do. Sometimes natural health is the way to go and sometimes you need a conventional doctor. Even Dr. Weil will tell you that! :)

I really liked it.......2003-05-11

I really liked this book, it told a lot about alternative health that openend my eyes. It is amazing how much more options are out there besides the "allopathic" approach.

Don't consult this book!.......2002-07-12

Not too long ago Mr. Weil appeared on a television show giving healthy eating tips. It was apparent that Mr.Weil was carrying lots of extra weight while the interviewers were trim. Wake up America, this guy is bogus. This book is especially riddled with bad advice. He totally denigrates any weight-lifting (crucial for women to elevate their metabolism and ensure healthy bone mass). He also advocates trimming your protein consumption to a bare minimum. Current wisdom is shifting to the value of good supplies of low-fat protein. Don't buy this book.

Good advice.......2002-01-20

This book needs to be updated a little - last update was 1998/99. However, still good common sense advice. His approach is to tell you what he has found but he acknowledges that every BODY is different -- use his advice as a guideline to discover what really works for you. Good for someone suffering from "mystery diseases" or just fed up with the American Medical System.

Weil is a Victim of His Own Education.......2001-07-14

I found Dr. Weil to be very uninformed on many topics. For instance, he says nobody, including bodybuilders, needs to supplement with protein. Apparently he hasn't read any studies in the last four decades.

He also calls fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and several other diseases "fashionable". (Weil's education taught him what to think rather than how to think.) He talks in a very demeaning manner about victims of these diseases, as if they are all simply crazy people who need mental help. It's unfortunate he used his book as an outlet for his ignorance and poor bedside manner. These diseases are very real and just because doctors like Mr. Weil cannot help sufferers of such diseases is no cause to let his monstrous ego get in the way. Fibromyalgia is still fibromyalgia--regardless what you want to call it.

He also talks about placebo effects with supplements. Again, he didn't do his homework. Placebo effects are always possible with any treatment or preventive measure. However, countless studies have shown the benefit of supplements. For a much more informed view from a real expert, read Lester Packer's books.

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Natural Health, Natural Medicine - A Comprehensive Manual For Wellness And Self-care, Revised Edition
Andrew, M.D. Weil
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Natural Health, Natural Medicine: A Comprehensive Manual for Wellness and Self-Care
Andrew X. Weil
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Every year Earth is bombarded with about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial material. This includes microscopic cosmic dust particles shed by comets and asteroids in outer space, meteorites, as well as large comets and asteroids that have led to catastrophic events in the geologic past. Originally considered only a curiosity, extraterrestrial matter found on Earth provides the only samples we have from comets, asteroids and other planets. Only recently mankind has started to actively collect extraterrestrial matter in space (Apollo program, Stardust mission) rather than to wait for its delivery to Earth. Still, most of our knowledge of the origin and evolution of our solar system is based on careful studies of meteorites, cosmic dust, and traces of large impact events in the geologic record such as the mass extinction that terminated the Cretaceous Period and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
This book summarizes our current knowledge of the properties, origin, orbital evolution and accretion mechanism of extraterrestrial matter accreted on Earth and sheds light on accretion processes and fluxes in the geologic past. The chapters in the first part of the book are arranged in order to follow extraterrestrial matter from its origin in space, its orbital evolution on its way to Earth, its interaction with the Earth magnetosphere and atmosphere to its more or less violent collision with the Earth's surface. In the second part of the book several chapters deal with the present?day flux of cosmic dust and meteorites to Earth. Finally, several chapters deal with the reconstruction of the accretion history of extraterrestrial matter on Earth, starting with the most recent geologic past and ending with the very early, violent accretion period shortly after the formation of Earth, Moon and other solid planets in our solar system.

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Transport Phenomena of Foods and Biological Materials provides comprehensive coverage of transport phenomena modeling in foods and other biological materials. The book is unique in its consideration of models ranging from rigorous mathematical to empirical approaches, including phenomenological and semi-empirical models. It examines cell structure and descriptions of other non-traditional models, such as those based on irreversible thermodynamics or those focused on the use of the chemical and electrochemical potential as the driving forces of transport. Other topics discussed include the source term (important for the coupling transport phenomena-reaction or other intentional/unintentional phenomena) and the connections between transport phenomena modeling and design aspects. Some 100 tables provide useful summaries of the characteristics of each model and provide data about the transport properties of an extensive variety of foods. Transport Phenomena of Foods and Biological Materials will benefit a broad audience of chemists, biochemists, biotechnologists, and other scientists in the academic and industrial realm of foods and biological materials.

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The Genomic Potential Hypothesis is a biochemist's view of the origin, evolution, and development of life. The arguments given in this book question the old explanation in order to make room for new thoughts at the sight of the same evidence. It is widely accepted that there is no way to proof a hypothesis, but a current hypothesis can be disproved when science has driven development beyond the foundation of the old model. So it happens that the same data will be presented with a new interpretation and that too is not uncommon in a world that was mostly flat not too long ago.

Evolution is the ripening of the embryonic quasi stem cells of each origin which began to transform, group by group, into the final phenotype in the Cambrian, the least complex ones being first to make their fossil imprint. Once established species do not branch or adapt beyond physiological limits. Stressed beyond these limits a species will suffer extinction. Mutations are not a mechanism to produce new organisms. Therefore there are no intermediate forms and the evolutionary trees are an image created by the sequential ripening of pro-forms and their rapid rise into the fossil scene.

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Embryos swimming in a fresh water pond!.......2003-06-17

To overthrow the ruling paradigm in a scientific discipline one needs a much more solid critique than Schwabe offered in this 114-page book. Schwabe thinks it is easy to overthrow Darwinism because all the evidence is against Darwinism and there is no evidence in favour of Darwinism. But anyone trying to do this must not only be an expert on the paradigm at hand, neo-Darwinism, but must also possess a fairly good knowledge of the relevant disciplines, in this case evolutionary biology, genetics, cell-biology, ecology, palaeontology, systematics and developmental biology. Schwabe fails most seriously in the biological disciplines. And chemical reductionism cannot compensate for this. His goal to derive as many as possible properties of life from the laws of chemistry is good mainstream science, and a DNA/gene-centred view is common in the age of genomics. However when organism and its environment entirely disappear from the stage, reductionism is counter-productive. This is especially obvious with his science fiction alternative (embryos in a fresh water pond). At times Schwabe is a good critic of Darwinism, but at other times he just repeats the 15-year-old example of Michael Denton, ignoring that Denton recently adopted common descent and evolution. Multiple origins of life (in a restricted form) is creeping into the textbooks of evolution. To deal with Schwabe's theory kept me busy for months with a mixture of excitement, amazement and a growing disappointment and brought me into every area of biology. It is useful to have an alternative scientific theory for Darwinism, but Schwabe's theory in its extreme form is no viable alternative to natural selection and common descent. Dissenters such as Schwabe maybe critical but not more self-critical than the average mainstream scientist. Both just follow a different paradigm to wherever it leads them. Evolution may have its anomalies and puzzles, I prefer it above science fiction. Gert Korthof

The Genomic Potential Hypothesis : A Chemist's View of the Origins, Evolution and Unfolding of Life (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit, 16) (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit, 16)

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The Genomic Potential Hypothesis : A Chemist's View of the Origins, Evolution and Unfolding of Life (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit, 16) (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit, 16)
Christian Schwabe
Manufacturer: NY
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They are perhaps the most famous literary instructions never followed: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread...." Thankfully, Max Brod did not honor his friend Franz Kafka's final wishes. Instead, he did everything within his power to ensure that Kafka's work would find publication--including making some sweeping changes in the original texts. Until recently, the world has known only Brod's version of Kafka, with its altered punctuation, word order, and chapter divisions. Restoring much of what had previously been expunged, as well as the fluid, oral quality of Kafka's original German, Mark Harman's new translation of The Castle is a major literary event.

One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach.

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Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. As the villagers and the Castle officials block his efforts at every turn, K.’s consuming quest–quite possibly a self-imposed one–to penetrate the inaccessible heart of the Castle and take its measure is repeatedly frustrated. Kafka once suggested that the would-be surveyor in The Castle is driven by a wish “to get clear about ultimate things,” an unrealizable desire that provided the driving force behind all of Kafka’s dazzlingly uncanny fictions.

Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

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One Of Kafka's Best Works.......2007-08-15

Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. He was a Jew living in Prague and working for the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He wrote in his spare time and was inspired by the problems associated with bureaucratic institutions - such as we read in "The Castle."

I read all of Kafka's work and am putting together a Listmania list from my notes and experiences. His short novella "Metamorphosis" is among the best short works ever written. Unfortunately, he did not write and publish much when he was alive. Most of what is available was published after his early death, and some of it is edited (possibly) poorly as in "Amerika." His writings vary from novels to one page impressions of life, such as one essay that is about looking out a window. The novels revolve around a young to middle aged protagonist male named "K," who battles the courts and bureaucrats.

I read this new translation and thought that it was a good to great novel. It is very innovative and it is a bit provocative. Also, sometimes it is very funny. Compared to some of his other works it is less intense than say "The Trial" and less creative than "Metamorphosis," but still it is good. Overall, I like "Metamorphosis" for its originality and "The Castle" as an unusual read. The latter is not as good as the former, nor are many other works by Kafka, or for that matter many other writers.

The protagonist is the male character, presumably about 30, or in his late 20s, simply known as "K." The story is about K's attempt to meet with the leaders of a castle which dominates a small town, so that he can do work for which they have contracted him to do. He goes a round in circles trying to accomplish this goal and the mystery is whether or not he can meet them. As we saw in "The Trial," he develops a relationship with a woman that has a simple job. Here it is a barmaid.

The novel is good but the reader is left with this question: will we ever understand all of his writings as English readers? Are there points here that we will miss because of the translation to English? I found this quotation that makes that point (from Wikipedia):

"Kafka often made extensive use of a trait special to the German language allowing for long sentences that sometimes can span an entire page. Kafka's sentences then deliver an unexpected impact just before the period--that being the finalizing meaning and focus. This is achieved due to the construction of certain sentences in German which require that the verb be positioned at the end of the sentence. Such constructions are not duplicable in English, so it is up to the translator to provide the reader with the same effect found in the original text."

In any case, this is not as good as Metamorphosis, and few would expect that it could be, but still it is excellent.

A contrarian viewpoint.......2007-06-22

"And what did we do meanwhile?" (page 212)

If anything, this is what the book is about - not the bureaucracy that serves as an existentialist "MacGuffin" ( a plot device that motivates the characters but otherwise has little relevance to the story). This unfinished novel is about the daily, almost interminable, actions & interactions that take place while K. is waiting for some sort of recognition from the Castle officials - and even he is not at all clear what this would entail: "the only possible solution is that everything is unclear and insoluble...".

The novel could be amusingly retitled: "How to Not Win Friends & Influence People" - the narrative is a catalog of K.'s pettiness, his jealousies that often seem deranged, his self-centered rudeness to others, his Herculean abilities to misread just about every situation that he is involved in, his clumsy sexuality (rolling on the floor of the taproom with Frieda, just outside of Klamm's office).

The supposed enigma is that K. is searching for the "key" to the Castle - a key which probably does not exist. Whether he admits it to himself or not, K. is another one, like those he belittles around him, who are more interested in "stories about the Castle". And there are times when he seems to acknowledge this about himself - and yet, his pride, and his schemes to be recognized as worthy of the Castle, return.

As character after character tells K., in more or less the same words, "You are misinterpreting everything".

Beware! This page refers to the Muir translation.......2006-12-16

The reviews on this page refer to the newest edition and translation of The Castle, but the publication being advertised on this page is the old, error-filled Muir translation. Look inside the book and check the copyright information to avoid ordering by error. I made the mistake of ordering from this page and received the Muir translation, which I already had in an older printing.

Kafka's World.......2006-12-05

Based upon re-collections of Kafka's own experiences in Prague where a castle towers above the city, the seat of the government. Kafka made a trip to a small village in the mountains covered in snow and this is how the story begins. The characters and situations inspired by Kafka's real life relationships with his father and lovers, tenuous occupation as a lawyer and the plight of the Jews who feel alienated and persecuted from the Ghetto Josefov are all portrayed in The Castle.

K's dream nightmare is simply the dire poverty and humiliation which he and many of the villagers find themselves ensconced. Whether this is a result of the oppressive system or of a flaw in the villager's themselves is never made clear. The fragments of stories have unsatisfactory conclusions and still touch on interesting ideas, some of it is a very tedious read. However as Kafka skillfully evokes fear and pity, his game is to obfuscate and he discovers there are no answers to his questions.

The novel was meant to end in K's sickness and death and, just as in real life, Kafka never achieves his desire to become a full-time writer and becomes mired in a bureaucratic desk occupation.

a good short story turned into an overlong novel.......2006-08-27

Although I think many of the positive reviews accurately described this book, I felt like I got the point after one or two hundred pages. Certainly, this book describes how incomprehensible and annoying bureaucracy can be - but it wasn't all that readable.

The Castle: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text.

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The Castle: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text.
Franz. KAFKA
Manufacturer: NY: Schocken
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Vanessa Finch reviews U.K. corporate insolvency laws and processes, with two key questions posed throughout. Are current U.K. laws and procedures efficient, expert, accountable and fair? Are fundamentally different conceptions needed for the law to develop in a way that serves corporate and broader social ends? Topics considered in this volume include different ways of financing companies, causes of corporate failure and prospects for designing rescue-friendly processes. The book appeals to academics, students at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels and legal practitioners.

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Corporate Insolvency Law Perspectives and Principles

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Corporate Insolvency Law Perspectives and Principles
Vanessa Finch
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