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No one cares about your money as much as you do!

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Best-selling author, Sandra Foster, offers a thought-provoking, forward look at what is happening in the financial services industry and empowers consumers to demand more. Featuring examples, trends, tips, and checklists to help you make sound financial decisions, Who's Minding Your Money? takes you through the best the industry has to offer as well as its potential minefields.

Role Play Made Easy: 25 Structured Rehearsals For Managing Problem Situations and Dealing With Difficult People
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Written by training expert Susan El-Shamy, Role Play Made Easy is a practical and highly accessible resource for planning, preparing, and implementing effective role-playing activities that are solidly grounded in proven learning techniques. Role Play Made Easy offers trainers at all levels of expertise the step-by-step guidance needed to facilitate role playing activities that are appropriate for a wide variety of organizations and training situations. The book’s 25 role play activities are designed to help participants build skills, boost confidence, and increase the likelihood of behavioral change. Role Play Made Easy offers many types of role-playing activities and also includes

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Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering.
Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to patient "noncompliance," inevitably lead to blaming the victims. In reality, larger forces, global as well as local, determine why some people are sick and others are shielded from risk. Yet this moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer writes of what can be done in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need. Infections and Inequalities weds meticulous scholarship with a passion for solutions--remedies for the plagues of the poor and the social maladies that have sustained them.

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careless errors, mediocre conclusion.......2006-06-15

By claiming "social reform," Farmer contradicts his stance as an American citizen: Haiti has no money to support its own citizens, that's why the US and others are doing Haiti's job. But, the US has to care for its own citizens as well therefore has to first work on its own AIDS patients within its boundary. If the US does that as its social reform, Haiti instantly dries up.

Irritating mistakes somehow got through inspection: PAligre Dam? PEligre? (P. 174) PuertO Plata? PueltA? (P. 119)

Medical-anthropological approach to HIV & TB illuminates roles of inequality and poverty in spread of disease.......2005-07-11

Farmer, a physician-anthropologist and activist, examines both the way that poverty and inequality result in the spread of HIV and TB today and the flawed justifications for inequitable access to treatment. His ethnographic analysis provides a powerful complement to standard epidemiological work, and this treatise on the danger as well as the immorality of inequity in medical care is largely convincing.

Farmer illustrates several broad themes effectively with case studies from Haiti and Peru. One is the idea that most studies overemphasize individual agency, failing to recognize serious "structural" factors, such as the pressure that extreme poverty exerts on people to engage in unhealthy behaviors and the problems introduced by economic inequality. (One example of the latter is that in unequal countries like Peru, second-line TB drugs are available because of demand by the rich, so doctors also prescribe them to the poor who can only afford them intermittently, which generates drug-resistant strains of the disease.) Another theme is that people in rich nations tend to place heavy weight on "strange" cultural beliefs and customs in explaining high disease prevalence, whereas actual epidemiological research tends to show that these factors carry little weight relative to poverty-related factors. While he uses AIDS in Haiti to illustrate this tendency, it applies perfectly to popular Western conceptions of AIDS in Africa: the popular media tend to emphasize cultural practices such as wife inheritance and a strong sex drive, whereas epidemiological research fails to support a major role for these.

A third theme, which Farmer often trumpets but not as convincingly, is that many of the trade-offs voiced by policymakers are ultimately false. One example is the question of whether to treat tuberculosis with drugs or prevent it (e.g., by investing in economic development). He then uses the success of his clinic in Haiti as an example of both treating and preventing TB. The ultimate argument is that the wealthy have no right to withhold their wealth from the poor. However, he gives us no clear sense of how the resources to generalize this to the world at large should be marshaled. While the trade-off may be philosophically false, the practical application is unclear.

But even without a plan of action, Farmer illuminates key problems in the analysis of infectious disease spread and makes a convincing plea to share the wealth (and the technology).

Wonderful etiological analysis, but unfounded conclusions. .......2004-07-24

Anyone in the public health arena has heard (or even read) of Paul Farmer. The Harvard MD/PhD (Anthropolgy) is indeed a passionate and competant professional who has fresh drive and leads a commendable life in service to humanity. This book seems to be his most popular work (at least on campus of major public health colleges) and it deserves attention and analysis.

Farmer gives systematic treatment of HIV and TB etiology and prevalence in the US and Haiti. More importantly, how those diseases affect the poor in inequitable ways. Peppered with intimate anecdotes and cutting analysis, the book brings hard ideas with the immediacy of the individual plight. He debunks myth of AIDS early history and establishes perspetive for the disease to be viewed/studied in light of the poor and the strucutral violence that (he deems) causes the propensity of the disease in the lower levels of society. He offers solutions and pleas for attention to these 'new plagues' so that the effects can be mitigated for the sake of all humanity.

There are some issues with that perspective. Of course every author brings inherent bias to the writing (either intentional or not), but Farmer makes no apology for his worldview and dismisses opinions of others who are even within the sientific community as he. John Stuart Mill (in "On Liberty") would say that such an attitude is likened to assuming infallibility (which Farmer more or less accuses the attitude of the 'rich' toward the modern plagues). His neo-Marxist tendency completely undermines the state of the world and he therefore addresses his problems from a "the way it should be" approach. That is his prerogative, but taking such an attitude means that his ideas will remain just that: ideas. His lack of pragmatism borders a silent taint of militarism and that approach rarely attracts policy makers, even those on the left.

Farmer assumes that a preponderence of evidence precludes a serious analysis of personal aganecy. No one would argue the conflict of structural violence and the inherent effects on personal agency. Yet, the fact remains that it does exist and it at least needs to be addressed in a thorough matter in order to be a fair treatment of the subject matter.

Furthermore, he needed to address the distal factors (i.e etiology and biology of the diseases) with the proximate (i.e. socio-econimics, etc...) for the book to be of more interest to the lay person. Despite my reservations, it is still a great book to get the reader "out of the box" and see AIDS and TB with the urgency it deserves. Yet, this type of book needs to be in the hands of the lay, and this recommendation would help.

Lastly, Farmer claims on several occasions a foundation of political economy in the analysis of his subject. He is a physician and anthropologist, and without the concurrent opinions of a political-economist to back up his claims, the ideas therein are weak at best. His political-economic opinions may be in line with greats like Marx and Henry George, but he cannot assume the validity of his assumptions just by telling the readership he his resting on such evidence. Several other leading political-economic ideas stand in direct opposition to his conclusions of goverment fixing all health problems to his liking.

All in all, it is hard not to be moved by Farmer's compelling treatment of such horrendous plagues on humanikind. Yet, passion does not always equal pragmatic and working solutions. Therefore, his work will hopefully inspire those who can take his passion to offer clear and viable solutions in the war on these plagues.

Michael Jewell, MPH

Shining a Light.......2004-01-02

Dr. Farmer sums up what you can hear in his lectures (he is an amazing speaker), read in journals, and hear in his interviews: The "modern day plagues" result directly from Structural Violence. I read this book for my culture and health class and could not put it down. He writes with an eloquence unheard of in most anthropologists while at the same time with the passion of a deeply concerned physician. Although in some points the book can get repetitive (as case studies overlap) it is a spectacular, enlightening read that I would recommend to anyone, particularly potential (and current) medical anthropologists.

Complex causality: why people are really at risk for disease.......2000-06-08

Finally Dr. Farmer couples his lucid historical, political and economic analyses of the conditions that put the poor at risk for bad health outcomes, with a plainly indignant calling out of healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations to make honest efforts to understand and remedy conditions which would never be tolerated among the well off in Western nations. In his goundbreaking, earlier books, "AIDS and Accusations," and "The Uses of Haiti," Dr. Farmer matter of factly discusses the global and local structural conditions and misrepresentations which led to the spread of disease and persistent, dismal health conditions in Haiti. In "Infections and Inequality," Dr. Farmer adds moral overtones to incisive, sociopolitical analysis and his characteristic accounts of individuals suffering from disease. The book consequently provides a powerful reflection from a man who has worked in some of the world's poorest regions on what the benefits of medical technology mean for people who have not traditionally had access to them. A powerful, informative read that clearly reflects the years of experience of a physician who has wrestled with the global responsibility of caring for the those who are worst off. An obligatory read for anyone even thinking of working for the impoverished of the world.

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Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) of the University of Groningen was one of the foremost astronomers of his time, resulting in a leading role internationally of Dutch astronomy throughout the twentieth century. This volume, which is the proceedings of a special `legacy' symposium at the celebration of the 385th anniversary of the University of Groningen, addresses Kapteyn's influence on the development of modern astronomy through studies of his pioneering work on statistical astronomy and the Structure of the Sidereal System, and his leadership in establishing international collaborations, in particular the Plan of Selected Areas. In addition to historical studies related to Kapteyn's person, work, international collaborations and organisational efforts, the volume discusses the influence of Kapteyn on the internationalisation of astronomy and on contemporary astronomy. It also provides an inventory of Kapteyn's correspondence.

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Some biologists speculate that if we ever make contact with extraterrestrials, those life forms are likely to be--like most life on earth--one-celled or smaller creatures, more comparable to bacteria than little green men. And even though such organisms would not likely be able to harm humans, the possibility exists that first contact might be our last.

That's the scientific supposition that Michael Crichton formulates and follows out to its conclusion in his excellent debut novel, The Andromeda Strain.

A Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone, urges the president to approve an extraterrestrial decontamination facility to sterilize returning astronauts, satellites, and spacecraft that might carry an "unknown biologic agent." The government agrees, almost too quickly, to build the top-secret Wildfire Lab in the desert of Nevada. Shortly thereafter, unbeknownst to Stone, the U.S. Army initiates the "Scoop" satellite program, an attempt to actively collect space pathogens for use in biological warfare. When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it asked for.

The Andromeda Strain follows Stone and rest of the scientific team mobilized to react to the Scoop crash as they scramble to understand and contain a strange and deadly outbreak. Crichton's first book may well be his best; it has an earnestness that is missing from his later, more calculated thrillers. --Paul Hughes

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The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona.

Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.

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Ending was a major let down........2007-09-27

This book seemed to be a display of the authors scientific knowledge. I liked the idea behind the book, but it just did not deliver... the ending was very lame.

Andromeda Strain.......2007-09-19

I'm not sure why this clumsy book has been re3-introduced to the public. Perhaps because thoise who saw the movie so many years ago have either died off (from causes other than deep-space viruses) and the publisher hopes to dupe a few additional readers. The basic concept, of an unexpected deadly virus being brought down to earth, isn't bad. It's just a bit too unbelievable here in the 2000's.

bad editing........2007-09-06

Did anyone else notice that a 60-yr old man who was dressed in his WWI uniform could not have possibly been a captain during that war, if this book is presumably set in the late 1960's? All else aside, that rather ruins the rest of the book for me.

Exciting still........2007-06-17

This is my second reading of Crichton's "The Andromeda Strain", and it hasn't lost its luster. In fact I think this is the authors best work. A simple storyline: the bugs against humanity. And I found it as interesting, and suspenseful as the first time. However, like other authors I'm sorry to report Crichton's more recent books don't measure up to this classic.

This is Not Crichton's Best Book by a Long Shot.......2007-06-10

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN was Michael Crichton's first big novel, written in 1968. It's a remarkably inventive novel about a killer virus that has come to earth.

This book, which many critics claim is Crichton's best novel, is actually not even close to that. THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN is enjoyable, but is nowhere near as good as some of Crichton's later works, such as THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, SPHERE and JURASSIC PARK.

My problem with this book is the almost non-existent characterization. Most of the scientist characters are bland and almost interchangeable. Crichton invests little time in developing their personalities. Instead, he spends page after page on explaining a lot of technical details, which gives this novel a definite non-fiction kind of a feel. The ending of this novel is also remarkably limp, given the massive buildup.

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN is interesting, but I felt it fell short on the storytelling, which made for a rather flat reading experience.

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Years before Jurassic Park, Michael Chrichton was known as The New York Times bestselling master of the techno-thriller. The three mesmerizing super-sellers in this collection--including his first novel, The Andromeda Strain--have sold well over 4 million copies and qualify as modern classics. Perfectly plotted stories that are fantastic, unbelievable and yet, somehow, very real, these novels pull the reader into bizarre situations full of spell-binding suspense, offering three great examples of the author's genius.

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Well Worth the Money.......2007-01-28

Three great stories in one. I must admit Terminal Man was required reading in highschool. My biology teacher was really excited about the technolgy in this story. The Andromeda Strain and Terminal Man simply wont have the same impact on a new reader today as it did in the 70's.

The real treat in this trilogy is the Great Train Robbery. I actually had the book for several years before I even bothered to read this story. I guess the title didnt grab me. The Andromeda Strain and Terminal Man were both very popular. Its a shame the Train story never quite took off like the other two. In my opinion, it's a superior story.

All 3 of Michael Crichton's Early Works in One!.......2007-01-23

I've read new works of Michael Crichton, and I liked them very much. Since these three books are the ones that threw him into a fame as a thriller, I decided to check it out. And I didn't believe there was a volume like this! Very good deal to have your favorite author's early works packed in one hardcover, since you can't find hardcovers in any book store these days, and only online is where you can buy, but then, all of the price combined is certainly greater than this one. Again, a very good deal at a very good price.

Crichton Review.......2007-01-11

Though somewhat early works of the author, they reflect a very versatile and lucid knowledge of his subject matter.

Three classic techno-thrillers in a bargain package.......2005-03-10

I bought this hardcover collection from the bargain section of my local bookstore a few years ago, mostly because I had been looking for a copy of The Great Train Robbery, but had not seen it available for sale separately. (I already owned a favorite, well-worn, read-many-times paperback of The Andromeda Strain from my teenage years, so I thought that getting that classic book in hardcover was an added bonus. Maybe, maybe not, as it turned out.)

[Warning: Slightly picayune, geeky detail follows!]
My one slight peeve with this reprint collection is that, as originally printed, The Andromeda Strain included as supporting documents in the text a lot of realistic-looking computer printouts, teletypes, and such. Some of the more graphic/pictorial of these were photo-reproduced in their original form for this reprint. But others... Decades ago, typewriters and similar equipment often did not have a separate key for the numeral one (1). You produced that character by simply typing a lowercase L (l). Now, in this reprint, they have modernized some of those teletype memos (presumably to make them look more like contemporary email and thus less antique) by setting them in modern type, and sometimes have put portions of them in UPPERCASE to make them look computerish. So NOW the lowercase typewriter "el"s -- many of which were really, in context, supposed to represent "one"s -- are now not only in a modern sans serif font (i.e. not a "typewriter" font), which would make them look no longer like numerals anyway, but are also printed as uppercase L!! Totally wrong. A minor thing, perhaps, but I think it slightly lessens the effectiveness and realism of these supporting details. They should either have either left these printouts completely alone and just photo-reproduced them (so WHAT that it looks like 1970s technology), OR taken the care and thought to properly "translate" them, letters AND numbers in proper context, to modern equipment.
[End of picayune complaint. You may now remove your propeller beanies.]

This collection includes three of Crichton's classic novels:

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

Crichton's first novel, and still one of his best. One of the books that first established the techno-thriller genre. Yes, some aspects of it are showing their age a bit, but it still reads well. Suspense never goes out of style! A tiny, isolated Arizona town is exposed to a re-entering space capsule containing a lethal micro-organism from Earth orbit. A team of scientists races time to determine the organism's properties and how to combat it, in a secret high-security facility built for just such an occurrence. This facility is equipped with a nuclear warhead to sterilize the area in case whatever bug is being studied there escapes. (A risky method in many ways, even apart from Cold War nuke paranoia.) There are many interesting plot elements, including the suspense of possible wide-scale public exposure to the mystery organism; the government security procedures and red tape; the cool technology; and the problem-solving detective work of the scientists -- including the puzzling fact that two of the townspeople inexplicably survived exposure to the deadly organism.

THE TERMINAL MAN

Another classic Crichton that I had heard about often but had not read until obtaining this collection. Probably my least favorite of the three novels included, but only because it has such huge competition from the other two. (And, of course, your mileage may vary.) A man suffering from violent seizures (as in, the seizures cause him to become violent against others) is given a "mental pacemaker" -- electrodes in the brain, controlled by a computer -- by way of treatment. (This was a very radical technological idea when the novel was first written!) The problem is that each stimulus, while it controls the symptoms of the current seizure, makes recurrence of ANOTHER seizure MORE likely, not less. The patient, who (surprise, surprise) manages to escape around this time, is headed for both an explosion and a collapse, as the seizures and resulting control stimuli become more and more frequent, like a dog chasing its tail. The theme here of scientific hubris is obvious, (and is one of the reasons that this novel is considered a classic) but even so, Terminal Man does not do as much for me personally as some of Crichton's other books.

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

Historical novel (the action takes place in the 1880s) meets true-crime thriller. A terrific book, full of interesting characters: The mysterious, but apparently high-class, well-educated Edward Pierce, the brains behind the notorious, spectacular robbery; his criminal-class accomplices, including prostitutes, brutal thugs, key-and-lock experts, pickpockets, burglars, etc.; the (still quite brand-new) London police; and the railway employees, officials, and upperclass-twit bankers that Pierce has to outsmart. The supporting details about Victorian life (the significance of recently-invented train transportation to the society, the fact that the age of consent was 12 at the time, the rise of the cities, the working conditions of the middle and lower class, the relationship between criminals and the police, etc.) are fascinating and well-researched, and they really do help the narrative along as well, they do not read like a history textbook. The planning of the robbery, including and especially obtaining the necessary keys to the safes on board the train, is fascinating, and intricate, and there is plenty of suspense from the unforseen obstacles that crop up along the way. These amazing true-to-life details of the robbery, by the way, come from ACTUAL TRANSCRIPTS of period courtroom testimony. (Yes, the perpetrators eventually found themselves in criminal court, but, amazingly, even that is NOT the end of the story!) Altogether, a brilliant and entertaining book, a real tour-de-force, and one of my personal favorites.

Rating

If I could, I would probably give this collection 4.5 stars, because of my picayune complaint mentioned earlier re: the Andromeda Strain transcription, and because I personally enjoy Terminal Man slightly less than the other two novels. I am rounding this up to 5, taking into account the great value these three books in one volume represents.

Any ONE of these books, but especially Train Robbery, in a nice hardcover binding would be worth the asking price of this three-novel set, so it's hard to go wrong with this item.

Terminal Man, nostolgic but still relevant.......2003-05-21

Although the Terminal Man is a little dated (1972), it was definitely a fun book. I have worked in a university hospital most of my working life-in fact the U of M is mentioned in passing in the book-and started my career in neurology. It was fun revisiting the medical world of the 70s. Some of the tests and equipment that the character Benson underwent bring back memories. Some have changed considerably since that time, and some are no longer used. The lounging chair in which Mr Benson had air forced into his spine to enlarge and visualize his ventricles was called the pneumoenchephologram. So passe is that exam these days, that when I asked a medical student if he had ever heard of it, he was honestly puzzled by the reference .

Interesting too were the "futuristic" devices that the author predicted in the book. Some of them or variants of them are in fact available now, small implantable batteries for pacemakers that can last for years for one. In other cases, what is available is actually better. At the time of the action of Terminal Man, the now ubiquitous CAT scan had only just begun to appear as cutting edge technology in it's first generation form called the ACTA scan. The MRI, if it existed at all, was probably still in experimental form if not still on the drawing board. The concept of what might more easily be described as a brain "defibrillator" which is surgically implanted to stop intractable seizures is now being attempted as a course of treatment. They have also been tried as a treatment depression. Most interesting is the notion of interfacing living tissue with computer wires to effect behavior-in Crichton's book violent behavior-is now being done successfully according to recent information in Scientific American-in the latter case muscular movement.

If nothing, else, Michael Crichton captures that sense of the boundless possibilities of expanding computer technology. I think he also brings to the forefront the moral and ethical issues that are bound to arise as science moves more and more into the arena of behavior, effecting what we believe we are as human beings. As in so many of Crichton's books, disaster follows when the hubris of science attempts to control nature, and simply having good intentions is not always adequate insurance that such disasters will not occur. As we face genetically altered plants and animals, genetically altered human beings, cloning and other types of human dictated changes in nature, these issues will come up more and more frequently. How we as a society, even as a world wide species, will greatly effect the world we and our children live in the future.

Amazing book; still relevant.

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Still Crichton's best.......2006-12-05

This, "The Great Train Robbery", and "A Case of Need", old though they may be, still remain Crichton's best production. The "Jurassic Park" series is downright boring; and "Timeline" is too stupid for words. Time and experience have not improved Crichton's writing. It's quite evident he keeps writing not for the sake of writing a good book, but with an eye to a Hollywood adaptation to a film. Copyright, script writing, etc. etc.

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