Activity-Based Management: Today's Powerful New Tool for Controlling Costs and Creating Profits

Book Description

Coach your team to work with you, because the health of your relationships determines your success and quality of life.

An organization's true wealth is its human capital and the space between people, the health of personal relationships, determines success and quality of life at work.
Deals with the everyday corporate realities of meetings, delegation of responsibilities, lines of reporting and effective people management.
Introduces the Relationship Management Model together with the Play of Life technique.

Coach your team to work with you and each other with practical advice that speaks to the core of their work and private lives - relationships. Relationship Capital argues that acceptable corporate performance cannot be sustained without built-in notions of personal satisfaction and well being. It acknowledges that an organization's true wealth is its human capital, and that it is the space between people, the health of our relationships, that determines our success and quality of life at work. Dr. Raimundo deals with the everyday corporate life of meetings, task delegation, lines of reporting and effective people management while introducing the innovative and practical Relationship Management Model, together with the Play of Life Technique. Using dialogue from real coaching sessions and case studies, the author explores the role of a mentor/coach; the challenges of role mapping, what happens when we don't "fit" our roles; the danger of burnout; and importantly, the challenges of living with busy partners.

Dr. Carlos A. Raimundo has qualifications in medicine (psychiarty) and business. He has spent over 20 years assisting professional and senior executives achieve a successful balance between work commitment and personal well being, in fields such as banking, retail, transportation and insurance.

Customer Reviews:

Easy and practical.......2002-05-08

At last a bok that talk about realtionships form a fresh and innovative way.
It's easy to follow and provides insightful thoghts.
Relationship Capital by Dr Carlos Raimundo focuses on business leadership, personal life management and useful skills in developing and maintaining a better style of life. The book provides clear tips which highlight areas of risk to prevent relationship breakdown, and outlines remedial tools to put into practice when the situation has already created some damage.

The Play of Lfie sounds fascinating.
Some topics need to be read several times as presents new and sometimes dense information. I showed to my lectured on Human Resources and she founded inspiring and new.

Book Description

Biographical essays on 56 remarkable individuals in the medical field are included in this book. Many of these figures are not well known outside of their own country, calling, or specialized field; some are famous, some infamous, but most were dedicated to "a more egalitarian system of health care delivery." They are significant because of their ideas, diagnostic or therapeutic methods, writings, the institutions that they founded, and the impetus they imparted to their students. By integrating biographies of doctors, nurses, and practitioners of different time periods and different cultures, this book addresses the kinds of questions currently of interest to scholars and students. Profiles of individuals from different cultures and time periods provide a valuable perspective on changing patterns of health and disease and differences in medical philosophy. Each profile focuses on one person's life and career, and the relationship of that individual's work to the universal quest for health and healing. Each profile's author has provided a bibliography and included, wherever possible, a guide to the archival materials available, works written by and about the individual, and recent scholarship concerning related topics to help readers find further information on subjects that pique their interest.

Book Description

These "excursions" into astronomical optics discuss innovative, often radical, suggestions for the design of optical instruments. Providing a storehouse of ideas and approaches not available elsewhere, Mertz suggests opportunities for further exploration and development rather than proven solutions. Covering a wide array of topics, from x-ray telescopes to gravitational lenses and from microscope objectives to Fourier transform spectroscopy, the excursions share a common thread of optical science related to astronomy. The book should thus interest researchers and graduate students in astronomy, optics, and optical engineering. Appendices provide Fortran code for some of the design techniques discussed in the book and for Monte Carlo image synthesis.

Average customer rating:

Excursions in Astronomical Optics
Lawrence Mertz
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PGE9LK

Average customer rating:

Excursions in Astronomical Optics
Lawrence Mertz
Manufacturer: Springer Verlag 01/1//1996
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5O5Z8

Book Description

30 years after its discovery as an antitumor agent, cisplatin represents today one of the most successful drugs in chemotherapy. This book is intended to reminisce this event, to take inventory, and to point out new lines of development in this field. Divided in 6 sections and 22 chapters, the book provides an up-to-date account on topics such as

the chemistry and biochemistry of cisplatin,
the clinical status of Pt anticancer drugs,
the impact of cisplatin on inorganic and coordination chemistry,
new developments in drug design, testing and delivery.

It also includes a chapter describing the historical development of the discovery of cisplatin. The ultimate question - How does cisplatin kill a cell? - is yet to be answered, but there are now new links suggesting how Pt binding to DNA may trigger a cascade of cellular reactions that eventually result in apoptosis. p53 and a series of damage recognition proteins of the HMG-domain family appear to be involved. The book addresses the problem of mutagenicity of Pt drugs and raises the question of the possible relevance of the minor DNA adducts, e.g. of interstrand cross-links, and the possible use of trans-(NH3)2Pt(II)-modified oligonucleotides in antisense and antigene strategies. Our present understanding of reactions of cisplatin with DNA is based upon numerous model studies (from isolated model nucleobases to short DNA fragments) and application of a large body of spectroscopic and other physico-chemical techniques. Thanks to these efforts there is presently no other metal ion whose reactions with nucleic acids are better understood than Pt. In a series of chapters, basic studies on the interactions of Pt electrophiles with nucleobases, oligonucleotides, DNA, amino acids, peptides and proteins are reported, which use, among others, sophisticated NMR techniques or X-ray crystallography, to get remarkable understanding of details on such reactions. Reactivity of cisplatin, once bound to DNA and formerly believed to be inert enough to stay, is an emerging phenomenon. It has (not yet) widely been studied but is potentially extremely important. Medicinal bioinorganic chemistry - the role of metal compounds in medicine - has received an enormous boost from cisplatin, and so has bioinorganic chemistry as a whole. There is hardly a better example than cisplatin to demonstrate what bioinorganic chemistry is all about: The marriage between classic inorganic (coordination) chemistry and the other life sciences - medicine, pharmacy, biology, biochemistry. Cisplatin has left its mark also on areas that are generally considered largely inorganic. The subject of mixed-valance Pt compounds is an example: From the sleeping beauty it made its way to the headlines of scientific journals, thanks to a class of novel Pt antitumor agents, the so-called "platinum pyrimidine blues". In the aftermath diplatinum (III) compounds were recognized and studies in large numbers, and now an organometalic chemistry of these diplatinum (III) species is beginning to emerge. The final section of the book is concerned with new developments such as novel di- and trinuclear Pt(II) drugs with DNA binding properties different from those of cisplatin, with orally active Pt(IV) drugs which are presently in clinical studies, and with attempts to modify combinatorial chemistry in such a way that it may become applicable to fast screening of Pt antitumor drugs. The potential of including computational methods in solving questions of Pt-DNA interactions is critically dealt with in the concluding chapter.

Customer Reviews:

Cisplatin and more.......2000-04-13

This technical publication is aimed at specialist biologists and chemists in the field of platinum cancer chemotherapy. At a price of 225 dollars (US) and the technical knowledge needed to understand the book, it is not recommended for readers who are just interested in increasing their general knowlegde of cancer and chemotherapy.

Each chapter of the book covers a specific area of platinum chemotherapy and each chapter is written by the WORLD EXPERT in that field.

The first chapters deal with the discovery and use of cisplatin, the first platinum drug. The next chapters deal with its DNA binding and toxic side effects.

The remaining chapters deal with reviewing the research that has followed over the last 30 years and describes in detail new complexes that are undergoing clinical trails, their DNA binding and their cytotoxicity and toxicity.

This is an excellent book that is perfect for scientists who are entering or are currently conducting research into platinum complexes as chemotherapeutic agents. Definitely worth the money.

Book Description

This collection of the highly regarded Herbert Spencer Lectures (Oxford University) is intended to survey the profound influence on many disciplines of the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection. The noted contributors include A.J. Cain, the Hon. W.G. Runciman, R.J. Herrnstein,
Maurice Godelier, Bernard Williams, and E.H. Gombrich. Their authoritative observations review the impact of Darwinism in art, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and other fields of human knowledge and endeavor.

Average customer rating:

Could have used a little editing

I loved this book.

A NOVELISTIC TREATMENT OF NAT TURNER'S REBELLION

The Standard

The South Rises Again in all its Historically Inaccurate Glory

The Confessions Of Nat Turner
William Styron
Manufacturer: Books on Tape, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

Styron, William | ( S ) | Authors, A-Z | Books on Cassette | Audiobooks | Formats | Books
General | Books on Cassette | Audiobooks | Formats | Books
Similar Items:

Lie Down in Darkness

Sophie's Choice

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

A Tidewater Morning

Set This House on Fire

ASIN: 0736609334

Book Description

Turner's Rebellion took place in the long hot summer of 1831, in the state of Virginia. When it was over, 59 white people were dead; the insurgents were rounded up and either hanged or worse; and Nat Turner, a preacher, confessed to his part in the only effective revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery.

In his introduction of this Pulitzer Prize winner, Styron says "it has been my own intention to try to re-create a man and his era, and to produce a work that is less an historical novel in conventional terms than a meditation on history."

Download Description

Powerful, prize-winning 1967 novel depicts the odyssey of Nat Turner, leader of first slave revolt in the US. Styron's novel was profoundly controversial; some felt that's a white author had no right to the subject matter. By the acclaimed author of SOP

Customer Reviews:

Could have used a little editing .......2007-04-04

I didn't give this three stars because of the controversy around racism. It's historical fiction, fiction being the key word. And I didn't really pick up that tone from it at all. I thought it was an innovative retelling using what information we do know and filling in the blanks from there. The reason I gave it three stars is because it contained all sorts of things that I felt could have been cut from the book and it wouldn't have mattered. I almost gave up on it in the second section. I'm glad I finished it, but it was a little tough to keep interest in it.

I loved this book........2007-02-08

I read this book for my book club and I thought it was beautifully written. It has stayed with me for weeks now. I love when a book does that. I'm glad I wasn't swayed by controversy. I had no problem with the fact that the author was white and using a black voice(maybe because I'm white - but I do like when an author gets the voice right and I thought Styron did that). I didn't understand the charges of racism after reading the book. Sometimes I wonder if, what some people find uncomfortable, they label as racist or sexist or whatever. Anyway, I would encourage everyone to read this book because it gave me a fresh awareness of a huge part of U.S. history, it reminded me that there are always gray areas to consider and it was a great novel. You might think so too.

A NOVELISTIC TREATMENT OF NAT TURNER'S REBELLION .......2006-11-08

I came of political age during the civil rights struggle here in America in the early 1960's. Part and parcel with that awakening struggle came an increased interest in the roots of the black struggle, especially in slavery times. Such intellectuals as Herbert Apteker, the Genoveses, the Foners, Harold Cruise, James Baldwin, John Hope Franklin and others, black and white, were very interested in exploring or discovering a black resistance to the conditions of slavery not apparent on any then general reading of the black experience in America. This is the place where the recently deceased William Styron and his novelistic interpretation of one aspect of that struggle- Nat Turner's Virginia slave rebellion enters the fray.

No Styron is not politically correct in his appreciation of Turner or his followers. Nor are latter day Southern whites and their sympathizers who have recoiled in horror at what expansion of Turner's rebellion might have meant for the `peculiar institution'. But being politically correct, etc. now or historically is beside the point. Slavery was brutal. Slavery brutalized whole generations of black people for a very long time. If one expects nature's noblemen and women to come out of such a process, one will be very sadly mistaken. That the white benificaries of this system were brutalized is a given. Human progress has come about through fits and starts not a seamless curve onward and upward. Nevertheless all our sympathies are with Nat and his fellow rebels.

Moreover, here are some things to think about if you are not worried about your political correctness status. Outside of John Brown at Harper's Ferry Turner's rebellion represented the highest achievement of resistance to the white slaveholders in the early 19th century. Although the fight was not pretty on either side every progressive today should stand in historical solidarity with that fight. Then one will understand not only that oppression oppresses but also that the military conditions for a successful rebellion for isolated blacks in pre- Civil War American were slim. The later incorporation of 200,000 black soldiers and sailors among the Northern forces in the Civil War are a very, very profound argument that once off the plantation blacks were as capable of bravery, courage and honor as an other American. As difficult as it is, if you do not have access to the original chronicles of the Turner uprising, read this book to get a flavor of how hard the struggle for the abolition of slavery in this country was going to be.

The Standard.......2006-08-25

For me, William Styron has written the standard from which to draw the historical novel. I say draw because an historical novel is just that; a novel. But even while the reader knows this, historical novels always seem to provoke some response framed by the light of a current outlook. This is ironic because the main attraction of historical novels (at least for me) is the escapist type pleasure that is found by immersing oneself in another world and time. This is the writer's accomplishment. William Styron does this in language and in pace so artfully that his book remains on my shelf. I keep 'The Confessions of Nat Turner' for its enjoyment and inspiration.

The South Rises Again in all its Historically Inaccurate Glory.......2006-04-22

I originally wrote a review of this book in 1999, titled "This is a racist book disguised as a work of art." It seems that I didn't explain well enough my objection to Styron's co-opting of the story of a real human being, Nat Turner, whose story was more accurately depicted in the 1831 book, "The Confessions of Nat Turner," by T.R. Gray. Not only did Styron steal the title of Gray's book, in which Gray recounts his interview with the real Nat Turner, but the incidents Styron invents for the sake of drama reveal his southern-bred racism.

Unlike his depiction in Styron's book, Nat Turner was married. Styron's invention of Turner's pivotal and conflicted relationship with a white woman, Margaret Whitehead, is entirely fictional. So is any self-doubt that Turner did the right thing by leading the revolt. In Gray's account, Turner did not express regret. There is so much more depth to Turner's life that is either fictionalized beyond recognition or left unexplored in this book.

Do those facts make a difference in a work of fiction? Yes. The parts Styron has unnecessarily fictionalized are key to the story he invented. Turner's fictional relationship with Margaret is saturated in the southern myth that black men are obsessed with white women -- lusting for the forbidden fruit, for which they must die. That Styron crawls into Nat Turner's skin in order to infect him with self-doubt about his mission emasculates Turner and diminishes his cause. What offends me most is that Nat Turner's life deserves to be explored by a modern author who does not condescend or patronize this African-American hero. Instead, we have William Styron's version of Turner's life, taken by many readers as fact.

If one prefers racist fiction posing as a legitimate account of a life, then one might enjoy wallowing in this version of "Confessions." But if one prefers reality, I recommend Gray's book as well as other accounts available about the slave revolt at Southampton, Virginia. Styron's book does not provide significant insights into Nat Turner, slave revolt or slavery itself. His book clouds the truth with the same kind of Reconstruction era distortions that spawned the hideous phenomenon of lynching.

The Confessions of Nat Turner: and Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Average customer rating:

Great book
A Historical but tedious book

The Confessions of Nat Turner: and Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Kenneth S. Greenberg
Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Americas | History | Subjects | Books

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

Slavery & Emancipation | World | History | Subjects | Books

Social History | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Literature & Fiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0312112076

Customer Reviews:

Great book.......2000-12-21

This is a terrific book. The introduction is particularly insightful. This is a good book for anybody interested in the history of slavery and slave rebellions.

A Historical but tedious book.......1999-04-23

I love history, so naturally this book sounded interesting to me. I learded a lot from it. It was a very informative, well written book about one of America's strongest Slaves. I admire his ablility to stand behind his beliefs, and this book interprets his life with grace and integrity. I recommend this book to anyone who likes reading dense books packed with history.

Nat Turner: Cry Freedom in America: Creators of the American Mind Series, Volume I (Creators of the American Mind, Volume 1)

Average customer rating:

an introduction to an intriguing historical figure

Nat Turner: Cry Freedom in America: Creators of the American Mind Series, Volume I (Creators of the American Mind, Volume 1)
James T. Baker
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

African-American & Black | Ethnic & National | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | Ethnic & National | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

Slavery & Emancipation | World | History | Subjects | Books

Social History | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0155038559

Book Description

The second volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, NAT TURNER: CRY FREEDOM IN AMERICA provides both primary and secondary selections that give students specific knowledge of this important individual in American history.

Customer Reviews:

an introduction to an intriguing historical figure.......2003-01-23

If you are looking for a brief introduction to this intriguing figure in American history, _Cry Freedom_ could be it. It includes portions of most of the important literature regarding Turner, including the full text of his 'confession' to Thomas Gray. However, one must be careful. The book has attracted very little attention in the academic community. Moreover, there are several errors, and it fails to come to a proper conclusion. Use it as a 'spring-board' for further research, but if you want the definitive collection of documents on Turner's rebellion, obtain a copy of Henry Irving Tragle's _The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831_.

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"

Average customer rating:

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"
Herbert Aptheker
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

African-American & Black | Ethnic & National | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0486452727

Book Description

The first full-length study of the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history, this meticulously researched document explores the nature of Southern society in the early 19th century and the conditions that led to the rebellion. Aptheker's book includes Turner's "Confessions," recorded before his execution in 1831.

Average customer rating:

The Confessions of Nat Turner, A Novel

Manufacturer: A Random House Book
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Similar Items:

ASIN: B000IE8CXA

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Together With the Full Text of the So-Called "Confessions" of Nat Turner Made in Prison in 1831

Average customer rating:

American Wars of Liberation, Part II

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Together With the Full Text of the So-Called "Confessions" of Nat Turner Made in Prison in 1831

Manufacturer: Humanities Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

Customer Reviews:

American Wars of Liberation, Part II.......2004-06-16

When I was a college student in the early `60s, Herbert Aptheker was referred to as a Marxist historian. Maybe he was or maybe that was just part of the spirit of those somewhat cramped times, when anyone who challenged authority or wanted to speak his mind contrary to "accepted wisdom" ran the risk of being labelled Marxist, red, or Communist. Certainly, after reading this book---published by the "radical" Grove Press in 1968---I cannot find anything remotely resembling Communism or leftwing ideas. Perhaps at the time, ideas such as those found in NAT TURNER'S SLAVE REBELLION were considered controversial. Daring to praise the spirit and intelligence of a man who tried to rebel against an evil, ugly system was still radical. It is not so today, at least not so far as slavery is concerned. We have our own, modern bogeymen of whom it is better not to speak.

Aptheker documents the origins, local economic and social conditions, the mood among slaves, and the mood among whites as concerned the very institution of slavery before the two-day rebellion which occurred in Virginia in 1831. He notes the rise in black population vis-à-vis the white population. He uses many quotes from either contemporary writers or those who wrote much later and footnotes everything scrupulously. The bulk of this short work is divided into three sections: the Environment, the Event, and the Effects. I cannot say the book makes thrilling reading, nor will it hold the attention of many. Aptheker ably establishes that Nat Turner's Rebellion belongs in that class of historical movement led by a prophet and disastrously unprepared for real war. Such movements have sprung up everywhere throughout history, from Brazil to India, from the American West to medieval Europe. The most fascinating reading is Nat Turner's "confession" itself, taken after his capture, a few months later. We read the words of a prophet strained through the mind and pen of a local man of average intelligence who believed he was interviewing a dangerous criminal, nothing more. Few such interviews with prophets---even of this quality---exist. Perhaps there are other, better books on Nat Turner. If so, read them. He deserves to be far better known, a would-be American Spartacus. Aptheker's pioneering work is solid, but difficult reading, hence my grade of only three stars.

Average customer rating:
William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond
John Henrik Clarke
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Similar Items:

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Invisible Man

ASIN: 0807064262

Average customer rating:
The Confessions Of Nat Turner: The Leader Of The Late Insurrection In Southampton, Virginia
Thomas R. Gray
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
Historical | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

The Confessions of Nat Turner

ASIN: 1419157418

Book Description

This is the original document, as told to a white southerner name of Thomas Gray. Hmm, you think Styron considered whether or not a white southerner was the right man to tell the tale? -- disclaimer, as a Marylander, I seem to qualify as a white southerner...

Download Description

Average customer rating:

The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
Manufacturer: Random House c1966
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Similar Items:

ASIN: B000GBGMFA

Average customer rating:

Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
Manufacturer: New American Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Product Description

The most profound fictional treatment of slavery in our literature by Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Year, William Styron.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books