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Anatomy!.......2000-04-03

As I am a loan officer, I think that this book is a masterpiece. Eespecially, The book covers the naked analysis of an unsucessful corporate's financial statement. I'd like to call it Corporate Anatomy!

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In our increasingly competitive, uncertain, complex world marketplace, multinational companies, unions, and governments must rethink and adjust their human resource strategies and legislative policies again and again. Cooke and the contributors to this wide ranging volume provide case studies and original analyses of present and coming human resource issues and problems. Offering a balanced, objective understanding of what they are, they thus succeed in giving HR executives and public policymakers a way to devise more creative and workable coping strategies. Among the book's major points: MNCs usually underestimate the influence that differences in industrial relations systems, workplace cultures, and local resistance to certain HR policies can all have on their operations. Unions too often fail to develop effective transnational and inter-union strategies to better serve their memberships in other countries and cultures. And public policy makers are torn between policies meant to respond to a need for workplace efficiency, against other policies meant to promote worker equity. The book addresses these and other issues hitherto explored minimally or not at all and provides analytical, practical insights that have long-term generalizability and applicability. Unique in its depth of ideas representing a vast range of expertise, the book is a compelling addition to the literature on human resource management, and a necessary resource for executives at all levals in all types of global organizations. The contributors examine, first, the foreign direct investment configuration strategies of multinationals, then the transnational diffusion of human resource and labor relations strategies. Among the topics they cover are, how MNCs choose to diffuse the policies of the domestic parent company into their foreign subsidiaries, or how they decide to adopt policies and practices that originate in the host countries. They take up the issues of organized labor's generally diminishing relative power in a rapidly changing global workplace, then focus on transnational collective bargaining strategies and sociopolitical action. Finally, by recognizing recent multilateral agreements governing workplaces across borders, the contributors are able to assess the European Union Directive on transnational works councils and the labor aspects and agreements of NAFTA.

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Solar Journey: The Significance of Our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth lays the foundation for an interdisciplinary study of the influence of interstellar material on the solar system and Earth as we travel through the Milky Way Galaxy. The solar wind bubble responds dynamically to interstellar material flowing past the Sun, regulating interstellar gas, dust, and cosmic particle fluxes in the interplanetary medium and the Earth. Cones of interstellar gas and dust focused by solar gravity, the magnetospheres of the outer planets, and cosmic rays at Earth all might yield the first hints of changes in our galactic environment.

Twelve articles from leading experts in diverse fields discuss the physical changes expected as the heliosphere adjusts to its galactic environment. Topics include the interaction between the solar wind and interstellar dust and gas, cosmic ray modulation, magnetospheres, temporal variations in the solar environment, and the cosmic ray isotope record preserved in paleoclimate data.

Acceleration and Transport of Energetic Particles Observed in the Heliosphere: ACE-2000 Symposium (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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Acceleration and Transport of Energetic Particles Observed in the Heliosphere: ACE-2000 Symposium (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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The ACE-2000 Symposium summarizes experimental and theoretical aspects of the acceleration and transport of high-energy particles in space. Included are new results from NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and other spacecraft on particles accelerated by the Sun and by interplanetary shocks, and on the acceleration of cosmic rays by supernova blast waves. Topics include: solar energetic particles, interplanetary acceleration, anomalous and galactic cosmic rays in the heliosphere, and cosmic rays in the galaxy.

Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere (Space Sciences Series of ISSI)

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Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere (Space Sciences Series of ISSI)

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This volume gives a comprehensive and integrated overview of current knowledge about cosmic rays in the heliosphere. It is the result of a workshop at ISSI, where experimental space physicists as well as theorists presented and discussed their views on the behaviour of cosmic rays during the currently prevalent solar minimum conditions, when the heliosphere has a well-ordered and relatively simple configuration. An unprecedented array of spacecraft - Ulysses, Pioneer, Voyager, IMP-8, Wind, to name a few - in conjunction with ever more sophisticated numerical models made this possible, gave us our first clear view of the three-dimensional heliosphere at solar minimum, and have significantly advanced our knowledge.
The status of the field is first presented in a series of introductory papers; these are followed by four Working Group reports attempting to synthesise this knowledge, make progress in our understanding, and point out directions of future research. A summary of the parameters used in cosmic ray modulation and an epilogue on conditions and consequences expected at the upcoming solar maximum conclude the volume. The book is intended to provide active researchers in space physics with an up-to-date status report and also to introduce the advanced graduate student to the field.

Cosmic rays in the heliosphere: Proceedings of symposium 2 of the COSPAR twenty-third plenary meeting held in Budapest, Hungary, 2-14 June 1980 (Advances in space research)

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Cosmic rays in the heliosphere: Proceedings of symposium 2 of the COSPAR twenty-third plenary meeting held in Budapest, Hungary, 2-14 June 1980 (Advances in space research)

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The High Latitude Heliosphere (Eslab Symposium//Proceedings)

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The High Latitude Heliosphere (Eslab Symposium//Proceedings)

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The Symposium on which the present book is based focused on out-of-ecliptic results obtained by the highly successful Ulysses mission prior to the start of its first polar pass. Topics addressed include the solar corona, the large-scale structure of the solar wind and heliosphere, energetic particles and cosmic rays, and interstellar gas and cosmic dust. The papers published here provide an up-to-date account of our understanding of the three-dimensional structure of the heliosphere near solar minimum. Particular emphasis is placed on in-situ measurements made by Ulysses covering the range of solar latitudes from the Equator to 50° South.

The Outer Heliosphere: The Next Frontiers (Cospar)

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The Outer Heliosphere: The Next Frontiers (Cospar)
E. Marsch , H.-J. Fahr , and K. Scherer
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The eleventh COSPAR colloquium The Outer Heliosphere: The Next Frontiers was held in Potsdam, Germany, from 24-28 July, 2000, and is the second dedicated to this subject after the first one held in Warsaw, Poland in 1989.
Roughly a century has passed after the first ideas by Oliver Lodge, George Francis Fitzgerald and Kristan Birkeland about particle clouds emanating from the Sun and interacting with the Earth environment. Only a few decades after the formulation of the concepts of a continuous solar corpuscular radiation by Ludwig Bierman and a solar wind by Eugene Parker, heliospheric physics has evolved into an important branch of astrophysical research. Numerous spacecraft missions have increased the knowledge about the heliosphere tremendously. Now, at the beginning of a new millenium it seems possible, by newly developed propulasion technologies to send a spacecraft beyond the boundaries of the heliosphere. Such an Interstellar Proce will start the in-situ exploration of interstellar space and, thus, can be considered as the first true astrophysical spacecraft. The year 2000 appeared to be a highly welcome occassion to review the achievements since the last COSPAR Colloquia 11 years ago, to summarize the present developments and to give new impulse for future activities in heliospheric research.

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The Tenth Solar Wind conference describes the latest results in the physics of the outer solar atmosphere, the solar wind, and the interplanetary medium which together comprise the heliosphere. The conference brought together researchers studying the sun and its influence on the earth’s space environment both from an experimental and theoretical point of view. The effect of the solar magnetic field in shaping and accelerating the solar wind throughout the solar cycle, via coronal heating and coronal mass ejections was described in unprecedented clarity and breadth, thanks to both satellite experiments and numerical modelling. The conference proceedings is of interest to researchers in space science and the geomagnetic effects of solar activity, plasma physicists and astrophysicists as well as other scientists interested in the life of our mother star.

Conference Papers of the 17th International Cosmic Ray ConferenceVol. 10: Late Papers on Sun and Heliosphere, and Muons and Neutrinos

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Conference Papers of the 17th International Cosmic Ray ConferenceVol. 10: Late Papers on Sun and Heliosphere, and Muons and Neutrinos

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Cosmic-ray energy loss in the heliosphere and interstellar reacceleration: (Dissertation)

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Cosmic-ray energy loss in the heliosphere and interstellar reacceleration: (Dissertation)
Lauren M. Scott
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Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere: COSPAR 23rd Pleanary Meeting (Advances in Space Research Ser., Vol. 1, No. 3)

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Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere: COSPAR 23rd Pleanary Meeting (Advances in Space Research Ser., Vol. 1, No. 3)
A. J. (editor) Somogyi
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The fundamental physics of metallic magnetism is not yet satisfactorily understood and continues to be interesting. For instance, magnetism is anticipated to play a principal role in producing high T _c superconductivity of oxides.
This book has two major objectives. First, it intends to provide an introduction to magnetism of metals in a broad sense. Besides pursuing the mechanism of metallic magnetism itself, it attempts to find and actively analyze magnetic causes hidden hitherto unnoticed behind various physical phenomena.
The author's goal is to expose the fundamental role played by phonons in the mechanism of metallic magnetism. He demonstrates how such a view also helps to elucidate a broad spectrum of other observations. The second objective is to concisely introduce the standard many-body points of view and techniques necessary in studying solid physics in general.

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New Perspectives in Magnetism of Metals
Duk Joo Kim
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The primary emphasis of this book is the modeling, analysis, and control of mechanical systems. The methods and results presented can be applied to a large class of mechanical control systems, including applications in robotics, autonomous vehicle control, and multi-body systems. The book is unique in that it presents a unified, rather than an inclusive, treatment of control theory for mechanical systems. A distinctive feature of the presentation is its reliance on techniques from differential and Riemannian geometry.

The book contains extensive examples and exercises, and will be suitable for a growing number of courses in this area. It begins with the detailed mathematical background, proceeding through innovative approaches to physical modeling, analysis, and design techniques. Numerous examples illustrate the proposed methods and results, while the many exercises test basic knowledge and introduce topics not covered in the main body of the text.

The audience of this book consists of two groups. The first group is comprised of graduate students in engineering or mathematical sciences who wish to learn the basics of geometric mechanics, nonlinear control theory, and control theory for mechanical systems. Readers will be able to immediately begin exploring the research literature on these subjects. The second group consists of researchers in mechanics and control theory. Nonlinear control theoreticians will find explicit links between concepts in geometric mechanics and nonlinear control theory. Researchers in mechanics will find an overview of topics in control theory that have relevance to mechanics.

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Excellent treatment of the subject!.......2004-12-14

This is a very well written book on a difficult subject. A thorough study of "simple mechanical control systems" needs a background in Differential Geometry and students are faced with a great challenge in finding good references. Lewis and Bullo take that challenge and deliver this profoundly useful text. This book provides excellent chapters on the relavent concepts in basic algebra, differential geometry and Lie algebra. Then it introdues the simple mechanical systems in a very readable way. Concepts such as the configuration manifold, rigid bodies, kinetic energy, Riemannian metric etc are well explained in a general setting that the reader can draw analogies to Newtonian mechanics in Euclidean space. Book further discusses more advance topics such as Stability, Controllability and Perturbation analysis etc in Part II. Part III discusses design methodologies. There are plenty of exercises in the book and the website is very resourceful with supplementary material. This is a great addition to the collection of books by Abraham, Marsden, Arnol'd etc, and a must have for all graduate students working on this area.

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If life is a disease, the cure will kill you...

One of the best novels I ever read

The quintessential sick man

Oblomov all'italiana

A wise and funny novel from a largely unknown author.

Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
Italo Svevo
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Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist. Here are Zeno’s interminable attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the beautiful yet unresponsive Ada, his unexpected–and unexpectedly happy–marriage to Ada’s homely sister Augusta, and his affair with a shrill-voiced aspiring singer. Relating these misadventures with wry wit and a perspicacity at once unblinking and compassionate, Zeno’s Conscience is a miracle of psychological realism.

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If life is a disease, the cure will kill you..........2007-07-05

*Zeno's Conscience* is, by some estimation, one of the `unknown' and unheralded classics of the modern novel. In it, the title character, at the behest of his psychoanalyst, records the story of his life as part of his treatment.

Zeno manages this massive task by recalling his life's most defining epochs: his failed courtship of one woman and marriage to another, his adulterous relations, his failed business venture with a brother-in-law, the traumatizing death of his father. And, most humorously and characteristically, his sincere and repeatedly renewed pledge to quit smoking......after `one last cigarette.'

Bookending this catalog of misadventures there is a short preface by Zeno's hostile analyst and an epilog by Zeno himself poking fun of this very same analyst and his failed treatment. The overriding message? Psychoanalysis is pure bunk.

At the time *Zeno's Conscience* was written, psychoanalysis was coming into its own and Svevo's mocking parody of its claims to "cure" the analysand could very well have struck a reactionary chord with the progressive intelligentsia of his day. I wonder if that played a role in condemning *Zeno's Conscience* to relative obscurity? Today, however, Svevo sounds like a prophet. After a century-plus of psychoanalysis, it's become a standard joke: Does anyone *ever* get better? It may have once been intellectually unfashionable to knock psychoanalysis, Freudian theory, and Oedipal complexes--but nowadays it's hard to even find a psychiatrist who believes in the efficacy of `talk-therapy,' without, that is, pharmaceutical accompaniment.

Supposedly championed by no less a literary luminary than James Joyce, Italo Svevo writes with a conventional crystal clarity very different from Joyce himself, unless youre thinking the Joyce of *A Portrait of the Artist* or *Dubliners.* As the voice of Zeno, Svevo's meticulous and incisive psychological portraits of self and other manage to be both devastating and touching. Here we are--warts and all. But Zeno--a sort of neurotic Zorba with a lot less energy--doesn't lose his enthusiasm for life or his affection for mankind. As he memorably argues, to `cure' us of illness would be like trying to stop up the holes of our bodies: it'd surely and quickly kill us. These `holes,' these `imperfections,' this `sickness,' is what keeps us alive--and what makes life enjoyable.

On the surface, *Zeno's Conscience* is a long-winded book narrated by an old guy looking back on a rather ordinary and largely uneventful life. A guy who failed at just about everything he ever put his hand to. A guy who, in spite of his relentless introspection, self-absorption, and self-analysis still deludes--and eludes--himself. A bundle of contradictions and impossible desires, caught on every side by double-binds and unwinnable predicaments largely of his own making, Zeno is a clown of the loftiest variety--one whose pratfalls tell a story as tragically symbolic as the climb to Golgotha, but with a lot more laughs along the way. Because in the end *Zeno's Conscience* is a very funny novel--the way life is very funny, through a veil of tears.

Well worth your time.

One of the best novels I ever read.......2007-05-08

Psychoanalysis usually does not make a good basis for fiction writing. There is, to my knowledge, one unique and very bright exception which is this book. The previous novels of Italo Svevo were showing real litterary talent but nothing like the genius he displayed in this one. At some point in his life, this man who must have considered himself a failed writer was encouraged to try it again by a totally unknown young Irishman who was giving him English lessons, one James Joyce. He created the funniest of the great masterpieces of modern litterature. Thinking about it, Ulysses and A la recherche du temps perdu can also be seen as essentially comical works. My personal preference goes to Zeno's Conscience.

The quintessential sick man.......2007-03-20

Svevo is NOT the Italian Proust; any more than Laurence Durrell and Anthony Powell were English Prousts, or Thomas Mann was a German Proust, pace all claims to the contrary. There was only one Proust, and he was French.

So, having decided what Svevo is NOT, what IS he? What to make of this book, which would have never seen publication had it not been for Joyce? I don't quite buy the bit about it being all about Freud and psychoanalysis, or contra Freud and psychoanalysis. - There is that comic apercu in the last chapter, a jibe at his analyst, which I found exceedingly droll - "I believe, however, that he is the only one in the world who, hearing I wanted to go to bed with two beautiful women, would ask himself: Now let's see why this man wants to go to bed with them."

I think what Zeno thinks of himself and his life is that he is a "sick" man. ---But this is question-begging. - "Sick" in what way? I don't think it has much to do with Freud, but rather with Darwin w/ perhaps a bit of Nietzsche's "last man" thrown in. I'm surprised that not one of these reviews mentions Darwin, whose Survival of the Fittest theory Zeno is constantly meditating upon, including the famously gruesome example of the wasp paralyzing its prey so that its young can have live flesh to feast upon.

Here is what Zeno himself has to say about his "sick" state:

"How much more beautiful my life had been than that of the so-called healthy, those who beat or would like to beat their women every day, except at certain moments. I, on the contrary, had been accompanied always by love. When I hadn't thought of my woman for a while, I then called her to mind again, to win forgiveness for thinking of other women. Other men abandoned their women, disappointed and despairing of life. I had never stripped life of desire, and illusion was immediately, totally reborn after every shipwreck, in the dream of limb, of voices, of more-perfect attitudes." P.419

But his judgment on his type is what other reviewers call "presciently" damning. It is found in the last paragraph of the book in which a sick man like himself invents an "incomparable explosive" and another "sicker man" effects the book's last sentence: There will be an enormous explosion that no one will hear, and the earth, once again a nebula, will wander through the heavens, free of parasites and sickness."-That is, of course, of humans.

An interesting book - but, au fond, none too cheery.

Oblomov all'italiana.......2006-12-17

As André Gide once said: "Toute chose appartient à qui sait en jouir." Alas, those of us who do not possess this happy faculty, still have to somehow come to terms with life. This is the main problem in Svevo's novel, concisely summarized by its hero: "Simply recalling everything we humans expected from life sufficed for us to see how strange it was, and to arrive at the conclusion that perhaps mankind is located in its midst by mistake and doesn't belong there."

Of course, the theme of being out of place in life is not new in literature. "Exotopic" men can be found earlier in Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks", Flaubert's "L' Éducation sentimentale", and, ultimately, some sixty years before, in Goncharov's "Oblomov". So, perhaps thematically the only peculiar novelty of "Zeno's Conscience" is in the incorporation of certain Freudian elements in main hero's self-analysis. Nevertheless, the originality of this work is striking in the context of the fact, that even though Svevo is often compared to Joyce or Proust, he hasn't read any of their novels until after the publication of "Zeno's Conscience" (though he knew Joyce personally for many years since 1904, when Joyce was his English tutor in Trieste).

Full of humor, irony, and astute aphorisms, this book is an honest confession of its main hero, who fails to immerse himself in life. If you liked Proust, Joyce, or Musil, this book is for you.

A wise and funny novel from a largely unknown author........2006-05-14

The confessions of Zeno is an amazingly insightful novel about the folly of humanity, our amazing capacity for self delusion and our lack of understanding of our place in the great drama that is life.

Zeno is an elderly merchant in Trieste before World War One, who owes his success and money more to inheritance than to ability, who approaching the end of his life consults with a psychiatrist to cure his long term debilitating illnesses. As an exercise his Freudian psychiatrist asks Zeno to write a journal reviewing the major events of his life.

These journals form the basis for the confessions of Zeno and reveal a weak and shallow man. Zeno is subject to self delusions, he is almost totally lacking in self control, he is a man who plays at business while living of his inheritance, a man who marries because he feels that it is required of him, with little consideration of love, a man who blunders through life with little empathy causing harm to all around him. Yet what makes this novel fascinating is the authors ability to make Zeno despite all of his faults and weaknesses a likable and understandable human being.

Overall, an amazing book from a largely forgotten master.

La Conciencia De Zeno / Zeno's Conscience (Clasicos Elegidos / Selected Classics)

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