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Recipient of the University of Connecticut Award for Promoting Multiculturalism and Affirmative Action Designed to be used on its own, in conjunction with Women and Men in Management, Second Edition, or with other books on gender and diversity, Gender and Diversity in the Workplace includes a wide variety of exercises appropriate for college students and work organizations with developmental programs for managers, administrators, and other employees. The exercises--including individual, group, and class activities; diagnostic instruments; role plays; case studies; and simulations--help students and workers gain an understanding of how gender and diversity issues may be dealt with in a manner that preserves the integrity and takes advantage of the potential contributions of all members of the workforce. A separate instructor's manual is available that provides guidance on how to run the various exercises, including how they may be adapted for special purposes. Providing a unique set of instructional materials, Gender and Diversity in the Workplace is a must for scholars and graduate and undergraduate students in management and organization studies, gender studies, sociology, family studies, and communication. Professionals in such fields as health care, social services, government, and education will also find they cannot do without Gender and Diversity in the Workplace. CAN USE ANY OF THE TWO QUOTES BELOW. "A guide to how gender and diversity issues can be dealt with in a manner that preserves the integrity of the organization." --Business Horizons "Clearly the most comprehensive sourcebook for gender-based experiential exercises available." --Lisa A. Mainiero, Fairfield University, and author, Office Romance "A long-overdue contribution. Creative and thought-provoking experiential exercises in one comprehensive volume." --Lisa A. Mainiero, Fairfield University, and author, Office Romance

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Message from the author.......2003-11-01

Hi, everyone. I am the author of this book. I apologize to those of you who have had trouble in getting the instructor's manual; the publisher ran out of hard copies a while ago and did not print any more. Just send me an e-mail at Gary.Powell@business.uconn.edu and I will send it to you electronically. Better yet, you may want to wait for the second edition I am now preparing, tentatively titled "Managing a Diverse Workforce: Learning Activities." It is due out in the late summer of 2004. The new instructor's manual should be available as a pdf file, which will make it easier for you to get. Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to having the new edition available to you soon. Best wishes, Gary Powell

Activities and Exercises.......2000-09-20

Is Mr. Powell going to provide an update to all of us who did not know his book didn't include the 'instructor' exercise answers? I wish Book Review 1 had been shown when I ordered the book. I would have looked elsewhere for what I needed.

A help to the instructor, this book is incomplete.......1998-11-21

This book contains 33 exercises for the instructor to use in teaching gender and diversity issues. Several include instructions to the student that "the instructor will provide...", but this information is not included. A thoroughly useful compendium of exercises includes all the relevant material required to run a class discussion, exercise or simulation. This book stimulates thinking, but is incomplete.

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This book is the best-ever practical guide to the identification and biology of beneficial organisms that control pests. Growers, pest control advisers, landscape professionals, home gardeners, pest management teachers and students, and anyone fascinated by natural enemies and their prey will want this book to find, identify, and use natural enemies to control pests in almost any agricultural crop, garden, or landscape.
The Natural Enemies Handbook is superbly illustrated with 180 high-quality color photographs and 140 expertly rendered drawings, showing hundreds of predators, parasites, and pathogens that attack pest insects, mites, nematodes, plant pathogens, and weeds. The handy Quick Guide allows readers to locate natural enemies that they are likely to find on almost any crop or in the garden and landscape. They can then go to the main text for clear, detailed information.
Natural enemies are organisms that kill, decrease the reproductive potential, or otherwise reduce the numbers of other organisms. Biological control is the practical use of natural enemies to manage pests. Living natural enemies are the agents of biological control. Virtually every pest has natural enemies that reduce its populations under certain circumstances. The book features chapters on biological control of plant pathogens, nematodes, and weeds as well as individual chapters on parasites, predators, and pathogens of arthropods.
References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make this an indispensable source book. The up-to-date review of applied biological control literature will appeal to scholars.

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Biological Pest Control handbook.......2007-01-09

This is a great reference for anyone interested in biological pest control...lots of great photos for reference. Great price for anyone's home library.

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Broad, comparative coverage of hypervalent compounds -a much-needed foundation in a rapidly growing field of chemistry.

Although hypervalency is already a mature field in chemistry, it has seen a new surge of interest in recent years due to the discovery of compounds useful in organic synthesis, as well as others with significant applications for materials science.

Now, this comprehensive book-written by a group of twenty leading experts in the field-provides an authoritative blueprint on the subject. Instead of focusing on compounds specific to one element, it presents a review of structure and reactivity among an extensive array of main group, organic, and organometallic hypervalent compounds. In so doing, the book offers essential information on underlying principles that unify seemingly unrelated families of main group element compounds.

An invaluable resource for both organic and inorganic chemists, Chemistry of Hypervalent Compounds includes:
* An overview of general aspects of structure and reactivity common among hypervalent compounds
* Information on such recently characterized organic compounds as silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, iodine, and xenon
* A review of new organometallic compounds with synthetic applications
* Solid background material on compounds important in advanced materials science, such as semiconductors
* A systematic approach using the N-X-L designation, where N represents the valence electrons of the central atom X, and L the ligands that bond the compound.

Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry (Topics in Current Chemistry)

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Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry (Topics in Current Chemistry)

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A useful reference, this book could easily be subtitled: All the Linear Algebra I Learned from Doing Physics that I Wished Somebody had Taught Me First. Built upon the principles of diagonalization and superposition, it contains many important physical applications—such as population growth, normal modes of oscillations, waves, Markov chains, stability analysis, signal processing, and electrostatics—in order to demonstrate the incredible power of linear algebra in the world. The underlying ideas of breaking a vector into modes, and of decoupling a complicated system by suitable choice of linear coordinates, are emphasized throughout the book. Chapter topics most useful to professional engineers and physicists include—but are not limited to—the wave equation, continuos spectra, fourier transforms, and Green's function. For electrical engineers, physicists, and mechanical engineers.

Applied Linear Algebra: The Decoupling Principle

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Applied Linear Algebra: The Decoupling Principle
Lorenzo Sadun
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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The Women Who Wrote the War follows the chronology of the conflict through the reporters' eyes, beginning as early as a 1931 interview of Hitler by Dorothy Thompson Lewis (wife of Sinclair), in which she called the future Führer "inconsequent ... voluble, ill-poised, insecure." (Shortly after her "Little Man" rose to power, she would be expelled.) Tough and opinionated Collier's correspondent Martha Gellhorn, another reporter married to a famous writer, frustrated her new husband, Ernest Hemingway, shortly after D-Day--defying military orders, she sneaked onto the beaches of Normandy just ahead of him, pitching in as a stretcher-bearer to get her story. Gripping and well documented, Sorel's work ably captures the excitement of both the war and the exploits of the women who reported on it. --Paul Hughes

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The women who served as combat correspondents in World War II were a capable, gutsy, and inquisitive bunch. Their bravery snapping photos from bomb-laden B-17s over North Africa or interviewing blood-soaked soldiers fresh from Iwo Jima was matched only by their pluck in overcoming sexist double standards and patronizing attitudes. To a one, they were determined to prove their mettle at a time when "few newspaperwomen had made it from the society desk into the newsroom," as authorNancy Caldwell Sorel points out. Sorel (whose wittyFirst Encounters appeared in The Atlantic for years) tracked down dozens of these women, most well into or past their 70s, and has combined candid interviews with rigorous research to piece together their amazing wartime stories.The Women Who Wrote the War follows the chronology of the conflict through the reporters' eyes, beginning as early as a 1931 interview of Hitler by Dorothy Thompson Lewis (wife of Sinclair), in which she called the future F++hrer "inconsequent ... voluble, ill-poised, insecure." (Shortly after her "Little Man" rose to power, she would be expelled.) Tough and opinionated Collier's correspondentMartha Gellhorn, another reporter married to a famous writer, frustrated her new husband,Ernest Hemingway, shortly after D-Day--defying military orders, she sneaked onto the beaches of Normandy just ahead of him, pitching in as a stretcher-bearer to get her story. Gripping and well documented, Sorel's work ably captures the excitement of both the war and the exploits of the women who reported on it. --Paul Hughes

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Rich exploration of a fascinating topic.......2007-03-25

Women Who Wrote the War begins with the first American women reporters in Europe, moves to the Spanish Civil War in 1937 and ends eight years later in Berlin in 1945. That's a span of 25 years. No single volume could do justice to a work of such scope. The author attacks this problem with short bits presented in anecdotal form. These move the time frame but rarely penetrate far beneath the surface. Thus, we learn less than we'd like to about these fascinating women. In this respect, in my opinion, The Women Who Wrote the War could have been made even better. For example, reader is never told how the reporting of these women differed from that of male correspondents (if it did), or whether it excelled or was subpar. No examples are given, save a few photographs, of the work they produced, although Sorel clearly did a tremendous amount of research and must have had the information. From the standpoint of a straight report of the physical action, this is an excellent work. Still, at the end, I wished I'd come to know these women just a little bit better.

Rosie the Reporter.......2006-04-09

This book takes a fascinating look at some of the female war correspondants who covered World War II. Sorel does an admirable job of showing us these women as they were, and does not try to portray them as heros or feminist crusaders, but as distinct individuals, each with her own personality and ambitions. Sorel tells their stories on a very human level, set against the backdrop of the horrors of war.

These Women Are Heros In Thier Own Way.......2001-07-05

If you ever wondered what it was like for Women who were reproters during World War II, then read this book. It traces their pre-war accomplishments, of which there are many, to what it was like for them at the front, or wherever they were. Many were having problems at home so they used work as an escape. Many had to fight to prove they were as good as a man. Some defied regulations to get a story. These women did what few had done before. These are the stories of the women who wrote the war, read them, you will not be dissapointed.

A brave and resourceful group of women.......2001-05-25

"The Women Who Wrote the War" is a comprehensive compilation and listing of the contribution of women in the press in World War II. From the first women to recognize the changes in Germany, the real threat of Hitler, and to sound the call of the rise of fanaticism, these women had to fight against fear, physical threats and censorship. They also had to work their way around the bias against their sex....often entering dangerous areas with no support or credentials. All arenas of the war were covered by women, from Germany, France and Britian, to the camps in the Far East and Russia. These women were invaluable in providing an acounting of the horrors of war and the human toll it took. They report on all fronts,and unflinchingly look at he horrors of war close up. This book also details the struggle of these women to be accepted, to find their place in a male dominated career. "The Women Who Wrote the War" is a fiting tribute to there trailblazers.

Ladies with typewriters elbow their way to the front.......2001-05-11

Waging slaughters has traditionally been considered Guy Stuff. So, too, the reporting of them. THE WOMEN WHO WROTE THE WAR, by Nancy Sorel, is the story of the female war correspondents who, working for various U.S. newspapers and wire services, shoved their way to the battlefronts of World War II, making that conflict, especially in its latter stages, the first to be equally reported by both sexes.

By her own admission, the author cut fully half of the female reporter roster from the book so as not to render it unwieldy. Even then, the half remaining is an Honor Roll of the profession: Helen Kirkpatrick, Margaret Bourke-White, Lee Carson, Ruth Cowan, Lee Miller, Martha Gellhorn, Catherine Coyne, Virginia Irwin, Iris Carpenter, Annalee Jacoby, Mary Welsh, Dickey Chapelle, Sonia Tomara, Shelley Mydans, Pat Lochridge, and a host of others too numerous to mention here.

Beginning roughly with the Spanish Civil War, and finishing with the months immediately after WWII, the book's chapters are a series of snapshots in which Sorel's subjects appear or not, depending on their presence in the theater of conflict being described - and they all seem to move around a lot. So, in sequential order, one reads of reporting Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia, the attack on Poland, the fall of France, the Blitz, the Nazi assault on the Soviet Union, the war in China, the Japanese capture of the Philippines, the North African and Italian campaigns, D-Day, the liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, the Pacific islands war, the advance into Germany, the American-Russian link-up, the liberated concentration camps, V-E Day, and, finally, the surrender of Japan.

I can't give WOMEN WHO WROTE THE WAR a 5-star rating because the number of players was too excessive. It would've been better had Sorel focused on, say, just 3 or 4 correspondents in each theater (Europe and the Pacific) as representative of the whole. As it was, so many names kept popping in and out of the narrative that it was hard to "get to know" any one of them, though some are better introduced than others. However, taken as written, this is an admirably comprehensive look at the gutsy ladies that did what they had to do to bring the stories back home to readers in America. For example, Virginia Irwin obtained one of the biggest scoops of the war by deliberately defying a specific SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces) restriction on correspondents' movements in a certain area. You go, girl!

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WOMEN WHO WROTE THE WAR
NANCY CALDWEL SOREL
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A Veterinarian for all animals

A Must Read for All Animal Lovers at Heart

Dallas Doc: All the City and Country Critters in the Life of a Texas-style Vet
David Carlton
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Ostriches with an attitude, dueling armadillos, troubled tomcats, cantankerous cows and racing mules - they're all here in the true-life stories behind the zany adventures and poignant moments that make up a practice of veterinary medicine. In a diary-like narrative, Dr.David Carlton, a native Texan with an ongoing twenty-year practice in Dallas, gives readers an irresistible peek into his topsy-turvy life through stories of his escapades with an inimitable array of clients and their engaging pets.(The first of a series in a three-book collection of down-home memoirs.)

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Great stories of people & animals........2004-06-05

Dallas Doc is a great book of anecdotes about being a vet in Dallas/Texas. I enjoyed the stories a lot but was left wanting more substance, thus the 4 stars instead of 5.

However, if you like animals and the people who care for them you will like this book and the sequel, Texas Doc.

I loved this book.......2003-04-18

This was the greatest book ever.
I liked the stories cause they made me laugh and sad too.
I think it was a very good book

You'll want to keep it and read it again!.......2002-11-07

Any human that is owned by any kind of city or country critter will really enjoy this book...it is filled with hilarious adventures and heart warming, tear jerking accounts of the daily life of a citified rural veterinarian, just trying to do the work he loves the best he can, and still maintain his sanity. This book has earned a 'keep it and read it again' spot right next to my collection of James Herriot's memoirs.

A Veterinarian for all animals.......2002-06-21

Heartwarming, heart tugging and funny--it's a perfect book for any animal lover. Think Cleveland Amory meets Baxter Black. More like James Herriot's writing than anything I ever read. A fun and easy-to-read collection of short stories that truly describes the life of a Texas veterinarian. I couldn't put it down!

A Must Read for All Animal Lovers at Heart.......2000-04-04

This is a wonderful book that is well written and easy to read. The author gives great insight into his life as a vet. Readers of all ages will find this book entertaining and captivating.

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