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Rewired, Rehired, or Retired? A Global Guide for the Experienced Worker
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A must read for anyone planning the rest of their life

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Rewired, Rehired, or Retired? A Global Guide for the Experienced Worker
Robert K. Critchley
Manufacturer: Pfeiffer
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Rewired, Rehired, or Retired? will inspire you to take a hard and sometimes confronting look at your life, while giving you actual tools and guidance to achieve a rewarding and satisfying future. You may find that

You really do enjoy the things you are doing and continue doing them;
There are other things you would like to do;
You don't have a choice but to consider your options because you find yourself without the job security you once had.

As a manager you're helping experienced workers plot their next move.

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Women over 50.......2002-12-24

The book is almost totally irrelevant to a woman's experiences in changing careers late in life. His only view of women is as a support system for a sucessful male. He has nothing to say about moving from being self employed to being in the job market. He has nothing to say about reclaiming your life when you have been the beneficiary of a medical miracle. He spends half of the book trying to teach men how to balance their lives. Working women are by definition expert on balancing life priorities. He has a chapter on learning how to communicate with people. Most women already have these skills. He assumes the subject will have an emotional support system in place. Single working female parents have to be their own support system.

Insightful!.......2002-10-12

Robert K. Critchley has written a What Color Is Your Parachute? for the over-50 crowd. The book is timely in that changes in the workplace, medicine and technology have made it possible - and in some cases economically mandatory - for older people to remain in the workforce as full-time and part-time employees, temps and consultants. For many people in this age bracket, however, it's been many years since they last plunged into a job search. We from getAbstract highly recommend this book, which tends to the basic, for all readers in this newly emerging group.

A must read for anyone planning the rest of their life.......2002-07-08

I have just read Critchley's book for the second time. It is packed full of useful advice for anyone wanting to plan their future career and life.
The real life examples of people who have got it right, and those who need to rethink their plans are both inspirational and salutory. I am 55 and recommend the book anyone who wants a systematic guide to help them plan their future.

Helpful book.......2002-07-08

A friend gave me a copy they had bought (sorry should have bought my own) and said I should have a look through the pages. When I finally picked it up I found it to be not only interesting but full of inspirational quotes from people.

I now use it when I want to keep my goals clearly in front of me and for the quotes that make me feel good

Good book with new ideas and strategies........2002-07-07

Critchley writes an informative and essential book for anyone thinking of a career or lifestyle change. From the importance of self-evaluation to the complex details of networking, this book has helped me completely reassess my career potential. There are countless books for sale that promise success, fortune and a new job, but Critchley's approach is both educational and rewarding. I would recommend this book as a good primer on making effective change in your life and career.

Rewired, Rehired, or Retired? A Global Guide for the Experienced Worker

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Rewired, Rehired, or Retired? A Global Guide for the Experienced Worker
Robert K. Critchley
Manufacturer: Pfeiffer
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QYDBYM

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Vivid primary accounts of post-Civil War life by planters and freed slaves complement this study of the rise of southern sharecropping. Edward Royce employs both historical and sociological methods to probe the question of why slavery was replaced by sharecropping rather than by some other labor arrangement. His detailed analysis illuminates conflicts between labor and capital as one group struggles to preserve the plantation system while the other pursues a quest for land and autonomy.

Royce contends that southern sharecropping occurred through a "constriction of possibilities," that it was shaped by default rather than orchestrated by economic reconstruction by white landowners and black laborers.

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on December 22, 1995. The length of the article is 7978 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The rise of sharecropping in the antebellum South has been incorrectly portrayed by contemporary historians as a targeted and racist effort on the part of wealthy whites to keep freedmen from succeeding. While racism was definitely a factor in the long-term well-being of blacks, sharecropping was not a conscious effort by whites to keep blacks down. White landowners did not like sharecropping, but had to find some way to work there land. Freedmen understood their admittedly limited options, and freely chose sharecropping.

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Title: The origins of black sharecropping.
Author: Wesley Allen Riddle
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1995
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: v49 Issue: n1 Page: p53(19)

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The Origins of Southern Sharecropping. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal

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The Origins of Southern Sharecropping. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal
Ann Harper Fender
Manufacturer: Southern Economic Association
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00093M0WE
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on April 1, 1995. The length of the article is 1011 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Origins of Southern Sharecropping. (book reviews)
Author: Ann Harper Fender
Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1995
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Volume: v61 Issue: n4 Page: p1232(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Science written for humans, not robots.......2007-07-16

This book really is a treasure. Richard Milner's encyclopedia is both entertaining and educational. And it's fun. There is no reason the intellectual adventure can be fun. And Milner's book is wonderful.

Richard Milner isn't delivering a book for technical specialists who know the theory anyway, he writing for the intelligent layman and uses wit, humour and sparkling ideas to home deliver one of the biggest ideas of all, Darwin's theory of evolution.

Along the way Milner takes us on side trips to see how the theory of evolution itself evolved, to see how evolution has impacted both religion (and not just Christianity) and popular culture. He introduces us to some of the great characters who have played a role in the rise of evolution. Science is a human enterprise, not a pursuit for robots, and humans like to have fun.

Indispensable.......2003-07-19

Danger: This encyclopedia is habit-forming. I try to stop at just one entry, but each one is so very interesting that it leads me to more cross-referenced entries and then still more. All in all it seems very even-handed in its tone and treatment of the various contentious theories and theorists. It is indispensable for anyone working with evolution, no matter how versant in evolutionary history, and eminently readable for nonspecialists. The only negative criticism I have of the book is that it lacks an index in the back so that one could track a thread. The cross-references at the end of each article are not as exhaustive as I'd like, so a word index to find every mention of a concept should definitely be considered for subsequent editions.

Great!.......1999-01-01

If you're interested in biological evolution, this is a book you've got to have. A huge collection of articles, arranged alphabetically, but each one interesting in itself. And many are fascinating. It's written for common folks, like me, but few compromises are made with scientific precision. Of special interest to many will be the biographical sketches (of "losers" like Lysenko as well as "winners" up to an including both Charles and Erasmus Darwin). Also covers a lot of frauds and hoaxes (e.g., Piltdown Man). You'll have fun. And even professional evolutionary biologists can expect to learn a lot.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EVOLUTION: HUMANITY'S SEARCH FOR ITS ORIGINS.

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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EVOLUTION: HUMANITY'S SEARCH FOR ITS ORIGINS.

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ASIN: B000FK71I4

Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
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Godforsaken Sea

A Thorough Dissection of An Amazing Race

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Or: How The French Seem To Do Everything Just A Little Bit Better.

Gets Better as She Goes!

Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
Derek Lundy
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The Southern Ocean is the sailor's Everest. These are unquestionably the most dangerous waters in the world: hurricane infested, frigid, wholly unpredictable, and so remote, according to Derek Lundy, that "only a few astronauts have ever been further from land than a person on a vessel in that position." Encircling Antarctica, this fearsome body of water has terrorized sailors and wrecked the ablest of ships throughout maritime history. Imagine, then, a round-the-world, single-handed sailing race of the most extreme kind--no stopping, no assistance--requiring each lone sailor to spend half the total race distance (roughly 13,000 miles) fighting this nightmarish, merciless sea.

The race is the Vendee Globe, and The Godforsaken Sea is the story of the 1996-1997 competition. Fourteen men and two women began the race in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. Six officially finished; three were wrecked and rescued; one sailor performed emergency surgery on himself mid-race; one perished. This is high adventure of the most gripping, perilous sort, demanding a tightly controlled, suspenseful narrative: "Visualize a never-ending series of five- or six-story buildings, with sloping sides of various angles ... moving towards [the sailors] at forty miles an hour. Some of the time, the top one or two stories will collapse on top of them." But Lundy delivers more, weaving a superior fabric of psychology and physics, action and reflection. Even the utter novice will emerge understanding the architecture of racing vessels, the evolution of storms, the physical and psychological courage required to survive five-and-a half months battling the ocean alone.

Sailing aficionados may already believe that the Vendee Globe is the pinnacle of extreme sports. With Lundy's help, armchair adventurers can dig in and hang on for the ride. --Svenja Soldovieri

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"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--.  Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air."--San Francisco Chronicle

A chilling account of the world's most dangerous sailing race, the Vendée Globe, Godforsaken Sea is at once a hair-raising adventure story, a graceful evocation of the sailing life, and a thoughtful meditation on danger and those who seek it.

This is the story of the 1996-1997 Vendée Globe, a solo sailing race that binds its competitors to just a few, cruelly simple rules: around the world from France by way of Antarctica, no help, no stopping, one boat, one sailor. The majority of the race takes place in the Southern Ocean, where icebergs and gale-force winds are a constant threat, and the waves build to almost unimaginable heights.  As author Derek Lundy puts it: "try to visualize a never-ending series of five- or six-story buildings moving toward you at about forty miles an hour."

The experiences of the racers reveal the spirit of the men and women who push themselves to the limits of human endeavor--even if it means never returning home.  You'll meet the gallant Brit who beats miles back through the worst seas to save a fellow racer, the sailing veteran who calmly smokes cigarette after cigarette as his boat capsizes, and the Canadian who, hours before he disappears forever, dispatches this message: "If you drag things out too long here, you're sure to come to grief."

Derek Lundy elevates the story of one race into an appreciation of those thrill-seekers who embody the most heroic and eccentric aspects of the human condition.

Customer Reviews:

Godforsaken Sea.......2007-10-18

Godforsaken Sea is one of the best books I have ever read, particularly as I have sailed in the storm that wrecked the Fastnet race in 1995 so have some idea of what the single handed commpetors sailing round the Antartic endured.They were surfing down waves 30 meters high under full sail at 40 knots and if this was not enough had to gibe a 200 square Meter spinnaker at night without any help. Moreover it was not safe on deck so this is a stupendous feat.They could lose a rudder from flotsam and had to do all repairs to rigging alone.It is a pity that the paper-back edition does not have the photographs

A Thorough Dissection of An Amazing Race.......2007-06-18

This book hovers between the thrill of reading an exciting story about life and death situations during solo sailing on the open ocean and the tedium of absorbing a barrage of information about the world of sail racing. Still, Derek Lundy manages this balance with reasonable skill. The story is well researched and the writing is competent, if at times a bit heavy. My only real complaint is that the flow of information could have been better organized to make it easier for the reader to keep track of the characters and their constantly changing status during the race. Well worth the read if you have any interest in stories about people who risk their comfort and their lives to endure and survive earth's most challenging environments.

Often thrilling, informative.......2006-12-11

However disjointed, this story still excites and intrigues. I found myself staying up late to finish chapters and search the internet for more about the Vendee Globe boats and racers. I was fascinated by the racers' skill and courage as they faced life-and-death situations. Like another reviewer, I think I saw the method to the author's style, which provided narrative to create interest mixed with backstory and more technical data to give the narrative context. Although not seamless, I think the it works pretty well. Also, the story would not have been as compelling without that context.

Or: How The French Seem To Do Everything Just A Little Bit Better........2006-08-01

The old adage "Don't judge a book by it's cover" is usually a good one, but the fact that the art director of GODFORSAKEN SEA actually used the exact same cover photo as Pete Goss's CLOSE TO THE WIND is an indication of what a supernumerary book this really is.

Derek Lundy is an (Anglo?-) Canadian attorney-turned-sailor-turned-author. He has some recreational blue water cruising experience. He is the most rabid Francophile I have ever come across (frankly, that alone would cost him a star with most reviewers). He describes GODFORSAKEN SEA as "the story of the Vendee Globe and Gerry Roufs" but it isn't. That's one of the problems with GODFORSAKEN SEA: Lundy isn't ever quite certain what this book is about, and so he hopscotches from one topic to another and back again like a frantic capuchin monkey.

If it were the story of Gerry Roufs (the only Canadian entrant in the 1996-97 Globe Vendee, and the only sailor to lose his life), GODFORSAKEN SEA would be a fine book. Lundy clearly identifies with Roufs, a (French-) Canadian attorney-turned sailor, rather like himself. Still, we find out relatively little about Roufs, his life, or his boat. Roufs may have disappeared in a gale, but he was a human being, never a cypher; he had a full life, which Lundy does poorly in reporting, and it's a shame, because GODFORSAKEN SEA could have been a fine memorial to the man.

Lundy's attempts to draw parallels between the squalls he's sailed through and the hundred foot waves and hurricane winds of the Southern Ocean are sincere attempts to identify with the solo circumnavigators of the Vendee on some level. They may seem silly but they're forgivable.

What isn't forgivable is Lundy's chaotic approach to the story. One minute he is mourning Gerry Roufs, the next he is singing the praises of each of the French entrants, then afterward he warns us perseveratively about the nasty conditions of the Southern Ocean. He takes a breath to discuss racing yacht design, and then he is reminiscing about his sailing experiences. A few asides are thrown in about the entrants' earlier sailing experiences, and he's back to weatherfax technology, Bordeaux wine or straightforward (but incomplete) race reportage: All this, over and over and over.

GODFORSAKEN SEA is in desperate need of an editor, but editing probably would have reduced this book to a third of it's 272 pages, making it less marketable. As it stands, GODFORSAKEN SEA isn't quite Godforsaken; but it sure could use a prayer or two. Pete Goss's CLOSE TO THE WIND is a better written book about the same Globe Vendee, and if it focuses on Goss more exclusively, at least it isn't suffering from literary Attention Deficit Disorder.

TWO AND A HALF STARS: All based on the innate quality of the story of the 1996-97 Globe Vendee.

Gets Better as She Goes!.......2006-06-09

After reading the Fastnet and Sydney-Hoburt race, I felt this book was a little too detailed and lathargic in the beginning. But as the story progressed, you saw the method to the author's madness. He was only setting the stage for what was about to come in the Southern Ocean. I learned a great deal about the history and the importance of the Vendee Globe to people all over the world. Reading about the trials of just preparing and getting the funding to participate in the Vendee Globe, can be a lifetime acheivement for some of these sailors. With every page you turn, the book picks up more and more steam; until you don't want to turn out the lights and go to bed. I will forever be a follower of the Vendee Globe after reading this book. It was one of the most informative sailing books I have ever read. A real tribute to those sailors who risk their lives in the Southern Ocean and continue to beat the odds!

IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN: AND OTHER THINGS TO CONSIDER
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In the tradition of The World According to Mister Rogers, a timeless collection of wisdom on life, friendship, individuality, creativity, collaboration, and morefrom Jim Henson and Friends There are few things that evoke such a universal feeling of warmth and humor as the work of Jim Henson. In his own words, as well as those of some of his best-known characters like Kermit the Frog and Ernie, well get a glimpse of the philosophy and humor that was so essential to Jims creations. Well also get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the collaborative spirit of this gentle artistic genius from the people Jim knew, loved, and inspired. This uplifting collection of quotes, stories, anecdotes, songs, and insights gives new life to Jims magical world. With chapters titled Dynamite Determination; Listen to Your Heart; Together We Can Do It; It Starts When Were Kids; and A Part of Everything and Everyone, Its Not Easy Being Green is by turns entertaining, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny, reminding us that every day counts. Readers young and old will cherish this collection. Culled from The Jim Henson Company archives, program transcripts, personal letters, and interviews, along with some of Jims never-before-published writings, Its Not Easy Being Green is a testament to the legacy of a man who changed the way we see the world.

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Remember kindness?.......2007-03-08

This book is full of everything I so loved about Jim Henson. His creativity, vulnerability, compassion and humor are excellent reminders of how to live with optimism and how that outlook always brings solutions. This is a must own book, and as a gift it will bring the best to your loved ones.

Positive Thinking Reminders.......2006-11-26

Great little book to keep in the car, at your desk, in your book bag, or nightstand. Easy to open it up, read a page or two, then continue in a great mood. Good times!

Lunatic Humanism.......2006-11-12

That's the best way to describe the philosophy of the Muppets and the work of Jim Henson. Zany, silly, goofy, but full of heart and an unending optimism. This book gives a peek at what he was trying to communicate about life using these flawed, but loveable characters.

Highly recommend.

was hoping for more.......2006-11-04

It was toio short and needed more bio.. However Henson remains my hero, my inspiration and one of the few examples of what is good in this questionab;e world.
Long Live Jim!

Thoughts of a genius.......2006-09-29

The loss of Jim Henson greatly diminished the world. "It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider" gathers together some of Henson's thoughts on a variety of topics. What comes through is an individual who was deeply concerned with making a contribution to the world, and how we can all live a life in harmony with ourselves, with other people, and the world around us. This is a short read, a book for keeping in the bag on the way to work and other times when losing yourself in pleasant thoughts and deeper private reflection is appropriate.

Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider (Charming Petite)

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#1 and #3, PLEASE!.......2007-10-17

This is "TRUELY OUTRAGEOUS"! I lost the 3 of these books in a move two years ago. Im out to get them all back,thanks to amazon. #1 and #3 will be great. its amazing how i found this so easy. #1 and #3 PLEASE!

WOW!.......2007-07-30

I was so surprised to find this here! It is a must have for all Jem fans! Has a lot of endings, some bad, and some good. Please buy, it could help lead to more Jem stuff.

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Jem #2: Jem #2: the Video Caper: You Are Jem! the Misfits Kidnap an English Princess -- and Blame It on You! You Have To Find Her!
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