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Everyday Negotiation shows how to recognize the shadow negotiation— where the unspoken attitudes, hidden assumptions, and conflicting agendas that drive the bargaining process play out— and how to put that knowledge to work. Originally titled The Shadow Negotiation and named by Harvard Business Review as one the Ten Best Books of 2000, this best-selling book revealed how women could master the hidden agendas that determine bargaining success. Now, the new edition, Everyday Negotiation, broadens the scope and offers the same illuminating advice for both men and women. Everyday Negotiation lays out simple steps to
- Overcome acts of self-sabotage
- Increase your bargaining power
- Establish the terms of your advocacy and encourage a collaborative discussion
- Encourage a collaborative discussion
- Think about the negotiation process in a whole new way
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Great Negotiation Resource.......2007-01-12
This book digs deeper into negotiation skills than other books and talks about the realities of negotiations that many others do not discuss.
The stories and examples make it an easy and enjoyable read.
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Education Through Cooperative Extension
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Delmar presents the only introductory text on the Cooperative Extension Service that acquaints readers with every aspect of the world's largest nonformal education program -- from its inner workings to its vital offerings to the community. Emphasis is placed on illustrating the role of Cooperative Extension as a viable educational entity that addresses the concerns and issues of a changing society. ALSO AVAILABLE -- INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENT: Instructor's Manual (ISBN# 0-8273-7173-X). Call Customer Support to Order.
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Adult and Continuing Education Through the Cooperative Extension Division Service
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A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems (Monographs in Population Biology)
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Lance Armstrong inspires millions the world over, not just as a sports champion, but as a champion at life. His heroic survival from deadly cancer and his hard-fought triumphs in the bicycle race that is thought to be the most grueling endurance test in sports are a tribute to the strength of the human spirit. Filled with never-before-seen picturesincluding photos of his historic seventh Tour winand revealing insights by the people who know him best, this treasured keepsake celebrates in words and photographs Armstrongs indomitable will and champions heart. See inside Lance's tour with intimate pictures of Armstrong in competition and off the bike, as well as stunning full-color views capturing the grandeur of the sport, by cyclings top photographer, Graham Watson.
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Awesome.......2007-07-09
This is a stunning visual of Lance Armstrong, from his early career to the height of his "reign". It is worth every penny to get this if you are any kind of fan of cycling.
A must have photo book for any Lance Armstrong fan........2005-11-05
This book is really a must have for any Armstrong fan. In this book he recalls his cycling career from 1992 up to 2003 where he won is 5th Tour De France placing him on cycling's hall of fame with the other 5 time winners. Loaded with lots of his photos in action I give this book a two thumbs up! Viva Le Lance!!!!
Great!.......2005-09-01
What a wonderful way to honor the 7-time Tour de France champ. The photography is awesome, and the book does a great job of capturing images of Lance at every stage throughout his amazing journey, both in the Tour and in life. Much more then just your average coffee table book!
Amazing photos by Graham Watson.......2005-08-22
This is a beautiful book that highlights Lance Armstrong's career in photographs and words. For everyone who considers Lance Armstrong a hero and best athlete in the world, this is the book for you. Highly recommended.
A Visual Feast for Tour Fans!.......2005-07-15
A fascinating book with wonderful photos. The negative reviews are from people who judge Lance's private life and may not have even read this wonderful book. If you are a Lance and/or Tour de France fan and you're visual, you'll love this book. Lance Armstrong is a champion as was Greg LeMond. These are athletes raising the bar and bringing us into a world we mightn't known without them. Viva la Lance. The prose tells one story, the photos speak volumes.
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A LittleTreasure.......2007-03-20
A student in my college Spanish class a few years ago introduced me to this little treasure. I was so impressed by the way it was written and designed that I asked the college bookstore to make it available. It was quite obvious that 90% of my students did not know English parts of speech nor syntax therefore handicapping them if they wanted to learn a foreign language. I used the excercises at the end of mny of the chapters as part of quiz and test reviews. Since I retired from teaching I gave my copy to a friend who teaches high school Spanish, and recently recommended this book to another friend who is teaching Spanish in an adult learning center.
Spanish Grammer.......2007-03-09
This grammar book is very good and is a great help to me. I recommend this book to anyone learning Spanish Grammar. The book explains English Grammar and for someone like myself that does not have a a clue regarding grammer it helps alot with clear chapters on each possible subject and then of course its use in Spanish.
I recommend this book, as it has been the most helpful out of all the grammar books I have used.
Emily Spinelli's English Grammar for Students of Spanish.......2007-01-10
An extremely helpful, easy to understand grammar reference guide to be used alongside any Spanish program.
Great Book.......2007-01-08
If you are studying Spanish, this is a great book for teaching Spanish grammar. I found it very helpful when taking a second semester college Spanish class.
English Grammar for Students of Spanish.......2007-01-05
I paid for but I never received this book.
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Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to point out, this is very much our human tale, our ancestry. Surprisingly, it is one that many otherwise literate people are largely unaware of. Hopefully Dawkins's name and well deserved reputation as a best selling writer will introduce them to this wonderful saga.
The Ancestor's Tale takes us from our immediate human ancestors back through what he calls `concestors,' those shared with the apes, monkeys and other mammals and other vertebrates and beyond to the dim and distant microbial beginnings of life some 4 billion years ago. It is a remarkable story which is still very much in the process of being uncovered. And, of course from a scientist of Dawkins stature and reputation we get an insider's knowledge of the most up-to-date science and many of those involved in the research. And, as we have come to expect of Dawkins, it is told with a passionate commitment to scientific veracity and a nose for a good story. Dawkins's knowledge of the vast and wonderful sweep of life's diversity is admirable. Not only does it encompass the most interesting living representatives of so many groups of organisms but also the important and informative fossil ones, many of which have only been found in recent years.
Dawkins sees his journey with its reverse chronology as `cast in the form of an epic pilgrimage from the present to the past [and] all roads lead to the origin of life.' It is, to my mind, a sensible and perfectly acceptable approach although some might complain about going against the grain of evolution. The great benefit for the general reader is that it begins with the more familiar present and the animals nearest and dearest to us—our immediate human ancestors. And then it delves back into the more remote and less familiar past with its droves of lesser known and extinct fossil forms. The whole pilgrimage is divided into 40 tales, each based around a group of organisms and discusses their role in the overall story. Genetic, morphological and fossil evidence is all taken into account and illustrated with a wealth of photos and drawings of living and fossils forms, evolutionary and distributional charts and maps through time, providing a visual compliment and complement to the text. The design also allows Dawkins to make numerous running comments and characteristic asides. There are also numerous references and a good index.-- Douglas Palmer
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With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billion years ago. Throughout the journey Dawkins spins entertaining, insightful stories and sheds light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection, and extinction. The Ancestor's Tale is at once an essential education in evolutionary theory and a riveting read.
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In the beginning..........2007-10-05
Over 600 pages, Dawkins traces back our genetic past from human down to Eubacteria. It is a fascinating look at where branches of life broke off onto their own path, and how it all fits together. Rarely dry, Dawkins gives plenty of anecdotes and explanations that make the entire thing very easy to understand. This book is for anyone wanting to know a lot more about Evolution, beyond theory.
Walking backwards towards the whole picture, holes included.......2007-10-02
Dawkins is one of the best non-fiction writers today, whether you always agree with him or not. Here he attempts to give a complete overview of the current state of the science of evolution and evolutionary history. It is sometimes a challenging read, and sometimes the storytelling device of the 'tales' structure makes it even a little confusing.
He does not shy away from pointing out disagreements among scientists and holes in our status of knowledge. Expecting this knowledge to be complete would be misunderstanding the process of science. Claiming that incompleteness means that everything is still out in the open is also false, though of course it remains true that everything is true only until it has been proven untrue...
The book is so large and so much exposed to the changes brought out by current research that one fears the soon to become necessary revision may take up so much of Dawkins' time that he will not be able to write much else in future. Which would be a pity, we need him him for the debates with IDists and creationists.
Evolution Looking Backward.......2007-09-24
I found this an exciting book that was hard to put down, which I cannot often say about a 600-page serious work of scientific reportage. It is even better than Fortey's excellent Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (1997), which I enjoyed immensely several years ago and still refer to. I believe that The Ancestor's Tale is the first systematic description of our ancestry for the general reader that fully incorporates the results of molecular dating and genetic biology's study of the genome of multiple species. Also, Dawkins is very readable. In this book, he adopts the style of The Canterbury Tales in a journey beginning in the present and moving backward in stages to humanity's common ancestors ("concestors") with other life forms, as each of our more distant cousin forms of life join the journey. After a discussion of early hominids, our closest cousins, the chimpanzees, join about 6 million years ago (mya), and we move on in ever longer jumps as the primates have all joined us by about 63 mya, cats and dogs around 85 mya, birds and reptiles at 330 mya, fish about 440 mya, insects and spiders at 590 mya, sponges at 800 mya, plants at almost 2,000 mya, and on to the first bacteria around 4,000 mya. In all, 39 concestor points are discussed, and at each there are one or more tales to be told by a species in the group. These tales are not just descriptive, but each illustrates some aspect of the science, whether gene splitting, fossil dating, isolation, continental drift, evolution of the eye, etc., etc. The journey finally arrives at "Canterbury," which is the origin of life/heredity. Uncertainties and issues still to be resolved are fully discussed.
A Beguiling Trek Through The Taxonomy And History Of Life That's Led By Richard Dawkins.......2007-09-14
"The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution" is a beguiling literary trek through the taxonomy and history of life on Planet Earth; one that's led with ample eloquence by eminent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. In this vast tome Dawkins has crafted what is indeed the popular scientific equivalent of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", taking us along a long journey back to the dawn of life itself, approximately 4 billion years ago, via a molecular phylogeny designed by his former undergraduate student Yan Wong. But it's a long, long trek that's quite unlikely to be viewed as tedious by the reader. Here, Dawkins is truly at his most expansive, using this taxonomy to discuss the compelling issues of contemporary evolutionary theory and history, in which he covers everything from genetics, speciation, convergent evolution and mass extinctions to microevolution, sexual selection, biogeography, and the relevance of plate tectonics to past and current biogeographic distributions of organisms. Relying on Wong's intricate molecular phylogeny, Dawkins takes us along to forty branching points - previous geological moments - in that phylogeny, where we meet the "concestor" - the last common ancestor - of all organisms at that very point. It is a quite compelling, often insightful, narrative that Dawkins admits does owe much to Chaucer's legendary "The Canterbury Tales".
Dawkins doesn't hesitate to interrupt the relentless ebb and flow of his narrative in a series of individual "tales", that are designed illustrate some unique trait of a given species, and then, by mere extension, serve as the jumping off point(s) for riveting discussions on some aspect(s) of modern evolutionary biology. A classic example is the section that he devotes to the sauropsids, which consists of lizard-like and dinosaur-like (archosaurs, including birds) reptiles in the chapter entitled "Rendezvous 16". In the first of these tales, "The Galapagos Finch's Tale", Dawkins recounts the decades-long fieldwork of ecologists Peter and Rosemary Grant who have been studying microevolution in the Galapagos Finches. He focuses upon the aftermath of a severe drought in 1977 that led inevitably to sharp declines in the populations of several species, observing that those individuals in the dominant species, Geospiza fortis, who were only 5 percent larger than their peers, were the ones who survived; a classic example of "a small episode of natural selection in action, during a single year." Within the same species, the Grants and their coworkers observed selection pressures resulting not only in larger body size, but also in larger beak size too. In the chapter's next tale, "The Peacock's Tale", Dawkins emphasizes the importance of sexual selection, arguing persuasively that it may have had a role in shaping the course of human evolution, perhaps via preferential selection of females for "smarter" males. That is followed, in turn, by "The Dodo's Tale", in which Dawkins discusses not only the Dodo's extinction, but also the tendency towards flightlessness in bird species inhabiting remote oceanic islands.
While Dawkins has crafted a most compelling narrative in this vast book, "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution", is far from perfect, especially in its depiction of the fossil record. Much to my amazement, he doesn't discuss the existence of long-term stasis in the fossil record, predicted by the theory of punctuated equilibria, which has been substantiated by decades of extensive fieldwork by paleobiologists, ever since the publication of the classic 1972 paper coauthored by noted American paleobiologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould (This is a rather peculiar omission since Dawkins has been a staunch critic of punctuated equilibria.). Nor does he discuss, except only in passing, the diverse, radical differences in the compositions of marine faunas during, respectively, the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras, which have been noted for decades due to excellent fieldwork, and more recently, by excellent statistical modeling done by paleontologist Jack Sepkoski and his colleagues at the University of Chicago. And he also misses the important history of predator-prey interactions that form much of coevolution, which has been discussed admirably elsewehere by noted marine ecologist Geerat Vermeij. But, in retrospect, my criticisms of Dawkins' omissions are relatively minor, simply because he has accomplished successfully, the arduous task of making both the taxonomy and history of life a most beguiling tale. Without question, "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution", should be regarded for a long time as one of the classics of popular evolutionary biology literature.
Tough Read .......2007-08-29
Richard Dawkins is a renowned evolutionary biologists with a current bestseller, The God Delusion. He is one of the most influential scientists of our time.
This book offers a reverse tour through evolution, from present day humans back to the microbial beginings of life four billion years ago when life began.
The Ancestor's Tale is a truly marathon book which offers one of the best explainations of evolution in the world by allowing us to view the connections between ourselves and all other life in as full and clear picture of the way life developed on our planet as you are likely to find anywhere.
This book is an immensely informative book weighing in at over 600 pages
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