Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development Ngos

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Based on a unique insiders' perspective, Going Global is the first book-length comprehensive study of the largest of the Northern-based international relief and development NGOs. Marc Lindenberg and Coralie Bryant examine how organizations are responding to the transformative changes globalization demands, how infrastructures are being organized on a worldwide basis, and the challenges of accountability, evaluation and organizational learning. Also discussed are the growing significance of complex emergencies, peacebuilding and advocacy work, as these new contexts grow in importance compared with traditional development project work.

Constructed from extensive international fieldwork and unique and candid group discussions of NGO presidents and CEOs, Going Global will be invaluable to anyone studying nonprofit management issues in general, as well as the specific challenges faced by relief and development organizations.

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The first part of this book considers the ways in which organizational behavior is shaped by sexuality - for example, in a gendered industrial dispute; sexual harassment; studies of professionals who work with sex offenders; and in the organized practice of sado-masochism. The second part of the book explores how sex is organized for commercial purposes and considers sex work in an industry that can be analyzed like any other.

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Based on the IV Hotine-Marussi Symposium held in Trento, the volume covers three important topics: boundary value problems, satellite geodesy and stochastic methods in geodesy. The first part deals with boundary value problems which are tackled from both the theoretical and the numerical point of view. The part on satellite geodesy deals with the simulation of the GOCE mission, the integration of satellite gradiometry and airborne gravity for gravity-filed recovery, satellite-to-satellite tracking and orbit sensitivity analysis. Various applied and theoretical contributions are devoted to the stochastic methods applied to geodesy. The book presents the state-of-the-art of the main topics in the theoretical and methodological aspects of geodesy.

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What is nature? Everyone has a different view........2004-02-04

"There is no true wilderness here (in the Smokies), but there is wildness, honest and deep and as much as a man could hope for." Harry Middleton writes in one of the essays in this collection. He hikes up Hazel Creek and is upset because he sees two other anglers. I know the Hazel Creek trail. It is lovely but not wilderness.
Most of the essays acknowledge that they are not talking about
real wilderness. One of my other favorites is "The Making of a Marginal farm" by Wendell Berry. His whole working life is wrapped up in overhauling a farm, while teaching at the University of Kentucky. Even he admits that you can't make a living farming on a small scale. Berry is part of the agrarian tradition. This essay is pushing the definition of nature. He did save the land from developers.
Most of the essays are worth reading, as long as you accept that the authors are dealing with land that has been worked.

Dull and pretentious.......2002-05-28

Gerald Thurmond is a serious writer, but John Lane's work recalls the worst of the southern "Look at me, I am so deep" agrarians. Lane needs to realize that there is a world out there that is bigger than he is.

Dull and pretentious.......2002-05-28

Excellent Book.......1999-06-30

The Woods Stretched for Miles is an excellent anthology of southern nature writing. The editor, Gerald Thurmond, has obviously searched far and wide to bring together a diverse group of writers. All of the selections are well chosen.

The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly

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The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
F. Waage
Manufacturer: Mississippi State University
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Binding: Digital

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Title: The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South.(Review) (book review)
Author: F. Waage
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1999
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: 53 Issue: 1 Page: 143

Article Type: Book Review

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Given the overall vigor and volume of sports writing in America throughout the 20th century, the idea of compiling a single collection dubbed the "best" requires a daring balancing act of boldness and delicacy. And that's just what it is. Sports fans--but why limit this sparkling, spirited, passionate prose to just sports fans?--will revel in the equilibrium of David Halberstam's and Glenn Stout's wide range of selections. Their tribute to the knights of the keyboards is Hall of Fame-level from cover to cover.

Halberstam and Stout don't waste any time. They lead off with one of the great tours de force of American nonfiction, Gay Talese's stunningly poignant, 1966 profile of a moody Joe DiMaggio, "The Silent Season of a Hero." Then, before you can finish digesting it, they loudly switch gears to Tom Wolfe's "The Last American Hero," a razzle-dazzle look at Junior Johnson and the world of stock-car racing. By the time Best takes the checkered flag nearly 800 pages later, it has covered a remarkably rich and varied course that runs through the pens of such remarkable talents as Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Frank Deford, W.C. Heinz, Jim Murray, Murray Kempton, Ring Lardner, John Lardner, Jimmy Breslin, Al Stump, John Updike, John McPhee, Hunter Thompson, Norman Mailer, Jon Krakauer, Tom Boswell, Roger Angell, and David Remnick. Whew!

Like the best sportswriting, of course, Best is much more than fun and games, though there's plenty of that in its pages. Best is history captured on the fly through the games we play and the memorable players--Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, Mohammad Ali, Secretariat, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Red Grange--who play them. From selection to selection, writes Halberstam in his introduction, "we watch the country change." Certainly, sports--and sportswriting--have provided America a marvelous box seat for the contemplation of its own metamorphoses. --Jeff Silverman

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Halberstam selects the fifty best pieces of sports writing of this century. The Best American Sports Writing of the Century showcases the best sports journalists of the twentieth century, from Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, William Mack, Gary Smith, and Frank Deford to A. J. Liebling, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson, and includes such classics as "What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?" by Richard Ben Cramer, "Louis Knocks Out Schmeling" by Bob Considine, and "The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete" by W. C. Heinz. This outstanding collection captures not only the century's greatest moments in baseball, boxing, horseracing, golf, and tennis, but some of the finest writing of our time. Guest editor David Halberstam is the author of The Reckoning, The Summer of Forty-Nine, The Breaks of the Game, and, most recently, The Children. Series editor Glenn Stout has written biographies of Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson.

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I Didn't Think I Was A Sports Fan Till I Picked Up This Book.......2007-10-11

I recently took a friend to a doctor's appointment and this book was in the collection of waiting room reading material. So I picked it up, thinking what the heck and discovered an entire chapter is devoted to stories about Ali. Well, let me tell you, I was instantly hooked. When my friend returned to the waiting room, instead of being relieved to be out of there, I was actually disappointed to not be able to finish one of the stories. So, I went right out and bought my own copy. The story on Joe DiMaggio is splendid. I never knew much about Ted Williams, but sure do now after reading the terrific story by Richard Ben Cramer . What a great read this book is. It is excellent. You don't have to be a jock to enjoy it. The collection is some of the best writing I've had the pleasure to read this year.

Some Good, Some Better, Some Best.......2004-04-09

Congratulations to David Halberstam and Glenn Stout for putting together their choices for "The Best American Sports Writing of the Century". As with any anthology of "the best of", there are selections that will make one wonder about its' inclusion while there are others whose omission will seem equally unjust. However, such arguments only occur when somebody puts out their choices for public consumption. Having said that, I offer the following criticisms. First of all, Halberstam, in his introduction, heaps a bit too much praise on Gay Talese's story about Joe Dimaggio. One reads it thinking that, yes this is good, but it's not THAT good. There was a fairly lengthy story about Bobby Fischer that was interesting but kept me wondering if chess was a sport. There were a number of short articles and feature articles that were good but still made you wonder why they were included. However, there was plenty of the better and some of the best. The book gave me a good introduction to an excellent sports writer I had not previously known of; W C Heinz. There was the fascinating "Outside" magazine article by Jon Krakauer, "Into Thin Air" that led to the later (equally excellent) book of the same name. There is a touching story about Tommy LaSorda's son, Al Stump on Ty Cobb, an interesting story about a hockey "enforcer", a disturbing article about the steroid madness of body building, the obligatory yet interesting article about Tiger Woods, and a closing section on Muhammed Ali. Unfortunately, the latter section includes an endless article about the Champ by Norman Mailer ironicly titled "Ego". There's lots more but, to be honest, by the time I finished the book, a lot of the earlier selections were by then forgotten. My nomination for the most egregious omission, Frank DeFord's "Sports Illustrated" article "The Toughest Coach the Ever Was". This is an enjoyable book. Some articles may not have merited inclusion in a book of this title but they were still fairly interesting.

excellent collection.......2003-10-22

What surprised me about this collection was that some of the most enjoyable stories were the ones about sports I don't have much interest in. The mountain climbing, chess and horse racing stories were some of the best in this collection.

As the title suggests, these are well-written stories, which cover a lot of ground. I normally wouldn't waste my time reading about something like chess, but I read and enjoyed every story in this collection. I knew I would enjoy the stories about the major sports, but some of the others surprised me.

Should be a lot better.......2003-06-05

Best thing about the yearly "Best American Sportswriting" series is the one great story about an non-major sport like handball or body-building. Sure you get your baseball,basketball, football stories but there's usually one or two off the beaten path. Not so with the Best of the Century, mostly basebal and boxing. One chess one, one golf one, the rest solidly predictable. Boring choices, nothing funny either.

Super Sports Stories.......2002-11-30

This is an excellent book for several reasons--it is convenient in that you can quickly read one story and put the book aside without having to go back to get back into the story, it is full of excellent writing, and it gives beautiful glimpses into a very diverse group of sports. The book advertises itself as containing the "best" sports writing of the century and for the most past I would certainly agree, and disagreement has to be expected when you declare something the best, so it is great reading. It is fine journalism, telling captivating stories about people and games, but it is also does an excellent job of showing the importance of sports beyond the fields of play. I would highly recommend the book to sports loves, aspiring journalists, and I would also recommend many of the pieces for people who cannot understand why sports lovers really love sports.

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Not for Teaching Kids!!!

Good book even though it comes up short in some areas...

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Great to improve your math and impress your friends

Math Magic: How to Master Everyday Math Problems, Revised Edition
Scott Flansburg , and Victoria Hay
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Don't live in fear of math any longer.
Math Magic makes math what you may never have
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Scott Flansburg -- "the Human Calculator" who believes that there are no "mathematical illiterates," just people who have not learned how to make math work for them -- demonstrates how everyone can put their phobia to rest and deal with essential every-day mathematical calculations with confidence. This is the book for millions of otherwise successful adults who are afraid to balance their checkbooks and don't know how to figure interest on savings or credit, and for the millions of students who dread their math classes and live in fear of the SAT math section.

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Master the basics, including the real way addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division work
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Not for Teaching Kids!!!.......2006-04-23

This book is inadequate to explore the concepts that it puts forward, and the reader will not be able to use it effectively until they go through and fill in the wide gaps left by the author. The techniques within it are not universal to all numbers, and the author fails to mention this on numerous occasions. All in all, this book was designed to make money, while offering the illusion of "cheating" your way through math. Some methods within it are useful, while others only overcomplicate, and ultimately undermine, standard education techniques for mathematics, the standard way oftentimes being the more accurate, and quicker, way to do the examples within. Math is hard, sure, and that does make a lot of people hate it, but this book will make you hate it more, at least until you figure out what a scam it is.

Good book even though it comes up short in some areas..........2003-07-03

I wanted to read this book ever since seeing the infomercial of Scott doing his thing on tv. I couldn't afford or justify the expense to buy the big commerical package so this book had to do. The methods are easy to follow and Mr. Flansburg does a good job expressing his mind set in how he mentally did the problems. The basic addition and multiplications methods are good but the examples were insufficient when dealing with mixed numbers of different lengths. There were also exceptions to many of the rules that weren't expressed. Finally, the last part of the book with special rules were so numerious it would take a year to effectively learn and apply them all from memory. This leads me to believe that Mr. Flansburg didn't tell everything he knows, like the quick way to determine change -- by changing say ten bucks to 9.99 and subtracting that from the amount owed; then add one cent to get the correct change. It's easier to subtract 9 since its the highest value you can have in each column. This was presented by him on a night time radio show he was a guest on. I do give him prasie for getting people young and old to stop depending on calculators and learn mental speed math.

Boost for Math Dummies.......2002-07-28

A reading of this book quickly reveals our public education system as stodgy and nonprogressive. If you or anyone you know is having problems with math of any kind, please spend a little money on this book before spending a ton of money on tutors and such! If I'd had this book, or been exposed to the information therein, when I was in k-12, my math scores would have been much higher!

Well written book.......2002-04-23

This book is well written and easy to read. It is a really great book and gives insights into various interesting methods to calculate rapidly. However, Mr.Flansburg and Ms. Hay seems to claim that these methods are either theirs, or Japanese. They fail to give proper reference. This preposterous misrepresentation is possibly due to their sheer ignorance or intentional need to hide the real source. In reality, these fast methods were invented during the Vedic Period in India around 400 B.C. One can refer to all these and more methods in "Vedic Mathematics or Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas", by Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthanji at Amazon.com. Nevertheless, the credit should be given to these authors for putting these concepts in a easy to understand format and encouraging kids to learn math....

Great to improve your math and impress your friends.......2001-12-18

I bought this for my kids to help them in school. They loved the tips and tricks and actually started really liking math. Can't beat that! I just bought another for my Dad since he loves brain teasers and math tricks. This is a great book for people of all ages and math skill levels. Something for everyone here.

Math Magic: How to Master Everyday Math Problems, Revised Edition

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Entertaining and thought provoking reading for young adults........1998-06-23

Wrong Turn in the Fast Lane combines characters who are real and believable, most of which are quite lovable, with a story line that intrigues and causes the reader to examine his or her own feelings regarding sensitive subjects encountered in everyday life. Every young person should have the opportunity to get to know the students at Summit High and find out how they deal with the issues of relationships, suicide, pre-marital sex, basketball tryouts, and other real-life scenarios.

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