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The world is changing dramatically and a vigorous public debate is under way about the nature and historical significance of these changes. At the centre of this debate lie conflicting claims about the extent, form and consequences of contemporary globalization. On the one hand there are the globalists, who argue that the world is being fundamentally and irreversibly transformed by globalization. On the other hand there are the sceptics, who believe that the globalists' claims are exaggerated and poorly substantiated. The sceptics contest the very idea of globalization, arguing that the power of national governments, nationalism and geopolitics remain the determining features of our age. This completely revised and fully updated edition of The Global Transformations Reader brings together the most original contributions from both sides of the argument and from a range of disciplines. Many new chapters have been added, which incorporate the most recent developments in the debate and set these in the context of a global order that is in a constant state of flux. Organized as an accessible and comprehensive teaching text, the Reader is divided into six sections covering all the key issues in the debate: bull; bull;controversy over the meaning, causes and historical significance of 'globalization' bull;the transformation of state power and civil society; bull;changing patterns of national culture; bull;the power of global markets; bull;global inequality and its consequences; and bull;the nature of the global order and normative aspirations for its future. The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors, reviewing, analysing and assessing the globalization debate. Short but highly informative introductions to each section situate and contextualize the individual readings. This Reader will be of immense value to all those interested in one of the most important debates of our time. It will appeal to students of politics, international relations, economics, sociology, geography, business studies and cultural studies. The Global Transformations Reader is part of the internationally acclaimed series on globalization, which also includes Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture and Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance.
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Major Incident Medical Management and Support: The Practical Approach in the Hospital
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This is the course book for a new Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) course on preparation for and medical management of major incidents within the hospital. This book is a vital tool for all hospital workers that face the potential of having to manage any large scale emergency from the hospital.In an easy to use and highly adaptable ringbound format, it will be a companion volume to Major Incident Medical Management & Support 2nd Edn: The Practical Approach (MIMMS), which deals with the prehospital situation, and will meet an ever increasing need as natural and other disasters affect hospital staff and administrators.The course aims to provide a systematic approach for all personnel who would be involved in managing a major incident in the hospital. Further information about the courses that ALSG run can be found at http://www.alsg.org
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Pre Hospital Paediatric Life Support: The Practical Approach
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This practical book written especially for prehospital staff provides all the information needed to deal with children in life threatening situations before arriving at hospital. It is a complementary volume to the best-selling Advanced Paediatric Life Support
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Safe Transfer and Retrieval of Patients (STaR)
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Title: Coaching nurses to improved patient safety: Waitemata District Health Board's medical nursing services established a new clinical support role for staff nurses. Now other nursing services are looking at introducing it.(professional development)
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Title: Expert advice on keeping good support staff: acknowledge the stress they're under.(Practice Trends)
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Title: Obviate personnel-shortage problems using lab orientation to retain essential support staff.(SPECIAL FEATURE)(biomedical laboratories)
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a wonderful story of how the NPS got started.......2003-12-20
Having worked for the National Park Service, I really enjoyed this book. But I think anyone who has a great passion for our national park system would enjoy it. I had expected it to be a somewhat tedious plod through NPS history, but instead it was the very personal story of Horace Albright, and the role he played in getting the NPS off the ground. It was a page-turner from start to finish. It would make a great gift for anyone who's ever been involved with the NPS as well. I bought my copy through the Grand Canyon Association (who run their bookstores at the park). They also have a website you can order form. I heartily recommend this absorbing and fascinating story.
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Imaging Spectrometry V: 19-21 July 1999, Denver, Colorado (Proceedings of Spie--the International Society for Optical Engineering, V. 3753.)
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Canyons of Color: Utahs Slickrock Wildlands (Genesis Series)
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Third edition includes: updated field listings, the hottest new scenario games, new guns, new gear, updated league rules...and more!
From the practical to the tactical, how to play and how to win, this is the definitive book on the subject of this super hot sport.
The Complete Guide to Paintball is a treasure trove of information and insight into this action packed game. In its pages you'll find the the writings of paintball's leading commentators—Rob "Tyger" Rubin, Steve Davidson, and Peter "Robbo" Robinson—plus one-of-a-kind interviews with paintball's top players and manufacturers including: Bob Long, Dennis Tippman, Jr., Bill and Adam Gardiner, Jerry Braun, Paul Fogal, and many many others!
The Complete Guide to Paintball also features sections on: guns, gear, tactics, air systems, maintenance, and drills to improve your game.
For the newbie to the advanced player, this book will be a valuable addition to your collection. 350 color photos.
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Outdated.......2006-11-03
THis is a good book for noobs but thats realy it. Its so old it includes the first few shockers. Not even WDP from 04.
the complete guide to paintball,third edition.......2006-01-07
This book is great for paintball fans.It has many new features like guns,gear,and games.Plus it gives you advice and hints so you can play like a pro.It has lots of great pictures and scenes.They play speedball and woodsball.
The best!.......2005-09-24
A must. If you are starting like me, you ought to buy this book.
Teaches, explains, rules, tactics... everything.
Congratulations to the authors!
And to Amazon too. ;-)
A virtual encyclopedia of expert advice.......2004-07-16
Now in an updated, expanded, and illustrated third edition, The Complete Guide To Paintball can justifiably be considered as the "bible" of one of the country's most popular personal competition sporting activities. This is a virtual encyclopedia of expert advice and information on the rules, equipment, clothing, safety, tactics, fields, and every other aspect of the game. If you are a participant (or soon to be one) in this exciting and challenging game where you shoot (and get shot at with) a paint-filled gelatin capsule from an air-powered "marker" gun at a velocity of 300 feet per second, then you will need your very own copy of The Complete Guide To Paintball!
Useful, but a vague disappointing rehash of older editions.......2004-06-29
Short version: This book has a lot of good information, especially for beginners, and its attempt to portray paintball history is admirable (and rare). However, it is often extremely vague, possibly in an attempt to avoid offending manufacturers by actually endorsing particular products (or better yet, by pointing out the lemons). There was also clearly no attempt to update the older sections of the book: 90% of this is straight out of the 1999 edition, with the remainder split between reprinted 2nd edition material and actual new stuff. The new 3rd edition section is mostly a gloss on what is newly available in paintball gear. In the end, if you've read or you own the 1st or 2nd edition, save your money. If you don't, and you are new to the game, read this and enjoy: it is worth the cash, largely because there is so little competition. A truly outstanding overall guide to paintball has yet to be published.
Long Version: Don't get me wrong: I liked the 1999 edition, and I like this one too. It's just that compared to what they could have and should have done, this is frustratingly disappointing. This book is written for people with VERY short attention spans. Even within articles that only run 1 or 2 pages, there are sidebars, lots of LARGE headers in multiple bright colors, which break up those two pages into three or four ADHD-sized bites of text. The editing is good, with only the occasional embarrassing spelling error left in, and the writing is on the whole decent. Because the writers are often working with very tight word count limits though, and because most of them are not good at being economical with word choice, many articles are underdeveloped. Often, I get the sense that I know what the author means, but the words just aren't there on the page. Instead, there is a quick description that makes sense if you already know the subject, but which wouldn't work for the uninitiated. In most cases, just a bit more explanation would make it work.
This is a shame, since much of the older, dated material could have been cut or at least edited to be shorter, giving the newer authors room to expand. Of course, since 282 pages out of 342 (not counting appendices) are straight out of 1999, most of what is here was underdeveloped five years ago in the original edition. Speaking of appendices, both the glossary and list of suppliers/fields are useful, but woefully incomplete. The glossary is missing key terms like "pod," and is not cross-indexed. This, the entry for "suppressor" very helpfully tells you that this is the same as silencer, but there's no entry for "silencer." Sure, you can find it by browsing, if you know enough to look under suppressor, but this glossary is more for reading through end to end than for quick reference on an unfamiliar term: the function of a glossary. Likewise, the supplier/field index is woefully lacking. It seems to have been tacked on as an afterthought with very little basic research.
And that sums up the 3rd edition on many levels. The 1st and 2nd edition text (320 pages out of 342, or 94%) was simply reprinted without even the slightest attempt to edit or shorten it. Thus, you have five year old news (like the 1999 announcement that manufacturers had agreed to limit ROF to 13bps: ha!ha!) being presented in huge, colored type as if it were new. That is lazy, sloppy, and completely unprofessional. It is explainable only by a desire to quickly and cheaply crank out a new edition and make a fast buck. It is forgivable only because most of the competition is so lame that even this rehash looks like a jewel next to them. Case in point: The "Ultimate Guide to Paintball" (also available on Amazon) is so poorly done that it isn't even worth borrowing from the library, yet it is the only serious competition in the "comprehensive guide" market.
So, in a nutshell, this is the best I've seen, but mostly outdated and unwilling to shoot straight and name which products are good (and why) and which are junk. If you are a new player, buy it, read it, and learn from it, keeping in mind that most of it is older stuff that is reprinted. (To be fair, the editors make this clear in their table of contents.) If you are an experienced player, borrow it from a friend or from the library: the stretching routine is well worth reading, and some of the writing is funny and worthwhile. If you've ever read a previous edition, don't bother: there simply isn't enough new here to merit spending your hard-earned cash. I'll keep looking for a really excellent overall guide to paintball.
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The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read
“What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice is
weave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership are putting good journalism at risk.” —Rasmi Simhan, Boston Globe
“Kovach and Rosenstiel’s essays on each [element] are concise gems, filled with insights worthy of becoming axiomatic. . . . The book should become essential reading for journalism professionals and students and for the citizens they aim to serve.” —Carl Sessions Stepp, American Journalism Review
“If you think journalists have no idea what you want . . . here is a book that agrees with you. Better—it has solutions. The Elements of Journalism is written for journalists, but any citizen who wonders why the news seems trivial or uninspiring should read it.” —Marta Salij, Detroit Free Press
The elements of journalism are:
* Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.
* Its first loyalty is to citizens.
* Its essence is a discipline of verification.
* Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover.
* It must serve as an independent monitor of power.
* It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise.
* It must strive to make the significant interesting and relevant.
* It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional.
* Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience.
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Title: A Fine Critique, but What's the Solution?(Review)
Author: Carl Sessions Stepp
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These are tough times for journalism. Newsroom executives' bonuses tend to be based on their company's profit margin. Journalists are constantly jockeying for the time and space necessary to tell their stories as they see fit. Only 47 percent of Americans even read a newspaper. And Time and Newsweek--news magazines, remember?--"were seven times more likely to have the same cover story as People magazine in 1997 than in 1977."
It's no wonder that in 1997, the Committee of Concerned Journalists formed to "engage journalists and the public in a careful examination of what journalism was supposed to be." The Elements of Journalism reports the results of that study, which included 21 public forums (attended by 3,000 people), in-depth interviews with 100 journalists, editorial content studies, and research into the history of journalism. Part of what the committee members learned, they already knew. Journalism is complicated business: journalists are paid by management but work for the citizens; they tend to be self-taught (there is little evidence of mentoring and much disdain for journalism schools); and they need to be objective even when they're not impartial. This has always been the case. But the committee also detected a trend, one abundantly evident to anyone who has tried to find news on the evening TV news: "news was becoming entertainment and entertainment news."
"Unless we can grasp and reclaim the theory of a free press," warn Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, the book's authors, "journalists risk allowing their profession to disappear." Through their discussions with journalists, the Committee of Concerned Journalists defined nine "clear principles" of journalism, which Kovach and Rosenstiel explore in great detail. The first principle is, "Journalism's first obligation is to the truth." The last: "Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience." In between come issues of loyalty, verification, independence, and power monitoring, among others.
Invigorating reading for newsroom interns, jaded reporters, and anyone else who needs to be reminded of the rigorousness, integrity, and meaning of journalism. --Jane Steinberg
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“What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice is
weave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership are putting good journalism at risk.” —Rasmi Simhan, Boston Globe
“Kovach and Rosenstiel’s essays on each [element] are concise gems, filled with insights worthy of becoming axiomatic. . . . The book should become essential reading for journalism professionals and students and for the citizens they aim to serve.” —Carl Sessions Stepp, American Journalism Review
“If you think journalists have no idea what you want . . . here is a book that agrees with you. Better—it has solutions. The Elements of Journalism is written for journalists, but any citizen who wonders why the news seems trivial or uninspiring should read it.” —Marta Salij, Detroit Free Press
The elements of journalism are:
* Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.
* Its first loyalty is to citizens.
* Its essence is a discipline of verification.
* Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover.
* It must serve as an independent monitor of power.
* It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise.
* It must strive to make the significant interesting and relevant.
* It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional.
* Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience.
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Abstract/Strategic overview; Journalist's, not public's, perspective.......2007-01-05
This book is probably a good overview for someone new to these issues. However, for someone like me who has been interested in these issues for years, there is little here that you wouldn't have already seen in the newspaper coverage of this topic. I had hope of finding some pithy characterizations of the issues, but this book contained none that I hadn't already seen. However, for the newbie, this book does a good job at collecting and presenting them (and citing sources). And it is very readable.
My biggest disappointment was that the authors chose to exclude the issues of fairness and balance - as a person involved in events covered by the press, this is my biggest source of frustration with journalists. The most common problem is with the structure of an article: One side's position and arguments are given, and repeated, in the beginning and middle of the article, with other points of view not appearing until near the very end. When I try to talk to the journalist about the well-known problems with this structure, my comments are routinely dismissed with "But its all in there."
Note: By "fairness" and "balance" I mean what is understood by normal people and not the bizarre, discredited definitions used by journalists. Rather than try to rehabilitate these terms (a difficult task), the authors attempt, unsuccessfully, to introduce replacements (for example, "proportionality" which is presented by an unsatisfying metaphor).
My second disappointment was that the portion of the title "and the Public Should Expect" is an empty promise: The book is entirely focused on the journalist's perspective.
I did find it interesting the number of times that the authors commented that journalists were *not* trained in key aspects of their job but had to figure it out for themselves. This confirmed intuitions developed from my experience with journalists.
Captures all important elements of journalism.......2006-08-10
After reading Lippman's Public Opinion, this book provided a good review of what has happend in recent years.
The journalism is heading for a new direction, while preserving the old core values.
No stone is left unturned in this book with regard to journalism.
very good.......2006-02-20
I received the book in a good delay, and it was in perfect condition!
Great finish, no start........2005-03-21
I read this book as a first year grad student studying journalism. It's an interesting read - probably the only book I read that whole semester that I actually liked. It leaves the reader with a sense of purpose and commitment to the craft of journalism.
Then I went out and start reporting in the real world. I immediately realized "Elements of Journalism" is hopelessly idealistic. The book has a great vision for where the profession should be, but no suggestions on how to get there.
absolutely loved it.......2004-11-25
For my journalism class, I had to choose a book of merit about the media. "The Elements of Journalism" doesn't disappoint. This book takes the form of an instructional guide in that its objective does tell what journalists should be doing in order to create an effective press and what the public should expect from it. I find "The Elements of Journalism" to be of great use since it outlines what every budding journalist should follow to maintain ethics, objectivity, and truth in their work. It even describes man's history with the need for communication and a briefing of journalism's role in history. The book is written with clarity and the topics flow together. I also noticed that Kovach and Rosentiel developed many "theories" of the media-which all seem true too.
What will always stay with me is the "The Theory of the Interlocking Public"-that states that everyone has an interest and is an expert in something. We need to be knowledgeable about the realistic description of how people interact with the news in order to present information as accurately as possible so that an individual group is not drawn to an article but a WHOLE variety of people depending on their level of knowledge about the world. Good journalism targets each level. I always remember this while writing an article for the paper.
As for what citizens should expect from the press, I admired the quote "The marketplace fails if we as citizens are passive, willing to put up with a diminishing product because we have no alternative. It works only if we act with a voice and a reason." It basically means that the purpose of a press (to convey the information that people need to be sovereign) will deteriorate if the people don't take action and speak up in what they believe in and hold true.
And, I can go on and on....because this book is so full of insightful information. I recommend it for anybody interested in the workings of the media.
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A week of sun, fun, and parties--what could be more perfect? Having a boyfriend, thinks Ellen Riteman. She's the only Unicorn who doesn't have one. But she's lucky for two reasons. Curtis Bowman--the cutest boy ever--happens to be on board. And the Unicorns are giving her a makeover to help her snag him. But when Lila Fowler points out that Ellen's Mr. Right is Jared Matthew, not Curtis, Ellen feels lucky to have a friend like Lila to steer her in the right direction. Then Jessica Wakefield informs them that Ellen belongs with Sam Sloane. Ellen doesn't know what to think...except that this cruise is going to be pretty crazy!
Customer Reviews:
The Unicorns go on Vacation.......2005-01-10
Ellen Riteman,the president of the unicorns and the others go on a cruise to get a boyfriend for her.Ellen jumps overboard,where some guy in a australian or english accent saves her.She meets 5 guys Each Unicorn meets a guy for Ellen.
Fun and funny.......2001-08-01
This is a funny book especially when Ellen suddenly tries to jump overboard ..that girl is sooo weird.Then theres the dumb surfy bloke who got the hots for her."I'm looking for that really cool chic who jumped overboard."
The Unicorns go on Vacation.......2000-04-02
This is a book about a club that takes a trip together. They all have one thing on their minds, boyfriends. They're determined to find some. Especially for Ellen. Everyone found someone for her. But no one would ever pick the boy that she actually likes. This is one of my favorite books from the Unicorn Club series. It's funny and entertaining.
Product Description
7 paperback Titles in Unicorn Club Series - (13-19) - Who Will Be Miss Unicorn - Lila on the Loose - Too Cool for the Unicorns - Bon Voyage Unicorns - Boyfriends for Everyone - Rachel's in Lila's Out - The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
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