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A description and critique of 'World Bank' practice .......2007-07-11
This book provides a history of the 'World Bank' and a description and critique of its major operating practices. According to Goldman the 'World Bank's operations often fail to achieve their stated goals, and may do more harm than good.
Goldman analyzes the way the agenda of the major fund- providers for the World Bank, the leading industrial states impinges upon the operation of the 'Bank'. He describes the World Bank philosophy which places emphasis on green environentalism and capitalist neo- liberalism. He shows how the World Bank's institutions produce the information and knowledge which often leads their policies in the wrong direction. He goes into great detail in describing and analyzing a World Bank water project in Laos which causes more harm than good.
Is this overall a fair critique? Does it do justice to the full variety of the work, the 'World Bank' has done in the more than sixty years since its inception?
I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough to answer.
But that the World Bank does have in many areas a good need for soul- searching is made extremely clear in this fine book.
Good Introduction to the Bank.......2006-06-01
Michael Goldman's Imperial Nature is a wonderful introduction to the methods, practices and history of the World Bank. It is well written and very easy to read and comprehend. It is arranged logically and most questions that a reader with little prior knowledge of the bank would have are answered early on. The book uses both general history and contemporary examples to explore the evolution of the bank's purpose and methodology. However Goldman tends to make generalizations without expounding on examples he casually mentions, or after providing only one detailed example.
Imperial Nature is excellent at explaining how the bank creates and controls information, exploring an area of power often overlooked. Imperial Nature documents how the World Bank, ostensibly a "development" organization can in fact further impoverish a borrowing nation, leave many of its people destitute and then manipulate the data so that it appears to have in fact accomplished something good. Goldman's exploration of the process by which the Bank produces information and regulates what information is published, both before a project is begun and after it is finished, is the best feature of this book.
Despite the title environmental concerns seem rather peripheral. The book is a promotion of social justice and an exploration of the bank's imperialist control over nations and peoples, but environmental effects are rarely mentioned, excepting how they directly affect native peoples. Overall the book is a good and easy to understand overview of the World Bank in the world today, but it would not provide a great deal of information to someone with prior knowledge of the bank.
Solid framework of World Bank.......2006-05-31
Michael Goldman's Imperial Nature provides a concrete basis for the understanding of the World Bank's infrastructure and policies. Not only does Goldman explain how the World Bank functions, but he gives specific examples of projects from around the world such as the Nam Theun 2 dam in Laos. Goldman attempts to explain how the bank achieves its powerful status and remains a dominant structure worldwide. A passage reads, "From this perspective, the World Bank functions by borrowing capital from a global bond market (that it helped to create), lending it to governments that are deemed in need, and then requiring these governments to spend a substantial percentage of these loans to procure goods and services from firms of the Big Five creditor countries" (Goldman 155). Previously unaware of the World Bank's actual workings, passages like these opened our eyes to a somewhat startling power relationship the World Bank attains with underdeveloped nations. Although the World Bank is portrayed as a dominant "bully" in a way, they are a money lending institution similar to other businesses around the globe.
For somebody who has hardly any previous knowledge regarding the World Bank and its operations, this book will give you the basic understanding of how it works. For somebody who understands the inner-workings of the dominant World Bank, this book might seem monotonous and vaguely informative. But overall, the book is fairly entertaining and revealing.
A Different Angle.......2006-05-31
Imperial Nature by Michael Goldman provides a good source of information about the World Bank. This book doesn't require the reader to have prior knowledge about the World Bank and it is not overwhelming in terms of how much information is presented. It presents the history of the Bank and allows the reader to understand its structure and functions. Goldman's goal was to show the negative aspects of the World Bank's influence in the world. He is a valid candidate to write about this subject because he made observations from within the World Bank headquarters. Goldman gave both views of the development projects by presenting interviews with World Bank officials and the people in developing countries. He presented the reader objective information but it made us more skeptical of the institution and its motives.
In the beginning, the author described broad topics such as how the World Bank functions. This made it easier to understand the specific cases that were presented later in the book such as the case study on the Nam Theun 2 dam in Laos. Some issues addressed by Goldman include water privatization. This topic is a good example of the classic tragedy of the commons and how as a common pool resource it needs to be regulated.
The book made us question who is benefiting from the projects. It described how the World Bank treats the people in developing countries with a neocolonial attitude since most of the lesser-developed countries are former colonies. We considered the question of whether the World Bank should continue to exist with the same power. In our opinion, the World Bank should consult with the people who will be affected by development projects. This will provide a system of checks and balances that is necessary to prevent corruption. Overall, we recommend this book because it succeeded in making us think differently about the Bank.
Interesting, but lacking.......2006-05-31
Michael Goldman's Imperial Nature is not the page-turner of Stiglitz's Globalization and it's Discontents. That isn't - necessarily - a criticism; Goldman's work is significantly more academic, and involves a fairly comprehensive history of the World Bank and an in depth case study. Unfortunately, the criticisms that Goldman levies are not based on systematic analysis but on anecdotal arguments. Which can only be overlooked in light of the fact that the approach he took was one of immersion, not of external analysis. This forces Goldman, seemingly, to walk a fine-line of making generalized criticisms from relatively specific and isolated information. Given the limitations of his approach, however, the book does a surprisingly good job of pointing out the structural problems that are hindering the World Bank's performance, and, furthermore, it addresses these issues with a much more convincing, open-minded and balanced approach than much of the polemical arguments that claim the World Bank is Satan and starving little children.
One particularly interesting element of Goldman's book is his examination of the World Bank's dominate role "[a]s a producer of scientific knowledge," (Goldman, p. 101). This less frequently heard criticism of the bank is well, if anecdotally, discussed in Imperial Nature. In chapter 3, Goldman addresses the Bank's institutional impediments to creating unbiased information. By examining the organizational structure limitations, skewed staff incentives, top-down internal political limitations, and time constraints, Goldman makes a fairly compelling case that there are serious structural problems that can bias the Banks panoply of research.
The rest of the book, and even the chapter on knowledge production, however, could have been better served by a more systematic analysis. In Goldman's defense, he did not intend to write an empirical critique of the bank. In the preface, he writes that his book can "be read as an adventure travelogue," or as a "sociological inquiry," (Goldman, p. xvii). Judged on those grounds, the book may take a different shape, but it still does not satisfy one looking for a compelling and empirical analysis of the World Bank's institutional failures.
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This is a no-nonsense, practical book for helping organizations rid their workplaces of drug abuse and its serious and costly consequences. The book draws upon the collective experiences of hundreds of organizations that have said "no more, not here" and have grown stronger as a result. The path to a drug-free working environment is straight but narrow. The Drug-Free Workplace:
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Bringing a workplace back to safety and profitability is a collaborative and multi-disciplinary effort. Participation necessarily involves professionals from security, safety, human resources, and health. Central to the effort is an enlightened management. Every specialist and manager committed to developing and maintaining a drug-free workplace will find in the pages of this book a wealth of sensible, meaningful information.
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Could've been, should've been better........2002-04-20
This book is a broad survey based for the most part on secondary sources. Good surveys should do two things; they should reflect the depth of the literature on the topic and they should unite what is often an inchoate literature into a unified study. This title accomplishes neither of these goals. Particularly the chapters on prehistoric American Indian agriculture are based on a rather thin reading of the literature. One might think a book w/ this title couldn't dodge major scholarly debates such as the one concerning the magnitude of the influence of Mesoamerica on North American agriculture, but it does. The chapters concerning American Indian agriculture in the 19th and 20th centuries are better, though I'd hardly call them definitive. Considering the book is well organized and clearly written, it is ashame the author's skills weren't complemented by more thorough research and deeper reflection.
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Stars are born and die in clouds of gas and dust, opaque to most types of radiation, but transparent in the infrared. Requiring complex detectors, space missions and cooled telescopes, infrared astronomy is the last branch of this discipline to come of age. After a very successful sky survey performed in the eighties by the IRAS satellite, the Infrared Space Observatory, in the nineties, brought spectacular advances in the understanding of the processes giving rise to powerful infrared emission by a great variety of celestial sources.
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The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Bank's 1991 Forestry Strategy, and was developed on the basis of the findings of an independent review of the 1991 strategy and a two-year consultative process with development partners and stakeholders around the world.
The revised strategy, Sustaining Forests, is built on three guiding pillars: harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, integrating forests into sustainable economic development, and protecting global forest values. Recognizing the key role forests play in contributing to the livelihoods of people living in extreme poverty, government and local ownership of forest policies and interventions are emphasized along with the development of appropriate institutions to ensure good governance and the mainstreaming of forests into national development planning. The strategy also aims to support ecologically, socially and economically sound management of production forests by ensuring good management practices through application of safeguard procedures and independent monitoring and certification. Implementation of the strategy will center on building and strengthening partnerships with the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other donor agencies to promote better forest conservation and management at country and global levels.
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The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Bank's 1991 Forestry Strategy, and was developed on the basis of the findings of an independent review of the 1991 strategy and a two-year consultative process with development partners and stakeholders around the world. The revised strategy, Sustaining Forests, is built on three guiding pillars: harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty, integrating forests into sustainable economic development, and protecting global forest values. Recognizing the key role forests play in contributing to the livelihoods of people living in extreme poverty, government and local ownership of forest policies and interventions are emphasized along with the development of appropriate institutions to ensure good governance and the mainstreaming of forests into national development planning. The strategy also aims to support ecologically, socially and economically sound management of production forests by ensuring good management practices through application of safeguard procedures and independent monitoring and certification. Implementation of the strategy will center on building and strengthening partnerships with the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other donor agencies to promote better forest conservation and management at country and global levels.
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Enjoy the aerobatics experience with this complete guide from national champions who tell you not only how to perform the maneuvers, but why the airplane behaves as it does.
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Good book for beginners.......2007-04-02
I've only just started aerobatics and this book seems a good companion to the practical aspects of learning the moves. In particular, the sections on 'what can go wrong' with each manoeuvre helped to build my confidence. This seems a modern and up to date text.
Great Eentry-Level Aerobatics Text.......1998-05-09
Good textbook-style intro to aerobatic flight. It's a little light on the physics involved, but gives thorough step-by-step descriptions (and matching pictures) for each maneuver. Great for aspiring aerobats, RC flyers, or pilots interested in unusual attitude recovery techniques. I will be buying the advanced aerobatics text by the same authors.
Good primer for the beginner.......1996-12-09
This is a good all-round primer for the novice aerobatic pilot. It covers many areas, including which aircraft to train in and which to use as an advanced aerobatic pilot. Unfortunately almost nothing on glider aerobatics.
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Authors comment.......1997-04-10
Based on my 3000 hours instructing aerobatics in a Cessna Aerobat. The book was written as a project with Cessna Aircraft in 1969 and updated with each printing. I'm the chief (and only) instructor of the world's smallest aerobatic school--one airplane/one instructor/one comfort bag
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Basic Aerobatics contains all the information a pilot needs to undertake the basic Loops and Rolls and air exercises such as Advanced Turning, Stalling, Spinning and Recovery from Unusual Attitudes. The Loop, Barrel Roll, Stall Turn, Snap Roll and Combinations are also covered and the aircraft, its equipment and human limitations are discussed.
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You have an idea. A great idea. Now what? Whether you dream of having your name on the cover of a successful book (and 81% of Americans believe they have a book in them), or you’re a seasoned yet frustrated veteran of the publishing jungle, this nuts-and-bolts guide demystifies every aspect of the publishing process.
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Quiet Secret of Rockstar Authors - I Got Published.......2007-02-06
I started with nothing but an idea, and then I bought this book. Soon I had an A-list agent, a near six-figure advance, and multiple TV deals in the works. Buy it and memorize it. This little tome is the quiet secret of rockstar authors.
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I would give it six stars if I could.......2006-11-04
I bought this book thinking I would read only the parts that applied to my book, but I ended up reading it cover-to-cover, taking notes and hi-lighting the whole time. Getting a book published is a looonnngg, hard process, but since I read this book at the beginning of it, nothing has taken me by surprise. The book is written by a literary agent and an experienced author, so it gives more than one perspective. Plus, it's hilarious, which makes the truth easier to take.
Meh. What can you expect from a book that has a cover designed to make you dizzy?.......2006-07-20
"Putting Your Passion into Print" isn't a bad book, it just could have been done much better, or at least they could have spent more time on substance and less time on making it bright, flashy, and distracting. Fortunately, others have done this genre better, so a revision might not be in order. Specifically, the text wanders from topic to topic, offering disconnected tidbits as "rules" for getting yourself published. If you are looking for a book of lists of things to do, this book is stuffed with lists and should cater to most of your insecurities. But, if you are looking for a thoughtful reflection on how to design a proposal that fits your book, consider Richard Curtis's "How to Be your Own Literary Agent" or Eric Maisel's "The Art of the Book Proposal."
Must reading for both new and experienced authors.......2006-06-13
One of the delightful things that happens when you tell people your book is getting published is that suddenly you become an expert on writing books. People begin to share their ideas about books they'd like to write. They wonder how to find an agent, how to find a publisher, how to work with an editor. When this happens to me, I invariably find myself saying, "Read Putting Your Passion Into Print!" This book is must reading for both new and experienced authors. Written by people who really *are* experts in the publishing industry, it covers everything from choosing the idea to write about to marketing the published book. But it isn't just full of essential information. It's also written in such an engaging style, with lots of anecdotes and examples, that it's hard to put down. The result is an ideal blend of unsentimental directness with hope and inspiration.
An Exceptional Value Loaded With Wisdom for Would-Be Writers.......2006-04-23
Whether you've never written a book or have a number of books under your belt, this book is loaded with helpful information. Literary agent Arielle Eckstut runs the west coast office of the Levine Greenberg Agency and combines forces with her husband, David Sterry in this comprehensive title. They combine personal stories about the business with experiences from others within publishing.
Here's just a few of the questions answered with solid sections in this book: How do you find the right idea? How do you put together the right submission package? How do you land the right agent? How do you understand the mysteries of a contract? Then during the writing process, how do you work with your publisher and make sure you and your editor are on the same page? And finally they include a well done section on launching the book. With 440 pages of valuable information, I will use this resource repeatedly for any type of fiction or nonfiction project. Whether your publisher is large or small, this book resounds with truth such as, "We often advise authors to pretend their publisher is their printer--and that's all. That way, they won't be disappointed when their publisher disappoints them." They combine inspiration with truth to help writers have realistic expectations about the performance for their books.
Book Description
An instant blockbuster in Italy where it has sold over 700,000 copies, and now an international literary phenomenon, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager whose quest for love rapidly devolves into a shocking journey of sexual discovery.
Melissa begins her diary a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of self-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older, some met through schoolmates, others through newspaper ads and Internet chat rooms. In graphic detail she describes her entry into a Dante-esque underworld of eroticism, where she willingly participates in group sex and sadomasochism, as well as casual pickups. Melissa's secret life is concealed from family and friends, revealed only in her diary entries.
Told with disarming candor, Melissa P.'s bittersweet tour of extreme desires is as poignant as it is titillating. One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is a stunning erotic debut, a Story of O for our times.
Customer Reviews:
when sexy becomes annoying.......2007-09-25
One hopes that the translation of this text accounts for the ludicrous prose here. Can you imagine this chick ever writing ANOTHER book?
Erotic classic.......2007-08-09
Her genetalia becomes the "secret", his the "unknown".
In a breezy, elegant prose, Melissa P. creates a style all her own, vividly recounting her tale of lost innocence and a perpetually emerging sexually that knows no boundaries.
Overwrought? Perhaps, but effective nonetheless. It's like the literary equivalent of an atomic bomb; excessive force, certainly, but its impact is indelible.
What Women Think.......2007-03-30
This book, like many out today, offers a womans (or in this case a girl's) view of sex and sexuality. It makes for fun and stimulating reading. I enjoyed it. I am now reading Diary of a Sex Fiend: Girl with a One Track Mind. Same genre. Also sexy and fun to read.
Not very arousing for me.......2006-11-05
I was not terribly impressed, but perhaps I am jaded. Everyone else apparently loved it.
I've not read "The Story of O" or "The Sexual Life of Catherine M" which both received rave reviews as well, so I can't compare this to either of those.
Pornography by and for teenagers.......2006-03-30
I was surprised to hear that people actually doubted that this could have been written by a teenager. I was also surprised that anyone was shocked by it. Mildly titillating, the prose is mediocre and the plot weak. This is pornography by a teenager (let's hope she's a teenager, that's the only decent excuse for using so many cliches and hackneyed language) for a teenager. It's a little depressing that anyone finds this cutting-edge or exciting: girl wants love, uses her body to try and find it, degrades herself along the way, ends up finding love with someone who sees her as a whole person and appreciates her for who she is. Couldn't recommend this.
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