Local/ Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century

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This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practice in the social sciences and area studies. He introduces the crucial notion of "colonial difference" into study of the modern colonial world. He also traces the emergence of new forms of knowledge, which he calls "border thinking."

Further, he expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by employing the terms and concerns of New World scholarship. His concept of "border gnosis," or what is known from the perspective of an empire's borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to dominate, and thus limit, understanding.

The book is divided into three parts: the first chapter deals with epistemology and postcoloniality; the next three chapters deal with the geopolitics of knowledge; the last three deal with the languages and cultures of scholarship. Here the author reintroduces the analysis of civilization from the perspective of globalization and argues that, rather than one "civilizing" process dominated by the West, the continually emerging subaltern voices break down the dichotomies characteristic of any cultural imperialism. By underscoring the fractures between globalization and mundializacion, Mignolo shows the locations of emerging border epistemologies, and of post-occidental reason.

50 Activities for Achieving Excellent Customer Service
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50 Activities for Achieving Excellent Customer Service
Darryl S. Doane , and Rose D. Sloat
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The Customer Service Activity Book: 50 Activities For Inspiring Exceptional Service

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This resource manual provides:
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50 Activities for Achieving Excellent Customer Service
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Rose D. Sloat
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Roger Holmes
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Although sediment toxicity/bioaccumulation testing and environmental risk assessment originated together in the early 1980s, they have evolved separately. By critically evaluating existing approaches, this group of experts identifies principles and practices for sediment ecological risk assessments that are designed to improve the scientific and regulatory communities' ability to assess environmental risks associated with contaminated sediments. The authors pinpoint critical applications and pertinent issues that address the evaluation of sediments as both a source and a sink for persistent aquatic contaminants.

Screening ecological risk assessment for the benthic community in the Venice lagoon (Italy) [An article from: Environment International]

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Screening ecological risk assessment for the benthic community in the Venice lagoon (Italy) [An article from: Environment International]
A. Critto , C. Carlon , and A. Marcomini
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This digital document is a journal article from Environment International, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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According to the risk hypothesis: the sediment as source of potential risk for the benthic community, an Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) based on the quotient method was undertaken. The exposure of the benthic community to different classes of pollutants (metals, chlorinated organic compounds and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons) was inferred by estimating the pollutant stocks in the top 15-cm sediment of the whole Venice lagoon, after application of geostatistic techniques. The risk was calculated by comparing the sediment exposure profiles with the ecotoxicological benchmarks for benthic organisms. Kriging based maps of the spatial distribution of the estimated risk for the benthic community over the whole lagoon were obtained. The highest risk, found in the areas nearest to the sources of contamination (e.g., the industrial district of Porto Marghera and the river mouths), was posed by mercury (40% of the sampling stations showed exposure levels higher than the Probable Effect Level), arsenic and nickel (75% of the sampling stations exceeded the Threshold Effect Level).

Spatial analysis in ecological risk assessment: Pollutant bioaccumulation in clams Tapes philipinarum in the Venetian lagoon (Italy) [An article from: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems]

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Spatial analysis in ecological risk assessment: Pollutant bioaccumulation in clams Tapes philipinarum in the Venetian lagoon (Italy) [An article from: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems]
S. Bertazzon , C. Micheletti , A. Critto , and Marcomini
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This digital document is a journal article from Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Exposure characterization is a central step in Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA). Exposure level is a function of the spatial factors linking contaminants and receptors, yet exposure estimation models are traditionally non-spatial. Non-spatial models are prone to the adverse effects of spatial dependence: inflated variance and biased inferential procedures, which can result in unreliable and potentially misleading models. Such negative effects can be amended by spatial regression modelling: we propose an integration of geostatistics and multivariate spatial regression to compute efficient spatial regression parameters and to characterize exposure at under-sampled locations. The method is applied to estimate bioaccumulation models of organic and inorganic micropollutants in the tissues of the clam Tapes philipinarum. The models link bioaccumulation of micropollutants in clam tissue to a set of environmental variables sampled in the lagoon sediment. The Venetian lagoon case study exemplifies the problem of multiple variables sampled at different locations or spatial units: we propose and test an effective solution to this common and serious problem in environmental as well as socio-economic multivariate analysis.

Field and Laboratory and Support results Buffalo River Mass Balance Project (Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments)

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Schooling And Riding The Sport Horse: A Modern American Hunter/Jumper System
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Schooling And Riding The Sport Horse: A Modern American Hunter/Jumper System
Paul D. Cronin
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A protégé of the legendary Vladimir S. Littauer and for more than thirty years director of the riding program at Sweet Briar College, Paul D. Cronin is a well-known and highly respected trainer and riding instructor. Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse is Cronin's clear and practical guide to getting the most out of your horse in a humane and sensitive way.

Beginning with a brief history of educated horsemanship from the earliest published riding masters of the sixteenth century, Cronin clarifies the differences between forward riding and classical dressage, and how at times the two have become inappropriately mixed. He then gives an in-depth presentation of the American forward riding system that is the basis of hunter/jumper riding and examines the ways in which a rider's position and controls are essential to the training of the horse.

In the system as Cronin explains it, the three basic pillars are position, controls, and schooling. In clear language, he walks the reader from the beginning stages of training through advanced jumping and cross-country work. He sets out proper methods of early schooling of the young, green, or reclaimed horse, based on freedom of movement under the weight of the rider at the walk, trot, canter, and jump; of gaining the horse's trust and cooperation; and of establishing agility and calmness in the horse at all gaits and over fences.

Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse is an important book on horsemanship for riding instructors, trainers, and amateur riders alike.

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Educational .......2007-01-09

This book had some good information, but overall I found it rather slow reading. Paul is a very very good trainer with an awesome reputation, so for that reason, I recommend it. My favorite still is Anne Kurzinski's book.

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With this new edition, Science and Technical Writing confirms its position as the definitive style resource for thousands of established and aspiring technical writers. Here are just a few comments from reviews of the first edition:
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"A must for all scientific and technical writers, editors, educators and students."
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Editor Philip Rubens has fully revised and updated his popular 1994 edition, with full, authoritative coverage of the techniques and technologies that have revolutionized electronic communications over the past eight years. His new Manual provides both professionals and would-be professionals with the latest style guidelines for the field - including information on the more complex issues facing the sci-tech writer:
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just view the excerpt.......2005-01-18

I encourage you to view the excerpt of this book; it will help you, more than any customer review, to see if this book is what you expect or imagine. In the excerpt, I found that chapter 2 starts with a bulleted list of items, without any introduction, any motivation, any explanation, nor comment, exactly like a table of contents. Next, using the same style (bulleted list or table of contents), "develops" each item of the bulleted list. I feel that this type of book would not give much help to write anything. To buy this book is like buying a power point presentation.

One of the four essential books for the technical writer.......2002-03-11

This is the best style guide for technical writing I have ever found. It gives more every day practical information than any of the other technical writing books and gives that information in a highly usable format.

My only complaint--my standard complaint about my reference books--is that the index is far less comprehensive than it ought to be. Given modern computer indexing capabilities, one would think authors and publishers could do a better job.

However, with this is one of the four essential books: 1. Strunk and White, Elements of Style, 2. Prentice Hall, Words Into Type, 3. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (for the British tech writer, Fowler's Modern English Usage) and 4. Ruebens, Science and Technical Writing. With these four, a technical writer can handle almost any situation that arises. There are other books covering special fields that can be added, but these four will always be the bedrock.

If you are a professional technical writer or only an occasional one, you can't go wrong having this book handy on your desktop.

Very useful.......2000-09-08

While Robert A. Day's How to Write & Publish a Scientific Paper gives a good overview of the writing and publishing process on a macro level regarding organization and presentation of material, Science and Technical Writing provides great detailed advice on a micro level. Philip Rubens gives very clear instruction on paragraphing, grammar, punctuation and spelling as well as the intricacies of how to present numbers, mathematical symbols and scientific notation. In addition, there are illustrated guidelines on how to design a variety documents such as brochures, manuals and newsletters right down to the page-level including representing information in charts, tables and diagrams. The book itself is well-designed and well-organized giving testament to its own advice. This is a good general reference for both writers and editors of science and technical documentation.

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Part of the Eminent Lives Series, this biography, written by the gifted author Robert Gottlieb, will describe the life of the dynamic George Balanchine, the foremost contemporary choreographer in ballet. Timed to coincide with the 2004 centenary of the artist's birth.

The life and achievement of the great choreographer who both summed up everything that proceeded him in ballet, and extended the art form into radical yet inevitable new paths. Leaving Revolutionary Russia in 1924 (he was 20), he joined Serge Diaghilev's famous Ballets Russes, where he created his first enduring masterpiece, Apollo, cementing his lifelong collaboration with Stravinsky.

In 1933 he arrived in America to found a school and a company, but the company as we know it – The New York City Ballet – didn't emerge until 1948. Meanwhile, he made ballets wherever opportunity allowed, while choreographing Broadway shows (four for Rodgers and Hart), movies (The Goldwyn Follies), even the circus – a ballet for elephants with a score by Stravinsky. By the time of his death, in 1983, he had been recognized as a member of the triad of the greatest modern masters, alongside Picasso and Stravinsky.

Balanchine was married many times, always to outstanding ballerinas, but his truest muse always remained Terpsichore, the Muse of Dance.

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"...there is a glow -- the space, the hands, everything is fantastically beautiful".......2005-08-04

This is one of several volumes in the HarperCollins Eminent Lives series. Each offers a concise rather than comprehensive, much less definitive biography. However, just as Al Hirschfeld's illustrations of various celebrities capture their defining physical characteristics, the authors of books in this series focus on the defining influences and developments during the lives and careers of their respective subjects. In this instance, George Balanchine.

Credit Gottlieb with attracting and then generously rewarding the interest of readers such as I who previously knew very little (if anything) about Balanchine. Even a summary of the key biographical details suggests that his life and career were extraordinary. The subtitle of this compact biography correctly but insufficiently describes him as "The Ballet Maker." True, Balanchine created a total of at least 425 ballets but it is much more important to note that according those best qualified to do so, during his lifetime and then since his death (on April 30, 1983), Balanchine is described as the greatest choreographer.

Because there is already an abundance of information about Balanchine readily available from The George Balanchine Foundation (http://balanchine.org/01/bio.html) and other excellent sources, Gottlieb wisely and brilliantly focuses on what seems to him to be most remarkable about a man for whom "teaching was the heart and soul of his enterprise -- he was frequently quoted as saying that he would be remembered first and foremost as a teacher, not as a choreographer, [his] school now firmly in place as the premier training ground for ballet dancers in America. It taught the basics the way he wanted them taught, and he was secure in the competence of his teachers, who through the years included important dancers from his Russian past." He taught by example, by demonstration, not be words.

But it is also true that Balanchine could "explain a step or role with a simple image that would uncannily convey his intentions." Here are two examples from one of his greatest creative achievements, The Prodigal:

When explaining to the Prodigal's drinking companions how they should run their fingers up and down his (the Prodigal's) exhausted, nearly naked body as if to strip it further of worldly goods: "Like mice."

When explaining to the Prodigal what to do when the Siren steps off of his legs as he lowers them to the floor: "You lower her like an elevator."

According to Nathan Milstein, Balanchine "left an inheritance that consists of more than his works. He left his moral example, a considerable legacy: the strength and wholeness of his character; his directness, adherence to principle, and lack of greed....his devotion to his art; his independence of fashion, fame, and trappings of success."

I am grateful to Gottlieb for so much. First, for helping me to understand and appreciate a man who "carried within him all of ballet, past and present, and was constantly redefining its future. Looking backward and forward were not separate matters for him; he summed up everything even as he was reinventing everything." I am also grateful to Gottlieb for obtaining permission to reprint an article written by Balanchine, "Mr. B Talks About Ballet," which appeared in the June 11, 1965, issue of Life magazine. As Gottlieb explains, it is one of Balanchine's very few by-lined articles. In it, he invites those who are interested in ballet to "come and see, come and discover."

When concluding this brief commentary, I presume to suggest that Gottlieb invites those who are interested in Balanchine to "come and see, come and discover."

Brief, but well-written and informative biography.......2005-01-20

How does one possibly compress the life of Balanchine into a small, thin mini-biography? For if anyone had a "packed life" it was George Balanchine: careers at the Mariinsky, Ballet Russes, and of course the NYCB, five wives, many more "muses," a long and fascinating collaboration with Igor Stravinsky, and endless critical acclaim as the most important ballet choreographer of the 20th century. Even Bernard Taper's biography (much longer) feels oddly thin.
Keeping this in mind, I think Robert Gottlieb's mini-biography is a success, much more so than Terry Teachout's simultaneous minibio "All in the Dances," which seems to be mostly rehashes of earlier published material. Gottlieb is a well-known editor and dance critic, and he was at the premieres of many of Balanchine's works. He also knew Mr. B and many of the NYCB's dancers, so the book has an insider/fan feel. Gottlieb also has a blunt and engaging manner of writing, which makes "The Ballet Maker" feel much less perfunctory than most minibios. Particularly his descriptions of Balanchine's ballets, of which Gottlieb is obviously a great and sincere admirer.
Mr. B was a frustratingly opaque man, who was fond of repeating simple truisms ("Just do the steps, dear" or "It's all in the dances") while leading a very complex and perhaps unhappy life. Wisely, Gottlieb does not attempt to dissect every Balanchine relationship, or cover every event and ballet. The book is neatly divided into chapters (Balanchine as Teacher, et al.) that focus on a particular aspect of Balanchine. Gottlieb also has some unorthodox and interesting views about the man. You know how Mr. B often went on about creating a ballet because he remembered doing this or that as a student in the Mariinsky? The tone is always deliberately nostalgic. Gottlieb has a much different view of Balanchine's childhood -- that it was extremely lonely and scarred Balanchine for life. He theorized that Balanchine felt abandoned by his family (remember the social upheaval in Russia at the time) and was never able to form lasting attachments to women as a result.
The pictures are few but well-chosen. In particular, there are some wonderful photos of Balanchine's last wife, Tanaquiel LeClercq, whose career was cut short by polio. Balanchine spent years caring for her day-and-night, and then divorced her quickly in a (failed) attempt to romance Suzanne Farrell. The story of LeClercq illustrates to me the fascinating paradox of Mr. B. Gottlieb can't explain it either, but as a "primer" on Balanchine it's insightful and well-written.

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George Balanchine-Ballet Maker
Robert Gottlieb
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Robert Gottlieb
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George Balanchine: the Ballet Maker (Eminent Lives)

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George Balanchine: the Ballet Maker (Eminent Lives)
Robert Gottlieb
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