Microeconomics: A Contemporary Introduction Wall Street Journal Edition with Xtra! CD-ROM and InfoTrac College Edition

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This very successful textbook is distinguished by a superior writing style that draws upon common student experiences to introduce economic concepts, making economic theory more accessible and interesting. "Case Studies" and numerous examples take advantage of students' intuitive knowledge of economics, building upon real-life situations. A streamlined design places pedagogy and illustrations directly within the flow of the text, making it less distracting and more useful for students. A fully integrated program of technology enhancements sets this text apart by pairing the book with numerous online multimedia learning tools that have been developed to help the text better serve a wide range of learning styles. The text uniquely integrates classroom use of The Wall Street Journal by including a complimentary student subscription offer, as well as in-text pedagogy to help students learn to analyze the latest economic events as reported in the Journal. Split volume available for the one-term principles of macroeconomics course, as well as a principles volume (Macro/Micro) for the two-term Principles of Economics course.

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Book is ok.......2004-05-07

This book is ok. It is very wordy, and again, economics is not like chemistry or calculus. At last, it is a social science. It takes about 4 pages of reading to get one useful concept. I just hope other econ classes won't use books as wordy as this one.

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This report focuses on the factors affecting the supply of information technology personnel to the active duty enlisted force, and the findings point to the conclusion that the IT training opportunities offered by the millitary can help secure the supply of IT personnel over the long haul.

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They are Professionals........2004-11-18

Accurate study that try to predict the role of pesticides in the next 10 years, from 1999. A must read book for those envolved with agriculture, but easy to read for everyone that need to understand more about pesticides (without prejudice). We need more of this kind of study for another important subjects allover the world.

The Future Role of Pesticides in U. S. Agriculture

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The Future Role of Pesticides in U. S. Agriculture
National Research Council
Manufacturer: National Academy Press, Washington DC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IXV3AA

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Landscape ecology is a rapidly growing science of quantifying the ways in which ecosystems interact - of establishing a link between activities in one region and repercussions in another region. Remote sensing is a fast, inexpensive tool for conducting the landscape inventories that are essential to this branch of science. However, anyone who has conducted studies in the field has already found that traditional landscape ecology metrics are not always reliable with remote images. Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators for Monitoring, Modeling, and Assessment of Ecosystems with Remote Sensing presents a new set of metrics that allows remotely sensed data to be used effectively in landscape ecology. This groundbreaking new work is the first to present new metrics for remote sensing of landscapes and demonstrate how they can be used to yield more accurate analyses for GIS studies. The new metrics expand the capabilities of GIS, reduce interference and incorrect readings, help ecologists better understand ecosystem relationships, and reduce study costs. This set of metrics should be adopted by the EPA and will be the standard measure for future landscape analysis. This authoritative guide assesses the current state of the field and how remote sensing and landscape metrics have been used to date. It also explains how some of the traditional metrics were developed and how they can fail in landscape studies. Once this background has been established, the new metrics are introduced and their benefits and uses explained. The information in this book has previously been available only in scattered journal articles; this is the first single source for complete background information and instructions on using the new metrics.

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Much needed critalcal view on spatial indices.......1999-02-22

Working with the development of indices/indicators for sustainability and structural diversity of forests, I find this little book highly inspiring. Wanting to use some of the metrics that are implemented in e.g. Fragstats and r.le for GRASS - it was nice to find out that someone had already taken a critical view into the opportunities and pitfalls of this approach. The disadvantages of the "contagion" and "fractal dimension" indices are demonstrated be use of diffent land cover data sets derived from Remote Sensing sources, mostly Landsat TM. Two new metrics are proposed, and (small wonder) they are demonstrated to work much better than contagion and f.d. It is nice to see a book that really focuses on a specific subject, although it would have been nice with a review of some more indices and a discussion of other ways to evaluate landscape structure from RS (and GIS) data.

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GO WRIGHT!!!

This is the best book available to learn how to shoot

This is the Best

The best book I have seen about basketball

Great for kids who want to play basketball in high school.

Ultimate Basketball Book: A Complete Shooting Guide
Frank Lloyd Wright
Manufacturer: Sierra Vista Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 097113149X

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GO WRIGHT!!!.......2006-02-23

Mr.Wright was my teacher last year in Jr.High School.He taught History-but BASKETBALL?! Who'd think that a newspaper dweller would know so much about basketball? Anyway-It is a FABULOUS book,and if you play basketball,it is guaranteed to get you on the team!

This is the best book available to learn how to shoot.......2004-08-23

Basketball has not had a tool like this until now. This book is so complete and easy to understand. If you want to be a great shooter this book will teach you how.

This is the Best.......2004-06-20

This is the best book on basketball skills I have ever seen. If you want to learn how to become a very good player, this book is a must. There is nothing I have seen which comes close to this book. It is fantastic!

The best book I have seen about basketball.......2004-05-21

I have over 150 books dealing with basketball and this one blows away all the others. It is extremely clear, precise and gives the player, coach, and parents a tool to teach how to play the game. The chapters on shooting are the best I have ever seen.

Great for kids who want to play basketball in high school........2004-03-23

This book is the best I have read. It is easy to understand and
it gives the serious basketball player a tool to learn from.

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A new, attractive edition of this modern spiritual classic.

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Great for Beginners and Advanced.......2007-09-08

Anthony Bloom's Beginning to Pray is not just for beginners in prayer. In it, Bloom offers practical suggestions for novices in prayer and profound insights for even the most spiritually mature. Bloom draws from a life rich in challenges and communication with people and God in myriad circumstances. His writings of prayer reveal the mysteries that open to a person who prays in God's presence often.

The introduction to the book is the transcript of an interview of the author answering questions about his life and ministry. The interview illustrates his qualifications to write a book on prayer. It also shows that his is a remarkable life journey that has taken him from Russia to the Orient to France. He worked his way through college to become a surgeon, eventually being conscripted by the Germans after the occupation of France. He then became ordained as monk in 1948 and served as a monk and a surgeon before leaving his medical practice for ministry.

His first point in writing of prayer emphasizes our state before God. People at some point will face God, and when they do, they will receive salvation or condemnation. He encourages readers to accept their desperate state and to go to God asking for and receiving mercy. Then prayer can begin. Otherwise, God is outside of us and cannot hear. Prayer will be sent to the unknown.

Bloom urges readers to develop a passion for God at the expense of the possessions of the world. He reminds readers that one must take up his or her cross daily to follow Jesus. Bloom offers readers ways to experiment with types of prayers to find what suits them. These include written prayers like psalms, short prayers like the "Jesus Prayer, praying with icons or spontaneous prayers. What is important writes Bloom is that those praying believe in their own prayers and pray heartily not haphazardly to God. He also exhorts readers on the importance of sitting quietly in one's room away from the distractions of the world. To Bloom, practicing silence before God is a key to closeness with God in prayer.

For Bloom, those "crises" in our lives that would become excuses not to pray are the very dangers that should prompt us to pray. Let nothing stop you from entering into quiet time before the Lord. He devotes a chapter to managing time and prayer.

The final chapter entitled "Addressing God" discusses the necessity of a personal relationship with God as opposed to a functional relationship with God. This idea critiques a relationship where readers see God as serving a purpose only in their lives versus a relationship with him in which he is the object and desire. This personal relationship requires us to call God by a name that is personal and address him not vaguely but as someone known.

Bloom's insights target intensity, passion, relationship and time in prayer. I think all Christians often need to begin again in prayer. This book is a tool to help readers do just that and to analyze their prayer lives and see where they stand. Bloom offers several ways to "experiment" with prayer, and these are useful. The main impact for me in this book is his emphasis on taking prayers seriously. He writes that if we want God to listen and act on our prayers we must pray earnestly and sincerely with thoughtfulness and heart.

He adds two meditations at the end of the book. One I found instructive and one I did not find helpful

Anthony Bloom was born to write this book!!.......2007-01-11

First I would like to say a big THANK YOU to Archbishop Anthony Bloom for writing this book! It is an EXCELLENT place to begin or even re-begin learning about prayer and praying in general.

I'm personally very interested in Christian orthodoxy, but this is a great book for ALL Christians!

At just over 100 pages, it makes a quick read but is very deep and insightful. Definitely recommended!

Great place to start and reread along the way.......2006-02-24

I am not sure why I had not reviewed this book years ago. It is one of the best books on prayer that I have ever read. The sample pages speak for themselves, so I won't repeat the content. A true gem!

Also, Mountain of Silence and Father Arseney are two other books on prayer and the spiritual life that you'll enjoy reading over and over.

Best wishes!

A Beautiful and Moving Book.......2003-12-10

For anyone who is seeking a deeper prayer life, whether as one who is beginning a journey or someone who is well along the path of faith, this work is an undescribably rich gift from Metropolitan Anthony to the reader. As I read each chapter, I found myself challenged and encouraged to take my prayer life more deeply inward.

Metropolitan Anthony does not just introduce techniques or give situational advice to finding a fuller prayer life, He challenges the reader to examine an entirely different way of looking at the source of deep and effective prayer. Unlike many evangelical books on the topic, Metropolitan Anthony seeks to teach us how to fish (to use the well worn cliche) so that we may be fed for a lifetime.

I encourage anyone who reads this review to buy this book, read it slowly, over time and allow it to enrich your relationship with God.

So Much Wisdom In So Few Pages.......2002-10-20

Though hailed as a primer for "people who have never prayed before", this book, written by Archbishop Anthony Bloom, is nothing short of spectacular. The book's orinigal title, "School of Prayer" is more appropiate because this book should be utilized by all Christians.

In the last few years, a resurgence of prayer books liek the "Prayer of Jabex" by Wilkinson and "Prayer of Jesus" and "The Covering" by Hannagraff are selling of the charts, this book by Bloom is far more superior than their text. Though only about 144 pages, there is much wisdom and the book should be read slowly after much spiritual contemplation.

It is easy to read, yet it contains so much theological depth that it is truly amazing. The first 20 pages are average as it has an interview with Bloom. The real meat begins in chapter one title "The Absence of God" where Bloom writes, "If you look at the relationship (us and God) in terms of mutual relationship, you would see that God could complain about us a great deal more thann we about Him. We complain that He does make Himself present to us for a few minutes we reserve for Him, but what about the twenty-three and half hours during which God may be knocking at our door and we answer 'I am busy..."

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Here you'll find a colorful prayer book for toddlers and early grade-schoolers. Included are basic prayers for morning and nighttime, psalms, the litany of the saints, prayers for mealtimes, a special prayer for birthdays, and prayers for remembering the dead and praising God for life. All of the pages are adorned with wonderful, multicultural pictures with lots of details. Places are provided to write the names of people the child prays for, of those who are remembered on their birthdays, and of those who have died. A book that should be in every preschool and primary grade classroom, in the school library, and in the home of any child.

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A tribute to the most revered railroad photographer of our time.

To the true rail fan, Richard Steinheimer is an authentic hero, the best of the best. A pioneer in train photography, Steinheimer lived through and documented the railroad's heyday and its decline. He is one of very few photographers who appreciate the aesthetics of all locomotives, from steam engines to the latest diesel-powered behemoths. He has a particular fondness for the landscape of the American West, and many of his images situate trains in the larger geography and culture of the time. Known for taking pictures at night, in bad weather, and from risky perches on top of moving train platforms, Steinheimer has an enormous creativity and productivity. This, the first full-length celebration of his work, presents 160 of his duotone images, with an introduction by Jeff Brouws.

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Uncommon composition of captured railroad action in B&W photographs.......2007-01-05

Richard Steinheimer has captured in black and white the everyday life and romance of railroading in a bygone era with an incite that earns him a prominent place in recorded railroad history. As a rail buff and life member of the Waterford Township Historical and Preservation Society in Waterford, Michigan, I recommend that anyone who is drawn to the sound and thrill of railroad action should experience atleast one of Richard's publications to place a picture in their minds eye.

more than trains.......2006-07-05

The photographs capture more than trains, but never less. They capture the beauty of the land that trains opened up. They bring us people, both on and near the trains. His sense of composition draws us into the scene and makes us want to look at it again and again.

If you have a passion for trains, you'll have a passion for this book........2005-08-10

Black and white photography's superior ability to communicate both detail and atmosphere is dramatically demonstrated by Richard Steinheimer's A Passion for Trains.

This is one of the most totally satisfying railroad books I own, and I own over a hundred.

Steinheimer has a unique ability to display both the railroad and the faces and geography of its environment. Landscape and nature over conspire against railroaders, as Steinheimer frequently demonstrates in A Passion for Trains, yet the weather never quite overwhelms the trains or the men who keep them moving.

The photographs contain detail you can just about feel. Text on most pages is limited to a single line identifying the location. Thumbnails at the back of the book contain an additional paragraph about each photo.

If you have a passion for trains, you'll love this book. It covers a wide variety of railroads, geographic environments, and weather. Many of the photos will soon become your favorites. In fact, I considered getting a second copy, just to be able to frame some of the pages!

The term "coffee table book" is often used derogatorily. Yet, what's wrong with a book so fine that you'll want to keep it on your coffee table where you, and your friends, can frequently enjoy it?

GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS, FLAWED REPRODUCTIONS.......2005-06-08

As the antique dealer haughtily remarked to a customer who expressed shock at the astronomical price of an exquisite 1780 Philadelphia Highboy, "My dear sir, it is sufficient that it is available."

So it may be said of Richard Steinheimer's big new book of railroad photographs, A PASSION FOR TRAINS. The images are superb, indeed, in a class by themselves. These are pictures that anyone who is interested in great photography will admire, regardless of whether or not they care about railroads and trains.

It is regrettable, therefore, that the reproduction of Steinheimer's photographs in this volume aren't far better than they are. The problem is that the blacks are consistently too dense, with a disturbing loss of shadow detail in nearly every instance. Furthermore, the whites are generally grey and flat when they should be bright and buoyant.

It is difficult to tell from the book whether these defects are a result of poor printing, poorly made, excessively contrasty photographic prints or a combination of the two. However, flaws notwithstanding, it can safely be predicted that many railroad enthusiasts and some photography buffs will snap this work up (as I did myself), gratefully acknowledging that it is sufficient that it is available.

For nonpareil examples of photograph reproductions as they should be, see CALIFORNIA (Adams, Little, Brown, 1997), IN THE LAND OF LIGHT (Smith, Houghton, Mifflin, 1983), COURT HOUSE (Pare [ed], Horizon Press, 1978), NEW YORK, EMPIRE CITY 1920-1945 (Stravitz, Abrams, 2004) and THE CHRYSLER BUILDING (Stravitz, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002).

Great book!.......2005-01-18

Someone else called 'A Passion for Trains' Poetry in motion, I would like to second that.

this is a great book, and makes a wonderful gift. I know firsthand. I gave it to two people, and they both loved it.

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