Caja de herramientas para hacer astronomia / Tool Box to Make Astronomy (Croma/ Paidos)

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Christina knows how to responsibly use a hammer and nails, cut kindling with her small saw, mount a sign on her treehouse, and fix loose bolts on her bicycle. She loves to build and fix things using shiny tools from her toolbox --just like her mom!

Caja de Herramientas - El Lugar de La Cultura En La Sociologia Norteamericana

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Javier Auyero
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Caja de herramientas/Toolbox.: An article from: World Literature Today

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Caja de herramientas/Toolbox.: An article from: World Literature Today
Rafael H. Mojica
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma
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Title: Caja de herramientas/Toolbox.
Author: Rafael H. Mojica
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v71 Issue: n2 Page: p358(2)

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Esa Sopa, Ese Pastel Immenso, Esa Caja de Herramientas Esa Literatura.

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Esa Sopa, Ese Pastel Immenso, Esa Caja de Herramientas Esa Literatura.
Manuel Duran
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Escribir Cuento Y Novela/ Writing Stories And Novels: Caja De Herramientas Y Cuaderno De Trabajo (Croma)

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Escribir Cuento Y Novela/ Writing Stories And Novels: Caja De Herramientas Y Cuaderno De Trabajo (Croma)
Edmee Pardo
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La caja de herramientas
Carlos Planas Delgado
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En el siglo XXI se ha asistido a la consolidación de modelos de gestión empresarial impensables hace unas décadas. Pero no se trata sólo de tecnologías emergentes que revolucionan los procesos de producción o la distribución a grandes mercados de productos cada vez mejores y más asequibles. También han cambiado las relaciones laborales; tanto es así que en las grandes organizaciones se han redefinido sus departamentos de Recursos Humanos para gestionar su principal activo: las personas.

¿ Es posible, en estas nuevas condiciones, mantener tablas salariales o sistemas retributivos del pasado? ¿Qué ha de contemplar una nueva retribución para que satisfaga las necesidades de la empresa y la del personal que trabaja en ella? ¿Podemos seguir utilizando modelos generalistas sin premiar la contribución real de la persona a la organización? ¿Qué entendemos por compensación? Ciertamente hay que saber hilar muy fino para contentar a todo el mundo, para fidelizar al empleado útil, para retribuir adecuadamente la productividad o la creatividad, sin despertar recelos, sin crear malestar.

La caja de herramientas no es un manual para escuelas de negocios. Es mucho más. Ante todo porque el protagonista no es el dinero ni ese ente abstracto que llamamos organización, empresa, corporación. Sus protagonistas son personas reales, que cuentan con vida propia y con una problemática profesional común en nuestros días. Por ello, las soluciones que La caja de herramientas aporta son toda una lección, dirigida sobre todo, y ahí radica su novedad, al profesional preocupado por recibir, a cambio de su experiencia y su trabajo, una retribución justa, equilibrada y competitiva.

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Mi Caja de Herramientas
Lily Garcia
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Nuevos negocios con Windows XP MCE. (Caja de Herramientas).(Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, sistema operativo): An article from: E Semanal

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Alejandro Arcos
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Osito Y Su Caja De Herramientas / Little Bear And His Tool Box (La Valijita /the Little Handbag)

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Paula Vera
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How to be a Chief Retirement Officer
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A Jewel of a Book

A Grand Piece of Writing

A pedestrian examination of two pivotal impeachments.

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Good summary of the issues surrounding impeachment

Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson
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With Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist playing a front-and-center role as the presiding officer in President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, it's no wonder that his 1992 study of the two most important previous impeachments in United States history was brought back into print. But anyone looking for political commentary will probably be disappointed--Grand Inquests is a straightforward, and surprisingly readable, narrative account, top-heavy with historical details.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was impeached in 1805 both for his political views and as a result of his demeanor as a judge. Rehnquist acknowledges that Chase was "impatient, overbearing, and arrogant," but asserts that his behavior falls far short of the grounds for impeachment: high crimes and misdemeanors. He further argues that the acquittal of Chase helped safeguard the independence of the Supreme Court, preventing future Congresses from removing judges "whose views they considered to be unwise or out of keeping with the times." The acquittal of President Andrew Johnson in his 1868 trial was a similar victory for the executive branch, permitting future chief executives to govern as they see fit ... even if that runs counter to the desires of Congress.

Rehnquist makes it clear that he believes the impeachments of both Chase and Johnson were politically motivated, and that it was a good thing for the United States that neither was convicted. He says a relaxed standard of impeachment would have been like "a sword of Damocles, designed not to fall but to hang" over the head of future presidents who would fear removal from office if they did not go along with Congress. --Linda Killian

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For only the second time in American history, the president has been impeached by the House of Representatives and is facing trial by the United States Senate. At such a critical point in our history as a nation, the question is "What comes next?" Most Americans have only a vague notion of the history surrounding the first presidential impeachment trial. So, where do we go for answers?

Here in Grand Inquests, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist provides dramatic accounts of two historic impeachment trials in the American past. With a keen sense of history and narrative ability, he recounts the 1805 trial of Justice Samuel Chase of the United States Supreme Court and the 1868 trial of President Andrew Johnson, which set the precedent by which our current president will be judged. The outcomes of these cases have remained extraordinarily important to the American system of government because they strengthened the constitutionally directed separation of powers. And though both men were acquitted, Chief Justice Rehnquist shows how a conviction in either case would also have deeply affected our present interpretation of the Constitution -- and, more likely, changed the course of history.

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A Jewel of a Book.......2007-07-05

This book is much more than an account of the two major impeachments in U.S. history. The bulk of the book consists of a remarkably well-written history lesson covering the period of 1775 to the 1868 Johnson impeachment trial. The last part of the book then discusses the lessons to be learned from these two impeachment efforts.

The 1805 impeachment trial of Justice Chase, a Federalist judge, involved his (mis)handling of 3 cases as a circuit rider judge (in those days Supreme Court justices actually spent most of their time riding circuit). The best the Republicans could do was a 19-15 vote for conviction on one of the Articles, still 4 votes short of the 2/3 needed to remove Chase from office. The effort failed because 6 Republicans defected and voted for acquittal, realizing the impeachment effort was partisan in nature and contrary to what the founding fathers intended.

The 1868 impeachment effort against Johnson similarly failed when 7 Republicans voted against removal. (Terminology here can be confusing; in 1805 Jefferson's party was called "Republican", and later came to be called "Democratic". In 1868 "Republican" was used for the new party formed in the 1850's.) These 7 Republicans can now be seen as the true constitutional heroes that they are. Had the radical Republicans succeeded in removing Johnson, it would mean that from then on the President would serve at the pleasure of the Senate, and the true purpose of the impeachment provision in the Constitution would have been obliterated in a sea of partisanship.

Rehnquist concludes that "The importance of these two acquittals in our constitutional history can hardly be overstated....These two "cases"--decided not by the courts but by the United States Senate--surely contributed as much to the maintenance of our tripartite federal system of government as any case decided by any court." He is right, and he has contributed enormously to our understanding of this issue by his articulate discussion of it contained in this book.

A Grand Piece of Writing.......2006-12-15

Who knew that the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, leader of the conservative counter revolution against the legacy of the Warren Court, wrote so well?

You would not guess that from his opinions penned over a generation. His court writing is exact but dry, a great contrast to the colorful rhetoric of his conservative colleague, Antonin Scalia.

But in "Grand Inquests," a telling of the impeachment trials of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson, Rehnquist demonstrates a compelling narrative style and the novelist's keen eye for detail. Rehnquist also demonstrates the good novelist's ability to describe the important details at considerable length while limiting the lesser facts in length.

The important details of these two impeachments surround the personalities of the major players that brought about the impeachment instead of ascribing the trials to historical circumstances, as if the impeachments were forced by mysterious forces instead of angry human beings. Rehnquist paints vivid portraits of Andrew Johnson, a one-time tailor and self-made politician, the ambitious and independent Edwin Stanton, whose refusal to give up his post as Secretary of War set the impeachment proceedings in motion, and the Radical Republicans who were furious with Johnson for obstructing Reconstruction, Thaddeus Stevens, Ben Wade, George Boutwell, Charles Sumner, and Ben Butler.

Rehnquist makes a convincing argument that men make their own destiny by their choices when he implies, quite correctly in my view, that Justice Chase would not have been impeached if he were not abrasive and heavy handed in court, and President Johnson would not have been impeached if he had been more even tempered in his disagreement about Reconstruction and presidential appointment power with the opposition Republicans. Johnson, for example, referred to Radical Republican leaders Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner as "traitors."

Both impeachment proceedings occurred in the wake of highly charged political times, Rehnquist observes. Chase was impeached shortly after President John Adams had packed the federal government with appointees of his Federalist Party in the final hours of his presidency. And Adams had also tried to stifle dissent by his political opponents, incited by his idelogical adversary, Thomas Jefferson, with the repressive alien and sedition acts. Johnson faced impeachment during the difficult aftermath of the Civil War. Brave Senators such as Bradley of Vermont and Gaillard of South Carolina risked their political careers to acquit Chase. Likewise, Senators Edmund Ross of Kansas and Lyman Trumbull of Illinois defied the public hysteria against Johnson.

Rehnquist brilliantly cuts through the emotions of the times to show that Chase basically faced impeachment because of biased instructions to a grand jury and questionable instructions to a jury in a criminal trial involving sedition. Johnson was impeached for opposing Reconstruction and firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.In firing Stanton, Johnson's political enemies asserted that he was in violation of a congressional act, The Tenure of Office Act, which called for Senate approval of presidential firings. Clinton, of course, whose trial Rehnquist presided over, was impeached for engaging in oral sex in a bathroom near the Oval Office.

Presidential powers became more firmly defined by Supreme Court decisions in the 20th century, Rehnquist notes. A President's sole authority to hire and fire executive department political appointees was not as clear in 1866 as it is in 2006. Indeed the rule of law on presidential power to fire at will political appointees was not decided until "Humphrey's Executor v. United States" in 1935. The Court then held that President Franklin D. Roosevelt had the power to fire Federal Trade Commissioner William E. Humphrey on political grounds. Today we would laugh at the idea that a President would have to seek permission from Congress to fire an executive branch official who was not a career public employee.

Rehnquist has written the best book on impeachment. Read it and enjoy it.

[Hansen Alexander is an attorney who lives and works in New York City. He is the author, most recently, of the comic novel, "The Death of Chauvinism."]

A pedestrian examination of two pivotal impeachments........2003-06-08

There really isn't much to say about Chief Justice Rehnquist's book. _Grand Inquests_ is an inquiry into the impeachments of Justice Chase and President Johnson but the inquiry is done without any real depth or serious historical research. It's a bland recounting of basic facts of the cases that, as Richard Bernstein has already pointed out, ignores most of the relevant studies of this subject. Basically Rehnquist presents a great deal of the immediate detail but fails to place the events firmly in the context of the times. Also he regularly adds in completely irrelevant material, such as in the discussion of Chase's actions as a trial judge he cites his experience in litigation during the 1950s and 60s, which can have practically no bearing on the subject of the trial procedures of 1800. If you're looking for a long winded presentation of the details of individual charges and descriptions of testimony heard by the Senate during these trials than you may enjoy this book. Otherwise any competent constitutional history can provide just as good a discussion in only about ten pages.

Review of Grand Inquests.......2002-02-08

What I'd hoped for was a historical perspective on the impeachment process as a primer to further reading on the Clinton impeachment proceedings. The historical context provided is, at best truncated--the history reads like an early draft compiled from a chronologically ordered fact list. Hence, the reader is to often required to make the connections between historical precedent and subsequent results. Also troubling were some typographical errors. For example, my paperback edition has James Buchanan being elected president in 1865. When a nonhistorian catches errors like this, doubts begin arising about other listed facts.

I thought too that the book is not especially well written. I ran across too many paragraphs whose thoughts seemed to have been morphed in with insufficient attention to their contributions to context. As one who believes fuzzy writing to be symptomatic of fuzzy thinking, alarm bells went off each time.

In the end, I wasn't confident that I had gotten a good primer for the follow up reading I'd planned.

Good summary of the issues surrounding impeachment.......1999-03-08

Rehnquist is obviously alot more thoughtful than the "liberal" community, in which I often count myself, has been led to believe. He provides a good summary of the issues that surrounded the impeachments of Chase & Johnson, the constitutional questions these events raised & helped to settle, and their long-term implications. Rehnquist is not, in this book anyhow, the best stylist in the world, but he also doesn't descend into so much legal mumbo-jumbo that non-lawyers would be turned off. Also, his sections of background history are just OK. History buffs may find some factual, emphasis or interpretative points to dispute in those sections.

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