The Disgruntled Employee: A Cynical Expose' of the Blue-Collar "Sweatshop"

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â€œGoing Postal!â€ A symptom of American industry gone insane! You might be next! Why? Industry and government have manipulated the system to cater to them exclusively! Where does that leave blue-collar workers? This book will reveal your worst suspicions!

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Lie Like a Girl

New title "How to get a guy by lying about yourself"

Entertaining

Take it or leave it

no substance

Think Like a Guy: How to Get a Guy by Thinking Like One
Giuliana Depandi
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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ASIN: 0312354371
Release Date: 2006-06-27

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Giuliani DePandi has distilled her knowledge as an on-the-town dater in L.A. into this funny but oh-so-practical and effective handbook. DePandi knows what its like out there, and has done extensive field work to learn what turns guys off....and on. Should you.........mention your mom on a first date? .........cook a guy breakfast after your first sleepover at his place? .........tell him how many lovers youve had before he came along? .........leave him long voicemails if you cant reach him on the phone? The resounding answer to all the questions above, according to DePandi, is: NO! You should, in fact, be busy and breezy, offer to pay for dinner, leave short voicemails (and none at all if you dont have anything concrete to say), stay well-dressedand groomedand make your guy feel like hes the first to introduce you to anything kinky in bed. Think Like A Guy isnt The Rulesits not so much about getting married as making sure rafts of men are always hanging around. Its a hard-headed practical book for women who acknowledge that men and women simply think differently.

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Lie Like a Girl.......2007-05-12

Giuliana's book, Think a Like a Guy, should be called Lie Like a Girl. Too many of her "tips" involve lying to the guy to hide one's "faults." A better solution would be an honest answer with real remorse for one's past actions. For example, if the girl has ever cheated, she should say so and mention how it was a mistake and has never happened again. If the guy is any good, he'll appreciate the guts it took to be honest about that and will also feel inclined to open up about any of his past transgressions. In my experience, being truthful causes the other person to mirror that honesty. It's how the act in question is presented that makes or breaks the relationship. An honest answer coupled with remorse is the mature approach. Giuliana's advice degrades women into devious children who try to lie their way out of any uncomfortable situation because it's unpleasant to face the consequences of their actions. The result is a relationship based on lies. Come on ladies, do you really think that "Mr. Right" wants you to lie to him about your cooking skills, SAT scores, cheating, sexual liaisons, period or anything else during the relationship? How do you think Mr. Right will feel when he discovers you've been misleading him? He'll wonder what other things you've been lying to him about and all the effort you've invested in the relationship will amount to nothing when he walks out the door. Some of her tips are insightful, but avoid any deceitful advice that Giuliana gives.

New title "How to get a guy by lying about yourself".......2007-04-24

This was an easy read, short, and at times funny. Sure it might be good if you are just looking to find a date or a friend with benefits...but if you actually are looking for something quality...dont get this book. All it does it tell you how to lie about yourself or how to act like a guy in ways that us girls hate. I mean if you want to snag a guy by lying to him...marry him and then he finds out it was all a lie...then what? Divorce? I mean...honesty is the best policy and honestly...this book is not worth it.

Entertaining.......2007-02-06

I was hoping for a bit of a longer read, but this book was quite entertaining and helpful. For those interested in reading a book in under a short hour, and wanting quick insight, this is a great book.

Take it or leave it.......2007-02-03

DePandi's caustic tongue may feel hurtful at times, especially if you're guilty of the behaviors she condemns, and especially if you are convinced they're fine. Indeed, her thesis isn't true for all guys to the extent she says (thank God), but the exaggeration is clearly a stylistic device rather than something to take literally. In my opinion, Depandi uses it to great effect, and this book is a VERY smart, laugh-out-loud hilarious read if you take it the right way. The brevity makes it a breath of fresh air after those humorless advice tomes written by psychologists and filled with sprawling case studies and touchy-feely jargon. The brevity is a good thing. The reason the book may feel insubstantial to some people is not that the chapters are short but that they refuse to accept Depandi's tips and therefore see nothing of value here.

She's right. Yes, take it with a grain of salt. Yes, honest and real relationships are possible, and yes, it would be crazy to keep up with these rules once yours becomes a committed relationship. But for getting the guy in the first place, these can't be beat. Depandi hits ALL the big turnoffs. Painful as it is, she's right. You can take it or leave it, but if you're seriously interested in results, don't kid yourself. It would only be your loss! Thanks Giuliana for a quick, amusing and enlightening shot of reality.

no substance.......2006-11-19

I wish I could give this book less than one star. First the title: Think like a guy, it doesn't tell you at all how to think like a guy or what guys think. This book only gives you a list of tips on how to be fake with a man. The title should be "Lie, Pretend, and Be Confusing" She actually tells you to change who you are and to play games. Like one tip is to always call *67 so he doesn't know it's you. And one tip is to order out and dirty up dishes so that he thinks you cooked (which isn't fair to those of us who really know how to cook- what girl can complete with take out?) So now what happens in the long term when he finds out that you lied and the betty crocker that he fell in love with is a phony?

Second, it has no substance. The chapters are about a page long (some only a few words long) which states the tip and then a few paragraphs about the tip that says nothing more than what the tip said. The book basically could have been a list of 66 tips- nothing more nothing less. This book is a 20 minute waste. There are far better books.

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Stories set in Egypt and the UK

I Think of You: Stories
Ahdaf Soueif
Manufacturer: Anchor
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ASIN: 0307277216
Release Date: 2007-03-13

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Ahdaf Soueif, the bestselling author of The Map of Love, writes poignantly and beautifully about love, and about finding one’s place in the world. Achingly lyrical, resonant and richly woven, and with a spark of defiance, these stories explore areas of tension–where women and men are ensnared by cultural and social mores and prescribed notions of “love,” where the place you are is not the place you want to be. Soueif draws her characters with infinite tenderness and compassion as they inhabit a world of lost opportunities, unfulfilled love, and remembrance of times past.

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Stories set in Egypt and the UK.......2007-04-06

Ahdaf Soueif's first fiction offering since The Map of Love, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Man Booker Prize, is actually a repackaging of nine stories originally published between 1983 and 1996.

Set primarily in Egypt and the United Kingdom, each of the stories features a female character. Throughout the collection Soueif focuses on the interior life of her protagonists and the ordering of the stories lends some sense of a progressively maturing voice. The collection, however, does seem a bit uneven. With the first five stories developing two specific characters, the protagonists of the final stories seem comparatively inchoate.

The first three stories--"Knowing," "1964," and "Returning"--show three different epochs in the life of Aisha, an Egyptian woman who immigrated to the United Kingdom in her teens. "Mandy" and "Satan" feature Asya, a woman separated from her husband who is dealing in different ways with the repercussions of their broken marriage and his philandering.

In the title story, which is arguably the collection's strongest, the unnamed first-person narrator has been hospitalized due to a high-risk pregnancy. With her husband in London unable to get a visa, and her family in Cairo, she is alone, the only patient not observing purdah. She survives her hospitalization by invoking an elderly friend, confidante, and role model who died of cancer.

If the stories have a unifying theme it is that of estrangement; estrangement (both emotional and physical) from husbands, as well as from the homeland and the culture of one's childhood. While I think of you lacks the refinement of Soueif's later work, it is nevertheless worth reading. Her stories are touching, nostalgic, but never overly so. Soueif's prose is lyrical and this collection is buoyed by her ability to give her readers an extraordinary sense of place.

Armchair Interviews says... I think of you will transport readers, but it cannot compare to The Map of Love.

Think Single: The Woman's Guide to Financial Security at Every Stage of Life

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Think Single: The Woman's Guide to Financial Security at Every Stage of Life
Janet Bodnar
Manufacturer: Dearborn Financial Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0938721992

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This book provides useful and specific answers to the financial questions uppermost on women's minds.

Relief for Hurting Parents: What to Do and How to Think When You're Having Trouble With Your Kids

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Relief for Hurting Parents: What to Do and How to Think When You're Having Trouble With Your Kids
Buddy Scott
Manufacturer: Nelsonword Publishing Group
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ASIN: 0840791178

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Impressively helpful.......2006-03-28

This book has been so helpful. My wife and I have looked long and hard for something as appropriate as this book to help us through a powerful substance abuse problem with our (now) 17 year old son. He is just completing almost 7 months in the best residential treatment facility in our state, has had several hospitalizations both voluntary and involuntary as well as a stretch in a group home because of his wild and dangerous behaviors. During all these months my wife and I have been reading a lot of books, seen the best therapist we could find for ourselves, had intensive counseling sessions with staff at all the facilities he has been committed to including four good psychiatrists. But during all that time this book hits home more specifically to the patterns we have been through and is better even than the book recommended to us by the latest psychiatrist in our son's treatment facility. It reinforces everything we have learned to improve our parenting and we wish we had found this book years ago. I recommend this book for parents of any difficult or troubled kid, and I am buying extra copies to give to both our family therapist and and to our son's staff psychiatrist.

Unlike most self help parenting books, this book provides concrete and paractical examples from real case histories and further offers very easily applied strategies to help empower parents who feel helpless and are in pain. This book gives parents tools that work to improve the apparently impossible situations they find themselves in with their teenagers in trouble. It shares a tremendous pattern of commonality between many troubled adolescents. It shares and guides in a homey and friendly way in a time when parents feel so alone and guilty, humiliated and hurt, blindsided or incompetent. The title of the book doesn't even mention adolescents but that is exactly the age it helps with the most.

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God works for our good

Just When You Think You Are All Alone
Leon Mentzer
Manufacturer: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1933148365

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God will use whatever and whomever He pleases to break into your life, so, Just When You Think You are All Alone, think again!

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God works for our good.......2005-11-11

"Just when you think you are all alone" is an amazing testimony of the surprising ways in which God works in our lives. Leon Mentzer is a very gifted writer.

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Some Days I Think I'll Live
Christine Stanfield
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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Think About It! 30 Short Stories by Ben King

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Entertaining and thought-provoking stories

Think About It! 30 Short Stories by Ben King
Ben King
Manufacturer: Outskirts Press
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ASIN: 1432702955

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You've got to THINK ABOUT IT! Very few modern Americans are thinkers; that's how we acquired many of our current problems; we refuse to THINK ABOUT IT!

Ben King's short stories are the children of hard living; they will transport you either forward or backward into a dimension of intense emotion; they will prompt you to THINK ABOUT IT! Do you dare take this journey? Do you fear the revelations of your own mind? Find the answer in these pages through humor and horror, insight and inspiration, and thought-provoking tales of the human condition. Try it - you will certainly like it!

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WOWSERS.......2007-07-13

This book is totally awesome. I never expected such quality. I think I too will give some to friends. The book is well written

Entertaining and thought-provoking stories.......2007-03-06

Where did this guy come from? This is the first book in a long time that I can't put down. The stories are so varied, there's never a boring moment. Some are home-spun tales and some are science fiction with a love story or two thrown in. I'm giving a few copies away as gifts to my friends who read. This is a great book and I hope this author does more of them. I highly recommend this book for adults who love to read.

Coincidence? I think not! GOD CARES ABOUT LITTLE THINGS

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Coincidence? I think not! GOD CARES ABOUT LITTLE THINGS
Esther Louise Smithee Mooneyhan
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Coincidence? I think not! GOD CARES ABOUT LITTLE THINGS came about when the author began again to read the Bible through. Genesis 24 relates the story of Abraham sending his eldest servant back to his home country to find a wife for Isaac. When the servant arrived, he asked God to send the right person to him. She was to give water to him and was also to offer water for all his camels. The scripture says, "And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came." Rebekah met the criteria. This led the author to thinking about how God had anticipated her needs and made a way to meet them. Thus, the book was born. Soon, other people contributed. The first story tells how God set in motion the answer to a need 15 years before the need arose. Other stories deal with how God helps us get ready for our life' s work, angels watching over us, needs while traveling, in the course ofa day's work, times of illness, and times of special needs -all in the lives of ordinary people. One lesson learned: God often has a better plan for us than we envisioned.

How Aliens Think: Stories by Judith Grossman (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

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How Aliens Think: Stories by Judith Grossman (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
Judith Grossman
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Here are stories of the strange ways--sexual and cultural, sweet or sour--in which people perform their humanity. Some live out the roles their families have assigned to them--the kind or cruel aunts, the straight or bent uncles. More break away and reinvent themselves, either through impersonation or by making new lives in another country.

Common to all the stories is the "outsider," through all the various registers--political, social, sexual--that the word can imply. The worlds these stories create are the dreamlike, shattered landscapes where alien cultures collide and coexist, inhabited by characters who are alien to one another and to themselves.

Meet, for example, Clara Diamant, "a rising academic star in her early thirties," who seems a model of innocence while studying and espousing postmodern theories of perversion. Or Robby, whose love for a young boy dying of tuberculosis is viewed through the uncomprehending and yet uncannily suspicious eyes of his wife. There is also the narrator of "A Wave of the Hand," who gradually comes to realize that her father is a woman. (She takes this bit of news remarkably well.)

The author, herself, slips in and out of these fictions, which weave back and forth across the track of her own life. Born in England, she came to the United States in the sixties and carried the alien's green card for two decades. Drawing on the varied resources of history, invention, and memoir, these are tales of the alien as Other--and also as Oneself.

Praise for Her Own Terms:

"Replicates for the reader the confusion, the sense of dislocation from self, the inability to recognize what is demeaning, self-denying, that many women experienced who grew up and were educated in the '50s and early '60s. Its achievement is that it does this without cant, without dogma, without a grain of self-pity."--Sue Miller, New York Times Book Review

"No matter how brilliant the minds at Oxford, Judith Grossman seems to be saying, they're in the service of a system unspeakably cruel to the lower classes and to women... Mothers, grandmothers, buy this one for your daughters." -- Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times

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Wonderful.......1999-10-27

A very witty and perceptive collection by a fine writer. Would love to see more but blessedly this is the kind of fiction that you can read more than once and still enjoy on each reading. I am off to her novel!

Terrific, lucid, hilarious stories.......1999-10-25

This writer isn't afraid to be smart about human errors we all make. Her stories about family and motherhood and estrangement from people closest to us are shockingly insightful and I felt I had lived in her shoes by the time I finished reading. Her story, "Mammalia," about a mother coming to terms with her own daughter's sexuality is amazing. This writer is a British transplant and has all the elegance of Virginia Woolf and the common ground of every American woman.

tragicfunny, funnytragic.......1999-10-22

I picked up this book knowing nothing of Grossman's earlier work, but that's my next stop. So smart, so funny, so sad. She's English, apparently, and I get the feeling it's her outsider status that allows her to see America so clearly. What a beautiful book.

Funny and Thank God: Smart!.......1999-10-20

I loved this collection but was suprised to see the author comment. Not that I don't agree but why only 4 stars. 5 stars please. This is writing that speaks to everything I enjoy most. The humor here is a depth charge humor and so is the way it radiates outward in sometimes brutal but always insightful ways. I could have used Grossman in the 80's when I began to feel that if I was raised with a brain I had better hide it because it wasn't stylish and it sure as hell wasn't something you should WRITE about. For committing that sin among the current "don't worry, be happy" (and certainly don't think!) collections I've been seeing, I thank her from the bottom of my big brainy soul. Excellent fiction that challenges and is equal to the best readers.

Author's comment--.......1999-10-17

As a frequent Amazon.com customer, I feel OK about supplementing the Kirkus Review (nice example of their famed snarky style--) of my book, "How Aliens Think". The title is, I admit, a take-off on anthropologist Levy-Bruhl's notorious "How Natives Think." Because yes, some of my stories do like to send up intellectual arrogance; and some use a college setting. But I resist the idea that this (and the fact that I freely use apostrophes) goes along with pedantry. No-one needs to know about Levy-Bruhl to get the point of what I'm doing. Plus, I've seen more heavy-duty pedantry in tomes such as Frank Herbert's "Dune"-- There seems to be a creeping taboo here against fiction that shows the life of the mind, along with that of the body. If so, it's a taboo I'm happy to break-- JG

It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See (Pitt Poetry Series)

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A satisfying read...

It Is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See (Pitt Poetry Series)
Michele Glazer
Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press
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A satisfying read..........2006-01-02

I really enjoyed this collection of thirty-nine poems. Occasionally, Glazer is wordy to the point of being difficult to understand. (For an example of this, simply read the title.) But usually she knows just what words to say. There are many moving poems in this book. One of my favorites, "Real Life #4: Playground" deals with a babysitter keeping two children who don't yet know their mother has died at the playground as long as possible. Another, "Real Life #7: Summer", deals with a woman taking care of her father. He appears to be suffering from dementia, while she suffers from a lack of money. This financial problem leaves her in an uncomfortable, heartbreaking situation. The themes that hold the book together are nature, decay, and parent-child relationships. Definitely worth a quick peek at the library; maybe even a place on your bookshelf. As a person who tries to buy books as selectively as possible, I'm glad I own this. I plan on rereading it in the future.

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Offering a unique cross-disciplinary approach to scholarship in law and economics, this much-needed work expounds and critically evaluates all of the major doctrines of Canadian competition policy. The topics addressed, each in a separate chapter, include: Canadian competition policy in an historical context; basic economic concepts; multi-firm conduct; horizontal agreements; the merger review process; predatory pricing and price discrimination; vertical restraints; intra-brand competition; inter-brand competition; abuse of dominance; competition policy and intellectual property rights; competition policy and trade policy; competition policy and regulated industries; and enforcement.

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This digital document is an article from The Advocate, published by Vancouver Bar Association (Canada) on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1872 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Law and Economics of Canadian Competition Policy.(Book Review)
Author: Stanley Wong
Publication: The Advocate (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Vancouver Bar Association (Canada)
Volume: 63 Issue: 1 Page: 35(4)

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Distributed around the world, the closely related species of Potato Cyst-Nematodes (PCN), Globodera rostochiensis (Woll.) and Globodera pallida Stone are internationally recognized plant quarantine organisms and a major concern wherever potatoes are grown or traded. The nematodes occur in large soil masses and on potato tubers as microscopic cysts, where they form a complex of morphologically identical, but behaviorally different virulence groups. This variety makes the nematodes difficult to detect, identify, and manage. This book is a synthesis of current practical knowledge and fundamental research on PCN. It examines the biology, detection, identification, and control options (including plant resistance) for PCN. It provides essential information for professionals and advanced students of plant nematology and crop protection.

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