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Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies (Comedia)
Christ Holmlund
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Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood. Examining stars from Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Lopez and Dolly Parton, Chris Holmlund focuses on actors whose physique or appearance puts them at the margins of Hollywood film, and yet who occupy shifting and key positions in contemporary mainstream cinema. Grouped into three sections, "gesturing towards genres," "siding with sidekicks" and "staring at stars," chapters examine a range of "impossible bodies" on film from the Pumping Iron documentaries to The Quick and the Dead.
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One Does Not Spell Mozart With A T
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Bold, eye-catching images of 12 prehistoric reptiles: triceratops, tyrannosaurus, stegosaurus, pteranodon, allosaurus, more. Use for tracing and coloring, arts and crafts, etc. 3 plastic sheets in an 8 1/4 x 11 folder. Instructions.
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Sturdy and Cute.......2007-05-13
These stencils are cute and very sturdy. Basically the cover you see is the front of a folder. A large envelope is glued inside the folder, which contains 3 8x10 sheets of platic stencils. They are not hard plastic, but flexible. They can stand up to repeated use by a 4 year-old and six year-old.
The designs are great.
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Madeline Levine has been a practicing psychologist for twenty–five years, but it was only recently that she began to observe a new breed of unhappy teenager. When a bright, personable fifteen–year–old girl, from a loving and financially comfortable family, came into her office with the word empty carved into her left forearm, Levine was startled. This girl and her message seemed to embody a disturbing pattern Levine had been observing. Her teenage patients were bright, socially skilled, and loved by their affluent parents. But behind a veneer of achievement and charm, many of these teens suffered severe emotional problems. What was going on? Conversations with educators and clinicians across the country as well as meticulous research confirmed Levine's suspicions that something was terribly amiss. Numerous studies show that privileged adolescents are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse –– rates that are higher than those of any other socioeconomic group of young people in this country. The various elements of a perfect storm –– materialism, pressure to achieve, perfectionism, disconnection –– are combining to create a crisis in America's culture of affluence. This culture is as unmanageable for parents –– mothers in particular –– as it is for their children. While many privileged kids project confidence and know how to make a good impression, alarming numbers lack the basic foundation of psychological development: an authentic sense of self. Even parents often miss the signs of significant emotional problems in their "star" children. In this controversial look at privileged families, Levine offers thoughtful, practical advice as she explodes one child–rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies parenting practices that are toxic to healthy self–development and that have contributed to epidemic levels of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse in the most unlikely place –– the affluent family.
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afflictions of affluence.......2007-09-05
Madeline Levine knows the afflictions of affluence. Although she was raised in a blue collar setting and her family even lived on state assistance for a while, for thirty years she's lived in Marin County, California, just across the Golden Gate Bridge, where she's raised a family of five and practiced as a clinical psychologist. In addition to her personal experiences as a mother and a clinician, her book includes the findings of social-scientific studies, cultural analyses, and the insights of her colleagues to explore the "paradox of privilege." Why are there so many kids "whose problems seem out of proportion to their life circumstances?" Why do her adolescent patients have some of the highest rates of dysfunctional behaviors, including addictions, eating disorders, cutting, burning, depression, insomnia, boredom and anxiety? Why have adolescent suicides quadrupled since 1950?
Levine encourages us to take an "unflinching look at our parenting skills." There she finds two contributing factors: achievement pressure and maladaptive perfectionism that make kids feel like parental love depends upon performance. Kids also feel isolated from their parents, even those overweening parents who, out of their own neediness, are not simply involved in the lives of their kids but downright intrusive. Levine teases out the distinctions between support and micro-management, wholesome encouragement and overbearing pressure. She also spends considerable time deconstructing the more toxic elements of affluent cultures, encouraging parents to resist the status quo of overwrought competition, perfectionism, and materialism.
All parents have limited abilities, skills, and opportunities, not to mention their own family of origin baggage. Children are all different and unpredictable, so there is no one-size-fits-all set of techniques that guarantees success. Levine is empathetic and realistic; she never makes you feel like parenting requires sainthood. I especially appreciated the several times she shared her own family failures and successes. She repeatedly returns to the special influence of mothers on their children, along with the their unique challenges (including her entire last chapter). I'm sure that many of the problems she describes exist not merely in affluent communities but most everywhere. The wisdom she offers in this book will help any parent, no matter where they live.
a practical and insightful book.......2007-07-11
One reason I was pleased with this book is that the author, psychologist Madeline Levine, doesn't blame money itself for the rising problems among privileged teens. She mentions wealthy families where the kids are raised to be decent, hard-working, responsible and mature. Rather than rail against the evil of money (which would've been annoyingly hypocritical, given that she, her husband and sons live in an affluent community), Dr. Levine makes an important distinction between money and the values that often go hand-in-hand with money (but don't have to).
One example is the attitude of materialism one sees in many privileged communities. Materialism isn't constrained to any one socioeconomic class; a person from a poor or middle class home may also value his possessions excessively, and place more importance on acquiring more "stuff" at the expense of spending quality time with family, forming friendships, and cultivating meaningful interests and positive character traits. The reason why materialism is often associated only with wealth, is that wealthy people have the means to indulge it more often and in more conspicuous ways. The point is, it's this mindset that Levine criticizes, not money per se. She knows wealthy kids who are well-adjusted, in part because their parents had them do chores around the house, encouraged them to volunteer and engage in community activities, did not cave in and buy them everything they wanted, and basically set firm boundaries and placed emphasis on the important values in life. In less healthy families, material goods are sadly seen as fulfilling all needs and solving all problems.
It's painful to read about parents who hold out bribes of expensive cars and clothes in the hopes that their kids will get the best grades, make the best sports teams, and get into the best colleges. As Levine points out, it's not only materialism that hurts these kids. It's also the intense pressure to be the best at everything and pull it off without any apparent effort. The emphasis on outward appearance, on superficial measures of success stifles many of the kids in these communities.
One example she gives is a boy who's unremarkable academically but very gifted at car repair and mechanics. For his parents it's a nightmare; they're ambitious, college-educated professionals and can't accept their son's enthusiasm and preference for what they see as lower class work. They criticize him relentlessly, and as one coping mechanism for feeling so under-valued and out of place in his family and community, he turns to drugs and starts acting out. Levine doesn't excuse the boy's behavior, but she can understand it; in addition to drug abuse treatment, part of her therapy involves the parents and getting them to see that their son is his own person and shouldn't be forced into the prototypical mold for a "successful" child.
Which brings me to another good point about the book. Levine really encourages parents to rethink their parenting styles and review their values and motives. For example, after reading this book a father might wonder why he's pushing his son so hard to play a sport - is it because he wants the boy to learn something and grow as a person? Or is it because he wants to live vicariously through his son and be the envy of the other competitive fathers in the community?
Levine is sympathetic to parents. She acknowledges that most parents want the best for their kids. She has particular compassion for the mothers in these affluent communities, who often lead lonely lives and, because of the need to appear perfectly happy and perfectly together, often don't have a close friend to confide in (in fact, one of the pitfalls is a socially isolated mother turning to her kids for the kind of emotional intimacy she isn't getting from her spouse and friends). She urges parents, particularly mothers, to address the troubled and painful issues in their own lives; essentially, a content and well-adjusted parent makes for a much better influence on a kid than one who is cold and remote, or clingy and needy, or just downright depressed.
Dr. Levine's book is thoughtful, straightforward and worth reading. Though all parents can benefit from her advice, the book is especially important for affluent parents who inspite of their good intentions might readily adopt the dominant values of their communities - the materialism, the pressure to look good and (at least outwardly) succeed, the emotional isolation, and the conformity to a certain kind of lifestyle. As Levine demonstrates again and again in her book, these values stunt and skew development.
Clearly I'm in the minority here.........2007-06-13
This is a very good book with many valuable insights and clinical observations. The problem I have with this book is the same problem I have with the psychological and psychiatric communities in general. Psychotherapists like Dr. Levine have effectively removed religion from their professional discourse and thus their diagnoses, both personal and scoial, are inevitably incomplete. In my opinion, there is a clear link between affluence and secularism/atheism and between secularism/atheism and depression. Statistically, impoverished, less affluent peoples are far more likely to attend religious services on a weekly basis and to hold the religious life in higher esteem. Perhaps it is this lack of a religious orientation that causes or helps to cause those issues which Dr. Levine does consider at length; depression, materialism, perfectionism, stress etc. Unfortuantely, in today's psychiatric climate the question of religion is off the table.
The Price of Privilege.......2007-03-12
This book enlightens parents to the consequences of pampering their chidren monetarily and with lack of discipline. The topic crosses the affluence boundary and affects all families in this day and age, to some extent. Chidlren are growing up with less of a spiritual core which parents fill with 'stuff', playing into the consumer culture of today. It's not only a great parenting book, but an excellent profile of our need to succeed in order to feel worthy. She is a great writer and I highly recommend this book.
Very Important Book.......2007-02-13
I gave this to one of my sisters last spring when her teenage son was going thru some difficulties. She subsequently gave it to her husband, and then to the school headmaster who made it mandatory reading for the school's counseling dept. If they believe so strongly in this book, parents can, too.
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The Price Advantage by three preeminent experts at McKinsey & Company is the most pragmatic and insightful book on pricing available. Based on in-depth, first-hand experience with hundreds of companies, this book is designed to provide managers with comprehensive guidance through the maze of pricing issues. The authors demonstrate why pricing excellence is critical to corporate success and profitability, then explain state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing and improving your own pricing strategy for any product or service. Their advice is critical for readers who need to develop pricing strategies that work in both good economic times and bad.
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The Price Advantage Workbookis a comprehensive and insightful book that facilitates the understanding of transaction pricing and strategy, which is discussed in the actual text. Real-world examples and hard-hitting questions demonstrate why transaction pricing is critical to corporate success and profitability, and explains state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing and improving competitive pricing strategy for any product or service.
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PRICING AT 'THE RIGHT END OF THE TELESCOPE'.......2007-08-11
Peter Drucker predicted decades ago that, sooner or later,
'Forex' would govern competitive strategy far more than marketing manoeuvres or purchasing systems- including plain vanilla or more exotic pricing programmes... however detailed in advice like The Price Advantage and its add-on The Price Advantage Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises and Tests to Help You Master The Price Advantage (Wiley Finance), which is nevertheless a solid pricing book at the micro level.
One Big Idea Consulting Limited NZ teaches clients to anchor their pricing strategy at the 'forex' end of the telescope; not at the sales/marketing end of the 'scope'.
This approach should not be relegated to a footnote or an after-thought or to a side-bar in any pricing book, review or a comment.
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors and also The EVA Challenge: Implementing Value Added Change in an Organization yield as much or more macro advice on pricing strategies than this book does.
Both Porter and Stern have the telescope the right way round!
It is best to read them both before digging into pricing as a practical technique in and of itself.
You Must read It.......2005-06-19
This book is an compilation of many paper published by Mckinsey.
If you have read "The Power of Pricing" or "The Hidden Value of Postmerger Pricing" or "Pricing in a Downturn", all published by the Mckinsey quarterly, you must read this book if you want to go in deep.
I recently start working in pricing, and in my company we start seeking for a software provider to help us is pricng process. well, I meet with the best software providers, and all of them talk about "The Power of Pricing", and I note that these systems are Copy&Paste of the paper. now I note that is a Copy&Paste of the book.
if you are not sure to buy the book, first look for the papers. if you want to have pricing conversation, join to our free pricing forum http://pricing.gforo.com
bye.
#1 Pricing Book on the Market!.......2005-06-07
The Price Advantage offers the most comprehensive roadmap to greater profits via pricing available on the market today.
From a practioneer's perspective, Marn, Roegner and Zawada have hit a huge homerun by pulling together world class practices and proven methodologies that successfully drive price realization improvement.
The Price Advantage offers valuable insights on how to create a sustainable competitive pricing advantage leveraging science/analysis, strategy and effective organizational & industry change management approaches. I highly recommend this book to anyone responsible for pricing and is seeking insights on how to take their pricing management efforts to the next level.
Pricing Rock Stars!!!.......2005-03-31
If you are tasked with pricing and revenue optimization this book is a must read. As a pricing practitioner I have read just about all of the available material on the subject of pricing. This book clearly is the new standard.
Congratulations to Marn, Roegner and Zawada for resetting the bar in this field.
The Price Advantage.......2004-12-17
This is the best book on pricing out in the market today. It is easy to understand and pragmatic......not one of the theory intensive books written by academics that have little or no practical value. Mike Marn's ideas are both easy to understand and to implement. I manage pricing for a SBU of a very large industrial company. Using the ideas from the book (along with a lot of very hard work), we were able to realize a very significant improvement at our bottom line without adding to the competitive intensity of the marketplace. Nothing in the book is magic; however, it all hangs together. A company that executes well on his ideas, will no doubt improve their financial performance.
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This book is jam-packed with specific techniques for pinpointing high, low and trend change points in price and time.
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technical analysis simplified.......2000-07-08
I bought this book on the recommendation of a very senior trader and I am glad I read it. There are many books on Fibonacci, Elliott Wave and Gann techniques. To read and understand them is simple, but to use them in harmony is difficult. This book is very good at simplifying the techniques and making them very readable and user friendly. Though this is not the be all and end all for technical analysis. You must understand other techniques independently. This book is full of examples on using different techniques as well as using them together to generate more reliable buy and sell signals. The book is short on theory but full of good real chart patterns, which are missing in most books
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Home Team Advantage Practice Set
John Ellis Price
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30 ans de sous-developpement, ca suffit
Adama Ballo
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Agricultural Price Policy: A Practitioner's Guide to Partial-Equilibrium Analysis
Isabelle Tsakok
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
Alexandra Harney
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Written by a noted investment innovator, Fibonacci Trading shows you how to identify numeric clusters and measure timing signals, in order to achieve the highest rate of profitable trades. Filled with real-world trading situations, the book combines classic trading concepts and Fibonacci analysis to enable you to take advantage of the naturally occurring and recurring patterns within the market.
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