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Succeed with the Study Guide for MACROECONOMICS: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION. This Study Guide includes chapter outlines, definitions of all terms, a bonus section with supplemental material, and a variety of true-false, multiple-choice, and discussion questions with answers.
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- One of 1997's Ten Best, and our InnoThink Award Winner
- One of The Top Ten Books for Leaders in 1997
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The Shape Shifters: Continuous Change for Competitive Advantage
John L. Mariotti
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The Shape Shifters Continuous Change For Competitive Advantage John L. Mariotti Only by developing a core that shifts constantly to deliver best value to customers will your company survive and succeed in the coming era of breathtaking change. In the pages of this revolutionary approach to building a "shape-shifting" company from the ground up, you'll learn to:
- Get closer to your customers and develop a clear understanding of their mental picture of "value."
- Institute company-wide, integrated improvements — not just piecemeal patches.
- Understand the difference between shape-shifting and popular trends such as reengineering.
- Develop "new partnerships" by combining teamwork, human insight, and new technologies.
- And much more!
The day of the rigid, bureaucratic organization is waning, and a new day of learning and adapting is dawning. With the help of T## exciting new era! Mariotti's new book focuses us on what matters most in business.…growth and all of its positive implications. A truly refreshing read after so many years of stultifying "reengineering." —Michael Harris, Partner, The Sequoya Group, Inc. I had said "Wow" out loud twice in the first 30 pages. Many lights went off in my head as I read The Shape Shifters…This is more than a book, it's an opportunity to rethink the existing customer strategies of your company, your division, or your departments. —James B. Swartz, President, Competitive Action Group I have already used John Mariotti's shape shifting construct…This is a very valuable tool with which to coach an organization in developing winning strategies. —Fred S. Grunewald, President and Chief Operating Officer, Overhead Door Corporation
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One of 1997's Ten Best, and our InnoThink Award Winner.......1998-02-13
A lot of writers talk about change, but very few write about it with the authority and vigor of Mariotti. He has been an executive in four consumer products companies in four different industries: this book really has the "voice of experience" behind it. Moreover, if you have followed his thinking in IndustryWeek the last few years, you know that you will get much more than broad concepts in this book. He gives the reader techniques and tools for "reshaping" the value behind a company's core assets: what it makes and sells. Are you in shape? Then perhaps it's time to shift! Transforming. [Read His MG Ezzay]
One of The Top Ten Books for Leaders in 1997.......1998-01-06
THE 1997 "INNOTHINK AWARD WINNER" A lot of writers talk about change, but very few write about it with the authority and vigor of Mariotti, who has been an executive in four consumer products companies in four different industries: this book really has the "voice of experience" behind it. Moreover, if you have followed his thinking in IndustryWeek magazine the last few years, you know that you will get much more than broad concepts in this book. He gives the reader techniques and tools for "reshaping" the value behind a company's core assets: what it makes and sells. Are you in shape? Then perhaps it's time to shift!
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A study of organization and method of the course of study in agriculture in secondary schools
Theodore Hildreth Eaton
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Great field book!.......2005-12-19
This is the book we use on NOLS expeditions, and we have to literally carry these books. It is worth carrying.
a lovely piece of writing about an amazing place.......2003-07-13
This is one of the books that first drew me to Baja california years ago. Unfortunately much of what Krutch saw has inevitably been swept away by the rising tide of tourism & development, but enough remains that Krutch's lyrical prose is more than a eulogy, one can still find some of teh magic that he describes so well here. I would strongly reccomend this book to anyone planning on visiting Baja California and/or anyone who is interested in the intersection between natural history and literature -one gets both here.
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wonderful direct engagement with water.......2004-01-21
As was written by the copy editor to introduce the foreword by Ms. Zwinger to my recently published book "Deep Immersion: Thoreau's Engagement with Water" (Green Frigate Books): "Few have ever been so 'haunted by waters' - to use Norman Maclean's wonderful phrase - as has naturalist and 'water logged' nature writer Ann Haymond Zwinger." This particlar book, like all of her works, very much offers a deep well for thirsty minds.
Seductive prose, incisive observations from the bottom........1999-09-01
Ann Haymond Zwinger has contributed her scientific expertise to subsidized, multi-week inner-canyon environmental impact expeditions, has run each of the Canyon's rapids countless times (in nearly each month of the year), in every sort of water craft. What her scientific eye takes in, her pen transmutes into its own river of irresistible prose, carrying the reader, willing or not, from one chapter to the next. As a hiker, I expected the vision of a "boat person" to suffer from its constricted horizons. A bottom-up myopia. Instead, we find ourselves soaring with eagles. We climb cliffs, clawing our way through a darkness of thorns and pain. We crawl along brushy beaver tunnels. We ponder the local history and lore...and the primeval past. Our journey evokes visions of thousand foot-high lava dams filling the entire Canyon with water, as well as today's horror of a rapid at Lava Falls. While some of her snippets of local human history are rarely mentioned in other books about the Canyon, Zwinger's forte is in the natural sciences. In that arena, she has no peer among Grand Canyon authors. Since this is not a trail manual, it is not easy to restrict one's reading to a single, specific Canyon location. Rather, the chapters are organized by seasons of the year. No matter. If you start at the beginning, its 220 or so pages of narrative will sweep you into their main current and, well... I'll see you below the rapids.
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Naturalist's Mexico (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series, No. 12)
Roland H. Wauer
Manufacturer: Texas a & M Univ Pr
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Naturalist's Mexico.......1999-12-03
Roland H. Wauer is Indiana Jones of the naturalists
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Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive field guide describes the four deserts of the American Southwest--the Great Basin, Mojave, Chihuahuan, and Sonoran--which together stretch into nine southwestern states and Mexico. The topography, geology, and climatic conditions of these arid lands set the stage for one of the most fascinating of ecological studies: the survival and adaptation of animal and plant life in the severe, often extreme desert climate and terrain.
Abundantly illustrated with line drawings, maps, charts, and diagrams, The Deserts of the Southwest offers both the outdoor adventurer and the armchair naturalist a clear and detailed portrait of this complex, beautiful, fragile wilderness.
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The Southwest Deserts Come Alive.......2000-05-13
We camped for a week in the Davis Mountains in west Texas in a section of the Chihuahuan desert last summer. This was not our first desert experience - we have hiked and camped across much of the Southwest over the last twenty years or so. This was an unplanned trip as we were headed toward southern Colorado, but we became fascinated by the Chihuahuan desert and somehow we never drove any further.
We were similarly quite lucky to find a copy of the first edition of Peggy Larson's Sierra Guidebook in a bookstore in Alpine, Texas. She presents the deserts of the American southwest (and northern Mexico) in a literate and educated fashion. She manages to discuss individual plants and animals in some detail while painting a large scale, beautiful portrait of the four major deserts of North America. Detailed ink drawings - landscape, geology, plants, and animals - are scattered throughout the narrative and add considerable value. She knows her subject and shares her knowledge in an intriguing fashion. She effectively uses scientific names of desert plants and animals interchangeably with common (but less unique) names without intimidating the reader. This is not a novel and it is quite possible to skip to selected chapters of personal interest, but I highly recommend exploring all chapters, all topics. Peggy Larson's style is really quite good.
If you are already familiar with the American deserts, you will find "The Deserts of the Southwest" a rewarding visit with an old friend. If you are somewhat new to the deserts and possibly have only sampled the deserts from a highway perspective, I suspect that after reading Peggy Larson's book you will likely change your travel plans to include a personal visit to an American desert.
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This comprehensive, illustrated guide explores the natural history of the Southern Rocky Mountains -- a rugged area that includes the Sangre de Cristo, Sawatch, Never Summer, San Juan, and other spectacular ranges.
Drawing from the field work of hundreds of scientists as well as her own observations, Audrey Benedict describes the geography of the region, its fascinating geologic story, its climate and weather, and its plant and animal communities. The region's major ecosystems, from the shortgrass prairie and scrublands to woodlands and forests, grasslands and meadows, wetlands and aquatic environments, and finally alpine tundra, are described in detail. The emphasis throughout is on the unique adaptations of the major species of plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians and how these organisms interact within their environment.
More than a hundred line drawings and black-and-white photographs complement the text, contributing to this guide's usefulness both at home and in the field. Anyone visiting this scenic and richly diverse region will find the book an invaluable resource.
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Very complete, strong example in this category.......2005-02-05
Benedict draws from countless sources and personal experience in this book to assemble the most complete handheld book on the Southern Rockies. If you live in Colorado and consider yourself a naturalist, this should already be on your shelf, and in your backpack as you trek around. I use mine so much I had to tape the cover to protect it. The writing is crisp and factual, yet engrossing. Coverage is complete: from geology to ornithology, botany to meteorology, it's all here in ample detail for the interested lay person. Highly recommended... one of the best in class.
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On The Mesa
John Nichols
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On the Mesa is an autobiographical celebration of life in a fragile and marginal place.
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Thoreau of the Southwest.......2007-01-26
Nichols' primary objective in this short work of non-fiction is to describe (in intricate detail) a year in the life of a stock pond. He begins with its birth from a flash flood, and then chronicles the happenings throughout the year, including all the small species that live off the fleeting resource. The book is bursting with paeans to rodents, snakes, flies, lichens, manifold species of birds, coyotes, beetles, giant salamanders, etc, etc. Any lover of nature writing will revel in Nichols' skill in bringing this world to life; he executes Thoreau's injunction, and skillfully backs life into a corner and learns what it has to teach. Nichols' relationship with his environment is deep, and the work benefits from his long hours spent in quiet observation of it.
The books is also a memoir describing a blossoming relationship with a woman and fellow-nature lover who also frequents the mesa, as well as the author's dealings with a local group of citizens fighting to save the mesa from encroachment. It is in these personal passages that we get the linear narrative, which helps bind together the nature passages.
The book succeeds as description of mesa nature, as poetry of the southwest, as memoir of a writer/naturalist, as a chronicle of the loss of nature to development's unthinking rapacity. The chapters are short, on average 3-5 pages, and interspersed with photographs from the author. After reading On the Mesa, I was inspired to get outside (in the middle of winter) and touch noses with the non-human world.
Fighting the good fight in a losing battle.......2004-06-11
Readers familiar with Nichol's other works might be surprised by On The Mesa. The book differs from anything he's published in the past and more nearly resembles the reflections of writers better known for non-fiction works than for fiction.
On The Mesa is the story of one of the skirmishes in the long war over the encroachments of 'post-modern' civilization into Northern New Mexico. Those battles are usually portrayed best in fiction works because they constitute an epic. Bradford's books, Red Sky at Morning and So Far From Heaven are two of the first of this genre, followed by the several Milagro Beanfield novels by Nichols.
On The Mesa lacks the penetrating humor readers find attractive in the fiction books by Nichols, but they'll probably be pleased by the reverence, the maturity of tone and the underlying sweet melancholy recognition of an inevitable loss in a noble fight to preserve a facet of the past.
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- magical realism captured
- magical realism captured
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Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist
Kathleen Alcala
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14 stories set in Mexico & the Southwest US
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magical realism captured.......2000-05-26
While for some a bicultural background might be a bother, for Kathleen Alcala it is a blessing. Her Latin-American background has helped her complete a collection of short stories that is both funny, and magical. Her prose is very poetic and captivating, much like other Latin-American author such as Puerto Rico's Rosario Ferre, and of course, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. Each story is short, told by several first-person narrators, all of them struggling to come to terms with strange, funny, sometimes heartbreaking events of daily life, made even more sorrowful by the conflict of trying to deal with two different cultures, each of them striving to be the dominating one. As a collection, each story could be described as a precious individual pearl, capable of standing on its own, but string them all together and you have a stunning necklace. I highly reccomend this book
magical realism captured.......2000-05-26
While for some a bicultural background might be a bother, for Kathleen Alcala it is a blessing. Her Latin-American background has helped her complete a collection of short stories that is both funny, and magical. Her prose is very poetic and captivating, much like other Latin-American author such as Puerto Rico's Rosario Ferre, and of course, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. Each story is short, told by several first-person narrators, all of them struggling to come to terms with strange, funny, sometimes heartbreaking events of daily life, made even more sorrowful by the conflict of trying to deal with two different cultures, each of them striving to be the dominating one. As a collection, each story could be described as a precious individual pearl, capable of standing on its own, but string them all together and you have a stunning necklace. I highly reccomend this book
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- High jungles and low: guide to Nicaragua
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High Jungles and Low
Archie Carr
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Geography and Memory.......2006-03-29
I've been writing reviews of books about Central America for several years for a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer publication. This is by far the best book I've ever read about the region. Carr was a biologist, botanist and teacher, best known for his sea turtle research and establishment of the Tortuguera National Park in Costa Rica. This book details his early exploration of Honduran and Nicaraguan ecosystems in the late 1940's, experiences which were to change his life and change the face of Central American environmentalism. Carr's curiosity, humor and understanding shine in every page. A scientist and trained observer, he maintained a sense of wonder, and was not above being awed by a landscape or a bird sighting. He writes possibly the best line ever written about Olancho, the rich, wild eastern part of Honduras where anything can happen: "It's not the light." he writes. "It's Olancho."
Anyone hoping to make a trip to Honduras or hoping to better understand this fascinating region would benefit from this book.
High jungles and low: guide to Nicaragua.......2006-01-18
I believe that this book was very informative on the geography of Nicaragua and Honduras. Archie Carr ventured through the cloud forests and jungles of Honduras and Nicaragua, portraying in impecible detail the beasts, men, and plants of the villages, jungles, forests, and rivers, while siting some of the history of Honduras and Nicaragua. The author was a sea turtle expert, naturalist, author and scientist. I highly reccomend this book to any who seek knowledge of jungle creatures and plants.
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