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I am taking a college English class which includes an introduction to literary criticism. We were not assigned this book as our textbook, but I had occasion to write an essay recently for class and referred to this book as one of my secondary sources. This book is an excellent resource book. It is very clearly written. The topics covered are "The Intention of Fiction", "How Plot Reveals", "What Character Reveals", "What Theme Reveals", "Stories for Study", and "Fiction and Human Experience: How Four Stories Came to Be Written." It uses many, many, stories written by famous authors to illustrate each topic. I feel certain one could find at least one story from just about any textbook used in an English 101 class. Even if you are not studying literary criticism explicitly, this book is a good resource just for understanding how to look for things like theme and plot, just to name a few. It's a good book to get you thinking the way you need to think in order to write a paper. Even though I don't plan to major in English, I know I will use this book again and hopefully Amazon.comwill be able to find it for me!

Thurow and Heilbroner provide a thoughtful and thorough treatment of microeconomics in their required text Understanding Microeconomics. The work provides the economics student, at any level, the economic background necessary to master the activities of consumers and firms as concerns scarce resource allocation in our mixed economy. The authors provide the reader with economic tools, such as supply and demand, necessary to become an economist. This book also describes and analyzes the various market systems,i.e.: perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly. Furthermore, U.M. intelligently presents major economic challenges the domestic and global economy faces as productivity, taxes, trade, and the future. Eventhough this edition's numbers and examples need updating; the text is still relevant to today's economy.

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Robert M. Quackenbush knows that as interested as young readers might be in how it took Jules Verne thirty-five years to publish his first book, he knows that his readers will be more interested in the "fantastic voyages" that Verne wrote about. However, it is interesting to read how Verne's wife rescued his manuscript about what it would be like to explore the unknown continent of Africa in a balloon. Urged to rewrite it by a publisher as a fictional adventure story based on new scientific facts, "Five Weeks in a Balloon" not only sold, but earned Verne a twenty-year contract to write two books a year. Up to that point "Who Said There's No Man on the Moon?: A Story of Jules Verne" was the story of a struggling writer. From then on Quackenbush tells of the novels Verne wrote, which includes not only the classics like "Journey to the Center of the Earth," "From the Earth to the Moon," "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," and "Around the World in Eighty Days," but also Verne's lesser known but equally imaginative stories such as "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras," "The Floating City," and "Dr. Ox."

That is why Quackenbush's biography is as much a bibliography, even though not even half of Verne's sixty works are mentioned. When he labels "Mysterious Island" as Verne's masterpiece you know that his young readers will agree and that they will probably want to check that book out first, which would be a minor mistake simply because there is a significant element that makes it a sequel of sorts to one "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." That sort of gives away what the link would be, but then Quackenbush is explicit on that point so I am actually being more circumspect here. As always with Quackenbush's juvenile biographies he provides his own illustrations. With each two-page spread one side is a full-page pen drawing with blue shadings while there is always a droll cartoon below the text on the other page. Usually this is a cartoon of a reporter asking Monsieur Verne a question, which allows Quackenbush to get off a one-liner in response (e.g, "Monsieur Verne, which is your favorite of all the books that you have written?" "The next one").

Even if they have not read any of Verne's stories, young readers will understand how he came to be known as the father of modern science fiction and considered the greatest storyteller of them all (Verne is the third most translated author today, behind the odd couple of Shakespeare and Lenin). They will be able to relate to the idea of a child dreaming of traveling to exotic lands and taking such trips in their own imagination. Other books in this series by Quackenbush include "The Beagle and Mr. Flycatcher: A Story of Charles Darwin," "Don't You Dare Shoot That Bear!: A Story of Theodore Roosevelt," and "What Has Wild Tom Done Now!!!?: A Story of Thomas Alva Edison. From all of these juvenile biographies you can expect more of the same.

What a book...I have been a lifetime worrier and I found out how to use my worry habit to solve problems instead of create them. Don't let the title fool you. Men profit from this info too.

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In the Preface, Faisal Hoque recalls a time (1999) when he observed that in company after company "how haphazradly people managed technology, particularly technology spending. The business principles they applied in other areas were not being applied to technology...In many firms it was bought and deployed on a hope anbd a prayer...I became convinced that business executives and technology executives still viewed each other across a chasm, even if they were now sitting at the same table. Only when they took off their business or technology hats and worked together to build the business could they succeed."

That description still applies to many organizations today. For their decision-makers, this volume offers invaluable information and counsel as they struggle to achieve effective convergence of business and technology and then manage it, a process as difficult as competing and winning in a "three-legged race." The metaphor is apt. Speed alone is insufficient. Balance is also essential, as are determination and endurance. The first step in the process is to "get BTM on the execxutive agenda" and understand what BTM is and can do; determine strategic positions and make the right investments; agree on "who's in charge"; and complete other preparations, meanwhile sustaining effective communication, cooperation, and collaboration between and among everyone involved.

The authors organize their material within two main sections. In Part I, they examine business technology management (BTM) at the most strategic levels, where the board, CEO, and entire senior management team must be actively involved if an organization expects to be successful. In Part II, they delve deeper into specific issues central to combining and coordinating business and technology initiatives in proper alignment with the given strategy. Readers will appreciate the provision of an "Executive Agenda" section at the conclusion of each chapter which reviews and summarizes key points, and also suggests what "next steps" should be taken. Here in a single volume is a rigorous and thorough examination of "The BTM Standard": a set of guiding principles that create a seamless management approach based on 17 essential capabilities grouped into four functional areas: governance and organization, managing technology investments, strategy and planning, and strategic enterprise architecture.