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Many technical professionals (and others as well) think technology has the answers and the solutions to many of the issues / failures we have experienced in the past. WRONG!!

Read this precious book to understand why.

Although somewhat dated (considerting we are in 2006) - the basic tenets still apply. Be forewarned - you need to read it with an open mind and a willingness to be brutally honest about your answers when the author poses some questions to you.
With such a paradigm, you will find the book full of value in understanding the types of errors we make as humans. Once you recognize these, preventing them can become feasible. But, just realizing that is not enough, you will need to change (which is very hard to do) some habits that the workplace has built into you over time.

Enjoy - and be error free...if you can, if you care...

I came across this title while researching the parallels between traditional professional engineering and systems engineering. Petroski makes a compelling case for us to formally study our failures in systems engineering - not for laying blame, but in order to continually improve our processes, assumptions, beliefs, methods, and thinking patterns. Using case studies from bridge building, ship building, and other construction feats, Petroski show us how errors in scalability, design changes, selective use of history, logic, and human factors can lead to disasterous consequences. If you care about public safety and want to see any industry progress to a real level of professionalism, read and study this work.

Nigel Turton has brought clarity and concision to the English language for many years and this extensive dictionary common errors are ones you will hear throughout the year. It contains words and phrases that trigger confusion or where you wonder if what was said/written is wrong, and if so, is there a better way to phrase it. Each error has the correction and a simple explanation. What makes this dictionary invaluable is that it includes examples from a wide variety of countries, since Britain and the US aren't the only English-speaking countries. Moreover, you can take this book anywhere -- plane, waiting room, bathroom -- and read as much or little as time allows. Worth every penny. My only warning is that after reading the Longman Dictionary of Common Errors, you will cringe when you watch TV news and hear the newscasters and reporters' 7th grade educations on full display.

It's great.This book is the one of the best eligible grammar books.

This critical study of the euro, written by a respected French economist, should make sense to every trade union member. Throughout the eurozone, growth is weak, unemployment high and rising, and investment stagnant. Yet society needs full employment: without it, we cannot end all its by-products, poverty, crime, corruption, bad health, illiteracy, lack of skills. When workers are in work, they can prevent all these evils.
Rosa shows that unemployment is high because macro-economic policy, not Brownýs micro, supply-side, fiddling, decides employment levels, and the European Union has the wrong macro policy. Euro-fundamentalists, including the Labour Government, cling to a fixed overvalued currency - pound or euro - cutting real wages, revenues and growth, and raising unemployment. The resulting excessive interest rates deflate the real economy of production and inflate the casino economy of speculation.
In the 1930s, France clung to the Gold Standard and suffered hugely; Britain floated the pound, and did better. In the 1990s, countries like Britain that left the ERM grew faster and had lower inflation than France, which stayed in.
Capitalists argue that welfare spending and ýlabour market inflexibilityý cause permanent ýstructuralý unemployment, so you can only increase growth by raising unemployment enough to cut wages. Rosa demolishes this ýEurosclerosisý argument. He shows that in 1989, the last year before the Maastricht Treatyýs monetarism was imposed, the French economy grew by 4%, although welfare payments and the labour market stayed the same.
We need a policy for growth, of floating exchange rates and cutting short-term interest rates down to zero. The OECD estimates that in France, for instance, cutting exchange rates would add 2% growth, and cutting 2% interest rates by 2% would add 0.5% growth, creating 320,000 jobs a year.
Rosa notes that the euro is Europeýs worst mistake since deflationary policy turned the 1929 crisis into a decade of depression. He stresses that the euroýs economic failings donýt bother the EUýs leaders, because they expressly conceived it as an ýeconomicý way to lock us into the single European state, since they know they could never do it through winning our democratic consent.

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent - The author provides the reader with an informative insight into why the EU is making a big mistake by adopting the Euro. The EU is clearly not an optimal single currency area yet political correctness has ruled the day. Without a strong political union the Euro is heading for failure and with a strong political union the EU is heading for the inefficiencies most smart multinational companies have long since abandoned. The Euro could become a perfect example of a good thing (free trade) taken too far by the feel good politics of the left trying to strong arm the rest of the world away from the dollar. This book is a must read for all interested in the Euro, but make sure you're not in a rush as the translation from the French can leave you scratching your head at times.

All pages are reproducible worksheets, which comes in handy if you have more than one child. We used this when my daughter was in 7th and 8th grade and was homeschooling but would be great practice for kids in any school. The sheets are filled with common writing errors and the student finds and corrects them. This is useful in today's world where you see spelling and grammar errors in newspaper articles on a daily basis! Five units focus on spelling, capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, and style. There are overviews and also pretests and post-tests for each unit. My daughter loved this book!Find the Errors!: Proofreading Activities (011588e5)

Don't like where the answer pages are (before the section?!) but...it's a good review course book :)

Stephen Greenleaf is one of my favourite writers. He is very similar to Ross MacDonald which is a huge compliment in my opinion. This is hard-boiled private eye writing how it should be done.

The lead is John Marshall Tanner, a man with strong principles who takes cases where he can get them, admittedly with a fair degree of self-loathing at times.

He is a loner, unlucky with women and sees the seedy side of life too much. The perfect private eye.

If I had to differentiate between MacDonald and Greenleaf, I would have to say that the latter uses foul language which while realistic, I think it lowers the tone of the novel a little.

One Marshall Tanner mystery and you'll want to read all Steven Greenleaf's work. He writes so well you keep turning the pages, and you'll also find some quotes you'll put down in your notebook of pithy sayings to remember. These are mysteries just a cut-above. Greenleaf graduated from Carleton College after all!

"Grave Error" is the first novel in Stephen Greenleaf's fine but underrated John Marshall Tanner private Detective series. Tanner is neither as quick with his wits as Phillip Marlowe nor as eccentric as Matthew Scudder, but this novel contains the kind of hard boiled elements both would be comfortable with. When an old friend and fellow detective is murdered while investigating a case, Tanner drops his own case only to find that the two are somehow connected. Ultimately, the story becomes an elaborate whodunnit with plenty of twists and turns along the way. They violence is fast and ferocious and the mood is appropriately somber. If there is a drawback, its that because the plot is so thick, Tanner's personality is not as well defined as it should be. Nevertheless, as P.I. novels go, this entry is very worthwhile.

A comprehensive review of this book appears in the July-August 2006 issue of "Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology", Vol. 40, No. 4, p. 290. This is a reference that should be on the bookshelf of every department head and policy maker which is involved in the delivery of healthcare or its oversight.

This book came out long before the Institute of Medicine Report, "To Err is Human", and in some ways it is better. It provides a great deal of background information essential to understanding this important but long-neglected problem. As a physician, it has completely changed my understanding of how errors occur in the profession of medicine. Although some chapters are difficult to read, I believe every physician and physician in training should read the forward, Chapter 13, "Operating at the Sharp End", and chapter 14,"Fatigue, Performance and Medical Error". When our hospital board asked me about the newspaper reports of error in medicine, I used the information in this book to explain the problem to them.

Mr Wohlberg has written a book that clearly exposes the errors of the Left Behind fictional books and movie.He shows that there is no pre-trib rapture.It's not a secret rapture either.Reading this book has led me to consider the historicist view as opposed to the futurist view of Revelation.Reading the Bible in context and studying Daniel(7:25 in particular)with Revelation from a historical standpoint confirms for me that Mr. Wohlberg may be "on point" with this book.He has taken apart the the theories of the Left Behind series without slandering the evangelists behind the books and all the while basing his theory on the Bible!

As plain as the nose on your face, this book lays out what will really happen at Christ's return. I attend a church where the pre-trib rapture theory is believed and taught, but I have always been convicted that there was really more to it. I have studied regarding the second coming of Christ, believing that Christians will be here through the so-called tribulation period, and felt that it was plainly there in black and white telling us just that. After reading this book, I can now explain it just a little bit better, as Wohlberg lays it out so well, explaining verses and more indepth details than I was able to put together. I hope that more Christians will be convicted to pick up his book and study it for themselves. The book is so easy to understand, and so interesting, that I read it in just a short time one evening. I recommend it to all Christians, especially those who have convictions regarding Christ's second coming.

This is a major piece in the uncertainty hunting. The Rabinovich's book is needed in every national calibration laboratory.

If you are into measurement errors, you will find this book excellent value. The author goes into a lot of detail spelling everything out. The organisation and English is a bit difficult. I also enjoyed a book called Measurement Uncertainty by RH dieck, but that has many errors. Also check out "An introduction to error analysis" by Taylor...

Well written, covers many battles throughout the world, well researched and lots of fun/interesting to read

This book lists many fine examples of the contradiction which the term "military mind" can be. In addition to covering many well known topics (Gettysburg, The charge of the Light Brigade, Custer's Last stand) We also see battles that might not be as well known to the passing historian (Spion Kop, Vaurs' defeat at Teutoberger Wald, Monongahela etc...) Small sub articles give little stories about other little miscues (The Bridge at Spitz)all of it is readable, well illustrated and written with a european rather than an american viewpoint. (Thus he classifeds the American indian wars as basically the same as the British Colonial wars and in doing so may be correct.

The bottom line is the facts are well presented and easy on the eyes and brain without being lightweight. It informs and entertains. It is well worth a read.

"The Mismapping of America" is a great book of 5 essays that explain some of the misunderstandings that we have about the map of America today and how past ideas about the shape of the continent have shaped exploration

- Essay 1 is about the naming of America. How did the continent get the name of a person who was just a minor officer on a ship that only reached as far north as Haiti.
- Essay 2 shows us maps of the Verrezano Sea, a non existant sea that still turned up on many maps and that was though to be some sort of North West Passage
- Essay 3 is about that Northwest passage
- Essay 4 about the way California has changed shapes. From island, to peninsula and back again, but ending up as peninusale once more.
- Essay 5 is a nice one about the mapping of the great lakes and the persistant drawing in of islands in those seas.

Really interesting book.

Before you begin reading this book, beware...you will NOT be able to put it down. Also beware, put aside ALL of your preconceived notions regarding historical America's founding....and hold on to your hat.

Mr. Schwartz immediately takes us on a fascinating, fact-based journey into "THE BIG ONE"......the naming of America itself. He pieces together personalities, letters, and rare maps; and presents a clear, traceable historical path of what really happened. Truly a revelation!

This is not a book featuring large 9x12 color reproductions. All the maps are black and white, seldom 4x6. These colorized larger maps can be found in the references mentioned below. Rather, this book presents American history as we have never known with sufficient maps provided for clarity and direction.

Along with Schwartz' "The Mapping of America" and "Degrees of Latitude", Pritchard/Taliaferro, I consider "The Mismapping of America" essential to anyone interested in a significantly important, fact-based account of our real history.

As interest in American History rises (thank you C-Span) it is truly essential that we understand the basic fundamentals laid down by the earliest explorers and mapmakers..and the forces behind them. Schwartz presents this in an easy to read, factual masterpiece.