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151 Quick Ideas to Manage Your Time
Robert E. Dittmer
Publisher: Career Press 2006-09-15
ISBN: 1564148998
Too many of us live our lives trying to shoehorn our many activities and responsibilities into too few time slots available. Increasingly for business people, fathers and mothers, even kids—(ineffectively) managing the myriad of activities has become an all-consuming chore. And we’re so stressed that our relationships and job performance suffer.
Why? Because we organize our time and our lives poorly: We spend five years of our lives waiting in lines, three years in meetings, and two years playing telephone tag! We get interrupted 73 times per day, interfering with our productivity, and take an hour of work home every night, interfering with our family time.
But we can solve these problems. This book presents 151 quick and easy ways to meet these challenges in our daily lives. Each idea comes from the real world experiences of people like you—people who are experimenting with, examining, and discovering unique solutions to the time problems all of us face every day.
These tried and tested ideas work! And now they are available to you. Select those that fit your particular circumstance and try them out! Here are a few:
• Start Your Day the Night Before
• Undercommit and Overdeliver
• Organize Your Workspace
• Block Contingency Time Every Day
• Use Voice Mail as a Call Screener
• Fight SPAM with an E-mail Blocker
Do more in less time, take control of your schedule, and create a new balance between your work and your family life. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to take charge of your time and increase your quality of life…day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute.
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Cambridge University Press
1 edition (April 9, 2007)
ISBN:| 0521864720
Paul Churchland explores the unfolding impact of the several empirical sciences of the mind, especially cognitive neurobiology and computational neuroscience on a variety of traditional issues central to the discipline of philosophy. Representing Churchland’s most recent research, they continue his research program, launched over thirty years ago, and which has evolved into the field of neurophilosophy.
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Stabilizing an Unstable Economy
Hyman Minsky
McGraw-Hill
English
2008-04-14
ISBN: 0071592997
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“Mr. Minsky long argued markets were crisis prone. His ‘moment’ has arrived.”
The Wall Street Journal.
In his seminal work, Minsky presents his groundbreaking financial theory of investment, one that is startlingly relevant today. He explains why the American economy has experienced periods of debilitating inflation, rising unemployment, and marked slowdowns-and why the economy is now undergoing a credit crisis that he foresaw. Stabilizing an Unstable Economy covers:
- The natural inclination of complex, capitalist economies toward instability
- Booms and busts as unavoidable results of high-risk lending practices
- “Speculative finance” and its effect on investment and asset prices
- Government’s role in bolstering consumption during times of high unemployment
- The need to increase Federal Reserve oversight of banks
Henry Kaufman, president, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc., places Minsky’s prescient ideas in the context of today’s financial markets and institutions in a fascinating new preface. Two of Minsky’s colleagues, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Ph.D. and president, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and L. Randall Wray, Ph.D. and a senior scholar at the Institute, also weigh in on Minsky’s present relevance in today’s economic scene in a new introduction.
A surge of interest in and respect for Hyman Minsky’s ideas pervades Wall Street, as top economic thinkers and financial writers have started using the phrase “Minsky moment” to describe America’s turbulent economy. There has never been a more appropriate time to read this classic of economic theory.
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Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress: Elizabeth Boyle Avon
ISBN: 0061373249
2009-05-01, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Lady Philippa Knolles has loved Captain Thomas “Dash” Dashwell since he first stole a kiss from her on a smuggler’s beach near Hastings. Now after what seems like a lifetime of waiting, Pippin is offered a chance to renew her scandalous affair with Dash. But the man from that first heady kiss and the man she rediscovers all these years later are hardly the same. Tucked away in the back of her closet is a red dress, the one she wore long ago to win his heart . . . . Could it have enough memories left inside it to rekindle a passion she’s never forgotten?
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Wayne C. Booth, “The Rhetoric of Fiction (2nd Edition)”
TO MY SON:
University Of Chicago Press
2nd Edition
ISBN: 0226065588
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The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as “the implied author,” “the postulated reader,” and “the unreliable narrator”—have become part of the standard critical lexicon.
For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as “the richest in the history of the subject.”
Contents:
“Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Part I: Artistic Purity and the Rhetoric of Fiction
1. Telling and Showing
Authoritative “Telling” in Early Narration
Two Stories from the Decameron
The Author’s Many Voices
2. General Rules, I: “True Novels Must Be Realistic”
From Justified Revolt to Crippling Dogma
From Differentiated Kinds to Universal Qualities
General Criteria in Earlier Periods
Three Sources of General Criteria: The Work, the Author, the Reader
Intensity of Realistic Illusion
The Novel as Unmediated Reality
On Discriminating among Realisms
The Ordering of Intensities
3. General Rules, II: “All Authors Should Be Objective”
Neutrality and the Author’s “Second Self”
Impartiality and “Unfair” Emphasis
Impassibilité
Subjectivism Encouraged by Impersonal Techniques
4. General Rules, III: “True Art Ignores the Audience”
“True Artists Write Only for Themselves”
Theories of Pure Art
The “Impurity” of Great Literature
Is a Pure Fiction Theoretically Desirable?
5. General Rules, IV: Emotions, Beliefs, and the Reader’s Objectivity
“Tears and Laughter Are, Aesthetically, Frauds”
Types of Literary Interest (and Distance)
Combinations and Conflicts of Interests
The Role of Belief
Belief Illustrated: “The Old Wives’ Tale”
6. Types of Narration
Person
Dramatized and Undramatized Narrators
Observers and Narrator-Agents
Scene and Summary
Commentary
Self-Conscious Narrators
Variations of Distance
Variations in Support or Correction
Privilege
Inside Views
Part II: The Author’s Voice in Fiction
7. The Uses of Reliable Commentary
Providing the Facts, Picture, or Summary
Molding Beliefs
Relating Particulars to the Established Norms
Heightening the Significance of Events
Generalizing the Significance of the Whole Work
Manipulating Mood
Commenting Directly on the Work Itself
8. Telling as Showing: Dramatized Narrators, Reliable and Unreliable
Reliable Narrators as Dramatized Spokesmen for the Implied Author
“Fielding” in Tom Jones
Imitators of Fielding
Tristram Shandy and the Problem of Formal Coherence
Three Formal Traditions: Comic Novel, Collection, and Satire
The Unity of Tristram Shandy
Shandean Commentary, Good and Bad
9. Control of Distance in Jane Austen’s Emma
Sympathy and Judgment in Emma
Sympathy through Control of Inside Views
Control of Judgment
The Reliable Narrator and the Norms of Emma
Explicit Judgments on Emma Woodhouse
The Implied Author as Friend and Guide
Part III: Impersonal Narration
10. The Uses of Authorial Silence
“Exit Author” Once Again
Control of Sympathy
Control of Clarity and Confusion
“Secret Communion” between Author and Reader
11. The Price of Impersonal Narration, I: Confusion of Distance
“The Turn of the Screw” as Puzzle
Troubles with Irony in Earlier Literature
The Problem of Distance in “A Portrait of the Artist”
12. The Price of Impersonal Narration, II: Henry James and the Unreliable Narrator
The Development from Flawed Reflector into Subject
The Two Liars in “The Liar”
“The Purloining of the Aspern Papers” or “The Evocation of Venice”?
“Deep Readers of the World, Beware!”
13. The Morality of Impersonal Narration
Morality and Technique
The Seductive Point of View: Céline as Example
The Author’s Moral Judgment Obscured
The Morality of Elitism
Afterword to the Second Edition: The Rhetoric in Fiction and Fiction as Rhetoric: Twenty-One Years Later
Extensions
Beckett’s Company As Example
Starting Over
Bibliography
Supplementary Bibliography, 1961–82, by James Phelan [no. 364]
Index to the First Edition
Index to the Bibliographies
Index to the Bibliographies by Number
Bibliography
Supplementary Bibliography, 1961–82 ”
Tags: Literature, Literary, Criticism, Writing, Technique
See Also:
Jane Austen, “Emma” (Norton Critical Editions), 3rd Edition.
Josephine Ross, “Jane Austen: A Companion”.
Janet Todd (ed), “Jane Austen in Context (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen)”.
Deirdre Le Faye, “Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels”.
Michael Dobson & Stanley Wells (eds), “The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare”.
Tom McArthur, “The Oxford Companion to the English Language”.
John Rignall (ed), “Oxford Reader’s Companion to George Eliot”.
R. C. Terry, “Oxford Reader’s Companion to Trollope”.
Julia Prewitt Brown, “A Reader’s Guide to the Nineteenth-Century English Novel”.
Ian Gregor (ed), “Reading the Victorian Novel: Detail into Form”.
John Sutherland & Deirdre Le Faye, “So You Think You Know Jane Austen? A Literary Quizbook (World’s Classics)”.
Daniel Pool, “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist — The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England”.
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Written by two practitioner-academics (who between them have more than fifty years of news industry experience), News Values for the 21st Century analyses the shape of the news industry – a world of rolling news and multimedia platforms, and a world where broadcast news is increasingly considered another element of show business.
Detailed chapters include critiques of existing theories, close study of the newspaper, radio, television and internet news channels, plus informative chapters on the many factors that shape the news we read, watch and hear including the role of the citizen journalist, user-generated content, spin doctors, and the new wave of press barons. Further chapters provide detailed analysis of the way in which the same story is treated across different media channels, and how journalists and editors work to keep breathing new life into rolling news stories. {/slide}
Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945, 2009
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Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedländer’s definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.
The book’s first part, dealing with the National Socialist campaign of oppression, restores the voices of Jews who were engulfed in an increasingly horrifying reality following the Nazi accession to power. Friedländer also provides the accounts of the persecutors themselves – and, perhaps most telling of all, the testimonies of ordinary German citizens who, in general, stood silent and unmoved by the increasing waves of segregation, humiliation, impoverishment, and violence.
The second part covers the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews—an official program that depended upon the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, the passivity of the populations, and the willingness of the victims to submit in desperate hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise.
A monumental, multifaceted study now contained in a single volume, Saul Friedländer’s Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an essential study of a dark and complex history. {/slide}
DIVINE ACTION AND NATURAL SELECTION
SCIENCE, FAITH AND EVOLUTION, 2009
MARIA A MAIOR EDUCADORA DA HISTÓRIA
Professor Augusto Jorge Cury
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