God and Juggernaut: Iran's Intellectual Encounter With Modernity (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)

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According to the authors, how fast and how often a company can develop new products can determine whether or not it survives. Nayak and Deschamps integrate activities in R&D, strategy, product development, and marketing to form a comprehensive view of the product creation process that leads to value creation for three stakeholder groups--employees, customers, and owners. They first identify seven core competencies of a world-class product creation process: understanding customers, developing a product strategy and portfolio, using a disciplined development process, incorporating concepts of program management, encouraging effective teamwork, marshalling resources, and facilitating the process. The book concludes by showing managers how to mobilize for large-scale and continuous organizational change and improvement.

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I found the book very informative........1998-11-21

Product Juggernauts is a book not only for corporate executives or senior management. I am a graduate student with little product development experience. However, the product examples that the authors focused on were very insightful to the course material I have been studying. It had better examples and flowed easier than a book we are using in class, "Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency, and Quality," by Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark. This book is a must for anyone wanting to learn more about product development.

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The single best collection of sci fi stories ever

Against Apion (Large Print)
Flavius Josephus
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The single best collection of sci fi stories ever.......2005-04-20

These stories are gems, every single one. But read for yourself and decide. "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" is one of three or four best short stories ever written, in any genre.

The Theatrical Juggernaut (The Psyche of the Star): 2nd Edition, Director's Cut

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I wish this book were available 12 years ago.
A friendly, conversational scolding
Awesome Book! Not just for actors!
Nakia Dillard www.NakiaDillard.com
The actor's guide to taking action

The Theatrical Juggernaut (The Psyche of the Star): 2nd Edition, Director's Cut
Monroe Mann
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"This book may be just the antidote for an actor who has completely lost faith or given up control over his destiny." - Backstage West, Los Angeles "If this book is any indication of things to come, we are going to be hearing a lot about Monroe Mann." - Bob Fraser, Emmy-recognized actor, producer, writer, and director, and author of You Must Act "A how-to for aspiring stars based on boot-camp persistence." - CNN's Wolf Blitzer "To make it big, you need the Real Deal. Mr. Mann is the Real Deal." - Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series of books This book is unlike any other you will read on the subject of acting. It is not about how to find good headshots, how to perfect a monologue, or how to find an agent, though these subjects are indirectly touched upon. It's about how to succeed in the arts. It's about why 99% of aspiring professional actors fail to even get their foot in the door, and how the other 1% somehow do get their foot in the door. and actually stay there. Once and for all, this book aims to shatter the absurd notion that acting professionally is a privilege for only a select few, and that without a 'break' given by the industry, there is no hope for success. The blame for your failure (and the credit for your success) can only be put on yourself, and not the business. Forget the nay-sayers; wave goodbye to the critics; laugh at the agents who won't respond to you. The Theatrical Juggernaut is going to inspire you like no other 'how-to' book has ever done before.

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I wish this book were available 12 years ago........2007-07-15

The Theatrical Juggernaut is not only one of the most inspirational books any actor can read these days, but the pieces of advice dispensed by Monroe Mann, are really proved to work in the hard and unpredictable business of professional acting. I'm a living proof of it.
I am an actor who has succeeded and risen to the top of the voice-over business in Brazil and I've used almost every advice from the book, but BEFORE it got written! The actions mentioned in the book are mostly the ones I took to succeed in the beginning of my career and some others are procedures I still practice, up to today. Not to mention many other "techniques" I learned from Mr. Mann and intend to start using soon. I wish this book were available 12 years ago, when I started in the business. This way I wouldn't have had to figure everything out by myself and would probably have had more energy to get where I got faster. It was so much fun to read that I spent 8 straight hours in the tub (where I do most of my reading) and only got out when my wife barged into the bathroom saying: "Honey, get out of there or you're gonna turn into a raisin".
I recommend it to any fellow actor trying to make it out there and even to those seasoned professionals like me who have already gotten their share of success and intend to keep the good times rolling.

A friendly, conversational scolding.......2007-05-15

I was surprised at how much I liked this book. It was a quick read, very conversational in style. But, it shook me. I was embarrassed that I was not doing all I could for my career. It was the kind of tough-love scolding you can only get from someone who cares. It inspired me to get off my lazy butt to go and take some action.

Awesome Book! Not just for actors!.......2007-05-07

I live in Brazil, where everything related to filmmaking is so hard. The bussiness is very small compared to Hollywood, but people still can work and be sucessful in this filed in this country. All they have to do is work five times harder and they will make it!

Also very well writen, and easy to read!

Nakia Dillard www.NakiaDillard.com.......2007-04-13

The Best book ever!! Monroe Mann's book really just gives you the kick you need as an Actor.I have read this book several times and it has helped my career and my outlook on not just being an artist but a professional performer.I recommend this book for everyone to read!!

The actor's guide to taking action.......2007-03-30

The phenomenon has reached England! The Theatrical Juggernaut has been an inspiration to me, as well as a huge reality check. It really does work on the actor's, or should I say Star's, psyche. For once in my life I feel that I am in control of my acting career; my success does not rely on someone else spotting my talent but how I market myself, handle My Business and create my own work. My perspective on the industry has been turned upside down as I realise that the power does not rest with Agents and Casting Directors, a career in acting is not just for the special few and your success definitely does not rely on luck. This book emphasises the correlation between success and business; you cannot have your head in the creative clouds, you MUST realise and accept that you are a business and as such you need to be proactive and generate custom. Monroe Mann gives you heaps of advice and inspiration to ensure you see him at the top! This book doesn't teach you how to act, it assumes you have the talent, it teaches you how to take action.

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A good book

Juggernaut
Desmond Bagley
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A good book.......2000-09-10

Neil Mannix have a mission in a westafrican country. His mission is to drive a trailer to a oilfield, but that is easier said than done. It start with tribe unrest and develop to a civil war. Mannix is in the middle of the problems.

Amazon.com

With Amazonia, James Marcus adds to the ever-simmering stew of Amazon.com analysis a new, almost quaint perspective: that of an employee hired for his expertise in literature. Marcus traces the company's familiar climb, plummet, and re-ascent, but this time we witness the pyrotechnics from the book-strewn hallways of the editorial department.

After an abbreviated heydey, editorial talent lost cachet at the burgeoning Internet behemoth, replaced by metrics worship and automated innovations like "truncating widgets." Despite the demoralizing shift, Marcus makes evident the loyalty editors continued to display, a "quasi-religious devotion… almost impossible to explain to outsiders." The concept of making history was just too intoxicating for most to abandon (as were the stock options).

Marcus's writing has enough genuine humor and self-deprecation to squelch any accusations of "optimizing for optics," or worse, whining. Aside from a few sections that feel somewhat adrift (oblique mentions of an imploding marriage and an extended Emerson sidebar) the prose is driving and the voice engaging and remarkably fair.

For anyone who worked at Amazon.com in the early days, reading Amazonia is akin to leafing through a high school yearbook (I was an Amazon editor from 1997-2002). Nostalgia is inescapable--even for the irritations of the time, like All Hands Meetings (pep rallies) and the exaltation of MBAs (the popular kids). The thing about yearbooks, though, is that we're really only interested in our own. Whether outsiders will be as captivated by this surf down virtual memory lane is questionable. For alums, it's a lasting keepsake. --Brangien Davis

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Employee #55's story of the first five years of Amazon.com, which "brims with fascinating Amazoniana." (The Los Angeles Times)

In a book that Ian Frazier has called, "a fascinating and sometimes hair-raising morality tale from deep inside the Internet boom," James Marcus, hired by Amazon.com in 1996, when the company was so small his e-mail address could be james@amazon.com, looks back a decade later at the ecstatic rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable comeback of the consummate symbol of late 1990s America.

Observing "how it was to be in the right place (Seattle) at the right time (the 90s)" (Chicago Reader), Marcus offers a ringside seat on everything from his first interview with Jeff Bezos to the company's bizarre, Nordic-style retreats, creating what Jonathan Raban calls "an utterly beguiling book." For this first paperback edition, Marcus has added a new afterword with further reflections on his Amazon experience.

In the tradition of the most noteworthy and entertaining memoirs of recent years, Marcus offers us a modern-day fable, "a clear-eyed, first-person account, rife with digressions on the larger cultural meaning throughout" (Henry Alford, Newsday).

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I enjoyed Amazonia........2007-09-26

I liked it, it was worth reading. What amazes me is the length of the reviews and depth on this book. The authors point is well proven that idiots will write reviews for free, Jeff smiles as the cash register ads to the rocketship fund.

Excellent Insight - Stunningly Honest.......2007-02-04

An exceptional, exclusive, and original look into the inner workings of the web retail giant Amazon. Follow Marcus from his initiation as employee #55 to the highs (and lows) of his lost $9 million dollar stock fortune, and finally, his frustuartion and eventual decision to leave Amazon. Though Marcus was one of the earliest employees to be hired at Amazon, beginning his career when CEO Bezos had only dreams of becoming a retail giant, he describes the company as if he were only a passerby, a spectator. This detachment is apparent especially as Marcus laments his lost fortune, and criticizes Amazon's "culture of metrics" and their constant hiring of MBA types while continuely pushing editors from office to office like a stack of old books in their corporate warehouse.

Marcus reveals the less pretty side of giant corporations, even ones who exist in the web world, and he destroys any perception of Amazon as a caring book company which exists only to serve you to find new and creative books. Instead, Marcus paints a picture of Amazon as a money frenzied monster manipulating visitors into buying books and items sponsored by their companies, not reccomended by Amazon editors or staff.

Overall, Marcus's ramblings must be taken with a grain of salt. (Remember, he did miss out on $9 million from this company, and he was being mistreated increasingly in his last years). But, this insight into Amazon and other corporations is valuable, and insightful. Its a quick read, and it will change the way you look at Amazon - for better or worse, read it.

James captures the virtual insanity of the dot.com era.......2006-07-30

This book does far more than tell the story of one person's career experiences in the middle of the dot.com Amazon boom era. James captures throughout the book the psychological roller coaster of the paper money insanity that was the late 90's gold rush. Speculation drove insane price multiples for companies with no assets and no profits, creating millions in wealth for book editors who also spent time time packing books into boxes.

The book is written well as a first person narrative, and is quite interesting to read. James shares the events and emotions and blends them so the reader experiences some of what it was like from the trenches. I laughed out loud at his depiction of MBAs and absurd corporate speak which started to permeate the once pureness of literary service provided by Amazon on line editors. While most of the moves Jeff Bezos made paid off for Amazon, it was hard for the author to write about some of the dot.com ventures and the insane prices paid for acquisitions, many of which are comical in retrospect.

Perhaps the most compelling aspect of the book is the manner in which he captures the conflicting emotions of paper wealth created by the dot.com frenzy. He depicts the simmering resentment of other corporate employees as Amazon moved to an office building downtown and the unconventional Amazon employees, with their paper millions, began to rub elbows with banking employees working hard for normal wages.

The only complaint I had was when he veered off subject with a chapter long diatribe on literary commentary. Granted, he was a book editor and therefore is knowledgeable on the subject, but it seemed a bit pedantic and detracted from the commentary on the company.

Overall, I really enjoyed the prose and the internal perspective on the rise of one of the dot.com survivors. Writing a review on Amazon, on a book about Amazon, by an editor of books for Amazon, is a bit surreal. The irony aside, I recommend this book as a fun personal story and a historical retrospective on a unique era.

Entertaining look at a "utopian frat house"..........2006-05-27

Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut by James Marcus is an entertaining little book about one man's experience working as a book reviewer for Amazon.

James Marcus signed up for Amazon as employee number 77 and watched the company soar to over 8000 employees. At the beginning, the author calls the company a "utopian frat house," and something that "resembled a science project executed by the smartest kid in the class." Jeff Bezos was going places, and working at Amazon in the beginning was as exciting as a thrill ride. While pay and benefits weren't always the best, the stock options were mind boggling. At one time, Marcus' stock options were worth $9 million on paper.

In the course of his five year tenure, the author wrote reviews, interviewed authors, selected featured books, took care of the homepage, and gave interviews to CNN on holiday book selections. When the holidays approached, almost all employees were expected to spend time in the warehouse. Marcus writes a witty account of working the conveyer belt trying to package book orders, "surely we were in Lucy-and-Ethel territory here."

Unfortunately, Amazon stumbled as it grew and it started accumulating other companies and trying new products. Soon they were selling toys, internet cards, tools, electronics, kitchen wares and featuring an on-line auction (similar to eBay). Some of these ventures sunk like a stone, and soon weeds were starting to take over this "high-tech hot house." The dot.com market also tumbled and Amazon stock prices went with it.

I thought that Amazonia could have included a little more about the author's personal life. He gives only very brief snippets of what is happening on that level. Also, Marcus likes to impress us with his giant vocabulary, which gets distracting at times. I also thought the comparisons between Emerson and the internet a stretch. But Amazonia is still a fine book and I walked away with a better understanding of the world of Amazon and the genius of Jeff Bezos. I also wrote down a number of book recommendations. Marcus also has a shrewd eye for observing books, authors and readers. One observation I liked is "READERS AND WRITERS: their mating rituals are as strange, as intricate and engrossing, as anything you'll ever see on the Discovery Channel." So, Amazonia is a must read for a serious Amazon reviewer.

Not a diatribe, but an entertaining look from the inside.......2006-04-20

Marcus' work is often portrayed as an indictment of Amazon, or the work of a disgruntled ex-employee. Even the cover of this book shows the Amazon "smiley" logo upside-down as a frown. But these are not adequate descriptions of this book. From the time where Marcus joins the staff at employee number 60-something through the majority of the book, until the dot-com bubble bursts, it is a mostly positive look at Amazon, and the experience of working there. And his portrayal of company founder Jeff Bezos is unfailingly positive. Why should it surprise anyone that when the bubble burst, and the stock tanked, and people were laid off, that the narrative of life at Amazon would lose its glow? This is a tail of the heady days mostly, but also of the corporat-ization and disillusionment that followed. The negative coverage of Amazon.com is the not baseless complaints of the disgruntled, but is an acute observations of staff demoralization, and the ham-handed (and brief) presidency of Joe Galli. Amazon's pendulum did indeed swing from the heady early days, to the funk at Marcus' departure, and now rests stably at the middle: a place offering some cool perks and big corporate "Dilbert"ism in equal shares.

Marcus' coverage of the ride is an enjoyable read. He never claims knowledge beyond his station as some other reviewers seem to imply. He does however offer clear observations of what he saw, when he saw it. His propensity for using a $20 word where a nickel one would suffice is irritating, and his "pointy-headed" academic references (the worst being an extended Emerson sidebar taking up an entire chapter) make you want to simply skip such passages. But overall he is a good story-teller, and he is after all telling it in his own voice -- officious as it may sometimes be. Overall he comes off very genuine, and ultimately entertaining.

Juggernaut;: Slaughter on the Australian roads,

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Juggernaut;: Slaughter on the Australian roads,
William Ronald Warden
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Spider-Girl Presents Juggernaut Jr, Vol. 1: Secrets and Lies (Astonishing X-Men, Wolverine)

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Spider-Girl Presents Juggernaut Jr, Vol. 1: Secrets and Lies (Astonishing X-Men, Wolverine)
Tom DeFalco , and Ron Lim
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Lots of people have big shoes to fill, but how many have to fill the helmet of the Juggernaut? Teenager Zane Yama grows up fast and hits the big time head first when he inherits his father's unstoppability and joins the latest generation of Avengers! J2 squares off against villains and heroes alike, including a certain green goliath who thinks he's still the strongest one there is! Plus: the first appearances of the X-People and Wild Thing, daughter of Wolverine and Elektra! Collects J2 #1-6.

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The Soviet juggernaut (World War II)
Earl Frederick Ziemke
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Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism?: Horses and the German Army of World War II (Contributions in Military Studies)

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Horses in World War II
The truth behind the myth of mechanized Wehrmacht!

Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism?: Horses and the German Army of World War II (Contributions in Military Studies)
R. L. DiNardo
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One of the great misconceptions of the Second World War is the notion that the German Army was the epitome of mechanical efficiency--combining lightning speed with awesome military power. R. L. DiNardo argues that, although the elite panzer divisions were indeed formidable units, about 75 percent of the German Army were infantry divisions who relied primarily on the horse for transport. So, DiNardo asks, how modern was the Wehrmacht during World War II? Could it have achieved a higher level of modernity than it actually did? This book takes an unusual approach to the study of the much mythologized German Army. In dealing with horses specifically, DiNardo shows how the German Army was in many ways a throwback to the nineteenth century. How extensive was this antiquated dependence on horses, and was this a conscious decision on the part of the leaders of the German war machine? Did it have an effect on the army's organization and battle strength? What problems did the Germans encounter due to their use of horses? This study answers these questions from a unique perspective and will be invaluable to military historians, courses in military studies, and the collections in public and academic libraries.

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Horses in World War II.......2006-08-04

Although this is an extremely interesting book and was perhaps even ground breaking when it was published in 1991, it is no longer particularly insightful nor worth the hefty price. It is neither an indepth history of the horse in the German armed forces of World War II nor a statistical compilation. Rather, it is a collection of chapters based on a wide range of sources, most published, some unpublished. The unpublished sources are mostly Allied interrogation reports of German officers conducted after the war. Even these reports, however, are not used to their best advantage. Thus, "Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism" is not a coherent whole, but a rather disjointed collection of chapters.

Not that horses did not play an critical role in the major armies of World War II. The German army maintained an average strength of around 1.1 million horses throughout the war. Of the 322 German and SS divisions existing in November 1943, only 52 were armored or motorized. And of the 264 combat divisions existing in November 1944, only 42 were armored or motorized. Depending on the year, the average German infantry division in World War II relied on between 4,600 and 5,300 horses to propel itself.

The German army began the war with a single cavalry division. In 1943, however, it began to raise new cavalry units, due mostly to the critical shortage of motorized transport as a result of losses in Russia and Northern Africa. By early 1945 there were some six German cavalry divisions and two cavarly corps in existence.

How was this possible and why? The great East Prussia horse-breeding farms were left relatively alone by Allied bombers, thus the availability of horseflesh for the Wehrmacht continued undimished. And the Germans quickly discovered that the terrain in Russia and the Balkans favored the use of mounted troops. These two factors, when combined with the critical shortage of motorized tranport, resulted in the resurrgence of cavalry units in the German Army.

Stalin's Red Army also relied heavily on horses during the Second World War. Indeed, the Red Army order of battle on the eve of the German invasion of Russia included four cavalry corps and 13 cavarly divisions totaling some 80,000 cavalrymen. The formations, however, were quite weak and most were destroyed in the opening months of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union. Between July and December 1941, the Soviet High Command created 82 new cavalry divisions and these proved invaluable during the fighting in the late Summer of 1941 and later, during the Battle of Moscow and the Red Army's winter offensive of 1941-42. By February 1942, the cavalry strength of the Red Army had peaked at 17 cavarly corps and 87 cavalry divisions. By the end of 1943 this had been reduced to eight cavarly corps and 26 cavalry divisions.

Thus, the full story of the horse in World War II has yet to be told. This certainly is not it!

[None of the figures cited here for either the German or Soviet cavalry forces in World War II are taken from DiNardo's book. German figures are taken from unclassified U.S. Army WWII Intelligence Bulletins available on the internet. Soviet figures are taken from David Glantz, "Colossus Reborn. The Red Army at War, 1941-1943"]

The truth behind the myth of mechanized Wehrmacht!.......2005-08-25

DiNardo overturns the myth of mechanized Wehrmacht presenting a lot of facts and statistics which prove the opposite: the German Army of World War II had never enough vehicles of any kind and due to Hitler's premature attack in Poland it couldn't reach the same level of mechanization as the British or the US Army. The Germans used hundreds of thousands of horses on all fronts and that was one of the reasons the trapped 6th Army didn't attempt to break out from Stalingrad: the Soviets had captured most of its horses and the heavy weapons couldn't move at all! This is a very interesting and thought provoking book which will change many of your perceptions regarding World War II in Europe.

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