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This classic book on home birth is now in it's 4th edition. Includes updated information on the safety of natural childbirth, new birthing stories, and the most recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives. Also presents stories of working with Amish women, showing a different culture with a similar appreciation for natural childbirth.
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Love Ina May!!.......2007-10-17
This was a great, great read. Ina May is one of my favorite authors now, I wish she'd written more than 2 or 3 books! This and the Guide to Childbirth cover so much, though, I guess there really isn't any need. Very useful book for anyone who's pregnant, especially those planning a home birth, and super-fun to read, as well. Covers birth stories, what the midwives do if/when problems arise, the stages/physiology of pregnancy and birth, and much more. Definitely one of the best books I've read on pregnancy/birth.
An old friend.......2007-09-19
i bought my original copy of this book in the 70's. It served me through both of my pregancies, inspired me to want to be involved with catching babies. My route was through med school. The book was loaned out many times. Its great strength is in the many good birthing stories. Our cultures view of birthing is full of horror stories that terrify mothers. A terrified woman does not have a good birthing experience. We are also inundated with technology. This book is a marvellous antidote, and has been important in making birth a normal and positive experience for the women who delivered with me. It is delightful to have the new edition, and to read through it again.
Must-read pregnancy book...........2007-09-03
This is a wonderful book that I highly recommend to ANY woman. It will open your eyes and heart
I want to share this book with all Women!.......2007-08-26
A good friend told me I should read this book, even though I wasn't pregnant ... I put it off. Now that I am pregnant, I read it, and now understand why you should read it. Woman who can become pregnant, should be educated on what to expect - this book starts out with awesome accounts written by woman who gave childbirth (hospital and natural); it empowered me. I am no longer scared of the unknown, I bought two copies of my own to share with pregnant friends and family, and recommend this as a gift to any woman who wants kids "someday", or who is expecting. Knowledge is power! I also recommend, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth (more suggestions and information regarding hospital options - I feel like it speaks to a larger audience). After reading this book, I would like to tell you that I do not have an ailment, I am pregnant; hospitals are for sick and injured people.
Absolute Pinnacle!.......2007-08-09
This is right up there in birth literature. Being an Active Birth Centre librarian, I've read a few. Some of the stories get a bit "trippy" which might put a few off but it's full of heart and practical advice. Dads with a sense of humour will love it. I have referred to it many many times for myself and other women. A must have classic.
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Maki Fujita's romantic shojo romp continues... As the school-wide chase for Kazura ends, the truth behind why student council president Shizuku Magahara orchestrated this madness finally is revealed. With this secret out and finally behind them, Kazura and Shizuku begin to bond. Later, the group has a getaway at a remote cottageâ€"where things become a bit too cozy!
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The person who wrote the previous review is a FAKE!Chav.......2001-05-09
Cesar was the second born in the chavez family that had 6 kids. After reading this incredible book (TWICE) I have found no errors. This book is true to the core. GOOD BOOK! The other reviewer was obviously a drunk monkey!
This book is poorly researched and full of errors.......1999-07-12
This book is not recommended for those interested in accurate information on the subject. Whereas I counted countless errors, I think the most telling is that the authors did not know that Cesar Chavez was the eldest son in the Chavez family. At least three times they mention his brother Richard as being older. If biographers can not get this important fact correct, you can imagine how accurate the rest of the book is. I would say reading it is a waste of time.
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- Terrific history of construction trades unions
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Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century Of Building Trades History
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Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper; through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and through numerous Department campaigns to improve safety standards, work with contractors to promote unionized construction, and forge a sense of industrial unity among its fifteen (and at times nineteen) autonomous and highly diverse affiliates. Arranged chronologically, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits is based on archival research in Department, AFL-CIO, and U.S. government records as well as numerous union journals, the local and national press, and interviews with former Department officers.
Grace Palladino makes the history of the building trades come alive. By investigating the sources of conflict and unity within the Building and Construction Trades Department over time, and demonstrating how building trades unions dealt with problems and opportunities in the past, she provides a historical context for the current generation of workers and leaders as they devise new strategies to suit their current situation.
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Terrific history of construction trades unions.......2007-02-19
This book is a terrific history of the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD), an autonomous "department" of the AFL-CIO. It is the oldest of the labor federation's so-called "departments" (which are really just federations of unions in a specific industry, affiliated with the AFL-CIO). Author Grace Palladino is an editor of the Samuel Gompers Papers. As such, she has knowledge of, and access to, the critical documents in the founding of the BCTD.
Roughly two-thirds of the book covers the BCTD's first 50 years, giving slightly short-shrift to the department's second half-century. In part, this may be forgiven because those were the BCTD's most interesting decades. But it also reflects Palladino's background, the materials she has access to, and the political nature of the American labor movement (which treats its recent history as if it were a state secret, and if it got into the hands of the Russians we ALL BE DEAD...).
The book goes to great lengths to situate the reader within the hothouse environment of the construction trades, which is a major help to the reader not familiar with how construction and construction trade unions function. It does a very good job, too, at outlining the changes in construction technology, and how this drove the jurisdictional battles among and growth of the construction trade unions.
To her credit, Palladino also manages to include brief biographies of many of the people critical to the history of the BCTD. This is not an easy task, yet these are integreated nearly seemlessly into the text. Many of these individuals are nearly forgotten, and most left behind no memoirs, recollections or even biographical sketches. The reader practically needs a scorecard, because there are so many names and the individuals are so unfamiliar. But Palladino makes this work.
It's a bit worrisome to see Palladino rely on just a few sources for the early history of the BCTD and construction unions. Notably, she leans very heavily on William Haber's "Industrial Relations in the Building Industry," Richard Schneirov and Thomas Suhrbur's "Union Brotherhood, Union Town" (a history of the Carpenter's union), and some mainstream labor and newspaper articles by notoriously self-serving authors such as William English Walling.
The record gets even thinner as history marches on. Little scholarly attention has been paid to construction unions in the post-war period, and a great deal of the reference materials relies on first-person interviews with key leaders of the BCTD and construction unions. While such interviews are critical and extremely valuable, the interviewees are also notoriously political and worried about their legacies. I wish more supporting material had been included.
Too, the book contains digressions on the thoughts and policies of Gompers, some of which don't seem terribly relevant.
But such shortcomings can be forgiven. The historical and scholarly literature regarding the BCTD and building unions is extremely thin, and Palladino has done yeoman's work in digging out what few primary-source documents and publications remain available.
The book is eminently readable, contains superb endnotes (listed by the page the note appeared on, which is a major help to the reader), and manages to evoke a strong sense of the times and people which concern the rise, growth and retrenchment of the construction and building trades. This is a major historical step forward for labor history and our understanding of the construction and building industry in the United States.
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A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots.
Via an unprecedented analysis of management texts which influenced the thinking of employers and contributed to reorganization of companies over the last decades, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. From the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a new network-based form of organization which was founded on employee initiative and relative work autonomy, but at the cost of material and psychological security.
This new spirit of capitalism triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the "artistic critique"—that which, after May 1968, attacked the alienation of everyday life by capitalism and bureaucracy. At the same time, the "social critique" was disarmed by the appearance of neocapitalism and remained fixated on the old schemas of hierarchical production.
This book, remarkable for its scope and ambition, seeks to lay the basis for a revival of these two complementary critiques.
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- A real treat
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Platinum Garden Volume 1
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When Kazura is sent to live in Mizuki's house, she learns that she's really there to become his wife! Furious, Kazura tries to leave, but discovers that she was given as payment for her deceased grandfather's debts. But things aren't what they seem to be in this household--Mizuki can call back people's souls, and Kazura wants him to bring back her grandfather! Maki Fujita's shojo comedy is filled with delicious family secrets, dreamy high school romance, and plenty of spirited fun!
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A real treat.......2006-09-13
Platinum Garden is a real treat for shojo lovers. When her grandfather dies, Kazura finds out that instead of being left an inheritance, she has been left to Mizuki's household. She agrees to move in, thinking that she is there is earn back the money that her grandfather owed Mizuki, and is shocked to learn that she has actually been left to him to be his fiancee. She is also shocked to find that Mizuki is a teenage boy and that he lives alone with Saito, who is the housekeeper, in a rich mansion.
Mizuki is a shojo lovers dream - goodlooking, sexy, elusive, charismatic in public, but rude, abrupt and tormented by hidden secrets while at home. Fujita brings us lots of bishonen characters with Kaito - goodlooking, polite, quiet and Nanase, Mizuki's cousin, goodlooking, energectic, and very forward. We follow Kazura as she meets these characters, tries to run away from home arrest, and generally work out the mystery behind the household.
Platinum Garden is really funny and the mystery element make is an addictive page-turner. The art is attractive and similiar to Hana Kimi. Really recommended.
Hana-Chan's Review of Platinum Garden!.......2006-08-24
A great Shoujo manga! As the summary states, it starts out with a girl, Kazura, who hates rich people because they think they can do whatever they want. Mizuki (a rich, and handsome, young man) proves her right by "buying" her from her family so they can pay off the debt they owe him for paying for her grandpa's healthcare. Kazura is furious when she finds that he "bought" her to be his Fiance! As the story goes on, Kazura tries to escape a couple times (to no avail) and soon she finds that Mizuki has a secret, he can revive dead people! But it costs him, he gets very sick after reviving a person and sometimes just collapses! Meanwhile, Kazura who is still determined to escape finds that she knew Mizuki when they were kids and they were very good friends, but other than that she knows nothing of Mizuki.
Shoujo/comedy lovers will be pleased with this manga!! I know I was!!!
~Hana-Chan
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Revelations surface in Maki Fujita's romantic shojo...Toya Magahara opens up to Kazura and tells her about the Magahara familyâ€"including a life-and-death secret that could change their lives. Then, with the New Year approaching, Kazura spends more time with Mizuki. When she sees a side of him not even his family knows, Kazura learns that happiness can hurt sometimesâ€"and some wounds never heal.
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Dying to get my hands on Volume 5..........2007-10-19
I'm not exactly a manga/anime obsessive. To tell you all the truth, I really don't like manga much at all. When my friend brought the first and second copy to school one day, out of curiosity, I began reading the first. I finished that one and then continued to the second. I loved those books so much that I had to buy the third and fourth to quench my need to know what happens next.
Anyway, let me get to the point. The book Platinum Garden Volume 4 is only one of the incredibly hillarious and witty comedy/romance of the Platinum Garden series. Open this book, and you'll be laughing by the first 5 pages.
The story resumes after the third Volume when Kazura is at Toya's house and Mizuki is searching wildly for her. *Skipping a few scenes here, wouldn't want to give anything away* Kazura and Mizuki start developing a stronger relationship throughout the story. And soon enough, Kazura discovers a side of him that he's only showed her, she begins to recall her memories of him in the past, and then by one memory, everything that they built up falls apart. The ending of this story was utterly depressing and leaves you hanging only with a bonus story based on Kazura's friend, Tsukiko.
All in all, this book entwined me and will entwine anyone else in its plot from the very start. And remember, I had no interest whatsoever in Manga before...
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Te Limitas a Hacer Lo Que Te Dicen: Una Inversion Muy Valiosa Para Cualquiera Que Desee Llegar Hasta Donde Jamas Habia Sonado En El Plano Laboral Y Personal
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¿Alguna vez has querido un libro que ofrezca a los empleados las herramientas que necesitan para que su trabajo les resulte gratificante y que, a la vez, contribuya al éxito de la empresa? Este libro existe y lo ha escrito Bob Nelson, el autor del bestseller 1001 formas de recompensar a sus empleados. Es más, este libro es esencial para quien quiera avanzar profesionalmente con independencia de que sea empresario o empleado.
Bob Nelson plantea una estrategia concreta y sencilla para cumplir lo que él ha denominado "La Expectativa Esencial" en cualquier lugar de trabajo: que la gente utilice su buen criterio para saber qué es lo que se tiene que hacer y lo haga sin que se lo tengan que decir. Este consejo es sorprendente y novedoso.
Concisa, directa e inspiradora, la estrategia de Nelson puede aplicarse en cualquier situación y categoría, desde la recepción hasta la sala de juntas. Y el autor la ilustra con ejemplos y anécdotas extraídas de la vida real. Este libro es ideal para alguien que afronta el primer día de trabajo. Es una herramienta inspiradora para los trabajadores veteranos de una empresa; una fuente muy útil para cualquier departamento de Recursos Humanos; y una inversión muy valiosa para cualquiera que quiera llegar hasta donde jamás había soñado en el plano laboral y personal.
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