Biology Of Anaerobic Microorganisms (Environmental and Applied Microbiology Series)

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This totally revised and updated reference covers the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of anaerobic bacterial infections in children-describing the activity of, and current therapies for, infections after trauma; in splenic and liver abscesses; in the head, neck, and abdomen; and in other systems of the body. Explores the most up-to-date research on anaerobic infections at specific organ sites-such as infections of the central nervous system, the respiratory tract, the chest, the urinary tract, bones and joints, the female genital tract, and skin and soft tissues! The Third Edition of Pediatric Anaerobic Infections contains new and expanded discussions on · the identification and management of diseases, including pneumonia, sinusitis, tonsillitis, necrotizing fasciitis, botulism, tetanus, and infant botulism · mixed aerobic-anaerobic infections · resistance to available antimicrobials · emerging antimicrobial agents effective against anaerobic bacteria · contraindications for surgery and therapy of complications · state-of-the-art diagnostic tools · and more! With nearly 3000 contemporary references, the Third Edition of Pediatric Anaerobic Infections is an authoritative source suitable for infectious disease specialists, pediatricians, primary care specialists, microbiologists, virologists, immunologists, pharmacologists, medicinal chemists and biochemists, and fellows, residents, and medical students in these disciplines.

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Most useful book I have read

Valuable Tool for Brainstorming

Not the final approach to creativity, but useful, espesially for building confidence

Very good collection of "thought toys"

Works!

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)
Michael Michalko
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1580087736

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THINKERTOYS will teach you how to generate new ideas for businesses, markets, sales techniques, and products and product extensions. Packed with fun and practical tools and exercises, it outlines 30 practical linear and intuitive techniques that can be used by individuals or groups to tackle and solve business problems in fresh, creative ways.

An updated edition of the best-selling business creativity book, with more than 30 brainstorming techniques and hundreds of creative-thinking tips and tricks. Revision includes new techniques, examples, and sections on group brainstorming and endgames.

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Most useful book I have read.......2007-10-16

If a significant portion of your life requires creativity that is attached to solving real-world problems, this book is tremendous. It offers tons of techniques with great details on how to get the ideas you need. It's a wonderful and useful read. In fact, it is, without a doubt, the most useful book I have ever read.

Valuable Tool for Brainstorming.......2007-08-10

Thinkertoys has proven to be an excellent resource guide and valuable addition to my library on creativity. Not only does it provide a variety of different brainstorming techniques, but it lays them out with an easy writing style. I have used this book in an applied creativity workshop taught to graduate management students and have found it to be very helpful.

Not the final approach to creativity, but useful, espesially for building confidence.......2007-08-01

My method of creativity: Take something you're not satisfied with. Start thinking what in it is unnecessary, what could be removed. Compare it to other such things and incorporate their features if necessary. Start combining the parts to all kinds of wholes that match your inner models of their ideal function. Keep on evolving, adding branches, developing, destroying. Ultimately you have arrived at something completely different.

In my opinion the only worthwhile creative practices are:

1. Being aware that you can be a creative person and that you have creative modes of thought that can always be accessed. Basically doing things that are weird and creative helps. Like I've been developing new writing systems for English and Finnish. There's no practical use for them really (even though they're already a lot better than the Latin alphabet). Just for the sake of being creative. You don't have to be artistic. That mostly means learning self expression and technique. The trick is to see that anything at all is really helpful in moving you towards new things. You just have to keep moving in all possible ways, use all areas of thought, and ultimately you'll arrive at something. Creativity is your friend.

2. Practicing knowing what your customers/target group are looking for. You have to be there earlier than they even know what they actually want. What this means in practice is just things like watching TV and being on the net and reading and following the trends. Be like they would be in 5 years. Have a sense of design that's better than their taste.

3. Practice things that have nothing to do with creative problem solving like dancing or whatever. Whatever you're motivated to do at the moment. Be familiar with all cultures, not only what's mainstream or popular at the moment. It all affects the way you think and generally you should be able to do and like and be confident of just about everything possible.

What this book does is make you aware that it's possible to ask questions from yourself and to work towards solutions from perspectives that seemingly have nothing to do with it. After a few pages you'll get the formula. Basically doing something like watching cartoons to solve your problems works just as well as any single thinkertoy. The key is that whatever you're using for inspiration, it cannot be too complicated. It has to be something that can be reduced to simple concepts. And the area that is in need of creativity also has to be reduced to simple concepts. So it's useful not to look at the whole thing at once, but identify some key areas and issues and work on them.

There's a practically infinite number of thinkertoys you can use. You can come up with them yourself too whenever you want to. Maybe this book will make you aware of the fact. If you already are, there's no use to refer to it really. You're already carrying a lot better and easier to customize thinkertoys inside you.

After working with creative problems for a while you'll develop a routine. It helps to keep you sane and flowing all the time. There will never be a dead end where you'll have no way of moving forward. Just abandon, restate, do something dramatic like macroevolution. But keep your ideas manageable at all times. You don't have to really memorize any creative thinking techniques. There are about a 1000 questions this book tells you to ask yourself when you need to be creative. And it's far from complete. Opening a random page when you encounter a dead end hardly gives you the best new approach. It's like dancing about architecture.

So I'd like to stress that the function of this book is to rather make you aware of your creative intuition than to provide techniques of surpassing it. There are no such techniques and you can't memorize them. This book is not the environment you'd like to be at when faced with a creative task. It's mainly useful for clearing blocks in your mind about the limits of what can be used creatively. If you know how it's done already, this book will be rather repetitive.

If you have trouble about seeing randomizing as a useful technique, read about dada. If you can't use things like sound in association to problem solving, become really interested about music. If you aren't comfortable with all areas of human experience, you can't really use them in problem solving either. Being aware that they can be used isn't enough. You have to have the intuition too.

That said, this book is really important to me too. But I just like to offer the other side. That creativity is like walking. There are no ways to reduce it to a successful formula that always works. But still, it's so essential that you really should read about it, a lot. I think if you're buying just one book from Michalko, Cracking Creativity might be better. Not entirely sure though. Just make sure you'll read and do a lot of other creative stuff as well, it really does pay off after some time.

Very good collection of "thought toys".......2007-07-30

Thinkertoys is a wonderful collection of tools for creative thinking. I am an engineer and purchased the book to help me stimulate new ideas. The techniques in the book open up places in the brain where one would not typically look for these ideas. I found the tools inside quite useful to stroke the imagination and, many times, look at old problems in new and different ways

Works!.......2007-07-21

When a book goes into its second edition of its print run, you can be sure it have a solid message to convey.

Kishore Dharmarajan
Author of Eightstorm: 8-Step Brainstorming for Innovative Managers

Bright Idea Deck: Breakthrough to Brilliance

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White Collar People need a Tarot Deck too!
No spark from artwork
Sheer Genius!
Contemporary and Clever
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Bright Idea Deck: Breakthrough to Brilliance
Mark McElroy
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ASIN: 0738705950

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Experiencing writer's block? Stumped for a solution to a personal problem? Lacking inspiration for an upcoming project? The Bright Idea Deck is the perfect tool for supercharging the brainstorming process and getting the creative juices flowing.

Designed to generate ideas, expand creative expression, and stimulate thought processes, this brainstorming companion is ideal for the workplace or home. Filled with colorful, contemporary imagery, this deck suggests hundreds of possible strategies, perspectives, opportunities, motivations, goals, actions, and answers. The boxed kit includes a companion book that describes the deck's structure and card meanings, along with sample scenarios that demonstrate how to use this effective idea generator.

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White Collar People need a Tarot Deck too!.......2007-09-25

This deck was my hook into the world of Tarot. I call it the "executive" deck. For personal reasons I didn't want to read cards with overwhelming Occult symbology. When I found some of the cards in the Tarot of the Saints deck by the same publisher to be a bit of a stretch I found myself buying this deck.
I now read with a mixed deck of 78 cards made from 5 different decks, the majority of the cards from the Bright Ideas deck. I find the stories told by each card very useful, (although a bit specific occasionally, still very useful) And the descriptive words on the cards helpful to me as a new to card reader. White-collar people, cubicle workers, PowerPoint masters, and tie-wearers need Tarot, too! And this is their deck! Thanks Mark & Eric!

No spark from artwork.......2007-05-13

I guess that when I read about this deck and first read through the booklet that accompanies it, I was hoping for more inspirational guidance through the art in the deck itself. Instead, it looks like a very low-grade attempt to sum up very vague concepts. It also seems to be geared more toward the white-collar cubicle worker. I can see how someone who lives in the world of PowerPoint and bullet statements may be able to stretch out of their very tight box by using of this tarot for tie-wearers, but I feel very let down and wish I hadn't wasted my money.

Sheer Genius!.......2007-02-06

Used as a tool for relection and introspection, the tarot can be a wonderful creative problem-solver--ora way to solve creative problems. When I am banging my head against the wall, this deck never fails to come to my aid.

Contemporary and Clever.......2006-01-20

This is a tarot deck and book set that nowhere mentions the word tarot (except in the "About the Author" note inside the front cover). It instead describes itself as an "idea processor and brainstorming tool" suitable for business and personal use. Nonetheless, it is a true tarot, with 22 Trumps (with purple borders) and four suits, named Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green. The courts are renamed Learning, Doing, Feeling, and Controlling. The cards have keywords/titles (mostly compatible with Golden Dawn/Rider-Waite-Smith meanings), and the suit cards are scenic.

The illustrations are very contemporary. Many characters are depicted in business suits, and the Chariot (titled "Advancement") is a Segway! I quite like the illustration style--bright, defined, and, yes, business-like. Also, many of the characters are gender-ambiguous, which is good for wider interpretations.

My main impression of this set is clever, clever, clever. The trumps each have a design element that refers to the Hebrew letter associated with that card (GD attributions: Fool = Aleph). Advancement shows the Segway and rider crashing through a white picket fence. The Hebrew letter for Chariot is cheth, which means fence. Examination (Judgment) shows teeth, from the viewpoint of inside the mouth looking out (!), being examined by a dentist. The letter for Judgment is shin, tooth. Also, the book often manages to work the traditional card title and/or imagery into the Commentary section for each card. Even though the card depicts someone standing in a boat wearing an "iron mask," the Commentary for Perspective says, "His future hangs in the balance, swinging to and fro like a traitor from a tree." Card also have their astrological signs and/or planet symbols hidden somewhere in the illustration.

I thoroughly enjoy these clever elements, as I think all tarot lovers will, but I wonder how someone coming to this deck as a business tool will feel when they discover its esoteric/magical background. Will they be intrigued enough to find out more about tarot, or feel tricked into using something that is a cover for an unacceptable method or premise?

The book is well written and thought-provoking. It has several spreads, "brainstorming" (reading) examples, and "Fifty Things to do with the Bright Idea Deck." I love the "What Would the Trumps Do?" section, which gives a list of five people who exemplify each trump. For Experience (Hermit), it lists "someone with unlimited time; an expert in this field; a wise old man; a loner; a do-it-yourself specialist." For each card the book gives Associations (what the card "encourages" and "cautions against"), Exploration (brainstorming questions about the image and concept), and Commentary (a paragraph-or-two expansion on the concept of the card).

It would be interesting to compare this deck with Gay Tarot and Pagan Tarot, two other decks with contemporary illustrations (featuring sideways baseball caps and desktop computers).

I recommend this deck if you like bold contemporary illustrations and/or a new take on the Golden Dawn tradition. And especially if you like your tarot clever!

Not worth it.......2005-08-17

This book takes the standard wands cups hearts and swords and instead breaks them down to their inspired units. Problem is it's not very inspired and rather droll. The worst is the lack of symbmols put this akin to the Ator Tarot, simplistic and getting more than a basic reading that pulls you and makes your mind alive, just isn't there. [...]

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Thinkertoys - 2 Edicion
Michael Michalko
Manufacturer: Gestion 2000
ProductGroup: Book
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Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Business Creativity for the '90s.(Brief Article): An article from: The Futurist

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Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Business Creativity for the '90s.(Brief Article): An article from: The Futurist

Manufacturer: World Future Society
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on September 1, 1992. The length of the article is 441 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Business Creativity for the '90s.(Brief Article)
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1992
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: v26 Issue: n5 Page: p46(2)

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Literary machines: The report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual ... including knowledge, education and freedom

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Literary machines: The report on, and of, Project Xanadu concerning word processing, electronic publishing, hypertext, thinkertoys, tomorrow's intellectual ... including knowledge, education and freedom
Theodor H Nelson
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Thinkertoys: a Handbook of Creative-thinking Techniques

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Thinkertoys: a Handbook of Creative-thinking Techniques
Michael Michalko
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Gary Anderson
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good color photos.......1999-11-16

but...several items are mis-identified and several photos are repeated to fill out the book. When I spot an ientification error in a subject that I know, I wonder about others in fields that I do not know.

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These twenty heroines portrayed imperiled women in science fiction, horror, film noir and mystery movies from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some-like Sandy Descher, who confronted the giant ants of Them!-were only girls when they faced their screen perils. Others-such as Mary Murphy, who played opposite Marlon Brando in The Wild One-were leading ladies in other film genres. Yet others-such as June Wilkinson, considered by many as Playboy's greatest model-came from outside the acting world. Each interview is preceded by an introduction. Besides the three above, the interviewees are Ramsay Ames, Claudia Barrett, Jean Byron, Linda Christian, Faith Domergue, Amanda Duff, Evangelina Elizondo, Margaret Field, Mimi Gibson, Marilyn Harris, Kitty de Hoyos, Donna Martel, Joyce Meadows, Noreen Nash, Cynthia Patrick, Paula Raymond and Joan Taylor. Among the films they starred in are The Mummy's Ghost, Robot Monster, Tarzan and the Mermaids, This Island Earth, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Where Danger Lives, The Man from Planet X, The Monster That Challenged the World, Frankenstein, The Brain from Planet Arous, Phantom from Space, The Mole People, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers. Some interviews were previously published in a different form in fan magazines.

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Colorful and entertaining.......2002-03-20

This is a colorful and entertaining collection of interview articles with a varied group of interesting female performers, including Faith Domergue, Linda Christian (Tyrone Power's wife), Joan Taylor and Mary Harris, the little girl who appeared in the original FRANKENSTEIN. A REFRESHING AND DELIGHTFUL TREAUSRY THAT YOU WILl READ AND REREAD OFTEN.

Valued, insightful, highly recommended for film buffs........2000-04-06

Screen Sirens Scream! showcases fascinating interviews with twenty actresses from science fiction, horror, film noir, and mystery films of the 1930s through the 1960s. Each interview is preceded by an informative introduction. The actresses range from Sandy Descher and Mary Murphy to Paula Raymond and Joan Taylor. The films span the cinematic spectrum from The Mummy's ghost, Tarzan and the Mermaids, and This Island Earth, to Frankenstein, Phantom from Space, and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Some of these interviews were gleaned from fan magazines, others are original with this volume. Screen Sirens Scream! is a valued, insightful, highly recommended addition to film buff and cinema student move reference book collections.

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