Los Trabajadores y el Mercosur: Creacion, Desarrollo y Politicas Sindicales de la Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur (Ccscs)

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Learn how today's price behavior impacts market direction tomorrow.

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Sub par.......2003-06-07

The reader goes through phases of enlightenment and then phases where nothing makes sense. Clasing introduces his Cycletrac method, which seems questionable at best. For example, his profit target on the S&P is +10 and stop is -5.. which are arbitrary numbers just to have a favorable profit/risk ratio. Makes you scratch your head. There are several pages of patterns and charts that may be worth photocopying, but then many more pages of worthless babble. Bottom line, this book will probably not help your trading at all.

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It's Okay - Certainly 30 Gold Nuggets out of 91

Good read...

Good roundup of common sense in business relationships

Good roundup of common sense in business relationships

A Refreshing Perspective

Never Wrestle with a Pig and Ninety Other Ideas to Build Your Business and Career
Mark H. McCormack
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Drawing upon forty years of experience from his own sports and celebrity management practice, Mark H. McCormack is back with common-sense advice aimed at business owners and would-be CEOs. McCormack's tips include:

* End your day on time
* People who say they can keep a secret usually can't
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* The best ideas cannot be stolen
* Know when to say "It's none of your business"
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* Learn the art of picking up the check

In ninety brief chapters that range in topic from getting ahead to staying competitive, McCormack makes clear that doing business in today's climate still involves the same basic elements of human interaction-intelligence, creativity, and efficiency-that have always meant the difference between success and failure.

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It's Okay - Certainly 30 Gold Nuggets out of 91.......2007-05-07

You can read this book in an afternoon, and if you are looking for ways to boost your business, I'd definitely recommend you check this out from the library rather than buying it. 70 - 80% of the recommendations here are focused on the career side of improvement.

Much of the recommendations are, as one reviewer posted, common sense, and certainly these have nearly all been covered by other books. There are a few that are well-done and that I've certainly not seen before:

* Not every budget deserves your respect
* Shrink your world into a small town
* A "heads-up" has consequences too
* Your job is just another project

And a handful of others. I'm not convinced the book is worth the money at an individual level; check it out from your local library first. If you find yourself taking 2+ pages of notes and you're only one-third of the way through the book, then go and buy it yourself.

J. Avellanet, Co-Founder of Cerulean Associates LLC

Good read..........2006-06-26

Nuggets of wisdom for business and life in general. Lessons derived from business. I guess they may be useful for life in general as well. Having read so many titles and columns from the author, the examples are becoming a little de javu. Overall a good read.

Good roundup of common sense in business relationships.......2003-10-31

(This book was previously published as 'Staying Street Smart in the Internet Age').
It's not the first book by Mark McCormack I've read. Like the others, its very readable, and gives a collection of homespun philosophies, interspersed with personal life experiences. There's a strong emphasis on Sales, but 'selling' is surely part of all of our business relationships.
Just don't believe in the gospel of everything McCormack has to say; there are contradictions, just as life is full of them, such as :
In Part 8 'When you are in Charge', there is the lesson "unlearn the bad habit of not trusting your 1st impression", whereas in Part 9 'Etiquette for the New Millenium', under 'reading people requires more than one reading', there is a "caveat about reading people too quickly" - so which is it to be?
Consider it light reading to just remind you of the good & bad things that you can do to others & they can do to you, and re-adjust & compensate accordingly.

Good roundup of common sense in business relationships.......2003-10-31

(This review is of the paperback edition re-published as 'Never Wrestle with a Pig').
It's not the first book by Mark McCormack I've read. Like the others, its very readable, and gives a collection of homespun philosophies, interspersed with personal life experiences. There's a strong emphasis on Sales, but 'selling' is surely part of all of our business relationships.
Just don't believe in the gospel of everything McCormack has to say; there are contradictions, just as life is full of them, such as :
In Part 8 'When you are in Charge', there is the lesson "unlearn the bad habit of not trusting your 1st impression", whereas in Part 9 'Etiquette for the New Millenium', under 'reading people requires more than one reading', there is a "caveat about reading people too quickly" - so which is it to be?
Consider it light reading to just remind you of the good & bad things that you can do to others & they can do to you, and re-adjust & compensate accordingly.

A Refreshing Perspective.......2002-05-29

I started reading business books with Mark McCormack's "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School" years ago. So, I couldn't resist "Never Wrestle with a Pig," and am glad I picked it up. McCormack reminds us of the fundamentals and basic goals of business in order to succeed and prosper - whether today, tomorrow or way back in the 20th Century. I'm done wrestling with pigs, but I am going to give humans in business more chances with my refreshed knowledge from McCormack. It's a quick read with long-lasting benefits.

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Wiley GAAP for Governments provides all the promulgated accounting principles applicable to financial accounting and reporting, as well as up-to-date, insightful, and practical implementation information. This guide is a comprehensive, practical research tool for use by state and local governments and their auditors to guide them through governmental accounting and financial reporting. Covers school districts, public authorities, and individual pension plan financial statements. Warren Ruppel, CPA (Woodcliff Lake, NJ) is Assistant Comptroller of Accounting in the City of New York, and a Partner at DiTommaso & Ruppel, CPAs.

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One of the great visionaries of civic democratic society, and quite a character at that

Keane's Good Friend Tom Paine

A book for all times

Yankee Doodle, the quintessence, a dandy

Strong biography of a decidedly modern revolutionary.

Tom Paine: A Political Life (Grove Great Lives)
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"More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world." So begins John Keane's magnificent and award-winning (the Fraunces Tavern Book Award) biography of one of democracy's greatest champions. Among friends and enemies alike, Paine earned a reputation as a notorious pamphleteer, one of the greatest political figures of his day, and the author of three best-selling books, Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. Setting his compelling narrative against a vivid social backdrop of prerevolutionary America and the French Revolution, John Keane melds together the public and the shadowy private sides of Paine's life in a remarkable piece of scholarship. This is the definitive biography of a man whose life and work profoundly shaped the modern age. "Provide[s] an engaging perspective on England, America, and France in the tumultuous years of the late eighteenth century." -- Pauline Maier, The New York Times Book Review "It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superceded.... It is a stylish, splendidly erudite work." -- Terry Eagleton, The Guardian

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One of the great visionaries of civic democratic society, and quite a character at that.......2005-07-14

This is the kind of biography that makes reading history worthwhile. The writing style is intelligent and clear, marshalling innumerable facts and interesting anecdotes. It gives us the full scope of Paine's remarkable life - a man who was one of the intellectual midwives at the birth of the era of democratic revolution.

He fought for free political expression as a citizen of three countries in the throes of revolutionary change: born in England where he fought against monarchy, moved to America where he became a writer of inspirational tracts for independence, and finally, made citizen of France during the violence of the Revolution where he argued, at great risk to himself, to spare the life of King Louis XVI. If his positions seem contradictory they actually reflect a philosophy of consistant political moderation.

Secondly, this biography is a story about the struggle to realize ideas against great odds. Everywhere he went he was fortunate to escape death at the hands of his murderous foes. In spite of these threats, Paine fought tirelessly for his ideals.

Thirdly, the author gives contempory meaning to Paine's goals. Paine was against religious literalism because he saw the adherence to strict doctrine as an obstacle to extablishing a civic society in which people could live together harmoniously.
This position was a cause of much suffering for Paine at the end of his life as his anti-traditional ideas incited deep personal hatred. Without needing to conclude whether he was misguided or not, suffice to say, the difficulty he tried to tackle remains with us today...in the headlines. And I don't think we've come all that far in solving the problem he recognized. That he saw its importance at the inception of modern civic society makes him a visionary of the highest importance worthy of our respect whether we agree with the totality of his ideas or not.

Keane's Good Friend Tom Paine.......2005-04-24

An interesting biography, heavily- if not well- researched. Partisan, but Keane does manage a bit of perspective. The main problems come with the background. There is both too much - I for one could do without the often inaccurate disquisitions on eighteenth-century England - and too much WRONG. Keane seems to think that Britain and America were at war in 1787, and that Adam Smith visited Paris at that time (p.284-5). Hobbes is both more and less than a 'philosopher of counterrrevolution.'
Furthermore, it seems a man only had to bump into Paine for Keane to count him a 'close friend'. What was the extent of Paine's friendship with Goldsmith (this is interesting) and with Burke (very important)?
I get the impression that Keane did all his research for the book and had no grounding in the subject before. But it's an engrossing read for all that.

A book for all times.......2003-05-31

As I read this book, I couldn't help but think, where is the Tom Paine of our time? The insights that Tom Paine had are needed today more than ever.

Yankee Doodle, the quintessence, a dandy.......2002-08-09

Crackerjack biography of Old Tom (Paine) in the four stages of his life, from his early years in England til Ben Franklin advises him to reach America, the period of _Common Sense_ and the American Revolt, then the _Rights of Man_ and the French Revolution, and finally his return to America, where the reputation of the _Age of Reason_ caught up with him, and his great early popularity was replaced with the jibes of those in a suddenly religious republic, whose liberties were won by more secular sorts (cf. Gordon Wood's book on the Revolution, such as Paine. It is a sad ending to a magnificent tale for a true champion of freedom, one who brought the democratic idea to a republican experiment in constitutions. The phenomenal nature of the sales of his books, whose profits he renounced in the name of his cause, is an episode almost world-historical in its seminal influence. Paine's trek is also a classic snapshot of the 'classic' liberal in his revolutionary phase, and the subtleties of great tomes politcal philosophy seem prefigured in the sheer horse-sense of this man who saw the gist of it all, and somehow at a glance. Witness his instinctive in the spectral course of the French Revolution from the Girondins to the Terror to the dungeons, which he survived. It may finally be that his reputation has recovered at last its nineteenth century shadows where the truest of patriots was consigned.

Strong biography of a decidedly modern revolutionary........2002-02-11

I will admit that I was not immediately enamored with this book. The luciferous introduction on Keane's predecessors in Paineite biography was engaging enough, but I found his systematic, nit-picky demolition of each work to be just plain egotistical. In Keane's eyes, each previous biography "failed" or "floundered" for various reasons, thereby opening a window for his own, earth-shattering tome on the subject. Granted, it has become common practice for authors to "justify" their reasons for writing "yet another biography on _______" in the preface of their books, but this sort of self-serving, hypercritical overview left me with a seriously bad taste in my mouth. I seriously worried that the 540 pages that followed would be tinctured with the same sort of pomposity - thankfully that was not the case.

The book is a solid biography, and I can very well see Paine enthusiasts flocking to this as one of the best biographies ever written about him. As this is the only biography of him I've read, I'll reserve my judgment on that question, but I will admit that it is an exceptional study of a peculiar man. What the general public knows of Paine is often just his authorship of Common Sense, but of course there was so much more. He penned not one but three of the best-selling books of the 18th century, and, arguably, he initiated modern political thought on the subject of democratic republicanism. Paine was born an Englishman but for most of his life considered himself a "citizen of the world," which prompted a major change in how we view national citizenship - no so much as a gift from the state, as was the 18th century perception, but rather a promise from it to preserve certain rights indigenous to its people. Yet despite his cosmopolitan leanings, Paine managed to ostracize himself from all three countries in which he declared citizenship - England, France and America - thanks to his revolutionary ideals and his fervent insistence on airing his views publicly regardless of their popularity. He would eventually face public execution in both England and France - the story of his brush with death in La Luxembourg prison during the French Reign of Terror is decidedly spine-tingling - but would survive both to end up back in America, ostracized by the generation that remembered him, and nearly forgotten by the generation that followed.

Keane doesn't devolve into hero-worship, despite several initially-worrisome hyperbolic descriptions of him as "the greatest American revolutionary." Instead, the author deals with each of Paine's failings in a forthright manner. Paine was certainly a man driven by ego, though certainly an ego unaffected by cares for money, power, or public approbation. To put it simply, he just knew he was right, and he would never back down from any of his arguments, regardless of their popularity. Even his most unpopular anti-Christian sentiments displayed in the Age of Reason could not be moved, despite the efforts of many to make him recant on his deathbed. As for Paine's legendary alcoholism, Keane suggests it was just that - a legend. According to Keane, Paine never drank to excess when in social situations. He only drank himself into stupors later on in life when the pain of gout and bedsores became unbearable. This may or may not have been the case - I lean towards may not - but in the end it is of comparatively little importance when calculating the worth of a man whose ideas have arguably shaped many of our own modern ideas on government and civil rights.

All told, the biography earns four stars from me on a scale of five. The rating falls short of the final star more because of style than substance. Keane's prose is certainly readable, and in most cases enjoyable, but it was a bit dry and academic for my tastes in several places. On top of that there was some strange editorial snafus, including several instances of sloppy repetition and an imprecise policy of when and when not to translate from the original French. In one chapter Keane includes an entire paragraph of French extracted from a letter (p. 405), with no accompanying translation, and yet in the next he feels it necessary to include a parenthetical translation of the decidedly uncomplicated Dissertations sur les Premiers Principes de Gouvernement as, surprisingly, or not, "Dissertations on the First Principles of Government" (p. 423).

Regardless of my editorial trifles, the book is strong and well recommended to anyone interested in picking up a book on the life and works of Tom Paine. You'll find his life, in many respects, reads like an adventure novel, and his ideas on government and society are surprisingly, shockingly, modern.

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The selected work of Tom Paine, set in the framework of his life
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Tom Paine: A Political Life.
John Keane
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Bush Hat, Black Tie is a novelist's wry, firsthand look at life as an American diplomat. Howard R. Simpson takes the reader on his own challenging assignments in wartime French Indochina, Nigeria, France, wartime South Vietnam, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Algeria, and the United States, as he witnesses the end of the colonial era and serves in the diplomatic front lines of the Cold War. Thoroughly dispelling the stuffy, "striped pants" image of diplomacy, he reveals the often strange, always interesting realities of representing one's country overseas, whether while wearing a bush hat in the battlefields of Indochina or a tuxedo at the Cannes Film Festival. The colorful personalities he encounters along the way range from Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle to Alfred Hitchcock and Henry Miller.

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" It just happened ".......2005-06-06

"Although the passing of time often tends to blur specific memories and dates, the events in this book are factual and, I trust, untainted by political correctness". The person who wrote this in the preface to "Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer" is the author of the book himself, Howard R. Simpson (1925-1999).

The author is a person I would have like to know, because he led a very interesting life, seemed to possess a good sense of humour, and managed not to take himself too seriously while being extremely professional about his job, being a diplomat. Simpson didn't plan to be a diplomat, "it just happened". Before that, he participated in the Second World War, studied art in Paris, and became a journalist. He could have been many things, but he ended up being a diplomat, although a rather peculiar one.

The beginning of Simpson's career can be traced to 1951, when he joined the Foreign Service as an information specialist. Simpson would be posted to French Indochina, Nigeria, France, South Vietnam, Australia and Algeria. He would also work in the United States, specifically in Washington and as a professor in the U.S. Naval War College. This book includes interesting photographs that show the author in some of those places, and that emphasize the fact that in his career he wore a bush hat at least as frequently as a black tie. My favorite photograph is probably one that shows the author in Hanoi, in 1954, when he was posing as a Polish journalist in order to escape unharmed from the communist occupied city.

In this book, Simpon shares with the reader some of the experiences he had in the somewhat strange life that some diplomats live. He does that in an engaging way, peppering serious observation regarding policy matters with funny anecdotes. A good example of that can be found in the chapter "Fire ant fandango", where he talks about the last stages of decolonization in Nigeria, but also tells us what happens when African fire ants are surprise visitors to a reception.

It is easy to see in every page of this book that Simpson loved his career, even though he wasn't much of a fan of paperwork. In his words, "I believe most Foreign Service veterans would agree that few other professions offer such a variety of interesting, adventurous, and -at times- dangerous assignments. My only advice to those now entering the ranks would be: beware of creeping bureacracy, don't take yourself too seriously, and enjoy your new career".

On the whole, I highly recommend "Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer". It doesn't matter if you are just a reader looking to be entertained, or a person who is seriously considering joining the Foreign Service. I'm pretty sure that both kinds of reader will find what they are looking for in this book.

Belen Alcat

Kipling Would Love This.......2004-02-06

Entertaining if episodic accout of life as a diplomat. At times parochial and old-fashioned, the book reads like a nostalgic take on life in the good old days of the Western Empire.

Good writing, but not very insightful.......2003-02-02

This seems to be basically a collection of mildly intriguing antidotes from Mr. Simpson's diary. It gives some idea of what it was like to be an information officer, and some of the stories are interesting. But the book lacks emotion, wallows in neutrality and is quite dated (ending in 1979). Mr. Simpson also strikes one as being more concerned with his lifestyle than the actual job, which is admirable, but not informative.

If one is looking to learn what it's really like to be an FSO, particulary in one of the other career tracks within the Foreign Service, there may be better sources out there.
I am now in search of a book that provides more in-depth analysis of the job being done by the State Dept and FSOs overseas.

Excellent for those who want public diplomacy career track.......2003-01-16

I bought this book with the hope that it would give me some insight on how to answer the hypothetical questions of the State Department's Foreign Service Oral exam that I have coming up. On the down side, he spent little time discussing his early career, and since I'm going for the Managerial track (his was, I guess, sort of like public diplomacy)it was the gold mine I had hoped for.

However, he gave great insight into what real life is like at a hardship post, and his mid- and late- career experiences were invaluable. His experiences show just how important interpersonal relationships are in the foreign service, which contrasted my view that it is all book knowledge and sterile, rely-purely-on-yourself stuff.

BOUGHT FOR [$$$] AT AN OUTLET, I'M AT AMAZON FOR HIS OTHERS.......2002-09-18

Picked up this little gem at a book outlet -- sorry Amazon -- and I so enjoyed it I'm looking for Simpson's other books. Frankly never heard of him, but its easy to see why there are so many books to his credit. His writing flows with ease and quick wit. If he was anywhere near as good a foreign service officer as he is a writer we ought to get him to the Middle East pronto. Simpson writes "I regret I had but one liver to give my country" or words to that effect. His tales of the diplomatic cocktail circuit in odd, out-of-the way locations are terrific.

Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer.

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"Life Happens" While You Are Planning Something Else

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In the late 1970s, Richard Antony convinced his wife they should leave their promising professional careers and comfortable suburban lifestyle to start an azalea nursery in the Blue Ridge Mountains. With no horticultural training or business experience, few mechanical skills, and absolutely no idea what they were getting themselves into, numerous adventures followed. This first book in the series begins the couple's colorful story, a story of triumph and despair, of high expectations and harsh reality, and of the people who touched their lives along the way. In the tradition of such classics as The Little House on the Prairie and Walton's Mountain, Mountain of My Dreams shares the true story of two ordinary people and their memorable, often remarkable 25-year journey. Much more than just another "back-to-the-land" chronicle, this is a heartwarming tale of a man, a woman, and their belief in each other. If you've ever wondered why the less-traveled road is less traveled, you need to read their story.

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"Life Happens" While You Are Planning Something Else.......2003-09-30

If you like books about real people in real situations, then this book is for you. Here is the story of a family, their struggle to achieve their dreams, and the obstacles they encounter along the way. Their dream of living in and off the country sounds simple enough, but... Where do you begin? What should you do? and How do you gather the courage to leave the comfort of your current lifestyle? These questions, and more, are answered as the Antony family builds an azalea nursery in the foothills of the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains.

Unlike reality TV, there is no contrived game, no set-up situations, no million-dollar winner. The result is a story that illustrates how "life happens" while you are planning something else. This book has it all: friends, family, drama, humor, triumphs, and setbacks. The writing style is straightforward and well worth reading.

REAL Life in Rappahannock County, Va.......2003-09-27

Anyone contemplating a move to a rural area should read this book. We all have romantic ideas of what it is like to live in the "country". This book will give you the reality. You will learn what challenges you will face and what rewards you will reap. If you are thinking of starting a plant nursery [after reading the New York Times article about Rappahannock] here is a great place to begin. Not only is this book packed with great information but it is also a well written book.[not always easy to find these days.] You will fall in love with this family's story. It reads like a novel and even gets off to a very quick start!. Buy it, read it, take notes, and enjoy it! PS If you move there I am sure you will meet them as everyone seems to know everyone there.

An inspirational and enjoyable partial memoir.......2003-08-15

By nature, I'm a bit skeptical of books of this nature. But having said that, I must say that Mr. Antony quickly won me over with his honesty and humility. I tremendously enjoyed the thought processess, trials, tribulations, and joys that he describes -- what an amazing life, and what an amazing family. If this book doesn't provide an impetus to do just a little more with the short amount of time we're given, then I don't know what does.

Living the Dream.......2003-06-09

Mr. Antony's account of his family's struggle to live out their dream offers great inspiration...and a good dose of reality. I very highly recommend the book to anyone who has toyed with dreams of making a living in the country and getting back to the basics. Who knew it was so hard to grow and sell azaleas while living in the Blue Ridge Mountains? I realized the book had me hooked when I discovered I was getting really irritated at their frustrations with local contractors (and literally had to put the book down for a couple hours), and when I found myself secretly rooting for all of Mr. Antony's personally engineered innovations (what we might call "workarounds"). The tone of the book is that of a really interesting relative or friend relating his family's story to you - the drama comes not so much from their unique ups and downs (and there are plenty), but from the way in which pull of the dream gets them through.

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Mountain of My Dreams: The Later Years
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A lot of people end up questioning what they've chosen to do with their life. Richard Antony, an electrical engineer, went beyond just asking himself the age-old question. In the late 1970s, he convinced his wife, Sandra, a contract specialist, they needed to give up their promising careers and comfortable suburban lifestyle to start an azalea nursery in the foothills of the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. Because the couple had no horticultural training or business experience, few mechanical skills, and absolutely no idea what they were getting themselves into, numerous adventures followed. In the proposed Long Mountain book series, Richard recounts, through hundreds of vignettes, the couple's colorful story, a story of triumph and despair, of high expectations and harsh reality, and of the people who touched their lives along the way. In the tradition of such classics as The Little House on the Prairie and Walton's Mountain, Mountain of My Dreams shares the true story of two ordinary people and their memorable, often remarkable 25-year journey. Much more than just another "back-to-the-land" chronicle, book 2 continues the heartwarming tale of a man, a woman, and their belief in each other. If you've ever wondered why the less traveled road is less traveled, you need to read their story.

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