Creative Solution Finding : The Triumph of Full- Spectrum Creativity over Conventional Thinking

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Think about it: Does it make sense to try solving a problem using the same kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place? Unfortunately, this happens all too often. In Creative Solution Finding, Gerald Nadler and Shozo Hibino, authors of the groundbreaking book Breakthrough Thinking, offer an entirely new way for finding solutions: Full-Spectrum Thinking. This approach presents new principles and a new process for creating and restructuring solutions.

"Nadler and Hibino have taken traditional Western problem solving to task by introducing a new total approach to solution-finding that has unlimited potential for today's policy setters in any field."

—Joe Weller, President and CEO, Nestlé USA, Inc.

"Creative Solution Finding offers a new thinking paradigm for our times that is as elegant in its clarity as it is profound in its potential."

—Jon C. Madonna, Chairman and Chief Executive, KPMG Peat Marwick, Certified Public Accountants

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Defusing Chicken-Little prognostications about English, this volume suggests that dark claims about language are not to be taken at face value. Instead, these claims function as a signal: time to step back. Offering just such a time-out, eminent linguists explore the fuller picture underlying language in our society, examining prescriptivism, Black English, Ozark English, American Sign Language, English-Only, and Endangered Languages. After helping stomp out such linguistic fires, the linguists showcase the potent workings of language: world englishes, language and politics, media, prejudice, creativity, gender, and humor, thus opening the way to better informed views on the function of language in schools, and more linguistically sound public policies.

The Workings of Language : From Prescriptions to Perspectives

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The Workings of Language : From Prescriptions to Perspectives
Praeger Publishers
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OR73MM

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IN FORMATION - How To Gain The 71% Advantage equips you and your team with an easy to follow set of guidelines and tools to keep your organization aligned -- in formation. Now you can benefit from strategies, processes and insight that will empower your team to achieve world-class performance. By following the techniques outlines throughout In Formation, you lead your organization into a more confident future.

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Recipes, nutritional information and some photos

Just ok

The New Woman's Day Cookbook: Simple Recipes for Every Occasion
Elizabeth Alston , and Editors of Woman's Day
Manufacturer: Filipacchi
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1933231017

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This completely new and updated edition of a trusted favorite offers a wealth of delicious, timesaving recipes just right for today's hectic lifestyles. Incorporating the amazing variety of prepared and ready-to-cook foods now available, the book enables cooks to spend less time in the kitchen while still creating healthy and appetizing meals. New and expanded chapters include easy, no-fuss slow-cooker recipes that can be started in the morning for a warm meal at night; sausage recipes showcasing the new flavors and lean varieties now available; and a larger chapter on cookies and cakes. Instructions are straightforward and easy-to-follow, and an appendix contains information on everything from basic cooking terms to herbs, wine, and cheese. From busy weeknights to leisurely family celebrations, The New Woman's Day Cookbook is an essential kitchen resource that provides ideas and solutions for every day of the week.

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Recipes, nutritional information and some photos.......2007-08-28

The updated healthy recipes with basic cooking information available made this a must buy! Our daughter is taking a nutrition class in high school. She sent me to the bookstore to find a cookbook with nutritional information and a photo for each recipe. This was the first one that came close. Thanks! a mom in Indiana

Just ok.......2007-04-05

I like it how it is arranged. It includes sections such as 30 minute, low fat, make ahead, investment cooking (make a few meals at once, including shopping list) and so on. The low fat section is small, and the other time savings recipes are not necessarily low in fat or calories. If you care about calorie and fat intake that might be a problem with this cookbook.

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Whatever their chosen strategy--scalping, swing, or position--direct access traders all require different styles for seizing profit opportunities. Trading Strategies for Direct Access Trading discusses everything traders need to determine their optimum trading styles, choose the stocks that best suit those styles, and evaluate and manage risk. Fast, hard-hitting, and detailed--with case studies of successful strategies--it will help every trader formulate a plan for success.

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I was expecting more from the title and desciption.......2005-02-05

It's very technical / inefficient in the way the complexities that occure at the Direct Access Trading level are explained..

I've read lots of books on trading (technical analysis through day trading to options and futures) and this one could put me to sleep.. The thing that bothers me the most is there are no pictures or drawings of a level II screen anywhere in the book and in fact there are no screen shots or diagrams of anykind on anything...

The strategy is to utilize your capital with stop loses and route your order efficiently... I'm halfway through this book but it never seems to get into gear.. Flipping through the pages I can see I'm not missing much... I will finish reading it completely but not until I get a new bottle of asprin...

The reason I gave it 3 stars instead of less is because it is still well written but disappointing sorry.. You can uncross your eyes now...

Worth 20+ excerpts.......2002-11-11

I expected it to be just another of the bubble era introduction-to-day-trading books , but this book surprised me. To the point that I wound up bookmarking over 20 places having trading ideas worth considering.

Most of the day trading books of 1998-2001 are terribly obsolete. Not so, this one.

If you are new to trading, or have up to five years experience with direct access trading, you will gain trading ideas from this book.

Sales gets quickly into real trading and does not fill the book with introductory dribble. For example, as early as page 17 he writes about details of good trading practices, such as factoring in a chase point (for slippage) for entries and exits.

The first part of the book is the author's own experienced based advice.

That is followed by interviews with several normal traders with substantially differing trading styles.

Experienced traders will recognize that some of these folks are probably no longer trading, by the nature of their stories and ideas, while others have good ideas that apply well to the markets of 2002.

A very worthwhile read.

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This digital document is an article from Ethics & International Affairs, published by Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1317 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: Global Codes of Conduct: An Idea Whose Time Has Come. (book review)
Author: Lee E. Preston
Publication: Ethics & International Affairs (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Page: 207(4)

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Global Codes of Conduct An Idea Whose Time Has Come

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Global Codes of Conduct An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Oliver F. (EDT) Williams
Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQOGCI

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Tax policy debates—and reforms—depend heavily on estimates of how alternative tax rules would affect behavior. Yet there is considerable controversy about the key empirical links among tax rates, household decisions, and revenue collections.

The nine papers in this volume exploit the substantial variation in U.S. tax policy during the last two decades to investigate how taxes affect a range of household behavior, including labor-force participation, saving behavior, choice of health insurance plan, choice of child care arrangements, portfolio choice, and tax evasion. They also present new analytical results on the effects of different types of tax policy. All of this research relies on household-level data—drawn either from public-use tax return files or from large household-level surveys—to explore various aspects of the relationship between taxes and household behavior.

As debates about the effects of proposed tax reforms continue in the 1990s, this volume will be of interest to policy makers and scholars in the field of public finance.

Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation. (book reviews): An article from: National Tax Journal

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Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation. (book reviews): An article from: National Tax Journal
Leonard E. Burman
Manufacturer: National Tax Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from National Tax Journal, published by National Tax Association on June 1, 1997. The length of the article is 2265 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: Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation. (book reviews)
Author: Leonard E. Burman
Publication: National Tax Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1997
Publisher: National Tax Association
Volume: 50 Issue: n2 Page: 381-385

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"I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead.

Not long before he composed the Declaration of Independence, the young Jefferson lay for six weeks in idleness and ill health at Monticello, paralyzed by a mysterious "malady." Similar lapses were to recur during anxious periods in his life, often accompanied by violent headaches. In Jefferson's Demons, Michael Knox Beran illuminates an optimistic man's darker side -- Jefferson as we have rarely seen him before.

The worst of these moments came after his wife died in 1782. But two years later, after being dispatched to Europe, Jefferson recovered nerve and spirit in the salons of Paris, where he fell in love with a beautiful young artist, Maria Cosway. When their affair ended, Jefferson's health again broke down. He set out for the palms and temples of southern Europe, and though he did not know where the therapeutic journey would take him or where it would end, his encounter with the old civilizations of the Mediterranean was transformative. The Greeks and Romans taught him that a man could make productive use of his demons.

Jefferson's immersion in the mystic truths of the Old World gave him insights into mysteries of life and art that Enlightenment philosophy had failed to supply. Beran skillfully shows how Jefferson drew on the esoteric lore he encountered to transform anxiety into action. On his return to America, Jefferson entered the most productive period of his life: He created a new political party, was elected president, and doubled the size of the country. His private labors were no less momentous...among them, the artistry of Monticello and the University of Virginia.

Jefferson's Demons is an elegantly composed account of the strangeness and originality of one Founder's genius. Michael Knox Beran uncovers the maps Jefferson used to find his way out of dejection and to forge a new democratic culture for America. Here is a Jefferson who, with all his failings, remains one of his country's greatest teachers and prophets.

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New insights into Jefferson.......2005-09-29

I would highly recommend this book. Beran makes the read a fun one.

Another unreadable book and another putdown.......2005-09-03

It is perhaps hard to be sure this book is a putdown. For some, finding that Jefferson wasn't always rational and calm may make him more human and therefore more appealing, but for me it is a downer. He seems to have had a miseable inner life. Thank God that he was able nonetheless to do a lot of good. The book helps to explain many of Jefferson's wrongheaded views: about Hamilton, about the radicals in the French Revolution, etc.

The author is talented but he quotes so extensively from Jefferson's own feelings, which in themselves are so unreadable, that the book necessarily becomes unreadable.

This may indeed be a useful contribution to our knowledge but I could have done without it.

Jefferson's Psyche.......2004-10-01

Demon - n. Greek Mythology 2. An attendant spirit; a genius.

This book investigates the classical influences on Jefferson and follows them through to his motivations in Government and his personal life. The "demons" are the classical inspirations for Jefferson. This is a great book which delves deeper into a person's psyche than any other biography I've read. The language is exquisite (nearly over-the-top), but in the end it is a highly rewarding investigation into one of our founding fathers.

A SOMEWHAT LIMITED, BUT TOTALLY UNIQUE BIOGRAPHY . . ........2004-02-23

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I really enjoyed this biography of Thomas Jefferson - the book itself. My overall impression is altered somewhat by the added dimension of having listened rather than read . . . I bought the CD version because of the many hours I spend on the road. Dan Cashman, the narrator, has a splendid voice, but I felt his reading was too slow and with too many poignant pauses for my taste. I would have liked the audio version more if he'd been more straight-forward in its reading with less tendency to pontificate. Be that as it may, the substance of the book itself opened up the world of it's protagonist in a way few books do.

Although the book meanders a bit at certain points, the reader feels he is in Jefferson's mind at times. I would have liked the author to have told us about more of Jefferson's close acquaintances and their relationships. Few of the other founding fathers are mentioned, Benjamin Franklin a case in point. Attention given to Washington and Adams is quite sparse. I felt too many pages were devoted to Jefferson's lopsided relationship with Maria Cosway whom he met after the premature death of his wife. Maria was a married woman he was romantically attracted to, but who would have nothing to do with him except as a friend. He couldn't let go of her over the years, however, and she was too polite to totally cut all communications (even though she lived in Europe and ended up becoming a nun).

One thing I liked about this book was the way Beran shed light on Jefferson's intimate interests, his way of looking at the world around him and the place he felt he occupied in it. Some of those interests and notions, or ways, of looking at people, places, his own personal psyche and health (among other things) seem alien to us today. But that is what's wonderful about how Beran puts it all together - in a way you can almost taste Jefferson's time, what was important to people and what they found motivating (people, at least, who were of the station and caliber of Jefferson - a rarity to be sure). Many of Jefferson's fears, shortcomings and idiosyncrasies are also covered, but in an affectionate way which makes him seem more human and less aloof.

I was pleasantly surprised and gratified to find that Jefferson appeared to become more disposed to the teachings of Christ later in his life, considering him the greatest teacher of the virtues of pure love who ever lived. Beran indicates that Jefferson came to believe Christ's teachings transcended those of the Greek philosophers in that Christ applied them across the board to all peoples. Jefferson even wrote a singular treatise on the subject, this after having held a largely hellenistic view of the world for most of his life.

I finished the book feeling I would have liked to have known Jefferson personally and been able to have conversed and debated with him as a friend. My reason for awarding the book only 4 stars rather than 5 is largely due to my disappointment in the audio version - If I were you I'd opt for paper.

How Thomas Jefferson Can Change Your Life.......2003-12-06

This book is a Bildungsroman: the Education of Thomas Jefferson. It's the story of how Jefferson struggled to form himself into a man capable of action--the story of his "paideia," as the author would have it, in a bow to his subject's lifelong love of the Greeks. JEFFERSON'S DEMONS describes the mysterious ways the Sage of Monticello educated himself and learned to tap his most profound creative instincts.

Like so many great men, Jefferson was engaged in an ongoing conversation with the great men of the past, with Montaigne, Homer, Solon, Tacitus, Milton, Isaiah, Socrates, Jesus. Beran lets the reader overhear these conversations, and he shows us how Jefferson drew on them both in his private life and his public work.

The author's richly allusive style is itself an instrument in the communication of his vision of Jefferson: there are passages in the book in which the prose has less affinity with the rhytmically and spiritually flat prose of the present than with that of the Caroline and late Elizabethan prose-stylists. This startling use of language and metaphor prepares the reader for the book's major reassessments of whole tracts of Jefferson's thought. The book provides a nuanced reading of Jefferson's "Whig" and "Tory" qualities, shows how deeply immersed Jefferson was in a Virginia culture of decadent feudalism, and contains an ingenious reading of the connection between Jefferson's "sentimentalism" and the mediaeval romance of the rose. Jefferson's architecture emerges as something more deeply felt than the pasteboard classicism it is often taken to be; and Beran ties his analysis of Monticello and the University of Virginia to his discussion of how Jefferson tried to reconcile his civic republican ideals (the communitarianism of the classical city-state, the Greek polis) with his commitment to Whig liberalism, with its emphasis on liberty of trade, liberty of the press, and liberty of conscience.

I loved this book. It's a splendid account of Jefferson's self-culture and his attempts to apply the lessons he learned in the young American Republic, and it enlarges the number of intellectual debates in which Jefferson participated and through which he must examined.

But the book's most important message is an intensely personal one. Jefferson spoke hopefully of the "progress to be made under our democratic stimulants until every American is potentially an athlete in body and an Aristotle in mind." Beran shows the reader how Jefferson, in trying to realize this potentiality in himself and in others, aspired to the Greek ideal of the statesman who is also an educator, one who can help people to know themslves and do their work.

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Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind

Manufacturer: The Free Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0641629338

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Thomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead. Not long before he composed the Declaration of Independence, the young Jefferson lay for six weeks in idleness and ill health at Monticello, paralyzed by a mysterious "malady." Similar lapses were to recur during anxious periods in his life, often accompanied by violent headaches. In Jefferson's Demons, Michael Knox Beran illuminates an optimistic man's darker side - Jefferson as we have rarely seen him before. The worst of these moments came after his wife died in 1782. But two years later, after being dispatched to Europe, Jefferson recovered nerve and spirit in the salons of Paris, where he fell in love with a beautiful young artist, Maria Cosway. When their affair ended, Jefferson's health again broke down. He set out for the palms and temples of southern Europe, and though he did not know where the therapeutic journey would take him or where it would end, his encounter with the old civilizations of the Mediterranean was transformative. The Greeks and Romans taught him that a man could make productive use of his demons. Jefferson's immersion in the mystic truths of the Old World gave him insights into mysteries of life and art that Enlightenment philosophy had failed to supply. Beran skillfully shows how Jefferson drew on the esoteric lore he encountered to transform anxiety into action. On his return to America, Jefferson entered the most productive period of his life: He created a new political party, was elected president, and doubled the size of the country. His private labors were no lessmomentous ... among them, the artistry of Monticello and the University of Virginia.

Jefferson: Portrait of a Restless Mind (American Heritage)

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Jefferson: Portrait of a Restless Mind (American Heritage)
Page Smith
Manufacturer: I Books
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ASIN: 0743452364

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You know him well, by reputation. Every American carries our third President's bas-relief profile in pocket or purse. There's even a picture of his house on the reverse of that same nickel. You've seen him chiseled in stone on a mountain and cast in bronze to heroic measure. He is monumental, semi-mythical.

But what was Thomas Jefferson like, off his pedestal, alive, human? The man whom author Page Smith has found in this perceptive biography is someone you can envision at eye level, even get to know. He is real: tall, freckled, a bit rumpled, humorless, sensitive.

Jefferson was an artist -- with words, with architecture, with ideas. Jefferson was not a politician, yet he became President. Jefferson inherited large estates and many slaves, but stayed in debt most of his life. His star-crossed relations with the women in his life, from his mother to "Dashing Sally," his lovely slave and reputed mistress, are often as awkward as any teenager's.

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Title: Conquistador of reason.(Jefferson's Demons: Portrait Of A Restless Mind)(Book Review)
Author: Wilfred M. McClay
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
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Politics and the misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's modern reputation: a review essay.(Portrait of a Restless Mind)(Thomas Jefferson)(Jefferson's Secrets: ... An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Politics and the misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's modern reputation: a review essay.(Portrait of a Restless Mind)(Thomas Jefferson)(Jefferson's Secrets: ... An article from: Journal of Southern History
Jeffrey L. Pasley
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Release Date: 2006-11-28

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Title: Politics and the misadventures of Thomas Jefferson's modern reputation: a review essay.(Portrait of a Restless Mind)(Thomas Jefferson)(Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello)(Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800)("Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power)(Book review)
Author: Jeffrey L. Pasley
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 72 Issue: 4 Page: 871(38)

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Yes You Can! is a bold and pioneering effort by one diagnosed bipolar (or manic depressive as it used to be known) in 1981, to speak to the consciousness of all who experience bipolar or unipolar depression . . . and to their friends and families.

Marked with self-exposure, optimism, humor, and passionate concern, the author acknowledges both the extraordinary toll of depression and the courage of those - of all backgrounds and ages - who fight to survive and restore themselves.

Revealing with candor and clarity the commitment and strategies driving his own substantial progress, Richard Mead draws on more than eight years of weekly 'exchanges' with hundreds of others in MDDA and SFDMDA - Boston and San Francisco's manic depressive and depressive associations.

Rather than explore grim memories of intimidating statistics, he chooses to support and inspire his peers by sharing his own return from hospitalization and chaos to authentic selfhood.

Pragmatic, easy to read, without dogma, and inclusive, Yes You Can! urges self-esteem and resilience as cornerstones for reversing patterns of despair and inertia.

This challenge, presented with style and flavor by one who knows the agony of defeat, maybe the right one at the right time. For those touched by the critical issue, is should riven your attention and alter your outlook. It is a powerful affirmation - where affirmations barely exist - from one who has walked through the fire.

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Hard to read and even harder to understand........2001-01-09

The sentences in this book are disjointed, as though the author was writing down random thoughts. I found this very disconcerting and it made the book difficult to understand, even though the author writes in layman's terms. There are some pages towards the end of the book where the author gets lost in thanking his peers, and this throws the book off kilter as well. His coping mechanisms are not very helpful either, since most of us cannot be world travelers or sing in nightclubs when we are depressed, but there are a few good pointers. The difficulty lies in selecting the pointers out of the jumble of words. I got the feeling the author needed to write for his own sake, and was not targeting any audience. As a result, we have a journal of random thoughts and a cocktail of suggestions here and there. I got a few good tips from the book, however, and so I cannot count it as a total loss.

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