Savvy Discounts: The Best Money-Saving Advice from America's #1 Cost-Conscious Consumer

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Savvy shoppers can get the very best for the lowest possible price-all from reputable dealers who stand behind their merchandise. This comprehensive book is packed with how-to advice, entertaining stories, and tips to guide readers through the entire shopping experience-from what you need to know before stepping into a shop to what you should do after the sale. With hundreds of ingenious money-saving ideas, this is the perfect guide for every aspiring smart shopper.

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Makes you feel in control in today's scary market place!.......2003-12-08

This book is so readable and yet covers astonishing detail about many product types and market factors; when you're done, you'll feel you "own" strategies for timing your shopping and using your money to best advantage. It provides a framework for taking control; you'll no longer wonder whether you're being victimized by sharp marketing or overwhelmed by advertising and claim, or whether a "good deal" really is. As the title promises, you'll become more "savvy" no matter how much you thought you knew about shopping for and using goods and services.
Probably worth hundreds of times its value in savings!

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The trend toward the use of temporary or contingent personnel continues to increase. Employment staffing is a 50 billion dollar industry. Temporary Sanity is THE book for human resources and management professionals seeking maximum performance and value from their temporary or contract staffing programs. Readers will learn inside secrets to receiving top quality service from staffing providers and for improving communication among regular staff, temporary workers, management and service providers. Chapter topics include: defining temporary and contract employees;why businesses continue to use such workers;tips on how to chose a staffing service,how to order and how much you should be paying;setting realistic expectations; legal issues concerning co-employment; special services to consider and information accessible over the internet.

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Not helpful for contractors.......2001-02-27

While this book should be read by every HR person and every supervisor or manager ever hiring a temp or contractor, it is a superficial overview of the contingency staffing industry. As a technical contractor, I was hoping to obtain a better understanding of the ins and outs of the industry to improve the types of contact assignments I obtain. This book doesn't provide that insight.

Highly recommeded for anyone who uses temporary staff........1999-04-29

As a production manager for a medium-sized electronics manaufacturing firm, I am continually challenged with getting better performance from our temporary staffing services. We have struggled with what we have considered lack-luster service and with a fairly high attrition rate. Our selection of services was based upon competive bid, but we did not select the cheapest.

After reading Temporary Sanity, I realize that many of our problems have stemmed from lack of internal coordination as well as a poor communication plan with our staffing provider, both of which are stressed in the book.

Although I have used temporary agencies for over 15 years, I found much of the authors inside information as to the real workings of staffing services to be very insightful, particularly now, when low unemployment rates mean skilled temporary employees can have their pick of the jobs available.

The books continual focus on the importance of treating temporary staff with respect equal to our permanent employees really hit home and, after several meeting with my supervisors and our human resources manager we have developed a plan to involve both the temporary agency staff, and the temps themselves, in our long and short range production goals by truly soliciting their input. After my supervisors read the book, we instituted a quality bonus program for our temporary employees, a temp-of-the-month award, and recruiting bonuses for any new temps which they refer to work for us. Our human resource department is working on written guidelines for all of our temporary employees as well as written job discriptions for all temporary positions. We have also,followed the authors advice about having a liason person from the temporary service meet with us weekly and in person to discuss present and future staffing needs and any individual performance issues. This one step has helped our communication greatly.

This is just a begining, but already we have seen improved moral and attrition, I'm confident I'll see improved production numbers this quarter.

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The average workforce today is far different to that of a few years ago. Companies now employ more freelancers and temporary staff, while there is increased job-sharing and sub-contracting, not to mention more staff working from home. This brings with it its own particular set of problems for managers. Richard Pettinger looks at the changing employment situation today and outlines what the flexible workforce is, what flexible working is and how to manage both successfully. The text includes sections on conceptual aspects, motivations, empowerment, organizational streamlining, and management qualities and performance.

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"Fast track route to the effective management of flexible workers and working arrangements. Covers the key areas of managing the flexible workforce from attitude formation, leadership, direction and motivation to group management and flexible workforce development. Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses including Sandals Inc, British Airways, Cobra Beer, and Semco, and ideas from the smartest thinkers including Peter Drucker, Peter Senge, Linda Gratton and Robert Heller. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide."

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Richard Pettinger
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Jessica Prentice is a moon goddess.

Relating to One's Food

Enlightening, Inspiring, and Fascinating!

A concise and "kitchen cook friendly" guide to the full-moon celebrations through healthy dining

Food and the Human Condition

Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection
Jessica Prentice
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Full Moon Feast invites us to a table brimming with locally grown foods, radical wisdom, and communal nourishment.
In Full Moon Feast, accomplished chef and passionate food activist Jessica Prentice champions locally grown, humanely raised, nutrient-rich foods and traditional cooking methods. The book follows the thirteen lunar cycles of an agrarian year, from the midwinter Hunger Moon and the springtime sweetness of the Sap Moon to the bounty of the Moon When Salmon Return to Earth in autumn. Each chapter includes recipes that display the richly satisfying flavors of foods tied to the ancient rhythm of the seasons.
Prentice decries our modern food culture: megafarms and factories, the chemically processed ghosts of real foods in our diets, and the suffering—physical, emotional, cultural, communal, and spiritual—born of a disconnect from our food sources. She laments the system that is poisoning our bodies and our communities.
But Full Moon Feast is a celebration, not a dirge. Prentice has emerged from her own early struggles with food to offer health, nourishment, and fulfillment to her readers. She recounts her relationships with local farmers alongside ancient harvest legends and methods of food preparation from indigenous cultures around the world.
Combining the radical nutrition of Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions, keen agri-political acumen, and a spiritual sensibility that draws from indigenous as well as Western traditions, Full Moon Feast is a call to reconnect to our food, our land, and each other.

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Jessica Prentice is a moon goddess........2007-01-04

This book is written with heart, soul and spirit. A book to use and refer to as well as delight you along the way.

Relating to One's Food.......2006-11-27

This book is a personal re-examination of food--what we eat, and why we eat it. In this book, Prentice examines food customs and traditions, searching for their physiological and environmental rationale. Her primary observation about food traditions is that they are strictly tied to the seasons, and thus the continual year-round availability of our foodstuffs has resulted in loss of much traditional knowledge about what is good for us and what isn't. In recognition of the essential seasonality of foods, Prentice organizes this book into the thirteen moons that make up the year, from the famine moon, to the sap moon, from the egg moon to the corn moon, from the blood moon to the wolf moon.

Each chapter describes the ecology that led to the association between a particular food item and a specific time of the year. In the chapters, Prentice discusses the nutritional contributions of the featured food items, and how her relationship with that food has changed over the years. For example, she explains how she used to avoid milk and other dairy products, but now relishes them as a gift of love from Mother Earth. Each chapter also includes recipes of the season, ranging from exotic dishes of non-Western food cultures, like Cardamom and Jaggery pudding, to simple directions for lost arts, such as rendering pork, or making homemade yogurt and sauerkraut.

Prentice was once a strict vegan, who for health reasons, eventually found herself drawn to a diet which includes animal products, but not the products of industrial agriculture. There is much that vegetarians and vegans would not like in Prentice's essays, since she explains how her 10 years of vegetarianism were not healthy for her. Having had the same experience myself after being a vegetarian for 20 years, I can appreciate the wisdom in what she writes. While vegetarian diets work well for some, they are not appropriate for everybody. But at the same time, diets that include the consumption of industrially produced and processed animal products do nobody any good. We need to be willing to recognize our relation and responsibilities to the animals that we consume.

I first heard of this book when I attended a Vermont Localvore potluck at which Prentice was the invited guest chef. I was deeply offended then at her attitude, when she announced she was going to make a salad using a recipe from her book, but lamented the lack of local artichokes or olive oil. `How could such a person be associated with local cooking,' I wondered, `if she doesn't even have the sense to find out what the best local ingredients are and celebrate them, instead of parading the products of another region in front of us?' I figured that a seasonal local cookbook written by a national author would be a worthless concept. Fortunately, that's not what this book attempts--instead the book is much more about rediscovering our connection to food than about specific local recipes.

Although she has become famous for leading the concept of eating foods only from one's local region, what she urges here is really an appreciation for the products of small farms. Thus, instead of simply cheering on local food, Prentice argues in this book that our industrial agriculture system has torn us away from one of the most essential of human traits, our relationship to the food that nourishes us. Instead of following diets of avoidance, Prentice advocates recognizing the meaning that each item of food brings to our lives, and using food to re-establish our connection to the land. Indeed, the only foods that Prentice avoids are those heavily processed products of industrial agriculture: refined sugar, white flour, and pre-packaged extruded junk. Although the book contains a few recipes, it is not a cookbook, but rather a wake-up call: "Our poor diet is at least partly a physical manifestation of a spiritual decay," together with some suggestions of how we can begin the journey back to healthy eating.

Enlightening, Inspiring, and Fascinating!.......2006-06-06

Jessica Prentice's book was a joy to read. In fact, it is so readable, I've recommended it as a book club selection to several friends -- after all, we all eat! The way Prentice talks about eating and food, it is like she is an old friend on a passionate adventure.

I have spent years of searching for a way of eating that seems "right" nutritionally (from all-American to vegetarian to vegan to macrobiotic to low-carb to Gittleman!). I have owned books on all of them, and I have lived all of them. None have made as much sense intellectually AND intuitively as what Jessica describes. Her book is organized by thirteen moons, and each moon represents a theme. This organization is one of the things that makes her book so readable - each chapter is a complete exploration of that theme, and then you're off to another theme.

Jessica's work is well-researched, well-written, fascinating, inspiring, and for me, life-changing. I took my hundred-or-so other cookbooks and diet books to the used bookstore, purchased a few others that Prentice recommended in her resources, and my kitchen supply of books is now complete at only a few books rather than the close to 100 that I owned before. I feel THAT sure of this.

This book is for everyone -- interested in nutrition or not. I guarantee you will enjoy it, you will learn things you didn't know about what you eat, and you will be inspired by Prentice's knowledge and passion. And if you are searching for a way of eating that makes sense intellectually AND intuitively (and feels GOOD physically), you will have found a path home.

A concise and "kitchen cook friendly" guide to the full-moon celebrations through healthy dining.......2006-06-06

Full Moon Feast: Food And The Hunger For Connection by Jessica Prentice is an engaging guide to the beautifully intricate art of culinary creations in synchronization with the cycles of an agrarian calendar. Accurately following the thirteen lunar cycles in periods of their yearly contributions and celebrations, Full Moon Feast knowledgeably explores varying moons cycles with seasonally appropriate recipes ranging from Blood Moon Swedish Meatballs; Stir-fry of Pork and Vegetables with Ginger; and Beef Broth; to Egg Moon's Avocado and Hard-Cooked Eggs with a Lemony Dressing; Stracciatella (Roman Egg Drop Soup); and Spring Tonic Nettle Soup. A unique original concept in cookbooks, Full Moon Feast is very highly recommended as a concise and "kitchen cook friendly" guide to the full-moon celebrations through healthy dining.

Food and the Human Condition.......2006-05-25

This book is a great deal more than just a cookbook. Rather it is an historical account of the human relationship with food before the great energy bonanza of the fossil fuel revolution made so many things appear easy, at least in the "developed world." But, as it becomes increasing clear that this bounty is failing, and that the economic and technological precepts upon which our civilization is based have certain fatal flaws from an ecological standpoint, we would do well to remember the wolf moon and the hunger moon that Prentice invokes so eloquently, and to contemplate why the people of old called their months so, and what that could mean to us in the future.
Reading this book brought me to tears at times, as I contemplated these subjects, and the fragile bonds we humans have with all of creation. I hope to never experience a true "hunger moon", but am afraid I may as climate change, oil depletion, and an increasing toxic load threaten our food supplies. It could all come crashing down very quickly. I am glad to have this small map of how our ancestors managed to feed themselves even without the technology we have come to rely upon.

Full Moon Feast - Food And The Hunger For Connection

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Jessica Prentice
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The most famous book from the legendary investor

Teaching From a Master

Must Read for any new Investor

THE SMALLEST BOOK EVER

Good start for investing basics

One Up On Wall Street : How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
Peter Lynch , and John Rothchild
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERY INVESTOR SHOULD OWN

Peter Lynch is America's number-one money manager. His mantra: Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.

Now, in a new introduction written specifically for this edition of One Up on Wall Street, Lynch gives his take on the incredible rise of Internet stocks, as well as a list of twenty winning companies of high-tech '90s. That many of these winners are low-tech supports his thesis that amateur investors can continue to reap exceptional rewards from mundane, easy-to-understand companies they encounter in their daily lives.

Investment opportunities abound for the layperson, Lynch says. By simply observing business developments and taking notice of your immediate world -- from the mall to the workplace -- you can discover potentially successful companies before professional analysts do. This jump on the experts is what produces "tenbaggers," the stocks that appreciate tenfold or more and turn an average stock portfolio into a star performer.

The former star manager of Fidelity's multibillion-dollar Magellan Fund, Lynch reveals how he achieved his spectacular record. Writing with John Rothchild, Lynch offers easy-to-follow directions for sorting out the long shots from the no shots by reviewing a company's financial statements and by identifying which numbers really count. He explains how to stalk tenbaggers and lays out the guidelines for investing in cyclical, turnaround, and fast-growing companies.

Lynch promises that if you ignore the ups and downs of the market and the endless speculation about interest rates, in the long term (anywhere from five to fifteen years) your portfolio will reward you. This advice has proved to be timeless and has made One Up on Wall Street a number-one bestseller. And now this classic is as valuable in the new millennium as ever.

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The most famous book from the legendary investor .......2007-10-16

This was the book that catapuled individual investing. He teaches you how to beat the market just by keeping your eyes and ears open.

Unfortunately, most investors don't follow his rules.

A reread for those who have questions about their returns.

This book is the Bible for investing!

Teaching From a Master.......2007-10-12

(This is a review of the full-sized edition, not the ill-advised miniature that has garnered so much negative comment.)

Why listen to Peter Lynch? He's one of the greatest stock market investors of all time. From 1977 to 1990, Lynch managed the Magellan mutual fund for Fidelity Investments. The fund's assets increased more than 2,700%.

Is that a lot? It's like Barry Bonds hitting 200 home runs in a season. It's a staggering achievement, unlikely to ever be duplicated.

There is a small industry of financial advice out there from people with no documented success. Lucky for us, Lynch decided to share his methods.

One Up on Wall Street puts stock picking skill into the minds of everyday people. The book is written in a breezy, accessible style that non-financial types will appreciate. Lynch also gives a glimpse at his life at Fidelity during his tenure running Magellan.

Stock picking is an art. Lynch delves into the intuitive side of investing. It's not all about financial statements and balance sheets, although he gives you a quick rundown of those too (Chapter 13: Some Famous Numbers). The book has more ideas per page than any of the several stock market books that I have read.

Information overload can paralyze the mind of a stockpicker. If you're not a data type of person, stock research can make your head explode. Lynch spells out a way to find good investments without suffering brain damage.

To use a food analogy, he doesn't give you a recipe, he teaches you how to cook.

Must Read for any new Investor.......2007-08-08

I've been looking for more information on how to invest into this stock market. This book was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Not only did it help me figure out what kinds of companies to keep my eye out for, it also gave me ways and formulas to check out to verify if the stock was a good buy or not. I highly recommend this book!

THE SMALLEST BOOK EVER.......2007-07-31

This is a MINIATURE book. Literally. 3 inces x 3 inches, "95 pages" with 30 or 40 big words on each page. Ridiculous. I can't believe such a thing was manufactured.

Good start for investing basics.......2007-07-15

Excellent primer for how to consider investments from a qualitative perspective, rather than the number crunching quantitive perspective put forth by so many other writers. Peter Lynch demonstrates how amateur investors can have an edge on Wall Street professionals through our day-to-day interactions with businesses.

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ONE UP ON WALL STREET HOW TO USE WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW TO MAKE MONEY IN THE MARKET
Peter; Rothchild, John Lynch
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Excellent sequel to the origional!.......2002-08-13

"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay is an amazing book that stands the test of time (having been first published in 1841). After all this time we have certainly had our share of more madness. Thankfully, Joseph Bulgatz thought it was time for a sequel.

He does an excellent of job discussing much madness that is critical to understand our world today. There are chapters on Ponzi Schemes, The Florida Land Boom, Soccor, Lotteries, Musical Madness, and an issue seemingly always threatening our world: War. The exploration of cults is especially important in my opinion because Charles MacKay refused to discuss religous madness in the origional book.

Even the chapters that don't seem as relevant to us today: Invaders From Mars (which discusses the famous Orson Welles "War Of The Worlds" broadcast), The Destruction Of The Xhosas, Dowsing, and Perpetual Motion are still critical for understanding how absurd crowds can get.

I especially enjoyed the part of the book that focused on the Tulipmania and a similar madness that went on in the same country just a hundred years later. (Proving that people often do not learn important lessons, even if separated by just a couple generations.) The great thing is that these manias have about 40 pages dedicated to them whereas in the origional book, the Tulipmania only had about 9 pages concerning it. It's a facinating topic and I don't think its too far removed from us as just a few years ago I remember some pundits referring to the "Internetmania", which might be written about in the next sequel a hundred years from now.

We should all realize "There is nothing new under the sun, that which has been will be." We can then begin to open our eyes and realize that things just as strange as these cooky events from the past are going on all around us even if we don't realize it.

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Fun, Entertaining and Enlightening

More Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Joseph Bulgatz
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This is the sequel to and updating of Charles Mackay's classic work, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. The Mackay book, now almost 160 years old, is still in print in many additions and was long celebrated as a source of investment wisdom.

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Fun, Entertaining and Enlightening .......2005-12-07

More Extraordinary Popular Delusions

" . . . Another lot was sold successively for $2,500, $7,800, $10,000, $17,500 and finally, $35,000- the last purchaser being the man who sold it for $2,500. A property owner on the street was asked what his property was worth and said, "Well, it was worth about $30,000 at nine o'clock this morning. But at ten o'clock the lot next to mine sold for $40,000, so I suppose it aught to bring about $50,000 as it is now ten minutes past twelve."

- From, More Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Joseph Bulgatz talking about the Florida land boom in the mid 1920's

When I read articles about South Florida real estate increasing in value 50% last year in certain cities I can't help but think about the book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, and its follow up, More Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Joseph Bulgatz. These books talk about bubbles and how in different times in history entire societies become delusional about prices of things from, tulips, stock shares to real estate. It's truly an enlightening book that I highly recommend!

I believe there are many underlying themes at work in the appreciation of the real estate market and as often happens when a certain asset class heats up there are sectors that will become distorted. Thinking about Florida, I cant help pondering the 76 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964. This extrapolates into roughly 11,599 boomers hitting 60 a day starting in 2006. Put another way that's 8 a minute.

I know plenty of people in their 20's, 30's and 40's that want to own a place in Florida to be able to get away and warm up during the winters, so as this wave of retirees starts to get their second wind in life and may be winding down a career they may very well head south in droves.

My partner and I own a few hospitality properties in Hollywood Beach Florida and can assure you that it's not just the US boomers that are enjoying South Florida. The Canadians head south at full speed in the winter to avoid the freezing cold, the feet upon feet of snow and freezing wind they get bombarded with. Come summer it's the Europeans that enjoy South Florida as Europe just about closes down for summer vacations. Surprisingly enough they don't mind the heat and humidity, they actually enjoy it.

Recently I drove South on A1A, Ocean Ave. from Hollywood Beach to South Beach Miami and counted the buildings going up on the ocean. This is about a 20 minute drive and I was amazed by the number of condominiums, many of them pre sold before construction, many even sold out. I counted 22 projects. Not even taking into account anything that was not directly on the ocean. We know the reason for the demand; low interest rates, people disgusted with the stock market, the baby boomers heading south and of course the simple fact that people follow momentum. Price moves beget further price moves. When people hear about a friend or colleague that put down $50,000 or $100,000 on a pre construction condo in Florida and as soon as the construction started sold it for a $100,000 profit, its hard not to take a shot and hope the move lasts just a bit more. Even if the price of the unit is $1,000,000 or more, many times you can tie up the unit for a small down payment. Sort of like what the binder boys were doing in the 1920's Florida land boom.

It's similarities like this and comments like, "Its different this time" that make me shake my head and say, "Here we go again".

By Kevin Kingston, author of: A 20,000% Gain in Real Estate

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Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same. (Book Reviews).(Book Review): An article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)

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The accelerating spread of mammon worship, galloping commercialization of science, technology and academia along with the crumbling traditional norms which upheld social conduct, have all combined to produce increasing evidence of worrisome abuse and misuse of power in all channels of life.
The book examines this global problem from multiple perspectives.

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Suppose Congress were to change Social Security just before you retired? Or repeal income tax deductions for homeowners? Or institute a flat tax? Should those changes be retroactive? Or should you retain the gains or accept the losses resulting from the new enactments? What kinds of policies might governments adopt in order to mitigate the transitional effects of changing legal rules?

Daniel Shaviro tackles these tough questions, bringing legal, economic, and political perspectives to bear on a persistent problem not often given serious attention. When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity focuses on tax law changes to develop an in-depth understanding of the transitional issues inherent in any substantive rule change and also to advance a set of normative policy guidelines applicable to any such circumstance. Shaviro reframes traditional approaches to the problem of retroactivity and offers new insights into both the theory and policy of legislative transitions.

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Thomas Graham Jr. played a role in the negotiation of every major international arms control and non-proliferation agreement signed by the United States during the past thirty years. As a U.S. government lawyer and diplomat, he helped to shape, negotiate, and secure U.S. ratification of such cornerstones of international security as SALT, START, and the ABM, INF, and CFE treaties as well as conventions prohibiting biological and chemical weapons.

Graham's memoir offers a history of the key negotiations which have substantially reduced the threat of nuclear war. His is a personal account of bureaucratic battles over arms control in six administrations, navigating among the White House, Congress, cabinet secretaries, and agencies with overlapping responsibilities and often competing interests. No comparable text brings together detailed analyses of so many pivotal documents in the history of the Cold War; it offers abundant primary source material for historians, international lawyers, and arms control specialists around the world. Disarmament Sketches also charts the rise and fall of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the only U.S. government agency with primary responsibility for arms control policy, and lays out an agenda for continuing progress in reducing weapons stockpiles around the globe.

Throughout his career, Graham has worked tirelessly to reverse the nuclear arms race and to persuade leaders around the world to make their nations safer by renouncing and reducing their weapons of mass destruction.

"For thirty years, [Thomas Graham] has been an indefatigable warrior for the true and just in the long battle to reduce the risk of nuclear war through equitable and verifiable arms control measures. The issues surrounding that battle have been serious and complex. Some have been among and within the executive agencies; others among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government; and others have involved continuous coordination with and among our allies. Tom hasbeen at the center of those controversies longer than anyone else. He has known the history, the semantics, the ambiguities, and the politics of these issues."--from the Foreword by Ambassador Paul Nitze

"Thomas Graham was at the center of all the controversies surrounding national security and arms limitation through the dark days of the Cold War and he continues in that position today as the world community now searches for a new world order. To understand this subject, crucial to our historical era, this book should be read."--Robert S. McNamara

"Graham, based on direct and significant personal experience, has catalogued and explained the effort to achieve a more secure world over the past thirty years. This is an important book."--Lloyd Axworthy, former foreign minister of Canada

"Tom Graham, in a sense, was present at the creation of much of modern arms control. I commend his book, Disarmament Sketches, for the insights that it contains and the dedication of its author to a process so important to our national security."--General John M. Shalikashvili (USA-ret.), former chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

"I have been privileged to be associated with Ambassador Thomas Graham in many multilateral disarmament endeavours and have always been impressed by his diplomatic skills, wise judgment and total dedication to the cause of disarmament and non-proliferation."--Jayantha Dhanapala, under-secretary- general for disarmament affairs, United Nations, New York

Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. is president of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, based in Washington, D.C. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for fifteen years. As President Clinton's special representative for arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament, he led the successful U.S. government effort to indefinitely extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In 1996, he led a worldwide effort to successfully support the conclusion of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations. He has taught at Stanford University, University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and University of Washington.

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DISARMAMENT SKETCHES Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law
Thomas Jr. Graham
Manufacturer: University of Washington press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H5EMZ2

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Wow.......2006-10-26

This book fails to present any interesting story or perspective on the topic within. Lew expresses a distrust and dislike for ASL and Deaf Culture that permeates his work and it's simply unacceptable.

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