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In 1997, members of the World Trade Organization embraced an agreement to liberalize basic international telecommunications services within a competitive trade framework. Shortly after the WTO agreement entered into force, the Aspen Institute convened the third annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on International Telecommunications (AIRIT). The main objective of the meeting was to identify appropriate institutions and forums to implement the new framework and to smooth the transition from the old monopoly order to a truly competitive environment. Three main themes were discussed: the implementation of the WTO agreement on telecommunications, the restructuring of global traffic, and the governance of global electronic commerce. This report details the conclusions and recommendations of the international telecommunications, trade, and policy leaders who participated in the AIRIT roundtable discussions.
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Full Speed Ahead: Stories and Activities for Children on Transportation
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Robin Currie
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Straw into Gold: Books and Activities About Folktales/Grades Prek-3 (Peddler's Pack, No 2)
ASIN: 0872876535 |
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Introduce children to literature with stories and activities about things that go! Approximately 125 picture books are annotated, and a skills index allows the activity leader to use stories that will reinforce such skills as rhythm, following directions, and word recognition. Grades PreK-3.
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- Full Speed Ahead in Reading
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Full Speed Ahead in Reading (Teacher Time-Savers)
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Full Speed Ahead in Reading.......2000-04-04
This is an excellent practice book for several reading skills from grades 4 - 6. I especially like the short stories because a teacher can easily identify what problems a student may be having concerning main idea, inference, drawing conclusions, and definitions found with context clues. In Texas, we give the TAAS test beginning in third grade. This book has many short exercises dealing with skills found on the TAAS test and gives the teacher a way to pinpoint reading problems.
The book also includes worksheets for cause and effect, fact and opinion, and main topics. It is one of my favorite resources for practice in a reading classroom.
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Damn the alligators - full speed ahead
Porcher L Taylor
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Full Speed Ahead (Personal Development Series) (Personal Development Series)
Joyce Weiss
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Get into the fast lane by setting goals, so you can avoid detours and stay on the highway to your dream! Make quality decisions and stay committed `where the rubber meets the road` by doing whatever it takes! Learn how to: Recharge your battery and turn negatives into positives so you can always start your `engine` and go for it! Tune-up your `funny bone` and use high-octane humor to attract people into your lane, who will follow you to success. How to use communication as a two-way street to build rapport and relationships with more people.
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Full Speed Ahead! (Mini Fun Kit)
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Now little travelers can bring hours of SpongeBob silliness with them as they sail through family trips. This brand-new format features a mini coloring book, stickers, double-sided write-on/wipe-off game card, fortune-teller, stencil, colored pencils, and crayons!
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Operations Management: Providing Value in Goods and Services
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Operations Management, Third Edition, is a student-friendly text that consistently covers the most important key concepts and recent trends in production and operations management. This new third edition covers such universal and vital issues as facility, layout, quality control, supply chain management, and scheduling control - providing an excellent tool in preparing students to move from classroom concepts to workplace implementation.
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Operations what?.......2001-07-24
A some times daunting area of business where taking a systematic approach is often difficult.
Too often authors of this area segregate the subject of operations management to only one area of business leaving business professionals confused, wondering what relevance it has to their area of business. Dilworth takes the reader through the fundamental aspects of operations management in a flexible way that can be applied to almost any industry. Of particular interest is the area of supply chain management where Dilworth has taken a modern and inovative approach to an important area of the value chain often ignored. Dilworth has really out done himself. Well done Dilworth!
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Operations what?.......2001-07-24
A some times daunting area of business where taking a systematic approach is often difficult.
Too often authors of this area segregate the subject of operations management to only one area of business leaving business professionals confused, wondering what relevance it has to their area of business. Dilworth takes the reader through the fundamental aspects of operations management in a flexible way that can be applied to almost any industry. Of particular interest is the area of supply chain management where Dilworth has taken a modern and inovative approach to an important area of the value chain often ignored. Dilworth has really out done himself. Well done Dilworth.
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This study examines Afghanistan's opium economy in order to understand its dynamics, the reasons for its success, its beneficiaries and victims, and the problems it has caused domestically and abroad. The purpose of the study is to assist the country and the international community in fulfilling the objectives of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (1998) to eliminate illicit drugs. It is hoped that this publication will raise public awareness about an issue that deserves world attention.
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In the spirit of his earlier books, Alexander Hamilton: American and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, Richard Brookhiser produces an elegant, concise volume drawing on previous scholarship but offering a fresh perspective on four prickly generations of Adamses. Until David McCullough's John Adams became a surprise bestseller, the United States' second president and his descendants seldom had good press. Acknowledging John's essential role in the American Revolution and his son John Quincy's principled fight against slavery, contemporaries and historians nonetheless judged both men poor presidents, characterized by haughty pride and stiff-necked dislike of compromise. Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy's son, lost an almost certain chance to run for president as a Republican in 1872 by disdainfully announcing "that he would reject any nomination that had to be negotiated for;" the most famous book by Charles's son, The Education of Henry Adams (1907), implicitly blames Henry's failure to achieve the prominence of his forefathers on the loss of meaning and coherence in the modern, fragmented world. Tracing the lives and careers of these four men, Brookhiser strikes a balance between their struggles with a daunting heritage and battles with the often unappreciative outer world, identifying "the constant companion of the Adamses" as "the idea of greatness. Am I as great as my ancestors? As great as my contemporaries? Why doesn't the world recognize my greatness?" This proves a sensible organizing principle for his graceful reappraisal of a well-known but not often well-understood family. --Wendy Smith
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They were America's longest lasting dynasty, the closest thing to a royal family our nation has ever known. The Adamses played a leading role in America's affairs for nearly two centuries -- from John, the self-taught lawyer who rose to the highest office in the government he helped to create; to John Quincy, the child prodigy who followed his father to the White House and fought slavery in Congress; to Charles Francis, the Civil War diplomat; to Henry, the brilliant scholar and journalist. Indeed, the history of the Adams family can be read as the history of America itself. For when the Adamses "looked at their past, they saw the nation's," writes author Richard Brookhiser. "When they looked at the nation's past, they saw themselves."
America's First Dynasty charts the family's travels through American history along with an impressive cast of characters, among them George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Theodore Roosevelt. Brookhiser also details the darker side of the Adams experience, from the specters of alcoholism and suicide to the crushing burden of performance passed on from father to son. Yet by putting a human face on this legendary family, Brookhiser succeeds in creating an impassioned, heroic family portrait that the American public is not likely to forget.
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"Richard Brookhiser has won a wide and loyal following for his stylish, pointed, and elegant biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. In America's First Dynasty, Brookhiser tells the story of America's longest and still greatest dynasty -- the Adamses, the only family in our history to play a leading role in American affairs for nearly two centuries. From John, the self-made, tough-minded lawyer who rose to the highest office in the government he helped create; to John Quincy, the child prodigy who grew up amid foreign royalty, followed his father to the White House, and later reinvented himself as a champion of liberty in Congress; to politician and writer Charles Francis, the only well-balanced Adams; to Henry, brilliant scholar and journalist -- the Adamses achieved longer-lasting greatness than any other American family. Brookhiser's canvass starts in colonial America, when John Adams had to teach himself the law and ride on horseback for miles to find clients. It does not end until after the Titanic sinks -- Henry had booked a room but changed his plans -- and World War I begins, with Henry near the action in France. The story of this single family offers a short course in the nation's history, because for nearly two hundred years Adams history was American history. The Adamses were accompanied by an impressive cast of characters, from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, to Andrew Jackson and Ulysses Grant, to Teddy Roosevelt. America's First Dynasty offers telling portraits of the great men of our past, and many of the women around them. John and Abigail's great love affair was destined to be repeated by their offspring and offspring's offspring.
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Half a gill of hard cider.......2007-06-13
I saw this on sale and thought it would be a nice 'chaser' after David McCullough's long but excellent "John Adams" that I was just finishing up. I was right, but barely. It's a well written quick review of the four famous and interesting generations of Adamses. It gets high marks for putting a lot into a small package. Also, all four get equal time, which, given the complexities of each, I appreciated. It did not surprise me that Brookhiser took a less flattering (and more mainstream) view of John Adams than McCullough. But when his disparagment stretched to the following three generations I started to wonder what size burr the author may be sitting on. If you buy Brookhiser's somewhat malignant view of these four, it then begs the question how such an irascible hypocritical set of men could be so successful. Which is neither asked nor answered. It was worth the $5 I paid, but I wouldn't pay full price.
Engaging but in want of more depth........2005-11-17
Throughout much of human history, leaders of nations were the children of leaders of nations. Nearly 230 years ago, a radical notion was advanced in a document that would help to form a new republic: that all men are created equal. Many of those American colonists who declared themselves independent of their king wanted not only to limit the power of the executive but to be sure that they had the ability to choose who that executive would be, rather than to have it pass from father to son. Thus, "only three of the first eight presidents produced potential successors, [and] only three of those sons were considered presidential timber." Two of them were named Adams, and one of them would actually become president.
In America's First Dynasty, Richard Brookhiser uses just under 220 pages to paint compelling biographies of four successive generations of a family from 1735 through 1918, an unusually active one that included two presidents of the United States, a public servant of the republic and his state, and a writer. These men lived through tumultuous and eventful times and played roles in them.
The text appears to be well-researched and is quite readable. Quite a lot of history was packed into a very small number of pages; readers with a good understanding of the times and concurrent history will find their understanding of these characters enhanced. Readers who do not know much of the concurrent history might feel rushed.
In groups of three chapters, each of the subjects is considered. Beginning with John Adams, we're introduced to him already in service of his country, at a dinner party in France. We follow him through the highlights of his professional career, and into retirement. We're suddenly focusing on his son John Quincy, as his career starts at an early age with his father, and how he differs from his brothers, who fall prey to the snare of alcohol. John Quincy himself was distinguished, even becoming president, but (much like his father) was hampered by his distaste for political parties and the method of serving in public office.
Charles Francis Adams married well and held various public offices throughout his career, even running as a candidate for Vice-President on the Free-Soil party ticket. Most of his public life was in state and then federal legislature, followed by a diplomatic appointment by Abraham Lincoln. Brookhiser points out that it is in the family of Charles Francis that the family tendency toward alcoholism is broken.
Henry Adams apparently had no taste for public life, preferring instead to become a writer. Much of the biographical sketch focuses on the creation of his best-known work, The Education of Henry Adams. With only his lineage and his wife's suicide to frame the work, we're left wondering what else Henry did. Perhaps this was Brookhiser's intention: to focus on that which each of the subjects left behind for posterity.
Indeed, after the biographical sketches, we're given several more brief chapters that discuss the family habit of keeping a diary and the writing of history. Brookhiser then attempts to frame much of what we have read, discussing such matters as dynasty and legacy. I found the discussion a bit strange because while various Adamses were clearly concerned with the matter of greatness-returning to the question of who are great men-I was under no impression that the Adamses themselves were much concerned with the legacy of the family. I saw only that they were like every other family, wanting what is best for their children, hoping that they will be of good character and do well for themselves.
Putting the discussion in terms of dynasty might not be so strange when viewed through the lens of history. The fact is that John Adams was there from the founding of the country, and his family remained prominent in American life into the twentieth century. Had Henry fathered children, perhaps the chain of prominent Adamses would be unbroken today.
Given this country's interest in the families that produce presidents, it's hardly any surprise that there would be such interest in a family that produced two presidents, especially in light of the fact that the current president is also the son of a president. In all, America's First Dynasty makes for an engaging read, but the extreme brevity of the biographical sketches left me hoping for more.
Reversion to an Old Style of Historical Biography.......2004-02-27
The old style of biography was much like theatre criticism. The more cleverly you could trash the subject, the more you were -- or felt yourself to be -- a winner. When personality peculiarities made subjects as vulnerable to witticism as John Adams' was, we got decades of historical biographers trying to out-acidify the likes of Bernard Shaw. This style had faded significantly by the time David McCullough wrote a biography of John Adams that was unabashedly laudatory...an open fan letter...clear hero worship!
From Brookhiser's race through four members of the Adams family I learned only two things for sure.
1. The Adams's irritate him.
2. The old adage that "the things you criticize most in others are usually your own worst fault" appears to be true.
The author's rancor calls and raises the rancor he attributes to his subjects. Reading it was an unpleasant experience with little to no redeeming informational or ideational value for anyone but the author's therapist.
Interestin History of famous family........2004-02-05
"America` First Dynasty" by Richard Brookhiser. Sub-titled: "The Adamses, 1713-1918".
Understandably, this book concentrates on the two presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Their contributions as one-term presidents help to establish democracy in the nascent United States. Brookhiser notes that the two Adamses were the first presidents not from Virginia. Much of what John Adams did became precedents for later presidents.
It appears to me that the author makes the tacit assumption that the reader has a fairly good knowledge of American history, so he casually introduces lesser know subjects, such as the "Know Nothing Party " (Native American Party) and the anti-Masonic efforts in upstate New York. This, of course, leads you to things that you want to examine further, but, on the other hand, inhibits the free-flow of the book.
I think that the author is stretching to consider Charles Francis or even Henry Adams as "greats" who were continuing the Adams "dynasty". I did, however, enjoy Brookhiser's "book review" approach to "The Education of Henry Adams" and Henry's book on Mont St. Michel. Perhaps the next book by Brookhiser would be the comparison of the contributions of the Adamses, the Harrisons, the Roosevelts and the Bushes: all presidents who related by blood.
I listened to the seven tapes as I commuted around Boston; excellent reading by Dan Cashman. It is appropriate to note the name of the town of Haverhill is pronounced as HAV AAAA rill by the natives.. The reader sounded it out and said Have Er Hill, which is logical but not the way it is said in Massachusetts. Further, the hometown of the Adamses , Quincy, is said as "QuinZZZy".
Nice Vignettes, but Pointless Talk of Dynasties.......2003-12-13
I've read all of Richard Brookhiser's biographies of the Founding Fathers (Washington, Hamilton, Morris) and I've enjoyed them all, but I liked this one the least. Brookhiser writes very well and his observations on the character of his subjects are always revealing. He shows how often the best quality in a biographer is not polished prose or research skills, but judgment.
In his book on the four generations of Adams, however, Brookhiser overreaches. Had he kept his focus on the men, this would have been a fine if undistinguished book. But Brookhiser appears to be trying to say something about families, American dynasties, and the difficulties of sustaining greatness. What he wanted to say, I could never quite figure out. The wonderful aphoristic quality of Brookhiser's prose -- that makes him so good when writing some sharp and brief observation -- fails him when he must sustain an argument.
An example of this is when Brookhiser writes in his introduction of the contradiction of an egalitarian society having so many political family dynasties, from the Adamses to Bushes. In noting this, he writes "[An American political dynasty] is the tribute democracy pays to aristocracy." This sounds very nice, but it's meaningless. Most of Brookhiser's comments on the significance of American political dynasties and how the Adamses were able to sustain their greatness fall along this line.
Thankfully, most of this book is on the Adamses, and it is when writing on them that Brookhiser shines. Still, the bad ideas -- even though they don't make up a substantial part of the book -- hang over it. Brookhiser is always interesting when writing about a person, but is not at his best when trying to come up with a conceptual framework to make sense of it all.
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This book provides new application tools for stimulating creativity in the workplace. Unlike other books on this topic, the Idea Edge takes you beyond the theory of creativity by providing team leaders and managers specific tools and techniques to support and practice creative thinking within their organizations. The book is intended to turbo-charge traditional continuous improvement activities and increase a team's ability to develop breakthrough ideas when solving problems, improving processes, developing new products, and creating strategic plans. It's elements heighten traditional brainstorming methods by breaking people's routine patterns of thinking and surfacing their creative potential. The steps covered are powerful, but practical, and inspire teams by evolving their skills and contribution to organizational success. The Idea Edge highlights include: I: The Creativity Tools-describing the seven tools for generating ideas; II: The Idea Selection Tools-explaining how to select the most promising ideas generated; and III: Putting the Tools to Work-describing how to apply both the creativity and idea selection tools for achieving business excellence. Also provided are numerous examples; tips on how to lead and facilitate teams; and guidance on how to sustain an organizational culture that encourages and nurtures creative thinking.
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