American Generations: Who They Are. How They Live. What They Think (American Generations, 3rd ed)

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Age is the most important indicator of lifestyle, determining educational attainment, household composition, labor force status, income, wealth, and spending patterns. American Generations explores all these areas so you can quickly and easily see the trends—without having to do the number crunching yourself.

The fourth edition of American Generations compares and contrasts the five living age groups: Millennials, born 1977-94; Generation X, born 1965-76; Baby Boom, born 1946-64; Swing, born 1933-1945; and World War II generation, born before 1933. The book opens with an in-depth overview of the demographics of the generations, followed by ten chapters covering attitudes and behavior, education, health, housing, income, labor force, living arrangements, population, spending, and wealth. This edition is particularly valuable because it presents important 2000 census multiracial counts, as well as New Strategist's proprietary projections of racial and ethnic groups by age to 2010.

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New Foreword by Carol Ann Tomlinson

"It is the clearest approach I have seen for helping teachers distinguish the difference between concepts and facts. I will recommend it everywhere."
Heidi Hayes Jacob
Curriculum Designers, Inc.

"A lucid and helpful volume, very much what people need to move beyond simplistic teaching."
Grant P. Wiggins
Learning by Design, Inc.

This book is the ideal companion to Erickson’s landmark Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul, Second Edition. Here, the author explores concept-based learning on a more in-depth level across disciplines and grade levels. Teachers can use the specific strategies to create a seamless learning program that teaches students the skills they really need to think conceptually and to solve problems in today’s complex, changing world.

Learn how to

Take learning beyond the facts
Facilitate deep understanding and knowledge
Develop conceptual systems in the brain to process new information
Meet higher academic standards related to content knowledge, process abilities, quality performance, and school-to-work transitions
Align your curriculum with state and national standards and establish appropriate performance assessments

This excellent resource for K-12 teachers, teacher educators, curriculum designers, and staff developers contains numerous charts and figures that enable readers to put the book to immediate use.

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A Book that Changes Traditional Lesson-Planning.......2007-06-03

This is one of the most engaging and useful books I've read on curriculum. I've been trying to attach concepts to my lesson plans but I've always been uncertain on how effective these plans are. The most useful part of this book was its main theme. That is, how to teach beyond facts. The book is constantly clarifying concepts developed by the author; and uses many models to visualize a concept-based curriculum. It is a must for every teacher and educator working at any level in education.

using facts, not memorizing them.......2000-05-26

As a teacher and ex-curriculum expert, I found the title of the book very interesting. In a world where is possible to access and learn almost every piece of information and fact, it is the duty of the teacher and curricularist to focus on thinking on facts, not memorizing them.

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The Encyclopedia of Craft Projects in an afternoon: Easy, Step-by-Step Crafts with Basic How-To Instructions-All Illustrated with Over 500 Photos! (Craft)
Mickey Baskett , Cindy Gorder , Connie Sheerin , and Vicki Payne
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In just a weekend, crafters can get their creative juices flowing with this goldmine of creative techniques and projects-448 jam-packed pages worth of great ideas. Every one is fun, easy to complete, and doesn't require a major investment of time or money. Use dried flowers in new and unique ways to enhance cards and candles, and to create lovely aromatic coasters. Out of paper come beautiful photo storage boxes, Japanese washi bracelets, and even a chic checkerboard. The quilting section features a score of practical and exquisite items, including silk pillbox hats and embroidered window valances. And with the ideas for macramé, metal embossing, and decorative finishes for furniture found here, anyone will achieve fantastic results, and become a skilled crafter, too.

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Good for anyone just starting!.......2007-05-24

This is a great book for anyone interested in a variety of projects. It gives very in depth information and is an excellent way to get started with projects.

where is my book?.......2005-09-07

This book was to be delivered by the 30th of August. It is now the 7th of Sept, and still no book. One star is generous, and predicated on the hope the book is still to come.

The Encyclopedia of Craft Projects in an afternoon : Easy, Step-by-Step Crafts with Basic How-To Instructions-All Illustrated with Over 500 Photos!

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PlayStation is the hottest video-game platform going, and its $7 billion in annual sales now accounts for 23 percent of parent Sony's profits. In Revolutionaries at Sony, Reiji Asakura describes how this came about despite long odds and naysayers both within and without. Asakura gives all credit to Ken Kutaragi, a visionary executive engineer who recognized the possibilities when he first viewed Sony's revolutionary "System G" 3-D technology in 1984 and who still believes it has achieved only a fraction of its potential for launching "an entire world of computerized home entertainment." Asakura attributes much of the ongoing success to Kutaragi's reliance on more than "an engineer's point of view," noting that whenever he "came across an interesting idea, his thoughts quickly turned to how (it) could be successfully commercialized." Asakura, an economic and technology journalist based in Tokyo, is an unabashed cheerleader of the PlayStation and the people who created it, calling the product "a modern miracle" and Kutaragi "the hero of this book." But anyone curious about these incredibly popular games, which increasingly hook middle managers along with their children, should find the tale an interesting one. --Howard Rothman

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"I wanted to prove that even regular company employeesno, especially regular company employeescould build a venture of this scale with superb technology, superb concepts, and superb colleagues."Ken Kutaragi, "The Father of the Sony PlayStation".

Here, for the first time ever, is the authorized story of Ken Kutaragi, the vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment whose successful campaign to dominate the gaming industry with 1994's PlayStation has become the stuff of modern business and technological legend.

A priceless analysis of technical, marketing, and over-all business strategies and a riveting saga of ambition, determination, and extraordinary vision, Revolutionaries at Sony is a rare and enthralling true-life account that reads like a work of masterful suspense fiction.

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Valuable Model for Entrepreneurship in Japanese Companies.......2001-02-13

Revolutionaries at Sony is the authorized case history of how Sony came to enter and become a leader in the video game business in the 1990s. Many people despair about the potential for large companies to produce entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial results from within major corporations. Even more people would despair about that occurring with fast-changing technologies in the slow-moving, consensus-driven cultures of Japanese companies. The latest look at this general subject is found in the well-done book, The Innovator's Dilemma.

This book is an important case history on the subject, because it both confirms and challenges many common beliefs about intrapreneurship (being an entrepreneur inside a company, a term coined by Gifford Pinchot).

First, Japanese companies have a reputation for being not very innovative. The Sony entry into computer games is just the opposite, an important innovation based on a well-considered bet on advanced technology and how a market could be developed. In describing this case, the potential advantages of a large company because obvious in terms of creating access to and the ability to use more types of advanced technology.

Second, the case history is especially noteworthy because the Sony team took the unusual perspective (but one that I subscribe to in The 2,000 Percent Solution and The Irresistible Growth Enterprise) that ordinary people can approach perfection routinely. And the Sony team did just that.

Third, Ken Kutaragi, the key entrepreneur in the story, shows how being a contructive rebel can pay off. Shades of skunk works at Lockheed! He clearly must be familiar with the literature that suggests that you need to get the team away from everyone else, yet access top talent. He did this by the unusual approach of heading a joint venture between Sony corporate and Sony Music, a subsidiary. This allowed the venture to be both in and out of Sony, depending on what is needed. He was aggressive when Sony was wrong, and enthusistically supportive when Sony was right in its support.

Fourth, this case is an excellent example of technological vision: Many of the key decisions were based on the expected development of future technology, but that technology was not yet available as the product was developed. If the technology had not become available later, Sony would have lost a fortune. Yet it made one instead. This is a wonderful example of anticipation.

The summary of the key principles that created this success (over $7 billion in sales in its fourth year -- one of the greatest new business entries in history) near the end is worth putting on your wall.

Anyone who wants to create fast growth should study this book. It provides many key lessons into the required leadership practices for technology-based businesses in the 21st century. I suspect it will become a classic in Japan. It should become one everywhere else as people seriously consider how to make giant companies dance nimbly with technology.

Nothing Revolutionary, but a decent read nonetheless.......2001-01-03

Revolutionaries at Sony does a good job of detailing an insider's perspective of the rise of the Playstation. It gives a good account of how the platform came to be, and a thorough discussion of the hardware. Sony's business plans, particularly its marketing strategy is also detailed for the reader, and gives some insight into the marketing of the PS2.

Unfortunately, the story of Ken Katarugi, the "hero" of the book (p. xi), reads more like "The Life and Times of Montgomery Burns, as told by Waylon Smithers" rather than even a semi-objective attempt at accurate history. Indeed, after reading Revolutionaries at Sony, I was left wondering what is this book exactly? A history? A fan book? By its cover, it's supposed to be a business case-study book. As a case study book, I'd expect a wider range of perspectives. Who heard of a case study of a business that quotes the senior executives almost exclusively? Where are the attempts to build alternative explanations, or refute alternative hypothesis. If it is a business case study, then I'd also expect to see a more thorough description of the business environment Nintendo's business model, which Asakura seems to have missed almost completely, is scantly mentioned. Given that Sheff's excellent history of Nintendo is now several years old, this oversite is more than a little disturbing.

But, if you're looking for a good one sided (Officially sancioned) account of the rise of the PlayStation, and a few of the facts behind the Rise of the Playstation, then Revolutionaries at Sony will do.

You can read the full review at Joystick101.org

http://www.joystick101.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2000/12/23/19945/112

Do you develop or market products? Read this book!.......2000-11-01

Your virtually guranteed to walk away with 1 or 2 good ideas about how to develop and market products. This is like reading the play book for the New York Yankees. You won't find anything shocking, it's just a great story about how to break into a very competitve computer games market. You'll read how superior technology, relentless attention to detail and design, love for the customer, cost superiority and a vision to be the best in the world lead to great success. This is the closest thing the business world has to a royal straight flush! It's a quick read, so stop reading this and start reading this book.

The One Man Makes a Successful Product Myth.......2000-10-18

This book presents Ken Kutaragi as the genius who single-handedly created the successful Playstation. It is just not a realistic picture of how a business runs or how a product becomes a success. It needs to include more information about other people who contributed to the product and the cultural environment in which it originated.

The translation from the Japanese also creates a style of grammar that is just not quite right to the English reader.

Half-way through the book I decided that my time was more valuable than this book and I needed to move on to something more rewarding (and more entertaining).

Good history, lots of Sony PR.......2000-09-20

This book is interesting, but it really feels like Sony-worship. It is great PR for Sony, but if you're looking for an objective view of the great videogame wars you won't find it here. What you will find is some good historical information about why Sony entered the videogame industry. The book largely centers on the Japanese side of Sony; it uses many examples which have been translated to English but discusses Japanese commercials, prices, etc, leaving me a bit confused until I realized the book had been translated from Japanese. Most of the information concerning Sony v Nintendo is accurate but presented in a "Sony can do no wrong" light which I found aggravating. The author takes every opportunity to represent Sony as revolutionizing the videogame industry, and declares Kutaragi the savior. If you read this book, just keep in mind that the author is extraordinarily biased toward Sony, and take all information presented in that light. Then you'll be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.

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This digital document is a journal article from Transportation Research Part B, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper proposes a time-dependent network equilibrium model that simultaneously considers a traveler's choice of departure time, route, parking location and parking duration in road networks with multiple user classes and multiple parking facilities. In the proposed model, travelers are differentiated by their trip purpose and parking duration, parking locations are characterized by facility type and parking charge, and the decision-making process of travelers on travel and parking choices is assumed to follow a hierarchical choice structure. The model is formulated as a variational inequality problem, and is solved by a heuristic solution algorithm. Numerical results for two example networks are presented to show the solution quality and investigate the solution sensitivities to some input data. It is found that parking behavior is significantly affected by travel demand, walking distance, parking capacity, and parking charge. The proposed model provides a useful tool for studying the complex temporal and spatial interaction between road traffic and parking congestion, and can be used to assess the effects of various parking policies and infrastructure improvements at a strategic level.

A note on supply chain network equilibrium models [An article from: Transportation Research Part E]

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A note on supply chain network equilibrium models [An article from: Transportation Research Part E]
Q. Meng , Y.K. Huang , and R.L. Cheu
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Transportation Research Part E, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper is concerned with the supply chain network equilibrium models proposed by Nagurney et al. [Nagurney, A., Dong, J., Zhang, D., 2002. A supply chain network equilibrium model. Transportation Research 38E, 281-303] and Dong et al. [Dong, J., Zhang, D., Nagurney, A., 2004. A supply chain network equilibrium model with random demands. European Journal of Operational Research 156, 194-212]. It demonstrates that these models possess the unconstrained continuously differentiable minimization formulations, whose any stationary point is the solution of the corresponding model. Accordingly, not only is the Quasi-Newton algorithm capable of finding a solution of the model, but also it can overcome the difficulty experienced by the modified projection method in choosing an appropriate predetermined step size. In addition, 11 benchmark examples are employed to show the advantage of the unconstrained minimization formulation.

Solving the dynamic network user equilibrium problem with state-dependent time shifts [An article from: Transportation Research Part B]

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Solving the dynamic network user equilibrium problem with state-dependent time shifts [An article from: Transportation Research Part B]
T.L. Friesz , and R. Mookherjee
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000RR50LA

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This digital document is a journal article from Transportation Research Part B, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In this paper we consider the infinite dimensional variational inequality (VI) formulation of dynamic user equilibrium (DUE) put forward by Friesz et al. (1993) [A variational inequality formulation of the dynamic network user equilibrium problem. Operations Research 41, 179-191] as well as the differential variational inequality (DVI) version reported in Friesz et al. (2001) [Dynamic network user equilibrium with state-dependent time lags. Networks and Spatial Economics 1, 319-347]. We show how the theory of optimal control and the theory of infinite dimensional variational inequalities may be combined to create a simple and effective fixed point algorithm for calculating DUE network flows that are solutions of both formulations. A numerical example is provided.

A general variational inequality formulation of the network equilibrium-travel choice problem (Publication / Transportation Planning Group, Department ... University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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A general variational inequality formulation of the network equilibrium-travel choice problem (Publication / Transportation Planning Group, Department ... University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
C. S Fisk
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VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES AND NETWORK EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS

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VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES AND NETWORK EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS
F. et al (ed) Giannessi
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