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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world.
But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential.
Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe.
Customer Reviews:
No where near technical enough.......2007-10-03
Like many jounalists' stories this is set around a particular factor. In this case an entrepeneur who no doubt had a big role to play.
But there were lots of other factors which are not given much play and others bearly alluded to. Also, not even one drawing of a container or its fittings!
So OK as an intro but by no means a comprehensive history.
Global supply chains explained.......2007-08-13
It's hard to dispute that containerization has dramatically altered the rules of the game: global supply chains, logistics, and outsourcing are all direct consequences of the massive trade flows enabled by modern containerships. Marc Levinson's account of this industry is an interesting mix of politics and history. A good section of the book is dedicated to labor disputes, and the general resistance of the dock workers and US unions to mechanization. In retrospect, they were worried for the right reasons, modern ports require very little human involvement and the days of breakbulk shipping are long gone. In all, 'The Box' offers a good mix of the politics, strategy, and historical research.
Interesting Look at the Building Blocks of Globalization.......2007-08-08
Although THE BOX may be somewhat too American centered, economist and business journalist Marc Levinson has written an eminently readable history of the advent of the modern logistics industry that goes a long way toward bringing the attention of a nonspecialist audience to the topic. Despite his belief that his subject has "all the romance of a tin can" (p. 1), his account is anything but dull because he builds much of his narrative around a cast of colorful entrepreneurs, engineers, and union leaders. The most significant character is Malcom P. McLean, who launched modern containerization in April 1956 by having fifty-eight truck trailers loaded onboard a refitted oil tanker that sailed from Newark, New Jersey, to Houston. The main background to Levinson's account, however, consists of the various roadblocks to containerization put in place and enforced by government regulators in agencies such as the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), the United States Maritime Administration, and the Federal Maritime Board. In the author's opinion, the bureaucrats, far from having the consumer's best interest in mind, usually undertook to protect established commercial interests by limiting competition in the transportation industry....
Levinson's treatment of the revolutionary days of container shipping, which lasted until the early 1980s, is very thorough, but his account of the more recent past is much less so. Indeed, people familiar with the industry may get the impression that a final (non-American) chapter is missing from the book. For example, although Levinson describes the rise of container ports in western Europe and East Asia, he devotes only two paragraphs to the fact that European and Asian firms that were late entrants in the game now dominate the industry. No U.S. firm is currently listed in the world's top eighteen container ship companies. Five of these top firms (including the three largest) are headquartered in Europe, three in China (two in mainland China and one in Hong Kong), three in Japan, two in Taiwan, two in South Korea, and the remaining three in Singapore, Chile, and Israel. (See Ted Smith-Peterson, "Railroading's New Economy: The Spigot," TRAINS 66, no. 9 [2006]: 34-41.) In Levinson's opinion, these late entrants achieved success because they "arrived with financial and managerial skills foreign to many of the carriers they replaced, skills appropriate to an industry in which raising capital and managing information systems were far more important than maritime knowledge" and because they were not burdened with "the legacy of government subsidies and directives that had crippled many of their predecessors by forcing them to buy ships built in their home countries or to sail routes determined by regulators" (p. 275). No doubt many readers would like to know more about these developments and about which skills Levinson means.
Levinson also barely alludes to more recent technological advances and to the amazing fact that the rest of the world now handles only one-third as many containers as the Chinese do (for both domestic and international trade). Furthermore, in the words of one industry analyst, China has now become the "U.S. railroads' growth engine" and has been the cause of an American "rail renaissance" (Tom Murray, "Railroading's New Economy: The China Factor," TRAINS 66, no. 8 [2006], p. 28).
Despite such shortcomings, however, THE BOX is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in understanding the emergence of our contemporary "globalized" world economy.
Superb for non-specialists.......2007-05-08
I read this book a few months ago for my nonfiction "foreign policy" book club and we loved it. I continue to rave about it and recommend it to others in diverse fields from national security to development to leadership studies. As generalists unfamiliar with shipping, this book was incredibly readable and engaging. Chapters treated a diverse range of topics, which we found well covered and incisive, such as the discussion of the role of labor unions, business entrepreneurship, and interplay between containerization and globalization. Kudos to Mr. Levinson for a superb effort.
A fascinating read about "boring" containers.......2007-04-25
Ever looked at a modern city's ports and wondered about those gigantic cranes or the logistics chain that they were a part of? Or wondered how we went from a world of stevedores/longshoremen and manual unloading to the gigantic container ships and nearly automated loading and unloading? Or better yet, how goods get so cheaply from the world's manufacturing facilities in China to the US, Europe and other places?
These are the questions the book addresses. It does so by focusing on the humble containers at the root of all this process and retelling their history over the last 50 years or so. If we didn't have a global standard for shipping container sizes, none of the infrastructure built around them like container ships, cranes, ports, rail cars, truck trailers and others would be possible.
The book shapes the story of the shipping container around one man Malcolm McLean who is widely regarded as the person who first used containers and built a shipping business around them. The book does a good job of detailing the history of the container including the initial struggles, the opposition of the longshoremen's labor unions and the rise and fall of ports as they bet (or did not bet) on the economies of scale that were brought about by the container. One does get a sense by reading the book of how much of our global economy we owe to the changes brought about by containers.
So why only 4stars? For one, I think the subject matter is interesting only to a narrow cross section of the population. Second, the book does drag quite a bit in places. The author does a great job of making the matter accessible, but he could have gone further. A certain pedantic nature does creep into the book and I felt some of the material could have been edited out of the book to trade off readability at the cost of scholarly completeness.
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Clear and Concise. Varberg focuses on the most critical concepts.
This popular calculus text remains the shortest mainstream calculus book available – yet covers all relevant material needed by, and appropriate to, the study of calculus at this level. It's conciseness and clarity helps you focus on, and understand, critical concepts in calculus without them getting bogged down and lost in excessive and unnecessary detail. It is accurate, without being excessively rigorous, up-to-date without being faddish.
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awesome.......2007-09-05
i ordered it and got it in a very good condition and in time. customer service is awesome. my blessings. keep up the good work.
A student who disliked this book.......2007-08-21
This book was woefully inadequate for my calculus I and II courses. Not in its complexity, but in its explanations. I learn best by reading books and again and again I went to this book to try to learn, and ended up confused and frustrated, sometimes to the point of tears. I had a terrible grad-student Calc I teacher who often assigned the proof problems (!?!?!?!) resulting in a highly intimidating experience, as it's like the book is some high and mighty mathematician who expects you to understand stuff by saying: "here's a theorem and a proof and some rules and stuff, and you should be able to figure out the rest by your own brainpower, stupid undergrad neophyte." I borrowed my husband's old college calc book and fell in love with it. Yes, it was twice the size, but it actually EXPLAINED calculus and the associated jargon and how to DO calculus, something this book does terribly. I understand that it contains a wealth of valuable mathematical information, but my puny undergrad brain had a really difficult time interpreting it with such sparse explanations. It's important that calc texts use jargon and that calc students learn it, but this book seems like it expected us to come to the class already knowing that jargon - it needs better "jargon translation". My calc II teacher was amazing, but I still found this text to be confusing and inaccessable. I ended up with A's both semesters but that's due only to my husband's calc book. Had it been only the Varberg text I used, I'm pretty sure I would have failed and sworn my everlasting hatred of calculus.
Good!.......2006-10-24
Subject: Cal. 3
Size: Not too small.
Capacity of knowledge: plenty.
Self instruction: yes.
Manual workbook: $40.
Readable: absolutely.
Good for college students, but the downfall is that it's old and that it tends to use a few ancient methods of solving.
Be careful, know the EXACT ISBN........2006-08-24
There are two types of electronic suppliments that come with this book. One is MyMathLab and the other is MathXL. The geniuses at Pearson decided to make them completely incompatible. So, if you get one code, it won't work with the other system.
Geniuses.
The ISBN for MathXL is: 0-13-142924-8
The ISBN for MyMathLab is: 0-13-230811-8
Excellent reference text; Poor choice for neophytes.......2006-05-26
As mentioned, this book is amazingly compact, cramming three semesters of calculus and a bit of ordinary differential equations into just 800 pages. That conciseness also implies that much explanatory material and many illustrative examples are missing.
The authors mention in the preface that "classifiers of calculus books would call this a traditional book. Most theorems are proved or left as exercises to prove..." Nearly every result in this book has an accompanying proof. For those with a serious interest in mathematics, this is a useful resource. For most others, the presence of so many proofs can be overwhelming and probably is a turnoff.
Included with the book is a one-page detachable reference card containing a massive amount of valuable information, including common rules for derivatives and integrals, geometric formulas, a few conversion factors, trigonometric identities and graphs (very useful!), and more. The book also has a three-page comprehensive table of integrals in the inside back cover and a listing of geometric formulas in the front, along with a commemorative timeline and portraits featuring the deceased European males who made calculus possible.
Given all of this, I would highly recommend this book as an 800-page calculus reference text, or maybe as a text in an honors calculus sequence that expects to use the text throughout multiple semesters - then using it saves you money.
But for those who don't have a super-strong background or interest in math, those who are just taking calculus for a requirement or those who have never seen calculus before, or for those who are just plain math-phobic - using this book just doesn't make any sense. I wouldn't recommend it.
For those who are stuck with this book for a course, I'd suggest looking for another book to help you out. One possible book has already been mentioned in another review: Silvanus Thompson and Martin Gardner's "Calculus Made Easy", a book that dates back originally to 1910 (!). I've read parts of it, and the book looks good to me.
I'm sure that there are many other helpful books; try checking your local/university library or looking on Amazon for ideas. An extra calculus textbook that's more student-friendly might be a good idea.
As for the pages falling out, I haven't had a problem with it (I have the 8th edition), but I don't use the book all that much.
I haven't found any serious errors in the text, but I haven't read everything thoroughly, having only used the text for Calc III.
And, yeah, getting the student solutions manual would probably be a good idea.
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Stalking has emerged as a major social issue over the past decade to become the subject of intensive clinical and research study. This volume combines the authors' extensive clinical experience working with stalkers and their victims with a critical and thorough review of the existing literature. Major topics of discussion include the emergence and definition of stalking; effects and reduction of impacts on victims; and types of stalking. The authors have provided an informative, practical, and absorbing work that is a major step forward in elucidating the nature, causes, impact, and management of stalking.
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Lucid, well researched and useful.......2005-01-12
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The Most Comprehensive Monograph on thePioneering Swiss Graphic Designer Ever Published"A visual poet, a resourceful designer, and a pioneer in education--acrossall forms his creations spoke with the same unified harmony of line, color,and image.He taught discipline, clarity, honesty, and integrity throughexample.In a profession critically short on such values, his life andwork continue to personify the ideal of a committed, humane, andconscientious designer."Kerry William Purcell, authorJosef M+-+ller-Brockmann (1914-96) was one of the most important andprolific voices of graphic design who created many of twentieth century'smost significant and memorable posters.He was a leading practitioner andtheorist of the Swiss Style, which emphasized cleanliness, readability, andobjectivity.Beginning with the opening of his own studio in Zurich in1936 and working until his death in 1996, the mark he left behind isimmeasurable.JOSEF M+#156;LLER-BROCKMANN by Kerry William Purcell, is the most comprehensivemonograph on the graphic designer ever published--including over fourhundred images culled from the designer's personal archive.Presenting theentire range of M+-+ller-Brockmann's career, ranging from his most famousworks to never before seen projects, this volume is essential for designstudents, professional designers, or anyone interested in the history ofgraphic design.M+-+ller-Brockmann's work ranged from social/civic projects such as postersfor the Swiss Automobile Club and Z+-+rich Police to commercial projects forIBM (for whom he was the design advisor in western Europe), Rosenthal, andHermes Typewriters.He was also an influential mentor to contemporarydesigners, writing a number of books on graphic design and its history. His contributions to magazines such as "New Graphic Design," his designphilosophies, and his ability to create design systems secure his status asa key figure in spreading the Swiss design ethic internationally.M+-+ller-Brockmann began his career as an illustrator, where his keenawareness for the quality of forms first emerged.He is perhaps best-knownas graphic design's foremost proponent of grid systems to assist infunctional and objective design.The grid system allowed him to organizehis subject matter to create the most effective design.Even his designsthat appear free of structure were rigidly organized by M+-+ller-Brockmannbeneath the surface.M+-+ller-Brockmann was also an accomplishedphotographer, often integrating experimental photography, photomontages,and light paintings into his design work.The grid system, industrialtypefaces, and the use of photographic images rather than illustrationswere M+-+ller-Brockmann's trademark and, ultimately, the classic emblems ofSwiss graphic design.This new book offers readers the ability to approach M+-+ller-Brockmann'swork from several points of view, resulting in an extension of hisinfluence on graphic design beyond his familiar poster work.Illustratedby images of the final designs, sketches, and production drawings from hisarchive--and with long captions explaining in detail the design structureand the client's instructions--this extraordinary monograph tracesM+-+ller-Brockmann's life from his childhood through early training, rarelyseen designs for the theater, famous posters for the Zurich art scene,corporate design work for clients, and, finally his efforts to educateyoung designers.
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LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.......2007-06-08
Not only is this book an informative view at Josef Muller-Brockmann, it's beautiful enough to display. We've really enjoyed the series, including OTl Aicher, Max Huber. Because they're all the same size and thickness, we display them together. Phaidon does it right.
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I Am Not Myself These Days is Josh Kilmer-Purcell's outrageously intimate memoir of a young man living a double life in the heady days and nights of mid-'90s New York City. As we follow Kilmer-Purcell through alcohol-fueled nights and a love affair with Jack, a crack-addicted male escort, he offers up an alternative universe where normal is "a Normal Rockwell painting that, if you leaned in close, would discover is made up entirely of misfits."
By day, Josh drudges off to a Soho-based advertising firm where he creates ad campaigns for corporate clients. At night, he dons live goldfish to complete the look of Aqua, a 7-foot-tall award-winning drag queen who trolls gay clubs in search of her next drink/one night stand. In between, he spends his time trying to build a stable, loving relationship with someone whose beeping pager is a constant reminder of the pair's almost inevitable fate. Yet even as Josh's escapades get increasingly absurd, Kilmer-Purcell is always there to remind us that the story we're reading is real, and that fundamental human emotions and desires are essentially universal. In the end, everyone just wants to be loved and to fit in somewhere. And while the lesson may seem hokey at times, Kilmer-Purcell's sharp wit rescues the memoir from becoming an exaggerated sob story:
The night before any major holiday is always a blockbuster night at gay clubs. Thousands... across the city fortifying themselves for long trips home where they'll be met with awkward silences, stilted conversations and cousins with whom they'd experimented with decades ago.
From start to finish, I Am Not Myself These Days is an extraordinary journey into an amazing life. To be a fly on the wall is an adventure that should not be missed. --Gisele Toueg
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I Am Not Myself These Days follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly -- a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a terrifically gifted new literary voice who straddles the divide between absurdity and normalcy, and stitches them together with surprising humor and lonely poignancy. As Booklist raved "as tart and funny as a Noel Coward play, for Kilmer-Purcell is especially good at dialogue, and, as in Coward's best plays, under the comedy lies the sad truth that even at our best, we are all weak, fallible fools. Again and again in this rich, adventure-filled book, Kilmer-Purcell illustrates the truth of Blake's proverb, 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.'"
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A resonating love story, in drag.......2007-09-14
Yes, this book is funny -- very funny, in fact. And yes, it is titillating, a peek into a world of drag queens and male escorts and a life that is seemingly alien to most potential readers. And yet, "I Am Not Myself These Days" turns out to be a universal love story, one in which even the most outrageous characters become familiar and real.
Kilmer-Purcell doesn't shy away from the details of his life as an over-the-top drag queen in New York City, nor does he soften the story of his tumultuous relationship with his male escort lover or of that lover's drug abuse that ultimately tore them apart. He treats his subjects with a self-deprecating humor that lies over his vulnerability like a dusting of powdered sugar, avoiding both maudlin sentimentality and denial. In the narrative, the author dulls his pain and his fragility with alcohol, but he does so without any pretense of self control or toughness. When he meets and falls in love with Jack, he finds both redemption and destruction, and in the dizzying rise and then subsequent disintegration of their relationship, the author discovers unknown wells of strength and compassion. He does so without bitterness or judgment, ultimately telling a story of love found and never subsequently lost.
Like John Irving at his best, Josh Kilmer-Purcell brings eccentric characters from an unfamiliar world and makes them not just sympathetic, but real and even familiar. He shows that hearts love and break for everyone, and in sharing his funny, sad and ultimately beautiful story, he allows our hearts to do the same. A very highly recommended read.
Love it!.......2007-08-22
I just finished reading this book and I LOVE IT! It's a must read, I think I have a new favorite author.
Grotesque! Disgusting! Terrific!.......2007-07-30
"If we don't laugh at it all, we'll cry," my good friend Father David used to tell me about the horrific parts of our lives. Kilmer-Purcell is brilliant in his insight into human nature--as flawed and decadent as it is. His memoir is shocking, funny--shockingly funny, at times--and poignantly written. Bravo, Josh. Aqua lives!
Impossible to Put Down.......2007-07-15
I had the book sitting on my shelf for a few months and picked it up last night -- in a desperate effort to rid myself of a bad book I had just been reading.
I didn't put it down except to sleep and shower.
No need for the recap -- that has handily been done by others before me -- just know that if you pick this book up, you'll be caught up in a whirlwind of laughter, sadness, relatability in ways you would never imagine and harsh truths.
I was fortunate enough to have the paperback with some extra materials, including a follow-up about "Jack" that just about shattered my heart.
I look forward to new materials from Kilmer-Purcell.
A very quick, easy read that will utterly surprise you.
Great fun!.......2007-05-19
Wild and woolly, and how I ever missed Aqua at the Tunnel I'll never know!
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Not your usual decorating, thank goodness!.......2007-09-02
I do NOT have a french or english country estate, so decorating books showing large rooms are not helpful for me. I hate French country decor, with the stupid ugly chickens and everything painted mustard and blue. Pottery Barn, Res Hardware and Crate and Barrel are handy but cookie cutter... This book is not any one of these things and I really love it! Some of the decorating styles, like "Alienated" are a bit too eccentric even for me but I love seeing the ideas taken to completion with out appology. It's not about shabby chic, it's more eccentric than that, like vintage photos of show girls, morrocan lamps and velvet couches... I really hate decorating books where everything is painted flat white, like an apartment, and cutsy little flowers everywhere. Too girly. No punch. This book is using what you love, even if, or especially if, its odd to create atmosphere with attitude. I think this is especially good for people with old houses or apartments, who are good at found art and collage. If your mother was an antique dealer like mine and you have mis matched yet interesting things, there are very useful ideas here. Medieval enthusiasts and goth kids would love this book. People with Magickal households that have unusual things would love this book, as well.
My Favorite "Decorating" book.......2007-06-26
This is more of an analysis of your artistic style than one of those cookie cutter decorating books--every page is amazing. If you are artistic & don't like to follow current trends, you will love the offbeat, quirky ideas. Worth every penny--sequel, please?
Decorating Eden.......2007-02-11
Firstoff the four stars is hard to explain. I want to give this item five. But there is a few things I cannot overlook. However, this book is amazing. It is a decorating eden, filled with wonderous things you should look into and explore. If you look at this book and you think "ack, $$$!! I do not have the money to pull off these styles" you will miss the entire point of the book. The entire book is about doing it yourself, and she does it on a penny. she explains throughout - its possible to get the look and spend a reasonable amount of money. The book is not about buying the most expensive antique. Its about creating. Its about making something yours from junk. Its about hooshing - making it yourself; spending no money. It is a tome of creativity.
The only reason I cannot give it 5 is the one chapter 'Humble' - while the style is visually appealing she seems to forget a few things, like sanitation. The cute little guest cottage is made out of an old large chicken coop, where the walls have sustained beautiful natural water damage. While asthetically pleasing, its mold. Also, chickens carry alot of airborn diseases that if you mess around in their dried feces (like oh say, in a chicken coop) you can inhale and get terrible things like meningitis. (It happened to a friend's brother of mine while he was cleaning out a similar coop to the one she uses. Not something to mess around with. And he was wearing an air filter and construction gear.)
While this chapter can be completely overlooked and ideas still gained from it, it completely ignores hygine and health. But honestly, this shouldn't make you ignore this book. Its a diamond in the rough. No book is perfect, but this - is pretty darn close.
My new decorating bible.......2005-02-03
I adore this book. I found a copy of it mysteriously in my office (I'm a set dresser) and it has completely overhauled my beliefs in decorating. The pictures are feasts for your eyes... There's just so much to look at, all layered so perfectly. I can't wait to create my own lofted bed, my own hooshes, and mysteriously curtained nooks. I feel like I finally fit into a design catagory.
Even if this book doesn't quite mesh as well with your design style, it is still interesting to look at the unique ways of decorating, and the text is lively and quite non-snore inducing (which most decorating books tend to be).
Amazing book. Buy it, you won't be disappointed. It will leave you yearning for another one from the very creative Rebecca Prucell.
Close-to-realistic decorating.......2005-01-05
I have mixed feelings about this book, despite the 5 stars. I don't actually like clutter myself. I take its presence as a sign that somebody needs to tidy up and/or throw a few things out.
Still, whose home is neat and organized all the time? Through great effort, I can get mine to lose that just-been-burglerized look for about 5 minutes a week.
So I was delighted to find Purcell's book, much of which is devoted to making clutter actually look good, a process she refers to as "hooshing."
She also appreciates that few people's household belongings are new, unstained or well-matched.
--which is (IMO) why the rooms in this book bear some resemblance to places people actually live.
The main deviation from TRULY realistic decor derives from the fact that HER piles of clutter consist of things like old globes, brocade samples, hardcover books etc., whereas most people's clutter is stuff like old newspapers and dead plants. But for an interior decorating book, it's close enough.
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- It is just a print out of "man" command !
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Compiled by Red Hat Software, Inc., the company that has assembled the most popular x86 installation of Linux, this command reference is massive, authoritative, and as complete as any reference can be.
In 1,500 pages of tiny print, this heavy-duty tome documents every command, utility, file system, library function, and administration tool in the operating system. Linux also features a detailed kernel reference guide and a good index. And if the print size bothers you, the entire contents of the book are included on the companion CD-ROM, along with the Unix version of the Adobe Acrobat reader. In Acrobat, you can adjust the font size to something more readable. If you're running a Linux system and acting as your own system administrator, Linux: Complete Command Reference is an indispensable reference.
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It is just a print out of "man" command !.......2002-09-04
You can get this book for free if you typed man+"command" in Linux window.
Good Linux Reference.......1999-07-17
One problem with Linux books is that they get outdated rapidly. I think that this is more resistant to that than most. Another problem is that the Linux documentation is scattered all over the Internet. This collects it in one book that you can sit down and refer to. This book is intermediate to advanced. There is no hand holding or tutorials here. For example there is 36 pages on bash (Bourne Again Shell). 734 pages on utility programs, such as bash. 153 pages on system calls - for programmers. 171 pages on library functions - for programmers, etc. The reason it is rated only 4 stars is that any such book is inherently outdated.
Book is too dated. Covers Linux Redhat 4.1 ;=(.......1999-05-20
It arrived yesterday and is headed back today. Don't bother. Get Unleashed 5.2 or wait for the 6.0 version if you are using with RedHat. If not, the book may be of some use...
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Plan high-quality curriculum so all students reach their full potential!
Offering a new perspective on developing curriculum and instruction, the Parallel Curriculum Model is meant for use in both heterogeneous and homogeneous classroom settings. Whether students are working at a basic level of skill and understanding or at the highest ability ready for more complex learning, teachers can use this model with confidence.
The Parallel Curriculum Model offers four parallel approaches to curriculum development to ensure rich curriculum for all learners, and illustrates Ascending Intellectual Demand as a means of extending the intensity of challenge as students develop along a continuum toward expertise in learning. Clearly, education benefits from a variety of models from which teachers and schools can select to most appropriately address the learning needs of students. Here, the authors illustrate how use of the parallels shape curriculum for students and the ongoing professional growth of educators themselves.
With major contributions from Deborah E. Burns, Jann H. Leppien, and Jeanne H. Purcell,
The Parallel Curriculum delivers the guidelines needed for developing and implementing effective, valuable curriculum for all classrooms.
See also: The Parallel Curriculum (Multimedia Kit)
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PCM.......2005-08-19
This is an excellent book that can improve how we meet the needs of all students. We have found that, before teachers implement any of the parallels, that professional development is critical.
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If asked to identify which children rank lowest in relation to national educational norms, have higher school dropout and absence rates, and more commonly experience learning problems, few of us would know the answer: white, urban Appalachian children. These are the children and grandchildren of Appalachian families who migrated to northern cities in the 1950s to look for work. They make up this largely "invisible" urban group, a minority that represents a significant portion of the urban poor. Literacy researchers have rarely studied urban Appalachians, yet, as Victoria Purcell-Gates demonstrates in Other People's Words, their often severe literacy problems provide a unique perspective on literacy and the relationship between print and culture.
A compelling case study details the author's work with one such family. The parents, who attended school off and on through the seventh grade, are unable to use public transportation, shop easily, or understand the homework their elementary-school-age son brings home because neither of them can read. But the family is not so much illiterate as low literate--the world they inhabit is an oral one, their heritage one where print had no inherent use and no inherent meaning. They have as much to learn about the culture of literacy as about written language itself.
Purcell-Gates shows how access to literacy has been blocked by a confluence of factors: negative cultural stereotypes, cultural and linguistic elitism, and pedagogical obtuseness. She calls for the recruitment and training of "proactive" teachers who can assess and encourage children's progress and outlines specific intervention strategies.
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Really eye-opening! An amazing book........2007-10-04
This book is fabulous- it lays out all of the problems with teaching children and adults how to read, and stresses the importance of surrounding children with books at a young age. I learned a lot from this book!
an introduction into low-literacy in america.......2005-10-22
Having just finished the book for my Foundations of Literacy class in college I must say it gives a very good view of the life and struggles a family goes thorugh when in their world print does not exist.
Jenny and Donny, a mother and son have struggle for a few years on gaining literacy. Jenny, an urban Applalacian wants to learn to read so she can help her son with his schoolwork. She wants Donny to be retained a year so he can "catch up" on what he is missing. Together they embark on a quest towards literacy with the help of the author of this book.
When a book is required for school most of us will probably groan but I must say this was one of the most interesting books I have read. Considering my major is early childhood education and I am interested in topics about emergent literacy. Anyways the book really explores the life of those who live in non-print homes and must rely on others when it comes to reading/writing. I also liked how it introduced us to the urban Applalacian minority and how they are a "invisible minority." We learn about the stereotypes they are given, the values they hold, etc.
All in all the book was particulary interesting. I wouldn't reccommend it for pleasure reading unless of course you are VERY interested in topics about literacy but for those of you who need to read it for school do not fret! It is an easy and very interesting read.
Informative and Thought Provoking Research.......2005-10-07
Purcell-Gates opens up the important issue of literacy in America through the lens of an Appalachian mother and son, who have a non-literary background. Through the son and mother's attempts to learn how to read and write, we get a glimpse into the cultural background of the Appalachian people. Perhaps the book's most compelling findings are the stereotypical attitudes people have towards this white minority people. It is clear that many people need to spend time and understand the cultural background of people, and not just pass uninformed judgments upon them. This book is an important voice in the educational debates about how to approach learning in our public schools.
Accessible Study of Illiteracy.......1998-08-28
Purcell-Gates avoids the weighty conventions of academic writing and thus opens her studies and insights to the larger world. The book recounts her experiences over two years tutoring a completely illiterate mother and her nearly equally illiterate son. Purcell-Gates, who at the time worked at the local university and literacy center, tells their story with compassion and a strong effort to get at the causes and perpetuation of illiteracy in 20th century American cities, schools, and families. Hers is a noble cause and this is a superb and educational book. She serves her subjects well.
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