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This Update of Jones/Childers, CONTEMPORARY COLLEGE PHYSICS, Third Edition adds new biomedical applications and improved technology to the copyright 1999 third edition. Since all exercises from the 1999 edition are retained, the 1999 print supplements will work for the 2001 Update. Jones/Childers 3/e features a strong emphasis on problem solving and a tutorial CD-ROM with multimedia and practice quizzes; the 2001 updates adds more biomedical applications and improves the CD and Website.
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a great book for those new to physics.......2002-09-29
As a college student, I always hoped for easy-to-understand textbooks every semester. This book met my expectations! It is taught from a non-calculus point of view...but those of us that know calculus will know how to deal with the myriad of equations that you encounter in physics.
Jones and Childers have put a great textbook together. The chapters are very easy to understand--concepts are explained thoroughly, and then supplemented with examples that are solved step by step and the results are discussed. The figures are drawn well--even things like relativity and quantum mechanics make more sense after reading this book!
To summarize--if this is the textbook for your class, you are in luck. Buy it...if you are interested in physics at all, you will enjoy the book. If you are looking for a book to help learn concepts in physics, and want a textbook, this one is for you too! Compared to all the other textbooks out there, this is one of the top two (Serway's book being the other).
A Contemporary Review of "Contemporary College Physics".......2001-11-03
This book is very well written, due to the choices of sentences and words. The sentences are to the point and not like MANY physics books who dance around the topic. In addition to having carefully chosen examples that illustrates its point clearly.
The book also has nice illustrations printed on nice paper, unlike other EXPENSIVE books printed on "cheap" paper. The book includes all the topics other books would cover in two volumes and hence would cost significantly more. I highly recommend this text for anyone (including poor students like me)!! ;)
This is an answer book only! This is not the textbook!.......1999-10-03
This book is advertised as something it is not. Do not order this book if you want the textbook! This book offers answers to the questions in the text ONLY!
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just let go already.......2004-08-17
The third wave agenda in an attempt to defend it's modern day merrit, in the face of "post-modern" critics, has only succeeded in promoting "post-modern feminism". The arguments made are proof enough that the third wave is out of touch with the current direction in feminism.
Feminism is not dead (contrary to popular opinion).......2002-10-24
What is third wave feminism? Many people have asked this question while others speculate whether a third wave even exists in the first place. The various contributors of "Third Wave Agenda" attempt to answer these questions and more. Third wave feminism aims to incorporate the lessons learned from the second wave while simultaneously adapting to current social contexts. This phenomenon is highlighted by the following quote, "I consider feminism a quest that we continually redefine, rather than a doctrine that seeks to confine me" (p. 136)
Third wave feminism includes a departure from essentialism that plagued the second wave. Second wavers spoke of the experience of the woman (read: middle- to upper-class white heterosexual) that excluded many women. Instead, third wave feminism takes a multitude of forms which includes, rather than excludes, the very audience they are advocating for.
"Living in McJobdom" by Michelle Sidler was the essay that resonated the most for me. In this essay Sidler argues that the focus of third wave shouldn't be patriarchy but rather capitalism. Although the second wave succeeded in getting more women into the workplace, there is clearly more work to be done. Women continue to earn less and occupy less prestigious jobs than their male counterparts, not to mention the current stagnant economy and dismal job market.
Overall this book was insightful, although the editor's writing was unnecessarily dense and thick at times (but they are academics so I'm not surprised). Another good book on third feminism worth checking out is "Manifesta".
Pop culture and feminist thought brought together.......2000-05-19
This book is an excellent combination of current 3rd wave feminist thoughts and how our modern culture has shaped them. No one's saying "I'm not a feminist but..." in this book; these are writers who are proud of their decision to support the evolution of the women's movement and to analyze how it has spread throughout our culture. Heywood and Drake bring together insightful essays, both humourous and thought provoking, with cricitism of pop culture icons. A great read for any one interested in where "feminist" has gone...and is going...since the 80's!
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The Optimistic Jew.......2007-08-31
The second book of Toffler's trilogy covers much of the same ground as Fritjof Capra's "The Turning Point" but in a more journalistic and accessible style. Its greatest contribution to modern thought is the powerful metaphor of its title. The Third Wave concept was a metaphor that gave me insight into what had been troubling me about the Jewish condition in general and Zionism in particular. The Jews are a Third Wave people functioning within Second Wave political, ideological and organizational structures. This was the coherent organizing principle of my analysis of the Jewish people in my book "The Optimistic Jew".
Good book .......2007-08-13
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The government was the great accelerator. Because of its coercive power and tax revenues, it could do things that private enterprise could not afford to undertake. Government could hot up the industrialization process by stepping in to fill emerging gaps in the system - before it became possible or profitable for private companies to do so. Government could perform anticipatory integration. By setting up mass education systems, government helps to engineer youngsters for their future roles in the industrial work force (hence, in effect, subsidizing industry)
Without political integration, economic integration was impossible. Distributors wanting to sell goods over territory outside their own communities ran into different duties, taxes, labor regulations, and currencies. Distributors would have to consolidate with local economy and political consolidation as well
The unification/ integration of political system and economic system led to the division of world into distinct national units. As each government sought to extend its market and its political authority, it came up against outer limits - language differences, cultural, social, geographic, and strategic barriers. The available transport, communication, and energy supplies, the productivity of its technology, all set limits on how large an area could be effectively ruled by a single political structure. The sophistication of accounting procedures, budgetary controls, and management techniques also determined how far political integration could reach.
Within these limits, the integrational elites, corporate and government alike, fought for expansion. The broader the territory under their control and the bigger the economic market area, the greater their wealth and power became. As each nation stretched its economic and political frontiers to the utmost, it ran up not merely against these inherent limits but also against rival nations
Imperialism - negotiations between centre and peripheral was often totally lopsided. Often local rulers or entrepreneurs were simply bought off by the Westerners, offered bribes or personal gain in return for sweating the native labor force, putting down resistance, or rewriting local laws in favor of the outsiders. Once conquering a colony, the imperial power often set preferential raw-material prices for its own businessmen and erected stiff barriers to prevent the traders of rival nations from bidding prices up.
Many raw material needed by Westerners were virtually valueless to the local populations who had them.
Geography was embedded in our voting systems. Elected officials are representatives of the inhabitants of a particular piece of land; a geographical district. Political systems assume that people would remain in one locality all their lives. Hence the prevalence of residency requirements in voting regulations
Synchronization. Standardization. Linearization. They affected the root assumptions of the civilization and they brought massive changes in the way ordinary people handled time in their lives. But if time itself was transformed, space, too, had to be repackaged to fit into the new indust-reality.
Spatially extensive to spatially restrictive existence
Schedules - by synchronizes social interaction and coordinates social activity it sets limits to them
Today's corporate critics attack the artificial divorce of economics from politics, morality and the other dimensions of life. They hold the corporation increasingly responsible for, not merely for its economic performance but for its side effects - environmental, social, informational, political, and moral. Corporate executives are now required to pay attention to multiple bottom lines. A corporation is no longer simply responsible for making profit or producing goods but for simultaneously contributing to the solution of extremely complex ecological, moral, political, racial, sexual, and social problems. In this finely strung socio-sphere, corporate decisions are closely scrutinized. Social pollution produced by the corporation in the form of unemployment, community disruption, forced mobility, and the like is instantly spotted, and pressures are placed on the corporation to assure far greater responsibility than ever before for its social, as well as economic, products.
The new importance of information leads to conflict over the control of corporate data - battles over disclosure of more information to the public, demands for open accounting, more pressure for truth in advertising, or truth in lendings.
Rise of the do it yourself industry reasons. Inflation. The difficulty of getting a carpenter or plumber. Shoddy work. Expanded leisure. All these play a part. A more potent reason is what might be called the Law of Relative Inefficiency. This holds that the more we automate the production of goods and lower their per unit cost, the more we increase the relative cost of handcrafts and nonautomated services. For such reasons, we must expect the price of many services to continue their skyrocketing climb in the years ahead. And as these prices soar, we can expect people to do more and more for themselves. In short, even without inflation, the Law of Relative Inefficiency would make it increasingly profitable for people to produce for their own consumption.
With the emergence of multinational corporations, the organization of independent sovereign states is now being overlaid by a network of economic institutions. With their ability to shunt billions back and forth instantly across national boundaries, their power to deploy technology and to move relatively quickly, they have often outflanked and outrun national governments.
For industrialization to operate successfully in third world nations traditional family and marriage customs, religion, and role structure would all have to be crushed, the entire culture ripped up by its roots
Configuration - The relatively concentration mass media. Individuals were continually encouraged to compare themselves to a relatively small number of role models, and to evaluate their life styles against a few preferred possibilities. In consequence, the range of socially approved personality styles was relatively narrow. The demassification of media presents a dazzling diversity of role models and life style for one to measure oneself against. Moreover, the new media do not feed us fully formed chunks, but broken chips and blips of imagery. Instead of being handed a selection of coherent identities to choose among, we are required to piece one together: a configurative or modular me. This is far more difficult, and it explains why so many millions are desperately searching for identity.
All the Toffler Books are worth a read.......2007-08-13
All of Alvin Toffler's books yield really useful insights and are well worth your time.
I have read every one in the series including revolutionary wealth and this book "The Third Wave".
No matter what you do for a living or who you are you will benefit from enhancing your world view and your grasp of reality by reading this.
I think there is no doubt that the forward looking aspects of these books are really firmly grounded in the truth.
The Great Overview.......2007-03-25
No doubt about it - this book is one for the ages. It offers a great overview of Modern Western Society (mainly the U.S.) ca 1980-2000. In this work, Alvin and Heidi Toffler cover almost every major trend known to them at the time.
But there's more - A LOT more. The authors also take the reader on a historical journey through the Industrial Revolution and explore all of its effects on society. Their first-rate story of how industrial production transformed the world - economically, politically and socially, is not to be missed. This is the kind of material that should be taught in schools everywhere. While it's true that the Tofflers are known as "futurists", the bulk of The Third Wave goes elsewhere. Indeed. they act as three different writers in one volume - historical sociologists, current-world macro sociologists (they don't go deep into any one area, they do the whole ball of wax) and finally, futurists. They even offer opinion (a "what to do") concerning our political and educational systems. Quite some cover !!
But this could hurt them as well - some readers probably won't like this survey-all approach of history, current trends and future predictions. In this sense, I would agree. I awarded the book five stars due to the historical information it provides and for its outline of important things, social and otherwise, happening in our society today. A separate book covering predictions would have been the better thing to do. And the excessive length of this work is also a problem - the authors take too long to make a point. This especially with the "new corporations" topic - the sheer number of times they mention how companies will "shrink" in size, how they'll be cutting "middle layers", etc. All of these points could have been distilled into one (brief) chapter.
Then those predictions. Like Nostradamus, they make many - probably TOO many. Were they trying to look great in the future by "covering" many areas ? After all, you're bound to get SOME things right. I don't know their intentions....but I do know that some of their predictions have indeed come true while others have not....but WILL someday. Then there are those that haven't happened and most likely never will. In the "they were right" category - fiber optics, "linked" computers, e-mail, "narrowcasting" (though music radio had already begun to splinter, their insight still deserves noting), "aqua-culture", cloning, genetic engineering, mapping the Earth by satellite, corporate downsizing and the coming wave of micro-electronics....all of these came to light. They did mention other things like cable TV, video games, video-tape recording, the do-it-yourself movement, the back-to-nature movement and the rise of the "trans-national" corporation. But these were already happening at the time, albeit in small numbers, while the fomer-mentioned items were not.
As for the things that still haven't, but nevertheless WILL happen someday are "new" schools, clean energy, speech recognition, work from home, flex-time, growing human organs and "altering" the brain's chemistry. And one more - China - still not a pluralistic democracy, its economy has gone capitalistic with free markets soaring. The Tofflers said this type of "marriage" between political structure and economy could not last very long....it has so far in China.
Finally, their false points and "wrong" predictions. First is the theory that "crisis" situations erupt when one society transforms into another. Well, it's true....look at the ribbon machine "smashers" in the 1600's and the U.S. Civil War in 1800's - this DOES happen. But we also had panics, depressions and World Wars DURING the last major society to hit mankind - the Industrial Revolution. Additionally, there are some things that used to be seen as a crisis but no longer are - like divorce. This crisis-during-change theme mischaracterizes the significance of them, especially when compared to other, far more serious eruptions. Rounding out the "wrong" list: major U.S. cities will become a thing of the past, Western Europe is "unlikely" to become a great power (it would become a great political and economic power), Germany will become THE power in Europe (it turned out to be shared), paper money will disappear, the Catholic Church will become more powerful, young people will grow up faster and become more mature, the U.S. will be "innovative" in art. Also: "sub-economies" will develop, "new" religions will appear, they'll be a "fundamental change" in the role of woman (yes, they're working out of the home more...but...they are still mothers, will always love to shop and tend to that flower garden !!) Not to be left out, "old" social centers like the pub or the prom, will lose significance, homes will become "adult-centered" (vs. the child-centered homes of years past - it would actually become a blend of both), ethnic and racial tensions will "multiply" (it would become a single-race issue in the U.S. - black vs. black, etc. while political, not ethnic, tensions would rise elsewhere in the world). Finally, space manufacturing and oceanic "floating factories" - never happened, nor will they because of something the Tofflers NEVER MENTIONED in The Third Wave or in their next book, Powershift - Nano-technology.
Two more things. First is their idea that the U.S. should take on a "new form" of democracy - one that incorporates direct (citizen) vote. Well, there are two reasons why this is unlikely to happen, although I hope I am wrong. One is the fact that we can't change the U.S. Constitution - The Framers made this virtually impossible to do. Next is the fact that political decisions in America's future will likely become more, not less, complicated. This puts the average American at odds from becoming political participants, being that they won't (in all due respect) understand the issues deep enough to make an informed decision. A "crash coarse" just won't do. As bad as the leaders in America are today, it would be even worse if the average working person got into the national political arena.
Last is an issue that was brought up by the authors in this book but then got fleshed-out in more detail in their next book, Powershift. It's their statement that the main struggle in the future will be over "the control and distribution of knowledge". This simply won't be the case....because it CAN'T happen, thanks to the Internet. Yes, governments (esp. China) will always try to control and manipulate data and information but still, this is not The Central Concern of Tommorro. If anything, controlling knowledge was a thing of THE PAST, not the future (before Freedom of Information Act, M.D.s "controlling" medical knowledge, etc). More ideas and knowledge can only hurt those already in power and since the bulk of humanity is not in this position, the floodgates shall stay open.....to all of our benefit.
In the end, a great book, despite its overlength. Even if just for the first part, which covers all the effects of industrialism, this book is a must-read. We ALL live in the modern world, right ? So why not learn, in large part, how it came to be.....
Understanding the Underpinnings of Today's World.......2007-02-09
Want to know why the world is about to self-destruct? Read this book with an open mind.
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This book heralds a breakthrough that redefines competitive advantage for the next fifty years. Don't bridge the business-IT divide: Obliterate it! The book is the first authoritative analysis of how third-wave business process management (BPM) changes everything in business and what it portends. While the vision of process management is not new, existing theories and systems have not been able to cope with the reality of business processes --until now. This book describes a radical, simplifying shift in process thinking and technology that utterly transforms today's information systems and reduces the lag between management intent and execution.
A process-managed enterprise makes agile course corrections, embeds Six Sigma quality and reduces cumulative costs across the value chain. It pursues strategic initiatives with confidence, including mergers, consolidation, alliances, acquisitions, outsourcing and global expansion. Process management is the only way to achieve these objectives with transparency, management control and accountability. The process-managed enterprise grasps control of business processes and communicates with a universal process language that enables partners to execute on shared vision --to understand each other's operations in detail, jointly design processes and manage the entire lifecycle of their business improvement initiatives.
Process management is not another form of automation, a new killer-app or a fashionable new management theory. With the third-wave BPM breakthrough and its solid mathematical underpinnings, business processes can now be unhindered by the constraints of existing IT systems. Short on stories and long on insight and practical information, this book will help your business become the company of the future, the real-time enterprise, the fully digitized corporation --the process-managed enterprise. The book also offers continually updated information and a dialog with the authors at its Web site.
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This book shows the way.......2006-07-26
This book clearly outlines how process management has matured well beyond the reengineering phase and is blending with automation and quality management.
This book showed the way how Six Sigma is part of BPM and how BPM and SOA merge. It clearly relates technology and business opportunities. I be interested in an update, especially in relation to Peter Fingar's GREAT new book: Extreme Competition.
The Third Wave and Extreme Competition is a must read for every manager and MBA student.
THIS BOOK DOES NOT GET FULL STAR RATING AS IT LACKS CLEAR STEPS ON HOW TO MAKE THIS ACTUALLY HAPPEN
Business Process Management - The Third Wave.......2006-04-05
This book can be summed up quote from page 70 of the text: "long on talk and short on results." I was very disappointed with the investment of any money in this hyped book. The authors ramble on and on and give little but their long winded examples of what they think the third wave is. My advice is to read the introduction and don't waste your time with the rest of the book.
Get it, read it, buy it if ..........2005-07-27
you want to improve business processes.
History of business process management and beyond.......2005-05-19
I run a business in Maine, USA, and while I have no knowledge of BPM or workflow in a business context, this book helped me a great deal. I don't know if BPM is an important as the authors state, but it did present the past, present and future of a simple idea, improving business by improving business processes. I can well imagine new BPM and workflow systems helping enormously. But what I liked most of all was the explanations of how process has been a thread throughout business, from the 1920s to today, through the quality and reengineering movements. I heard about this book on the grapevine like a lot of management books. I run an operation, and don't have time for theory, but this book put a lot of what happens in my IT department into context. I like the idea of people being in charge of the processes that run on engines maintained by IT folks.
Ahead of its time.......2005-05-19
Its well known that people in business who tout business processes can come unstuck when they encounter people who don't believe in process improvement. I am a process improvement director in a fast moving consumer goods company. Process works. But I have an awful job convincing some of my colleagues. This book tells the story, and was way ahead of its time when first published. Now the case studies are coming in (as reported by Gartner et al) and anyone doubting this book is going to eat humble pie. BPM works.
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This volume offers an ambitious and comprehensive overview of the unprecedented advances as well as the setbacks in the post-1978 wave of democratization. It explains the sea change from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which openly authoritarian regimes are the rare exception, and analyzes why some countries have achieved striking gains in democratization while others have experienced erosions. The book presents general theoretical arguments about what causes and sustains democracy in its analysis of nine theoretically compelling country cases.
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Setting the standard for democracy..........2007-09-12
While somewhat dated (the book was published in 1991), Huntington lays out a clear analysis of what led to the "third wave" of democratic development around the world.
He considers the third wave as the countries that became democratic between 1973 and 1990 but it could be argued that, with changes in the Balkans and the "color revolutions" in Georgia, Ukraine and elsewhere, the third wave continued into the beginning of the 21st century. He looks at the authoritarian regimes that gave way to democracy and breaks the process down into transformations (authoritarian governments taking the lead in changing to democracy), replacements (opposition leaders moving a country to democracy) and transplacements (government and opposition negotiating the transition to democracy). In many cases this meant that reformers in the government and moderates in the opposition compromised to bring about the change. Huntington avoids predictions about the future, thereby avoiding mistakes where subsequent years could have proved him wrong.
My standard for a "real democracy" has been whether or not there could be a peaceful transfer of power. Huntington sets the bar much higher - to consider democracy as taking hold there has to have been two peaceful transfers of power.
A good primer on the march towards democratization.......2000-12-02
While not as heavily theoretical as some of Huntington's other works, this book is laden with apercus about why and how countries develop democracies, especially in the most recent wave (just to clarify, the first wave started in the early 1800's, the second occurred after World War II, and the third began in 1974 and included the countries liberated by the end of communism in the late 1980's.) The success of democratization is tied to various factors - the type and strength of the authoritarian regime that is facing this choice, its willingness to permit democratization, the strength of the movement that seeks to democratize, and that country's conditions (i.e. has it attempted to democratize before? How does religion affect the culture of that country?) Huntington's genius is to look at scores of seemingly disparate cases and discern patterns where democratization succeeds and fails.
An interesting side note is Huntington's analysis of why countries democratize. Each wave had its own conditions, but several variables merit mentioning. As a country industrializes, it becomes increasingly difficult for an authoritarian regime to maintain its monopoly on power, which becomes more diffused. Industrialization also fosters the growth of a questioning middle class that becomes more vocal as its wealth increases (not to mention a vibrant working class that is also a vital force for democracy, as Rueschemeyer, Stephens, and Stephens note in Capitalist Development and Democracy.) In addition, authoritarian regimes inevitably weaken over time as they fail to meet expectations and public dissatisfaction increases; they also become stale and are usually incapable of renewing themselves. They eventually lose legitimacy as the coalition of interests that supports them begins to splinter. Just a few more headaches for Jiang Jemin and his crew.
This book gives an insightful view of developing countries.......1999-05-22
I had to read this book for a class and I really got a great background in democracy in developing countries. Well written and informative.
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The second wave of feminism of Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan has given way to the dynamic next generation, the third wave, now 15 years old. The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism introduces the third wave's key issues, members, visions, writings, and more--with essay entries on abortion to zines, with the Riotgrrrl group Bikini Kill, cyberspace, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, queer theory, and activist/writer Rebecca Walker in between. The scope of the more than 200 encyclopedia entries is multidisciplinary and multicultural, inclusive of diverse gender orientations and sexualities, with a focus primarily on the movement in the United States. This is meant to be the essential reference work on the current movement, as it charts, describes, and clarifies what has been a much debated and misunderstood phenomenon. A major collective effort has been made by more than 70 contributors to present as much information about third wave feminism as possible in the encyclopedia, and they have conveyed the freshness and excitement that often characterize work in the third wave. Contributors such as Amy Richards, Jennifer Baumgardner, and Lisa Jervis, are leading activist voices in the movement. Others, such as Rebecca Hurdis, Sarah Gamble, Rebecca Munford, Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, Alison Piepmeier, Rory Dicker, Deborah Siegel, Leslie Heywood, and Jennifer Drake, have been influential in academia. A chronology and historical introduction put the movement and the encyclopedia and primary documents into perspective. Numerous photos visualize the topics. A Selected Bibliography lists classic third-wave books, Web sites, and films. The Primary Documents volume showcases 77 of the rich and wide range of voices that have contributed to the significant body of third wave feminist work. Some highlights include illustrated pieces from the art activist collective the Guerilla Girls, articles from Bitch Magazine, and Joan Morgan's essay "Hip-Hop Feminist," from her 1998 book When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost.
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The third wave women's movement's key issues.......2006-04-28
Leslie L. Heywood's THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT TODAY: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THIRD-WAVE FEMINISM provides a strong 2-volume reference charting the third wave women's movement's key issues, members, writings and more. While the U.S. movement is the primary focus, additional mention is given to the movement in other parts of the world, while over 70 contributors provide a range of activist and academic voices discussing third wave issues.
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The sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered by this ground-breaking book – the first to demonstrate the ways in which third wave feminist television studies approaches and illuminates mainstream TV. Leading voices in third wave feminism focus on innovative US television shows, including The Sopranos, Oz, Six Feet Under, The L Word and the reality-TV show The Bachelor to take a closer look at the contradictions and reciprocities between feminism and television, engaging as they go in theoretical and critical conversations about media culture, third wave feminism, feminist spectatorship, the sex wars, and the politics of visual pleasure.
The book offers an exuberant and accessible discussion of what television has to offer today's feminist fan. It also sets a new tone for future debate, turning away from a sober, near-pessimistic trend in much feminist media studies to reconnect with the roots of third wave feminism in riot girl culture, sex radical feminism, and black feminism, tracing too the narratives provided by queer theory in which pleasure has a less contested place.
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television from a feminist standpoint.......2007-08-10
Merri Lisa Johnson's collection, Third Wave Feminism and Television, uses contemporary television as a lens through which to view a variety of issues - ranging from S&M practices to prisoner rape - within a third wave framework. The essay most emblematic of this approach is the final one, Leslie Heywood's incredibly insightful "The Room as 'Heterosexual Closet': The Life and Death of Alternative Relationships on Six Feet Under." In it, Heywood uses Six Feet Under's Nate as an example of "queer heterosexuality" and, through him, discusses twentieth century constructions of masculinity and the way heteronormativity has failed some straight people.
This conceit of examining focus points of feminist discussion through television isn't quite as effective in every essay, however. Carol Siegel's "Female Heterosexual Sadism: The Feminist Taboo in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series" is based on the premise that Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer judges the main character unfairly for her forays into an S&M relationship with Spike, a vampire, while the Anita Blake series looks more kindly on these types of encounters. Unfortunately, Siegel's take on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ignores the incredibly complicated texture of the relationship between Buffy and her vampire lover by completely decontextualizing just three episodes from the series' seven season run.
The rest of the essays find interesting ways to connect the cultural work of television to feminist reflections on the world. Katherine Frank uses The Bachelor to question ideas of romance and monogamy, Bobby Noble finds moments of female masculinity through a trans reading of Queer as Folk, Lara Stemple breaks open the depiction of prison rape on Oz, Candace Moore continues Laura Mulvey's work in an examination of perspective on The L Word and Johnson herself looks at the intersection of class and gender on The Sopranos.
While Third Wave Feminism and Television is too academic make it a must-have for every casual TV viewer, for anyone interested in a close reading of contemporary television from a feminist standpoint, this collection of essays is a perfect addition to your bookshelf.
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Handbook for Sound Engineers is the most comprehensive reference available for audio engineers. Written by many of the top professionals in the field, including Glen Ballou on interpretation systems, intercoms, assistive listening, and image projection; Ken Pohlmann on compact discs and DVDs; David Miles Huber on MIDI; Dr. Eugene Patronis on amplifier design and outdoor sound systems; Bill Whitlock on audio transformers and preamplifiers; Pat Brown on fundamentals and gain structures; Ray Rayburn on virtual systems and digital interfacing; and Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert on computer-aided sound system design and acoustics for concert halls.
The audio industry has seen many changes since the previous edition of the Handbook, particularly in the digital area, all of which are included in this edition. Key topics include: Acoustics * DSPs * DVDs * Modeling and auralization * Sound-system design * Application and installation techniques * Loudspeaker and enclosure building, testing and measuring * Sound recording and playback* Transmission Techniques * Audio circuits, amplifiers, filters, and consoles * Grounding
*Condenses years of information and technology to one source
*Contributors are the leading experts in their fields
*Explains MIDI, surround sound, transformers, consoles, and much more
Customer Reviews:
Good reference, unbalanced presentation.......2007-01-03
This book is a must-have for anyone serious about audio technology and sound reproduction. Almost all imaginable subjects are covered, making it an excellent reference.
The problem with this book, though, is that it is a collection of articles ("chapters") written by various experts around the world. It appears however that no effort was made by the editor to get spread and depth of content in line. For example, the chapter on transformers is very detailed, with good references at the end, yet the chapter on amplifiers is very weak and gives no references whatsoever.
Also, this book appears to be more written towards the recording community, and covers only a few topics relative to live sound reinforcement. Finally, there is virtually no discussion on sound effects processors.
Simply the Best Book on Audio.......2003-09-21
This is the best book on audio I have seen. It covers a broad range of topics in great depth.
The book goes into great detail about the following areas:
a) human hearing and calculating the acoustic properties of rooms
b) PCB-level electronic components
c) system level components
d) storage media
e) bringing all of the above together into applications
The book assumes the reader has a good foundation in electronics but explains concepts in a very unpretentious way. It's nothing like reading a scholarly journal where you constantly have to look at other articles and review textbooks to understand. If you understand the basics of electronic circuits you will understand this book without consulting other textbooks.
Every audio topic I can think of is explored in this book. If you work on anything related to audio you absolutely should not be without this reference.
The most authorative work I have seen........2003-04-07
I have been playing around with amplifiers and recording equipment for a while now - never had formal education in audio engineering, but I do have some electronic background. This book has helped me a lot in refining my recording techniques, my audio system itself and furthered my understanding of audio systems from microphone placement to cabling, speaker placement, phono cartridge alignment to name but a few. Whatever subject I sought advice on, this book has so far provided me with the answers. I would go as far as saying that whatever this book does not cover is not relevant to audio systems. One word of caution though, this book is not like a "cookbook". You have to have an electronic background in order to make full use of the book - as the title rightly puts it, it is intended for engineers.
Handbook For Sound Engineers.......2002-02-24
You MUST buy this book! Pretend you did not see the price and order this book. It is the most comprehensive book on the subject that I have ever run across. It contains more than 1550 pages of information, diagrams, schematics, and just about anything else you could ever think to need. Covers everything from Accoustic Theory to Zener Diodes (I don't know what they are either...I haven't read that far yet!). I am planning to use this as a refresher for myself (that is what my schooling is in) and for training more sound techs at my church.
Note: This is a book for intermediate to advanced level sound engineers. It would be way over a beginners head. There are a number of excellent books for beginners available through Amazon, though.
Customer Reviews:
Toffler is a man with a concept looking for a plan.......2002-06-14
Toffler is a big thinker. His premise in this book as well as in his other books is that just as the agricultural first wave has given way to the second wave industrial age, that it in turn has yielded to the third knowledge revolution. He outlines the differences and prescribes the need for change.
In that men have difficulty adjusting to change (see "Who Moved My Cheese"), Toffler outlines how these clashes will be resolved. Just as companies in growth industries altenate between spurts of growth and plateaus of consolidation, societies experience the same disruptions. The Austrian school of economics would call it "creative destruction".
This book's core principles emanate from the mind of a visionary thinker. If you want a top-down view of the last couple of centuries it's worth the few hours of reading and thinking you'll have to invest.
Just one Question....HOW?!?.......2002-05-31
Since I had never read the previous three books maybe I was thrown into the deep-end on this one. I could read and comprehend everything they said, but the failure of the Tofflers to be speific of HOW this is going to happen plauged me throughout the book.
For instance, the book never delves into HOW specifically the third wave (information age for those who haven't read it) will affect families in a positive way. Instead it uses catch phrases like "empower the family" and "restore functions to the family" which mean....nothing. On top of that, numerous .../false assumptions cripple this book.
To say that "Naderites and Buchananites" are the same because they both think that NAFTA is wrong is false because Nader and Buchanan want to get rid of it for different reasons. Also when they say that NAFTA was a triumph for the 3rd wave and that the second wave (industrial age) is on a decline are also lies. The jobs for factory workers aren't simply going away - they're moving where labor is cheap and taxes are low.
Also, scare tactics and ... hurt this book for those who can see through it. The idea that American companies are being out-competed by samll businesses and foreign corporations and that is why companies are breaking up into smaller components, merging, and laying off workers are sheer lies. Keeping in mind that this book was wrote in the early to mid-ninties, and then looking at the stock market and the decline of small business, you can easily see why this was going on; Merge because two huge corperations working together can squash the copmetition, and layoff because that will bring your market value up.
Also the Toffler's idea that "it is knowledge, not cheap labor...that add value." - yeah well tell that to Nike. Their faulty logic that there isn't a majority class between upper, middle, and the lower classes are lies, as well as their idea that "You have 100 people chasing after the same bronze ring." - For me and others, while it would be nice, being a millionaire is not the only or main goal in life.
Oh and their deal about 'Socialism' is actually Communism...you think that they could decifer the two.
if you're too busy to read THE THIRD WAVE...........2000-06-02
...then this might be an option, because it's just a rework and condensation of its predecessor. It also sports an intro written by Newt Gingrich; I have no idea why unless he was selected to provide an unintentional but effective example of outdated Second Wave power politics.
Something mean to be happen!.......1998-11-09
The book, Creating A New Civilization, is really something to me. Without reading Alvin's Future Trilogy, this book provide me a big picture of what the world gonna be. Some chapters are more interesting to me, chapter 3 is one of them. Alvin trying to define the new position of Knowledge in the third wave with a brief chapter. And I think they did it well. How they define Knowledge is exactly what I think. Chapter4&8, provide some guidelines to tell the second wave from the third wave, and it's really a n interesting point of view to me. They are not so precise that list everything belong to the second wave or the third wave, but give me an direction and measurement to tell the difference between two waves. I think that I'm going to read this book again just after I finished The Future Trilogy.
Forecast of the future based on questionable assumption.......1998-06-21
Authors' Alvin and Heidi Toffler would have readers believe that the world is being carried along by an inevitable tidal force of events known as the 'Third Wave' which, in turn, will effect the creation of a new civilization. While the arrival of a 'knowledge culture' will no doubt affect and change life as we know it, the 'information age' is in and of itself no guarantor of an emerging world order. The prediction "that we are the final generation of an old civilization and the first generation of a new one" is based on the authors' unswerving belief in inevitable progress. Inevitable progress is the belief that the forward movement of history is certain to happen. They assert that the technological, economical, political and cultural upheavals that are now taking place are not random or chaotic occurrences but rather, "nothing less than a global revolution, a quantum leap". The basis of this analysis is the conviction that a "clearly discernible pattern" exists and thus warrants such a claim. How can the authors' be so certain that a revolutionary 'Third Wave' civilization is destined to arrive on planet earth? The Tofflers's use of the questionable assumption of inevitable progress to reach a conclusive view of the future is insufficient and regrettable. The book's nine chapters, of which seven are previously published, form an accessible introduction to the Toffler's views on where the world is going.
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