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"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment."
According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.
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Still Relevant.......2007-09-05
I remeber reading and listening to Dr. Deming in the 80's and now that I am the Lean Manager I still refer to his teachings. this book is a must have in your library
The new Economics.......2007-06-05
This is a very good book, it gives me a new insight on how a good management is supposed to be. I would never know about all this good stuff other than reading this.
Demings Philosophy in A Book.......2007-01-22
W. Edward Deming is one of my leadership heroes (Peter Drucker, Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, Steven Covey are a few others). Deming was a genius. I own several video and DVD's from his 4 day seminars and have read many books by his followers.
This book is Deming on Deming. He does a excellent job with his own theory (seems like a dumb statement, but a brilliant man can be a poor writer). The only beef I have with the book is that it makes me cynical about and arrogant relating to American Management practices (this of course, is a reflection on my own character and not the authors).
This book is a lexicon of things to do and things to not do in order to run a successful business; now AND in the future. It teaches that the important thing is not to focus on the how, but rather the why. The "How" changes, but "why" should not (Constancy of Purpose, Common Aim).
If you are a Deming disciple you must own this book and also his last book, THE NEW ECONOMICS. If you are new to Deming I'd recommend the NEW ECONOMICS first because it summarizes his philosophy nicely into four areas of Profound Knowledge and is less likely to cause negative thinking about American management. In my opinion, we need more hope and positive thinking, not more criticism.
Positive books on Deming include just about every other book I've read about his philosophy. So, once you've read someone else's book about his philosophy, it's time for you to read this book.
The content of this book is so broad and deep that it changed my understanding of the world I live in fundamentally. This has caused communication problems for me with others. Helping others make the same paradigm shift without the knowledge Deming gives is hard to accomplish. So a knowledge gulf is created by reading this book. In some ways this book accomplishes too much. It's scope is too broad. Perhaps it is like giving sticks of dynamite to a child. It's too powerful to play with without wisdom.
The content and authorship of this book deserves 5 stars, but I give it 4 stars for it's effect on me.
This Book Really Struck Home.......2007-01-09
I can't say enough about the revealing content of this book. I have worked as a Six Sigma Blackbelt for 4 companies, over 12 years, and Dr. Deming is spot on about the sorry state of the management of most manufacturing companies in the US. Why can't we just listen???
Maybe if enough of us pick this book up, read it, and absorb it...
Applied common sense (which is far from common).......2006-10-24
Since the 1950's, W. Edwards Deming has been telling the simple truth about how to do high-quality, productive, and satisfying work. Out of the Crisis is his original book that pulls together common sense, knowledge of people, serious statistics, and systems thinking. Many examples, at first reading, may appear far away from software development, but look again. Challenge yourself to make a difference: read this book.
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Candid, compassionate, authoritative—a rich source of insights, information, and practical guidance… "The first major work on the topic." —Gay Community News "A much needed comprehensive study of what happens to husbands, wives, and children during the coming-out crisis.".; —The Reverend Jane E. Vennard, founder Task Force for Spouses of Gays and Lesbians "The new enlarged edition adds important factors, especially children's reactions to a parent's coming out. Well-researched and insightful." —Fritz Klein, M.D., author of The Bisexual Option "Anybody practicing in this area would be well advised to read this book." —Professor Arthur S. Leonard, New York Law School In two million marriages, one spouse is gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Having a spouse or parent disclose his or her same-sex attraction is a shattering experience fraught with pain, confusion, anger, and a profound loss of self-esteem. Amity Pierce Buxton spotlights this exploding phenomenon and reports constructive coping strategies that spouses and children have used to resolve problems of sexual damage, family breakdown, deception, and homophobia. Illustrated throughout by riveting personal narratives, this expanded edition of The Other Side of the Closet traces the family's journey from initial trauma to eventual transformation. This invaluable source of information for spouses, families, and professionals is based on Dr. Buxton's eight years of research, including interviews with 1,000 straight spouses and children, her own personal experience, and her counseling work with spouses of gay, lesbian, and bisexual partners.
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The Other Side of the Closet.......2007-07-31
This booked helped my so much. I started reading it within a month of finding out about my gay husband. I never know there would be so many of us in the same situation. This was a subject that I knew nothing about. Reading the book and learning of the phases that we all go though, helped me to understand my feelings. Reading that everyone has periods of these same feelings, made me feel that I was not alone. Anyone who has to face this crisis MUST read this book. You have to see that you will move on with time, this book shows you the steps you will take along the way.
This book saved my sanity.......2007-05-03
My ex and I were married for 15 years. He never came out. Still insists he's not gay and that I am crazy and vindictive. But I knew he was gay at the end of our marriage. For several years I thought I was the only person this happened to. After reading this book, I found that there are so many circumstances in which these marriages happen, and it was like reading my own story in some places. I learned that this wasn't just a fluke, and it wasn't just me - there are patterns here that I recognized.
I also learned that the whole drama of coming out or staying in the closet is not just up to the homosexual when a straight spouse and family are also involved.
I have been coming out of his closet for a long time. This book was the start. The straight spouse network also really helped me, and continues to help me. The resources in this book are invaluable for anyone who is just starting to deal with this, and for those of us who have been dealing with these family situations for a while.
Doom for married bisexuals.......2006-10-01
I came out to my husband five years before he read this book. He didn't believe I was bisexual, but the more often I tried to talk to him about the issue, the further he would shut down. Eventually, he read this book and decided that our marriage was doomed, despite that we had been together for close to twelve years at the time. Our marriage would have been possible to salvage if he'd not read this, bought the propaganda that being married to a bisexual was a disaster, and actually attempted to communicate about the issues both of us were having.
If you're bi and your spouse reads this, expect to be served divorce papers.
Life saving reading.......2006-09-17
No one ever expects to hear the words I heard my husband of 11 years say when he sat me down last January and told me he was gay. We had been together for nearly 16 years and have two young children. I was devistated. I went through (and am still going through) extreme emotional rollercoaster girations that left me dizzy. I felt every emotion nearly everyday. I didn't know which way was up. I didn't know what to do, who to talk to, who to trust. Trust was the first thing I started challenging in my day to day life. Friends, family, coworkers... any one I met I wondered if they too were lying to me. It was a destructive mind set that I eventually, through the help of counseling, got over. Like the book mentions, there is a moment when the strait spouse feels they've been pushed into the closet. Hiding what they know from everyone, pretending things are normal. Having been there, I can attest that that was a very scary time and this book did help me get through that and helped me rescue myself from the closet. 8 months later, I'm in my own house, feeling the freedom to have my own routine, getting on with my life, and we're divorsed but still friends. Most importantly, we're both happier now that we have been for several years. The kids have come first through this whole ordeal and we have managed to keep them on track that there is no shame in who their father is. We still do things as a family, after all, we got divorced from each other not the kids. we even do things as a big happy family with my ex and his partner. The kids seem to have adjusted pretty well so far, but I know the road is long and we've just started the journey.
If anyone is just starting this journey or is having difficulty with a similar situation, I strongly urge you to get this book AND seek counseling. This book helped both of us understand what the other was going through. It will help you. And you will heal over time. Good Luck.
I'm disappointed.......2006-08-11
As a friend, I know that Jennifer left a LOT out of her book. Like, the fact that their marriage broke up before her husband came out of the closet. She never mentions the Mormon Church, yet they were very active in it; her husband decided to leave the Church, and that was when they separated. While they were separated, they BOTH started dating. Then, her ex admitted that he was dating a man.
I'm very disappointed, Jenni, in a book that calls itself "brutally honest". What else did you leave out?!!!
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Former Senator Paul Simon delivers stirring eveidence of a catastrophic water crisis which will explode upon the global community unless drastic measures are taken in all corners of the world, including in our own backyards.
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A Powerful Call to Action.......2001-11-28
Wnen it comes to water and environmental issues, the United States looks much more like a third world banana republic than a first-world, top-of-the-heap military and economic superpower. Years ago, former US senator Paul Simon alerted our government to a problem that could be mankind's undoing: the uneven distribution and wasteful consumption of water for agriculture, industry, and urban consumers across the nation and the greater world. His book, Tapped Out not only explains the problems associated with world supply, it also engages the average the person to contribute to the solution.
Water is the only resource for which there is no substitute. The world's water resources are plagued with a great variety of problems, and they typically fall into one of five broad groups- availability, quantity, quality, distribution, and competing agendas. Rich countries are increasingly finding themselves pitted against poor countries for limited water resources. In many instances, large and wasteful consumers are taking needed, precious quantities from others to slake their insatiable demand. Furthermore, more societies are reaching farther and farther to acquire this precious and critical resource.
Tapped Out has a number of favorable attributes. The book introduces the reader to the problem in an easy to understand manner. All technical terms are clearly defined as they are presented, and the book succeeds immensely in achieving its stated goal- eliciting the reader's interest in water issues. Moreover, Mr. Simon goes beyond lamenting the situation, and offers practical solutions to the problem. Finally, Mr. Simon shows the reader how the average person can be part of the solution to the problem. The reader is not left feeling overwhelmed and powerless in the face of the sheer magnitude of the problem. As such, the book is a good call to action overall.
However, there are a few moderate demerits, primarily structural, to the text. First, Mr. Simon cites too many examples in the first half of the text. These examples, while informative, come one after another and at times made the reading rather plodding. Instead, each major point should have been isolated, described in general terms, and then two to three examples which elaborate on each point should have been cited. That way, the reader gets a true sense of the problem while at the same time learning and more importantly retaining the pertinent facts. Second, the book relies too much on text, making the book very monotonous at times. Pictures would have added considerable value to the text. In addition a global map that explicitly displayed the distribution of the world's water resources, as well as the areas where water shortages are a problem, would also have been helpful. Moreover, the inclusion of graphs depicting trends in population, water supply and water consumption would also have been useful. Finally, future editions of the text should include a more balanced discussion of the technical challenges associated with water purification, desalination, and energy requirements and costs.
While I agree in principle with many of the points that Mr. Simon raises in his book, I have very strong reservations about Mr. Simon's solution to the water supply problem. Unfortunately, American bays, coastlines, rivers and lakes have earned the dubious distinction of becoming our nation's `Great Toilet'. Mr. Simon has very high hopes that one day in the near future, we will desalinate the dirty water from this make-shift natural toilet for the purposes of human consumption and agricultural production.
Given the current state of the art, it may not be possible to use reclaimed water or seawater on any appreciable scale to avert water shortages. Traditionally, wastewater treatment is used to bring microbial and organic loads down to a `safe' level so that the wastewater can be discharged to natural water systems. These natural systems then do the rest, primarily via dilution, entrapment, and degradation processes. Considering the deplorable state of the nation's waterways and coastlines, a desalination plant on the coast would have to be immediately adjacent to and downstream of a wastewater treatment plant. Moreover, each step in the process would create waste- effluents that would either have to be disposed of or put in some way to use. Finally, the process would also require a dedicated energy source. Desalination schemes currently require large amounts of energy for their operation, and as they are envisioned, will require huge energy input. As such, I am afraid that these schemes will ultimately play into the already strong hand of the energy companies. Solar energy, while a possibility, depends on area, and a given area, usually quite large, is required to satisfy a very limited water demand. Should demand increase, one would have very little maneuvering room when looking to scale up a solar-driven process. Therefore, solar-driven processes may be extremely limited, leaving only fossil fuels and nuclear power to provide the necessary energy. As a result, the cost of desalinated water if deployed on a large scale would inevitably track the cost of energy very closely. Thus, I suspect that energy companies are salivating at the prospect of such large-scale desalination schemes becoming reality.
In conclusion, this book, along with J R McNeil's Something New Under the Sun, has forced me to seriously consider the social, ecological, and environmental consequences associated with the adoption and deployment of any techno-economic process. After reading this book, I am now one more person who is strongly motivated to work towards a practical solution to a problem that affects all of us in the global community.
A compilation of quotes.......2000-04-05
"Tapped Out" is a good primer for those just beginning to study the issue of water scarcity, but there is little new in the book. Simon has taken quotes from news articles and studies and compiled them into a fairly credible call for action, however most of the information he references in the book dates from the early to mid-90s and is pulled from news sources. He calls for more development of desalinization technologies and more conservation, but his suggestions lack insight into the biggest problem facing the world--too many people seeking the good life where adequate water is taken for granted. In the US, where the problem is related to a growing population, and primarily to the country's addiction to water-wasting recreation and industry, he addresses water restriction almost as an afterthought. "Tapped Out" should be just the beginning of an investigation into the future of a thirsty world.
Finally,dams are being removed.......1999-06-03
Some progress in saving water resources is being made by removing dams-up to & including Glen Canyon Dam. Follow Simon's requests--last 3 pages-take action,this forboding crisis will be exacerbated by Y2K....
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Crises have no boundaries. Any company, organization and institution is vulnerable. A shooting or other violence in the workplace. An explosion. Product recall. Release of toxic substance. Natural disaster. This book is the complete guide to crisis communictions. The better a management team is prepared, the better it will be able to communicate and contain and incident before it becomes a crisis. This should be required reading for anyone running a successful enterprise in today's crisis-prone environment. For a senior manager, it could be job insurance!
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This book is simplistic.......2000-11-03
The author provides case study after case study with practically no analysis himself. He spends an entire chapter promoting himself and lambasting a client who didn't heed his advice.
Is this a good book for newcomers? Possibly. If you're a student and don't know much about public relations this book will probably interest you. If you're a practioner and this book is anything other than remidal reading, it may be time to consider finding a new career.
To his credit, the author does present case studies that run the gamut from non-profits, to disasters, to educational instituions, to criminal clients. He does provide a wide array of different situations.
I have no doubt that the author is an excellent practioner of the art of public relations. As a journalist and an instructor, the book leaves something to be desired.
An excellent resource.......2000-03-16
I found this to be one of the best books out there on risk and crisis communication. The author succinctly presents a wealth of practical information and tips. This book is as useful for newcomers to the field, as well as those who have weathered many a crisis. In addition, its universal advice applies to all organizations--whether you are in industry, government, education, sports, or non-profit. I've bought copies for all my staff!
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E. Fuller Torrey excoriates the way the mentally ill are treated in this country. His polemic against the concept of "deinstitutionalization" takes us on a grim tour of the lives led by the mentally ill: untreated, homeless, jobless, and helpless against street violence. Torrey argues that the criteria for involuntary commitment should include the need for treatment.
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"Powerful. . . . The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger."âThe New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant and remarkably detailed. . . . Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out . . . of a healthcare scandal that remains one of America's most enduring shames."âPhil Donahue.
"If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish in his second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. It can be done. . . . Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . . . provides a five-year road map in Out of the Shadows."âNew York Daily News.
"An important book . . . timely and very well written."âThe New England Journal of Medicine.
"Controversial ideas, forcefully presented."âKirkus Reviews
"Moving and vivid. . . . Torrey's powerful prescription for change challenges conventional wisdom and political correctness. His searing case examples will haunt the reader."âLaurie Flynn Executive Director National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
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A very IMPORTANT book - highly recommended - .......2005-05-22
This book speaks to the heart of the latest mental health issues...homelessness being one of them.
I have much respect for this professional who is not afraid to get his hands wet. God bless him.
Torrey wrestles with his intellectual schizophrenia.......2004-04-02
In his earlier book, The Death of Psychiatry, Torrey wrote this:
"A mental "disease" is said to be a 'disease' of the mind... But a mind is not a thing and so technically it cannot have a disease... There are many known diseases of the brain ... But these diseases are considered to be in the province of neurology rather than psychiatry... None of the conditions that we now call mental 'diseases' have any know structural or functional changes in the brain..."
Now in his days of infamy Torrey says the very opposite. In this book, despite his painfully transparent attempts to explain away the reality he earlier acknowledged, he is unsuccessful. We are still left with the fact that genuine brain diseases are treated not by psychiatrists like Torrey, but by neurologists. Psychiatrists "treat" non-existent diseases in a non-existent location called the mind. The metaphor of "the mind" didn't change, but Torrey did. And we are left bewildered as to why he now embraces views that he once blasted. It deserves a clear explanation that he doesn't offer.
This book, and Torrey's other popular titles, can be read as an extended attempt to justify his devotion to something he formerly identified as useless pseudoscience. It's a clear case of cognitive dissonance.
Documents the Stuggle Among Mental Health Professionals.......2000-10-02
Dr. Torrey once again published a book that highlighted a critical issue among mental health professionals. He once again tries to prod the American public into becoming aware of what is happening among the mentally ill in this country. He wants his profession to take a hard look at how they are responding to the crisis of mental illness. He desperately wants them to evaluate how they are responding. And he wants the system changed.
This is Must Reading!.......1998-04-23
This book is one of Dr. Torrey's best. He demonstrates how Americans have allowed their government and medical profession to immorally ignore and degrade the people who need our help the most--those with serious mental illness. Mental health workers would rather treat relatively healthy people going through ordinary life crises. Indeed, a sign of sucess in psychiatry and psychology is having a comfortable office practice where you don't have to see many manic depressives and almost no psychotics. The DSM (Psychiatry's diagnostic manual) is written so that any problem in a normal human life can be considered a "mental illness," so talking to a millionare who is disappointed that he only has $3 million instead of $10 million qualifies as providing mental health care. Meanwhile, those with serious depression kill themselves and people who are disabled because of dangerous hallucinations and delusions live in their own filth on the streets. This is all the more tragic because we have the means to treat the vast majority of mental/brain diseases. Very few people cannot be helped by the hundreds of medications that exist, but many are deprived of treatment because of absurd social and political policy. Torrey implicates several different political groups and movements as playing a big part in the problem. Liberals, civil libertarians, mainstream consrevatives and the far right have all had their reasons for closing mental hospitals and depriving psychiatrists of the ability to effectively treat their patients. Torrey points out that most of this opposition to psychiatry is done out of ignorance and hopes that as more and more people know the facts, society will demand that poeple with life threatening mental diseases be given the treatment they need to live health productive lives, and that the limited mental health resources our nation has will be spent wisely; giving those with the greates need the highest priority.
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The LEADER'S GUIDE TO THE KIDS' GUIDE TO WORKING OUT CONFLICTS includes 27 ready-to-use lesson plans that reinforce the skills and concepts taught in the student book.
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Outsourcing is no longer just a problem for factory workers. Suddenly, software writers and radiologists are easier to hire and work with in India than in Indiana. But who can fault companies for hiring competent labor wherever it's cheapest? Cost cutting is the engine of capitalism: the worst economic system in the world—except for all the rest! So before we go blaming "Benedict Arnold CEOs" and "greedy capitalists," consider this:
Thanks to the public education system liberals have defended for the past forty years, many high school graduates are nearly functionally illiterate. Not so in India.
Thanks to lobbyists and pro-union immigration laws, foreigners aren't allowed to stay in the country after they finish their Ph.D.s. So they're starting companies overseas instead of here.
Thanks to our liberal tax system, employers have to pay extra for American workers to fund Social Security—which no one believes will be solvent in a few decades.
Thanks to a legal system that favors the plaintiff, employers in the United States must worry about lawsuits over spilled hot coffee, trumped up sexual harassment charges, and other frivolous cases.
This election year, we'll hear a lot of complaining that big business is abandoning the little guy and being unpatriotic. But it's actually left-leaning politicians who have made America less competitive. Respected economist Todd G. Buchholz will recommend fixes for our education, immigration, tax, and legal systems that will make America lean and muscular again—and make our labor pool the most attractive in the world.
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A wonderful read!.......2006-01-29
This is a wonderful read. Definitely invest in buying it. You won't regret it, no matter what your political convictions.
Brilliant and Humorous.......2006-01-29
I loved this book; it was funny, informative, and very well written. For those who want a quick, new, and great approach on today's economical situations.
Contrary to Close Minded Liberal's beliefs, It is great!.......2006-01-29
This is an absolutely excellent book. Even if you are a democrat, unless you are completely close minded and ignorant, you will enjoy it. Not too politically biased, the book gives the current economic challenges of outsourcing a comical spin, and puts things in perspective. I loved it, and recommend it for anyone; regardless of whether you care a great deal about the economy, it is a funny and enlightening quick-read.
Barely can be Considered Book about Outsourcing.......2006-01-17
When I picked up this book I thought it would offer me two things. I thought it would be about outsourcing and it would provide solutions to the problems. Sadly, Buchholz's book did neither. Instead, it provided many critiques from an American capitalist's point of view about society. In that regard it did a satisfactory job, although there are many popular books that did a far better job of doing it (Sowell's Basic Economics and even Stossel's Give me a Break).
The first 20 pages of the book offered hope that it'd stay on the topic of outsourcing; however even they were disappointing. There were few facts supporting free trade or details about why outsourcing can help an economy. After the first chapter Buchholz quickly veers off outsourcing and into taxes, education, tort reform and many other faults within our society. In doing this though he rarely talks about how they relate to outsourcing. This book is especially lacking in any quantitative analysis. Many of these facts are seen as given and therefore don't require support. Finally, his last chapter on our cultural exports seemed to be a socially conservative polemic that was out of place in an otherwise economically focused book. If you are looking for a book about outsourcing or an above introductory look at economic problems in the United States, I'd look elsewhere. Buchholz's book is strictly for those who haven't read alot about modern American politics and are looking for a partisan introduction to them.
The main positive about this book is it's an easy and quick read. At 179 pages you won't waste too much time on it. The author does a very good job at making the book flow. He adds many pop culture references, although they seem forced at times. Because of the very fluid writing style and his obvious intelligence, I might give his other books a chance. But hopefully they'll be a little better content wise than this one.
Why.......2005-08-26
Buchholz thinks that expensive us workers and high taxes are to blame for outsourcing, yet the real reason is greed. If company X can find cheap work in a third world country then, they'll go there.. Why pay $5, when you can pay 5 cents. Also the Bush admin thinks thinks outsoucing is a good thing. Sure outsoucing was around when Dems were in power, but it hasnt gone yet. Blame both parties.
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At once a literary-philosophical meditation on the question of modernity and a manifesto for a new form of literary criticism, Modernity at Sea argues that the nineteenth-century sea narrative played a crucial role in the emergence of a theory of modernity as permanent crisis.
In a series of close readings of such works as Herman Melville's White-Jacket and Moby Dick, Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and The Secret Sharer, and Karl Marx's Grundrisse, Cesare Casarino draws upon the thought of twentieth-century figures including Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Leo Bersani, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Antonio Negri to characterize the nineteenth-century ship narrative as the epitome of Michel Foucault's "heterotopia"-a special type of space that simultaneously represents, inverts, and contests all other spaces in culture.
Elaborating Foucault's claim that the ship has been the heterotopia par excellence of Western civilization since the Renaissance, Casarino goes on to argue that the nineteenth-century sea narrative froze the world of the ship just before its disappearance-thereby capturing at once its apogee and its end, and producing the ship as the matrix of modernity.
Cesare Casarino is associate professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.
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HARD QUESTIONS, SIMPLE ANSWERS is a workbook and resource guide for older adults and their families. Most Families are totally unprepared and often overwhelmed by the complexity of issues involved when dealing with the care of aging parents/spouses/older loved ones. HARD QUESTIONS, SIMPLE ANSWERS is a must have for families who need guidance in making wise, educated choices on behalf of an aging loved one.
Author Elana Peters MA., CMC. is a professional Geriatric Care Manager with more than 25 years experience in helping families and older adults. Ms. Peters is a member of The American Society on Aging, The National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers, and The National Academy of Care Managers. Elana Peters is in private practice to families and businesses throughout the country.
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- Total Wealth: Lifetime Wealth and Lifelong Security
- Rationality, Institutions and Economic Methodology
- Speculative Primitive
