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This is a great book for anyone.Wonderful tips on health and beauty.Great biography for anyone,and it's short too!!!! Kelly,Il.

I think Murakami is one of the forgotten academes of the world, if one would read his book, the reader would get another perspective on how this world should be governed. I really like the way he pointed out that Economics and Politics can never be seperated, a very comprehensive ellaboration of his points that would surely be a permanent part of my ideas and thoughts. Rest in Peace Professor!

This book is a fine analysis of Austrian contributions to economics and Austrian anticipations of many modern neo-classical ideas. It also examines constructively but critically the modern Austrian research program.

The instructions are fun to read, the ice cream tastes superb! Ice cream making was never easier or tastier. I am getting this for all my family (along with an ice-cream maker) for Christmas this year! Makes a wonderful house warming gift too.

America is called the Land of Opportunity because people of all backgrounds are given a chance at advancement through education and hard work, but these opportunities are not available to all students.

Professor Rosenbaum has studied the educational opportunities given to students of low SES (socio-economic status) backgrounds for over 35 years. In this book, he evaluates the adequacy and extent of American vocational education programs and compares them with successful models in other countries such as Japan and Germany. In this analysis, he points out a tragic irony: due to their egalitarian ideals, American schools are uncomfortable with creating a substantial vocational education system and instead offer a college preparatory curriculum to nearly all students, a choice which ends up depriving students of the means to earn a good living.

The American educational system sends the signal to students that they ought attend college: in surveys, most students say that they plan to attend college. At the same time, students have little idea what colleges require: as Prof Rosenbaum's _Making Inequality_ (1976) showed, students were ignorant of basic college application processes. Students do know that community colleges are open to all and perceive that grades don't matter, giving them little incentive to study. Even non-college-bound students also know that employers don't look at high school grades, and so have little incentive to study.

After high school graduation, students enter community colleges ill-prepared for the courses; most students must enroll in remedial courses, which they're paying for, but do not earn college credits. Disappointed with this process, high numbers of students drop out with few or no college credits.

By contrast, in good vocational education programs, students have incentives to do well: teachers develop relationships with employers, who trust their opinions of students, and students see that their performance in the classroom has a direct effect on their employability. In addition, the voc ed curriculum is clearly relevant to the real world, and students gain self-esteem from learning real world job skills such as auto mechanics or computer assembly; making a device work is a clear source of motivation, unlike algebra.

Students in vocational education programs also attain higher levels of competence at the same skills than they would in college preparatory courses. Cognitive psychology studies show that students are often better at solving real-world problems than abstract ones: uneducated Brazilian street children selling fruit on the street are capable of solving complex arithmetic problems, but unable to solve the same problems when phrased in abstract terms.

In sum, the American educational system perpetuates a false egalitarianism through its failure to offer more substantial vocational education programs. Rather than stigmatizing students, vocational education programs empower them to gain competence in fields which are often technically complex and high-paying, and which offer substantially more opportunities for advancement than those jobs open to high school graduates.

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Tony Smith

This is one of the volumes in the new Harvard Business School Essentials Series. Each offers authoritative answers to the most important questions concerning its specific subject. The material in this book is drawn from a variety of sources which include the Harvard Business School Press and the Harvard Business Review as well as Harvard ManageMentor®, an online service. Each volume is indeed "a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience." And each is by intent and in execution solution-oriented. Although I think those who have only recently embarked on a business career will derive the greatest benefit, the material is well-worth a periodic review from by senior-level executives.

Richard Luecke assembles in this book (and in all of the issues in the series) cutting edge thinking. In this volume, he was assisted by a subject adviser, Professor Mary Munter of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and they organize the material within nine chapters. Here are their titles:

1. Good Writing (It Begins with Principles)
2. Start-Up Strategies (Your Launch Point)
3. The First Draft (Getting It Down)
4. Getting It Right ((The Editing Craft)
5. Everyday Writing (Memos, Letters, and E-Mails)
6. Presentations (Timeless Principles)
7. Backstage (Preparing Your Presentation8. Show Time (Making an Effective Delivery)
9. Dialogue (The Ultimate Communication)

If you need assistance with mastering essentials in only one of these areas, I urge you to purchase a copy of this book ASAP. Luecke is an uncommonly clear thinker and writer. Thoughtfully, he provides a "Summing Up" section at the end of each chapter to facilitate a review of key points. There are two other books which I also presume to recommend highly: Kevin Ryan's recently published Write Up the Corporate Ladder and William K. Zinnser's On Writing, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction.

I agree with the Rebecca's analysis indicating that Concordia University in Montreal is a very fine Canadian business school. I know many successful graduates in Montreal and Toronto working for various large companies.

Chinese Sociologics: An Anthropological Account Of The Role Of Alienation In Social Reproduction presents an original, thought-provoking, articulate analysis of Chinese culture and society along with a compelling, scholarly critique of contemporary social theory. Steven Sangren (Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University) insightful explores the various dimensions of both social and individual life in China, including the effect of gender and desire. After an informative introduction, individual chapters address Why "Culture": Why "Production?"; History and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy: The Mazu Cult of Taiwan; Dialectics of Alienation: Individuals and the Collectivities in Chinese Religion; Power and Transcendence in the Mazu Pilgrimages of Taiwan; "Power" Against Ideology: A Critique of Foucaultian Usage; Women's Production: Gender and Exploitation in Patrilinear Mode; Fathers and Sons in a Patrilinear mode of Desire: Preliminary Analysis of the Story of Nezha from Fengshen Yanyi; Afterword: "Excess"; Change and the Limits of Analysis. Enhanced with a Character List, References, and an Index, Chinese Sociologics is a meticulous and very highly recommended work for students of contemporary Chinese culture, multicultural sociology, and social rituals.

I wish I'd had a book like this when I graduated high school and wasn't quite ready for college. Fortunately, this book is available to my kids--it gives confidence, courage, clarity, and loads of information. And, it promotes flexible thinking, allowing them to see graduation and beyond as the next step to adulthood. This author really cares about kids.