A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TV ought to be eliminated forever.
Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are "neutral," benign instruments that can be used well or badly, is thrown open to profound doubt. Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, "as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns."
About this product: Do you have food allergies--or suspect you do? If you have been diagnosed by your doctor, or don't yet know why symptoms recur after eating, Allergy-Free Cooking can help you determine what foods cause your symptoms, without sacrificing good taste and pleasurable eating.
Instructions: An elimination dance begins with a crowded dance floor. At a signal, the band stops playing and the announcer reads an elimination, say, "Any lover who has gone into a flower shop on Valentine's Day and asked for clitoris when he meant clematis." Any dancer answering this description must sit down, and his partner is also disqualified. The process continues (e.g. "Any person who has burst into tears at the Liquor Control Board") until a single couple remains. And now, the post-Meech Lake edition. Brick Books reaches out to Quebec: "Tout amant qui, la Saint-Valentin, est entré dans une boutique de fleuriste et a demandé pour un clitoris au lieu d'une clématile."
About this product: Jim Priebe is a native of Toronto, Canada. He is an international bridge player, and has authored three books. He is a retired executive. DOUBLE ELIMINATION is his second Art Fraser mystery.
Your average person would never dream that bridge would be a game of passion. But Art Fraser, who is both a New York homicide investigator and an expert bridge player, is called upon to look at a four-year-old cold case of a husband and wife, whose bodies have just been found on one of their properties, now owned by a niece. Art Fraser is pressed into service, which is the dread of most homicide investigators. The case is cold; there is little forensic evidence to go on; and the case isn't even in Art's jurisdiction. He is called upon to work with what could only be described as amateurs. Oh joy.
"'Everything's on hold until I get there. The Laches were both bridge players, so Bryder thinks I'm the best man to assign to the case. He'll have to smooth things out with his counterpart up there. The two are old friends, evidently. They see each other periodically at staff meetings in Albany.'
'You're not working the case all alone?'
'I asked him to assign Nelson and Wilson. He vetoed that one right away. Says it would decimate our group in Genesee County. I have zero input into the makeup of the team doing the investigation. I feel like a junior hired hand right now.' He scowled and made to get up again. Karen leaned forward and put a hand on his arm."
There is money there; there is plenty of intrigue, with everyone evidently either having affairs with the other or trying for a liaison. As is the case with human nature, wherever there is a group, there is friction. Priebe understands the psychology of people working in organizations and uses his expertise to weave a fairly complicated whodunit. The reader is stumped right up until the end of the tale, and in between there is plenty of intrigue and action to go around. Art Fraser is enough of a renegade to be a fascinating hero. Only this time he has to do a bit of babysitting with his own team. A good read from an author who obviously loves the game of bridge.
About this product: "You’ll treasure the practical insights and the useful tips in this book. You’ll think differently, act smarter, and increase your wealth by learning John Furhman’s ideas." –Nido R. Qubein Chairman, Great Harvest Bread Co. Founder, National Speakers Association Foundation
It’s no big surprise that each year thousands of people fall into debt. What is shocking is that many of us accept the fact that we could be in debt for the rest of our lives. John Fuhrman should know because he has been there, but he decided to put a plan together that would eliminate debt from his life for good.
In The Credit Diet: How to Shed Unwanted Debt and Achieve Fiscal Fitness, award-winning speaker and bestselling author John Fuhrman uses his personal life experience of overcoming debt to provide you with a practical and easy-to-follow road map that will help you to rise above your current financial situation and take the necessary action to remove debt from your life.
About this product: The foremost and most comprehensive resource on infant toilet training including guidelines, medical and anthropological reports, testimonials, history, philosophy, cross-cultural research, and photos from around the world.
This is the third edition, now with 81 photos (including 66 in full color) and up-to-date medical research. For this elaborate and exquisite tome, the author has scoured the world for proof that her infant potty method really works, with or without diapers . . . and to the ultimate benefit of babies, parents and environment.
The book contains guidelines all ages (newborn, early-starters & late-starters); 100+ baby signals; 35+ tips for late-starters; tips for working with twins and other multiples; part-time pottying; sign language; commentary by pediatricians, MDs and psychologists; anthropological reports; testimonials; myths; and cross-cultural research on the practice which is also known as elimination communication.
“In this world, there is good and there is evil. Of this I am sure.”
—Kazuya Matsumoto A powerful international organization wants to tip the balance of global power in their favor by infiltrating the White House. At the direction of its mastermind, alias Pecos Bill, presidential candidates have become unwitting targets of a world-class sharpshooter. A martial arts expert, a greedy corporate attorney, and a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist form a shaky alliance to uncover the assassin’s identity before he can claim his next victim. Only as bodies begin to pile up do they realize that the killer may be in their very midst.
About this product: Are you ready to take control of your life in as little time as one week? Procrastination Elimination: Seven Days to Action! will help you identify what you want out of life and how you can get it. Author Susan Lynn Perry introduces a simple system for overcoming procrastination and pinpointing your goals, so you can finally accomplish what you really want. The author’s easy-to-understand examples include the following techniques and much more:
· Tap into your motivation and use it to propel you forward. · Master the six most common time management techniques. · Become skilled at using your imagination to solve problems more creatively. · Uncover the secret of getting twice as much done in half the time. · Reveal a new attitude and begin living a new life. · Discover why getting organized can move you closer to achieving your goals. · Learn how to apply the power of positive thinking to go after your dreams.
Stop putting off until tomorrow what you can do today by following Perry’s hands-on exercises and real-life examples. Don’t procrastinate any longer! Procrastination Elimination will show you how to be ready to change, ready to learn, ready to be in control, and ready to “just do it!”
About this product: In recent years there has been an increasing use of logical methods and significant new developments have been spawned in several areas of computer science, ranging from artificial intelligence and software engineering to agent-based systems and the semantic web. In the investigation and application of logical methods there is a tension between: * the need for a representational language strong enough to express domain knowledge of a particular application, and the need for a logical formalism general enough to unify several reasoning facilities relevant to the application, on the one hand, and * the need to enable computationally feasible reasoning facilities, on the other hand. Second-order logics are very expressive and allow us to represent domain knowledge with ease, but there is a high price to pay for the expressiveness. Most second-order logics are incomplete and highly undecidable. It is the quantifiers which bind relation symbols that make second-order logics computationally unfriendly. It is therefore desirable to eliminate these second-order quantifiers, when this is mathematically possible; and often it is. If second-order quantifiers are eliminable we want to know under which conditions, we want to understand the principles and we want to develop methods for second-order quantifier elimination. This book provides the first comprehensive, systematic and uniform account of the state-of-the-art of second-order quantifier elimination in classical and non-classical logics. It covers the foundations, it discusses in detail existing second-order quantifier elimination methods, and it presents numerous examples of applications and non-standard uses in different areas. These include: * classical and non-classical logics, * correspondence and duality theory, * knowledge representation and description logics, * commonsense reasoning and approximate reasoning, * relational and deductive databases, and * complexity theory. The book is intended for anyone interested in the theory and application of logics in computer science and artificial intelligence.
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