Official Nikon and Nikkormat Manual. Includes Nikon F2.

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon and Nikkormat Manual. Includes Nikon F2.
Amphoto Editorial Board
Manufacturer: Amphoto
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UUEX6C

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon F and Nikkormat Manual
Amphoto Editorial Board Third Revised Edition
Manufacturer: Amphoto
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JKTRNM

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon F and Nikkormat manual,
Amphoto
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
General | How-to | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0817404775

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon Nikkormat Manual. Seventh Edition.
Amphoto Editorial Board
Manufacturer: Amphoto
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UUGWN4

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon-Nikkormat manual
Amphoto
Manufacturer: Amphoto
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
General | How-to | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0817405828

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon F and Nikkormat Manual
Amphoto Editorial Board
Manufacturer: Amphoto
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDHJGA

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon F and Nikkormat Manual
Amphoto Editorial Board
Manufacturer: Amphoto
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O6LX8S

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon Nikkormat Manual
Nikon Staff
Manufacturer: Japan: Nikon, 1975
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P7PSAK

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon Nikkormat Manual
Amphoto Editorial Board
Manufacturer: American Photographic Book Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBEM9C

Average customer rating:
Official Nikon Nikkormat Manual.
Amphoto Editorial Board.
Manufacturer: American Photographic Book Publishing Co., Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXNHQ8

Book Description

Attention to environmental issues is vital if the full potential economic benefits of international trade are to be realized. Greening the Americas offers a number of analytically rigorous proposals to ensure that economic integration in the Western Hemisphere proceeds in an environmentally sustainable and politically sensible manner.

The chapters review the history of the environmental negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), explore the treaty's economic and environmental impacts, and draw lessons that can be applied to the ongoing Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations. Greening the Americas analyzes in detail NAFTA's environmental elements, highlighting those provisions that should be included in future agreements and those that should be amended or dropped. The book includes contributions from a diverse set of participants in the debate about how to link environmental policy and trade agreements. The perspectives range from the broadly optimistic about environmental effects of trade and trade liberalization to a more pessimistic view of the economic and social effects of open markets and economic integration. What unites all of the contributions is a commitment to engage constructively in the policy dialogue over how best to integrate trade and environmental policy making in the Americas.

Average customer rating:

The Greening of America
Charles A. Reich
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

The Greening of a Nation?: Environmentalism in the U.S. Since 1945 (Harbrace Books on America Since 1945)

Average customer rating:

The Greening of a Nation?: Environmentalism in the U.S. Since 1945 (Harbrace Books on America Since 1945)
Hal K. Rothman
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Public Affairs & Administration | Government | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

Conservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

Environmentalism | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Business & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Nonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Outdoors & Nature | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0155028553

Book Description

The first balanced look at the evolution and significance of environmentalism, THE GREENING OF A NATION demonstrates the many attitudes Americans have held toward nature, as well as how these attitudes have created the social and cultural concerns of the post-1945 era. The text synthesizes the many facets of environmentalism in an even-handed manner, showing both the triumphs and shortcomings of the concept.

Average customer rating:

Yet another revolutionary proved wrong by history
A lost classic
I've read this book.
Amazing
Idealistic but Flawed

The Greening of America
Charles Reich
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Reference | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Natural Resources | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Ecology | Science & Technology | Teens | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0517886367
Release Date: 1995-10-03

Book Description

The 25th Anniversary of the Groundbreaking Classic. "If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today....I am now more convinced than ever that the conflict and suffering now threatening to engulf us are entirely unnecessary, and a tragic waste of our energy and resources. We can create an economic system that is not at war with human beings or nature, and we can get from here to there by democratic means."--from the new Preface by Charles A. Reich.

Customer Reviews:

Yet another revolutionary proved wrong by history.......2006-12-01

Back in the 1970s you couldn't cross a college campus without seeing hundreds of copies of this book everywhere you looked. Hip young professors taught it. Proto-revolutionaries held it aloft. Idealistic youngsters thought it portended a new age.

All nonsense, of course. Reich's manifesto is ill-argued, historically ignorant, and with the advantage of 36 years of hindsight, absolutely wrong in everything it predicted. It begins:

"There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past.It will originate with the individual and with culture, and it will change the political structure only as its final act..."

...and goes on and on about new conciousness arising, transcending the material world and so forth. It's sort of as if Marx's Communist Manifesto was written by a Deadhead who'd had one two many tokes over the line. And Reich knew his audience, and how to flatter them:

"This is the revolution of the new generation. Their protest and rebellion, their culture, clothes, music, drugs, ways of thought, and liberated life- style are not a passing fad or a form of dissent and refusal, nor are theyin any sense irrational. The whole emerging pattern, from ideals to campus demonstrations to beads and bell bottoms to the Woodstock Festival, makes sense and is part of a consistent philosophy. It is both necessary and inevitable, and in time it will include not only youth, but all people in America."

Yes, beads and bellbottoms are "part of a consistent philosophy." I was never quite sure if that was evidence of a deluded middle-aged man (Reich was 40 or 41 when the book was published) trying desperately to identify with the youth culture that had passed him by, or merely a cynical attempt to cash in on the passion and ignirance of the young. Not that it matters; the end result is the same.

The number of reviews thus far suggests that the current generation of Luddites has yet to embrace this book and carry it aloft in the manner of Mao's shock troops, as they tend to do with the writings Chomsky; for that we can be thankful. But doubtless they will eventually glom on to it, ignore the history that proved it nonsense, and once again march in the streets demanding higher conciousness for all.

A lost classic.......2005-12-31

I bought this in a second-hand bookshop.. the owner was pleased that I had picked it out.. like it was a lost gem. "That book sold loads when it came out!" he said... But why?

The Green of America is a relevatory exposition of the state of affairs of modern industrial capitalism while riding the crest of social resistance in the 1960's (feminism, black liberation, educational upheaval). Compared to this Alvin Toffler's the Third Wave is doctored, ignorant drivel. Reich's narrative sticks solidly to material analysis and recognition of what really powers social change - social conditions (AKA class struggle or dynamics)....Even though he doesn't reference Marx much at all. Reich has taken gloomy Marcuse's assessment of consumer society and shows what modern life will really engender. Full marks for old Reich.. desperately needs reprinting!

I've read this book........2002-08-21

I've read Reich's book and I do not think he had one original idea in the whole book. It was a waste of printer's ink.

Amazing.......2002-08-11

This book is dead-on in both its diagnosis and prescription. It trashes both the liberals and conservatives and gets right to the heart of the matter. If you can get past the hippy fashions of the day and delve into the more substantive issues of consciousness, you'll see what a crucial period that time was. Reading this book 30 years on, that the hippy revolution failed and that we are faced with an even worse social situation in some ways are sad facts. Nonetheless, there is hope. Everybody should read this book.

Idealistic but Flawed.......2001-03-22

This is the kind of book that had I read it ten years ago, it would have changed my life. However, having a little education and some wisdom that comes with age, this book quickly reveals it's true colors. Charles Reich was (and may still be) a professor at Yale University. I originally got the idea to read this book when one of my history professors related a story about Reich gadding about campus in his bare feet during the early 1970's. My professor, with a wry grin, related how shocked he and some of his fellow students were that someone of Reich's stature would do such a crazy thing. After reading this book, this behavior fits right in with Reich's codification of what he calls a "new consciousness".

This new consciousness, which is essentially the hippie lifestyle, is a new extension of man that has grown from a technological and corporate society run amuck, and two prior forms of consciousness that failed to properly allow man to run a high-tech world. This first consciousness was what our founding fathers had: a sense of individuality and hard work. With the advent of industrialism, this consciousness gave way to the second form. This is the one most of us are familiar with today. It a way of strict conformity to hierarchy, a rigid adherence to rules and regulations, as well as heavily materialistic and goal-oriented. Reich argues that this way of being was too stilted and crushed individuality and free expression. The result was the third phase of consciousness: the hippie. Doing your own thing, freedom, and a desire to make technology work for humanity were the ultimate goals of this group. Reich examines their clothing (of which shoeless activity is perfectly acceptable for a college professor) and music. He sees in all of this an articulation of rebellion and rage against the Corporate State, a mindless automaton that runs roughshod over all of humanity. The glorious hippies will rise up and put a stern hand on this rudderless beast and all will be well. Reich makes sure he points out that the current system is beyond reform (which I agree with) and that the only way to bring about a "Greening of America" is to restore humanity to society.

This book certainly has some high points. Reich is absolutely right about the banality of the system and that democracy and law have been bent and subverted to agree with and reinforce the system, just as humans have. His solution of the hippie, especially seen through the lens of time, is laughable. We all know what happened to the hippies. Those that didn't die from drug overdoses in the early 1970's sold out and actually expanded the system that Reich rails against. Who do you think the Yuppies were? Aging hippies that absolutely wallowed in materialism and excess. Think of how advertising has expanded in the last twenty years. How many television channels do we have now? How many of them are full of unhealthy images and advertising? The freedom that the hippies so strived for through the music of Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead has given way to Marilyn Manson and the hateful, pornographic throbbings of rap music. As we can see, what Reich crows about has actually morphed into a nightmare. At least Reich did foresee it, as he states that if the hippies couldn't move their ideas past youth, they would fail. They did, in spades.

Customer Reviews:

Pure castrist propaganda........2006-03-27

Some years ago, a brazilian lend this book to me.It's a small and concise book.In fact the only quality of this bad book is his small size.
All the rest are ridiculous Castro's propaganda.
Well, I'm an (unemployed) brazilian agronomist.I must tell you that Cuba has nothing to teach about agriculture.In fact Castro's Cuba is, a complete agriculture failure.The big Cuba's crop is sugar.Well, in 1912, Cuba produced more sugar then in 2003,2004 and 2005.
Cuba's experimente with organic agriculture was and is a failure.In fact, in Cuba, the general people has no flowing water, eletricity,etc.
Outside privileges and money support to latin american marxists, Cuba's money goes to propaganda.And this is pure castrist propaganda.

should be required text.......2001-04-18

for any environmental studies program. Ideas put to the test on an island with very little outside resources. Excellent discussion material. Unique insight into the revolution.

First-rate scientific and social examination of Cuba's agric.......1999-01-25

Cuba's social and economic systems have been in crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The prime concern of the country is how to feed its citizens so that every member has an adequate and nutritious diet. Rosset and Benjamin's scientific delegation to Cuba examined the history leading up to the current crisis, and the social, political and economic factors which maintain the food shortage up to this day. They then launch on an encyclopedic survey of the agricultural and social reform programs launched by Cuba's government to remedy the crisis. The country has adopted a Low Input, Sustainable Agriculture (LISA) style of food production in order to cope with drastically reduced inputs of chemicals, fertilizer, fuel, and capital since the USSR collapsed. Research programs abound, with several hundred research and development facilities in a country little larger than Vancouver Island, B.C. They are studying and implementing programs in non-chemical control of insects, weeds, and disease; soil remediation and fertility; labour distribution; post-harvest physiology and storage; and the distributions of production and population centers. The Greening of the Revolution combines the expertise of a 20 member delegation who spent a week in 1992 travelling the country. It reads like a comprehensive Annual Review article, with insightful analysis throughout, but not for the faint-of-heart looking for a light read. The 1992 date is now 7 years past, it would be of great interest to have a second edition of the book published in a repeat of the 1992 surveys. The book could also use some close editing; although logically laid out and of strong scientific style, there were reduncies and inconsistencies sprinkled throughout the text. In all, though, an excellent and compelling analysis of a country in transition.

Average customer rating:

America the Beautiful
Conservative criticizes conservatives
A Breath of Fresh Air!

The Greening of Conservative America
John Ross Edward Bliese , and John R. E. Bliese
Manufacturer: Westview Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Environmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Environmentalism | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

ASIN: 0813340322

Book Description

Is "conservative environmentalism" an oxymoron? Is more environmental regulation actually good for business? Why political conservatives should, on first principles, support pro-conservation, pro-environment policies.

Is "conservative environmentalism" an oxymoron? The Greening of Conservative America contends that the adherents to any well-considered conservative political philosophy should, on first principles, support pro-conservation, pro-environment policies. Bliese demonstrates with repeated examples how environmental protection policies actually benefit business by stimulating greater efficiency and innovation and by spurring the creation of green products and services for new markets around the globe. The book concludes with criticisms of "free-market environmentalism" and calls conservatives back to their root principles on matters of the environment.

Customer Reviews:

America the Beautiful.......2002-05-04

Russell Kirk wrote that there is nothing more conservative than conservation, yet today's Republican Party has squandered its heritage of protecting the environment, a heritage begun by Theodore Roosevelt that continued through Eisenhower and Nixon. Many conservatives have come to the environment's defense, among them: Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, John Gray, Margaret Thatcher, Wendell Berry, Paul Weyrich, Theodore Roosevelt IV and Susan Eisenhower.

Bliese's defense starts with demolishing misconceptions and fallacies. He then shows how certain conservative principles are consistent with the goals of environmentalism. The rest of the book takes a look at the major environmental issues of the day: pollution, public lands, global warming, biodiversity, and sustainability. Finally, he discusses the inadequacy of the libertarian notion of "free-market environmentalism."

One of the book's real virtues, in fact, is that it reveals how traditional conservatism has much more to offer than the libertarianism with which it is sometimes confused.

I also applaud Bliese's familiarity with which public policies and private actions have worked and which have not. He offers many solutions, most of them market based. Much could be accomplished, for example, by eliminating the billions in subsidies that nearly all industries receive. The unwillingness to do so reinforces my belief that there is no conservative party in Washington, D. C. It is worth keeping in mind that most scientists are problem-solvers, while most politicians are not.

Despite occasionally getting bogged down in the specifics of various studies, Bliese has fully documented his work. The end notes suggest deep, scholarly reading in environmental research. But this also raises a problem. In our time there is a general loss of consensus over what is debatable and what is fixed. More specifically, the politicizing of science, which is to say government involvement in science, has turned it into a tool of lobbying groups, college professors, and others whose livelihood depends on giving answers that the king wants to hear. Moreover, the rhetoric of catastrophe, whether it comes from business interests or environmental interests, sedates the public in much the same way as the boy who cried wolf. Lacking formal knowledge in these matters, readers are left wondering what to believe.

These are problems about which readers must draw their own conclusions. We ought to agree on certain fundamental truths, particularly in a field that pertains to the natural world that we all share, and this search for consensus appears to be Bliese's intent. Our time on earth is temporary, one of tenancy rather than ownership. We can care for the world we have inherited or we can treat it as our own personal trash can.

Bliese has certainly carved a niche for himself, given the paucity of books or articles that deal directly with the connection between conservatism and environmentalism. I hope he continues that work. With any luck his book will be an antidote to the ideology that obscures these issues.

Conservative criticizes conservatives.......2001-03-31

Conservative criticizes conservatives for not protecting the environment

"We have also seen that the current anti-environmental stance of many politicians and pundits is entirely unacceptable because it violates fundamental conservative principles." page 263

John R. E. Bliese (The Greening of Conservative America, Westview Press, 2001) is not the first to claim that conservatives should be conservationists, but no one has done the job as well as he has. In contrast to the usual ignorant nonsense that is promoted as conservative "environmentalism" (for example Peter Huber's Hard Green) the book is well researched, well written, and for the most part well argued . Contents

In the first chapter Bliese tackles three myths about the environmental movement; that environmentalists are anticapitalisrs and leftist, that they are pagan nature worshipers, and that environmentalism is just gloom and doom. He then takes on the myth that conservatives should be for business no matter what. Bliese claims that this being for business is what has turned many conservatives into anti-environmentalists. This is a gross oversimplification, but then charting the growth of anti-environmentalism would probably take an entire book. Chapter two demolishes the environment versus the economy myth In chapter three Bliese presents nine conservative principles that are related to environmental protection. Using numerous quotes from conservative thinkers Bliese makes the claim that conservatism requires caring for the environment. The next six chapters look at various environmental problems and possible solutions. Chapter four covers pollution. This is very good, except that Bliese uses "cancer clusters" as proof of harm from toxic chemicals. Almost all of these clusters are the result of the random distribution of cases, and cannot be proven to be caused by toxic chemicals. Chapter five looks at issues involving public lands. His reccomendations are almost totally the reverse of what conservatives usually recommend, especially the so-called "wise use" movement. He notes, for example, that livestock grazing on public land adds an insignificant amount to both the economy and the food supply, while causing great environmental problems. And he notes that wilderness, preserved as wilderness' is far more valuable than the resources that could be extracted from them. Chapters six and seven cover global warming. Yes, it is real, according to the best scientific research, and it will cost far less to prevent it than to deal with the consequences. Chapter eight covers endangered species, including how the Endangered Species Act can be improved. Chapter nine covers sustainability.

Chapter ten looks at "free market environmentalism" an idea that is very popular with some libertarians. Bliese ask if FME is "environmentalism for conservatives?". The answer is a decided no. Among the faults is a good idea (private conservation of land) taken to a bad extreme; the elimination of government conservation of land. Another FME idea, the replacement of environmental regulations with common law liability rules fails for several reasons. For one thing, it was the way of doing things until the 1970s, and it simply did not work. Another major problem is that it is a system that puts the victims of pollution at a major disadvantage in relation to the polluters. These are just a few of the problems Bliese found with FME. The book ends with a short chapter on concluding thoughts.

The good and the bad

Overall the book is very good. It should help rally conservatives to the conservation position. But one has to wonder about how great an impact it will have. So far, it has received little publicity. And we now have a "compassionate conservative" in the White House who seems intent on rolling back environmental protections as rapidly as the paper work can be processed.

There are a few minor problems with the book. For example, Bliese seems to believe that all conservatives share his view that the world was created by God, and that nature ought to be preserved because God gave man stewardship of it. But there is one major problem, the repeated claim that he is promoting conservative solutions to problems, with the implication that liberals would not support them. We are told, without any evidence, that liberals (and bureaucrats) support "command and control" regulations. This is totally inconsistent with the heavy documentation found in the rest of the book. And it appears to be just plain wrong. Here are his three main categories of "conservative" solutions (he also offers more specific solutions in some cases).

1. End the subsidies of destructive activities. Who, except those who benefit from the subsides, would object to this?

2. Where needed, improve existing laws. Who, except anti-governmental extremists, could object?

3. Make the polluters pay. Who, except the polluters, could object.

In short, these solutions are neither conservative nor liberal. While people may disagree on their reasons for protecting the environment, the solutions should be judged by how well they work. The environment needs all the friends it can get.

A Breath of Fresh Air!.......2001-03-31

Not since Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" has the case for environmental protection been presented in a manner that could compel even the most apathetic citizen to sit up and take note. Extremely well written, well researched, and well argued, this book dispels a number of common myths and provides fresh and impressively documented arguments for conserving and protecting the environment. Nothing new, you say? It is when the case for environmental protection is made from (surprise!)a traditional conservative perspective! "The Greening of Conservative America" is an enjoyable, educational, and inspirational read. One can only hope that Bliese's fellow conservatives pay it some heed, for the sake of generations to come.

Average customer rating:

Con 3 Controversy
Philip nobile
Manufacturer: Pocket
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

The Con III Conrtroversy: The Critics Look at the Greening of America

Average customer rating:

The Con III Conrtroversy: The Critics Look at the Greening of America

Manufacturer: Pocket Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I8YCM6

The Con III Controversy: The Critics Look at the Greening of America

Average customer rating:

The Con III Controversy: The Critics Look at the Greening of America
Philip (editor) Nobile
Manufacturer: Pocket Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000I1BHNA

Average customer rating:

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books