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- Develop Solid Research Skills With This Book!
- Solid foundation material. Useful tips for all levels.
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CyberAssistant: How to Use the Internet to Get More Done in Less Time
Ph.D., D.A. Smith-Hemphill
Manufacturer: American Management Association
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Today's office assistants are so overwhelmed with the demands of multiple bosses, they need their own assistants! The Internet provides a motherload of resources and tools--IF you know how to use it!
CyberAssistant is a quick-reading guide to this amazing technology. Presented in clear, step-by-step explanations, the book shows assistants how to:
* use e-mail, send attachments, and keep "files" of their e-mail, as well as critical e-mail "netiquette" * master the standard search engines, such as Yahoo, Lycos, and Altavista to conduct a quick and successful search for highly specific information (find a competitor's Web site...contact an embassy...look up a newspaper article...etc., etc.) * make reservations for nearly anything: travel arrangements, theatre tickets, sports events (and then print out a map and directions) * research the best prices for a product, track a FedEx package, check into an industry newsgroup, look up a long-lost friend, and on and on and on!
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Develop Solid Research Skills With This Book!.......2000-11-29
Business people and hobbyists alike have found the Internet to be a goldmine of a place for buying and selling, marketing and promoting, and for gathering and sharing information. There is much to search for online but not everyone has the time and resources available to conduct adequate research. D.A. Smith-Hemphill has written CyberAssistant: How to Use the Internet to Get More Done in Less Time to help other members of the online community to make the most effective use of the time and resources they do have.
The book focuses primarily upon getting set up with an online account and computer equipment, developing research methodology, and making use of the navigational tools people should be using for their searches. Smith-Hemphill discusses how to search for ISP services, setting up browsers and computer equipment, getting along with others, using search engines, making use of the newsgroups and discussion groups, tapping into specialized databases, and how we should go about looking for information.
Smith-Hemphill takes netiquette seriously and her treatment reflects a high standard of behavior still found lacking online. She points out that because we communicate online electronically, people we interact with know us only by how we communicate with them using a mouse and keyboard. Readers will learn how to make good impressions the first time and every time when replying to e-mail, participating in online discussions, following respectable acceptable use policies, correct spelling and use of grammar, our choice of words, and other proper key strokes.
Search engines play an important role in conducting online research. Smith-Hemphill discusses use of the major search engines that help us find the information we look for. Selection of key words, phrases, and other character strings are among the topics covered. A selection of other helpful Websites will assist readers to track down essential information online and help them develop solid research skills.
One fascinating aspect about this book is worth mentioning. Smith-Hemphill encourages her readers to learn from their online research experiences. The documenting of various research methods, procedures, and other helpful tricks and tips can go a long way to enhance our long-range effectiveness - and careers. This is an important process every member of the online community should learn to do!
The book reads easy and is highly informative. The average business owner, employee, researcher, student, and hobbyist will find it very helpful and easy to follow. This book would make a great addition to any business, classroom, and library environment with online connectivity. This is a great gift idea. Ideal for beginners!
Solid foundation material. Useful tips for all levels........1999-09-13
This is a clear, concise, and complete guide to the use of the internet. The book is packed with information applicable to persons at various levels of skill. Following the logical presentation of information, novices should be working confidently on the internet within a short time. As a more advanced user, I was able to strengthen my knowledge of the internet in general. I also picked up many useful tips and the addresses of some useful web sites which I had not previously come across. The style of writing and the layout make "CyberAssistant" especially easy to read.
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In 1932 Florence Reece, the wife of a Kentucky coal miner, wrote one of the classic topical songs preserved in the folk musical revival. The song, "Which Side Are You On?," contrasts the lot of the working class and the bosses, and asks the listener to choose. This politically charged song was performed again during the Civil Rights Movement, with its lyrics appropriate to the 1960s. It was recorded more recently by Billy Bragg. Indeed, the story of this song might serve as a microcosm of the entire history of the folk music revival.
Dick Weissman, former member of the Journeymen and a musician still releasing CDs of his original compositions, brings his personal and professional involvement to this definitive history. Which Side Are You On? includes chapters and sections on the Lomaxes, Harry Smith, the little known Lawrence Gellert, Woody Guthrie, Josh White, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, groups such as the Weavers and the Kingston Trio, Dave Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Natalie Merchant, Ani Difranco, Bela Fleck, Nickel Creek, the Indigo Girls, and many others.
Which Side Are You On? also explores the folk music business in depth: how it all works, where the power really lies, how the artists have been manipulated and often exploited, the dynamic between artist and audience.
Though he writes as a historian, Weissman also has seen it all from the inside, and includes anecdotes that are both funny and poignant: My friend and guitarist-singer Artie Traum took care of one of two houses that Bob Dylan owned in Woodstock, some thirty five years ago. The house had thirty seven rooms! Artie was instructed not to give out Dylan's phone number to any caller. The first caller was Joan Baez, and Artie followed instructions, calling Dylan at the other house to relay the call. During Artie's house-sitting chores, I visited him. He took me on a brief tour of the house. In one room were sacks of mail. We randomly opened a half-dozen letters. The one that I remember was by a female fan in North Dakota. She had been to a Dylan concert and reminded him that they had met. There was something touching though pathetic about the letter.
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Not to be missed by any serious about American popular music history.......2005-12-04
Dick Weissman worked with the Journeymen and here uses a popular song from the 1930s to fuel chapters discussing the history and culture of American folk music from Joan Baez to Ani DiFanco, Peter Paul and Mary and more. Here are discussions of all the top names in American folk, written with authority because author Weissman is more than a historian here - he was a participant in the folk movement of the times, and adds persona anecdotes about the folk music business and its artists. From pop artists to the re-emergence of female blues singers, Which Side Are You On? An Inside History Of The Folk Music Revival In America is not to be missed by any serious about American popular music history.
A Five-Star Insider's Look At the Folksong Revival .......2005-11-30
What exactly was the folk song craze? How did it happen? Who was involved? What is its legacy today?
Dick Weissman, a five-string banjo virtuoso formerly of the folk group The Journeymen, is perhaps the first to tackle this complex subject in depth. He takes a hard look at a wide range of topics with sharp observation, unsentimental analysis, and occasional wit.
Weissman, who partly in self-defense has made himself an authority on the music business, uses that insight to get under the skin of folk entertainers like the Weavers, the Kingston Trio and the many lesser-knowns who, in the early 1950s, put together the folk craze. He goes on to take a look at developments as diverse as skiffle amd blugrass, electric folk and fusion.
But he begins much further back: in the late 19th (Francis James Child and the ballads) and early 20th century with Cecil Sharp, the Lomaxes, and the other folk collectors -- including the lesser-known Lawrence Gellert, who pioneered in collecting songs that got even closer to the black experience. He takes us through the Golden Age recordings of early country music and blues, and early protest music, including People's Artists, and how they influenced what we all thought folk music was. From there he traces the route to 1949 and the breakout of the Weavers - culminating in the blacklisting that shut down some folk entertainers including Pete Seeger along with a number of Hollywood's finest.
"Which Side Are You On" takes in a very broad sweep that makes most other books on the subject look narrow. This is probably the first book ever to put side by side in the same context people as disparate as Alan Lomax, Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Bill Monroe, cowboy singers and poets, Ewan MacColl, Peter, Paul and Mary, Doc Watson, Laura Nyro, The Band, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Tom Waits, New Age music, newgrass, John Fahey, Eliza Gilkyson, Bruce Springsteen, Nanci Griffith, Paul Simon, Sheryl Crow, Jewel, and 21st century folk pop -- not to mention parallel developments in ethnic music such as Cajun, Zydeco, Canadian, Celtic, Hispanic, American Indian, Hawaiian, children's music (who else covers Raffi?) and more.
That makes this book unique in my estimation. Most writers on folk music carve themselves out a stylistic niche - traditional songs, bluesmen, country musicians, folk-rockers -- and stay within it. Weissman takes the opposite approach, showing how widely folksong has been impacted by developments in popular, ethnic, rock and other forms of music, and how its ways of thinking and performing have been changed by them. The result is a first chance to see the folk scene as a grand parade leading onward into the future, triumphs, foibles and all.
The "folk superstars" are here: Leadbelly. Woody Guthrie. Odetta. Dylan. Phil Ochs. Peter, Paul and Mary. Simon and Garfunkel. Joan Baez. Judy Collins. Joni Mitchell. So are many names that will be new to nearly every reader, with fascinating stories that place them in the ongoing folk thread that winds through American music. Tracing stardom as well as the obscure through the 1970s, 80s and 90s, Weissman brings the story of the folk era up to date with incisive coverage of what the thing we call "folk" means now, today: everything from Ani DiFranco and Nickel Creek to the Dixie Chicks and "O Brother Where Art Thou."
There is astute coverage of trends and backgrounds: Folkways, Elektra, Vanguard and the other folk record labels. The folk scene in various parts of the US and abroad, most prominently New York's Greenwich Village, but also Philadelphia, Boston, Newport, Chicago, Denver, Austin, California and elsewhere. How music informed the Civil Rights Movement. Feminist music and musicians. Singer-songwriters. Musical instruments. Radio, folk organizations, print music and performing venues. Folk-rock and country-rock.
Along the way Weissman poses some tough questions folkniks often prefer to duck. What about authenticity vs. "selling out?" What did stardom mean for the few folkies who achieved it? What did "going electric" mean for singers who believed their roots lay in casual home-made music of centuries past? How did folk-inspired songwriting change as it grew? What has it meant to "bourgeoisify" and commodify folk music? And how did the business of folk music change the music and the people who made it? These are only some of the questions this book addresses.
"Which Side Are You On" is frankly a survey, covering a lot of territory. Hence it cannot go deeply into some of its subject matter. Still there are surprising moments of insight, and enough detail to feast on for hours.
If you want a smart practitioner's bird's-eye view of what folk is, does, and means - and are ready for a few side trips into allied kinds of music that draw intriguing parallels - this is the book for you.
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The comic, poignant, one-of-a-kind book that "reads like an enthralling novel" (Studs Terkel).
When it first appeared in hardcover, Which Side Are You On? received widespread critical accolades, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. In this new paperback edition, Thomas Geoghegan has updated his eloquent plea for the relevance of organized labor in America with an afterword covering the labor movement through the 1990s.
A funny, sharp, unsentimental career memoir, Which Side Are You On? pairs a compelling history of the rise and near-fall of labor in the United States with an idealist's disgruntled exercise in self-evaluation. Writing with the honesty of an embattled veteran still hoping for the best, Geoghegan offers an entertaining, accessible, and literary introduction to the labor movement, as well as an indispensable touchstone for anyone whose hopes have run up against the unaccommodating facts on the ground. Wry and inspiring, Which Side Are You On? is the ideal book for anyone who has ever woken up and realized, "You must change your life."
Customer Reviews:
Correct in Every Way..........2005-08-11
How can you be "for labor" these days?
Some realities:
1. Union membership as a percentage of the workforce continues its four-decade decline.
2. The public reputation of unions has never recovered from the corruption scandals of the 1950s.
3. Michael Moore has done everything he can to revitalize unions, to no avail. He won a Golden Globe; if HE can't do it...
4. The very recent splintering of the AFL-CIO could be the beginning of the end.
5. We've become too isolated and self-centered as a society for this stuff to work here in the foreseeable future.
That said, T.G. personifies the idealistic young lawyer who really wants to help. I was that person once, too. I perceived union leaders as thuggish, power-centric, retrograde, defensive and whatever the exact opposite of visionary is. Leadership makes or breaks human endeavor; I interpreted this to mean that unions were hopeless.
PS - I would like to know whether this book trades on E-Bay; the irony would be irresistable.
Recommended.......2004-09-03
This is an outstanding book, full of heart and voice. I've begun using it in my Business Reporting class at Boston University.
Forget the politics -- this is great writing.......2001-08-12
Never mind that Geohogan was dead wrong about the future of organized labor or that his pre-Clinton paleoliberalism is dated and painfully overwrought or even that he would have deep and abiding personal contempt for a conservative like me. This guy can flat-out write like a dream.
Without a doubt, every anecdote in this book is exaggerated and twisted for rhetorical effect. But what a memoir it is, alternately melancholy and funny, by a great storyteller who has the self-awareness to mock his own martyr complex.
A classic of style over substance.
Which Side Are You On?.......2001-06-27
This is an excellent book about labor unions which sides with labor from a fresh perspective. Pro free trade, the author is not just peddling the same old protectionist line. From the first line of the book, you realize this author knows what he's talking about and speaks for no one but himself. Also a good book for anyone interested in the fortunes of the Democratic party.
Dynamite book.......2000-06-08
I recently picked this up again. Both a great sketch of labor history and especially labor in the 80's, and also a kind of coming of age story of a man struggling with his idealism. For all that, it's absolutely fun to read - the tone is sharp and fast, and the author never takes himself too seriously. Reminds me of another favorite on a different topic, Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner.
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Filling in the Blanks in Family History.......2006-11-10
My family lived in Harlan, Kentucky on and off between 1920 and 1934. After my parents and my brother left Kentucky and I was born, they continued to tell stories about life in Harlan, the conflicts between the miners and the mine operators, efforts in public health and education, the role of the church, and so on. One particular story described the 1935 death of Elmon Middleton from dynamite attached to the starter of his car. My dad told this story so vividly that I could never forget it. So I decided to read about the setting, the times, and to look for documentation of this event, in preparation for writing a biography of my dad. Which Side Are You On? presents a comprehensive and detailed history of those times in that place. The author offers thorough documentation of the controversies and scholarly descriptions of social and economic conditions. For example, he explains the realities of transportation costs on the price of coal, along with the primitive nature of roads, bridges, and railroads in Eastern Kentucky; the need to stay competitive in pricing on the part of the companies; the inborn (Scots Irish?) reluctance of the miners to organize into unions; the racism and poverty endemic in the miners' camps; the habits of violence, in evidence long before the various efforts to unionize; and the lack of state-funded social and health services, as well as very poor public funding for roads and bridges.
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Which Side Are You On?: Ken Loach and His Films
Anthony Hayward
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury UK
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ASIN: 074757412X |
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Making groundbreaking dramas for the BBC's "Wednesday Play" series in the 1960s, Ken Loach was one of the first to show life as it was really lived. With the film Kes, the director established an international reputation. After falling on hard times in the 1980s, he then made a feature-film revival that was little short of remarkable, with masterpieces such as Land and Freedom, Carla's Song and Sweet Sixteen. Anthony Hayward's book shows how Loach's films have made folk heroes of both actors and their characters—Ricky Tomlinson taking his experiences of the building trade and its scams to Riff-Raff, David Bradley as the schoolboy consigned to a life down the pit in Kes, and Peter Mullan drawing on memories of his father's alcoholism in My Name is Joe. It also reveals the influence on Loach of a father who was fanatical about education, the socialist politics that drive his work, and the long-running collaborations with writers and producers such as Jim Allen, Barry Hines, Tony Garnett, and Rebecca O'Brien.
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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on March 31, 2000. The length of the article is 3939 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Batalla entre: ángeles y demonios ¿De qué lado esta usted?(TT: A battle between: angels and demons, on which side are you?)
Author: Tay Polo Miranda
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Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 31, 2000
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 6
Issue: 370
Page: 4
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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on November 1, 1995. The length of the article is 1426 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Newspaper reporters and editors were faced with deciding whether they should act as white-collar professionals or as unionists during the Jul 1995 strike of two Detroit newspapers. Management of the Detroit News owned by the Gannett Company, Inc. and the Detroit Free Press owned by Knight-Ridder wanted to eliminate jobs and change work rules. Many Guild members returned to work to save their jobs or to save the newspapers, although they sympathized with the unions.
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Title: Detroit: which side are you on? (newspaper strike)
Author: Steve Franklin
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Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1995
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: v34
Issue: n4
Page: p13(3)
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This digital document is an article from Focus on Healthy Aging, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 634 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Good fish, bad fish: which fish is best for you? Experts suggest keeping fish on the menu, but avoid the high-mercury varieties.(DIETARY HEALTH)
Author: Gale Reference Team
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Focus on Healthy Aging (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
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Volume: 10
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