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i still not receive this item, i have wait for a month already!!.......2006-08-10
i still not receive this item, i have wait for a month already!!
How a Cultural Study Should Be Done.......2004-02-12
This book is apparently a classic in the fields of cultural studies and ethnography, and I agree that it's certainly one of the stronger examples of the form. This study by Paul Willis, which was conducted in the 70s, is certainly free of the political correctness and obsession with romanticizing other cultures that later polluted the field and drained its credibility. Willis' study on working class kids in England and the issues they face in joining the workforce can be seen as interesting in itself, as such issues were surely overlooked by lofty academics before and since. Especially rewarding is Willis' method of actually making himself a believable member of a group of lower class boys at school and then following them into the industrial workforce after graduation. This adds an immense amount of credibility to the study.
This particular subject matter is surely outdated, even in England itself as the education system there has (mostly) moved away from a focus on dividing kids by class, then doing nothing for the 'problem' kids but preparing them for menial jobs in industry. However, there is much to think about concerning the larger issues that Willis raises, especially the rigid tendencies of the class system (not just in England), and the methods used by those at the bottom to cope with a system they probably will not be able to get out of. The 'analysis' section of the book gets a bit sluggish as Willis performs the required ivory-tower application of theories to the findings he collected while sojourning with the working class kids. The predictable treatise on Marxist theories of labor and capital gets especially tiresome, though otherwise Willis still manages to keep the theory section mostly interesting, as he builds on crucial insights into class structures and the dark side of industrial society. All this from hanging with a bunch of rowdy and potty-mouthed British schoolkids. ...
A landmark effort at synthesizing theoretical frameworks.......2002-02-07
I use Willis' work every semester in my graduate level educational research methods class. It is one of first and
most influential efforts to bring together a marxist focus on macro-social dynamics, a symbolic interactionist focus on micro-social interactions, and a phenomenological focus on individual consicousness into a single study of class reproduction. It is a classic in every sense.
Still The Best Ethnography in Sociology.......2001-09-03
I came to Dr. Willis's Learning To Labor as a Ph.D. student at York University, Toronto. I was profoundly moved both theoretically and personally. Willis gives us a theoretical way of articulating macro and micro perspectives which shows how the two arise in dialectical fashion, e.g. class determines the working class lives of the lads through the very choices of the lads themselves! It was, and still is, a brilliant insight and contribution in relation to ongoing discussions of structure/agency and the whole question of determinism. Dr. Willis's work also touched base with my own life. I grew up in a cotton mill town in South Carolina. The local school was closely tied to the local manufacturing plants and the surrounding working-class, both in the fields and the mills. I saw the life of the lads as nearly identical with the life of the white, working class kids that I went to school with. Most of my high school friends saw going to college as a "waste of time" and for "sissies". Real work required real men! Most ended up in the local cotton mills. Many of these young men had promising lives that could have been realized, but at those structural moments choices were made that reproduced the local working-class. I have since written my own ethnographic work (Native Americans in the Carolina Borderlands: A Critical Ethnography, Carolinas Press, 2000) and I have to say that Dr. Willis's work was always a big help and resource for thinking through the relationship between reproduction and resistance. A must read for anyone on the verge of ethnographic research and for the general reader as well.
How outdated research Get outdated reviews.......2000-05-31
I thought this book was very outdated and hard to read because of the English accent Willis uses. The research was OK but a little bias against working class ( poor and broke)kids.
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This fun and fact-filled guide for ten- to seventeen-year-olds includes quizzes, games, cartoons, stories and all the information a young person needs to know about starting up a business, how much money can be made from it, and the steps to do the work--all in an easy-to-understand style. The book includes 10 business skills you need to know: speaking up for what you want, working with others--even parents, business budgets, record keeping, research and filing, telephoning, negotiating, using the telephone book, putting it in writing, marketing, advertising, publicity, and networking.
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A Great Book for Kids & Parents Too!.......2000-04-03
This book is a must-buy for all kids who need extra money. It teaches them how to best run a business, with easy to follow step by step instructions, and the games and quizzes are really fun. The areas on budgets and record keeping are also exceptional. For those who don't have an idea of what kind of business they can do, there are also some great ideas inside. It will help them to earn their own money instead of just asking for a larger allowance. We have found it to be an investment that paid for itself in no time!
Parents and others who are running a small business can also benefit from the many time saving tips and guides enclosed. The suggested ages here are close - it was a little above level in some areas for my 10 year old, but perfect for my 16 year old.
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Careers profiled: Arts Administrator; Booking Agent; Choir Director; Composer; Costume Designer; Dance Instructor; Dancer; Disc Jockey; Grips, Gaffes, and Lighting Technicians; Music Teacher; Music Therapist; Music Video Producer; Recording Executive; and Sound Engineer.
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Great book!.......2007-09-29
This is a really great book for kids and frankly it's better than most adult career guides in that it features a wider range of careers and interviews with people in each type of job. It's a great starting point for researching careers.
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The only career book to match the right job to your big-kid personality
The inspiring Careers for Kids at Heart and Others Who Adore Children encourages you to embrace your individuality by finding the job that matches your character traits.
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Something very serious is happening in the High Hills. Several animals have disappeared. A terrible grizzly has captured them and treats them as slaves, forcing them to find food for him. Arming himself with courage, Yakari bravely decides to face the vile tyrant. But how can a child stand before the wild animal? Great Eagle advises Yakari to wait for winter, when the bear, satiated, will sleep... Beautiful full-colour illustrations complement simple, easy-to-read texts to make reading appealing to children of all reading levels, and especially to reluctant readers.
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100 Jobs for Kids & Young Adults -- A Self-Empowerment Tool
Eva Marques
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100 Jobs teaches teens and young adults how to discover the skills they already have and turn them into a rewarding beginning-level job (which can launch them into over 500 different careers). In addition to giving detailed, up-to-date information on 100 beginning jobs, it also contains more than 30 pages of valuable guidance on managing money, marketing, business etiquette, being mentored, handling success and failure and so much more. Reading skill level is 12-18, but there are jobs for younger readers as well as more advanced ones.
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A how to book for kids to set up their own money making business.
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Shows parents how to help their children make career decisions.
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A Comprehensive Guide to a World of Possibilities!.......1997-06-25
This book is an excellent guide for parents who want to be able to provide their children with appropriate opportunities to focus their talents and interests into a life path. The book includes many exercises and stories of individuals and goal-setting guidelines, as well as lists of questions to ask your children to help them identify what it is they would like to do when they grow up, a question many of us still ask ourselves well into our careers. In a world of bewildering choices, this book gives parents a chance to help their children (and themselves!) find an anchor that will enrich and bring meaning to their lives. I highly recommend it--you'll refer to this book time and again
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A humorous account of her own rocky transition from successful executive to stay-at-home mom, this book is filled with warmth, freshness and valuable insights. Offering no hard-and-fast blueprint for a life overhaul, it's a report from the front lines for all working mothers who are constantly debating which choice is best for them.
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I'm not alone!!!.......1998-10-01
Thank you, Katie Dorn! What a reassurance that I am not alone in making the difficult transition from career woman to stay-at-home mom. Dorn hits the nail on the head on all major issues concerning wanting to be a "good mom" but feeling miserable while the "perfect moms" act as though being a stay-at-home mom is the easiest job in the world. Written humorously in a "easy-reading" style that is easily read in a few evenings or in bits and pieces. A MUST HAVE book for any transitional mom.
Delightful and reassuring for stay at home moms........1998-08-24
Dorn had a way of seeing the humor in a serious decision many women are making. I was happy to read that other moms had similar feelings of brain mush and boredom at times. It reassured me that I was doing the right thing for me and I wasn't alone.
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This book examines the degree to which international financial markets affect governments' policy choices. It provides empirical evidence as to whether financial globalization creates pressures on governments of developed and developing nations to pursue similar policies and to reduce spending on social policies. The book suggests that financial globalization does not lead to a "race to the bottom" among governments, especially in developed nations. It deploys several types of evidence; the most unique are interviews and surveys of investment fund managers. It also compares contemporary government-financial market relations to those prior to World War I.
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This book examines the degree to which international financial markets affect governments' policy choices. It provides empirical evidence as to whether financial globalization creates pressures on governments of developed and developing nations to pursue similar policies and to reduce spending on social policies. The book suggests that financial globalization does not lead to a "race to the bottom" among governments, especially in developed nations. It deploys several types of evidence; the most unique are interviews and surveys of investment fund managers. It also compares contemporary government-financial market relations to those prior to World War I.
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Global Capital and National Politics: Reforming Mexico's Financial System
Timothy P. Kessler
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Kessler shows how political considerations distorted the liberalization process in Mexico, leading to inconsistent and unsustainable patterns of financial policy. Although market reform is promoted in developing countries to improve economic efficiency and stimulate growth, in Mexico financial liberalization provided rent-seeking opportunities for privileged groups and increased the states' ability to finance politically inspired obligations. The research examines four periods: the populist administrations of Echeverria and Lopez Portillo, during which the foundations of modern financial markets were paradoxically laid; the debt-crisis years of de la Madrid, who reversed his party's political strategy by favoring the business class with financial opportunities; the economic transformation undertaken by Carlos Salinas, who mixed genuine reform with destabilizing anti-market measures; and the political watershed of the Zedillo administration, whose unpopular bank rescue gave opposition parties unprecedented power within Mexico's policy making process. Kessler also provides a comparison of financial collapse in two other emerging markets, South Korea and Russia, and examines the political roots of crisis in both countries. He concludes by suggesting how greater attention to questions of power, social organization, and challenges to state authority can help the policy-making community avoid giving well-meaning advice that is unlikely to be implemented in a sustainable way.
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What makes financial liberalization tough?.......2000-10-22
This book offers a timely and compelling explanation that will allow the reader to understand why Mexico, a country that became the darling of the international financial community after following orthodox liberalization policies, ended up in 1995 with the most dramatic recession in its modern history and cuased the Tequila Effect, which threatened the stability of the world's financial system.
The author shows how political considerations played a key role in the direction of the liberalization process of Mexico's financial system. The author argues that liberalization led to inconsistent and unsustainable patterns of financial policy, which contributed to Mexico's 1995 deep recession and the consequent bank bailout. The author argues that although market reform has been promoted in developing countries to improve economic efficiency and stimulate growth, in Mexico financial liberalization provided rent-seeking opportunities for privileged groups and increased the states' ability to finance politically inspired obligations.
The book examines four periods: the populist administrations of Presidents Luis Echeverria (1970-1976) and José Lopez Portillo (1976-1982), during which the foundations of modern financial markets were paradoxically laid; the debt-crisis years of Miguel de la Madrid's adminsitration (1982-1988), who reversed his party's political strategy by favoring the business class with financial opportunities; the economic transformation undertaken by Carlos Salinas (1988-1994), who mixed genuine reform with destabilizing anti-market measures; and the political watershed of the Zedillo administration (1994-2000), whose unpopular bank rescue gave opposition parties unprecedented power within Mexico's policy making process.
The author also offers a comparative perspective of financial liberalization in two other emerging markets, South Korea and Russia, which also underwent financial crisis in the late 90s, and examines the political roots of crisis in both countries. By providing a comparative analysis the author derives some lessons from financial liberalization in developing countries. He concludes by suggesting how greater attention to questions of power, social organization, and challenges to state authority can help the policy-making community avoid giving well-meaning advice that is unlikely to be implemented in a sustainable way.
The book should be read by those interested in development and economic policy reform as well as those following policy making processes. This book is certainly a contribution to understanding a period of profound changes in Mexico's history and its process of economic reforms.
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