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The Oxford Companion to Wine, 3rd Edition $33.66 An understanding of wine in its historical, cultural, geographical, and scientific contexts is offered in this comprehensive, illustrated reference that includes almost four thousand entries on every wine-related topic imaginable, including viticulture, gTitle: The Oxford Companion to WineAuthor: Robinson, Jancis (EDT)/ Harding, Julia (EDT)Publisher: Oxford Univ PrPublication Date: 2006/10/01Numbe… |
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American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia $8.67 American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the last half century. More than a decade in the makingand more than half a million words in length?this informative and entertaining encyclopedia contains substantive entries of up to two thousand words on those persons, events, org… |
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Dk Online Encyclopedia $32.68 This book is in Used condition |
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Encyclopedia of Vibration With Online Version $1245 This book is in New - Excellent condition |
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Dk Online Science Encyclopedia $14.99 This book is in New - Excellent condition |
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Running Encyclopedia - 1st Edition (Book) $24.95 Written by two of the most popular authors on running, the Running Encyclopedia provides a complete look at the sport’s history, key figures, major events, and primary training theories and terms. More than 1,000 listings highlight the most influential runners, coaches, races, training methods, and events in modern history. You can use the book to look up reliable information on training topics such as threshold training, negative splits, and carbo loading. You’ll also find more than 100 photographs that capture the history of road racing, including some rarely seen photographs from the early days of the sport. The race accounts, photos, and commentary will make you feel as though you witnessed each event.More than five million runners in the United States compete in road races from the 5K to the marathon every year, and millions more watch everything from regional road races to the Olympics. Despite such widespread popularity and a history of spectacular races and intriguing personalities, no one ever before has compiled a comprehensive encyclopedia of the sport. Now two of the most popular writers on running have joined forces to give runners the definitive reference on the sport. The Running Encyclopedia is an omnibus history of road racing, an easy-to-use source of solid information, and, at the same time, simply a good read. The book provides a complete look at the sport’s history, key figures, major events, and primary training theories and terms. It brings together the incredible, the outrageous, the seemingly mundane, the startling, the astounding, and the unforgettable people and places that have made road racing perhaps the most popular adult sport in the world. The authors’ personal experiences lend a new perspective on events and figures that you may already be familiar with.Whether you choose to let the book fall open to a random listing, look up a specific subject, or read the tome through from A to Z, you’ll pull the Running Encyclopedia from your shelf again and again.11/20/2001 copyright, 440 pages. |
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The Encyclopedia of the Triangle Offense (DVD) $119.99 With Tex Winter,Innovator of the Triangle Offense;former Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls Assistant CoachTex Winter has seen and done it all in the world of basketball! Winter doesn't stake claim as the Triangle Offense's "inventor," but takes tremendous pride in being the Triangle's greatest innovator. In 60 years with the offense, he has developed and modified it to fit many different coaching challenges. The Triangle is assembled piece by piece in this landmark DVD. The Triangle is introduced by Coach Winter's exploration of his seven principles of a sound offense. Tex states that offensive rebounding and defensive balance is a vital part of this offense. Penetration, spacing, ball & player movement, and utilizing individual talents are other highlighted principles. The "Learning the Offense" segment is a template for teaching the offense to young or new players. Tex shares his well-earned wisdom with his six "Good Coaching" concepts. An organized, well-spaced fast break precedes the half court Triangle action. Proper teaching of all five spots is required. "The Moment of Truth" occurs when the defense exerts pressure in the backcourt as they attempt to slow down the fast break. Winter uses on-court players to demonstrate the offense. A featured breakdown drill is the pinch drill, which incorporates shooting, pinch action and two-man game action. Winter dedicates a section of teaching to playing against pressure. Players are instructed specific tasks as they work as a team to get the ball up the floor against pressing teams. Terminology in the Triangle Offense is very important. Terminology and teaching points in this DVD include weak side guard fill, Blind Pig, Squeeze action, Change-up, fan pass, speed cut, lag pass, inside reverse pivot, front turn, baseline reverse pivot, baseline cuts, playing without the ball, 2-man game, screen and roll, dribble hand-off, two-pass post, Dribble entry, Two pass, Four pass, 1st, 2nd, 3rd cutters. Tex Winter "teaches the Triangle Offense" better than anyone in the history of the game of basketball. This DVD will allow you to learn step-by-step the elements that make up this powerful and versatile offense. Your players can learn to make the same reads, cuts and shots as Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant did in their Tex Winter-influenced NBA careers. Join the legions of coaches worldwide that win consistently with this one-of-a-kind basketball offense. No DVD can or ever will r |
Stripper Auctions Pole on Ebay to Fund Msse Degree
We now have the ultimate evidence of the disruptive and transformative power of technology. Buckle your seat belts, even strippers are being “displaced” by the lure of the virtual over the physical.
A UPI wire story reported that Madeline, let’s assume that’s her real name, blamed the Internet for putting her out of work at a Toronto gentleman’s club. The 23-year-old dancer told the Toronto Star she was forced to give up her $1,000 a night pole position and take up bartending.
The UPI reported Madeline’s lament, “Why would a guy go to a club and pay to sit there if he could get it all for free on his computer at home?” There’s something seriously wrong with the ambiance of the Toronto strip clubs when a grainy video in a 3”x3” square can compete and defeat 5’ 6” of pulsating pulchritude with a free tin of peanuts on every table.
Has the Wal-Mart philosophy of cheaper equals better so overwhelmed common sense and aesthetic acumen that people prefer their prurience in private as long as the beer is cheaper and the PC doesn’t demand any bills tucked in its g-string.
Surely this signals the end of live theater, opera, and comedy clubs as well. Why hire the babysitter and schlep downtown to see Rigoletto in person when you can just flip another DVD on the barbie and quaff a cold one while you savor the high notes and hit the bathroom without waiting for intermission.
This is not just a hysterical plea from one uninformed Luddite blaming the free market because her own grip on reality, and the pole, slipped. She’s backed up by real data. The UPI reported that 10 Toronto strip clubs have closed in the last five years, and the number of licensed "burlesque dancers" has also tumbled -- to 1,254 in 2007 from 2,834 in 1998.
Similar displacements of highly skilled, but uni-functional workers were seen when CD-ROM’s wiped out the market for paper encyclopedias.
Factory workers and middle-class blue collar laborers across the developed economies are feeling the same pinch as global labor arbitrage makes it cheaper to hire an engineer in India than a janitor in Sheboygan. At least the janitor might get to keep his job a little longer, sweeping up all the tears as the unemployed take one last walk through the factory.
But Madeline has a strategy. She’s selling her pole on eBay to purchase an online course in software engineering. She’s developing her own website, Strip This, dot com and she’s hiring exotic dancers from the satellite states surrounding the former Soviet Union. It’s the one place in the world where labor is still cheaper per minute than Bangalore and the Internet cafes have plenty of space in back for cameras because the locals are all at the opera.
The pace at which technology will transform jobs is only beginning. What were once local effects are now magnified one-hundred fold by the global labor arbitrage between developed and developing countries. As the middle-class gets wiped out over the next twenty to fifty years, while wage rates reach equilibrium—-a state most university economists refer to as “penury for you, another publication for me”–-remember Madeline.
She was highly skilled, undoubtedly nimble, and pulling in over $300,000 a year. Now she’s running her own business and expects to be purchased by Google at a 50x multiple of EBITDA sometime in the next 18 months. Isn’t technology wonderful?
About the Author
Mr. Grant is a consultant at the Customer Research Center. He works on process optimization and customer experience enhancement projects. Additional information can be reviewed at www.CustomerResearchCenter.com or by emailing Mr. Grant at scgrant@customerresearchcenter.com.
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