| Wozniak's innovations key to Apple success story | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 12:45:14 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | EDMONTON -- Steve Wozniak was an 11-year-old science and math whiz when his father, a Silicon Valley engineer, told him the new computer chips were so expensive they would mostly be used by the military. So the youngster vowed that one day he would make the new technology available to the average person to help them through their daily lives. But he never dreamed that a few years later he and Steve Jobs, still in their early twenties and with no money, would launch a company that now has one of the world's most recognizable brands. .... | |
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| | | The Fifties | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 3:41:42 PM by BlogJeeves Team | | "In retrospect," writes David Halberstam, "the pace of the fifties seemed slower, almost languid. Social ferment, however, was beginning just beneath this placid surface." He shows how the United States began to emerge from the long shadow of FDR's 12-year presidency, with the military-industrial complex and the Beat movement simultaneously growing strong. Television brought not only situation comedies but controversial congressional hearings into millions of living rooms. While Alfred Kinsey was studying people's sex lives, Gregory Pincus and other researchers began work on a pill that would forever alter the course of American reproductive practices. Halberstam takes on these social upheavals and more, charting a course that is as easy to navigate as it is wide-ranging.... | |
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| | | Ultimate German: Basic - Intermediate: Cassette/Book Package (Living Language Ultimate Basic-Intermediate Series (Manual & Cassettes)) | | Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 1:41:42 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | Learn German at Home or On the Go with the Most Complete, Up-to-Date Program Available! Developed by the experts at Living Language, this deluxe course has everything you need to speak, understand, read, and write German. Ultimate German combines conversation with grammar and culture in an easy-to-follow, enjoyable, and effective format. COMPREHENSIVE LESSON MANUAL WITH REFERENCE SECTIONS40 lessons: lively, authentic dialogues vocabulary, grammar, and usage cultural highlights Reference sections: complete grammar summary with verb conjugations business and social letter writing German-English / English-German glossaryEIGHT 60-MINUTE CASSETTESFirst learn at home: immerse yourself in German - listen and repeat with the all-German recordings follow along with the manual, which includes English translations learn conversation, grammar, and cultureThen practice on the go: review and expand upon what you've learned an English-speaking instructor guides you through each lesson no reading required with these German/English recordings learn in the car, at the gym, anywhere... | |
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| | | Iron John: A Book About Men | | Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 5:41:41 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | Here is the long-awaited work of renowned poet and storyteller Robert Bly that explores and challenges the male psyche. In it, Bly brings to light a burgeoning "underground" of men seeking to find a lost heritage of emotional connection -- to their fathers, their children, their wives, themselves. Using the Grimm fairy tale as a vehicle, Bly takes us back to a model of masculinity which is neither Rambo nor "wimp," but rather more like Odysseus. He examines the myths and cultural underpinnings of this classic male model -- a combination of fierceness and tenderness long since sacrificed to the demands of the industrial revolution. Such a sacrifice, says Bly, has given rise to a male sense of loss and unacknowledged pain.Iron John works to heal this pain and to define a new era in the relations between the sexes -- it is the definitive book about men -- for men and for women.... | |
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| | | The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:41:43 PM by BlogJeeves Team | | Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an African detective, Precious Ramotswe, who's their full-fledged heir. It's the detective as folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom that, combined with an understanding of human nature, invariably penetrates into the heart of a puzzle. If Miss Marple were fat and jolly and lived in Botswana--and decided to go against any conventional notion of what an unmarried woman should do, spending the money she got from selling her late father's cattle to set up a Ladies' Detective Agency--then you have an idea of how Precious sets herself up as her country's first female detective. Once the clients start showing up on her doorstep, Precious enjoys a pleasingly successful series of cases. But the edge of the Kalahari is not St. Mary Mead, and the sign Precious orders, painted in brilliant colors, is anything but discreet. Pointing in the direction of the small building she had purchased to house her new business, it reads "THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY. FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES. UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT." The solutions she comes up with, whether in the case of the clinic doctor with two quite different personalities (depending on the day of the week), or the man who had joined a Christian sect and seemingly vanished, or the kidnapped boy whose bones may or may not be those in a witch doctor's magic kit, are all sensible, logical, and satisfying. Smith's gently ironic tone is full of good humor towards his lively, intelligent heroine and towards her fellow Africans, who live their lives with dignity and with cautious acceptance of the confusions to which the world submits them. Precious Ramotswe is a remarkable creation, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency well deserves the praise it received from London's Times Literary Supplement. I look forward with great eagerness to the upcoming books featuring the memorable Miss Ramotswe, Tears of the Giraffe and Morality for Beautiful Girls, soon to be available in the U.S. --Otto Penzler... | |
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| | | iPod controller lets you take tunes on the road | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:07:21 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | I just bought a "new to me" vehicle that included satellite radio. I was pretty excited about the prospect of being able to listen to the music I like, wherever I am. A couple of niggling little details bothered me a bit about the satellite radio though. It doesn't work everywhere, even in Saskatoon, and it still isn't the music I really like to listen to. More Technology news Then I had Harman Kardon's new Drive + Play iPod controller installed in the vehicle and my whole outlook on satellite radio took a right turn. A lot of people like satellite radio, but to me, being able to use my iPod through my stereo is better. I have exactly the music and audio books that I want to listen to. Prior to the Drive + Play, unless you had a vehicle that had the interface built in, you really only had two options if you wanted to listen to your iPod in your car.... | |
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| | | The Cat Who Saw Stars (Cat Who...) | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:41:38 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | A new caper from "a master of mystery who knows exactly when to let the cat out of the bag." --People Quill is determined to dispel rumors circulating in Moose County, "four hundred miles north of everywhere," that extraterrestrial beings may be responsible for the disappearance of a stray backpacker. Koko, on the other hand, is spending hours on the porch in the dark, watching the sky for stars--or something! Throw in some highly innovative plans for this year's 4th of July parade, a dogcart race, and the recent knitting craze in Moose County, and Quill and the cats have some serious sorting out to do..and readers yet another purrfectly delightful Cat Who..mystery to enjoy!... | |
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| | | Songs in Ordinary Time (Oprah's Book Club (Grand Haven, Mich.).) | | Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:41:40 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1997: A dark secret lies at the heart of Mary McGarry Morris's extraordinary novel, Songs in Ordinary Time. Rooted in the delicate web of emotions, lies, and truths that bind people together, the story takes place in the primarily Catholic town of Atkinson, Vermont, during the summer of 1960. Here Marie Fermoyle struggles to raise her three children. She already has two strikes against her: she married above her station and now is divorced from her alcoholic husband, Sam. That he is the town drunk and a laughingstock only further marks the Fermoyles. Enter Omar Duvall, a confidence man. He comes to the door asking for bread and sees an opportunity. Soon he has insinuated himself into the Fermoyle family, promising Marie companionship, love, a willing pair of shoulders to share her burden. Twelve-year-old Benjy knows something terrible about Duvall, but, desperate for anything that will make his mother happy, he hides the truth. This silence gives Duvall time to bring Marie to the brink of financial disaster and lead her sons into mortal danger. Songs in Ordinary Time includes a chorus of other Atkinson inhabitants: town cop Sonny Stoner and his dying wife; insurance salesman Bob Haddad, so enthralled with his beautiful wife that he's willing to steal for her; and Father Gannon, the young priest with whom Marie's daughter Alice becomes involved; and the Klubock family next door, who epitomize all that is normal to young Benjy. With these lives threaded through her bittersweet tale of the Fermoyles, Morris strikes all the notes of loneliness, hope, and familial love.... | |
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| | | English Pronunciation in Use Pack Book and Audio CDs | | Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 7:41:37 PM by BlogJeeves Team | | The best-selling English Pronunication in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work. Sixty easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. Each unit is supported by audio material in range of accents, available on audio CD or cassette. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialised terms, help with the pronunciation of numbers and geographical names and fun exercises on phonemic symbols and minimal pairs. The CD-ROM provides a wide variety of additional interactive activities to reinforce the pronunciation covered in the book, as well as tests, progress checks, games and animated diagrams of the mouth showing learners how to produce individual sounds. Students can also record themselves and compare their pronunciation with one of the many models provided.... | |
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| | | From Beirut to Jerusalem | | Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 1:41:39 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | From Beirut to Jerusalem, winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, is the startling, intense and thought-provoking account of Thomas L. Friedman's decade of reporting in the strife-ridden Middle East.Thomas L. Friedman has won two Pulitzer Prizes -- one for his reporting in Beirut and one for reporting in Jerusalem, the two cities at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. No two cities have received more headline coverage, nor been more hotly debated, and no reporter has covered them more in depth than Friedman. in his journey from Beirut to Jerusalem, Friedman gives us a panoramic view of both the political and personal conflicts.As a reporter for UPI and The New York Times, he was stationed in Beirut from 1979 to 1984, and in Lebanon from 1984 to 1989. He describes with intense vividness the sometimes horrifying, sometimes wondrous cities, for which, he says, nothing in his life had prepared him.Friedman brings alive his journey from Beirut to Jerusalem through anecdotes, history, analysis and self-examination -- and puts all the currents into perspective with inimitable detail, clarity and remarkable insight. This is a much-needed framework for understanding the psychology and politics of the Middle East, and for understanding the future of this unique region.... | |
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