Title: Careers for Introverts & Other Solitary Types
Author: Blythe Camenson
Publisher: Mc Graw Hill
Summary:
Office politics, the grapevines, bootlickers, small talks, managing relationships. For those who shudder at the thought of such activities that take place in every day life in the office, you might want to consider a career change! Careers for Introverts & Other Solitary Types provides you with all the information that you would need to start a career as a 1) Researchers, 2) Forest Ranger, 3) Archivist, 4) Graphic Artist, 5) Mail Carrier, 6) Computer Professional, 7) Illustrator, 8) Security Guard, 9) Freelance Writer.
In this book you will find practical advice on deciding which of the career is for you, especially for the introverts or those who prefer to work alone. Also, firsthand accounts from people who have been through the switch, on the everyday routines of your desired job, information on working conditions, estimated salary range, and a list of resources that you would need to help you get the right foot in the door.
Comments:
A read for those who are seriously considering a career switch into any one of the fields as mentioned above. I was thinking, it will be faster if I did a search through the internet on the related topics. But well, it's a good place to get started if you are running out of options.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Title of Book: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: John Perkins
Published by Berret-Koehler Publishers Inc, 2004
Review:
Economic hit men, as defined by John Perkins, are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder (assassinations).
John Perkins knew as he used to be an economic hit man or EHM for short. As an EHM, his job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States – from Indonesia to Panama – to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U.S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank, and other US-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks – dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission and more importantly, into its bidding.
This extraordinary real-life tale exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for Amercian democracy and the world.
Comment:
Worth a read if you care about our world, for John Perkins is one. Through this book, one gains insight on what has been going on behind the scene for some of the world events since the 60s. Rather disturbing also, if all of what the writer has exposed are true, which is quite possible as he was part of the team who had carried out the mission of destruction.
But are we able to do anything about it? To stop the ongoing and impending destruction?
Irregardless, it is indeed an interesting read for the intellectual. It's also a book for those who believe in conspiracy theory.
A
Author: John Perkins
Published by Berret-Koehler Publishers Inc, 2004
Review:
Economic hit men, as defined by John Perkins, are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder (assassinations).
John Perkins knew as he used to be an economic hit man or EHM for short. As an EHM, his job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States – from Indonesia to Panama – to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U.S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank, and other US-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks – dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission and more importantly, into its bidding.
This extraordinary real-life tale exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for Amercian democracy and the world.
Comment:
Worth a read if you care about our world, for John Perkins is one. Through this book, one gains insight on what has been going on behind the scene for some of the world events since the 60s. Rather disturbing also, if all of what the writer has exposed are true, which is quite possible as he was part of the team who had carried out the mission of destruction.
But are we able to do anything about it? To stop the ongoing and impending destruction?
Irregardless, it is indeed an interesting read for the intellectual. It's also a book for those who believe in conspiracy theory.
A
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Montessori From The Start
Title of Book: Montessori From The Start
Author: Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen
Published by: Schocken Books, 2003
Review:
Most of us, especially parents, have heard of Dr. Maria Montessori and her unique and amazing education method in educating young kids. But what if you want the benefits of Dr. Montessori's insights to benefit your child since birth? Are there any way where parents can apply the Montessori's method during their child's early childhood years to prepare them for a better start in life? Recognizing the need, the founders of the Forest Bluff School in Lake Bluff Illinois, Paula Polk Lillard and her daughter, Lynn Lillard Jessen, both highly experienced educators, consolidated and condensed their years of experience in their teaching of the Montessori method into this book, entitled "Montessori From The Start".
This book, written based on the authors' insights and experience with working with young minds, provides practical and useful advice on how to use Montessori's theories to create a set of comprehensive approaches to raising infants. In addition, the authors have also provided valuable guidance for the creation of a beautiful and serviceable learning environment that will aid in the development of the infant's focus and concentration. Considering the kid's "sensitive periods", the authors have also introduced concepts and related activities for the development of such skills, such as dressing, food preparation and toilet training.
Infants, at the moment when they enter into this world, are already little sponges that are capable of soaking up information. How they are handled since birth has already an impact on how they will turn out in the future.
For example, drawing from one of the areas mentioned in the book, language development is essential as it wll influence the infant's understanding of what is happening around him and his ability to convey to others of his needs. Thus, the quality of the language to which the infant is exposed to permantly alters both his brain structure and its function. It is then essential, that the infant be given specific linguistic aid from birth, some of which includes good grammar, quantity of vocabulary and clear pronunciation by the care giver.
As the infant can only make sense of language when he relates directly with people, thus, one has to interact with the infant as one is speaking and face-to-face interaction is preferred (TV and VCDs are found to be less useful as they seem). Speech should be made simple and clear though and repetitions are required for reinforcement. Naming game is a good activity that parents can have with their infant.
This book is definitely a must read for parents who want to raise calm, capable and confident children.
Author: Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen
Published by: Schocken Books, 2003
Review:
Most of us, especially parents, have heard of Dr. Maria Montessori and her unique and amazing education method in educating young kids. But what if you want the benefits of Dr. Montessori's insights to benefit your child since birth? Are there any way where parents can apply the Montessori's method during their child's early childhood years to prepare them for a better start in life? Recognizing the need, the founders of the Forest Bluff School in Lake Bluff Illinois, Paula Polk Lillard and her daughter, Lynn Lillard Jessen, both highly experienced educators, consolidated and condensed their years of experience in their teaching of the Montessori method into this book, entitled "Montessori From The Start".
This book, written based on the authors' insights and experience with working with young minds, provides practical and useful advice on how to use Montessori's theories to create a set of comprehensive approaches to raising infants. In addition, the authors have also provided valuable guidance for the creation of a beautiful and serviceable learning environment that will aid in the development of the infant's focus and concentration. Considering the kid's "sensitive periods", the authors have also introduced concepts and related activities for the development of such skills, such as dressing, food preparation and toilet training.
Infants, at the moment when they enter into this world, are already little sponges that are capable of soaking up information. How they are handled since birth has already an impact on how they will turn out in the future.
For example, drawing from one of the areas mentioned in the book, language development is essential as it wll influence the infant's understanding of what is happening around him and his ability to convey to others of his needs. Thus, the quality of the language to which the infant is exposed to permantly alters both his brain structure and its function. It is then essential, that the infant be given specific linguistic aid from birth, some of which includes good grammar, quantity of vocabulary and clear pronunciation by the care giver.
As the infant can only make sense of language when he relates directly with people, thus, one has to interact with the infant as one is speaking and face-to-face interaction is preferred (TV and VCDs are found to be less useful as they seem). Speech should be made simple and clear though and repetitions are required for reinforcement. Naming game is a good activity that parents can have with their infant.
This book is definitely a must read for parents who want to raise calm, capable and confident children.
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