Middleton, who conducts outdoor photography workshops and has several books to his credit (e.g., The Nature of America ), follows the calendar in paying homage to the natural beauty of his home state in color photographs of fauna, flora, and landscapes. Brief commentary accompanies the photos. Aptly, the volume is in landscape format. Distributed by W.W. Norton. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
There are 130 million lobsters crawling the sea floor of the Gulf of Mian. Over 60 million pounds are brought ashore each year to fill plates around the world.
What's in a name? When a young geologist stumbles across what looks like to most a greyish rock with blue tints, he knows he has something precious on his hands. Although it looks common, as soon as the name 'cobalt' is applied, it suddenly becomes eminently more valuable.
This book "shows you all the tricks and tips for profitable investment using fairy tales and nursery rhymes. The Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick Maker are perfect mentors for identifying profitable business and buying shares as investmenrts, while Old King Cole is the perfect tale to simplify the benefits of direst investment versus mutual funds, and the Three Little Pigs know all there is to know about building up a property investment portfolio. Investing is made easy with a little fairytale magic." - back cover.
This book brings together contributions from researchers within various social science disciplines who seek to redefine the methods and topics that constitute the study of work. They investigate work activity in ways that do not reduce it to a 'psychology' of individual cognition nor to a 'sociology' of societal structures and communication. A key theme in the material is the relationship between theory and practice. This is not an abstract problem of interest merely to social scientists. Rather, it is discussed as an issue that working people address when they attempt to understand a task and communicate its demands. Mindful practices and communicative interaction are examined as situated issues at work in the reproduction of communities of practice in a variety of settings including: courts of law, computer software design, the piloting of airliners, the coordination of air traffic control, and traffic management in underground railway systems.