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Work From Home Handbook: Flex Your Time, Improve Your Life (USA TODAY/Nolo Series)

Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 7:00 am  
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Make going to the office optional!

Haven't you ever wished that you didn't have to waste hours in rush-hour traffic on your commute to the office? Had more time with your kids? Or simply had the luxury to go to work in your pajamas?

Co-produced with USA TODAY, The Work From Home Handbook is an excellent resource for anyone who dreams of a work-from-home career. You can find the option that best suits your personal, financial and professional goals through the book's systematic, step-by-step advice.

This book shows you how to:

  • Find out where and how you work best
  • Prepare a great proposal for your current employer
  • Demonstrate productivity in your home office

    If your current employer is inflexible, this book also covers finding a new "beyond the office" job, or becoming an independent contractor.



    Filled with solid tips, real-life examples, practical advice and - best of all - inspiration, The Work From Home Handbook can help you transform and achieve a healthy balance in your life and career.

    Seventy-nine of Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" last year allowed - even encouraged - employees to work from home at least 20 percent of the time. More than two thirds of all American companies offered some telework options in 2005. And the country's largest employer - the U.S. government - encourages employees to work from home "to the maximum extent possible." Don't be left behind. Find out how you can chose this career option for yourself.

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    The Secrets of Why Hypnosis Doesn’t Work!

    Saturday, August 29th, 2009 at 8:51 pm  
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    "The Secrets of Why Hypnosis Doesn't Work!"
     
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    Watching this DVD will allow you to meet your clinical hypnotherapist. Rod will dispel the myths surrounding hypnosis, he will let you in on the secrets of what areas hypnosis will not work in. He also explains what areas that it does work very effectively. He will also tell you how it works, and how to use hypnosis to improve many areas of your life. You will learn that hypnosis is the most powerful, fastest and safest way to change your life! For years, Rod has been helping people in many areas of their life, to change for the better.

    Included with this DVD is a FREE DVD entitled, "What is Hypnosis", it is included as an extra chapter, at no extra charge so that you get both sides of the story, both what it is and what it is not. Finally someone is speaking the truth about hypnosis is a very simple and easy to understand format, you will definitely enjoy this DVD.

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    Overview of DVD
     
    Review Date: November 1, 2007
    Reviewer: Rod Linder, Arkansas USA
    Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2KR0WDU8ANEGY Fairwinds Publishing has produced this video to give you a brief overview of what this Book on DVD contains, this way you can make an informed decision regarding the purchase of this DVD. We would like to thank Amazon for this unique opportunity to share our thoughts with you.
    "The Secrets of Stopping Heart Disease""The Secrets of Stopping Diabetes""The Secrets of Curing Your Disease""The Secrets of What is Hypnosis""The Secrets of Why Hypnosis Doesn't Work!" "The Secrets of Healing thru Nutrition""The Secrets of Weight Loss""The Secrets of the Poisoning of America""The Secrets of Stopping Allergies""The Secrets of Stopping Pain"

    Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic

    Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 5:00 am  
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    Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic
     
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    Over the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer." This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labor in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States. Boydston argues that just as a capitalist economic order had first to teach that wages were the measure of a man's worth, it had at the same time, implicitly or explicitly, to teach that those who did not draw wages were dependent and not essential to the "real economy." Developing a striking account of the gender and labor systems that characterized industrializing America, Boydston explains how this effected the devaluation of women's unpaid labor.

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    The Pastoralization of Housework
     
    Review Date: February 10, 2006
    Reviewer: J. Brown, Lancaster, PA
    I have to modify significantly the previous reviewer's take on this book. Boydston does not argue that women did all the work while men got all the pay. What she argues is that because women did as much unpaid work as they did, factories benefited more from male labor than they might have if they'd considered and economically rewarded the female labor that went into making the male a productive worker. In other words, capitalists effectively got two for the price of one when they hired a male worker. Without a female working for free at home while practicing home economics to keep expenses low, the American labor-profit system in the early republic would have been unsustainable. To make this system palatable, Boydston argues in her concluding chapter (indeed, the chapter that really is the point of the book), the culture generated a pastoral mystique of housework . . . images and ways of talking about housework that made it seem not only natural, but part of the beauty and splendor of nature.

    The previous reviewer's take suggests that this book in some way could be read as perpetuating a simplistic male/female gender war mentality. Instead, where this book really leads is to a common enemy of the mass of men and women: an exploitative political economy that thrives on the poverty of the family. Women entering the marketplace has done little to solve the problem. Indeed, what Boydston shows is that women have always been in the marketplace. If you think about it after reading this book, it becomes pretty clear that in the postmodern, post industrial age, capital is still getting two workers for the price of one: women working for less pay than men and men working for less pay than they have before. Meanwhile, the economy absorbs the on average lower female wage in a network of childcare services (daycare, formula, etc.) and "busy lifestyle" services (convenience food, maid services, etc.) that leave the situation little changed. Meanwhile, of course, the marketing machine continues working overtime to naturalize this situation.
    The labors of a housewife -- now and then
     
    Review Date: June 27, 2000
    Reviewer: Elizabeth Reeve, Fort Worth,Texas
    Boydson goes to prove that the average woman ha had to work long and hard hours that have been often under paid and overworked while the men get their payment, the women must endure long hours and work extra hard. This book seeks to tell how the women have built the economy and have been one of the major leaders yet do not get the credit that they deserve. Think about the long hours put in spinning, canning, and doing the house work without air conditioning and yet still how it is today! This si the book to read for all historians.

    Medical Social Work: The Reference Book

    Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 pm  
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    The author combines 36 years experience as a front line Chief Medical Social Worker and Child Welfare Worker with 24 years as a consumer of many of the programs described in the book. The publication includes primarily factual reference material that is used daily by all Social Workers... employed in a medical or psychiatric setting.

    Chapters include Social Security, SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, Home Health and Hospice, Nursing Home Placement, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Utility Assistance Programs, Talking Book, State Medicaid Programs, Ethics, Congress and the Supreme Court, Veterans Benefits and the Federal Poverty Guidelines.

    A separate section on Ethics is included that contains the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics as well as Federal Employee Code of Ethics. There are several State by State comparisons of programs not found in any other Social Work Publication. Most of the information is current, including the 2002 Federal Poverty Guidelines. A listing of key Federal Government Officials, Congressmen and U.S. Senators. Throughout the book the author challenges Social Workers to be informed, creative and able.

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    Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter

    Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 3:00 am  
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    Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter
     
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    Building on the enormous success of the original Shelter, Lloyd Kahn continues his odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent and unusual hand-built houses in existence. Among the intriguing domiciles described in Home Work are a Japanese-style stilt house accessible only by a cable across a river; a stone house in a South African valley whose roof serves as a baboon trampoline; multi-level treehouses on the South China Sea; and a bottle house in the Nevada desert. Over 1,500 photos illustrate various innovative architectural styles and natural building materials that have gained popularity in the last two decades such as cob, papercrete, bamboo, adobe, strawbale, timber framing, and earthbags.

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    Classic book by a classic author
     
    Review Date: January 10, 2010
    Reviewer: D. Bushe, Seattle
    Lloyd Kahn gives us another collection of homes built with imagination, sweat and at times a bit of madness.
    He throws in some reprinted pages from some of my favorite other books on homes - the whole thing ads up to a bit of a chaotic mess - it seems to be organized more for the builders, photographers and other contributors to the book than the reader, but it is full of so much wonderful information, stories and tips that one can hardly complain.
    Beautiful book
     
    Review Date: September 14, 2009
    Reviewer: Sarah Sardonia, AL
    The book came as described and has many wonderful creative houses in it. Makes me want to get building now.

    Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

    Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 8:51 pm  
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    Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know--such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best.

    How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget--and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?

    In Brain Rules, molecular biologist Dr. John Medina shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule--what scientists know for sure about how our brains work--and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.

    Medina's fascinating stories and sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You'll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You'll peer over a surgeon's shoulder as he finds, to his surprise, that we have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You'll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can't tie his own shoes.

    You will discover how:

    - Every brain is wired differently
    - Exercise improves cognition
    - We are designed to never stop learning and exploring
    - Memories are volatile
    - Sleep is powerfully linked with the ability to learn
    - Vision trumps all of the other senses
    - Stress changes the way we learn

    In the end, you'll understand how your brain really works--and how to get the most out of it.

    About the DVD The Brain Rules DVD, included with this book, is a lively tour of the 12 brain rules. You will experience firsthand Medina's rare gift for making science fun, accessible, and relevant. The DVD will take your understanding of the book to the next level.

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    Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

    Sunday, August 16th, 2009 at 1:00 am  
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    Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
     
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    See how the brain works while using it in the process of reading this book! Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know - like that physical activity boosts your brain power.How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget - and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?In "Brain Rules", Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule - what scientists know for sure about how our brains work - and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.Medina's fascinating stories and sense of humour breathe life into brain science. You'll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You'll peer over a surgeon's shoulder as he proves that we have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You'll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can't tie his own shoes.

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