Collective bargaining is something that has to be experienced to be understood, and a simulation is a great way to help students develop that perspective. This student workbook is excellent, and provides a sound basis for the simulation. I did not have access to the software for the instructor, so I cannot comment on that.

The simulation is broken down into 5 phases: Preparation; Pre-Bargaining Strategy Development; Opening Negotiation; Additional Negotiations; and Simulation Review.

The simulation is designed so that it can be done individually or with a team. I would strongly encourage you to use the team approach, because that will come closest to what the actual experience is like.

The case materials are quite complete. You have an actual collective bargaining agreement (slightly disguised) to work from. You also have lots of information about pay rates, profitability, costs of various things being bargained for. In the evaluation section, you have some good ways for team members to help you understand how you did and did not contribute to the process successfully.

There are a variety of roles to play. Ideally, you should do the simulation at least twice, and have a chance to work on both sides of the negotiation.

Some of the key issues you'll be asked to think about include wages, overtime levels, fully-paid health insurance, and a declining management-labor relationship.

This simulation has been used at many universities, and I hope that many more will adopt it, as well. Enjoy your role playing!

This is only computer-based simulation for use in collective bargaining, negotiations, and human resource management courses, or management training in this important subject. The book that is listed is the STUDENT MANUAL for the course. The instructor will have the software for the simulation. This is not a stand-alone product but must be administered by the insturctor in the course. This book would be the same book as purchased in the college bookstore.

This handy paperback volume is a true gem on collecting late 19th/early 20th century souvenir china. The numerous color photos and informative text make this an excellent addition to any collector's bookshelf. Highlights include wholesaler marks and information on manufacturers.

This edition promises to be the corner stone for the souvenir china collector!

This 1998, 232 page book features more than 500 full color, large photos of a great variety of collectible souvenir china. 1998 values are shown. There is a nice introduction to the topic and plenty of descriptive text throughout. It's well indexed for easy item location. Major topics include, Collecting Souvenir China in the U.S., Golden Era of Souvenir China, The Pioneers, Identifying Producers, Shapes, Forms and Styles, and related items. A nice bibliography is provided. Collectors will love looking at the great photos provided. A useful reference.

This an excellent collection from Radio Spirits, currently the best old-time radio distributors on the market. It is fun to revisit old favorites (like Fibber McGee, Great Gildersleeve), be introduced to new favorites (My Favorite Husband, the progenitor of I Love Lucy), and be wary of those that didn't impress me at all (The Aldrich Family, The Milton Berle Show).

Having three shows each for all the 20 different programs is a wonderful way to sample and get a feel for a show without being inundated by any one particular program. On the other hand, collections like the one picked by Walter Cronkite only give you one broadcast upon which to form an opinion.

But what was most interesting was the selection of shows themselves. I had only heard two specific broadcasts before and I've been listening for years. And where else can you find such nuggets as:

1. Pre-stardom Doris Day singing on the Bob Hope Show.
2. Orson Welles bickering with Charlie McCarthy.
3. The Jack Benny Program done entirely by kids.

Anyone who is into old radio comedies should get a kick out of this collection. Yes, it is near being prohibitively expensive (especially with many files available on Web sites or in trading groups), but for a collection of this magnitude, one can hardly go wrong.

Abbott & Costello, the Aldrich Family, Amos 'n' Andy, the Bickersons, Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Charlie McCarthy, Duffy's Tavern, Fibber & Molly, Fred Allen, the Great Gildersleeve, Jack Benny, the Life of Riley, Lum & Abner, Milton Berle (!), Lucille Ball's My Favorite Husband, Our Miss Brooks, Ozzie & Harriet, Phil Harris & Alice Faye, and Red Skelton in shows unavailable to the general public for decades! The perfect complement for Old Time Radio's Greatest Shows, also available from Amazon.com. Twenty cassettes, thirty hours.

Carson McCullers, one of America's greatest Southern writers, was often misunderstood, as many people were put off and/or unwilling to deal with her (at the time) controversial subject matter. MCCullers used the grotesque as exaggerated symbols of everyday experience. The loneliness and isolation of her gothic-like characters were merely extreme examples of feelings we all have, though magnified and intensified to the nth degree.

Tennessee Williams, in his introduction to MCCullers' "Reflections in a Golden Eye", posed the question (in a mock dialogue) most people asked about writers of the 'gothic' school such as Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty: "Why do they write about such dreadful things?" Williams replies, " In my opinion it is most simply definable as a sense, an intuition of an underlying dreadfulness in modern society.. Why have they got to use..symbols of the grotesque and the violent? Because a book is short and a man's life is long... The awfulness has to be compressed."

McCullers, unlike any writer I have ever read, pierces the heart of themes such as love, isolation, and loneliness with her lucid, poetic prose. Tennessee Williams, in Virginia Spencer Carr's biography of McCullers summed up McCullers' writing as follows: "I have used the word 'heart', but it is not an adequate word to describe the core of Carson McCullers' genius....I believe, in fact I know, that there are many, many with heart who lack the need or gift to express it. And therefore Carson McCullers is what I would call a necessary writer: She owned the heart and the deep understanding of it, but in addition she had that 'tongue of angels' that gave her power to sing of it, to make of it an anthem."

Until very recently, it was quite difficult to find a nice hardback copy of Mc Culler's novels. Each one of them is absolutely priceless and unforgettable; believe me when I tell you that "The Ballad of the Sad Café" is one of those stories that long remain on your mind. Mc Culler's novels, clearly influenced by Faulkner, surpass the master himself in magnetism, , power of storytelling and above all, characterization. If you add to all this a dose of gothic dark strangely ambivalent sense of humour, the result is certainly a writer utterly impossible to classify, novels that you really enjoy reading and characters that you are very unlikely to forget. Besides I am fully in love with the Library of America hardback editions and Mc Cullers certainly deserves to be included in this collection.
Later, if you want to give yourself a treat, go and buy her autobiography, although unfinished, a memorable book.

We have used Brian Fagans guidebooks from SD to SF for many years, but this is the best of the lot. We recently led a cruise to the Channel Islands, and made this a "must" for the cruisers, all of whom praised it highly. Really THE guidebook to coastal cruising in Central-Southern California---and a bargain!

From a recent sailing trip out of Santa Barbara through the channel islands I can tell you that this book is invaluable. His treatment of safe ports and refuges (arranged very well but conditions) was fantastic and kept us out of danger.

one of my favorite childhood books ever, so darling. i still remember all the pages and what scratch and sniff they had.

I don't think I can fully discribe how much I *love* this book. It is a precious story about a little kitten's discovery about the world around her. I could almost repeat the book word for word. The over all theme of the book is that some times you get into a lot of trouble being curious (like falling into a pond trying to figure out what a fish is), but sometimes it's very good (like finding a new friend). This has to be one of the greatest childern's books. My copy is very old and ragged from many years of use, and I'm trying to get a new one.

This is a wonderful book my daughter of three giggles every time I read it to her! She has started to notice every kiss and makes a name out of it. It is so cute I highly recommend this book very easy reading. Great bedtime story!

This is our 15 month old daughter's favorite book before bedtime (She gets a kiss at the turn of every page). The artwork is soft and appealing. When she "reads" it to herself, she kisses the cute little animals on the page. Our copy is even durable enough to survive a few accidental dunks in the tub (made out of that solid cardboard stuff). "Kisses" allows a parent the ability to bond one-on-one with their child in a caring and affectionate way. Of course, my wife and I believe that any positive time that your child spends in front of a book at an early age is to their benefit.

The author does an excellent job of culling not only the most interesting and exciting pieces of 19th century travel writing, but editing out the dull parts so that every line draws you in. To make the book even more readable, she writes helpful short introductions which set the scene and explain the context of each adventurer along with his/her adventures. Big names like Darwin and Shackleton are represented along with many lesser known writers who were equally captivating. I've read many exploration/adventure books in the past few years, but as far as a great collection, I've come across no more exciting reading than this one. From Polar to equatorial to nautical, every time of extreme adventure is represented and the incredible leadership of many of the explorers shines through. Even more noteworthy is the obervational detail the authors provide as naturalists and observers of the world around them, largely unexplored during much of that time period. A great read!

This is an enthralling book, filled with personal, very human stories about some of the most extraordinary expeditions ever ventured.

Remember those old maps that show sea monsters lurking at the rims of certain large, anonymous land masses? They represented the complete unknown, the places no human being had ever ventured into. However, those were the very places that incited wonder and curiosity in imaginations of nineteenth century explorers.

The decision to journey into these lands was a commitment to step into uncertainty of the most extreme kind. Just organizing a journey into an unknown land was a tremendous undertaking, requiring great sums of money, generous and sympathetic supporters, supplies that the crew could only estimate, and a great deal of patience and determination. To launch a journey of exploration was to set off knowing that there was a very good possibility that one would never return. Climate, local inhabitants, wildlife, supplies and the disposition of one's traveling companions were factors that could determine the success or failure of an expedition. But the allure of the unknown was so strong that these determined men and women could never ignore it.

DEAD RECKONING, edited by Helen Whybrow, is an adventure story unto itself. It gathers into one volume the most exciting, most challenging and most dramatic episodes from the most intrepid explorers of the Age of Discovery. Here is Mary Mummery, one of the first women explorers, making her way up slippery ice slopes in the Alps. Here is Alfred Russell Wallace clambering around in thick foliage in the South Sea Islands in an effort to spot new birds as he formulates a theory of evolution that will be eclipsed by Darwin's. Here is Mark Twain "vagabondizing" in the American West and looking at everything with his contagious sense of humor.

These men and women journeyed without the benefit of Gore-Tex or cell phones, down sleeping bags or OFF! insect repellant. They endured endured long voyages on leaking ships, frostbite and insect bites, hunger and thirst, indifference or hostility or envy. Many of them traveled arroganly, with the belief that no land truly existed until it had been visited by an educated white man. All of them, however, expderienced an inner journey that was as profound as their outer journey. All of them were dreamers and visionaries, and all of them were changed forever by the journeys they took.

This book makes you wish that there were more lands to be explored, more wild climates to be endured, and that you yourself could be the one to visit them. Since that it impossible, you can dive into this book and get lost without any of the physical or emotional discomforts these daring adventurerers had to survive.

To those who travel by plane today "food service" is the stuff of jokes. If you love food and travel pick up this book. The railroad dining car was the best place to eat in town - whatever town it happened to be in at that moment!

You will find the recipes easy to use and interesting to explore. There are multiple recipes for French Toast - our family has come to use the Santa Fe recipe often.

Although my best friend called me a "weirdo" for reading this book, I'm glad I did.

"Railroad dining" may sound like arcane history, but there is a lot of information about general railroad history, design and maintenance in addition to the fascinating history of passenger service. George Pullman is now one of my heroes.

The recipes themselves are a fascinating look at what was "fancy" back in the early 1900's. Lots of game meat, fish, no vegetable or ethnic entrees. I'm not sure if I'll ever make anything out of this book, but some of them do look good.

If you're a railfan or a foodie (or both, like me), get this book. Very well researched and written.

Just would like to say that this story is wonderful in its portrayal of a boys being boys, a mother who has time, a brother who loves, plays with, and helps his little sister, and a Dad who indulges the eager interest of his young son (even if it costs him 10 minutes on the lawn job). My children love this story and don't think "mom" and "dad" are doing anything unusual--as has been suggested in some reviews. (too old fashioned in its view) The only exception is that Dad is using a funny looking lawn mower which only opens the door for some interesting conversation when the story is over. I highly recommend it!

The theme at our literary group's last gathering was kiddie lit, and someone brought this in, having fond memories of using the Real Band-Aids[tm] that came with the book.

The evening grew late, we had just read _Everyone Poops_, still rather silly, so I read this to the crowd.

See, the plot is about this kid named Dan, and his coordination-impaired family. The first time he trips, his mommy (who is, of course, at home) cleans it and puts a bandage on the skinned knee, and proclaims it "better than new!" Bad move, mom.

He falls again, gets another bandage. His little sister's doll falls, gets a *bump* on her head, so dolly gets a bandage, too. (I expected a dent, not a bump, since that would involve blood coming to the point of the injury, but who am I to question Doctor Dan?) Dolly is better-than-new! Sis looks and finds an old scratch on her leg, so she gets a bandage, and is better than new. The dog holds up his paw...bandage...better....

The scary thing is DAD is with a LAWNMOWER! Apparently he just nicks his finger, so Danny-boy can fix it, but I was anticipating an amputation, with the severed body part taped on with LOTS of band-aids[tm].

I think Mom survives this freakish, accident-prone day unscathed, but I'm not sure. Buy it and check it out for me!