Dr. Zaremba's explanation of organizational communication was easy to follow and understand. For those not familiar with this topic, it offers a great introduction to real life corporate situations and how to handle them. The book covers topics such upward and downward networks and relationships between co workers and their employers. The book was a tremdous help for a communication course I was taking at the time, and I highly recommend it for any corporate professional.

Dr. Zaremba has written a book that truly explains Organizational Communication. This book will not only aid the reader in understanding what Organizational Communication is, but has the potential to make the reader a better manager and worker.

As a student of Organizational Communication I would reccommend this book to anyone studing or even interested in learning more.

This book is a wonderful introduction to the thoughts and philosophies of some of today's most radical thinkers. The interview format works well, as it allows for spontaneous insights from the interviewees. The subjects range from poets to scientists to cultural commentators (ie Terence McKenna), and the authors do a notably good job of revealing some common themes between all of their philosophies. If you want to know where the world is heading, read this book!

This book contains a lot of fascinating and leading-edge ideas from an array of amazing individuals. Because it's a series of interviews, it's easy to pick up and put down and read over again. I've given it to several (smart) friends over the years, and it's inspired me to read other works by and about some of the very interesting people and ideas discussed here... in a world that often seems awash with stupidity and brutality, this book offers the hope intelligence might actually still be evolving within our species.

This book provides a wealth of knowledge about diverse cultural groups. It is easy to read and would be a useful reference book for students researching this topic. The one complaint I have is that the objects are presented in a collage format, cropped and inserted among the text. These priceless historical art works deserve a more formal aesthetic presentation.

North South East West: American Indians and the Natural World is a beautiful coffee table art book full of lovely colored pictures with texts pertaining to cultures of four tribal entities - the Tlingit of the Northwest coast, the Hopi of the Southwest, the Iroquois Nations of the Northeast, and the Lakota and neighbors of the Great Plains - plus a varied section on the Urban Experience. This is a collection that demonstrates photo-journalism and art at its best. The richness of each tribal group's cultural heritage is vividly displayed in explicated examples. Designed to appeal to the senses, American Indians and the Natural World has maximum visual voltage. One is led effortlessly through the explanatory texts and narrative because of the flawless layout and harmonious design planning. It is accessible to both adult and teenage readers, a tribute to its creators and sponsors.

Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer

I bought this book because I was interested in the autobiography. I had just finished reading a few "shorts" in different anthologies, and I decided to do a search to see if there was anything larger out there. I found The Norton Book of American Autobiography and was pleased. I just finished this massive 711 paged book, and I would recommend it to anyone who's just interested in other people's lives. There are some stand-out writers included (Malcolm X, Benjamin Franklin, etc.), but also some contemporary writers as well (Julia Alvarez, Caroline Knapp, Paul Monette, etc.). This is a great book to read on your own, but I can really see it benefiting a lit. class at the same time.

Autobiography isn't always just the blathering of B-list celebrities. Much of it is some of the finest American literature ever produced. Some say Americans are egotistical and self-involved. Well, fine, maybe so, but it makes for great autobiography. And the informative and literary life synopsi (synopsises?) make for great reading by themselves!!! Huzzah to the editor and his minions!!!

The text was written with expertise about the nature of the atom, of nuclear decay rates, and of the nature of radiation beyond Plank. It is very mathematically based (as all good physics books are), however, it was beyond me mathematically at times, and took about ten reads to comprehend the basic mathematical structure and implications.

It is excellent if one already has a background in nuclear physics, and is a wonderful reference.

These are the notes of the Fermi lectures on nuclear physics at Chicago. As a book on nuclear physics they are, of course, too dated. However, I strongly recommend this book for he who wants to see a great master solving problems of various kinds. Besides the usual topics of alpha and beta-decays, nuclear models, scattering, etc, there are beautiful treatments of passage of radiation through matter, origin of cosmic rays and action of the Earth's magnetic field on incoming charged particles. The book is a monumental collection of very good exercises of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, relativity, etc. In this sense , it will never become obsolete.

I found this book lying on a friend's bookshelf and turned at random to one of the promised humorous anecdotes - within a minute I was laughing out loud! Karzen, an Orthodox Rabbi (with a not-so orthodox sense of humor) has captured the essence of Jewish congregational life ( he spent many years as a Rabbi in the US) as well as the zany and sometimes downright irrational world of the Barmitzvahs that he organises at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall for mainly US visitors. This provides the source material for most of his anecdotes.

Karzen apparently has a natural talent for tackling head-on any kind of problem or mishap that can possibly arise and threaten to throw a spanner in the works of a long awaited "simcha" (happy occasion).

However, after reading this book (in one sitting I might add) it is clear that his true talent is in knowing exactly how to handle difficult and demanding clients in the most tactful and diplomatic way.

Perhaps this can be attributed to the fact that he has described himself as "Orthodox, Conservative and Reform" all at once: He is Orthodox because he believes that he is following the "right" (orthos) path; he is Conservative because he believes in conserving the beautiful Jewish heritage; and Reform, because he wants to reform those who have strayed from the path.

One small quibble: there are several typos and missing punctuation marks that could easily have been emilinated with more thorough proofreading.

NOTE: There is a comprehensive glossary and full explanation of all Jewish terminology used thus making it a great read for Jew and Gentile alike!

This book is one of the funniest books I have ever read. The great thing about it is that the humour is so universal, that it is for everyone, not just Jews. I have bought it as gifts for non-Jewish friends who were roaring with laughter. It is also a great coffee table item in paperback and makes for great dinner conversation! The language is simple and not exclusive to people with an insider's view of the Jewish faith, and the happenings are so colourful, that it is hard to imagine them as real! But of course that only makes it funnier! I think everyone can recongnize themselves and their loved ones in this funny and frequently heartwarming look at the simpler things in life.

This book is a little dated and the print is densely packed, but it's still an excellent book for those who want to learn about the psychological issues faced by children of divorce. Written by a leading child psychiatrist, it deals in a chronological fashion with the stages of divorce, including how and when to tell kids about an impending separation, informing friends and teachers, and adjusting to new homes and stepfamilies. This is not really a pop self-help book and it never simplifies problems, but there is specific and sound practical advice within the sometimes technical text.

I am a mother who is facing a possible second divorce. My two children from my first marriage of 15 years were 4 and 6 at the time of our separation. They are now 20 and 22 and I think will be fine; however, in reading his chapter on "Telling the Children," I had the luxury to know/feel the validity of his message. I am finding jems throughout the book and, while I bought it at a time when I thought my second divorce was a case of "when" not "if," it has helped my husband of 10 years and I look at our situation with new understanding and hope. We have a 9 year old and I am so glad that regardless of what happens with our marriage I feel much more equiped to do right by our son.

A nicely written book regarding the beginings of base ball from 1857 - 1876. A great book for the baseball historian.

Warren Goldstein has written a extensive book on the early beginnings of baseball as a national past-time. He begins with the formation of base ball clubs during the 1850's and takes the history through the formation of the National League in 1876. During this time he highlights the transformation from a game played for fun and recreation to one played as a business. His insight into the history of the post-Civil War Era and the Industrial Revolution add to the social aspect of why baseball emerged into the professional sport which it became. He uses primary sources and footnotes them readily throughout the book. This is a must book for any fan of the game who wants to know the social evolution of the game as well as the famous participants and teams.

A nice overview of production and operations management with numerous real-world examples. Unfortunately, it could have been written in many less pages and could have given more details in their case examples. On several examples they simply stated that company "x" uses this method and save "x" dollars, making them "world class." I think the authors could have gone into a little more details about the strengths and weaknesses of many of the methods and equations they present. Although I critical of how it could have been better, it is very readable, which is very commendable on a subject that can be extremely boring to read. Good introductory book!

An incredible well documented and written book although several references to magazines like Business Week are not correct. Ernesto Botero A college teacher in Colombi

This book was most enligthening, it explained in a very structured form, what it is we were doing when creating content for new medias. As Moliere said, "doing prose without knowing it", I have used my newly acquired epistemology of remediation extensively to better explain to our young designers what it is they were doing when "re-mediating" clients'content for a new media application, be it Web, Multimedia apps or art-tech.The authors are themselves professors/researchers an use a very didactical stream of thoughts which has been exceedingly usefull to me, to better convey concepts for which I had a feeling, but nowhere near the "theory of remediation" that the authors convey.

As an art/tech buff, who happens to earn a living with technical content remediation and hard core applications programming, the book reconciled me with a new perpesctive on the similarities between these activities. Grusin and Bolter are challenging us to excellence in remediation whatever the final purpose.

The most important concept that the authors brought to me, was that more and better remediation has often nothing to do with more technology, and much more to do with better and more effective (or intelligent) ways to communicate.

In my view this book is a must reading, and a reference book for anyone producing content with a certain degree of awareness. If you believe that the new media demand a "different" attitude,this is a textbook for you.

In Remediation, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin analyze new technologies and their implications for American society. Although the book emphasizes the ways in which new media can be conceived in terms of recent literary and cultural theory, the theoretical discussions do not pervade the work. Therefore, the book can still be quite useful to those who don't wish to delve too deeply into theory. In fact, Bolter and Grusin acknowledge the different emphases of the book's chapters in their introduction and offer readers a guide to help them make the most of their experience with the book, with respect to the readers' goals. The three sections of the book discuss the authors' theory of remediation, the place of new media in American society, and the place of the Self within the context of new media.

In the first section of the book, Bolter and Grusin offer the notion of "remediation" as a way of thinking about new media. What they term "remediation" is "the formal logic by which new media technologies refashion prior media forms" (273). Bolter and Grusin attempt to contextualize their theories about new media within the framework of modern preoccupations with what they term "immediacy" and "hypermediacy." The desire for immediacy is a desire for a transparency in media that obliterates or lessens the perception of the media themselves in the viewer's mind. The reality of hypermediacy is the preoccupation with media itself and a hyper-awareness of the media through which our information comes. Bolter and Grusin place the logic of remediation within the context of our historical preoccupation with these trends. The new media discussed are primarily the visual: computer games, digital photography, photorealistic graphics, digital art, film, Virtual Reality, mediated spaces, television, and the World Wide Web. Discussing each of these media in great detail, the authors devote the second section of the book to demonstrating the way that the idea of remediation plays itself out in each. Bolter and Grusin examine how each new medium refashions older media and how they are often refashioned themselves. For example, they show that animated computer graphics draw upon the tradition of film and that film is now starting to draw upon the new offerings of computer graphics. They cite as their evidence a film such as Toy Story. Another example they point out is the remediation that occurs between television and the Internet. The Internet uses patterns established by television in order to determine how to appeal to viewers, and television uses new strategies of windowing images with the scrolling tickertapes and texts it has borrowed from Internet styles. Within the remediations that both new and old media undergo, Bolter and Grusin demonstrate how the twin desires for immediacy and hypermediacy are at work.

The final section on the Self attempts to discuss how the presence of the new media in our society affects individuals' perceptions of their own identities. By allowing people to engage in different discourse communities with different levels of immediacy and hypermediacy, the new media allow for a remediation of the notion of self and community. Bolter and Grusin specifically point to the immediacy of Virtual Reality as a starting point for empathy with other people and beings. If a person can use Virtual Reality to play the role of a gorilla, that person gains a new concept of his or her identity with respect to his or her experience as set apart from that of a gorilla. Bolter and Grusin also examine in detail whether the new media have implications for the mind-body split that is central to the theory of Cartesian dualism. Some argue that technologies such as Virtual Reality emphasize the split by creating a disembodied environment for the mind to inhabit. Bolter and Grusin, however, ultimately claim that such technologies cannot allow people to escape the perception of their own bodies. In fact, by allowing for new ways to conceive of the body and the mind, new media allow for a remediation of the body that is parallel to the remediation of the Self.

Overall this book offers interesting theories about the way technology functions in our society. It is, therefore, a good starting point for anyone who wants to consider the implications of using this technology and thereby becoming complicit in the culture's striving for immediacy and hypermediacy in our interactions with technology. Those implications would continue further for us as we remediate our old styles of teaching or otherwise interacting with technology to suit the newer forms that will inevitably appear.

Of course, to be concerned about how your use of technology fits into this framework, you must first be convinced by Bolter's and Grusin's arguments that remediation is a force at work in our society. Personally, I find their arguments convincing in their simplicity of structure and in their wealth of evidence. Although the discussions of Lacanian, Freudian, feminist, Marxist, and other theoretical approaches can be at times heavy-handed, underneath there is an insightful commentary on the way technology functions in our society.