http://www.author-me.com Check this feed periodically to review new manuscripts posted on Author-me.com. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:07:39 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://author-me.com/nonfiction/akwaba.html From Sunday 14th to Saturday 20th June 2009, Nuremberg, the city of Human Rights, staged an impressive African Week. The opening events were splashed at the Erfahrungsfeld zur Entfaltung der Sinne, set in the sprawling meadows of the Wöhrder Wiese, amid sculptures and playgrounds for children, with the River Pegnitz snaking lazily across. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:07:35 GMT http://author-me.com/nonfiction/myhangover.html “HOOOOONNNNKKK!” blared the horn of the gigantic ship bearing down on me. Terrified in my fragile, rubber raft, I began to row like hell to get out of the way. Sweating in spite of the frigid temperatures, I squeezed my eyes tighter and braced my ears for another irritating blast that would further tick me off. Cautiously, I eased one eyelid open to assess this horrific situation. <br> Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:06:05 GMT http://www.author-me.com/fict09/dayoftherat.html “Mom, there's a rat.” Mick's voice was slightly hushed, deliberately calm. <br>Washing the last dish, I sighed slightly and ignored his comment. <br>“Mom, come here...it's a rat.”...A different voice from a different child, a bit more urgent. <br>“No, Jenny, we have no rats.” <br>“Mom, come here!” Julia, our third and eldest offered her whispered support and I heard chairs moving. Sun, 31 May 2009 15:00:13 GMT http://www.author-me.com/nonfiction/theory17.html Question related to the shift of viewpoint in linguistics: What are the main differences between the traditional grammars and the theories that Chomsky has proposed? Sun, 31 May 2009 14:59:22 GMT http://www.author-me.com/nonfiction/theory16.html Do you know that you can learn to write very well without even learning to think in the so-called ‘efficient’ way? In other words, do you know that you can think deeply without thinking at all, and just by using your five eyes instead? If you don’t, you’ll have a lot of pleasure now. Sun, 24 May 2009 13:00:49 GMT http://www.author-me.com/nonfiction/theory15.html While in most case of human invention the idea is the thing that came first, not the product of the idea, the opposite is true in the case of many inventions that involve the utilization of the flexibility, ability, and efficiency of the electronic computer. As a result, though Information Technology is important for its capability of storing and providing information world-wide, its very foundation is the technology, not the idea. In other words, it is the technology that created the idea in this case. Sun, 17 May 2009 02:31:15 GMT http://www.author-me.com/nonfiction/atthecore.html At the core of Africa’s problems are the Africans themselves. No other group has been as physically and psychologically brutalized by strangers for all of 500 years. The end is nowhere in sight. Slavery has been practiced throughout human history, also between homogeneous groups. But for Africans, after slavery came colonization. This experience was more traumatizing than slavery. Strange people appeared out of nowhere to take the land – the people’s highest religious symbol. There was no stopping them; a handful could kill 10,000 warriors in a matter of hours. Sat, 09 May 2009 18:57:48 GMT http://www.author-me.com/fict09/mandied.html It was a morning of hell; a glowing darkness had invaded the land. The elephant had departed and the land was left in a world of strangers that had come to make them look like slaves. Okonkwo, a man of the people had left them to the great beyond. In the process he left the land to the white men. Sat, 09 May 2009 18:56:48 GMT http://www.author-me.com/nonfiction/theory14.html The discipline of Organizational Behavior can be regarded as the psychology of leadership, not necessarily the psychology of management. The basic psychological principles of management have found expression in different management theories but they have not been summarized under a fundamental title. Here I present the 20 laws of the psychology of management. Sat, 09 May 2009 18:55:49 GMT http://author-me.com/nonfiction/pink.html From the beginning of the 13th century a certain Wolfram von Eschenback of Germany created the image of the so-called noble Moor as a knight full of virtues, courage and a ripe fruit of faithfulness. The Moor’s education was touted to be beyond any other, pure and brave in battle he was too. No other knight before him was so gentle for he knew no injustice, according to von Eschenback. Sat, 02 May 2009 20:01:47 GMT http://author-me.com/fict09/doomsday.html They have condemned us as mad. But I know better. It is just another play in a plot within a plot. The mad ones are out there. Only not just mad. Demented. Twisted. They preen and wear suits, granted, but their minds are infected, roiling with a million wriggling worms. I know who’s mad, alright. Sat, 02 May 2009 20:00:53 GMT http://author-me.com/nonfiction/theory13.html The Qur'an provides a philosophical basis for the concept of competition and Strategic Management as we view them in the modern perspective. According to Thompson and Strickland (2001:3), a company’s strategy “consists of the combination of competitive moves and business approaches that managers employ to please customers, compete successfully, and achieve organizational objectives.” This authoritative statement about company strategy makes it clear that strategy is needed for competitive strength in the short term because the company needs to survive in the long term. Sat, 02 May 2009 19:59:30 GMT http://author-me.com/fict09/unhappyhand.html Every single morning, with her mop in hand, she could never think about anything washing toilets, steps at the stadium, or the extravagant parking places all around Kristiania. Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:16:05 GMT http://author-me.com/nonfiction/theory12.html There are several descriptions of and commandments for strategic conducts in the Qur‘an that can be juxtaposed with the generic concepts of business strategies to find illuminating parallels between managerial experiences and the divine codes of conduct. Such juxtaposition, over and above serving the purposes of academic interests and quenching intellectual thirst, can also redirect our freedom of choice in our management practices in order to help reconsider the limits of our freedom of choice in our vigorously competitive activities. Moreover, such a descriptive-analytical study will encourage us to reconsider the empirical implications of the related assertions of the Qur'an vis-à-vis the real situations of planned activities by the modern calculative man. Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:15:02 GMT http://author-me.com/newsletters/NewsApril_15_2009.html Lee currently coaches 7 of the top 10 talk show hosts in America; people like, Michael Medved, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt and Bill Bennett. He also developed “The Laura Ingraham Show” and was Laura’s Executive Producer for many years. <br> <br> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:42:03 GMT http://author-me.com/nonfiction/theory11.html Here is a symbolic model that depicts the process of Learning and the development of the Tree of Knowledge as a sequence of 10 steps of activities/events. In this model, the teacher or instructor has been referred to as the Knowledge Farmer. In conformity to this analogy, knowledge ¾ the result of learning and experience ¾ has been symbolized by a tree and even a garden. The Knowledge Farmer, certainly more than what is usually understood by the term "teacher", must do the following to ensure the healthy growth and full-fledged development of the Tree or Garden of Knowledge. We define Learning as the process in which the Tree or Garden ¾ the student or the system – takes in nutrition from the external environment and the process in which the Tree internalizes the nutrition. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:39:48 GMT http://author-me.com/nonfiction/humanpersonality.html This manuscript proposes that human personality can be generally classified by shapes, such as squares, circles and triangles. Squares symbolize those who adhere to facts and beliefs. Circles represent those who are outgoing and flexible, and triangles stand for those who are indecisive and fluctuate between square and circle. The author raises examples for each shape and systemically analyzes the potential outcomes that result from the interaction between personality shapes in a marriage or in the workplace. Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:07:48 GMT http://author-me.com/nonfiction/theory10.html In this paper I will define a new concept that can be easily and successfully used by educational institutions and learning organizations – both for-profit and not-for-profit. The concept is termed Trial-and-No-Error Learning. I have used the technique in the field of teaching and have got unique results. This experience, being objective and generalized, can be successfully extended to any kind of activities that require extensive learning. Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:06:43 GMT http://author-me.com/fict09/valley.html I stared gloomily across the ridge, my eyes open but unseeing, awake but oblivious of the undulating valleys of my beloved land. Numerous species of birds chirped and cawed, nonchalant and happy in their carefree existence. Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:42:36 GMT http://author-me.com/nonfiction/theory9.html Now it is not a new concept that an organization is a living, learning entity. Chris Argyris and Donald Schon first developed this idea in their 1978 book Organizational Learning. Learning by the people of an organization is, as a whole, considered to be the learning by the organization itself. But learning as a natural, evolutionary process taking place in an organization may not be satisfactory enough in view of the need of the changing environment. This necessitates the management to anticipate the future and deliberately create a changing atmosphere within the environment to ensure ongoing learning. Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:41:28 GMT