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While many recent books have thoughtfully examined the plight of the working poor in America, none of the authors of these books is able to claim a working-class background, and there are associated methodological and ethical concerns raised when most of the explicatory writing on how poverty affects women and girls is done by educated, upper-class journalists. It was these concerns that prompted indie icon Michelle Tea-whose memoir, The Chelsea Whistle, details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts-to collect these fierce, honest, tender essays written by writers who can't go home to the suburbs when their assignment is over. These wide-ranging essays cover everything from stealing and selling blood to make ends meet; to "jumping" class; how if time equals money, then being poor means waiting; surviving and returning to the ghetto; and how feminine identity is shaped by poverty. Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Diane Di Prima, Terri Griffith, Daisy Hernandez, Frances Varian, Eileen Myles, Shawna Kenney, Siobhan Brooks, Terry Ryan, and more..
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In response to the fundamental changes sweeping corporate America, Morris Shechtman presents a cutting-edge management philosophy that challenges unrealistic, outdated approaches. Shechtman, a former university professor and psychotherapist, teaches the essential skills for adapting to a rapidly expanding corporate culture -- or any organization or situation where structure and vision are needed. No matter what your goals, here are the new rules of business that will help you generate success, including:

* Growth strategies that help you establish your independence from external forces and foster strength from within

* Powerful exercises that sharpen decision-making, relationship-building, risk-taking, and other critical abilities

* Steps for processing -- not denying -- the inevitable anger and disappointment that follow organizational change

* Six paradigms on professional attitudes, personal goals, and overall world views, and the interplay of personal values and leadership.

With invigorating insight and far-reaching perspective, Working Without A Net empowers you to face new challenges and circumstances with flexibility, confidence and self-sufficiency..
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Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data is aimed at developers interested in taking advantage of the new REST–style data services that ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code–named Astoria) provides. The book shows how to incorporate ADO.NET Data Services into a wide range of common environments including BizTalk, AJAX and Silverlight client applications. The material is intended for professional developers who are comfortable with the .NET 3.5 Framework but are coming to ADO.NET Data Services for the first time and want to understand how to integrate it into their own applications and enterprise solutions. The book is packed full with extensive real–world solutions and exercises, ensuring you walk away with a deep understanding of how to use ADO.NET Data Services to your best advantage.

What you’ll learn

• Implement software solutions using ADO.NET Data Services within a variety of enterprise–level environments.
• Integrate ADO.NET Data Services into enterprise applications using BizTalk Server.
• Take advantage of ADO.NET Data Services in standard and AJAX/Silverlight–enabled ASP.NET applications, as well as traditional .NET applications.
• Understand when to apply traditional SOAP programming methods vs. REST–style programming to achieve the best possible results.
• Incorporate ADO.NET Data Services into the latest Microsoft technologies in the cleanest possible way.
• Understand cloud computing from a business respective and where ADO.NET Data Services fits within this.



About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

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In this new book, Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers. He argues that having rational opinions is a matter of meeting our own internal standards rather than standards that are somehow imposed upon us from the outside. It is a matter of making ourselves invulnerable to intellectual self-criticism. Foley also shows how the theory of rational belief is part of a general theory of rationality. He thus avoids treating the rationality of belief as a fundamentally different kind of phenomenon from the rationality of decision or action. His approach generates promising suggestions about a wide range of issues--e.g., the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic reasons for belief; the question of what aspects of the Cartesian project are still worth doing; the significance of simplicity and other theoretical virtues; the relevance of skeptical hypotheses; the difference between a theory of rational belief and a theory of knowledge; the difference between a theory of rational belief and a theory of rational degrees of belief; and the limits of idealization in epistemology..
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This beat was stressful [stressfull] enough before, when the online service kept all the racy, anarchic conversations ghettoized in one chatroom in order to keep the rest "family friendly " But tonight the owners decided upon a final solution for that ghetto: Deletion. Now the refugees, locked-out and angry, are swarming into other chatrooms like rioters storming into the suburbs to pillage its virgin daughters: Devil-worshippers flood the Spirituality forum; references to masturbation and pedophilia rear up in the Teen Talk chatroom, and it's your job to stamp them out like roaches. How much can you and your fellow overworked, underpaid "cybercops" take? You find the answer when another "cop" starts waving a real gun;he voices started during your second week with no more than an hour of sleep at a stretch. It's 4a.m. and you are permanently tethered by e-mail, phone, and beeper to software users worldwide who demand your instant attention 24 hours a day. This is your reward for saying "No" to a job with the world's largest software company. When you walked away from the worksheet-and-chinos fascism of their Seattle campus, you thought you were saving your soul. Instead you've lost your freedom. As you swill more cold coffee, each e-mail chime, phone ring, and beeper summons jolts you with the force of an electrode. And the voices in your head are getting louder. Scenes from a cyberpunk novel or an updated film noir? No, these are the true stories from the dark corners of the Internet, where platoons of perma-temp workers roam roninlike from job to job, anonymously holding the economy together. NETSLAVES: TRUE TALES OF WORKING THE WEB offers eyewitness accounts of grueling hours, gross mismanagement, and chronic backstabbing in an industry with no real rules. The truth is not only stranger than fiction; it's stranger than "Dilbert" on acid or a Hunter Thompson nightmare. Meet: A "help desk" worker overwhelmed by customer e-mail, who finds himself drawn to the elegant solution of the "delete" key; An engineer at the world's largest chip manufacturer, fired after his health is destroyed by overwork, who decides upon a gloriously futile gesture; A freelancer who is made the fall guy by her bosses after faulty software posts the wrong verdict at the end of the O.J. trial; A mail-order machiavelli who earns millions selling cut-rate PCs that spontaneously combust and interfere with airplane navigation. This is Studs Terkel's WORKING for the web era--jolted with caffeine and spiked with sardonic Michael Moore-ish humor..
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