books about: saskia     books:       More Than Words Can Say Saskia Shakin Ovations Publishers, 2008 What makes a speaker riveting? What makes an audience come alive? This book answers these questions by looking beyond the mechanics of speaking; by delving into the mysteries of charisma, and into the source of our own inspiration. It reveals the two most important secrets to public speaking. It reveals that how we see the world is how the world sees us. And if we wish to sparkle at the podium, we must be true to ourselves, for only then can we ...             A Sociology of Globalization (Contemparary Societies) Saskia Sassen W. W. Norton, 2007 What does "globalization" mean? In her groundbreaking book, sociologist Saskia Sassen identifies two sets of processes that make up globalization. One is the set of global institutions, such as the World Trade Organization, global financial markets, the War Crime Tribunals, and the new global cosmopolitanism. There is a second set of processes that are frequently ignored by most social scientists and take place inside territories and occur on ...             Kink (Heat)3 reviews Saskia Walker, Sasha White Berkley Trade, 2007 4.5 Klovers! Courtesy of CK2S Kwips & Kritiques Exhibitionism, Bondage, Spanking... Two stories by two different authors share a common theme... Don't let the title frighten you off - while the anthology Kink definitely lives up to its name, the kink its stories indulge in will be palatable to most erotica readers. Authors Saskia Walker and Sasha White have penned two tales that complement each other well, and while both stories enjoy a ...             Reckless5 reviews Saskia Walker Berkley Trade, 2008 4.5 Blue Ribbons from Romance Junkies! Desire and possession are the names of the game in Saskia Walker's latest erotic romance titled, RECKLESS. Katrina Hammond's life is staid and some what predictable and she has decided that she wants to be reckless. The opportunity for this change of heart presents itself in the form of Sergio Teodora, A Spanish businessman who wants Katrina to price his father's art collection. Dark, ...             The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.6 reviews Saskia Sassen Princeton University Press, 2001 A must read in the globalization debate In writing this review, I had to begin with one critical question: why on earth would I review a book already in print for almost four years? What better time than now, when anti-war advocates are seen in many eyes as un-American, to write about a book in which the author discusses the dangers of nationalism and xenophobia in the context of an ever-globalizing economy? In ten essays the doctor ...             Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages1 review Saskia Sassen Princeton University Press, 2008 An ambitious undertaking Famous Chicago sociologist, Saskia Sassen, returns with an ambitious new book on cities as the main locus of globalization. Despite being quite long (almost 500 pages!), it's quite an engaging reading. For someone interested in expanding his/her knowledge on the various facets of the process of globalization, including its economic, political and cultural dimensions, this volume is a must. In ...             Cities in a World Economy (Sociology for a New Century Series)1 review Saskia Sassen Pine Forge Press, 2006 Good for general information on a new economic order I've read the book due to an examination about "the new city structure - contemporary geography" and it's quite good, she has a global wiew of the new city-status and its new users, the less and less importance the homless has for the city governament and the new power of the corporation, all in all a good compendium if you need to improve your knoledge about the matter.             Global Networks, Linked Cities1 review Routledge, 2002 Outsourcing, in a broader context With the ever decreasing fall in the cost of communication, both digital and analog, this book speculates that a new global phenomenon may be emerging. A few years ago, during the height of the dot com boom, others suggested that the Web might give rise to the disaggregation of cities or cultural hubs, because cheap communications might let creative individuals work from virtually anywhere with a ...             Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects1 review Routledge, 2007 Empirical steps towards a sociology of globalization The book edited by Saskia Sassen gatters 16 studies distributed in 3 parts (1. Scalings: global microspaces; 2. Translocal circuits and their mobilities; and 3. The political: shifiting spaces and subjects). All of them are guided by a premise: the global inhabits the local. Therefore, the challenge to social scientists is to decipher how it happens and what are the consequences in terms of the ...             Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell1 review Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Love of Poetry This correspondence is one long (nearly a thousand pages) love letter between two of the best poets of their generation. Both Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were personally tortured by their demons (her was alcohol, his was manic-depression) and failed relationships. Though never lovers, their's was a marriage of the minds via the mail for thirty years. It is helpful, though not vital, that ...             Secrets: The Best in Women's Erotic Romance, Vol. 153 reviews Jane Thompson, Leigh Court, ... Red Sage Publishing, Inc., 2005 Sparks Fly! I have to admit this is the first Secrets Volume I've read. I received another one once (I forget which number) but the type was too tiny for me to try to tackle it. Thankfully, this font was much easier to read, because I thoroughly enjoyed it. In Jane Thompson's "Simon Says," the hero rubbed me the wrong way at first, but like Georgina, I grew to understand and like him more and more. ...             Secrets, Vol. 19: Timeless Passions2 reviews Saskia Walker, Kathleen Scott, ... Red Sage Publishing, Inc., 2007 If you only buy one Secrets volume, this should be the one I have read every Secrets volume there is, and this one is by far my favorite. The stories range from poignant to funny, and the quality of writing seems to get better with every volume. My only complaint is the cover. The original silk and roses covers were much classier, particularly if you plan to read these books in public. I used to take my Secrets volumes to the gym, but not any more. (As I ...             Guests and Aliens Saskia Sassen New Press, 2000 A penetrating analysis of the history of migration and refugees, from a leading expert in the field. Guests and Aliens presents a comprehensive analysis of worldwide immigration by one of the world's leading experts on globalization. Putting the current "crisis" of immigration into a historical context for the first time, Sassen suggests that the American experience represents only one phase in a history of global border-crossing. She ...             Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money5 reviews Saskia Sassen New Press, 1999 Actually 4 and a Half An excellent overview of the changing conditions of the Global Cities and a fresh look after her excellent book "Global Cities". Especially liked the essays about the concentration of power and wealth in cities like New York, London or Tokyo amid the exploitation of cheap immigrant labor. Essential fro everybody who's trying to understand the processes that have lead so many to oppose ...             The Dinner Club7 reviews Saskia Noort Bitter Lemon Press, 2007 The dinner club The story reads like Amsterdam itself: different, trendy, tolerant and a little bit crazy. Desperate Houswifes meet Fatal Attraction. If you want to read an American thriller, you should not read this book, if you want to read something different but maybe even better, you should defenitely give it a try!             Metropolis: Reflection (Metropole / Metropolis) Saskia Sassen Jovis, 2008 There's no getting around it anymore. We are in an age of globalization, and cities around the world are being challenged in brand new ways with no historical precedents to guide them. The highly anticipated international building exhibition IBA Hamburg 2013 is preparing to tackle the many challenges that apply to metropolises around the world in our era, asking difficult questions and soliciting innovative responses. Socially and ...             Losing Control?2 reviews Saskia Sassen Columbia University Press, 1996 The Basics for the Beginner -- Still Great Work Okay, so as a previous reviewer said, this is hardly the most dense and detailed study... but not every text needs to be. Sassen is one of the most brilliant thinkers working on the issues, contexts and problems of "globalization" today (no matter if you ultimately agree with her views or not, you cannot deny her grasp of the issues. She is a creative thinker not afraid to let her work show her ...             The Strangeling5 reviews Saskia Walker Juno Books, 2007 Hauntingly beautiful.... An ancient curse is about to be unleashed as prophecy comes to fruition.... Nearly 100 years ago, a prophecy spoke of the undead armies of Crondor and Yaxlan rising up with the power from the underworld. Only a specific maiden can save THE STRANGELING forest from the skeletal place of death it has become. The elders of the Western Tor believe Maerose is this maiden. Two men, Veldor and ...             Brides in the Desert: The Spirituality of the Beguines2 reviews Saskia Murk-Jansen Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004 Women of the Wilderness Great details of this 12th century womens movement and its significance, to the Catholic Church and to all people called by spirituality today. Beguines led a religious life that was flexible with one foot in both worlds. The mystics that arose out of the movement were unparalleled (Hadewijch of the Brabant, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Beatriz of Nazareth et al.). Their lives still speak volumes in ...             Divide These: Poems2 reviews Saskia Hamilton Graywolf Press, 2005 Intellectually provocative and emotionally riveting Saskia Hamilton is an established and published poet who teaches at Barnard College and resides in New York. Her poetry as anthologized in Divide These is hallmarked with an spare but determined energy that results in the deft fashioning of word images that are intellectually provocative and emotionally riveting. 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