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...organized demonstrations during the 1960s, throngs of demonstrators waving placards that read RACISM WILL NOT PREVAIL, WE SHALL OVERCOME and RACISM IS CORRUPTION were led in old movement anthems by grizzled civil rights veterans like Woods and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. They hoped they were writing a new chapter in an old book. "We put it together once," roared Shuttlesworth to stamping applause, "and we can put it together again." Blacks are outraged that the man they elected, with the ballot they fought so hard to win, is under attack. To many people, the case against Arrington is a present...
While some books require the reader's attention throughout, This Thing Called love does not demand constant attention. If your mind wanders and you forget every word of the previous chapter, you will still have no problem understanding the next chapter...
American industry is acutely ill because managers have lost sight of the importance of people, says Robert Rosen, author of The Healthy Company (Tarcher; 315 pages; $22.95). Rosen prescribes large doses of employee participation. Each chapter cites a principle of good health with tips for putting the precepts into practice. Rosen warns against across-the-board layoffs because "eliminating employees may not be the best way to cut costs...
Maynard's chosen genre is not an easy one, and she makes her task more difficult by telling her story in 25 different voices, with each short chapter written in the first person. The author's attempt at so many voices when she is not sure of even one seems utter folly. While they are meant to sound distinct, the characters sound curiously similar. Despite their blue-collar vernacular, each remains somehow knowing and clever...
...eager buyers: Heublein, Bristol- Myers and Avon. The first book about sexual harassment published since the Thomas hearings, Webb's book is refreshingly free of ideology and reproach. A longtime human-relations expert and specialist on this subject, Webb wrote Step Forward at breakneck speed, sending in a chapter...