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Striking the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 4)
Harry Turtledove
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ASIN: 0345412087
Release Date: 1997-07-30 |
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WORLDWAR: BOOK 4
At the bloody height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against an even fiercer foe: a seemingly invincible power bent on world domination.
With awesome technology, the aggressors swept across the planet, sowing destruction as Tokyo, Berlin, and Washington, D.C., were A-bombed into submission. Russia, Nazi Germany, Japan and the U.S. were not easily cowed, however. With cunning and incredible daring, they pressed every advantage against the invader's superior strength, and, led by Stalin, began to detonate their own atom bombs in retaliation.
City after city explodes in radioactive firestorms, and fears grow as the worldwide resources disappear; will there be any world left for the invaders to conquer, or for the uneasy allies to defend?
While Mao Tse-tung wages a desperate guerrilla war and Hitler drives his country toward self-destruction, United States forces frantically try to stop the enemy's push from coast to coast. Yet in this battle to stave off world domination, unless the once-great military powers take the risk of annihilating the human race, they'll risk losing the war.
The fatal, final deadline arrives in Harry Turtledove's grand, smashing finale to the Worldwar series, as uneasy allies desperately seek a way out of a no-win, no-survival situation: a way to live free in a world that may soon be bombed into atomic oblivion.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
To Every Beginning...an End (Until the next trilogy).......2007-07-03
Both the United States and Germany have learned how to make atomic bombs on their own as Worldwar: Striking the Balance, the fourth and concluding volume of Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series, opens. And the Soviet Union is frantically trying to develop the technology. This new development complicates the situation for the reptilian invaders who have interrupted World War II. Their colonization fleet will arrive in 20 years, and they don't want the Earth turned into a radioactive wasteland. Thus, they're reluctant to use their own nuclear weapons for more than retaliation. On the other hand, the speed of innovation among the humans frightens them. While their technology is vastly superior now, if their conquest isn't complete by the time the colonization ship arrives, they believe humans could surpass them technologically and even threaten their other worlds.
But while the humans are doing much better in the war than previously, they still are at a disadvantage. And the alliances between the formerly warring nations are strained at best, particularly in the areas where Germans and Soviets are forced to cooperate (and when the Jews in Poland and Palestine must choose between hurting the invaders and fighting their former oppressors).
Even in the United States and Germany, the rate of production of the atomic weapons proceeds very slowly. But the attacks against the invaders are frequent enough that the alien leaders begin to seriously consider another way to settle the war.
Turtledove continues to follow his large cast of characters, both human and alien, through their many adventures. On this scale, there is much of interest happening. Many characters, especially in Europe, have their loyalties tested repeatedly, despite the dangers of acting morally but in defiance of the potential retributions of their governments. The odd and interesting relationships built earlier in the series often play important roles in this final volume. And interestingly, Turtledove twists some of the characters around, turning sympathetic figures from the earlier books into villains here, and a few unlikeable ones into heroes.
From a macroscopic view, however, the final novel is less satisfying. As with Volume 2, the overall plot moves little until near the end of the novel. The resolution makes sense as the only one possible, but the world that exists at the end of the novel seems much more interesting than the war that created it. This would be less a problem if not for the massive length of this series. But while Turtledove handles the war details and the political maneuvering with intelligence, he leaves readers with unanswered questions that are much more interesting than the original premise. It's glaring enough to make readers wonder why he spent all the time reaching this point.
That's not to say the series isn't worth reading, however. Turtledove effectively and realistically deals with the questions he does start with, and it's an entertaining and thoughtful exploration.
I really hate to suggest such things, especially at the end of a long series. But I think if Turtledove followed up his closing idea, he'd have something much more significant than this.
Decent ending to the first half of this marathon series.......2005-06-02
There is a lot of repetition in these books, and by the fourth book, there is no doubt that it subtracts from the overall quality for those of us who have been following the series all along. It is almost like the oldtime Flash Gordon serials, because at the beginning of each new episode, you have to go thru a recap of the last few episodes, otherwise newcomers would be somewhat lost.
I give this fourth book in the series 3.5 stars (rounded down to 3), as there just isn't enough unique material in this fourth book.
A lot more of the main characters get bumped off in this book, and two of them happened to have been my favorites - but, this is a book about a deadly war, and if characters weren't dying off, it wouldn't be believable.
I'm now moving on to the 2nd part of this Marathon series, with COLONIZATION: SECOND CONTACT. I'm hoping to find some new favorite characters.
Ending and Beginning.......2004-11-14
Turtledove continues to maintain interest in the final book of the first subseries of World War. It is a satisfactory ending, and beginning. The plotlines are neatly wrapped up, with a number of shockers. But not too neatly wrapped up- there is a lot of room to see how the two species will develop next to each other.
It is most enjoyable to see the development of history along parallel lines. After all, this is the purpose of alternative history books. We learn more about history by contemplating what might have been, and therefore learn what could be. Turtledove does this very well, showing how the major powers of WWII might have responded to an alien attack. He does this precisely and accurately, not simply using the 1940's as background to his real story, but trying to truly predict what might have been, based on what was- the facts and people on the ground. And so the ending is really very realistic- what we would expect from an advanced species attacking earth, but a species that has a much slower cultural evolution than do we.
It is a bit depressing to see so many cities destroyed by nuclear warfare- especially a good number of cities I've lived in. This detracts a little from the enjoyment of the work. But I am eager to begin reading the next subseries.
Good story - bad editing.......2004-10-10
I'm a glutton for punishment I guess - once I start something I can't finish. This is a great story idea with interesting, and well thoughtout characters and plotlines. The writing style though leaves a lot to be desired. I highly doubt I'll be picking up any more of this authors books.
There's a huge problem with the whole series - it's written as though each chapter was published in a monthly magazine. There's extensive review and repitition at the beginning of every character's section of a chapter. I first noticed this in the second book, and by the fourth, it's really become bothersome. A competent editor could have trimmed this repition out, and possibly delivered a much tighter story in 3 books.
Save yourself!!! Run!!.......2003-10-23
I did not mean to commit myself to this series. It was a mistake and, like after that first salted peanut, you're hooked. If I were you, I wouldn't have that first peanut.
I started the first book and got engrossed before I knew just how LONG this series is. This is number 4 and, let's face it, this one doesn't really wrap it up. Yes, I could have given up the series, but it is interesting and you do feel a commitment to the characters. The repitition is irritating as is the slowness of some of the scenes.
Take my advice: stay away, while you can.
Book Description
In past years, whole language philosophy and direct instruction in basic literacy skills have often been presented as mutually exclusive approaches to instruction. In reality, many of the best teachers have responded to the individual needs of their students and have "struck a balance," combining the best practices from both approaches in their classrooms.
Striking a Balance: Best Practices for Early Literacy, Second Edition is written to help prepare pre-service and practicing teachers to meet the challenge of today's diverse student population. This book helps readers to create balanced and comprehensive programs that place direct skills instruction within the context of rich and varied reading and writing experiences. Readable, thorough, and contemporary, this concise text addresses the core topics and issues of early literacy clearly and succinctly. Grounded in theory and research, Striking a Balance also shows readers how theory informs practice through their corresponding focus on classroom application.
The selected classroom examples of strategies, procedures, and activities represent the most effective practices according to current research and the host of outstanding teachers observed and interviewed in preparing these textbooks. Striking a Balance will enable readers to make sound, professional pedagogical choices based on state-of-the-art research on classroom practices.
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In this provocative book, economist and work/life expert
Robert Drago constructs a unique vision of the meaning of balance, unmasking the real reasons most Americans lead unbalanced lives. Sifting through the vast body of relevant research from a range of academic disciplines, including new findings from the author's own studies,
Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life examines the deeply held but unexamined beliefs about work, womanhood, and society that are responsible for our out-of-balance lives. In his optimistic final chapter, Drago calls on us to challenge those beliefs, and provides a road map for change. If we take this path, he argues, we will not only improve our life balance, but also address the nearly one-fifth of our population who require but do not receive adequate care, the "new gender gap" between women who care for others and women who succeed in high-powered careers, and even the rise in income inequality. With a forward by
Juliet B. Schor, author of
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure.
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A persuasive academic treatise.......2007-07-10
Written by Robert W. Drago (Professor of Labor Studies and Women's Studies, Penn State University), Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life is not a self-help book for the individual, but rather a scholarly examination of the modern societal problems of the care gap (too many children, elderly, and disabled, particularly among the poor, are not getting the care they need), the gender gap (women are forced to choose between success in their careers and providing adequate care to their children, or any other form of care work for low or no pay) and the income gap (the rich get richer and the poor get poorer). At the heart of these problems is not just cold hard economics, but also societal norms - the "motherhood norm" that insists women should provide care for little or no pay; the "ideal worker norm" that conditions employers to expect their workers to put in long hours up to an inhuman level; and the "individualism norm", a society-infused belief that the government should not help those needing care. Striking a Balance prescribes society-wide remedies to these growing problems: paid family leave, early childhood education and child care financing, guaranteed health insurance, and a minimum wage increase indexed to inflation, and the simple importance of allowing men and women from all walks of life to have their voices heard. Extensively researched, Striking a Balance: Work Family Life is a persuasive academic treatise about the need for social change, and highly recommended for reading for not only college library shelves, but also anyone looking for a better understanding of why the government needs to pay more attention to minimum wage, health care, and paid family leave issues.
The way out of the work vs. life box.......2007-05-09
This excellent analysis of the current state of working and trying to live at the same time in America is a great wakeup call from the overwork hypnosis reining for too long. Unlike in other advanced nations, we've never had a real national conversation about the impacts of large numbers of caregivers in the workplace and skyrocketing workweeks. Drago makes those repercussions of work without end very clear, in imploding families, skyrocketing health costs and absentee lives. Armed with a trove of research, he shows us not only the downside, but also a way out, when we can see the unconscious norms that skew our value system and sanity--the ideal worker norm, the motherhood norm, and the individualism norm. This much-needed book should should be required reading for every exec, congressperson, and presidential-candidate policy guru in the land.
Wonderful guide to the challenge and promise of balanced living.......2007-05-08
This is one of the best sociological books I've read in years--which is saying quite a bit, since the author is an economist! Bob Drago's latest book is both scholarly and eminently readable. He pulls together the best analysis of the challenges confronting women, families, and workers--which pretty much includes all of us, now doesn't it?--with the most enlightened thinking about what we need to do to change the structures that produce those challenges. The book is written in very clear prose and presents a persuasive argument that gets right to the point. I think just about any reader concerned with social problems (the working poor, strains on families, gender inequalities) will find plenty of cause for optimism here. And readers who just want to make sense of why life is so hectic for themselves, their co-workers, family members, and neighbors will come away from this book with a clearer understanding and ideas for action. I highly recommend this book.
Points the way toward work-life balance.......2007-04-19
Bob Drago has long been recognized as a leader in the work-life balance world through his work with Take Care Net and on the Work and Family Bill of Rights. After decades in the wilderness, many of us have reached a shared vision of what does and doesn't help us to lead balanced lives. Drago captures this new consensus, explains why it has taken so long for us to reach this point, and provides a blueprint for change. Anyone stressed about their own lives, and what to do about it, should read this interesting, insightful, wise, and humorous work, and then join with Drago and others to change things.
Striking a Balance.......2007-03-21
This book is for anyone who feels that life is complicated and getting more so all the time. In clear language Drago gives data to show that Americans are working more and defines 3 important gaps Americans face: a care gap, a gender gap, and an income gap. These are interrelated, of course, as Drago makes clear. And he contributes to our understanding of the gender gap by expanding it to include the gap between women who are involved in actual care work (whether paid or not) and those successful in professional jobs and hence not directly involved in care. He anchors his discussion in three norms, all of which contribute to these gaps: motherhood, ideal worker, and individualism, and supports his discussion with both data and stories. A particularly interesting formulation is his definition of balance, by which he means involvement in all three of paid work, unpaid work, and leisure. He describes the kind of social infrastructure necessary to support such balance for all people in our society and ends with a work and family bill of rights. A great discussion of the challenges we all face.
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Labor Relations: Striking a Balance, 1st Edition, by John Budd presents labor relations as a system for striking a balance between the employment relationship goals of efficiency, equity, and voice, and between the rights of labor and management. Budd's Labor Relations broadens the narrow process focus of existing labor relations texts by placing the discussion of contemporary U.S. processes into the context of underlying themes - what are the goals of labor relations, are those goals being fulfilled, and are reforms needed. This textbook replaces the tired paradigm of "labor relations equals detailed work rules" with the dynamic paradigm of "labor relations equals balancing workplace goals and rights." Labor law, union organizing, bargaining, dispute resolution, and contract administration are central topics, but these processes are not presented as self-evidently good. These topics are placed in the broader context of the goals of the employment relationship, conflicting rights, and the environment of the 21st Century. This broader context serves to make labor relations more engaging and relevant to students. It also allows instructors to raise important "big picture" ideas while covering the applied business functions and strategies of the existing processes.
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Striking a Balance: Hate Speech, Freedom of Expression, and Non-Discrimination
Frances D'Souza
Manufacturer: Article 19
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At a time of rapid global change, non-governmental organizations involved in international development (NGDOs) are confronted with demands to simultaneously increase the scale of their impact, diversify their activities, respond to long-term humanitarian crises and improve their performance. Striking a Balance provides a practical guide to how NGDOs can better respond to these expectations.
Written for NGDO leaders, managers, donors, and those with an academic interest, the book summarises the major tasks of sustainable people-centred development, describing five factors which influence effectiveness. These are: suitable organisational design; competent leadership and human resources; appropriate external relationships; mobilisation of high quality finance; and the measurement of performance coupled to 'learning for leverage'. Details are given of the capacities needed in each area and how they can be assessed and improved.
Effectiveness calls for NGDOs which retain their non-profit values, establish the right type of professionalism, manage dilemmas and make difficult choices which continually reflect the priorities, rights and needs of those who give them legitimacy: people who are poor and marginalised. This book provides a reference of current and future practices which will help NGDOs to do so.
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A Great Resource!.......2002-11-03
This is a FANTASTIC reference for those interested in NGO Management, or for those starting up their own NGOs. Fowler does an excellent job of going step-by-step through the process of organizational development in these complex organizations.
A Great Resource!.......2002-11-03
This is a FANTASTIC reference for those interesting in NGO Management, or for those starting up their own NGOs. Fowler does an excellent job of going step-by-step through the process of organizational development in these complex organizations.
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Women as Headteachers: Striking the Balance
Marianne Coleman
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Striking a Balance: Dancers Talk About Dancing - Revised Edition
Barbara Newman
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Interviews with 25 of this century's greatest dancers provide a unique perspective on over 80 years in the development of classical ballet. "... a volume that will become legendary - a guide for ballet students, their parents, and the audience." - WQXR
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