Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing

Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition
ISBN: 0195517334
January 6, 2005
208 pages
3.3MB

Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing 2E is a practical step-by-step guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations. The book combines an accessible and straightforward style, with a strong
foundation of knowledge. The text treats reasoning as an aspect of communication, not an abstract exercise in logic. The book not only provides detailed advice on how to practise analytical skills, but also demonstrates how these skills can be used in research and writing. In particular, it
emphasises how to develop arguments that are coherent and that take account of their audience and context.

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The Power of Your Other Hand

The Power of Your Other Hand : A Course in Channeling the Inner Wisdom of the Right Brain
Lucia Capacchione has discovered that our non-dominant hand is a direct channel to that potential and, through the "other hand" exercises and experiments in this course, she will show you how to do such things as:

-Talk to your inner child.
-Aid in recovery from addictions.
-Channel the deep inner wisdom of your True Self.
-Help your body to heal.
-Heal your relationships.
-Uncover hidden artistic abilities.
-Change negative attitudes about yourself.


Through various drawing and writing exercises with your other hand, Lucia Capacchione hopes you will discover the power that lies hidden in your other hand. The exercises will help you explore and understand your thoughts and feelings on a completely different level, finding out things about yourself that have been buried or concealed for quite some time.

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The Leadership Pill : The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today

Author: Ken Blanchard
File size: 56M
File type: MP3

The Leadership Pill
The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today
How can you become a more successful manager, a stronger team leader, and a motivator who gets the best results from a group? The Leadership Pill provides the answer. An entertaining and inspiring parable about the competition between two leaders with totally different management styles, here is a story that reveals the ingredients of truly effective leadership.
Consider this tantalizing possibility: What if there was a pill that could actually stimulate the natural powers of the mind and body to provide leadership? In the story, an amazing new pill heightens one leader's powers, but contains the wrong ingredients, stimulating him in an obsessive and shortsighted direction with disastrous results.
In contrast, the "Effective Leader," working without a pill, proclaims that "only through sustainability can our teams remain motivated and successful." An inspiring and supportive leader, he supplies the right ingredients, earning his team's respect and trust with a blend of integrity, partnership, and affirmation. The hard-won result is a highly motivated team producing consistent top performance and genuine success. Ultimately it is recognized that "leadership for a lifetime" is much easier to digest than a pill for leaders looking for a quick fix.
Destined to be a transforming experience for countless listeners, The Leadership Pill shows business managers at any level how to apply the right techniques for getting both results and and the commitment of their people, even when the pressure to perform is high.

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Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment

Author: Ronald K. Hambleton, Peter F. Merenda, Charles D. Spielberger
Published by: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
File size: 27.85 MB
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Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment
edited by Ronald K. Hambleton, Peter F. Merenda & Charles D. Spielberger

Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research. The International Test Commission (ITC) guidelines for test adaptation and conceptual and methodological issues in test adaptation are described in detail, and questions of ethics and concern for validity of test scores in cross-cultural contexts are carefully examined. Advances in test translation and adaptation methodology, including statistical identification of flawed test items, establishing equivalence of different language versions of a test, and methodologies for comparing tests in multiple languages, are reviewed and evaluated. The book also focuses on adapting ability, achievement, and personality tests for cross-cultural assessment in educational, industrial, and clinical settings. This book furthers the ITC's mission of stimulating research on timely topics associated with assessment. It provides an excellent resource for courses in psychometric methods, test construction, and educational and/or psychological assessment, testing, and measurement. Written by internationally known scholars in psychometric methods and cross-cultural psychology, the collection of chapters should also provide essential information for educators and psychologists involved in cross-cultural assessment, as well as students aspiring to such careers.

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Motivating the Workforce "What's In It For Me"

Cam Marsto, "Motivating the Workforce "What's In It For Me"
Wiley | ISBN 0470124148 | 2007 | PDF | 240 pages | 4.46 Mb


"The information on leading and managing generations found in this book is invaluable to all executives today. The war for talent has become increasingly fierce. Attracting and retaining this talent is critical to a successful global company. This book is a masterful tool for developing the skills required for managing multigenerational teams. It is a must-have for executives at all levels who are responsible for a company's greatest asset: its people."
—Phebe Port, Vice President Global Management Strategies,The Estée Lauder Companies

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Smarts: Are We Hardwired for Success?

Chuck Martin, Peg Dawson, Richard Guare, "Smarts: Are We Hardwired for Success?"
AMACOM/American Management Association (January 15, 2007) | ISBN: 0814409067 | 226 pages | PDF | 2,3 Mb

Twelve specific and very important cognitive functions begin developing in the brain at birth. These "skills" are built in to every individual and are fully developed -- and unchangeable -- by adulthood. Everyone has these same capabilities, but to varying degrees. And it is this unique and unalterable combination of one’s strengths and weaknesses that determines success or failure in any given role.

Smarts contains the groundbreaking Executive Skills Profile: a powerful self-assessment tool that will identify, once and for all, a person’s innate strengths and weaknesses. The results offer tangible proof of why we gravitate to certain tasks and struggle with others. With this newfound clarity, readers will learn to play to their stronger skills, and avoid wasting time on lesser ones they can never improve upon. Most important, they will discover their own unique potential for excellence.

Supported by proprietary primary research and grounded in widely accepted principles of clinical and neuro-psychology, Smarts is a truly eye-opening book that will change how we think about ourselves -- and others.

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Development and Faith: Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together

Katherine Marshall, Marisa Bronwyn Van Saanen, Development and Faith: Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together
World Bank Publications | ISBN 0821371738 | 2007 | PDF | 1 MB | 350 pages

The faith and development nexus is both a promising new focus for secular development agencies and a historic reality: for centuries, world faiths and individuals inspired by their faith have played many roles in social change and social welfare. Secular development agencies have largely operated in parallel to the world of faith-motivated development. The World Bank began in the late 1990s to explore ways in which faith and development are connected. The issue was not and is not about religion, but about the recognition that some of the best experts on development are faith leaders living and working in poor communities, where strong ties and moral authority give them unique experience and insight.
The World Bank's goal is to act as a catalyst and convenor, bringing together development practitioners to find common ground, understand one another's efforts, and explore differences. Development and Faith explores and highlights promising partnerships in the world between secular and faith development entities. It recounts the evolving history of relationships between faith and secular development institutions. It focuses on the Millennium Development Goals as a common framework for action and an opportunity for new forms of collaboration and partnership.

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Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower

Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower
Academic Press | 2005-08-26 | ISBN-10: 0125893760 | 320 pages | PDF | 1.3 Mb

Many science students find themselves in the midst of graduate school or sitting at a lab bench, and realize that they hate lab work! Even worse is realizing that they may love science, but science (at least academic science) is not providing many job opportunities these days. What's a poor researcher to do !? This book gives first-hand descriptions of the evolution of a band of hardy scientists out of the lab and into just about every career you can imagine. Researchers from every branch of science found their way into finance, public relations, consulting, business development, journalism, and more - and thrived there! Each author tells their personal story, including descriptions of their career path, a typical day, where to find information on their job, opportunities to career growth, and more. This is a must-read for every science major, and everyone who is looking for a way to break out of their career rut.

* An insider's look at the wide range of job opportunities for scientists yearning to leave the lab
* First-person stories from researchers who successfully made the leap from science into finance, journalism, law, public policy, and more.
* Tips on how to track down and get that job in a new industry
* Typical day scenarios for each career track
* List of resources (websites, associations, etc.) to help you in your search
* Completely revised, this latest edition includes six entirely new chapters

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Learnkey - Effective Presentation Skills

Author: LearnKey
Published by: LearnKey
File size: 310M
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earnkey - Effective Presentation Skills (video)
Enhance your presentation skills and shine in any meeting with this friendly, concise LearnKey course based on the book Effective Presentation Skills by Steve Mandel. Learn everything you need to know to deliver a solid sales pitch or presentation with clarity, persuasiveness, and confidence. With this interactive training, you'll learn how to organize your thoughts and data for maximum impact, develop eye-catching visual aids and use effective body language.
Benefits
• Effectively conduct question-and-answer sessions.
• Feel confident and self-assured during your presentation.
• Leave a lasting impression on your audience.

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Be in Charge: A Leadership Manual: How to Stay on Top

Be in Charge: A Leadership Manual: How to Stay on Top
Academic Press | ISBN / ASIN: 0124713513 | 2002-08-06 | 118 pages | FPD | 3.8 MB

Be in Charge: A Leadership Manual defines what "leadership" is. It includes comprehensive coverage on various types of chiefs (including both business and academic) and discusses gender differences in leadership styles. Also included are terrific tips on how to dress as a leader, budget time efficiently, gain loyalty and respect, terminate employees professionally, recruit qualified people, treat adversity in the workplace, survive and enjoy retirement, and much more.

Key Features
* A Foreword by Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of GE, comments on the author's leadership expertise
* Original cartoon artwork enriches the text as well as entertains the reader
* Contains advice for women on how to break through "the glass ceiling" to become executives
* Includes information on the differences between business and academic chiefs
* Gives practical tips on how to dress as a leader, budget time efficiently, gain loyalty and respect, terminate employees professionally, recruit qualified people, treat adversity in the workplace, survive and enjoy retirement, and much more.

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The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion

The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion
Dodo Press | ISBN 140651747X | 2007-03-08 | PDF | 248 pages | 336 KB
Glimpses of antiquity as far back as human ken can reach reveal the fact that in early ages of human society the physiological question of sex was a theme of the utmost importance, while various proofs are at hand showing that throughout the past the question of the relative importance of the female and male elements in procreation has been a fruitful source of religious contention and strife.

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The Multi-orgasmic Man

The Multi-orgasmic Man
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Ltd | Pages: 160 | Publication Date: 2002-10-07 | ISBN 0007145152 | 1.6MB

How many men can experience mutliple orgasms and dramatically enhance his sexual relationship
Offering men clear and practical guidelines for researching their real but seldom realized sexual potential, The Multi-Orgasmic Man vividly explores these extraordinary facts:
# By learning to separate orgasm and ejaculation -- two distinct physical processes -- men can transform the momentary release of ejaculation into countless peaks of whole body orgasms.
# Men who experience multiple orgasms -- by avoiding the fatigue and depletion that follow ejaculation -- report increased vitality and longevity.

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Make Over Your Sex Life...Tonight!: Hot, Fast, Erotic Fixes...And Sensuous Stories to Get Things Started

Make Over Your Sex Life...Tonight!: Hot, Fast, Erotic Fixes...And Sensuous Stories to Get Things Started
NAL Trade | October 4, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0451214072 | English | 288 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB

Hot, fast, erotic sex-life fixes...And sensuous stories to get things started Now, readers can make over their sex lives as quickly as they change their hair and makeup. With unconventional advice and stimulating stories, renowned expert Susan Crain Bakos instantly transforms so-so sex into mind-blowing ecstasy. Years of expensive therapy and endless attempts at communicating desires get beaten to the punch. Readers learn how to quickly:

- Put an end to lackluster lovemaking
- Resolve conflicting desires
- Find the time-and energy-for pleasure
- Deal with oral issues
- Stop foreplay failures
- Keep it up-all night
- Fulfill their wildest fantasies

Plus, erotic stories illustrate how the tips work-and put readers in the mood.

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"Hot, fast, erotic sex-life fixes...And sensuous stories to get things started Now, readers can make over their sex lives as quickly as they change their hair and makeup. With unconventional advice and stimulating stories, renowned expert Susan Crain Bakos instantly transforms so-so sex into mind-blowing ecstasy. Years of expensive therapy and endless attempts at communicating desires get beaten to the punch. Readers learn how to quickly: - Put an end to lackluster lovemaking - Resolve conflicting desires - Find the time-and energy-for pleasure - Deal with oral issues - Stop foreplay failures - Keep it up-all night - Fulfill their wildest fantasies Plus, erotic stories illustrate how the tips work-and put readers in the mood."

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Mannes Sind Anders Frauern Auch

Mannes Sind Anders Frauern Auch
Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH( 1997-01-01) | ISBN: 344216107X | 556 Pages | 1.43 MB | PDF

Get Seriously Involved with the Most Famous Relationship Book Ever! Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: They forgot they were from different planets. Based on years of successful counseling of couples and individuals, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus has helped millions of couples transform their relationships. Now viewed as a modern classic, this phenomenal book has helped men and women realize how different they really are and how to communicate their needs in such a way that conflict doesn't arise and intimacy is given every chance to grow

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John Gray - How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have

John Gray - How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have
Publisher: Harper | Language:English | ISBN: 0060932155 | mp3 - 22kHz, 32kBps - 30MB | Date: 2000 | 2h 10m

Here's the audiobook to help you get what you want, and be happy with what you have. John Gray, the man responsible for helping millions of people improve their relationships in his bestselling Mars and Venus books, has written the essential guide to personal success.

Combining insights from Western psychology and Eastern meditation, he presents an innovative and proven method to become happy, confident, and at peace through four easy-to-follow steps:

Set Your Intention:
Recognize where you are now and determine where you need to go in order to achieve success.

Get What You Need:
Learn how to get what you need in order to be true to yourself.

Get What You Want:
Create outer success without sacrificing inner happiness.

Remove the Blocks to Personal Success:
Recognize what is holding you back, and clear the way for both inner and outer success.
Stop living by the age-old adage "the grass is always greener on the other side." It's not. You have everything within your reach right now to live a rich and fulfilling life.
How To Get What You Want and Want What You Have will help release your emotional blocks so that you may realize your soul's desire. There is a secret to personal success. Listen to this audiobook and not only will you learn that secret, you will be well on your way to achieving your goals.

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After a while the flange effect is becoming annoying for the ears...too bad!

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Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression

Susie Bright, Full Exposure: Opening Up to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression
HarperOne | ISBN: 0062515918 | September 1, 2000 | 176 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB

In previous books such as The Sexual State of the Union, Susie Bright has told us about the way things are, and while she continues that mission in Full Exposure, she also presents an inspiring vision of the way things could be. This is far more than a self-help book; it's a blueprint for cultural revolution, focused on the liberation of our erotic expression and, as she puts it, "the creativity it demands, the challenges of sexual candor, and the rewards of coming clean about desire." The personal is always political, goes the adage, but whether she's making readers smile with a reminiscence of her first orgasm (during a fantasy in which she imagined herself as Barbara "Agent 99" Feldon) or evoking our concern over a bomb threat at one of her college lectures, Bright reminds us that the personal is always personal as well. Along the way, she tears down the false barriers between porn and erotica, counsels parents on how to negotiate the line between sexual honesty with their children and mutual privacy, and shows us again and again that gender and desire are never as simplistic as moral and cultural watchdogs would have us believe. "Girls can be women with real sexual appetites," she writes. "Men can be love-bunnies and still have raging hard-ons." Bright also includes a 17-step "sexual manifesto" aimed at enabling readers to reclaim their erotic identities and express desire on their own terms. Very few people are writing about sexuality as honestly and as well as Susie Bright--if you care at all about the subject, you owe it to yourself to read Full Exposure. --Ron Hogan

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Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation

Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation
Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN 0199254400 | 2004-08-13 | PDF | 278 pages | 0.6 MB
Alan Millar examines our understanding of why people think and act as they do. His key theme is that normative considerations form an indispensable part of the explanatory framework in terms of which we seek to understand each other. Millar defends a conception according to which normativity is linked to reasons. On this basis he examines the structure of certain normative commitments incurred by having propositional attitudes. Controversially, he argues that ascriptions of beliefs and intentions in and of themselves attribute normative commitments and that this has implications for the psychology of believing and intending. Indeed, all propositional attitudes of the sort we ascribe to people have a normative dimension, since possessing the concepts that the attitudes implicate is of its very nature commitment-incurring. The ramifications of these views for our understanding of people is explored. Millar offers illuminating discussions of reasons for belief and reasons for action; the explanation of beliefs and actions in terms of the subject's reasons; the idea that simulation has a key role in understanding people; and the limits of explanation in terms of propositional attitudes. He compares and contrasts the commitments incurred by propositional attitudes with those incurred by participating in practices, arguing that the former should not be assimilated to the latter. Understanding People will be of great interest to most philosophers of mind, as well as to those working on practical and theoretical reasoning.

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Best Practices: Communicating Effectively: Write, Speak, and Present with Authority (Best Practices)

Best Practices: Communicating Effectively: Write, Speak, and Present with Authority (Best Practices)
PDF | 160 Pages | Publisher: Collins - 2007-04-01 | ISBN:0061145688 | 1.1MB

In this age of digital communication, getting the right message across clearly is crucial to success. Communicating Effectively, a comprehensive and essential resource for any manager on the run, shows you how.

Learn to:

-Build relationships through effective communication
-Get more done via e-mail
-Draft pitch perfect letters, memos, and reports
-Conduct productive conference calls
-Deliver hard-hitting presentations

The Collins Best Practices guides offer new and seasoned managers the essential information they need to achieve more, both personally and professionally. Designed to provide tried-and-true advice from the world's most influential business minds, they feature practical strategies and tips to help you get ahead.

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Sex, Lies, and Menopause: The Shocking Truth About Synthetic Hormones and the Benefits of Natural Alternatives

Sex, Lies, and Menopause: The Shocking Truth About Synthetic Hormones and the Benefits of Natural Alternatives
T. S. Wiley / Julie Taguchi / Bent Formby | Collins | ISBN10: 0060542349 | Sept 2004 | 384 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB

Turning thirty years of medical and cultural wisdom on its head, Sex, Lies, and Menopause challenges both the medical establishment and modern feminists to prove that menopause does not have to be deadly.

In this revolutionary work -- a landmark that signals the true beginning of feminist medicine -- a doctor, a philosopher, and a scientist prove that by postponing marriage and motherhood, women have accelerated the aging process, resulting in earlier menopause and, ultimately for thousands, earlier death.

In Sex, Lies, and Menopause, T. S. Wiley, Julie Taguchi, M.D., and Bent Formby, Ph.D., offer strong evidence that the use of synthetic hormones leads to cancer and advise women to turn to natural hormone-replacement therapy -- derived from plants, not drugs -- to help them elevate their estrogen level for greater energy, libido, and intellectual capacity.

Provocative, empowering, and scientifically sound, Sex, Lies, and Menopause addresses the inherent benefits of natural progesterone, reveals the lies advanced by the medical and drug establishments, and challenges women to demand a medical future where their health comes first. The research presented in Sex, Lies, and Menopause will at last allow women to create their own plan of action to put themselves safely on the path to better health and hormonal balance at any stage of life.

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Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity

Virginia Smith, Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity
Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0199297797 | May 4, 2007 | 416 pages | PDF | 3.5 MB
The first television commercial was for soap, claims Virginia Smith in her thoroughly researched albeit occasionally sluggish new book. She doesn't supply the dirty details about the commercial, but it's easy to imagine that she is right. After all, such ads, along with hit tunes ("Splish Splash," anyone?), nursery rhymes ("Rub a dub dub") and Sesame Street ditties ("Rubber ducky, you're the one, you make bath time lots of fun") have helped soap and bathtub rituals leave a considerable ring around popular culture.

According to Smith, ads that pushed cleaning concoctions -- not just for our bodies, but for our laundry and living spaces, too -- blossomed along with the emergence of television during the 1950s. They were ubiquitous enough to inspire a durable nickname for serial daytime dramas, known henceforth as soap operas. Nowadays, Smith notes, soaps, shampoos, polishes and shower gels "are not quite the staple of TV advertising budgets that they were." Still, ads featuring them continue to take hold of our imaginations. I remember, for example, an '80s spot about a deodorant soap. The blue bar's magical lather so invigorated the ad's hero that he dressed eagerly, undeterred by the downpour outside his window. When his sleepy spouse asked him how he expected to get to work in such a deluge, he smiled confidently at the camera and declared, "backstroke."

Of course that ad is tame by more recent standards. Who, for instance, can forget a certain herbal shampoo that promises a "totally organic experience"? In one such ad, the bubbly balm inspired a woman to climb the walls of her shower stall, loudly exclaiming her bliss while her clueless husband listened with concern on the other side of the door. These Madison Avenue productions are meant to convince us that few experiences can be as transporting -- "Calgon, take me away" -- as a serene soak or a sudsy washing-up.

Smith suggests that we really don't need much persuasion. Our belief in the transformative power of a good scrub goes back centuries, the roots of which are carefully detailed in Clean. "The long story of washing and bathing water began in the Neolithic at some indeterminate date," Smith believes. She goes on to show that our almost instinctive devotion to cleanliness has a solid basis in neurology, chemistry and other hard sciences that help us to understand that being groomed not only does away with dirt but also "produces mildly narcotic effects; and the longer it carries on, the more swooning or relaxing effects it achieves." Totally organic indeed.

Smith, an honorary fellow of the Centre for History in Public Health in London, eschews digging into the dirty side of her discipline, preferring instead to look at "standards of cleanliness and the reformers of cleanliness." Consequently, her dutiful discussion of influential texts such as the 363-verse Regimen Sanitatus Salernitanum slows down the narrative and sometimes proves more distracting than informative. Fortunately, Smith knows that it is necessary to provide a little "gross" intelligence here and there to keep her chronicle from circling the drain. To wit: "We shed skin, hair, and toenail clippings, and generally dispose of quantities of waste matter minute by minute, day by day, year in year out -- normally between 3 and 6 ounces a day, or 4 tons in the average lifetime. Between 75 and 80 percent of vacuum cleaner dirt consists of human skin cells."

Those wet and wild ancient Greeks and Romans knew nothing of skin cells -- not to mention uprights and carpet sweepers -- but they believed in the power of the bath. For Greeks, "water was a primordial thing that flowed across all the social and semantic boundaries," taking on a divine aspect when featured in purification ceremonies. The Romans adapted Greek bathing habits to their own imperial culture. Their bathhouses became "masterpieces of the art" in which "the customer could wander at will, sampling each cold, hot, tepid, or steam bath." But those were pagan playhouses that lost their gleam when the Christian church rose to influence after the fall of Rome. "The ideology of cleanliness was turned upside down," Smith writes. "Judaeo-Christian asceticism insisted that the cleansing of the inner soul was absolutely imperative, whereas the cleansing of the outer body was a worldly distraction, and its ornamentation a positive sin." Christians eventually reconciled bathing with their spiritual striving, however, and by the medieval era, monasteries were the best places to find excellent baths and latrines.

In the 21st century, personal hygiene has "reached a stage of general consensus," incorporating venerable associations of purity, sanitation and spiritual health. But Smith rightly notes that "for many people today there is one sole and sufficient reason for practising personal hygiene that eclipses all others: self-representation." There had been earlier outbreaks of cleanliness as vanity, however, and perhaps never more so extreme as in the 1600s and 1700s. "Throughout both of these centuries," Smith tells us, "flesh was privately pampered, and everywhere on display." But hygiene often took the form of perfumes, powders and paints instead of soap and water, and "fleas, lice, smeared paintwork and powerful body odors" often lurked underneath the elaborate facades.

Not so for us modern folk, right? In the technologically advanced West, "decades of increased personal hygiene and cosmetic awareness have finally paid off. . . . There are, quite literally, many more beautiful and unblemished people around." And we're as concerned about germs as we are about appearance: Smith estimates that 700 new antibacterial cleansing products hit the market between 1992 and 1998. Does that mean we're sanitized as well as shiny? Well . . .

In his book Better, Atul Gawande, a surgeon, discusses the difficulty of "getting clinicians . . . to do the one thing that consistently halts the spread of infections: wash our hands." If doctors are remiss about basic hygiene, just imagine how sloppy the rest of us must be.

Apparently, filthy habits are as common as that fragrant slab of sodium tallowate, hydrogenated tallow acid, glycerine and assorted chemicals sitting in your soap dish. Think about that at the next office party, when your grimy-fingered colleague grabs a generous handful of the communal cheese curls. Then leave a copy of Clean on his desk.
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