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Silicon Valley has become famous for a laid-back corporate-management style that includes hot-tub conferences. Now along comes Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a leading semiconductor maker, with the valley's first primer on business: High Output Management (Random House; 235 pages...
Baldrige, a syndicated columnist ("Mind Your Manners") who brought efficiency and a touch of white-gloved feminism to her 1978 revision of The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, is preparing a new office primer that will be published next year. Starting late this summer, her New York City public relations firm will be conducting seminars in politesse for corporate executives. Says she: "Some of the worst-mannered people are in the high economic class. It really has nothing to do with money...
...best in defining and delineating the various types of determinism. Through a careful study of scientific disciplines, he demonstrates that "scientific determinism" can be applied only to physics--all other disciplines must be reduced to F = ma. The first chapter, with a few modifications, could serve as a basic primer of holistic and reductionist thought, a boon for those intimidated by the concepts bandied about with such ease by those in the know...
...average citizen probably worries most about encountering the police while in his car. Herewith a primer of a driver's rights...
...erstwhile poet and promoter of Transcendental Meditation, something of an overnight celebrity. Peter McWilliams, 33, who wrote, printed and published the book, is currently negotiating with Universal Press Syndicate for a nationwide column on computers and preparing for a twelve-city publicity tour. Some 70,000 copies of his primer have been sold since its publication in November. The B. Dalton chain sold 1,623 copies in one week alone...