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Success Without A College Degree shatters the myth that a college degree is required in order to be successful. Through innovative perspectives and conversational “voice,” it guides readers through self-discovery, describes resources available to help pursue goals, and shows readers how to think like a successful person.
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Who, what, where? Inspiration you may need to feel success........2004-09-16
I wish that there where even more books like this one. I find college a impossiblity unless one has a the time, money, housing, and transportantion. There are many people wishing that they could get something better then the job they are working. By reading this book one slowly gets the feeling good attitude about one's self one needs to survive in the lean and mean workplace. If one cannot care about one's self who will? Its helpful chapters are:
1.The truth about a degree.
2.A defining of success.
3.Overcoming the past.
4.The retrofitting thought process
5. The Untapped potential
6.The strenths; weakness
7.A setting of goals
8.The Planning; execution
9.The self-sabotage.
10.The resistance from others.
11.improving your current job
12.The detours along the way
13.The motivation
14.A small chapter on resouces.
A.A few success stories
B.parting words
c.Selected positive thought affirmation retrofiting quotes of the author.
This book helps me to live with myself without a college dream. If you find yourself with a future of nothing to look forward to but a low wage dead end job, feeling lost or feeling poor, this one of the best books to cheer you up and get you going. If you already found your success in the workplace without a college degree but you cannot find that upward mobility where you work due to work place college job preferences this book tells you what you already know that a college degree should not define your definition of success. What is important is your world view of success.
"A Must Read for anyone who didn't attend - or finish".......2004-06-07
I have always felt bad about not finishing college and was stuck. This book gave me the lift I needed PLUS real world steps I can take to get my career on track!
Road blocks, speed bumps, dead ends-- NOT ON THIS ROAD!.......2004-02-12
The author certainly has done what he simply inspires others to do through this book and that is to 1) don't let a thing stand in your way 2) embrace your passion 3) you've got to work diligently towards your goals 4) produce something to be proud of! That, indeed, will motivate you in the direction of your next goal "road". I've read many books and attended powerful seminars. By purchasing the book, I have invested in my simple reminder to never let a thing stand in my way.
"A Must-Read".......2003-11-07
It was great to read a book that doesn't try to debate the value of education but instead, gets to the heart of the matter - what to do if you don't have a college degree! Practical advice presented in steps anyone can take to advance in their career, create their dream career and ultimately, find success in their lives. Thank you for writing such a positive book for all of us who so desperately need it.
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The Art and Realism of State Budget-Making.......2007-04-07
No political figure of his time was more eloquent than the author's boss, Mario Cuomo. When asked to explain his failure to run for President, Cuomo once replied "I speak in poetry, but I govern in prose." The author of this book was one of the key figures composing the prose during his years as Cuomo's budget director.
The author has written a manual targeted for graduate students seeking to get a handle on the art and science of state budgeting. It is good enough, however, for governors, gubernatorial candidates and their staff, budget directors, and key legislative leaders and legislative staff to gain some worthwhile insights from.
This is not the book to learn the ins and outs of the step by step negotiations in New York or any other state. The author is sparing in his use of anecdotes. What he does, and does well, is to take the reader through the long and tortuous process of compiling a budget from the governor's point of view, and allowing the reader to see the obstacles any governor must face in achieving his vision under the American system of checks and balances.
"(B)udget success is the key to re-orienting government," the author writes. "New programs, changed priorities, tax cuts or shifts in tax burdens, a larger or smaller role for government in the state's economy--all these objectives must be won in the budget arena....In these memos, a successful budget is one that delivers on a governor's programmatic objectives, and does so within financial constraints that help achieve or maintain structural budget balance....Budget success also requires careful consideration of long-term strategic goals, a clear understanding of the impact of the business cycle on state budgets, and effective negotiating tactics to get executive recommendations adopted...."
The author, a rather straightforward modern Machiavelli, prepares 8 memos for his protypical governor. He closes with a stern warning. "If you cannot use the budget to state your goals and move state government in the direction you advocate, you are not likely to make much progress towards these goals. As your term ends, voters and the press will find it difficult to say what you have accomplished. If you have mastered the budget and adoption process, you will have a solid list of tangible achievements. Effective use of the budget as a policy and political tool is a necessary, if not quite sufficient, condition of successful leadership in the statehouse. Do everything you can as soon as you can to grab hold of the budget process and make it work for you."
The author's memos are entitled "You and Your Budget Officer," "Budget Strategy," "Preparing the Executive Budget--the Technical Underpinnings," "Choices in the Final Phase of Budget Preparation," "Budget Tactics:Laying the Groundwork for Adoption," "Going Public With the Budget," "The Legislative Phase of the Budget Process," and "Budget Execution."
Anyone holding the office of governor would likely ensure at least moderate success by intensely studying the author's book. A cautionary note is that the author does not spend much time inquiring into, or advising on, the motives of non-gubernatorial actors in the budgetary drama. A governor who really understood the positions of the advocates, the legislators, and the media--and who was able to use that understanding to lead others to achieve common ends--would do even better than one merely following this book.
The author does understand that legislators have district needs, and that legislative leaders are responsive to individual legislators, especially those in swing districts. But the interplay of localized electoral needs with statewide public policy is minimized in the author's accounts. More detailed subsequent writings may correct this.
The author's writing style is dry but decisive, like that of many other budget makers this customer reviewer has known. Every memo is full of good advice, and subtle warnings of the dangers of uncontrolled idealistic fervor to make great changes. "Publication of agency performance measures," the author warns, "may lead to an improvement in service delivery, but public performance measures can also provide quantitative evidence of government's inevitable failures and mistakes."
The author is no Don Quixote. He is a grizzled veteran of budgetary wars.
He identifies with governors and wants them to succeed. He does not identify with legislators, interest groups, and the media. He does not want them individually or collectively defeating a governor's choice of priorities, or, even worse, causing a governor to be defeated. That makes this an excellent book for understanding the gubernatorial mindset as well as the budgeting process.
A great book!.......1999-02-05
Dall Forsythe, former budget director to Gov. Mario Cuomo, has written an excellent book on how big policy decisions are made. It is written in an easy to read style in memo format for the new Governor.
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Everything you ever wanted your elected officials to know about budgeting (but were afraid to tell them).(Book Review): An article from: Government Finance Review
Rob Winkeler
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Heredity and Visual Development (Cell and Developmental Biology of the Eye)
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Offering a fully integrated, systems-based approach to physical geography, the new Third Edition of Alan and Arthur Strahler's highly successful text incorporates relevant and recent developments in the field. The text's accurate and comprehensive coverage provides both the breadth and depth necessary to appreciate how humans are changing, and are changed by, the Earth. This edition has a new emphasis on global change, remote sensing, and tools in geography as "Interchapter Features" located after selected chapters.
* Accuracy: This text has been praised for its accuracy in conveying key physical geography concepts to the undergraduate students helping them to understand key concepts, which are crucial to further study in the discipline
* Currency: This title includes the most up-to-date information available. With the growth of remote sensing, GIS, and other geographic techniques, currency in textbooks has become increasingly important
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This truly integrated, system-based approach to physical geography is designed for a one or two-semester course in Physical Geography or Earth Systems Science, taught at the First year undergraduate level. Comprehensive in its coverage, this text's inclusion of quantitative concepts should appeal to lecturers and students seeking to incorporate systems-driven approach to teaching this course.
Environmental issues of global change are stressed in each chapter, highlighted by a colour bar at the side of the column. Simple quantitative concepts are included in "Working It Out" boxes for those who desire a more quantitative focus. These sections require highschool algebra, and they focus on applications rather than computation. End-of-chapter problems and end-of-book problems are also included.
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Physical Geography: Science and Systems of the Human Environment
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Photons and Atoms
Photons and Atoms: Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics provides the necessary background to understand the various physical processes associated with photon-atom interactions. It starts with elementary quantum theory and classical electrodynamics and progresses to more advanced approaches. A critical comparison is made between these different, although equivalent, formulations of quantum electrodynamics.
Using this format, the reader is offered a gradual, yet flexible introduction to quantum electrodynamics, avoiding formal discussions and excessive shortcuts. Complementing each chapter are numerous examples and exercises that can be used independently from the rest of the book to extend each chapter in many disciplines depending on the interests and needs of the reader.
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concise but inspiring.......2007-01-18
The subjects are laied out according to logical progression with rich exercises which are quite helpful to review my own understanding. However some subjects treated as complinent shoud be a part of the main text in my opinion, since I must have left the main text some time to read through the compliment.
My only physics book.......2000-04-22
Although I am a physicist and possess many books, for a long time my collection contained only a single book related to physics: Photons and Atoms. It is the most pedagogical text to be found on the fundamental aspects of the quantized interaction of matter with light. It's concise, clear, and convincing. The reader is never left mystified about any technical detail: no assumptions or approximations are left unexplained or swept under the rug. Yet, in spite of the high technical level the text is full of insights and simple intuitive pictures as well. Worth mentioning are also the exercises in each Chapter, which are remarkably useful and rewarding, Moreover, the solutions are given and display the same clarity of style and insightful remarks as the main text. The main emphasis of the book is on the nonrelativistic formulation of QED, but, of course, there is also a chapter devoted to the relativistic version that includes a description of how to take in a proper fashion the non-relativistic limit. Also questions of gauge, such as concerning the often confusing choice between "p.A" and "r.E" are treated, and it is, e.g., explicitly shown how in numerical problems the two are not always equivalent, as approximations made are not necessarily gauge invariant. Is there anything bad to say about this book? Almost not: for a while I had the impression that this book was the only one without any typographical errors, but in the meantime I have discovered 2. To be a bit more serious, maybe there is something: the book focuses on fundamental issues and, hence, if you expect ---especially given the title of the book---to read about problems such as spontaneous emission or laser-induced ionization of atoms, then you will be disappointed. In that case, you will have to check out the companion volume: atom-photon interactions. But hey, that's not such a bad book either.
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In the Ravine: And Other Short Stories (Classic Fiction)
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Classical music enhances a dramatic narrative performance.......2003-08-10
A very strongly recommended addition to school and community library collections, The Ravine & Other Short Stories presents an unabridged audio CD anthology of classic Anton Chekhov short stories, including Oh! The Public; The Chorus Girl; An Actor's End; The Trousseau; A Story Without A Title; Children; Misery; Fat And Thin; The Beggar; Hush!; and The Orator. Classical music enhances a dramatic narrative performance by film, television, and stage actor Kenneth Branagh who does full justice to these timeless works of literature. 3 CDS, approximately 3 hours and 35 minutes.
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- Troubling Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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Ravine: And Other Stories (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature)
Yoshikichi Furui
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The four works in this collection are dreamlike evocations of the inner lives of ordinary people. In the title story, two middle-aged friends go for a mountain hike and spend the night in a secluded ravine, where an eerie visitor and mystical forest sounds prompt reveries of lost chances and friendship. In "Grief Field" a dying man shares his pain in a near-hallucinatory interlude with his caring mistress. "The Bellwether," filled with animal imagery, is an ominous portrayal of Japanese urban humanity--a herd on the verge of stampede. In "On Nakayama Hill," a woman escaping a traumatic experience befriends an old man, who asks a strange favor that may bring them both a bit of happiness. In resonant, incantatory prose, these stories portray a world of sounds, sensations, and portents--all seething beneath the plain veneer of Japanese life.
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Troubling Tales of Mystery and Imagination.......2006-09-30
In this collection of four key short stories by Furui Yoshikichi, we are treated to a strange alchemical mix of the real and the surreal, the everyday and the uncanny in prose so vibrant and deep it is almost poetry--poetry with an eerie and disturbing edge. The title story, "Ravine" is on one level just the story of a mountain hike by two guys in memory of their dead friend, but it is filled with allusions and hallucinations and memories of an ambiguously haunting nature. Likewise "Grief Field" tells of a man on the brink of mental collapse spending time with his mistress after learning he has lung cancer, but Furui's evocative and disjointed narrative takes such a straightforward story and distorts it so that you almost experience the man's state of mind firsthand. "The Bellwether" is a twisted contemplation of crowd dynamics and urban life, with imaginings of the most riotous and chaotic overlapping with the humdrum order of the daily train commute. Finally, "On Nakayama Hill" is perhaps the least strange of the batch but is still an unusual tale of a brief, unlikely friendship between two strangers, a young lady stunned by a troubling experience and an old dying man living it up at the horse races. All of these stories combine a richness and eccentricity of style with an invocation of the uncanny and weird at the border of everyday life (and death) in a compelling manner. In this way it is almost as if Furui is the missing link between Izumi Kyoka and Murakami Haruki, though not as stubbornly premodern as the former nor as deadpan postmodern as the latter. That said, his work here stands alone on its own merit without the help of such a contextual scheme, certainly, and he has a vision and an approach all his own. Still, if you have a penchant for fiction that's down to earth and yet imaginative at the same time, with one foot on the sidewalk and the other in the twilight zone, lyrical but not mushy and creepy but not horrific, you just might want to check out "Ravine" here.
One of the finest examples of modern Japanese Literature.......2000-06-21
After having read this book for a U of A Japanese Literature course, I can see why it would be a necessary book for any fan of modern japanese literature. "Ravine" is a collection of four stories by Yoshikichi Furui that are somewhat autobiographical in nature. What sets Furui apart from his contemporaries is the almost poetic prose that he adopts - a poignant stream of consciousness that draws in the reader and commands the imagination. Although for the most part very somber, these stories liberate the mind to wander over the plains of the subconscious that Furui masterfully constructs, sometimes even with a dash of humor. Most important to any student of Japanese literature however, are his perceptions of the internal workings of Japanese society, and the personal level on which the Japanese operate with one another. I would agree with the foreword of the book that suggests an expository style to the writing, reminiscient at times of an essay. And although these stories may move a little too slowly for some, people wanting a taste of what a master of modern Japanese literature can provide should find a home in "Ravine".
Those interested in Furui's works may also want to check out Haruki Murakami, Shusaku Endo, and Kobo Abe.
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