Career Coaching Your Kids, Second Edition: Guiding Your Child Through the Process of Career Discovery

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A Comprehensive Guide to a World of Possibilities!

Career Coaching Your Kids, Second Edition: Guiding Your Child Through the Process of Career Discovery
David H. Montross
Manufacturer: Davies-Black Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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The authors identified the different roles parents can play at each stage and the most appropriate steps to take as children grown into adulthood.

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A Comprehensive Guide to a World of Possibilities!.......1997-06-25

This book is an excellent guide for parents who want to be able to provide their children with appropriate opportunities to focus their talents and interests into a life path. The book includes many exercises and stories of individuals and goal-setting guidelines, as well as lists of questions to ask your children to help them identify what it is they would like to do when they grow up, a question many of us still ask ourselves well into our careers. In a world of bewildering choices, this book gives parents a chance to help their children (and themselves!) find an anchor that will enrich and bring meaning to their lives. I highly recommend it--you'll refer to this book time and again

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Career Award in Information and Communication Technology: Foundation Level accompanies the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) syllabus for the Career Award in Information and Communication Technology at Foundation Level. It closely matches the content of the syllabus, and has been endorsed by CIE for use with its examination. The author,an information technology specialist, writes in a lively, accessible style and uses a step-by-step approach to introduce students to the basic concepts and skills required.

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Why do some privatizations apparently fail to produce the expected positive results? Economic theory tells us that privatization should improve efficiency, but this book suggests that political bargaining in the process of privatization works against the results we expect to achieve. This is the first and only book on privatization that focuses on micro-level behavioral issues. It uses exceptionally rich case evidence to illustrate that privatization is more about politics than performance.

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Since 1998, the award-winning, How To Be Your Own Booking Agent has been among the top selling music and performing arts business books. It is regularly selected each semester by professors teaching music business and the performing arts and continually recommended by musicians and performing artists worldwide. Jeri Goldstein's unique step-by-step guide and resource book is artfully organized into 492 pages of savvy advice, realistic methods and action plans for the performing artist and is now available in its Revised 2nd Edition. This completely updated edition provides current information about immigration regulations for touring artists, new technology advances in digital and electronic press kits and web design basics along with exciting new insights from experienced professionals in the entertainment business. There are 24 chapters enhanced with completely updated resource sections following each chapter packed with recommended books, directories, web sites, businesses and new conferences helping artists achieve their career goals and this revised edition is truly THE Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide To Successful Touring. How To Be Your Own Booking Agent THE Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide To Successful Touring tackles such topics as: The Art of Negotiating; How to Make Cold Calls; Setting Long Term Goals; Effective Telephone Techniques; Creating An Effective Promotional Package; Contracts; The Art of Touring; Managing the Road; Conferences; Trade Shows and Industry Events; Funding Sources; Crossing Borders--U.S./Canada Touring; Marketing Your Act; Accessing the Media: Print, Radio, Television and The Internet; Working with Your Record Company; Working with Managers and Agents; When to Quit Your Day Job; Hiring Help and Ethics and Attitudes.

The information is visually accessible with worksheets and a variety of forms included throughout the book that may be copied for the artist's use and convenience. Jeri has answered most of the burning questions, provided immediately usable methods and tackled many of the foreseeable problems. Most importantly, though, she offers the performing artist a step-by-step guide to create a successful touring career.

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oh yeah!.......2006-05-27

this book is excellent book when combined with the works of ty cohen and is music industry type books such as "How To Make A Furtune In The Music Industry By Doing It Yourself: Your Personal Step-By-Step Guide To Having A Successful Career In The Music Business. ... To Sell Music, Book Shows And Get Noticed!"

Helpful but..........2006-02-27

This book was not what I was expecting. Very helpful if you have never booked a show and are just starting out. Some of the information is a little basic.

Essential!.......2005-11-30

No one in the music industry, be they a musician, club owner, festival manager, booking agent, band manager, merch salesman, etc. has any good excuse NOT to read this book.

It's essential for those who are just starting out, and useful for those who have been in the game for many years. Goldstein's writing is clear and concise, and the book is organized well and peppered with real-life examples and "hot tips", which keep it interesting.

There are dozens of fabulous books on the music industry, from how-to guides to high-level marketing strategy books, but no one should bother reading any of them until they've read this book. It's absolutely essential.

Simply great.......2005-04-28

This book is great. It's well written and it covers all you need to know about booking and more. If you're serious about your music, this book is a must. Recomended!

Gold standard for Music Business books.......2004-11-19

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Kerry Dexter
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Jeri Goldstein fairly well created the gold standard for music business books that are both practical and wise when the first edition was released in 1998, offering succinct ideas on setting goals, planning for a long-range future as a musician, when to quit your day job, and when to rethink your music career. Along with those came big-picture straight forward advice on negotiating with venues, planning tour routing, how to set up an office, what to include in a letter of intent, and what to look for in a contract, among other things.The latest edition includes all that, organized into bite-sized chapters packed with information and seasoned with sidebar quotes and tips from music industry professionals...There are updates to the resources sections included with each chapter, added information about immigration issues for artists and about creating and using electronic press kits, and materials on web design. New edition or old, it's a book that belongs on the shelf of anyone who wants to know more about the many-faceted business of performing arts, touring and presenting, and integrating that part of a musician's life into a successful career.

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This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, To Seek Out New Worlds provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense.

Jutta Weldes, ed. To Seek Out New Worlds: Exploring Links Between Science Fiction and World Politics.(Book Review): An article from: Utopian Studies

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Jutta Weldes, ed. To Seek Out New Worlds: Exploring Links Between Science Fiction and World Politics.(Book Review): An article from: Utopian Studies
Mark Stephen Jendrysik
Manufacturer: Society for Utopian Studies
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1471 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Jutta Weldes, ed. To Seek Out New Worlds: Exploring Links Between Science Fiction and World Politics.(Book Review)
Author: Mark Stephen Jendrysik
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
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Get complete coverage of STATSPACK—Oracle’s powerful tuning tool--inside this official guide. Including ready-to-use STATSPACK scripts you’ll be able to collect and analyze system data and soon have your Oracle database running at peak performance.

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Must read for all Oracle DBAs.......2004-06-25

In my opinion this book is for junior to senior dba's. It covers basic, advanced and even expert DBA topics. The books pays for itself over and over agin.

Worth the time and $.......2004-06-11

I got more than my time and $ worth. It was a good guide to for getting started with Statspack. However, it looks like they rushed this one to market. The book needs another thorough edit. Not all the scripts in the book are in the download. Most of the scripts have at least one problem. Some paragraphs right next to each other seem to contradict each other. However, if you're experienced with oracle and just need to add statspack to your bag of tricks, it's worth it.

don't be deceived.......2004-03-06

the bad:
1. no mention of Windows anywhere. only covers UNIX, no mention of this in the blurbs
2. Oracle 8i (and even 8.05!) take up more pages than 9i. It's rarely clear where 9i info starts. An obvious copy+paste job from previous editions. And this despite the title of the book.
3. the author spews scripts everywhere. there should be a table of contents for the scripts. it's practically impossible to figure out what scripts there are and what they do. Possibly really lazy or inexperienced DBAs would be interested in all these scripts but most dbas will probably live without them.
4. author promises to provide "extensions" to statspack tables for trend analysis and he makes it sound like he will present a clever way to store snapshot data between reboots the way Capacity Planner does, but it turns out all that all he demonstrates is how to create tables for data collected by UNIX operating system utilities. It is a very misleading description.

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1. decent explanations of basic tuning concepts. But again this is copy+pasted straight from a tuning book. I bought this book for info about statspack not tuning 101!
2. decent diagrams of statspack tables but nothing that can't be found on metalink.

I returned this book. It's shovel-ware, plain and simple. The author worked very hard to bloat the size up to 600+ pages to rationalize a $40+ price tag for the publisher. How can he take himself seriously? Or i wonder if the author actually believes this is a well-organized book to be proud of...in which case his mind must be like a tangle of knotted strings.

great book for intermediate/advanced DBA.......2004-02-26

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Robust book with a good ideas.......2004-01-13

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