New Employee Orientation and Safety Onboard

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New Employee Orientation & Basic Safety Onboard

Impress on prospective employers by showing that you already know the basics about cruise ship operations. The more knowledge you have beforehand, the better your chances are to secure a new job. This information will prepare you for the BASIC safety course which you will have to pass before being employed by a cruise line.

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Offering practical and constructive advice for students giving presentations, this book presents a detailed explanation of how to conduct a successful presentation and how to feel at ease with public speaking.

The book includes the following key features:

· Real-life examples illustrating how to achieve an effective presentation

· Explains the importance of body language, voice control and the relationship with your audience

· Demonstrates an awareness of cross-cultural communication

· Offers a thoroughly up-to-date analysis of new technologies as a medium through which to communicate

Written from a practical perspective, this text will be essential reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers, together with students on professional and vocational courses.

`This book, with its combination of practical tips and case studies from the experts, will help you to become a more powerful and persuasive speaker …. As a consultant in speech training, I can recommend it unreservedly'

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This book gives readers a detailed guide to the preparation and delivery of both individual and group presentations. It will take them through all the pratcial stages necessary to complete a presentation and obtain excellent marks.

Key features include:

" Real life examples illustrating effective presentation techniques

" Helpful tips and illustations throughout

" A 10 step guide to preparing your presentation

" Tips on using powerpoint

" A companion website complete with a student resource centre

Written in a clear and accessible style this book will be essential reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students who have to conduct graded presentations.

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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society)
Samita Sen
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521453631

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Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.

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It's Funny Because It's True

one of the best life application books i have ever read

The 77 Habits of Highly Ineffective Christians
Chris Fabry
Manufacturer: Intervarsity Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0830819630

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It's Funny Because It's True.......2003-04-22
This little book packs a punch. The author helps you to know what to do to be an effective Christian by pretending to tell you how to be a bad Christian. It is not surprising that Adrian Plass wrote the foreword, because it is very much in the style of his writing.
Here are some snippets which I enjoyed:
On the page where you would usually find acknowledgments or a dedication, you will read instead
"An ineffective Christian never remembers to thank anyone under any circumstances. Might as well learn that before you begin this book."
Habit 1: Dichotomize Your Life. Truly ineffective Christians apportion their lives into secular and sacred components.
Habit 2: Make tolerance your god. Accept anything and everything. All viewpoints are not only valid but also equal.
Habit 20: Seek the quick, self-help solution. Look for easy answers. Trust your instincts.
Habit 22: Make music the big issue. Base your musical taste only on style. He even includes a hymn:
Come, thou Fount of every blessing
Give me what I want today.
Entertainment never ceasing
Paths of comfort line my way.
Lots of fun, but also much to chew on in this little gem.
one of the best life application books i have ever read.......1999-05-31
Fabry knows exactly how to present the problems with today's "lukewarm christians" and then how to advise you on how not to be one.

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Spiritually Correct Favorites: Spiritually Correct Bedtime Stories, the 77 Habits of Highly Ineffective Christians, Away With the Manger
Chris Fabry
Manufacturer: Inspirational Press (NY)
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ASIN: 0884862518

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The Reviewer.......2000-05-31
This is a really cute book that we have readas a family and also I have read to children I babysit for. It brings together truths and fables into Christian stories ! ! ! !

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The 77 Habits of Highly Ineffective Christians (Chinese Edition)

Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
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ASIN: 9575877373

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Best Dead Companion's Book!

Nice Quality

Great Reference Book

The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics

A detailed, in-depth survey unparalleled in its scope.

The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics

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Do you know the way to Fennario? Or wonder where the Nuthatch winters? What is the "Buck Dancer's Choice?" And where do the four winds dwell? If these are questions that leave you wondering then David Dodd's The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics may just be the skeleton key you've been looking for. Every Deadhead knows there is something profound hidden within their lyrics, even if most of the nuances go by unnoticed. Why are the obscure tales of their characters' (Jack Straw, Black Peter, August West, et al) trials and tribulations on the psychedelic Americana landscape so intriguing? What is the deal with the reoccurring imagery that popped in and out of their songs for decades (the crows, light and darkness, rolling rivers, gambling, playing cards, space, and, of course, roses)? It is clear the Grateful Dead's lyricists Robert Hunter and John Barlow tapped into the well of the collective subconscious for material, but rarely were any explanations provided. Fans were basically on their own to put the pieces together themselves, until now.
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics began as a research project for David Dodd while he was working at the University of Colorado. Like many fans before him, Dodd spent hours passionately trying to find the deeper meanings in the Dead's songs. In 1994 the Internet may have been in its infancy, but Dodd knew the Web was the perfect to tool to help him annotate the entire Dead catalog. So began the building of his incredibly popular Web site. The fruits of his labors lie within the pages of this encyclopedic book. Where Robert Hunter's A Box of Rain only includes his lyrical contributions to the Dead's catalog, Dodd's book is expanded to include John Barlow's songs, as well as tunes the Dead covered so many times they became their own. It is worth mentioning, this book should not be viewed as a cheat sheet, but a tool giving lots of background and cross-references. The interpretations are still up to you. Be forewarned, this book can be extremely habit forming. --Rob Bracco
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When the Grateful Dead's in-house publishing company, Ice Nine, decided that the band's fortieth anniversary was a good time to publish their entire lyric catalog, a wave of excitement swept across the world of Deadheads, or would have had they known. What was that unclear word in "Uncle John's Band"? Would "Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues" be included? Which Cassidy is John Barlow writing about? Would Robert Hunter reveal the meaning of anything at all? These questions are finally answered with the publication of this book, but in true Grateful Dead fashion you'll have to dig around to find the answers and have fun doing it.
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an authoritative text, providing standard versions of all the original songs so that you can win an occasional bar bet. Or not. There are songs you've never heard and others you've never heard right and still others you didn't know existed, and some, indeed, that may not exist at all. To provide a context for this formidable body of work, of which his part is primary, Robert Hunter has written a foreword that goes to the heart of the matter.
These are some of the best-loved songs in the modern American songbook. You will hear them hummed and spoken among tens of thousands as counterculture code and recorded by musicians of all stripes for their inimitable singability, mysterious presence, and obscure accessibility. How do they do all this? The annotations on sources provide a gloss on the lyrics, which goes to the roots of Western culture as they are incorporated into them. Be it fairy tale or folksong that the lyricists have drawn on, ancient verse, biblical narrative, or T. S. Eliot, the references are here. This has never been done before. There are things here that would not have otherwise been known or imagined, which also goes for what was in the minds of the lyricists themselves. They would be the first to admit that the incursion of imagery into their creative memory banks was a chancy business.
Annotation is a venerable literary tradition. It's been done for the works of Dante and Shakespeare, and for Finnegans Wake annotations may be essential. Mother Goose and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland have been annotated. All genres of writing can be illuminated by it, and that fundamental revelation that comes from reading books -- "Oh, I always wondered about that" -- becomes especially meaningful. David Dodd is well suited to the task of annotation. An avid Grateful Dead concertgoer for two decades, he is a librarian who brings to the work a detective's love of following a clue as far as it will take him. He first began the annotation as a research project in 1995, in the early days of the Web, through the medium of a website. As in all things virtual, it grew, and with input from interested correspondents from around the world, the website evolved continually. With their publication in book form, the Grateful Dead's lyrics can be newly savored, couched in the cultural traditions that spawned them.
With the addition of artist Jim Carpenter's illustrations, whimsical elements in the lyrics, aspects cognitively unreferenceable, and imagery often repeated are brought to light. What he has seen to illustrate itself illustrates the American legend that is present in The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics. You won't think of the cultural icon that is the Grateful Dead the same way again.

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Best Dead Companion's Book!.......2007-02-18
If you are a Deadhead at all-this will be a revoltionary item for you! It explains all of the songs-provides the actual lyrics, comments, and even pictures for individual songs! There are even about 10 glossy pages of Dead song-art pictures! I love it and includes every single Dead song-even rare, in studio or live songs. This is probably the most important Grateful Dead book to have for each fan.
Nice Quality.......2007-01-21
This book is real nice. It has lot's of interesting trivia and Americana. Reminds you how deep the Deads' roots go. Very nicely bound and printed, many great illustrations. Insightful, gives a good look into the context of the songs, and of course it's got all of the lyrics! This book was given to me when my brother died (look up Tennessee Jed)and I can attest that it makes a meaningful gift.
Great Reference Book.......2007-01-17
Any fan of the Grateful Dead needs this book. Although it may not have every Dead song in it (how can it, it'd be huge), it's comprehensive for 90% of their songs and provides lyrics when the notes aren't available.

Again, if you're a Dead fan, get it.
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.......2007-01-12
I ordered two of these books and gave them as gifts. I personally didn't get to read them but both recepiants loved them and thought they were awesome gifts.
A detailed, in-depth survey unparalleled in its scope........2007-01-07
A 'must' for Grateful Dead fans is the new COMPLETE ANNOTATED GRATEFUL DEAD LYRICS, providing standard versions of all the original songs. Robert Hunter himself has provided a foreword to a book which offers songs even avid fans have probably never heard or heard right. And this offers more than just lyric recaps: slang is explained, annotations on sources provide insights into the lyrics and their many cultural roots, and comparisons to quotes and literature make for a detailed, in-depth survey unparalleled in its scope.

Diane C. Donovan
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Masks and Mirrors: Generation X and the Chameleon Personality
Bernard Carl Rosen
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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As America experiences the growing pains associated with the rapid social changes in the economy, technology, and culture, various groups must develop coping mechanisms to help them deal with the anxiety that is brought on by such changes. Generation Xers, on the cutting edge of these changes, are no exception. More so than any other group, elite Xers, those who are succeeding in the new economy, have adopted a unique personality style, chameleonism, as a defense mechanism. People with a chameleon personality pretend to be what others want them to be in an effort to obtain for themselves the kind of security Xers feel previous generations have enjoyed, but which may not be available to their own generation. Rosen further argues that this personality component, of pretending to be something one is not, becomes a permanent part of the personality when it is practiced and used frequently enough. This riveting examination of the Xer generation sheds new light on the survival mechanisms employed by those who feel threatened by social changes, even as they participate in and benefit from them. The author begins by providing a careful explanation of the chameleon personality before delving into the special problems and obstacles (both real and perceived) that torment elite Xers, and their ways of dealing with these issues. He discusses various sources of anxiety and how the chameleon personality comes into play with regard to conflict between generations, conflict between the genders, and conflict brought on by immigration and foreign competition. While Rosen's approach is primarily socio-psychological, he also provides historical background on issues of social change and other attempts at dealing with it in the past. He presents a reasoned examination of the chameleon personality as it is manifested in America's Generation X in an effort to shed light on this unique segment of our population.

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Masks and Mirrors : Generation X and the Chameleon Personality
Bernard Carl Rosen
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORGAP8

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A great deck, but novices: beware!

Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea Deck
Julia Turk
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Sail away in search of new perspectives with this electrifying deck featuring luminescent figures. Created as a guided, meditative path in the search for self-knowledge.
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A great deck, but novices: beware!.......2005-08-04
I was given this deck as a gift just over a year ago as my introduction to tarot.

Inspired by Thoth and largely based on the principals of Hermetic Kabbalah/Qabbalah, the 'Tree of Life' appears to be the "root" or theme of this deck. Beautiful and esoteric, but perhaps not one that is recommended for most tarot beginners.

As shown, the deck is of standard size. A few of the Major Arcana cards are re-named from their standard titles. The 'suits' are standard: Pentacles, Swords, Cups, Wands. The 'court' cards are standard: King, Queen, Knight, Page. There is a single word above each card's image that attempts to sum up the meaning of the card. There is no other lettering, nor is there traditional numbering on these cards. On the back of each card is the image of the 'Tree of Life'.

This deck is deeply focused on one's own spiritual journey, of personal search and awakening, and thus it is suggested that the deck be used as intuitively as possible. This is partially why the deck is not recommended for most beginners, however if you think you're up for the challenge, it offers a wonderful learning experience.

A major highlight of this deck: the cards are absolutely *loaded* with imagery, symbolism, puns, and a sense of deeper hidden meaning. I have had these cards for over a year now and I find myself still discovering new perspectives and new meanings that I had never noticed before.

There is a small paper booklet that comes with this deck that includes very brief explanations of the cards, a unique spread layout, and a small blurb on the deck's history.

An instructional paperback book, which explains the meaning of the cards and how to use the deck in depth, can be purchased separately.

Whether your interest in this deck is for serious tarot purposes, or you simply enjoy the vivid artwork, I do believe this deck is a treasure to behold. Also an excellent addition to any collection.

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Software Testing made Simple

Most thorough, easily understood book on software testing

Practical, applicable, common-sensical

A wealth of vaulable material packed into a 252 page book

Excellent analytical testing book (not methodology)

Software Testing In The Real World: Improving The Process (ACM Press)
Edward Kit
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
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ASIN: 0201877562

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Software Testing made Simple.......2005-10-08
This book is an easy read, and gives the uninitiated like myself a good understanding of the basics behind softrware testing. Each chapter is short, well written, and to the point.

As a subject matter expert on a software team developing a specific application, I found that this book gave me the background and information that I needed to have discussions with the testing team as they developed test cases for the functional verification of the application.
Most thorough, easily understood book on software testing.......2004-02-19
I manage a large development group for a Fortune 100 company; this group includes hundreds of testers. This is the first, and only, book I found that outlines the basic, core principles of software testing as they should be applied in a fast moving, ever-changing environment such as ours. I've made this book mandatory for every one of our testers and every development and test manager in my organization.
Practical, applicable, common-sensical.......2003-02-05
Here is what I appreciated about Kit's book the most ... he diligently worked to talk to me where I am.
When I first read his book, I was an upstart green bean in the software testing arena. I read multiple books to prime my mind for testing .. and Kit's jumped out at me as most practically and immediately accessible.
This no non-sense approach makes a book that you can hand off to a green bean tester to introduce them to concepts, education, practices .. what works, what may not work, etc. You don't need to be a 10yr sw/test vet to understand and use his assertions and facts in your world. That, in my mind, makes the book purchase worth the cost.
For example, discussing "..the quality of the test process determines the success of the test effort..". Seems obvious doesn't it? Now explain it to someone in such a way that they understand what behaviors they need to change/include to get from "nowhere" to "somewhere". Kit does it.
Buy the book. When I recommend books to green bean testers, or testers with experience but no industry exposure, this is one of books I put on the "must purchase" list for them.
A wealth of vaulable material packed into a 252 page book.......2002-07-03
The title of this excellent book is appropriate with respect to real world issues are addressed. It's unfortunate that the real world rarely reflects what's in this book, but that is offset by the good fortune that you can establish and manage a mature, effective test organization by following the well thought out advice that the author provides. Since other reviewers have highlighted many of this book's key strengths I am going to touch upon what I like most and why.
First, the author doesn't confine himself to testing in a vacuum - he gives a framework that recognizes the dependencies between and among other software engineering processes, such as configuration management, issue management and how testing fits within the development life cycle.
Second, the underlying themes are risk management, cost containment and metrics.
Chapters that I especially like are 1, the six essentials of software testing (in many respects this is the heart of the book and everything else is commentary), 5, critical choices: what, when and how to test (these are the eternal questions of software testing - the answers given are on the mark), and 10, testing tasks, deliverables and chronology (a deliverables-based approach is the only viable way to plan and estimate realistically in my opinion).
While the above are my personal favorites, that does not diminish the value of the rest of the book. They merely reflect parts of this book that most influenced me. I cannot recommend this book highly enough - it's realistic, covers all of the important issues, and if you're like me you'll find yourself reaching for it when you have an issue to resolve or want to borrow a best practice.
Excellent analytical testing book (not methodology).......2002-03-14
This is an excellent companion book into the world of software testing. What it does do is highlight analytical techniques in how to perform tests. I frown at some who gave this book bad reviews in that they didn't understand the precondition for this book:
1) This book does NOT teach the aspects of how to manage software testing or implement the procedures necessary to do so. This is a more detailed way of looking at things.
2) Buy a book that teaches you how to implement the procedures and deal with all aspects of the organization in making sure these procedures are scoped out. Then, use the techniques in this book to implement the procedures.
I find it extremely funny that the bad reviewers didn't see this - as they should know something about managing projects and communicating with users/management/programmers in a software test environment.
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