Ask The Right Questions: Creating the Answers That Work

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Is life and work satisfying? Is your organization the best it can be? If not, this book is for you. The authors show how to ask the same kinds of "right" questions that leading people, who consistently get the best results, ask.

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This is the best collection of solved electrical engineering problems to help you review for the FE and PE Exams. On each page, a new problem is presented with its complete step-by-step solutions. With this guide, you'll hone your skills as well as your understanding of both fundamental and more difficult topics. 100% problems and solutions.

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Errors! Errors! Errors!.......2004-04-13

I stopped using this book after the first chapter because I found three critical errors in the solutions to the first 15 problems. That's an appalling failure rate of 20%! As of this posting, EngineeringPress has posted no errata on line. From my point of view, this makes the book an unreliable resource for all but the most confident of problem solvers and I have asked for a refund.

The solutions provided in this book cannot be trusted.

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Men not at work: men, women, young people are opting out of labor-force participation.(Demography)(study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics): An article from: The Futurist
Patrick Tucker
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2007-06-07

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Title: Men not at work: men, women, young people are opting out of labor-force participation.(Demography)(study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Author: Patrick Tucker
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 41 Issue: 3 Page: 8(2)

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The Role of the Immigrant Women in the U.S. Labor Force, 1890-1910 (Multinational Corporations)

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The Role of the Immigrant Women in the U.S. Labor Force, 1890-1910 (Multinational Corporations)
Joan Younger Dickinson
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Women at Work II: An Exploration of the Visions and Realities of Women's Participation in the U.S. Labor Force (Monograph and Research Series (Univ of California Inst of Industrial Relations))

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Women at Work II: An Exploration of the Visions and Realities of Women's Participation in the U.S. Labor Force (Monograph and Research Series (Univ of California Inst of Industrial Relations))
Rosalind M. Schwartz
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Women in the Labor Force: A Databook

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Presents historical and current labor force and earnings data for women and men from the Current Population Survey.

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At home and at work: Accounting for changes in ever-married women's fertility and labor force participation in the U.S., 1940 to 1980 (Working paper)

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At home and at work: Accounting for changes in ever-married women's fertility and labor force participation in the U.S., 1940 to 1980 (Working paper)
Eleanor O Bell
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Black women in the labor force (SuDoc L 36.114/3:97-1)

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Determinants of female labour force participation in the host country: The case of migrant women in the U.K (Social science working papers)

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Determinants of female labour force participation in the host country: The case of migrant women in the U.K (Social science working papers)
S Akhtar
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Facts on working women women of Hispanic origin in the labor force (SuDoc L 36.114/3:2000-04)

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U.S. Dept of Labor
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Relative income and price of time: Exploring their effects on U.S. fertility and female labor force participation, 1963-1993 (Research paper series)

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Relative income and price of time: Exploring their effects on U.S. fertility and female labor force participation, 1963-1993 (Research paper series)
Diane J Macunovich
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160 math teasers and 40 alphametics will provide hours of mind-stretching entertainment. Accessible to high school students. Solutions. Four Appendices.

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Fun with mathematics for everyone.......2006-07-19

This book contains an engrossing collection of easy mathematical teasers that will prove that math can be fun. All the problems can be solved using simple mathematical thinking. These teasers are presented as riddle-like problems that involved familiar situations and quantities. The book includes 160 math teasers and 40 alphametics.

This is an example of what you will fin in this book (A little old lady):

"You want my age?" said Auntie Liz
"You shouldn't ask, but here it is,
You switch its digits: that will show
Just half my age ten years ago"
The clues are there, so you can see
How old dear Auntie Liz would be.

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Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great guitarist. Handsome, charismatic, childlike, and unpredictable, Reinhardt was a character out of a picaresque novel. Born in a gypsy caravan at a crossroads in Belgium, he was almost killed in a freak fire that burned half of his body and left his left hand twisted into a claw. But with this maimed left hand flying over the frets and his right hand plucking at dizzying speed, Django became Europe's most famous jazz musician, commanding exorbitant fees--and spending the money as fast as he made it. Dregni not only chronicles this remarkably colorful life--including a fascinating account of gypsy culture--but he also sheds much light on Django's musicianship. He examines his long musical partnership with violinist Stephane Grappelli--the one suave and smooth, the other sharper and more dissonant--and he traces the evolution of their novel string jazz ensemble, Quintette du Hot Club de France. Indeed, the author spotlights Django's amazing musical diversity, describing his swing-styled Nouveau Quintette, his big band Django's Music, and his later bebop ensemble, as well as his many compositions, including symphonic pieces influenced by Ravel and Debussy and his unfinished organ mass inspired by Bach. And along the way, the author offers vivid snapshots of the jazz scene in Paris--colorful portraits of Josephine Baker, Bricktop, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, and countless others--and of Django's vagabond wanderings around France, Europe, and the United States, where he toured with Duke Ellington. Capturing the extraordinary life and times of one of the great musicians of the twentieth century, Django is a must-read portrait of a true original.

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caveat.......2007-06-03

this biography fills in the gaps between facts so thoroughly with conjecture and fictionalizing that one no longer can quite tell what the known facts are. there's a lot of interesting stuff in this book, but I found the author's approach maddening.

there are so many events depicted with breathless 'you are there' cinematic detail that are based on events that are almost certainly undocumented. Or if they're based on something, no indication is given of what sort of source is being relied on. People's presumed emotions and inner thoughts are described to an improbable and even ridiculous extent. Eventually a pall of suspicion clouds the entire book.

Listen, Read and Listen.......2006-08-17

I read this book on a recent vacation and was kicking myself for not bringing Django Reinhardt CD's with me to listen to while I read. I have been an admirer of Django's music for some time but was unaware of just how much influence his music had on artists of his time. There are three reasons why I liked this book. One, to understand Django's personality the author tells us a little of the history and culture of the gypsies. Two, the backdrop of Django's life story is the Paris music scene during the 1920s, through the Nazi occupation of WWII, and the birth of bebop in the late 40s and early 50s. And three, the amazing life story of what may be the greatest guitarist ever born. All three of these aspect of the book are brought together to create an outstanding biography of Django Reinhardt. But be warned that reading about this incredible talent may cause an insatiable desire to listen to his music.

"Oh ma mere! Ce n'est pas possible!".......2006-05-19

This utterance comes halfway through Michael Dregni's book, and it's one of maybe 50 direct quotes by Django Reinhardt drizzled over 280 pages. Self-conscious about his lack of education, Reinhardt didn't like talking to "gadjé." He is known to have written three letters in his life, and the most extended quote is bogus: an "interview" concocted by an impresario to defame a rival.

It has to be quite a challenge for a biographer to work with so little material. And yet Dregni does an excellent job. While by necessity he has to rely on external testimony and events to make his portrayal, his focus is always on Reinhardt and the extraordinary contradictions of the man: one night dining with royalty, the next night stealing a chicken on a country road; living in a luxury hotel one week, a caravan the next; over-generosity alternating with infuriating pettiness; turning one gig into an all-night jam session, not bothering to show up for the next. You think you know Bohemian? This is Bohemian.

Of course, Django was only verbally reticent. Musically, he is one of the most articulate, expressive players ever. So it's the musical parts of this book that really shine. Partly because of the nationalism of his promoters who wanted to push a French jazz musician, but mostly because of his magical talent (and in spite of a tendency to sleep later than recording session schedules), Reinhardt's output was vast and varied. As I imagine is true for many, I knew the Quintette/Grapelli recordings to the exclusion of almost everything else. So I especially appreciated the discussions of his later career: the weird fact that during the Occupation, when jazz was officially verboten, he achieved his greatest popularity, and his enthusiasm for bebop, which I've always thought he anticipated with his angular, superfast playing.

In the endnotes are many mentions of "interview with author, 2001/2/3..." Aside from the documentary research, Dregni deserves special gratitude for contacting people who knew Reinhardt and who will probably not be around much longer. His efforts have doubtless uncovered facts that, because of the large part of Reinhardt's life that exists only in the oral tradition, would certainly have been lost without them.

Django Reinhardt, one of the more remarkable and mysterious characters of his time, deserves a first-rate biography. This is it.

If your'e into Django.......2005-12-02

then your going to eat up this book. The writing is a little silly and cliched but there is a LOT of info on Django as well as the history of jazz in Europe. The book rolls along nicely and builds up to a climax 2/3s in just before Django's american tour with Ellington. Then the book becomes an extremely dull onslaught of facts rather than a biographical story. I just wanted it to end. then he did this. then he did this. then he did this. and then he did this. Hello... Did the writer just get bored with the material? Alot of research though so we'll have to give him credit for this. and there isn't a whole lot of writing about Django out there so it will have to suffice.

Phenomenal!.......2005-12-01

This is possibly one of the finest music biographies I've ever read (and I've read stacks). Instead of taking the tack of Django-worshipping, Dregni carefully and thoughtfully lays out all of the historical context around Django's life and music. This is a rarity among music biographies, which generally sum up historical context in literally just a few lines ("The Depression was over and times were tough, but the jukes were still swingin'"). Dregni does a fabulous job, and makes it interesting to boot.

He also doesn't cut Django too much slack, although he doesn't villainize him either. Genius is generally accompanied by a bit of madness, and always with a bit of narcissism, and Django had all of this, which doesn't make him a bad person, just a bit of a mad genius. Dregni did well expressing this.

All in all, Django had a phenomenal life and his body of work is practically unmatched in any genre, as far as quality and prolificness. Dregni simply gave us a historical context and a background behind the man who made it.

This book is recommended to jazz fans (whether gypsy jazz is your thing or not), musette fans, guitar players, Francophiles, those interested in gypsy culture, those interested in WWI and WWII, those interested in Paris in the '30s and '40s, history buffs, and so on.

Michael Dregni, Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend.(Book Review): An article from: French Politics, Culture and Society

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Michael Dregni, Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend.(Book Review): An article from: French Politics, Culture and Society
Jeffrey H. Jackson
Manufacturer: Berghahn Books, Inc.
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Top & Fun

Famous Bridge Disasters (Master Bridge Series)
David Bird
Manufacturer: Cassell P L C
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0304357944

Book Description

In this vastly entertaining book, David Bird describes the most spectacular and amusing disasters suffered by the world’s top players. There are two compelling reasons for studying such disasters—you can learn from them and yes, you can enjoy them.

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Top & Fun.......2007-09-24

Very good. Teaches you by presenting grave errors from bridge experts. After all, bridge is fun!

Highly recommended.

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Extremely useful, well written, and very few errors

Excellent Book for new and experienced PHP programmers

Outstanding book -- and more than advertised

Cookbook for Tasty Snacks

Nice addition to the php 5 literature

PHP 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Lee Babin , Nathan A. Good , Frank M. Kromann , and Jon Stephens
Manufacturer: Apress
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PHP 5 Recipes is a perfect reference manual for PHP. Absolutely everything is covered. You can either... look up information on a certain action, or use the very detailed index to search on a specific function.

— Joe Topjian, Adminspotting

What you hold in your hands is the answer to all your PHP 5 needs. We have written PHP 5 Recipes with a number of purposes in mind.

First, this book is a source of instant solutions, including countless pieces of useful code that you can just copy and paste into your own applications, giving you answers fast and saving you hours of coding time.

Second, this book is a useful reference to the most important aspects of the PHP 5 language, including the vital functions you know and love from previous versions of PHP, as well as the functions introduced in PHP 5.

Finally, this book explains the new PHP 5 functionality in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new MySQLi database extension.

We are confident PHP 5 Recipes will be a useful and welcome companion throughout your PHP journey, keeping you on the cutting edge of PHP development, ahead of the competition, and giving you all the answers you need, when you need them.

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Extremely useful, well written, and very few errors.......2006-11-20

I highly recommend this book. It covers all aspects of PHP 5, including OOP, without getting bogged down. Though this book consists of contributions from four authors, it comes together as one smooth read. Its full of examples and hits its mark very effectively. It makes a great companion to the Zend PHP 5 Certification Guide. Well done!!

Excellent Book for new and experienced PHP programmers.......2006-08-30

I normally don't write reviews unless I had a bad experience. However, in this case, the PHP 5 Recipes book is an exception! I love this book! The examples are CORRECT!! The information I need is very well organized - I really love the way that the book was organized! I wish all of my tech books for other languages were arranged in this problem-solution manner. The information you need to build a robust and well organized and valid website is here in the book! I definitely highly recommend that you get THIS book if you are thinking about doing some php work. The php code they have is on the mark! The authors included more than I needed by including a section on XML/XSLT with PHP. Definitely get this book!

Outstanding book -- and more than advertised.......2006-08-08

More than just a recipe book, PHP 5 Recipes is an outstanding overview of many PHP tools and techniques.... and while Apress suggests the book is published for programmers already somewhat familiar with PHP, its clear language and great example sets make it useful for someone learning PHP. Each chapter starts with a basic review of the foundation of the subject matter to be covered: the variables section, for example, begins with a "PHP 101"-style review of how PHP variables are identified and used. Each chapter then builds from these basics to cover more advanced techniques. Two final notes: First, this is certainly one of the best written programming guides I own: The language is clear and obvious effort went into making the book both readable and enjoyable. Second, the code provided through the publisher's web site is clean and typo-free, which is especially helpful (and not always a sure thing with programming books). A real resource.

Cookbook for Tasty Snacks.......2006-04-01

I am a big fan of 'recipe' books. They collect solutions to a variety of common problems into a single volume for easy reference, often times pointing out features in an extensive language environment that were missed when first learned. This book is no exception.

I had been coding PHP for close to a year when I picked up this book. I found most of the coding and examples to be fairly familiar, but forcing myself to read through ever page I have expanded my coding with several standard functions that I had no use for when first learning the language (and thus had forgotten about).

The writing style is very readable, and the code is targeted at the beginning to intermediate PHP coder. Beginners to PHP will benefit from reading through the entire book; those with more experience are better off skimming the first half of the book and reading the latter sections. The topics covered are fairly complete and include: arrays, strings, imaging, database, files and web forms. I would have liked a more detailed coverage of XML and SOAP, but the basics are provided for these technologies.

If you are an experienced PHP coder you may gain something from this book (like I did), but you would probably get just as much by browsing the official PHP site's function list to refresh your memory of what is available.

My recommendation, for PHP beginners, is that this book coupled with Jason Gilmore's Beginning PHP and MySQL makes an excellent pair to learn PHP and should have you up to speed in no time. Add Matt Zandstra's PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice and you have a fairly complete PHP library suitable for an experienced programmer's reference shelf.
P-)

Nice addition to the php 5 literature.......2005-12-01

With all the books being published recently about PHP a new one will need to find and fill a niche to distinguish itself. "PHP 5 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach", published by Apress, has done so, in my view. This is an intermediate-level volume exploring PHP 5 using a "recipe" approach where the basics of PHP 5's functionality are expressed systematically but in a "small-topic" by "small-topic" manner. Cookbook style, each topic is relatively autonomous and can be individually selected, as necessary, for information or review, similarly to how many refer to the "Joy of Cooking" for help on a cooking project. It's a source for instant solutions to common PHP-related problems. There are over 200 such recipes presented.

Each of these "recipes" refers to a small element or aspect of PHP 5 and the presentations contain a brief overview of the topic, an explanation of how the code elements work, and where the code is applicable in projects. Overall, the book covers the whole range of PHP 5 functionality where each major element of PHP 5 is addressed in a recipe explaining and illuminating relevant code elements. You can easily get information about a specific PHP 5 element by going directly to the section of the book where it appears. Even better, the code snippets are designed to allow one to copy and paste them into your own applications or development easily and then to configure them as necessary. All of the code snippets are freely available for downloading at the publisher's website at [...].

There are 16 chapters and an index covering a total of 646 pages. The chapters are organized similarly to other PHP primers, covering the basic elements of PHP - data types, operations, arrays, strings, variables, files and directories, dates and times, functions, and regular expressions. The coverage for much of these concepts is relatively mundane and unoriginal. The discussion of dynamic imaging, however, is an exception. The writing throughout, however, is solid and clear. The book emphasizes the most important elements of new PHP 5. The object-oriented programming elements especially are covered - classes, objects, protected class variables, exception handling, interfaces, and the new mysqli database extension. The authors' discussions focus on PHP 5.0.4, MySQL 4.1, and cover Linux and Windows environments.

The book is directed at PHP programmers looking to learn the elements introduced by PHP 5, and for those looking to find fast solutions to coding problems. It assumes a basic knowledge of PHP. Many of the recipes discuss object-oriented programming and these are some of the more advanced sections of the book. I can say that Chapter 2, which introduces the object-oriented concepts is one of the better explanations of the topic that I've read. The chapter covers constructors, destructors, methods and properties, class diagrams and examples of these concepts at work in code snippets. There are a number of interesting segments containing custom coding of classes as reusable templates from which to create "objects".

The book is well-designed and written. The discussion is clear and logical. The code snippets are well-explained. The authors are experienced programmers and developers, and Good and Stephens have authored or co-authored a number of technical books.

A large handful of the recipes contain "projects", usually appearing at the end of the overview and presentation of code snippets covering the basics of the topics. The projects usually deal with the creation of higher-end classes and objects as solutions to common coding problems. The idea here is to show PHP 5 functionality at work providing useful code sections to be dropped into your custom applications. Chapter Five concludes with a sophisticated class dealing with dates and times issues. Other chapters contain constructions of string, file, graphics, and regular expression classes.

The last five chapters deal with using the PHP code in web applications and services. This material covers cookies (including construction of a cookie class), using HTTP headers, sessions, and using query strings. Much of this material has been covered elsewhere in the many primers on PHP already published. There is a chapter on using forms and an interesting chapter on working with markup. The better chapters are on using DOM to generate markup, parsing XML, using RSS feeds, SOAP, and simple XML. The chapter on mysql is basic, except for the section on creating a "wrapper" class. The last chapter deals with communicating with Internet services, like POP, iMap, and FTP. Another project presented here is one creating object-oriented code dealing with a mail class.

This is a useful book to have in a programmer's library.

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