The Complete Job Interview Handbook

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This completely updated handbook tells how to get an interview, land the job, and even negotiate a higher salary.

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book review.......2000-03-10

the complete job interview handbook i intend to present my comments in point forms and i present these ideas as a university lecturer in sri lanka. this book is very usefull both job seekers and hrm/personal managers in companies as follow as a handbook. the authers presentation of his innovative factors which related to interviwing is very attractive and it's very easy to geting understand.

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The Complete Job Interview Handbook
John J. Marcus
Manufacturer: Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF63DE

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A trivia lovers delight.

The Ladies' Room Revisited: A Curious Compendium of Fascinating Female Facts
Alicia Alvrez
Manufacturer: Conari Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A trivia lovers delight........2005-07-05

This little book is stuffed full of `female' facts from the fascinating, through to the weird and wonderful. There are eleven chapters that deal with topics such as wardrobe, love, sporting life, animal kingdom, food and celebrities.
Anyone who loves trivia will find a wealth of facts to enjoy, from the origins of soap (thousands of years old...and did you know soap was found in the ruins of Pompeii?) through to the fact that Queen Christina of Sweden was so afraid of fleas that she had a miniature cannon constructed for her bedroom. The said cannon fired miniature cannonballs at the offending mites! Or did you know that you could be arrested for falling asleep in the bathtub in Detroit or that it's illegal to buy peanuts after sundown in Alabama? These are just a few of the myriad snippets to be found between the covers of this little gem.
This is a book you can dip into whenever the whim takes you rather than a book you will read cover to cover and it will provide no end of fun facts for you to fascinate your friends with. Great fun.

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Not such a good deal..

straight to the point book gets down to business independently!

Good but not perfect

The book of truth

Must Read for Today's Independent Musician

I Don't Need a Record Deal!: Your Survival Guide for the Indie Music Revolution
Daylle Deanna Schwartz
Manufacturer: Billboard Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0823079481

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Not such a good deal.........2007-09-13

If you are looking for a book to tell you, "..don't get discouraged..keep trying..look people in the eye..give a firm handshake..don't forget to say thank you..", and other various cliches and platitudes, then this might just be the book for you. It will even help you decide what fast food to eat. As for me, after the first hundred pages of fluff, I felt that I was seriously wasting my time.

If you are looking for solid, detailed business advice, you are sure to be disappointed. For example, when discussing whether to use ASCAP or BMI, you are advised to use whichever one you think will do the best for you. That is not advice. How about a real comparison between them? When should you join? What might be a possible negative against joining? What is the difference in their perspectives? What is the difference in their payment formula? You can get more information from a Google search than from this book.

I am suspicious when I see shallow books getting wall-papered with flowery five-star reviews. It is hard enough to select books online, without having to deal with all that glowing misrepresentation.

straight to the point book gets down to business independently!.......2007-02-10

i don't care if your a beginner or a veteran musician, this book will guide your way to being successful when taken with the right steps, hard work and timing. EVERYONE WHO LOVES PERFORMING MUSIC MUST HAVE THIS BOOK!
I have researched and read this book over and over within a very short time period and realized that anyone with a dream involved in music should not be intimidated by the harsh record labels that mostly care about money than music itself. you can still have a great fan base, a great tour and a great life living your dream in music.
AWESOME BOOK!

Good but not perfect.......2006-05-15

Most artist would want to get a fast result out of their work but in 99 percent of cases it isn't that way and you must know the dark secrets of the merciless music industry. This book reveals those secrets and explains those to the average struggling musician in an intuitive and easy way. In the search for guides like this i found a far better book, something that is superior in writing style, aspect, structure and ease of access "The Music Business: How You Can Make $500,000.00 (or More) a Year in the Music Industry by Doing It Yourself! Volume II" by Ty Cohen, the second book from the series features a lot more detailed information than this title, and is of superior quality.

The book of truth.......2006-02-01

Review from Liz sounds more like a personal vendetta than a truthful review. This book is the truth. How, might you ask, am I so confident of that? Well, because I'm in it. I am an indie artist, and I am successful. I have sold a fraction of what the major label artists are selling, and I'm running circles around them when it comes to my financial success. Read this book from front to back and remember that we indies cannot approach the music business like the majors. We must think outside the box, and take chances that the big boys won't. Never take no for an answer and make sure when you leave a show, they remember your name and where they can find you. And Liz, if you still don't think that a grassroots artist can make it, come visit me and see the house that my fans built. DLM

Must Read for Today's Independent Musician.......2005-12-11

For artists forging an independent path in this brave new world of IPods, ringtones, and struggling major labels, this book is truly a godsend. Filled with practical info and advice culled from numerous interviews with working musicians, Daylle peels back the mystique behind today's evolving music industry and advocates empowerment and independence from hoping for that major label "deal" that may never happen. Echoing the book's title, I remind myself regularly that "I Don't Need A Record Deal!" Highly recommended.
(Winner, Best Political Band of 2005 - Rock City News)

Book Description

Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, numerous "atomic narratives"—books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks, movies, and television programs—addressed the implications of the bomb. Post-World War II youth encountered atomic narratives in their daily lives at school, at home and in their communities, and were profoundly affected by what they read and saw.

This multidisciplinary study examines the exposure of American youth to atomic narratives during the ten years following World War II. In addition, it examines the broader "social narrative of the atom," which included educational, social, cultural, and political activities that surrounded and involved American youth. The activities ranged from school and community programs to movies and television shows to government-sponsored traveling exhibits on atomic energy. The book also presents numerous examples of writings by postwar adolescents, who clearly expressed their conflicted feelings about growing up in such a tumultuous time, and shows how many of the issues commonly associated with the sixties generation, such as peace, fellowship, free expression, and environmental concern, can be traced to this earlier generation.

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Learning From the Past.......2003-12-18

Although this book appears to be intended for college research and study, it also has appeal for anyone interested in social history and the atomic age.
Scheibach looks at the decade after Hiroshima and the beginning of the Cold War through the eyes of those who were teens at the time. He explores the movies, television, comic books, school newspapers and the school curriculum, literature, and the works of the students themselves. It's a compelling look back at a time when teens had to face the the prospect of oblivion at the very time when they were looking toward their own futures. How did they handle it?

Atomic Narratives and American Youth never mentions the obvious parallel of teens then and youth now during a new era of War on Terrorism. The analogy isn't perfect, but it's similar enough so that a book about the decade 1945-1955 is particularly timely today.

Interesting new angle on atomic age.......2003-10-26

Fascinating account of how atomic themes permeated popular culture and influenced postwar youth. It's rare to find a historian who can so acutely demonstrate that history does not merely encompass timelines and facts and events, but includes how those living a given 'history' think, what they yearn for, and what they fear.

Atomic Narratives and American Youth: Coming of Age With the Atom, 1945 - 1955

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Atomic Narratives and American Youth: Coming of Age With the Atom, 1945 - 1955
Michael Scheibach
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MUH2K4

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Requirements Engineering Processes and Techniques Why this book was written The value of introducing requirements engineering to trainee software engineers is to equip them for the real world of software and systems development. What is involved in Requirements Engineering? As a discipline, newly emerging from software engineering, there are a range of views on where requirements engineering starts and finishes and what it should encompass. This book offers the most comprehensive coverage of the requirements engineering process to date - from initial requirements elicitation through to requirements validation. How and Which methods and techniques should you use? As there is no one catch-all technique applicable to all types of system, requirements engineers need to know about a range of different techniques. Tried and tested techniques such as data-flow and object-oriented models are covered as well as some promising new ones. They are all based on real systems descriptions to demonstrate the applicability of the approach. Who should read it? Principally written for senior undergraduate and graduate students studying computer science, software engineering or systems engineering, this text will also be helpful for those in industry new to requirements engineering. Accompanying Website: http: //www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/resources/re Visit our Website: http://www.wiley.com/college/wws

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Poorly Written Book.......2006-11-05

This book should not be the primary text used for a Systems Engineering course, yet it was. I read several reviews that stated this book had errors. Indeed the author must not have proof read his text. It is poorly written with so many spelling and grammar errors you have to wonder how accurate the information in the text is. Additionally I have noticed that the author has half-facts or contradictory statements. If you are forced to purchase this book for a class, sorry to hear about that. If you have an option to not buy this book, don't.

Poorly written, out-of-date book.......2006-03-24

This book is severely out of date, which is obvious from the techniques and methods it discusses that nobody uses any longer. It is, in general, poorly written. However, it does make a good doorstop. It would be better if it were a little heavier.

Miserably poor editing; mind-numbing content.......2004-06-03

Wiley should be ashamed to publish this book; every page shocks me with careless grammar errors and convoluted logic. Tonight's bombs included "This are stable features of the system" (page 116) and "Surprisingly, Davis does not mention what we consider to be the most important traceability information namely information which records the dependencies between the requirements themselves" (page 129). The diagrams are extremely simplified, usually a handful of boxes with arrows, some labeled, some not. The print looks as if it had been delivered as "camera-ready" out of an aging departmental laser printer; entire lines are skewed to italic, and the grey backgrounds behind "key points" and other focus boxes are very dark with distracting vertical stripes. Getting useful information out of this book is very challenging, as I have been constantly tripping over run-on sentences, oddly phrased summaries, and incorrect assertions about the state of technology as it applies to the practice. If you can find ANY other book that may suit your needs, get it instead of this one. It's offensive to have to pay so much for a book that doesn't even meet high-school standards for composition. If it weren't required for a class, I'd be trying to get a refund right now. You can bet I'll be selling this paperweight at the first opportunity.

Text book approach. Time for another edition........2003-10-13

Since the publication of this book, newer software development methodologies have either hit the marketplace or become more popular including the Rational Unified Process (1999), eXtreme Programming, Scrum, etc. This book needs to be updated to incorporate these newer approaches to software development. The principal drawback of this book is a lack of treatment on how to manage the requirements change during the iterations that are the mainstay of these iterative development methodologies.

Even though this book is not aimed at detailing any particular methodology, I believe a newer edition should address this last concern from a general perspective. To prove this point, there are only a few pages that briefly talk about a couple of aspects of the Use Case approach to requirements which is now here to stay.

Other than that, this is an excellent book that takes a text book approach to requirements engineering and explains everything you ever wanted to know about this topic from an abstract and general perspective. It also has a lot of practical techniques.

For a book dedicated to best practices, you should look at Software Requirements by Karl E. Wiegers. Managing Software Requirements Leffingwell and Widrig is part of the Object Technology Series and does a better job of addressing the Use Case approach and is more recent. Effective Requirements Practices by Ralph R. Young takes a more step by step approach to the whole requirements gathering process and is worthwhile looking into.

Now that I have outlined what's missing and what the competitor books on this topic address, back to the book being reviewed. The book is divided into two parts - The Requirements Engineering Process and The Requirements Engineering Techniques.

The chapters in the process section are very useful. The first chapter starts off with an FAQ approach to explaining requirements and outlines the basic requirements document and how to write it. The other chapters in the first part are Requirements Engineering Processes, Requirements Elicitation and Analysis, Requirements Validation, and Requirements Management. All are very well written and quite thorough.

The chapters in the Techniques section are a mixture of excellent and okay topics. I found Chapter 6: Methods for Requirements Engineering to be very interesting as it addresses data-flow modeling, semantic data models, object-oriented approaches, and formal methods (I am directly stating the different sub-sections of this chapter). Chapter 8: Non-functional Requirements is a must-read! Other books haven't done such a good job of addressing this critical topic that seems to get neglected in many a project. The last chapter is a case study.

Overall, this is a good book on requirements engineering but in my opinion, you are better off reading this book as part of a classroom course and not as recommended if you are taking a self-taught approach. The other books I mention are better suited for that purpose. Do read Linda Zarate's review on this book as I did not address some things that she does a better job of explaining.

It is absolutely critical that requirements engineering be mastered in order to have successful software project and product. Overall, this book is pricey for the value added but worth looking into if it is part of your company's project management library. Good luck!

Great introduction to requirements engineering.......2001-04-25

This book is broken down into requirements processes and techniques, which makes an ideal reference for companies that are implementing requirements engineering, for consultants who are developing and implementing requirements processes and procedures for clients, and for individuals who are seeking to improve their professional skills.

I like the way this book starts with a frequently asked questions (FAQ) about requirements. In my experience requirements and the processes and techniques that are associated with eliciting and analyzing them are not clearly understood. Too often requirements spill into design, and this part of the book will show you what a requirement is and what it is not.

The requirements process models covered in this book are complete, and serve as a complete life cycle of a requirement from elicitation to analysis, validation and management. Some strong points about this approach include the need to test requirements, as well as to manage changes as they are refined. Moreover, the authors' approach to constantly assuring traceability is a mature practice and the key, in my opinion, to effective requirements management.

Part two of this book covers the requirements engineering techniques that are the "moving parts" of the processes. Some are outdated or cumbersome, such as Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT), while others are interesting, such as Viewpoint-oriented System Engineering (VOSE). Some highlights of this part of the book include: definition of non-functional requirements (another grossly misunderstood aspect of requirements management), interactive system specification approaches and transitioning to object-oriented design. I also found the case study at the end of the book both useful and interesting.

I think this book is an excellent starting point for understanding requirements engineering. It covers a wide range of methods and does not advocate any particular methodology, which makes it valuable for generalists who do not want to lock themselves into a single way of managing requirements. The processes provided are excellent and complete. I recommend this as a first book on requirements engineering because of its unbiased and straightforward treatment of this discipline.

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Control Techniques for Fugitive VOC Emissions from Chemical Process Facilities

Manufacturer: Diane Pub.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0788141597

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Contents: regulated requirements for fugitive emissions; regulated equipment (pumps; compressors; pressure relief devices; process valves; flanges & other connectors; product accumulator vessels; agitators; closed-vent systems & control devices); monitoring requirements (overall survey procedure; monitoring instruments; screening protocols; data handling; calibration procedures for quality assurance); NSPS & NESHAP equipment leak records & reports; data management systems; engineering considerations. Extensive references. Charts, tables & graphs.

Rapid Integration of Software Engineering Techniques: Third International Workshop, RISE 2006, Geneva, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2006. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Rapid Integration of Software Engineering Techniques: Third International Workshop, RISE 2006, Geneva, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2006. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 3540718753

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Third International Workshop on Rapid Integration of Software Engineering Techniques, RISE 2006, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in September 2006.

The 10 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from 30 initial submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum in software engineering with topics such as software and system architectures, software reuse, software testing, software model checking, model driven design and testing techniques, model transformation, requirements engineering, lightweight or practice-oriented formal methods, software processes and software metrics, automated software engineering, software patterns, design by contract, defensive programming, software entropy and software re-factoring, extreme programming, agile software development, programming languages, as well as software dependability and trustworthiness.

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