Goof-Proof Resumes & Cover Letters (Goof-Proof)

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In today's tough job market, the perfect resume and cover letter are a must for every job seeker. Learn the appropriate formats; find out how to best express skills, experience, and education; and gain valuable advice and tips on everything from electronic submission to proper punctuation and style with the Groof-Proof method: brief, manageable, easy-to-understand lessons, rules, and practice!

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create a terrific resume - fast!.......2003-05-29

This is possibly the only book on the market that addresses today's resumes and cover letters and how to submit them properly. The rules system makes finding information in this guide easy. If you know the basics, you can quickly turn to the areas where you need help (without enduring the boring diatribes found in most career books that really only serve to tell you what you already know). Finally -- a foolproof guide to resumes and cover letters and nothing else! It worked for me!

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A Labor of Love

Experiencing the Life of a Hospice Volunteer

In the Midst of Life: A Hospice Volunteer's Story
Charles, Rose
Manufacturer: NewSouth, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
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In the Midst of Life is a moving, evocatively described narrative of the patients and caregivers Charles Rose encountered as a hospice volunteer. It is also a perceptive account of his own journey into the world of the dying-a journey that in the end brings him, and us, more deeply and compassionately into the transitory world of our own lives.

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A Labor of Love.......2006-05-11

All his life Charles Rose moved in the company of young, vibrant students. Why should he give a thought to death or the protracted illness that sometimes precedes it? Rose admits, "In the past my support of worthy causes hadn't been impressive." That would change when he was introduced to Hospice of Hope.
"In the Midst of Life" is a well-crafted, heart-warming account of how the author was introduced to Hospice, of how his role as a volunteer played out, and of how the experience modified his mindset.
Reluctant to assume his role at first, he was like the prophet: "Ah Lord! I am but a child and cannot speak." But shortly he spoke and read words of comfort to the sick and the dying.
While reading "In the Midst of Life," I was reminded of another great book that addresses the same subject. In "Anam Cara; Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World," John O'Donoghue reminds us that it is our sacred duty to comfort the dying. He writes, "It is an incredible privelege to be with someone who is making this journey into the eternal world." While reading "In the Midst of Life," one gets the sense that Rose felt priveleged and humbled by his encounter with the terminally ill.
Well done!

Experiencing the Life of a Hospice Volunteer.......2005-01-24

Prof. Rose has that rare gift of being able to paint with words so effectively that the reader becomes immersed in his tales and feels that he is actually experiencing them. And the experience of being a hospice volunteer proves to have not only the expected times of sadness-those of saying goodbye all too soon to people on their way out whom you've just met, people you wish you had known for years-but also times when the spirit is uplifted through observing how heroically the terminally ill bear the vissicitudes of the dying flesh and triumph in spirit. Yes, Rose convinces us that the volunteer's life is indeed enriched through the vital service he performs. A very good read.

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With evidence drawn from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Great Britain, and Hungary, Re-forming the State examines the processes leading to, and the political effects of, market reform experiments and focuses specifically on the patterns of collective action and coalition building that drive privatization. The author's argument calls into question established approaches in the discipline of economics and in the fields of comparative and international political economy.

The experience of privatization shows that the public and the private are neither contradictory nor mutually exclusive spheres, and that power relations between them are not necessarily zero-sum. To stress the point, the author borrows from the literature on state formation, which has extensively examined the historical processes of key private groups. The evidence presented shows why and how, by restructuring coalitional and institutional arenas, the state uses marketization to generate political order and to distribute political power. Thus, the author specifies the conditions under which political change is conceived in terms of and channeled through economic policy; in other words, how the state is "re-formed" through privatization. Re-forming the State thus highlights how privatization is simultaneously a movement from public to private, but also a movement from non-state to state, as the reduction of state assets leads to institutional changes that increase state capacities for defining and enforcing property rights, extracting revenue, and centralizing administrative and political resources.

Hector E. Schamis is Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell University.

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Into all the deadly seriousness surrounding menopause, comes Red Hot Mamas Do Menopause With Style. Fast-paced text includes tables, pie charts, graphs, timelines, lists, letters and the best (real!) menopause Web sites. All the topics of menopause, including (but not limited to) weight gain, insomnia and hot flashes, are made funny and thereby a little more bearable.

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OH SO TRUE - OOOOOOOOH SO TRUE.......2002-01-19

While reading this little book, I can't count the number of times I wanted to yell, "THAT'S ME!" The book brings humor on an "ordeal" - and oh, yes it's an ordeal! But it also lets you know that it is only life - learn to live with it -- but with a smile.

Lighten up on a "hot" and "heavy" subject!".......2000-10-29

This book is a scream! I giggled all the way through it and then shared it with my friends of a certain age! In exchange my boss gave me a bumper sticker that said " I'm out of estrogen and I have a gun." Look out world there are more of us everyday!

mbd Monroe, Virginia

Absolutely hysterical! A must have for menopause........1999-09-16

Evans and Shakeshaft leave no stone unturned in their witty presentation of menopause. These are two mamas who have obviously been there and live to poke fun about aspects of menopause you never thought of. WARNING: Those who read this book while recovering from a hysterectomy may be in great danger of splitting their stitches!

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Very Enlightening

Musicology at its best!

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Is strongest when considering music

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
Leonard Bernstein
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the lectures: "Nobody anywhere presents this material so warmly, so sincerely, so skillfully. As musical mind-openers they are first class; as pedagogy they are matchless".

Mr. Bernstein considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel, to Copland, suggesting a worldwide, innate musical grammar. Folk music, pop songs, symphonies, modal, tonal, atonal, well-tempered and ill-tempered works all find a place in these discussions. Each, Mr. Bernstein suggests, has roots in a universal language central to all artistic creation. Using certain linguistic analogies, he explores the ways in which this language developed and can be understood as an aesthetic surface. Drawing on his insights as a master composer and conductor, Mr. Bernstein also explores what music means below the surface: the symbols and metaphors which exist in every musical piece, of whatever sort. And, finally, Mr. Bernstein analyzes twentieth century crises in the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, finding even here a transformation of all that has gone before, as part of the poetry of expression, through its roots in the earth of human experience.

These talks, written and delivered when Leonard Bernstein was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, are the newest of the author's literary achievements. In addition to a distinguished career as conductor, pianist, and composer, Mr. Bernstein is the recipient of many television Emmys for the scripts of his Young People's Concerts, Omnibus programs, and others, and is the author of The Infinite Variety of Music and The Joy of Music, for which he received the Christopher Award.

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Very Enlightening.......2004-06-06

In response the reviewer who complains that Leonard Bernstein raises more questions than he answers, the composer never purports to be doing anything in these lectures than raise informed points -- hence the title, The Unanswered Question. He gives an extremely cogent hypothesis to explain how and why we perceive music on an emotional level, and from what I've heard, nothing's been shown to disprove his ideas.

Beware that although Bernstein tries to put everything in "layman"'s terms, many of the concepts touched upon will be difficult to understand without a rudimentary knowledge of musical notation.

I found this 'book' to be extremely interesting and a unique, welcome perspective on the nature of music. Those of you interested in Bernstein's compositions will get a nice long look at the inner workings of the mind of one of America's greatest composers; and even if his insights as to the answers of the questions he's asking are erroneous, the manner in which he couches said questions is insightful in and of itself, and more than worth the investment.

Musicology at its best!.......2000-01-17

I respect Bernstein even more as a scholar of music and languages than I do as a conductor. I thought this was an inspired literary work of his, really. For example, his explanation of musical motive in Beethoven's 5th Symphony where we are shown that Beethoven has taken the common coda form, TA TA TA DUM, that many classical works end with, and turned it to a motive from which derives the motion and power of HIS entire symphony. That is Bernstein at his most insightful and brilliant. Wonderful! Illuminating! I would never have thought of things that only a conductor and musicologist can otherwise understand and explain. Thank you Lenny, we love you!

genius.......1999-09-20

This is genius. Only now scientific research is proving his incredible leap of imagination.

Is strongest when considering music.......1999-03-21

The Unanswered Question, the transcript of six lectures delivered at Hardvard in 1973, outline a new theory of music. Inspired by work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists, Bernstein attempts to find a system of musical grammar analagous to that of language. This is the weakest part of the book. He makes strained generalizations and is attempting to show something that quite possibly isn't true. Starting with the third lecture, however, his work becomes stronger. He includes an efficient analysis of Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony without any extramusical associations. Then he proceeds (with musical examples) to trace the "twentieth century crisis" in music and how Schoenberg and Stravinsky derived different "solutions." This is the strongest past of the book, and certianly worth suffereing through the first two weaker lectures. "The Unasnwered Question" is strongest for raising questions rather than answering them.

The Unanswered Question Six Talks at Harvard

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The Unanswered Question Six Talks at Harvard
Bernstein Leonard
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UEX5NA

Unanswered Question, The : Six Talks at Harvard (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures )

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Leonard Bernstein
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KXV7UO

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Here's a way to travel to the land of giddy fun without actually getting stoned. This full-color game book is filled with word teasers, crosswords, and visual puzzles all relating to marijuana. Hip Word Squares, Pothead Park, Buds or Busted, and Marijuana Maze are a few of the games.

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Good Try Next Time.......2003-05-19

Well, I didn't win it. I bought it. Maybe the average canadian pot smoker is an idiot but there was very little challenging or in anyway interesting about this book. If you are a fan of challenging word games, if your crossword puzzles need be slightly more challenging than TV Guide Junior, then do yourself a favor and peruse the sample pages IMMEDIATELY!
If on the other hand seeing skunk or finding strains or the idea of pot fun is more important than being challenged (even if challenging is entertaining yourself, I'm not talking about mensa snobbery here) or if you have never played word games or you in fact find the TV Guide crossword just too damn hard then this is probably a great book!
It was a fine attempt but fell short (like a bad deal) at $4.95 I would have been okay, at $5.95 I would have been, live and learn, but [this price]was too much.
I should have figured when the recommendation came from the author (excuse me editor)
The average smoker deserves better. Maybe the average burnout stoner doesn't, but thats another story, for another review!

I thought I had seen it all - until now........2000-08-20

I thought I had seen it all, that was until now and the pot puzzle Fun Book. 50 pages of puzzle devoted to cannabis all at cost under $12.00. Now while I can't see myself purchasing this book and understanding that this book is tailored to specific audience it was entertaining.

Overall you have crosswords puzzles, word finds, fill in the blanks, picture puzzles and more to play. The puzzles didn't seem real challenging and I lost interest within an hour. The book didn't serve any value in educating the public of the topic of pot.

Again for a specific crowd this book is fine, for everyone else I think they'll pass it up. While you may get a laugh or two this book is not one that young children need be exposed to.

This book rocks!.......2000-06-09

I won a copy of this book from pot-radio... and it rocks! I have learned a lot from this book, and had fun doing it! Great to perplex your pals! (It's got some good budshots too.)

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Death Valley Free Prison (Cyberspace RPG)
Brian Booker
Manufacturer: Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1558061290

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This is a fantastic book!.......2007-03-24

I have a virtual calculator called the DIY Calculator that accompanies my own book "How Computers Do Math" The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math : Featuring the Virtual DIY Calculator.

I recently added a "Conundrums, Puzzles, and Posers" section to the "Programs and Subroutines" page on my DIY Calculator website ([...]) and I've started to build a collection of simple puzzles for people to play with.

One of the first problems I posed was to count the number of ones in the 8-bit accumulator and to present the result as a binary value. I thought I had discovered the best-possible solution, until someone pointed me in the direction of the "Hacker's Delight". (In this context, "Hacker" refers to a hero who is manipulating code; not a nefarious rapscallion who breaks into other people's computer systems.)

I immediately ordered a copy from Amazon, and took delivery just yesterday as I pen these words. This book is fantastic - I kid you not - on the first page of Chapter 2, for example, I discovered at least five or six capriciously clever tricks that blew my solutions out of the water!

I highly recommend this book.

Absolute essential.......2007-02-28

This book is an absolute essential to the right reader. That right reader is either a low-level coder, a high-level logic designer, or someone who builds tools and libraries for same. In other words, not a lot of people. This is hacking at its bit-level finest, though. If you're among those few, or think you might be, or want a good laugh at the people who are, dig in.

It's good for things like counting the number of 1 bits in a word-length integer (hint: if you count the bits, you're doing it the hard way). It's good for things like fast division by an integer constant, or mod to a constant integer modulus (hint: if you perform division by dividing, you're barking up the wrong tree). If you can look into a 32x32 bit multiplication and see a convolution going on, you're way ahead of the game. The only tricks I know that didn't appear here are A) for purposes that almost no one has or B) for machines that almost no one has.

Warren presents the coolest collection of slimy coding tricks ever collected, with full attention to the number of machine cycles and the compiler-writer's unique needs. I've seen a lot, and this is by far the biggest and coolest collection around. I have two complaints, though, a small one and a really big one. The small one is that the author didn't score a direct bullseye on my somewhat offbeat needs. Well, he never tried to - that's just me griping that he didn't write a different book. The big complaint is that pages, lots of them, just fluttered out of this pricey book and onto the floor. GRRR. This takes nothing away from the content of the book, until some critical page flutters off never to be seen again. Still, if you can keep a rubber band around it, this will be one of the deepest mines of coolness in your uber-geek library.

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Fun, interesting and useful.......2007-01-24

My first introduction to binary operators wizardry was in a 1st year, 1st semester course in Digital Systems at the Technion, IIT. I thought it was fun. While I was trying to write a computer program to compute Karnaugh Maps for me, I run into performance problems, and then some binary hackery helped me get back on the horse.

Since then, whenever I come across some binary trick I write it down with a few examples of usage and sometimes with some reasoning why it works.

Then came "Hacker's Delight" and I felt compelled to buy it.

I wasn't disappointed at all! Not only it contained all of the tricks that I have collected, but also it contains a lot more in depth examples of how these tricks can come in handy when trying to squeeze performance from an implementation or save a few more bytes and bits.

The book also gave me a fresh perspective on the implementation of some well known algorithms with the twist of binary arithmetic. This was very enlightening.

I read the "BASICS" chapter (chapter 2) with a single breath of air, and just couldn't leave it down. Not only it was nice to have all these tricks summarized in one book, but also I liked some of the reasoning and the "so-called" proofs.

Remaining chapters were, as I mentioned before, a fresh look for me on known algorithms. This fresh look was through the glasses of binary arithmetic.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who feels comfortable with binary arithmetic and/or computer organization -- even just for the fun of it!

I'd recommend the book to developers who don't necessarily have a sympathy to this topic, but would like a Copy&Paste solution to some problems they have to tackle.

I really enjoyed reading this book, and I will probably reference it from time to time.

A rich resource for low-level arithmetic tricks.......2007-01-24

The term "hacker" in this book means someone who enjoys making computers do interesting tricks regardless of whether it turns out to be useful, not someone who is intent on circumventing computer security. Plus, how relevant would those kind of tips be coming from a book that was written in 2002? Don't let the author's definition of a hacker fool you, though - the tricks in this book are very useful.

This book is a collection of small programming tricks on various subjects. The presentation is very informal, and the methods use very basic computer math. You should know your binary number system backwards and forwards before you start this book. Either C or assembly language is used to demonstrate the hacks in code form. When assembly language is used, it is that of a fictitious machine that is representative of RISC computers. That is because the tricks are meant to be platform independent.

After disposing of basic arithmetic operations early in the book, the author turns his attention to more complex math problems such as calculating square roots. His discussion of the subject is both complex and simple. First, he explains Newton's method of computing square roots through a page full of equations that require some effort to follow. Then he gives an implementation that requires fewer than twenty lines of C code. This is followed by another method that is longer and more cryptic but executes faster, by using a binary search algorithm. Whether you are interested in the equations or merely need the C code to do your job, these solutions are efficient and elegant.

Other topics addressed include Gray codes, the Hilbert curve, and prime numbers. Gray codes are a method of arranging the integers from 1 to N in a list so that each number can be visited exactly once by flipping only one bit at a time. The Hilbert curve is a similar idea expressed geometrically: a single continuous curve which, given a space divided into a grid of squares, touches every square exactly once and does not cross itself. In each case, both the mathematical discussion and the code to solve the problem are provided.

The chapter on prime numbers is the most challenging mathematically but also one of the most interesting. It starts with a concise overview of various mathematicians' efforts to devise ways of finding prime numbers. The author is one of those people who periodically become fascinated by some problem and devote themselves to learning more about it and searching for a solution. The chapter ends not with the usual code sample, but instead with an invitation to continue the search for interesting solutions to the problem.

Clearly, the author views this book not as a finished collection, but rather as a snapshot of work in progress. After decades of interest-driven research, the author has amassed a collection of studies big enough to fill a book, and it is fortunate for the rest of us that he has written one.

Super Book.......2005-08-15

They don't make them like this anymore. Amid the "Learning XXX in 21 days" and various other computer book for which depth is almost non existent (and are read like eating peanuts), this is a refreshing book that talks about solutions to sometimes common (IMHO) coding problems.
If you enjoy programming gems, or remember that beyond your C code there is a machine that executes your program, this is the book for you. For example, think how would you count the 1 bits in a 32 bit integer - the book has an elegant solution in log(n). Aside from this, the book has about 50 or so problems, with their solutions (and proof).
Bottom line: fine book, worthy to be near my Knoth, R&K and Stroustrup books.

Is your Web site a hacker's delight?(includes related article on policy pointers): An article from: Security Management

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Is your Web site a hacker's delight?(includes related article on policy pointers): An article from: Security Management
Michael A. Gips
Manufacturer: American Society for Industrial Security
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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on August 1, 1999. The length of the article is 3794 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.

From the supplier: Forensic devices, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, system vulnerability scanners and Internet scanners are some of the tools that can be used in protecting Web sites from hackers. Forensic products such as Tripwire alert systems administrators if users have made changes on the servers. These products also detect when accidents or simple corruption alter a protected file or directory. Firewalls are hardware and software that allow authorized traffic only onto a company's internal systems. Intrusion detection systems monitor network traffic and examine message packets for abnormal activity.

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Title: Is your Web site a hacker's delight?(includes related article on policy pointers)
Author: Michael A. Gips
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1999
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: 43 Issue: 8 Page: 64(6)

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Hacker's Delight
Henry S. Warren
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