Customer Reviews:
Professional resumes review.......2000-04-29
Excellent source for example resumes. There is a great deal of variety, with each of the 200 resumes unique in some way.
However, there is no "how to" section. It is left up to the reader to determine the do's and dont's of each resume.
Book Description
This timely compilation features 365 simple actions people can take to change the world, one day - or even five minutes - at a time. Each suggested action, in 16 "helping" categories, can be started and finished in a day or less, and none requires a cash donation. Readers may choose to accomplish a different altruistic step each day of the year, activate the same tool every day, or take actions that address a personally favored issue, such as animal welfare, or the pursuit of peace. Possibilities for compassionate service include acting as driver for a battered women's shelter, planting trees or a garden at a schoolyard, recycling running shoes into a playground surface, taking a day off from consumerism, aiding low-income students in finding grants and scholarships, helping unemployed workers put together resumes, and much more.
Customer Reviews:
This Book Helped Me Help Others.......2006-05-02
"The Difference a Day Makes" is a terrific book. Karen has done a great job in communicating the importance of giving back every day. There were several new ways to give that I learned through reading this book. It is easy to read, understand and implement in your daily life. I would recommend it to anyone that wants to make a difference (and that should be everyone).
Idealism In Action.......2005-12-15
This is a nice book. It shows how simple everyday deeds can have a positive impact upon the world. Too often people who genuinely want to do something good for society honestly don't know how to go about achieving anything. This book gives great suggestions and points would-be philanthropists in the right direction.
The Difference... Helps You Make A Big Difference!.......2005-04-01
What a refreshing read - both thought provoking and resourceful, In today's "information overload" society, it's nice to have a handy resource to help me accomplish many of my personal volunteer goals without it being so much work. In fact, I'm going to buy copies for all my nieces and nephews as they are all charged with doing community service projects and, in my opinion, need to experience that "giving back," among other things, makes you feel good about yourself!
A kind of recipe collection for doing good.......2005-03-11
For some, compassionate feelings can overwhelm spare time and energy: readers with such a problem should consider The Difference a Day Makes : 365 Ways to Change Your World in Just 24 Hours a kind of recipe collection for doing good. Turn good intentions into powerful action with a guide which provides vast lists of good things which can be done in a few simple minutes or hours; from providing a resource list for a neighborhood to encouraging workplace and home use of the arts, and assisting an elder who has a pet.
Being the Difference..........2005-02-04
If, like me, you've been feeling that sending a check somehow isn't `enough', this is The resource that makes doing `more' easy.
If you're involved with inventing or organizing `service projects', it's a MUST. Definitely the handiest resource for getting your/ their imagination going anyone could possibly wish for.
And if you want to start making a difference before you even get the book, add copies for your local library and scout troops to your order. It's that great.
Customer Reviews:
Industrial Relations in the Era of Globalization.......2003-10-11
This is one of the finest books on the impact of globalization on industrial relations (IR) in general and in India in particular. It has been written as well as produced very professionally by an author whose understanding and treatment of the subject is outstanding and masterly. The book discusses a wide range of issues in contemporary IR. The book has an inter-disciplinary orientation and examines the impact of changes in economy, polity and society on contemporary IR. I consider this book as one the prized possessions in my personal library. I would like to recommend it to all scholars, academics,students and practitioners of human resource management and IR, who wish go into the why of the contemporary IR and HRM reality.
Book Description
Q Fever! (
http://www.qfever.com) is the world's most popular medical humor and satire website, with a unique, original, and savagely humorous perspective on the people and events affecting the healthcare community.
Now, for the first time, the best headlines, articles, and features from the Q Fever! website are available in convenient paperback format - perfect for quick access during rounds, or for setting a nice, hot cup of coffee on top of!
There's something in it for everyone - doctors, nurses, students, allied health caregivers ... even laypeople fraudulently representing themselves as healthcare providers. In short, it's just what the doctor ordered! (Prior authorization required by most insurance plans.)
"Hilarious! Excellent resource for those who are the counterweight of normalcy!!"-Carl Elbing, Nurstoon
"Readers who fondly remember the kind of humour usually confined to medical students' drunken reviews will enjoy the website ..."-British Medical Journal [BMJ 24 Feb 2001, 322:500]
"Confirming a diagnosis of Q Fever requires serologic testing"-Centers For Disease Control
Customer Reviews:
Cutting Edge Humor!!.......2004-02-03
To describe Qfever is to tell you that it is better than AWESOME! This book is exactly what people need to spark their lives and bring some humor and levity to it.
Not just for healthcare professionals..........2004-01-31
I bought it as a gift for my doctor thinking he'd be able to appreciate it, but my quick skim turned into a full-read. I laughed so hard I thought I'd really need to see my doctor!
I don't care what the cover says, this book is not just for healthcare professionals...Can be enjoyed by everyone. I highly recommend!
Very Funny!.......2004-01-23
Hilarious! I can't stop laughing! Q Fever has a big following on the web, now it's finally in a book form to be enjoyed. GET IT!
Great stuff.......2004-01-21
Very, very funny!! I also sent a copy to my cousin who's doing her residency in Ohio - she can't stop talking about it! If there were any issues I had with the book it's that they should have more nursing topics. Also why don't they update their website more often?? Otherwise, highly recommended if you or someone you know is in the medical field.
Awesome!.......2003-12-21
This book is awesome! I'm a third year medical student and have been following Qfever for the past couple of years. They used to have a lot of issues but now it's like three or four a year. Sigh. The book keeps me company during those long nights on Surgery. I also gave it as a gift to some friends and they love it! Crazy stuff. Get it!
Book Description
"This text provides an approach to perceptive listening and an introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. Its discussions of composers' lives, individual styles, and representative works aim not merely to impart facts but to stimulate curiosity and enthusiasm. The book was written to heighten the readers' love of music as well as to develop their listening skills." - from the
Preface to the Seventh Edition
Through six editions, Roger Kamien's Music: An Appreciation has become the most widely used text for Music Appreciation and Introduction to Music Literature courses. The author has approached his new seventh edition with the goal of re-examining the scholarship and refreshing the repertoire while maintaining the strengths that have made the book number one - the clear presentation of musical elements, the vivid depiction of music history, the carefully chosen musical examples, the detailed and informative Listening Outlines, and the unsurpassed supplements package.
Customer Reviews:
good.......2007-06-05
easy to understand and learn from, it is a textbook so that's what you are getting. Good pictures and diagrams so far. I bought here because it had the best price.
Music: An Appreciation.......2007-03-10
I ordered this book/ cd set because it was required text for a college class. It is well organized and clearly written. I especially like the way the listening guides in the book refer to specific portions of songs which are recorded so that the entire work can be played seemlessly in its entirity, or specific portions can be accessed individually.
The only thing this work lacks is impossible for any work that attempts to offer a complete appreciation of music to achieve, complete scope.
I recommend this set.
A Good Overview of Music in Context .......2006-10-22
This book does a good job of putting music in an overall historical context. For example, it notes how Baroque productions, whether sculpture or music, meant to "fill space." That accounts for elaborate melodies in music, and movement in painting and sculpture.
Music used to be written as much for the mind as the ear. In some vocal pieces, lyrics correspond to melody. For example, if the word "ascending" is used in the song, the notes of the melody also go up. Vice-versa for descending. If the song mentions one person, a single voice is used--three voices come in when three people are in the storyline.
The musical selections are varied and enjoyable to listen to.
great shape just as promised fast shipping.......2006-02-25
would buy from again everything just as promised and recieved book fast
If you have trouble remembering the names of the music pieces for school..........2005-10-07
I'm using this 5th Brief Edition with Brief Set Of Four CDs for my fall-2005 community college Music Appreciation class.
As a person with a few listening skills, I wish more joyful pieces were here. Some of the music seems overtly here for historic context; but, please don't exact the comment as negativity, but only for face-value. I feel Gustav Mahler had a tremendous impact on society particularly since the 1960s and '70s and is a strange omission. Also, I feel a section of one of Gilbert & Sullivan's operas belongs in this class. Students may relate the storytelling with orchestral music if they understood the language, and Gilbert and Sullivan composed in English. Gilbert and Sullivan operas are just as good as any other opera. English opera could be important because many of the people in my class have the attitude of, "What, you actually expect me to listen to this stuff?" Well, some people in the class are just idiotic, anyway. They don't know what they are saying; but, the quicker they relate, the more convinced we make them, that this music really is better. We must tell the students what makes better music; otherwise, they go back to Paula Abdul. Do you know what I mean?
One thing I noted, the CDs use multiple tracks for each single piece of music. E.g., Duke Ellington's C-Jam Blues, the second piece of music in the set, runs 2:38, but it is divided into 8 CD tracks so that teachers can goto a specific place within the song. I understand the point, but dividing the songs into different tracks confuses me, a student, because the class uses the CD set to test me on "music recognition". I have to hunt down the manual with every listen because the pieces aren't just more simply track-labeled according to piece. One piece may take up 16 tracks, and, initially, when I'm looking at the player, I can't always recognize when the song changes to a different composer. (Some composers sound very similar.) Granted, that's what the tests are for, but THE CD SET EVERYONE BUYS IS USED FOR STUDY. As far as the track divisions, the track method opts to appeal to the teachers before the students for a single reason: book sales depend on the teachers selecting their books for classes, so make the teachers happy. An author marketing his book is not negative, but affective.
Another alternative, which I recommend regardless, is track-naming the disc. I imagine the production cost may rise; or maybe not, I don't know. I play the CDs while I drive my car, and, if the track names were on the disc, I could just look at the CD player screen, instead of fumbling around with the booklet while I'm waiting at a stoplight. Tracknames would be useful, either way.
I like having booklets of information in CDs of classical music, or whatever music I buy. Usually, musical pieces with a foreign language means translation necessity. I believe, wholeheartedly, that foreign language classical music belongs in any class like mine, and excluding a translation seems unwise, since much of classical music history came from Europe. If anything, putting a translation in the set makes it certifiable as classical music. Instead, it has an eight-page booklet stating almost the exact information already on the backside of the CD case, which doesn't even include the first name of the composers: you have to get that from the textbook. Maybe the textbook is supposed to act as the CD booklet, but I still prefer the info in the CD case. Well, since it's in the book, then maybe this is okay, but I felt like putting that fact here because I want the CD information with the CD for reactive reference.
Many famous movies used the pieces referenced in the book, some more famously than others. Multiple viewings of certain films helped me know these pieces before I heard the CD set or began attending this class; particularly, Unfaithfully Yours (1948), and Disney's Fantasia and Fantasia 2000. Buying the movies help benefit your "music recognition" skills because the films paint imagery to the works of great composers, many of which are used in the CDs, making those pieces even more distinguishable for recognition when getting tested.
On an individual opinion, some may think Pavarotti is a great singer, I understand, but he only has one sound when he sings. He is generally incapable of the proper feeling outside of shtick. For the section of La Boheme, he fits into his part quite well, even if he doesn't rise above his normal self. It's a great piece for his singing, but I usually don't think he deserves his reputation.
CD1,1-2, Igor Stravinsky's Firebird was used as the finale of "Fantasia 2000".
CD1,37-41, Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2 Farandole was used in Preston Sturges' "Unfaithfully Yours" (1948), recently released by Criterion DVD.
CD1,42-44, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite was used in Disney's original "Fantasia". If I have to listen to the Nutcracker ONE MORE TIME,... I may flip out.
CD2,45-69, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the initial segment used in "Fantasia 2000".
CD4,16-23, Stravinsky's Rites Of Spring [Le Sacre du Printemps] is used in "Fantasia", showing Earth's evolutions of early forms of life, finally including the violence of dinosaurs.
Customer Reviews:
Not bad, from a student's viewpoint........2006-04-19
A decent compilation. I had to purchase this for my Intro to Music course at Drexel University. It's strong collection, and cuts straight to the highlight points of the songs they want you to know.
If you are thinking about buying this (older) editon of the newer 4-CD set, do it! It's cheaper, and virtually the same collection.
Music: An Appreciation.......2005-09-17
Some very good pieces; however, some of the stuff on the last cd is horrid.
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Dynamic, boldly colored markers — adapted from authentic African artifacts —depict human and animal figures, abstract designs, domestic accessories, much more.
Customer Reviews:
Gregory Mirow Never Ceases to Amaze Me!.......2004-04-06
Oh my Lord, these bookmarks are soo amazing. I picked up these suckers on an impulse buy, and I'll tell you what, I will never ever regret it. I have been carrying these around all day, and have never ever been so proud to own something so historically and culturally groundbreaking. The vibrant neonubian figures and colors symbolically pulsate and pound all five of my senses post-atmospherically. If you do not have these, then you have no idea what you are missing. Forget the forty acres and a mule, this is all you will need to get yourself by in life.
Book Description
WITH NEW FACTS AND PHOTOS!
When nothing's brewing at Central Perk anymore and their weekly fix is over, readers can still visit their Friends whenever they want with this completely authorized, fully endorsed guide to one of the biggest sitcoms ever.
Friends answers all of readers' questions-from the silly to the sublime. From who performed "the routine" to what Chandler's job was, this official guide is a scrapbook of favorite Friends episodes-filled with fun facts, sidebars, photos, hilarious trivia, and a look at the guest stars who popped in for a visit.
Updated to include facts and photos from the unforgettable final season, this authorized guide answers all your Friends questions from the silly to the sublime.
Customer Reviews:
Awesome!.......2007-09-11
I love this trivia book!! It's a lot of fun! But don't just sit down and answer all the questions at once. I like to do them occassionally, maybe while I'm watching Friends, or after i finish an episode. i love testing my Friends knowledge cuz I'm a HUGE fan and its rare that i find a question that i don't know the answer to.
Not only does this book have trivia, but it has photos of the cast, fun facts, and much more!
Highly recommended!!
Fabulous Book!.......2007-05-12
Anyone who is "Friends Freak" should have this book. The facts and trivia is wonderful. It's well-written and well organized and fun to have.
pretty goodddd.......2007-01-04
pretty good as an addition only..
keep buy other thing..
i recommend the most is the official 10 year celebration..
it's the besttt..
and of course the whole sets dvd...
Advanced level.......2006-11-25
This book is an advanced level test for friends fans. my wife and I are friends freaks, but still i was able to answer most of the question and she barely got 20% of them. I think it is difficult and that's why i love it!! I do not think it can replace taboo as it is very difficult for the people, you have to be a friendsoholic
Friends: The Official Trivia Guide.......2005-08-13
If you like Friends then you would like this book.
Customer Reviews:
Very readable.......2007-09-01
A great read. Much more practical and easier reading than some of the classics in the code inspection theme.
Essential reading for any software development team.......2002-03-22
Every developer I have known has experienced the phenomena of spending an inordinate amount of time searching for a bug only to have a colleague look at the code and find it almost immediately. Study after study has indicated that the worst review process for software is self-criticism and the best is to have other coders take a good look at it. Therefore, it is logical that a formal process for developers reviewing each others code be implemented. The problem is that the former is informal, making it "off the books" and not subject to review by decision makers. Being human, developers react differently when their livelihood is potentially at stake, which can cause problems and prevent adequate reviews of the code.
Creating a stable, scalable and structured peer review system is not something that can be done by fiat or in a short time. It requires clear managerial direction that inspires confidence and builds a sense of security for both the evaluator and evaluated. Creating such an environment is the key and that is the main point of value in this book.
Wiegers lays out in great detail how to create a culture where all involved are peers in the real sense. It is absolutely necessary that everyone in the review process understand that creating quality software is the only thing that matters. Therefore, posturing, ego tripping, ego inflating, ego protection and all related activities must be suppressed. These are the most difficult tasks for professional humans to engage in, and it requires a combination of carrying a big stick to move the process as well as a soft pillow for the necessary falls from perfection. Wiegers shows you how to do this with the skill of a counselor.
In my reading of the trade press, the recent rise in the concern for computer security has led to a great deal of coverage about errors in software. Responding to this pressure, Bill Gates has sent out a public memo noting that quality is now the number one priority at Microsoft. The best way to achieve this quality is to have an effective peer review process and in this book you can learn how to do that. In the new world order of software, your very survival may be at stake, so your plan of action should include a rendezvous with this book.
The Best In Depth Peer Review Textbook.......2002-01-30
Excellent up to date survey of the literature, excellent survey of the many methods and analysis of their differences. A rich insight into the area of peer reviews in general, including Inspections and their variations. Practical for the industrial user. Highly recommended.
Persuasive, practical.......2002-01-27
I have attempted over the years to get various organizations to buy into peer reviews. We have lots of evidence why these reviews are highly worthwhile, but their implementation has not been anything to write home about. There's always many reasons why organizations don't buy in or give peer reviews half-hearted support.
In my opinion, this book is an important contribution to the field. I'm sufficiently impressed that I've passed copies of the book to a few busy software development managers, software engineers and business managers so far. They've taken the time to look at it, and they find the book talks to them -- it is clear, addresses their issues, offers practical solutions which they may not have considered before, and is persuasive. I believe the book will have a postive influence in their organizations.
I hope to see copies in lots more people's bookshelves.
Practical & readable - a tool for all software practitioners.......2001-12-23
Practical is a key element of this book. Like Wiegers' other books, this one is well written and researched; it provides a concise guide to peer reviews along with a set of useful tools for the practitioner, or "assets" -- documents, procedures, and spreadsheets that you can implement right away to put reviews into practice.
It's amazing, but peer reviews are not a regular practice in many software organizations. Peer reviews are proven to save time, money and promote learning and understanding among project team members. Perhaps one reason for their lack of practice is that there has been, up until now, little in the literature that we can read and put into practice right away. Well, here it is!
One of the nice things about this book is that the author shows you how you can tweak peer reviews to make them work for your team or organization. He give due diligence, the psychological aspects of peer reviews. Wiegers explains all the roles involved, target work products to review, how to prepare for a review, what to record, what to measure, and even how to train on peer reviews.
The book includes a useful glossary, a set of troubleshooting review problems with symptoms and possible solutions, and those very useful assets on the author's web site(...). Example assets include: peer review process description, inspection checklist, spreadsheets for code and document inspection and a set of defect checklists.
Used in the context of careful reading of this book, teams can really do a lot to improve their products and relationships. This is a book to be read by analysts, developers, architects, project leaders and managers who care about the quality and cost of software.
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