The Overnight Resume, 2nd Edition

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Great, Easy to use and read Resume Book

Good book

must have resource..

Great book that cuts through the mystery of resumes.

The Overnight Resume, 2nd Edition
Daniel Asher
Manufacturer: TEN SPEED PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1580080413

Customer Reviews:

Great, Easy to use and read Resume Book.......2003-03-11

As others have said, an excellent book for quickly generating a high quality resume easily. Have shared it with others who really valued it, too. Kudos, Asher!

Good book.......2002-05-16

This book doesn't "talk down" to you, isn't a "soul-searching" resume book, and helps you crank out a good-looking resume in a day.

must have resource.........1999-09-24

I've used the Overnight Resume off and on for five years and have tripled my income. I can't wait to read the newest edition.

Great book that cuts through the mystery of resumes........1999-01-06

This book does exactly what it says it will -- gives you an excellent resume overnight. Cuts through the waste found in most resume books and delivers what is needed. No matter who I was I would not hesitate to write my resume with the aid of this book.

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Over Priced advice

The Overnight Job Change Letter
Donald Asher
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0898155959

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Over Priced advice.......2004-01-22

This book has lots of good information but it is NOT worth $40.
$20 maybe.

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To be successful on the job, workers must be able to communicate with their co-workers and supervisor. Your students will learn how important it is to speak, listen, read, and write effectively, and that their communication skills will influence their job evaluations and promotions. Through the use of a "Communication Model", they will see a step-by-step explanation of the process of communicating.

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This is an inquiry into the tactics and strategy of conflict (and cooperation) as they related to collective bargaining negotiation.

Strategy and tactics in labor negotiations

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Strategy and tactics in labor negotiations
Edward Peters
Manufacturer: National Foremen's Institute
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Bargaining strategies: Collaborative versus competitive approaches ([Cases and notes])

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Bargaining strategies: Collaborative versus competitive approaches ([Cases and notes])
James P Ware
Manufacturer: Distributed by HBS Case Services, Harvard Business School
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000714JKY

Management strategy in collective bargaining negotiations;: How to negotiate and write a better union contract,

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Management strategy in collective bargaining negotiations;: How to negotiate and write a better union contract,
William J Baade
Manufacturer: National Foremen's Institute
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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STRATEGY AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING NEGOTIATION

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STRATEGY AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING NEGOTIATION
Carl M. Stevens
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Reprint
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTPB88

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A compendium of hysterically funny travel crises--and not of the tame "I asked for a hamburger on the train to Frankfurt and got a..." order; these are gems from the field, horror stories written by 21 anthropologists, botanists, and biologists. There are some reports on the well known, such as Kelly Stewart's memory of Dian Fossey packing a pistol in a fruitcake as she crossed into Rwanda. The dominant and disarming truth that reigns in this utterly delightful volume? "Almost every exciting bush story I have ever heard or experienced," cites one contributor, "has been due to the protagonist's stupidity." A must-read for those who ate up its predecessor, the 1994 bestseller I Should Have Stayed Home.

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Humourous, inspiring, inquisitive.......2006-03-13

A field researcher myself, I pleasantly related to, was heart-warmed by, and made to reminisce, the excitements and hesitations of working in the field.

Field research brings varied experiences to the individual; some pertaining solely to work, to life at large, but also to the heart. I've Been Gone Far Too Long delivers a broad and balanced collection of experiences from diverse anthropological, medical, biological, cultural and social perspectives.

It is largely the good editorial that allowed the humour, fear, thrill, and even romance of the writers to be carried through to the reader. With engaging narratives and theatrical prose, you're invited to walk the road less-travelled with these select field researchers, and experience a fraction of what it's like to have to consider survival whilst gathering data for a thesis or story; where all you really want is neither a convenience store nor a fluffy bed, but simply a comfortable and secure toilet.

However, what this books fails to communicate is detail. The editorial could've had greater impact if it included lengthier stories that allowed for enhanced character development and insight into the projects that each of the researchers were involved in. This would've in turn, given the reader greater depth into each of the environments and experiences that were encountered. I felt several stories had the potential to instil greater curiosity and illuminate keen issues, but most stories reached their conclusion before any of that was allowed to arrive.

I've Been Gone Far Too Long celebrates the privileges of working in enriching environments amidst diverse peoples and inspiring circumstance. You'll realise that at the end of each story, what the writer truly wants to say, is quite contrary to the title, and that is, "I'm glad I came."

Pleasantly, but not spectacularly, engaging.......2005-05-25

For anyone who harbors romantic notions of scientific fieldwork -- say, camping in a wilderness Eden with little more to do than observe wildlife and join in cultural exchanges with friendly natives -- this book offers a bucket of cold water. Researchers who have been there point out the often unreported side of science in the wild: natives who threaten to kill you, poisonous snakes in inconvenient places, bureaucrats who block you from doing your work, bad food, animals that steal your food, animals that consider YOU food, and unreliable boats, cars and airplanes that have a habit of breaking down in the worst of situations.

And that's just some of the examples.

While "I've Been Gone Far Too Long" offers 21 different stories from different authors, it manages to maintain a remarkably even level of quality. Each of the stories are pleasantly, but not spectacularly, engaging. Each offers some folly, misadventure or misunderstanding, but usually these are mild rather than outrageously wild. There are plenty of chuckles, but few gut-busting laughs.

In particular, I liked Dorothy Cheney's story of a researcher trying figure out the puzzling behavior of Kenya's Maasai tribesmen (who are themselves puzzled by the researcher) and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder's story of taking some tribal elders to find an ancient grave site in Tanzania. The only story that I thought fell flat was A. Magdalena Hurtado's stiff description of her work in the Paraguayan jungle.

To be fair, this book may paint a picture of scientific fieldwork that overemphasizes the problems. Some of the authors do stress that even amid the difficulties there are rewards. One character says: "Fieldwork is an adventure that is filled with anxiety and despair, the routine broken only occasionally by moments of sheer exhiliration."

One final note: I'd suggest reading the Afterword by Nigel Barley first, or at least not waiting until the end. It offers some observations that put the stories of the book in some context.

Uneven but Generally a Good Read.......2001-02-12

This book proves that getting a PhD in some kind of natural history does not guarantee great writing skills.

But.... There are at least two memorable stories in here, and actually the one by the scientist who was netting birds in Borneo is very well written and is bust-your-britches hilarious.

Probably an excellent gift for your college professor friend who is about to go do some field research in some exotic locale. Not recommended for someone who doesn't like camping or travel.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent piece of work.......2006-03-27

Although I do not build guitars myself, I am highly interested in its construction techniques. I have been an amateur guitarist for over 25 years now and planning to buy a handcrafted instrument build by one of the contemporary maestroes. In order to be well prepared I wanted to learn more on the history of guitar building, famous instruments and detailed info on how to build a guitar myself. Hauser, Romanillos, various instruments described in great detail with complete instructions on how to build these instruments yourself. The instructions are accurate, elaborate and extremely thorough and even aimed at people who have no expiernce in woodwork at all. This book has it all, even adresses where to obtain wood,tools etc. Highly recommendable!

Greatest book on classical guitar.......2003-11-01

Great book that has measured drawings of many master guitars. Unlike steel string guitars, where a few models dominate, and look different, say Gibson vs. dreadnaught martin, classical guitars look externally quite similar, while varying a lot internally, and otherwise. Many of the great artists of the steel string guitar play factory models, for a variety of reasons. Top classical guitarists largely play models that originated in small shops with one or a few craftsmen. For these reasons anyone who wants to make a study of building classical guitars will find this eclectic group of guitars very important.

However, one should consider:

The building instructions are 1) European in orientation, few jigs, open assembly and so forth, actually the best place for any guitarmaker to start, but not how most here do; 2) Weak in places, because the writer is not an expert guitar builder himself, though overall very helpful, and a useful reference.

The flip side of a great book on classic designs is that it isn't a good book on current designs. Guitar making theory has advanced somewhat (though one doubts the new instruments are better, they are nonetheless preferred by many anyway). Tone vs. durability or volume for instance. There has been a huge amount of new detail added to modern classicals, for instance work on intonation, volume, wolf notes, fingerboard playability, longevity, and so forth. this stuff isn't here, but on the other hand, it's plastered over the internet.

If you have seen the violin book, this one isn't the same. The violin book was partnered with a greatish builder. Deals a lot with modern practice (though being violins, that isn't that different anyway), and the violin book doesn't have lots of useful measured drawings (any in fact), because you can get patterns of the ouline parts for strads etc...

With whatever reservations, this is the greatest book on the classical guitar, and very reasonably priced, it used to sell for 100.

THE book on guitar making.......2001-06-26

Having read all the other books on guitar making, I was amazed to find this one, Making mAster Guitars, so clear, detailed, yet logical and easy to follow. For the first time I felt able to tackle making my own guitar, and the results were pleasing. It would have been nice to have some colour pictures of the historial rosettes, etc., but even so, I advise any aspiring guitar makers to get this one.

I want to try making a violin next, and I will certainly be buying The Art of Violin Making, by the same author.

A great book. It has really helped me make good guitars........1999-03-25

This is the clearest, and most well-explained text I have found on guitar making. Everything is explained in great detail, and is therefore easy to follow. Courtnalls new book, THE ART OF VIOLIN MAKING, is similarly exellent on violin making, and has a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin.

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Making Master Guitars
Roy Courtnall
Manufacturer: Hale Robert
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K44LL0

Book Description

The latest in the award-winning Counterpunch series detonates an explosion of voracious, opinionated and witty fireworks on the unexpected intersections of politics, art, music, architecture and sex.

In addition to 13 essays by Cockburn and St. Clair-dissecting everything from Angelina Jolie's connections to sex, death and the French Revolution to their famous "best books of the last 100 years." Serpents in the Garden showcases essays from the nation's most exciting and radical cultural critics-including music historian Bruce Jackson, historian Peter Linebaugh, Lenni Brenner, scriptwriter Ben Tripp, blues pianist David Vest, sex therapist Susan Block, JoAnn Wypijewski, folklorist Susan Davis, Ron Jacobs, Susan Martinez and Andrew Cockburn.

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Designed to turn the unpolished performer into an entertaining magician, this book presents fail-safe magic, essential fingerwork, sleight of hand, card tricks, and mental magic, along with the basic principals of showmanship and stage presence to help budding magicians create original riveting acts.

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The last several years have seen some exciting advances in the field of real-time graphics. Starting slowly for beginning programmers, this book begins by reviewing recent 3D graphics developments and with an introduction to vectors, matrices, colors, and lighting. Then, it's on to rendering graphics! Learn various vertex and pixel shader techniques, discover how to use video as a texture, and get the scoop on several techniques for picking objects in a scene. Whatever your level of programming expertise, let this book serve as your guide to mastering the possibilities of real-time programming.

Customer Reviews:

Best Direct3D Book I've Seen Thus Far.......2003-09-15

I picked this book up about a year ago as it seemed to start from the beginning and cover much ground. Little did I know at the time that this would be the best book I'd find on the topic a year later. The coverage on shadow volumes and shadow maps is impressive. The discussion of things such as the depth buffer and stencil buffers is good. Plus having access to the various vertex and pixel shaders code made it easy to learn from just reviewing the code.

Outside of the SDK, this is the only D3D book that I continue to reference, even as I move to DirectX 9.

Good book.......2003-05-29

This book helped me understand vertex shaders and pixel shaders, which was the point of the book. The only thing I did not like about the book was that some of the code had bad logic. But its very readable code and I must give the guy props, he must have coded this super fast. Plus his chapter on video was werid and hard to understand and the code was akward and to me was out of place in the book. It had way to much source code and no explaination of why it works. His other book on curves was good too ... check it out.

Good book.......2003-05-29

Simply Amazing D3D learning book!.......2003-02-28

Hi! I guess I'll start by saying what do you have to know and have in order to benefit from the material covered in this book. First of all, you must have some experience in win32 programming under windows, because the author does show you the code required for your app to work, but doesn't explain it. Second, you have to have a VC++ 6.0 compiler and Dx8.0 RunTime/SDK to compile and write any sample programs. Third, you have to know some Object Oriented Programming, such as classes and pointers. And the last thing you have to have is the enthusiasm to fuel your work. Now on to the review. The author provides very good and clear examples, as well as very much actual code needed to accompish them. The book teaches D3D from top to bottom, everything from simple polygons to complex model loading and pixel/vertex shaders! I must go ahead and agree with the 1st review that this book has everything the "Special Effects" book lacked. By this I mean it doesn't just give you function prototypes and leaves you stuck by fuguring out what to put in them, it actually provides very good and concise code. So if you really want to start learning power of D3D at its best, for your apps/games/anything you better go ahead and grab this book! This will skyrocket you skills to the next level. I highly recommend this book for beginning gamedevelopers!(like me). With the huge incomes in entertainment industry in the future you will place yourself in a very good position.

Finally.......2002-05-19

Fantastic book for those wanting a reference title to vertex shaders and pixel shaders... Bezier curve shader deformations, color manip via pixel shaders, etc...

This is everything that the "Special Effects" book lacked, including special effects and correct linear algebra : ) It's almost as if someone edited this book before it went to press, which is really saying something for the folks over at Premier Press.

It's too bad some doofus is in a Matrix suit on the back cover and also a shame that 350 pages are devoted to an intro developer (in an advanced book)

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