The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide (Revised): The Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foods

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Based on the nation's #1 bestsellerPublished in January 2004, The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide has sold more than three million copies and has continuously topped national bestseller lists. An essential tool for success, the completely revised and updated guide will feature a new, more user-friendly format and an expanded list of foods, as well as the most up-to-the-minute new information on nutrition and healthy eating to aid the now millions of early adopters.The new edition will include:o An expanded nutritional breakdown: total carbs and net carbs, total fat and saturated fat, fiber, and sugar.o More food listings including meal replacement bars, other convenience foods, healthy fast-food menu items, and beverages.o FAQs organized by phase and designed to answer dieters' most common questions.o A foreword by Dr. Agatston detailing new research and outlining the changes to the diet.o Each food listing will now have a recommendation by phase. For example, bananas might be a food to avoid in the first 2 weeks of Phase One but will be a food to enjoy in Phase Two.

Customer Reviews:

Good Information.......2007-09-13

This book is a great reference guide, especially for beginners. It works for me.

Very Helpful.......2007-08-01

This little book is very helpful for a quick reference guide. Highly recommend to anyone on the South Beach Diet.

South Beach Supplement.......2007-07-19

Not exactly what I expected. Pretty small book, but good reference charts in there for lots of kinds of foods. A good guide for those committed to the diet for the long run.

Easy to use with other cookbooks!.......2007-06-16

This guide is fantastic for various reasons, as many have mentioned. My main use of it has been in connection with other cookbooks not specifically meant for the South Beach Diet. I love Italian food and have cooked out of "The Silver Spoon" for a long time. When I went on the South Beach Diet, though, I was terrified - no carbs meant no pasta! When I got my hands on this little guide, though, I was saved. Now I can flip through my Italian cookbooks and, in conjunction with this little volume, I can choose meals that fit my diet. Also, if I need to, I can use this book to replace some ingredients which may not be diet-friendly. A fantastic book and a definite winner!

Handy Dandy.......2007-04-11

This Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide is just the thing to leave on your kitchen counter. I do, and refer to it constantly! The first part of this little book describes the South Beach Diet. Next, an outline of how to use the Food Guide. Then the food guide itself. Easy to read, and use. This guide is a must for anyone on the South Beach Diet. And, even if you aren't, but watching your fats and carbs, it's amazingly useful. I am having greater success, and much less stress adapting to this healthy lifestyle, thanks to this guide.

South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide: the Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foods

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South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide: the Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foods
Arthur Agatston
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Crossing the Gen X Gap

Sum of all our frustrations

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Generation
Bruce Tulgan
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Book Description

How do we recruit and train the best and the brightest X'ers? How do we keep them challenged and productive? And how do we keep the best ones from moving on?

If you find yourself asking questions like these, you can't afford not to have The Manager's Pocket Guide to Generation X! This concise, hands-on guide will enable managers to recruit, train, motivate, and retain young employees. It explains in simple terms what makes Generation X employees different, and outlines how you can put their unique skills and characteristics to work on behalf of your organization.

Includes

A concise description of Generation Xers and why they're uniquely suited to help their employers compete effectively in the new global marketplace
Answers to the most commonly asked questions about Generation X (Are they really slackers? Do they really have short attention spans? Why do they seem to need so much feedback?)
Several self assessments so that managers can get immediate feedback on their knowledge and perceptions about Generation X
50 case studies in which Xers explain in their own words which management styles are effective with their generation, and which ones are not and why

Customer Reviews:

Crossing the Gen X Gap.......2001-09-13

As a senior baby boomer in a business where the energy of youth has great value, I have gone from wizard, to young turk, to careful planner, and finally to grandfatherly adviser. All in far too few years. It has become crystal clear to me that if I wish to help out and sometimes provide guidance I am going to have to learn how to communicate with a group of people who sometimes make me feel like I am speaking a foreign language, the dreaded Generation Xers.

Not that they are all that dreaded. But there is no question that there is a real difference both in values and in approach to work. When I happened on the small, to the point volume of advice it occurred to me that this might be just what I was looking for - a Rosetta stone that would enable communication and understanding without making somebody have to go through a major adaptation. I like Xers, to be honest, I was enough of a rebel in my day to appreciate anyone that challenges the status quo and wants to find better, less hidebound way of doing things.

Bruce Tulgan's approach it quintessentially straightforward. He provides history, motivation, and basic principles of operation for Generation X folks as well as a host of short case studies on what to do and what not to do. He defines many keys to communication with Xers that I have begun to apply at work with some surprising success. The following is a short sample:

Xers are looking for opportunities to develop skills that will help them to grow.
Xers are extremely comfortable with using information and technology.
Xers feel job security is impossible to maintain and are wary of institutions that can fail.
Xers are independent and self-reliant and like to be able to rely on their own skills and abilities.
Xers want rapid feedback to measure their return on investment.
Xers like to form long-term work relationships with those who can help them.

I wish there was a bit more meat to the book, but the truth is that there is plenty of wisdom in it's pages. I think of it as the kind of back pocket reference book that you can grab whenever you're trying to figure out an approach. And it's just the right size to keep hidden if you don't want anyone else to discover your secrets. All kidding aside, this is a useful tool in a changing work place, one that can make the difference between accomplishment and frustration.

Sum of all our frustrations.......2001-07-24

This is the book for all Gen X and Gen Y(or Millennial Generation) to give to their road-block, speed-bump Boomer bosses. It is an excellent, on target assessment of our generation and the severe differences from the Baby-Boomers. If your company is having turnover problems with the X and Y age groups, this book is a must. If you're a manager and still using a typewriter when a computer is available, buy this book to find out why everybody around you goes nuts. One word of warning for Gen X readers - this book is so frustratingly accurate about Baby-Boomers it will make your blood pressure go up. Especially, if you are like me, Gen X with no one above you management-wise but Boomers.

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Fine Work by Alan Richter.......2003-06-29

An engaging and sometimes hilarious glossary of the history and present of sexual slang. It's exploration of the roots of saucy language makes a fine coffee table book in spite of its academic approach. Richter is also an experimental musician of great renown!

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The song and now book captures that rare moment in children's lives when the ball game is more important than the score. The book is based on Roger's song The Greatest and contains a collectors' edition audio CD of the hit single.

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Learn From Children.......2007-05-13

Adults have so very much to learn from children and this book is yet another lesson. All our lives as we are growing up, we hear things like no, don't do that, you can't possibly, it'll never happen... After hearing so much negative input, we come to adulthood with negative feelings about who we are and what we can accomplish in life.

The little boy in this book teaches us that it is our attitude that makes all the difference in our lives. Not happy? Everything in your life going wrong? Just can't succeed no matter how hard you try? Go back to childhood, my friend. Rediscover the unihibited possibilities in life, the joy, the feeling of I can do anything! The biggest lesson of childhood is that the possibilities in life are limitless - if we believe in ourselves.

This book teaches us that lesson simply, beautifully and joyfully. We but need to respond and believe.

I would recommend this book to everyone. Best book I've read since "The Polar Express"

One of the greatest childrens books ever........2000-07-14

A wonderful story about a little boy with a baseball and a bat and how being successful is just a point of view. The book is based on the Kenny Rogers video of the same name. I happened to see it by accident and loved it. I was delighted when the book was published and the CD of the song included with the book is just an added bonus. This book is sure to become a classic.

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By taking a series of readings of Singapore's urban culture, Contours of Culture discusses the emergence of a new city form. Multidisciplinary in approach, it takes as its data not only government policy and official discourses, and the more quantitative elements of population census information on religion, income, race and nationality, but also a wide range of related cultural discourses in film, literature, media texts, social behaviour and other interventions and interpretations of the city. The main parameters of Singapore's socio-national construction — public housing, social elitism, racial and linguistic plurality and their management, colonial remnants and their transformation — are explained and analysed in terms of Singapore's colonial past, its rapid modernization, and its current push to compete as a global city and tourist destination.

This book should be of interest to a correspondingly wide readership, including architects and urban planners, political scientists, cultural analysts and theorists, colonial discourse scholars, urban geographers and sociologists, Asian studies specialists, graduate and undergraduate students in the above areas, and a general readership interested in cities and cultures.

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a good (and definitely opinionated!) episode guide

If you only buy one X-Files guide...

My best EVER investment!

All I ask is...

A Plea

X-Treme Possibilities: A Comprehensively Expanded Rummage Through Five Years of the X-Files (X Files)
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Customer Reviews:

a good (and definitely opinionated!) episode guide.......2004-05-11

I think this book is very cool - I bought the first edition, and then bought this "expanded" version which includes everything up to the end of season 5, plus the movie. I'm not holding my breath for the authors to come out with an "even more expanded" version - they indicate on the last page of this edition that this is their last book, although they did say that in the first edition too! But if you love the first five seasons of the show this book is great - it's written with a lot of humor but nevertheless takes the show very seriously (you've gotta love the fact that these guys actually try to make sense of the "mythology", something I gave up on doing around the beginning of the fourth season).
The authors critique everything - the acting, writing, continuity, music, technical aspects - they even have a "science advisor" who consulted specialists on the many scientific subjects dealt with in the series to monitor the writers' accuracy. I like the way the book is structured: each episode is analyzed in various categories (and like the first reviewer here I'm curious about the meaning of "Phwoar"), and the three authors each give their review at the end. There are a few mistakes, some of which are unintentionally funny - on the "Jersey Devil" page they refer to Cirque du Soleil as "Circus au Lait", which in French translates as "circus with milk"! (if you've never heard of Cirque du Soleil by now you're probably spending too much time...watching "The X-Files"!) But all in all, the attention to detail is impressive.
You'll probably have one author out of the three that you tend to agree with the most - for me it seems to be Martin Day - but it's great that these guys all go for broke in venting their opinions. This book is a great companion to the show, but it's actually a really enjoyable read on its own terms too.

If you only buy one X-Files guide..........2004-02-20

This is the only X-Files guide that I own. Consequently, I don't get the show at all after the movie because this is where the book ENDS. I am DYING for a new version! It's still immensly helpful and wildly enjoyable to read.

My best EVER investment!.......2003-08-27

OK, if there was ever a case of don't judge a book by it's cover, this was it! I bought this book over 5 years ago and everytime I pick it up it's still as fresh and entertaining as the day I discovered it. Filled with EVERYTHING you could ever want or need to know about the X-Files (or TV in general!), it's quite simply THE greatest companion of all time to any TV show or movie ever written and certainly the most worthwhile £5.99 I've ever spent!

All I ask is..........2002-01-01

As many of the previous reviewers stated, this book is the *perfect* companion to any X-Files fan. It makes me chuckle out loud each time I reread it, often with one eye tuned to the FX rerun of choice. I reference it constantly. And so, all I ask is, PLEASE do an updated edition! Four seasons short now, and there are a LOT of questions they could help answer...and it ought to be messieurs Cornell, Day, and Topping again, for their wit and insight are what made the book.

A Plea.......2001-09-07

This is undoubtedly the best work on the X Files I have read. It has an infectious analytical structure and is immensely readable. I can understand how many fans can be put off by the highly personal viewpoints of the authors, but true fans should appreciate its subjective nature. I disagreed with many of their verdicts, but that isn't the point. The X Files is an entirely human series, not exempt from mistakes or weaknesses. The authors highlight its fallible nature, causing the reader to become more critical. Ultimitely, their affectionate critique made me see the X Files in a new light, ten times more productive than the blind faith I had in the series before. I can only hope the authors read this, for I implore them to write an updated edition. It's a valuable addition to my enjoyment of the X Files!

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This book provides a basic, in-depth look at techniques for the design and analysis of parallel algorithms and for programming them on commercially available parallel platforms. Principles of parallel algorithms design and different parallel programming models are both discussed, with extensive coverage of MPI, POSIX threads, and Open MP. This second edition includes two new chapters on the principles of parallel programming and programming paradigms, as well as new information on portability. For programmers wanting to gain proficiency in all aspects of parallel programming.

Customer Reviews:

Too many mistakes........2006-02-20

I agree with the other reviewers who have said that this book is sloppy. There are just far too many mistakes for a 2nd edition book; very discouraging in an Addison-Wesley print.

The content is OK, and fairly thorough, but as another reviewer noted, there's considerable handwaving going on in some of the explanations.

Bottom line: a cleaned-up 3rd edition could be a very good textbook. Too bad I'm stuck with the 2nd edition :(

Worst text book ever written.........2005-12-02

This book is extremely poorly written. The authors glaze over complex equations and magically come up with answers that don't make any sense. For example, to anyone having taken a prior architecture course the author's are completely wrong in the majority of cache performance analysis done early on in the book. Problems associated with that topic force the reader to dumb-down quite a bit to achieve their "expected" answer.

The user is left in most cases to derive the bizarre math that is involved through the authors' hand-waiving.
One of my personal favorites is from a formula derivation given on page 340, the sequence follows from the text as:

n^2=Ktwnp,
n=Ktwp,
n^2=K^2tw^2p^2, <--what, did I miss something here?
W=K^2tw^2p^2,

On top of that there are numerous typos in the sparse visual examples that do exist. Thus it makes it even more confounding to read through.

If you are evaluating the text for a possible parallel computing course. Don't waste your time or money with this text, your students will thank you. If you are student looking to take a class that uses this text...dropping a brick on your foot might be more enjoyable. If you think I'm a disgruntled student trying to seek revenge, I'm not. I did fine in the course, and I just want to make sure that no one else gets blind-sided by the non-sensical garbage that is this text. If there was a negative rating...this would be below 1 star.

Better read Journals than this book.......2005-11-29

I bought the book a few months ago as textbook for my semester class in high performance computing. After reading the first 3 chapters I realized that this book is a waste. The examples are only solved partially, a lot of jargons (they should have put the terminology in separate table, maybe).

I was hoping, by reading the book I'd learn something essential and got the basic philosophy of high-performance computing/parallel processing. Instead, I got more confused than before reading it! (I used to be real-time software programmer, so the field is not totally new to me). The authors tried to put everything in this small 633-pages book.

Even my professor said it is useless to read the book and refer us to other papers [Robertazzi's papers], and yes, these IEEE/ACM papers are much clearly explained and understood! I also found that a website is much better explaining the concept. Another book is also I guess better: "Fundamentals of Parallel Processing" by Harry F. Jordan and Gita Alaghband.

Don't waste your money on this book.

Great book, but..........2004-04-08

Yes, this is definitely a good book. The discussions on some of the topics are in depth. Parallel algorithm designs are considered from several different angles (mostly from theoretical performance's point of view). One definitely has to get some backgrounds in algorithms before one can digest the contents of this book, thus I recommend this book only for juniors, seniors, graduate students. From the theoretical point of view this book is great, but from the "experimental" point of view is not. It lacks examples and exercises on doing the theory in the actual parallel computers. Thus you have to develop your own MPI (or openMP) understanding and apply it to the topics discussed in this book.

A sloppily written book.......2004-01-18

The content should be accessible to any graduate student but the sloppy writing style has made it unnecessarily difficult to read. Out of the many poorly written places, here is an example. In section 6.3.5 on page 248, it wrote, "Recall from section 9.3.1..." But I am only in chapter 6, how can I recall something from chapter 9. I then checked chapter 9 and found out that the forward reference was not a typo.

"Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming" by Gregory Andrews is a much better written book. Unfortunately, Gregory's book does not cover the same content.

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