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Excellent Book!.......2004-05-13

This book is excellent in content and well written.

A great resume book even for a novice like myself........2004-01-16

This book breaks down what makes a resume great; title, skills, and all the things you need to know on how to write a damn good resume is in this book. It covers everything from IT technician, to Administrative assistance. It gives you examples on how to go for the job, and get it on the spot, and shows what to put, and what not to put on a resume.
This book is a definite get for anyone wondering on how to write a functional resume and make you feel like you are the king of the world. The books gives MANY examples for people who dont know how to write good resume's, and trust me it is HARD!
This book takes your hand, and shows you that you can write a good resume, and it is great for someone who is looking for a job, but dont know how to write a good resume, this book is a MUST GET for a employer.

THIS IS THE BEST RESUME GUIDE!.......2004-01-06

i think that yana parker's damn good resume guides are DAMN good there the best around and anyone looking for help at writing a resume or anything to do with a resume should definitly look at the damn good resumes, whether your in high school just graduating or your 60 looking for a new job and new resume yana parkers book are the place to go!

Guide Gives Examples of Resumes that Solve Problems.......2003-03-17

Well organized book of resumes. Career fields include office support, finance, education, sales management, youth and students, human resources, technical and computers. Solutions are offered to problems such as gaps in employment, putting together an attractive resume with minimal word processing software, lacking paid experience, a confusing work record, and having only part time employment. A list of these types of problems is followed by resumes that model their solutions.

As originally published in the Annotated Bibliography of "Learning A Living; A Guide to Planning Your Career and Finding a Job For People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, an Dyslexia."

Almost Perfect.......2002-08-28

I really love how the book has layouts for even the oddest job and for people who have experience, but as a recent grad from college and not having a whole lot of experience in the workforce, I found it to be not as helpful as I'd had hoped it to be.

Damn Good Resume Catalog (Damn Good Resume Catalog A Course in Resume Writing with 200 Damn Good Examples)

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Damn Good Resume Catalog (Damn Good Resume Catalog A Course in Resume Writing with 200 Damn Good Examples)

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This book presents a state-of-the-art understanding of semiconductor-electrolyte interfaces. It provides a detailed study of semiconductor-electrolyte interfacial effects, focusing on the physical and electrochemical foundations that affect surface charge, capacitance, conductance, quantum effects, and other properties, both from the point of view of theoretical modeling and metrology. The wet-dry interface, where solid-state devices may be in contact with electrolyte solutions, is of growing interest and importance. This is because such interfaces will be a key part of hydrogen energy and solar cells, and of sensors that would have wide applications in medicine, genomics, environmental science, and bioterrorism prevention.

The field effect presented here by Pavel Konorov, Adil Yafyasov, and Vladislav Bogevolnov is a new method, one that allows investigation of the physical properties of semiconductor and superconductor surfaces. Before the development of this method, it was impossible to test these surfaces at room temperature. The behavior of electrodes in electrolytes under such realistic conduction conditions has been a major problem for the technical realization of systems that perform measurements in wet environments. This book also describes some material properties that were unknown before the development of the field effect method.

This book will be of great interest to students and engineers working in semiconductor surface physics, electrochemistry, and micro- and nanoelectronics.

Conjugated Polymer & Molecular Interfaces

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Conjugated Polymer & Molecular Interfaces

Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0824705882

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Defines the state-of-the-art in interface science for electronic applications of organic materials. Updates understanding of the foundaiton of interfacial properties. Describes novel electronic devices created from conjugated polymers and organic molecular solids.

Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Interfaces (Springer Series in Surface Sciences)

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Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Interfaces (Springer Series in Surface Sciences)
Winfried Mönch
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ASIN: 3540202153

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Almost all semiconductor devices contain metal-semiconductor, insulator-semiconductor, insulator-metal and/or semiconductor-semiconductor interfaces; and their electronic properties determine the device characteristics. This is the first monograph that treats the electronic properties of all different types of semiconductor interfaces. Using the continuum of interface–induced gap states (IFIGS) as a unifying theme, Mönch explains the band-structure lineup at all types of semiconductor interfaces. These intrinsic IFIGS are the wave-function tails of electron states, which overlap a semiconductor band-gap exactly at the interface, so they originate from the quantum-mechanical tunnel effect. He shows that a more chemical view relates the IFIGS to the partial ionic character of the covalent interface-bonds and that the charge transfer across the interface may be modeled by generalizing Pauling’s electronegativity concept. The IFIGS-and-electronegativity theory is used to quantitatively explain the barrier heights and band offsets of well-characterized Schottky contacts and semiconductor heterostructures, respectively.

Interface Control of Electrical, Chemical, and Mechanical Properties: Symposium Held November 29-December 3, 1993, Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Mat)

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Interface Control of Electrical, Chemical, and Mechanical Properties: Symposium Held November 29-December 3, 1993, Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Mat)
Shyam P. Murarka , K. Rose , and T. Ohmi
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Proceedings of the Symposia on Electronic and Structural Properties of Interfaces (J. Vac. Sci. Technol., Vol. 11, No. 6)

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Proceedings of the Symposia on Electronic and Structural Properties of Interfaces (J. Vac. Sci. Technol., Vol. 11, No. 6)

Manufacturer: American Institute of Physics
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ASIN: 0883182130

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Proceedings held 5-6 June 1973 at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, NJ.

Transparent Conductive Zinc Oxide: Basics and Applications in Thin Film Solar Cells (Springer Series in Materials Science)

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Transparent Conductive Zinc Oxide: Basics and Applications in Thin Film Solar Cells (Springer Series in Materials Science)

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Zinc oxide (ZnO) belongs to the class of transparent conducting oxides which can be used as transparent electrodes in electronic devices or heated windows. In this book the material properties of, the deposition technologies for, and applications of zinc oxide in thin film solar cells are described in a comprehensive manner. Structural, morphological, optical and electronic properties of ZnO are treated in this review. The editors and authors of this book are specialists in deposition, analysis and fabrication of thin-film solar cells and especially of ZnO. This book is intended as an overview and a data collection for students, engineers and scientist.

Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Interfaces

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Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Interfaces
Winfried Monch
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Trilobites; 300 million years of success

An arthropod's view of Paleozoic Earth

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A delightful invitation, a disappointing primer (borrowed from another reviewer)

Brilliant! (from a Trilobite collector)

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
Richard Fortey
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

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ASIN: 0375706216
Release Date: 2001-11-13

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With his new book Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, Richard Fortey confirms his status as one of the best communicators of science around today. His hugely enjoyable previous book, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, was shortlisted for the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc science book prize, but Trilobite! is sure to receive even greater acclaim. Whereas Life took the reader on a whistle-stop tour of evolution from start to present--a huge undertaking that necessarily granted little space to each time period or taxonomic group--Trilobite! sees Fortey indulging in a whole book about his overriding paleontological passion, the long extinct and enigmatic creatures of the title. The result is a joy.

Trilobites--woodlicelike creatures that dominated the world's oceans long before the time of the dinosaurs--are, arguably, the most beautiful animals that have ever been chipped out of the fossil record. Fortey certainly seems to think so. His enthusiastic, almost loving explanations of the anatomy, ecology, and long evolutionary history of these fascinating vanished creatures carry the reader on an inspirational journey into the Earth's distant past. But the book is much more than a technical treatise on trilobites. We learn about Fortey himself, his formative years as an amateur then professional paleontologist, about his much-loved teachers and colleagues, and above all, about that strange but addictive pastime known as science. You may not find arthropods as charming as Fortey does, but you will not fail to be charmed by the author. A delightful read. --Chris Lavers, Amazon.co.uk

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With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.

Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved world of ancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, this book is a uniquely exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species.

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Trilobites; 300 million years of success.......2006-02-21

Richard Fortey does a good job of describing his lifetime devotion to understanding trilobites and how they fit into the evolution of life. The book is well written and with only minimal technical jargon and Latin names. It does shed light on how the trilobites can be used to trace geological changes and continental shifts over those vast time periods. From reading Fortey's book, I came away with a new interest in trilobites and their role in evolution.

An arthropod's view of Paleozoic Earth.......2005-10-01

Natural history, deep-time may conjure up images of Stephen J. Gould's wondrous creatures of the early Cambrian (530 million years ago), dug out of the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. I realize that other paleontologists have had problems with some of his anatomical descriptions and theories of punctuated equilibrium ("Trilobite" spends a chapter defending Gould from some of his more vigorous critics), but the world that he created was strange, beautiful, and compelling.

Fortey creates a similar vision of Earth as it existed for 300 million years, starting like Gould, in the Cambrian. No animal better exemplifies the drama of evolution and extinction than trilobites, except perhaps for the Johnny-come-lately dinosaurs. If you are interested in really deep time, you must travel back before the dinosaurs and peer with the author through the eyes of the trilobites. "'Look into my eyes,' the trilobite seems to say, 'and you will see the vestiges of your own history.'"

And very strange eyes they are. In the chapter, "Crystal Eyes" the author plays an exuberant, complex riff on vision as it first evolved, and most specifically on the uniquely developed eyes of trilobites. I used to think of these creatures as mud-colored tripartite beetles that crawled around in warm, shallow Paleozoic seas--interesting basically because they lasted so long. But according to Fortey, their eyes were made of calcite crystals, which "makes them unique in the animal kingdom...Look into a crystal of Iceland spar and you can see the secret of the trilobyte's vision." The author then goes into quite a bit of detail as to why double vision was not a problem for these amazing arthropods, even though their eyes were made up of six-sided crystals.

Since the trilobite's eyes were part of its exoskeleton and just as hard, it had to shed them with each molt.

Trilobites ranged from dinner-platter-size down to bitty little bugs that were barely a millimeter long. Fortey describes them in loving detail and also defends the need to collect and study them. Lord Rutherford's remark that 'all science is either physics or stamp collecting' is vigorously repudiated (I think Rutherford's aphorism must have really stung, because it gets a good bashing in nearly every natural history book in my library). Just one of the reasons why trilobites are not like stamps is that their distribution helps us determine the outlines of continents and islands that predated not just the modern world, but the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea.

Trilobites managed to squeeze through a couple of evolutionary bottlenecks, surviving and multiplying for over 300 million years. In his heart of hearts, the author admits to hoping that, like the ancient coelacanth, a remnant of this once-vast family of arthropods will be rediscovered, curled up on some unexplored sea bottom, or gazing through crystalline eyes at some newer denizen of the deep.

After reading Fortey's fascinating account, I can only hope the same.

Nice read .......2005-09-25

Truly a joy to read. This book is excellent for beginners. The author's writting style kept my intrest while the many photos and illustrations were visually stunning. Concise and imformative, I think the "average joe" will be very pleased.

A delightful invitation, a disappointing primer (borrowed from another reviewer).......2005-09-18

This was an excellent book and I greatly appreciate the enthusiasm of the author. I would have like to learn more specifics about trilobites, I would have liked more pictures, and mostly I would have liked to understand better how the author (or the scientific community) come to some of the amazing conclusions they have. For example, I didn't think it was explained well enough how they know that a small fossil is a less mature (rather than a completely different) trilobite. Also, I would have appreciated more information on how they came to their conclusions about the eye-structure (some of the pictures look pretty inconclusive to me). On the other hand, the author goes into good detail about how the community has learned about the legs and other fine details of these creatures (features that are not easily preserved nor safely hammered out of the rocks either).

I particularly enjoyed the conversational writing of the author. For me one of the best parts of this book was how he weaved scientific endeavors with history, literature, and other human activities. He talked a lot about the scientific philosophy and people in this small community, the camaraderie and competition, past and present. For sure this is a book written from a perspective, but Richard Fortey never represents it as anything else. To my mind it is a fair and refreshing perspective, so I appreciate this book. The silly reviewer from Helsinki didn't like his perspective because it did not have enough creationism in it, but at least Dr. Fortey has the integrity and intelligence to clearly state his position and process.

So why did it give trilobite three stars? It was a difficult decision, perhaps the book deserves four stars but though I learned a lot, I simply would have liked to learn more about the science. For me the one huge shortcoming of this book was the pictures and illustrations. There are two sections of "plates" printed on higher-quality paper; there are two indexes at the beginning of the book, one for "illustrations" in the text and another for the "plates" in separate sections. Additionally, there is an index in the back of the book that is completely separate from the two previous indexes, and did not seem very complete to me because every time I tried to use it to find something mentioned earlier I was not able to find it. I don't know if this is the common method in scientific publications, but I did not find it helpful. The selection of pictures seemed arbitrary to me and I don't like pictures in separate sections. All the pictures were black and white so I really don't see why they cannot be printed on the same paper. If the paper quality is too poor to keep a picture, then why are there also pictures in the text? If pictures in the text are too disruptive, then again, why are not all the pictures in separate sections? It doesn't make sense to me. There were many references to trilobites and their features (or similar ones) that had pictures but the text did not reference where. Even worse, there are many references to trilobites and their features that the author was obviously very familiar with but I could not make a clear picture in my mind because I could find no illustrations of them at all.

So in conclusion, I would recommend reading this very good book, but I would recommend buying a good picture book of trilobites to refer to alongside. Contrary to what some other reviews thought, I believe that to write this book is a very difficult and ambitious proposition. As the author reflects on, the first task of a student is to learn the language; it would be easy to bury me in Latin and technical terms that I could not (and would not want to) remember. The author gives a nice selection of advanced reading so perhaps it is my responsibility to learn the language if I want to learn more.

Brilliant! (from a Trilobite collector).......2005-08-19

I have always loved Trilobites, ever since I found a small fossil on a beach (God knows why it was there, but it felt pretty cool). This book finally helped me understand the animals I had been collecting. Fortey writes with a real passion that any reader can feel. While he doesn't shy away from in-depth science, he invites the reader to join him in understanding geology and paleontology.

I wouldn't necessarily say this book is for a wide audience. However, for those looking for a scientific adventure, this is it!

TRILOBITE : EYEWITNESS TO EVOLUTION (VINTAGE)

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TRILOBITE : EYEWITNESS TO EVOLUTION (VINTAGE)
RICHARD FORTEY
Manufacturer: Vintage Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NXI8YO

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This summer could be a disaster. Kendra's parents have invited Frank, a 15-year-old she's never met, to stay with them. And they've planned a goofy scavenger hunt for the kids, including Kendra's bratty younger brother. They have to race all around New York City and visit places like the Empire State Building and the United Nations to find answers. But once they get started, Kendra doesn't mind the scavenger hunt so much, mostly because Frank turns out to be just as interesting as all of the sights.

"With characteristic humor, tart language, and quick phrasing, Danziger's teenagers not only share a summer getting to know each other but also explore the riches of a city often perceived as dirty and dangerous." --Publishers Weekly

"Danziger handles [this] in her usual cheery, sympathetic way, with plenty of rapid-fire puns delivered by a cast of sane characters willing to recognize problems and talk things out." --Kirkus Reviews

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A school review.......2006-02-20

Kendra Kaye is stuck in her hometown, NYC for the summer. Her little brother, Oscar Kaye (O.K.) is really getting on her nerves. But their parents have a surprise for them. O.K., Kendra & Frank, the son of their parent's friends are sent on an educational scavenger hunt through NYC. This is a great book.

wonderful.......2003-02-24

I read this book for school and I think it's one of the best books I've read. It was an easy read and had a great story line. If you like reading... romantic (i guess) books this is for you. I don't think I would recomend it to anyone over 16 or so though. It was great.

great book!.......2002-11-27

I have only read this book once but it was great! It was about this family who has one of there friends sons come stay with them for the summer. Well the daughter of the family and the Son of the other family become really close. Its all about what they do over the summer and all the adventures they have. over all its pretty good.

How could you not??.......2002-07-18

I have read this book so many times I can't even count, when I first read it i thought it would be a cheesy romance novel and 2 demensional, but I am officailly IN LOVE w/ farm boy frank, the young romance-which I am waiting for-is so beautiful and "wow!" that I had to read it so many times, plus being from NY I could see where they were going and imagined a similar situation happening to me--It was amazing!

All Grown Up--but Still Remember "Harold Square".......2002-02-24

At 25 years old, I was describing this wonderful book to my boyfriend. I read it as a young teen, and the story still sticks with me today. This book is so charming, and with the scavenger hunt comes a great guide to NYC's cultural and historical landmarks, not to mention great people and FOOD!

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Remember Me to Harold Square
Paula Danzinger
Manufacturer: Egmont Childrens Books
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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Remember Me to Harold Square

Manufacturer: Dell Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 9993375764

4 Titles By Paula Danziger : Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice? There's a Bat in Bunk Five It's an Aardvark-eat-turtle World Remember Me to Harold Square

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4 Titles By Paula Danziger : Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice? There's a Bat in Bunk Five It's an Aardvark-eat-turtle World Remember Me to Harold Square
Paula Danziger
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000O7AZ72

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Four mmpb books. 4 Titles By Paula Danziger : Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice? There's a Bat in Bunk Five It's an Aardvark-eat-turtle World Remember Me to Harold Square

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