Mgma Physician Compensation and Production Survey 2002

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You can easily access, analyze and share information in ways never before possible. The built-in benchmarking tools help you quickly establish fair compensation and retirement benefit packages, strengthen your negotiating position, attract new hires and evaluate individual production levels. The program allows you to search for specific data, conduct analysis, graph and download information from the highly regarded 2002 Physician Compensation and Production Survey Report, conducted by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the nation's leading medical management group.

Some of the many features of the MGMA's Physicians Compensation and Production Survey are:

Compensation Estimator predicts physician compensation using the built-in regression analysis model.
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Great Resume Book

Gallery of Best Resumes for People Without a Four-Year Degree (Gallery)
David F. Noble
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A showcase collection of more than 200 outstanding sample resumes and 30 cover letters representing the very best creations of professional resume writers. These one-of-a-kind, eye-catching resumes cover jobs from all occupational groups and at all levels and are targeted specifically to jobs that do not require a four-year college degree—jobs that require a high school diploma, post-secondary training, community college, or a two-year degree. Using the samples and Dr. Noble's writing tips, readers can create their own interview-landing resumes and cover letters.

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Great Resume Book.......2005-10-07

I had been searching for a new job and wanting to move out to California to be closer to my family but I wasnt getting any sort of responses from the resumes I sent out, not even rejection letters. I got this book and read through it, followed the advice on the resumes and the cover letters, and had someone I know that has a business look over my resume and tell me what he thought. He told it me it was an outstanding resume and that he had a position opening at his company in March 2006 but he was almost 100% with a resume like that I would have a job before then. I also posted my resume on an online job finder. I applied for jobs in California even though I am 2,000 miles away and for the first time in almost 3 years I least I got rejection letters and also I got an employer wanting an interview even though I was obviously not in California. This book really works! Get it and at least try it out, what have you got to lose a few bucks. I couldn't believe some of the salaries of jobs I was being considered for.

Gallery of Best Resumes for People Without a Four-Year Degree: A Special Collection of Quality Resumes by Professional Resume Writers (Gallery of Best Resumes for People Without a Four-Year Degree)

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Solid, good information

Gallery of Best Resumes for People Without a Four-Year Degree: A Special Collection of Quality Resumes by Professional Resume Writers (Gallery of Best Resumes for People Without a Four-Year Degree)
David F. Noble
Manufacturer: JIST Works
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Solid, good information.......2000-07-16

As a Certified Professional Resume Writer, I am always keen to keep abreast of new trends in the job-search industry. David F. Noble's Gallery of Best Resumes for People Without a Four-Year Degree is an excellent resource for both professionals like myself and the serious job hunter who needs direction on how to handle the specialized requirements of people who chose training that took less than four years to complete.

These people encompass a vast range of occupations from healthcare, paralegals, military, sales & marketing - and a host of others.

The book is well laid out and provides extensive, easy to read information for the person embarking upon the difficult task of putting pen to paper. It touches upon writing tips, job search strategies, grammar, spelling, design and layouts. "The Gallery" ventures into Part 2 of the book. Resume samples produced for "real life" people by leading professional resume writers, are grouped in categories. At the end of each resume, notes regarding style, margins, font use and reasons behind the layout and wording selection are provided.

While you won't find 50 examples of your particular job discipline, you will find a range of styles, approaches and formats that will appeal to you, and that you'll be easily able to adapt to your own particular situation. Looking at the examples (over 200) you should be able to learn the art of communicating your strengths in a variety of ways.

Cover letters, a vital part of a application process have not been forgotten. Towards the conclusion, the author provides excellent assistance in helping you produce a cover letter that speaks volumes of your ambition and strengths. 30 samples are included from cold approaches, networking and responses to newspaper advertisements - once again, allowing you to choose the type of approach that fits your situation comfortably.

The Contents page is a vast improvement over the previous offering "Gallery of Best Resumes", now ensuring quick and easy location of the samples needed.

All in all, a solid informational resource mirroring up to the minute trends, that I can highly recommend. A must for the job seeker's bookshelf.

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What was it Brett Holiday's father had said to him when he was just a kid? "I don't believe in accidents," his father said. "God puts us together with certain people in a certain place at a certain time for a reason. You'd do well, son, to find out what those reasons are."

A certain person in a certain place at a certain time for a reason. As random as it may have seemed, Brett Holiday had a divine appointment--one that would change his life in ways he could never have imagined.

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A great realistic fiction!.......2000-04-03

This book entranced me not only with its readable writing style but also with its unusual and enjoyable plot. The book also carries a great message of hope and highlights the lays we can change the world around us. It however is not a corny or "chick" book. I feel guys would also enjoy it as the author is an ex-football pro. Enjoy. :)

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Joe and his granddad are having a holiday together in bear country in British Columbia. Joe is really looking forward to using all the tracking skills and bear knowledge his granddad has taught him, but he didn't count on getting lost, being chased by a grizzly, stumbling across a poisoned lake, and encountering the ghost of a Spirit Bear. Young readers follow Joe as he fights to survive in the bear forest, in the process testing their own observational and survival skills. Will they be able to join the Xtreme Adventure team?

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The Talking Cave: Featuring Saeed Jaffrey As Karadi, the Bear (Karadi Tales Junior)

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children's treasure.......2003-03-11

It's a wonderful audio collection book. All the Karadi tales are really good. It comes in both 3& above and 4 and above age group. the 3 and above age group books are written in rhyme and prose filled with songs and picture. I purchased almost all the Karadi tales. It takes your child into the imaginary world with exciting narration and music. It has a very good educational value. My child loves these tales. I wish every child get an opportunity to enjoy this book.

Bear-cave crunches.(the bears)(and children's exercise): An article from: U.S. Kids

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The Birth of Venus: A Novel
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Sarah Dunant's gorgeous and mesmerizing novel, Birth of Venus, draws readers into a turbulent 15th-century Florence, a time when the lavish city, steeped in years of Medici family luxury, is suddenly besieged by plague, threat of invasion, and the righteous wrath of a fundamentalist monk. Dunant masterfully blends fact and fiction, seamlessly interweaving Florentine history with the coming-of-age story of a spirited 14-year-old girl. As Florence struggles in Savonarola's grip, a serial killer stalks the streets, the French invaders creep closer, and young Alessandra Cecchi must surrender her "childish" dreams and navigate her way into womanhood. Readers are quickly seduced by the simplicity of her unconventional passions that are more artistic than domestic:

Dancing is one of the many things I should be good at that I am not. Unlike my sister. Plautilla can move across the floor like water and sing a stave of music like a song bird, while I, who can translate both Latin and Greek faster than she or my brothers can read it, have club feet on the dance floor and a voice like a crow. Though I swear if I were to paint the scale I could do it in a flash: shining gold leaf for the top notes falling through ochres and reds into hot purple and deepest blue.

Alessandra's story, though central, is only one part of this multi-faceted and complex historical novel. Dunant paints a fascinating array of women onto her dark canvas, each representing the various fates of early Renaissance women: Alessandra's lovely (if simple) sister Plautilla is interested only in marrying rich and presiding over a household; the brave Erila, Alessandra's North African servant (and willing accomplice) has such a frank understanding of the limitations of her sex that she often escapes them; and Signora Cecchi, Alessandra's beautiful but weary mother tries to encourage yet temper the passions of her wayward daughter.

A luminous and lush novel, The Birth of Venus, at its heart, is a mysterious and sensual story with razor-sharp teeth. Like Alessandra, Dunant has a painter's eye--her writing is rich and evocative, luxuriating in colors and textures of the city, the people, and the art of 15th-century Florence. Reminiscent of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, but with sensual splashes of color and the occasional thrill of fear, Dunant's novel is both exciting and enchanting. --Daphne Durham

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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.

But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.

The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.

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¿Simply amazing, so brilliantly written...almost intolerably exciting at times, and at others, equally poignant.¿
¿Antonia Fraser

¿A beautiful serpent of a novel, seductive and dangerous...full of wise guile, the most brilliant novel yet from a writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts. Dunant¿s snaky tale of art, sex and Florentine hysteria consumes utterly¿but the experience is all pleasure.¿
¿Simon Schama

¿Sarah Dunant has given us a story of sacrifice and betrayal, set during Florence¿s captivity under the fanatic Savonarola. She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher: juxtapositioning the humane against the animal, hope against fanaticism, creativity against destruction. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force.¿
¿Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

¿Dunant has created a vivid and compellingly believable picture of Renaissance Florence: the squalor and brutality; the confidence and vitality; the political machinations. Her research has obviously been meticulous....A magnificent novel.¿
¿The Telegraph (London)

¿It¿s to Dunant¿s credit that the vast quantities of historical information in this book are deployed so naturally and lightly....On the simplest level, this is an erotic and gripping thriller, but its intellectual excitement also comes from the way Dunant makes the art and philosophy of the period look new and dangerous again....Theology has rarely looked so sexy.¿
¿The Independent (London)

¿No one should visit Tuscany this summer without this book. It is richly textured and driven by a thrillerish fever.¿
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¿[Dunant¿s] control, pace, and instinct are well-nigh impeccable.¿
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Overrated, Little to It.......2007-09-23

Overrated, especially the writing, which is ordinary and pedestrian, lacking in style. The heroine is a stock character--a young girl almost of marriageable age, awkward and thought unattractive, chafing at her limited female role in life. Learned in the classics and art, or so it is said, she passionately wants to paint the saints, but cannot get instruction as a woman. The classics barely enter her head in the book, only religion almost to the exclusion of everything else. I doubt people thought of nothing else even in an era where religion played a large role--here almost to a sleep-inducing point. The backdrop is Savonarola's sudden grip on Florence and his downfall, nothing else of much interest happens in the book. There is a brief limp romance, but the heroine is neither very interesting nor does she do very much. Lacking in personality, she sort of deserves to end up content as a nun after an unremarkable life. The Medicis are mentioned only as past rulers of Florence, so we don't really see them either. None of the glamour of Florence of the time really gets face time because as a woman she is not privy to it. The research appears good, however.

It was doing good and then.......2007-09-06

it just fell apart for me. *Spoilers***
Though most of the book is entertaining, but each night after set the book down I kept asking myself-what is this all about? True, what you think the book is about changes several times, by the time I reached part IV, I'm more than a little annoyed. While I can understand and appreciate the obvious dedication and research that went into creating this novel, I think I would have appreciated a little less painting lessons and more plot. What was the point of the serial killings? Sure murder is a big deal but not when it's going on during a mini-religious crusade and not when no one cared. I thought that Alessandra was going to turn into a mini-private eye and find out whether her "love" was indeed a murderer. Nope. At the age that Alessandra discovered the painter's graphic sketches, she was still very young and really bore no reaction to them. She wasn't afraid of him or anything. She was just willing to keep that information to herself. She didn't even attempt to tell anyone about the disturbing sketches. That seemed unrealistic to me, especially given her supposed innocence. I do like what the author created with Erila-sure she was a slave, but she had a little more demension than some poorly-executed Hattie McDaniel's rip off. And out of all the women, she was the most free. I was even disappointed in the thin romance. I could care less about Alessandra and the painter as a couple. I would have loved to explored the complexities of her marriage more. That held the most potential for emotional angst and drama. It could have been more juicy than what was presented. I don't like how we don't know what happened to her daughter or the painter at the end of the book and certainly didn't like Alessandra's last act. Why would would Erila help her with that? Heck, Erila was even older than her. Instead of Erila living with her, I think it would have been a full circle if in the end they live together again, but this time it's Erila's place and they were equals. Erila had a business. Why couldn't Alessandra pick up her father's work? Florence was flourishing again. The last fifty pages felt like the author had run out of things to talk about and was petering along just typing to her contracted word-count. Sex in the convent-heck. Why didn't she just leave with the man-if you're going to break vows to God anyway? Why hand over your child and then check out? I removed one star for the last act alone. Overall, it's just so-so.

Great .......2007-08-23

This was a beautiful book. So far Ms. Dunant has not let me down. Not only does she tell a marvelous story, you are learning along the way. I feel like I am in the room as the story is unfolding. Beautiful!

Setting the Record Straight.......2007-08-06

Since there are so many reviews of this book, I won't add another long one, although I loved the book. What I DO want to address is the questions (and answers) so many previous reviewers pose concerning the identity of one of the book's main characters-- that never-named fellow always referred to as "The Painter."

I was amazed at how many readers were convinced that this character was based on a real artist of the time, and even more astounded that so many thought this artist was ITALIAN! Dunant states early in the novel (page 9 of paperback edition) that The Painter is FLEMISH, which ought to settle the matter of his nationality once and for all for readers who identified The Painter as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Paolo Uccello or Hans Holbein (the last-mentioned a German artist).

The character called "The Painter" is entirely fictious; there's no Flemish artist of that era who in any way conforms to Dunant's creation.

A wonderful book.......2007-07-28

OK this book is a great read. All things are not historically accurate but that is why it is called fiction.

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The Birth of Venus: A Novel
Sarah Dunant
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LOT 2 NOVELS THE BIRTH OF VENUS & IN THE COMPANY OF THE COURTESAN

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Set of 4 Standalone Novels By Sarah Dunant - Birth Marks, Transgressions, Mapping the Edge, The Birth of Venus

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Amor Y Muerte En Florencia / The Birth of Venus (Best Seller)

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