Wheldon's Costing Simplified

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Wheldon's Costing Simplified
Harold J. Wheldon , L. W. J. Owler , and J. L. Brown
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Jam-Packed Resource for Anyone Interested in Workplace Teams

The Team-Building Workshop

The Team-Building Workshop
Vivette Payne
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Of all the challenges faced by organizations today, team-building ranks as one of the biggest--and most critical. With organizations increasingly dependent on high-performance teams for virtually every imaginable activity, teamwork has become a major business strategy--and getting teams to work an absolute necessity.

THE TEAM-BUILDING WORKSHOP was written specifically to help readers design and lead a two-day team-building workshop that achieves measurable results. Using the six-step team-building process and wealth of ready-to-use training materials, readers will be able to:

* Recognize when team building is the right solution * Generate true commitment to team building * Handle resistance to team building * Accurately assess the team's needs * Cure dysfunctional teams, resolve team conflict, and rebuild team trust * Use team building to improve productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction.

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A Great HR Tool!.......2002-04-13

The "Team-Building Workshop" has proved to be a fantastic resource in our organization. This how-to book is a great tool that can be utilized by either Managers or HR Professionals, and is great for beginners in team building, as well as those that are more experienced. This book has provided our HR organization with the strategies and techniques to conduct team building sessions in both proactive and reactive situations, large and small without having to outsource. I highly recommend this book.

Jam-Packed Resource for Anyone Interested in Workplace Teams.......2002-04-04

This book offers a terrific balance of "principles and practicals." I found the author's grasp of workplace teams and their purpose (as well as when not to use them) to be very "real-world." As a seasoned corporate trainer, I am always on the look out for impacting resources, and this definitely tops my list in the Team-Building category. If you are new to workplace teams, or a veteran team-builder, you will find real gems in this volume. Ms. Payne uses an easy-to-follow format for each chapter: introducing the idea, discussing its value, giving concrete examples, and, most important to me, providing a template to get you started using the idea in your workplace situation. She even includes an Appendix with all the major tools and ideas laid out for overheads. This book will be helpful to HR personnel who need to provide guidance to team leaders in their organization; trainers seeking fresh ideas and tools for their team-building offerings; and managers who are looking for the practical steps one must take to create and sustain a high-performance work team. In this era of workplace collaboration and cooperation, The Team-Building Workshop, is a welcome resource for anyone trying to achieve more with and through others!

The Team-Building Workshop.......2002-03-28

What a fabulous book! The author does a great job in providing helpful tools and tips for assessing needs and facilitating team building sessions and it's done in a way that is easy to understand. I highly recommend this book to supervisors and HR professionals, or anyone else that is interested in building high performance teams!

Building a Power Team Training Workshop: Lessons on Recruiting

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Building a Power Team Training Workshop: Lessons on Recruiting

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3 tape series covering booking, coaching, selling, image, and attitude.

Team-Building Skills (Mcgraw Hill One-Day Workshop Series)

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Team-Building Skills (Mcgraw Hill One-Day Workshop Series)
Ralph Lewis
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Build unifying team skills in just a day If your organization is teaming up employees to improve quality and develop creative synergy-but is concerned your workers don't know their team role or embrace the team ethic-the McGraw-Hill One-Day Workshop in Team-Building Skills, by Ralph Lewis, can help you get them thinking and working together fast. Whether you're an experienced trainer or a virtual novice, this all-in-one course packs the step-by-step scripts, handouts, slides, and other materials you need to train unlimited groups of 6 to 20 employees to understand the 4-part dynamic to every team, evaluate their personal team preferences, learn productive team-meeting habits, assess their team's problem-solving effectiveness, work through intra-team conflicts, and much more. McGraw-Hill One-Day Workshops pack all the scripts, readings, exercises, slides, and other materials you need to train unlimited groups of 6 to 20 employees at your own pace, on your own schedule, and in the privacy of your own in-house facilities. Put them to work to teach: Team-Building Skills: the easy way to make sure all team workers know their team role and embrace the team ethic.

Conductor to lead workshop on team building.(Issues@Work)(Roger Nierenberg): An article from: Fairfield County Business Journal

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Conductor to lead workshop on team building.(Issues@Work)(Roger Nierenberg): An article from: Fairfield County Business Journal
David J. Glenn
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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 354 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conductor to lead workshop on team building.(Issues@Work)(Roger Nierenberg)
Author: David J. Glenn
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Date: September 22, 2003
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NYPA opens its doors for green building workshop.(PROPERTY MANAGEMENT): An article from: Real Estate Weekly

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NYPA opens its doors for green building workshop.(PROPERTY MANAGEMENT): An article from: Real Estate Weekly
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Release Date: 2007-07-02

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This digital document is an article from Real Estate Weekly, published by Thomson Gale on June 20, 2007. The length of the article is 639 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: NYPA opens its doors for green building workshop.(PROPERTY MANAGEMENT)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Real Estate Weekly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 20, 2007
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Volume: 53 Issue: 45 Page: 28(1)

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Workshop gets to the core of redevelopment challenges.(ASSOCIATES: EVENTS AWARDS): An article from: Real Estate Weekly

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Workshop gets to the core of redevelopment challenges.(ASSOCIATES: EVENTS AWARDS): An article from: Real Estate Weekly
Gale Reference Team
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Release Date: 2007-03-24

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This digital document is an article from Real Estate Weekly, published by Thomson Gale on March 7, 2007. The length of the article is 450 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Workshop gets to the core of redevelopment challenges.(ASSOCIATES: EVENTS AWARDS)
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Publication: Real Estate Weekly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 7, 2007
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Building the team!: A team nutrition workshop for high school coaches and athletic trainers : instructor's manual

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Building the team!: A team nutrition workshop for high school coaches and athletic trainers : instructor's manual
Kathleen Marie Laquale
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Team Building (Kogan Page One-day Workshop Packages)

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Ralph Lewis
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Team Building: Participant's Guide (Kogan Page One-day Workshop Packages)

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Many nations around the globe are unable to experience a change in government without violence and bloodshed, but in America a peaceful transition from one presidential administration to the next has always been the case. Regardless of the bitterness surrounding a campaign like the 2000 election, the United States went through no coups or forcible attempts to hinder the change from the Clinton to Bush administrations. While such a state is important to a democracy, and indeed a rarity when compared to the rest of the world, Americans often take for granted the transition process. Behind this stable exterior, though, is a regulated process to ensure the orderly continuation of government. The president-elect has fewer than eleven weeks between election and inauguration, making the need for a defined process clear. Several pieces of legislation have been enacted to oversee all aspects of executive branch workings in anticipation of the new president.

This book takes a close look at how the transition process has taken shape and been applied to each administration change since John F. Kennedy's election in 1960. Included are presentations and examinations of legislation pertaining to the transition process, the text of the major laws, and general considerations for the presidential transition process. Anyone hoping to understand one of American democracy's most shining characteristics, the peaceful change in governments, needs to be familiar with the material discussed here.

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Experimentation: An Introduction to Measurement Theory and Experiment Design (3rd Edition)
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Experimentation, an Introduction to Measurement Theory and Experiment Design
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This book is about the growing dominance of transnational corporations over many aspects of our lives, from executive super-pay to private sector pension funds. The authors of this book look at the hi-tech agro-chemical and genetic engineering companies that now dominate the food chain. In this detailed account, they show how a handful of companies have accelerated the industrialization of agriculture; penetrated the previously independent world of scholarly research; manipulated public opinion, and more.

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Debunking the hyperbolic and misleading claims of biotech.......2006-07-23

"Hungry Corporations" by Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher is an excellent introduction to the corporate agribusiness and biotechnology industry. The author's discussion and analysis of how industry and government are collaborating to literally force-feed a profit-driven agenda on a mostly uncaring or unknowing public is eye-opening. The book is well-supported by ample research and scores of real life news stories and case studies, which lends a high credibility factor to the authors; the solid scholarship in this book contrasts sharply with the hyperbolic and misleading claims emanating from the agribusiness sector, which makes the industry appear to be particularly insidious and cynical.

The authors dispel industry's claim that genetically modified (GM) crops have been developed as a supply-side solution to alleviate hunger, which in fact is a problem that is attributable to economic and social inequality. Public relations (PR) firms have been successful in stoking the public imagination and belief in miracles to put a Panglossian spin on the agribusiness industry's dangerous experiments. We learn how industry propaganda often works in tandem with government trade initiatives to promote corporate agribusiness interests overseas. Therefore, to the extent that the U.S. is home to the most influential biotech companies and the most influential government player in the globalization game, the PR industry's success in pacifying the U.S. public has been key to GM crops gaining wider acceptance worldwide.

The book discusses the many ill effects of the biotech revolution, which includes a loss of indigenous knowledge, decreased genetic diversity and contamination of non-GM plants. All of this, of course, comes on the heels of the Green Revolution which had boosted world agricultural output at the cost of significant soil and water depletion as well as the displacement of millions of small farmers from their fields. The authors are rightly worried that this ongoing assault upon the productive capacities of the earth and the people who live closest to the land could spell disaster for us all; with knowledge transferred from the field to the laboratory, the likelihood of catastrophic events atributable to disease and pest infestations increases while humankind's collective ability to adapt to rapidly-changing environmental conditions decreases. Pointing to resistance movements in the global south, however, the authors are hopeful that a diversity of local, sustainable farming practices might provide solutions.

To that end, "Hungry Corporations" serves to help readers become better informed about these critical issues. I highly recommend it to everyone concerned about their own health, the future of the food supply and the health of our planet.

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The distribution and classification of life on earth has long been of interest to biological theorists, as well as to travellers and explorers. Cladistic biogeography is the study of the historical and evolutionary relationships between species, based on their particular distribution patterns across the earth. Analysis of the distributions of species in different areas of the world can tell us how those species and areas are related, what regions or larger groups of areas exist, and what their origins might be. The first edition of Cladistic Biogeography was published in 1986. It was a concise exposition of the history, methods, applications of, and prospects for cladistic biogeography. Well reviewed, and widely used in teaching, Cladistic Biogeography is still in demand, despite having been out of print for some time. This new edition draws on a wide range of examples, both plant and animal, from marine, terrestrial, and freshwater habitats. It has been updated throughout, with the chapters being rewritten and expanded to incorporate the latest research findings and theoretical and methodological advances in this dynamic field.

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Cladistic Biogeography / Why the Controversy?.......2000-08-04

In "Cladistic Biogeography," Christopher J. Humphries and Lynne R. Parenti offer a detailed but easily digestible analysis of the significance that geographic distributions of species have with respect to the history of those species and the geography that they inhabit. Despite the seeming harmlessness of the subject, the book touches upon very controversial notions. Anyone even skimming it may feel overcome by an avalanche of evidence that modern geological theories need some revising in order to account for a plethora of biogeographical facts.

The main thesis of cladistic biogeography is perhaps best described with an example. Imagine that several different species (involving plants, fish, insects, and animals) are restricted to two particular areas in South America that are separated by the Andes mountains. According to cladistic biogeography (or at least according to Parenti's and Humphries' view of it), the most reasonable conclusion is that these trans-Andes species are older than the Andes--and that the formation of the Andes separated them. This seems a more rational explanation for the pattern than the idea that each species evolved on one side of the Andes chain--and then each species managed to cross the Andes via various hypothetical, species-dependent methods of dispersal.

In general, the fundamental theory of cladistic biogeography can be stated as follows: If many different species are restricted to the same geologically separated areas (divided, for example, by oceans or mountains) then a single, general cause (e.g., a geological event) is a more preferable explanation for this pattern than a series of unfalsifiable theories of dispersal across the geological divide, with each dispersal theory designed for each organism. Despite the seeming obviousness of this argument, many geologists, ecologists, and other scientists are extremely critical of such biogeographical analyses because it often conflicts with current geological theories.

Perhaps, this explains the somewhat reaching criticism of Amazon-customer critic, Matthew L. Forister, who not only panned the book, "Cladistic Biogeography" but the entire science itself. (Forister also wrote a negative review of "Panbiogeography : Tracking the History of Life--Oxford Biogeography Series No 11" by Grehan, Heads, and Craw.) In his review of the Parenti and Humphries book, Forister dismisses cladistic biogeography because of its insufficiency when applied to the geographic distribution of his cousins throughout the United States. According to Forister, this would lead cladistic biogeographers to conclude that the extended Forister family "were split by the uplift of the Rockies and further rifted by the opening of the Grand Canyon." Obviously, Parenti and Humphries do not extend their arguments to families of humans who have access to modern transportation. And so Forister's criticism overlooks the elemental fact that the plants, worms, frogs, snakes, trees, fresh-water fish and other organisms that are the real subject of "Cladistic Biogeography" have a difficult time booking flights across mountains and are notoriously bad drivers.

As Parenti and Humphries point out, this is not the first time that biogeographical evidence conflicted with contemporary geological theory. In the early part of the 20th century, much of the evidence that Alfred Wegener used to support the theory of continental drift was biogeographical. Trans-Atlantic biogeographical patterns (as well as certain geological factors) suggested to Wegener that South America was at one time attached to Africa, while North America was connected to Europe. Geologists and others maintained that continents were always fixed and explained these patterns via various dispersal hypotheses for all of the species found on both sides of the Atlantic. These dispersal hypotheses involved cross-ocean land bridges, long-distance island hopping schemes, hitching rides on flotsam, etc. Wegener's hypothesis has now become the conventional view. So, in this instance at least, the seminal principle of cladistic biogeography was validated while all the seemingly fantastic methods of dispersal across the Atlantic have been rejected.

Interestingly, a more significant biogeographical pattern can be found across the Pacific. Cladistic biogeography suggests that some sort of general geological explanation for the distributions, like a past Asian/American and Australian/South-American juxtaposition, is required. Today this view is largely ignored by people who are not biogeographers--and, once again, popular explanations of the trans-Pacific patterns encompass a group of independent dispersal hypotheses that include cross-ocean land bridges, long-distance island hopping schemes, the hitching of rides on flotsam, etc.

"Cladistic Biogeography" is a great step forward in trying to make sense of all the biogeographic data available to us today. It is an effort toward the development of rational, general principles for analyzing the geographic distribution of species, which hopefully will help geologists, ecologists, and biologists avoid the same mistakes that their counterparts made in the not-too-distant past regarding the very same subject.

--Dennis McCarthy

The Peculiar Science of Cladistic Biogeography.......2000-03-04

Scattered throughout the western United States, I have a handful of cousins: one in Oregon, two in Wyoming, and two in Arizona (along with an aunt and uncle in the latter state). Including myself as a resident of California, this is a distribution of Foristers, and from it could be made an area cladogram, which would look like a four-branched tree, with one state perched at the top of each branch. I happen to know that the Foristers have been in Wyoming the longest, for only slightly less time in Arizona, and only recently in California and Oregon. Therefore, I would arrange the area cladogram with Wyoming in an ancestral position, then Arizona, and finally Oregon and California bunched together as sister groups. Countless area cladograms could be made by inquiring into the family histories of other people-if at all possible, we might also construct some cladograms for the family dog and the starling that frequents the windowsill, just to be broad-minded.

Then (and this is the raison d'être of the book in question), a collection of these area cladograms could be compared, and a kind of compromise cladogram would be derived which represented the common features of all the family histories. To do this right, some math and computer programs could be used, as described by the authors of Cladistic Biogeography; for now, however, let us focus on the consequences of our cladograming, and not be distracted by the glamor of the process. So what can we say about our compromise tree? For a moment suppose the best of all worlds: a clear pattern arises, with various people, dogs, and starlings showing ancestral groups in Wyoming and Arizona, and sister groups in various other western states. With a little common sense, we might say that our Homo sapiens reflect a history of westward movement and that the dogs and house sparrows moved from Wyoming to the other states with the humans (we probably had to throw out a couple of native American cladograms that would have confused the obvious "signal"). But wait! Parenti and Humphries tell us that dispersal is not an explanation for biogeographical patterns. Since any species can disperse according to its own unknowable caprice, we had better assume that the distributions of all organisms are crafted by the same processes. In our case, humans and dogs and starlings might have been widespread across the west in large populations that were split by the uplift of the Rockies and further rifted by the opening of the Grand Canyon.

The case is not closed, however. According to Cladistic Biogeography, geology can only "illuminate" the patterns derived from area cladograms, but can never test them. Without confirmation from other sciences, we can only gain confidence in out pattern by throwing in more and more cladograms from diverse groups-the more agreement we find, the more assuredly we may speak of the history of the "biotas" of Wyoming, Arizona, and the other western states. Within this seemingly scientific iteration lies the fatal flaw of cladistic biogeography as presented by Parenti and Humphries. I described an oversimplification of the process of arriving at a compromise cladogram. In the analyses done in Cladistic Biogeography, all possible combinations of areas are considered for each organism, a process which can produce hundreds of trees. However, if one of the organisms in question, through a peculiarity of its history, presents only one possible cladogram, that organism will dictate the entire analysis. The possible trees for each organism are then searched for patterns that do not disagree with that one peculiar cladogram. How do we know that one organism it not a fluke, some kind of historical freak unrelated to all other members of the "biota"? We do not know any such thing. In fact, Parenti and Humphries forbid us from knowing any specific natural history, for, they say, such biological questions as age of arrival or dispersal ability are precisely what area cladograms are designed to test!

In the author's defense, it is possible that their method could generate one area cladogram that could then be confirmed by patterns from many other organisms. For example, they work their magic on a collection of distributions from the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and conclude that the Mediterranean biota is more closely related to far northern biotas than to mid-latitude Atlantic or Caribbean groups of organisms. However, I remain unconvinced that another method of pattern generation (perhaps even a random method) might not have produced an area cladogram that could have been similarly confirmed by dozens of different examples from the same waters. Simply put, the biodiversity is immense, and even the devil can quote scripture for his own ends.

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Cladistic Biogeography: Interpreting Patterns of Plant and Animal Distributions
Christopher J. Humphries
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy III provides a unique introduction to the theoretical foundations of scanning tunneling microscopy and related scanning probe methods. The different theoretical concepts developed in the past are outlined, and the implications of the theoretical results for the interpretation of experimental data are discussed in detail. Therefore, this book serves as a most useful guide for experimentalists as well as for theoreticians working in the field of local probe methods. In this second edition the text has been updated and new methods are discussed.

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Little Earthquakes: A Novel (Washington Square Press)
Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner, whose novels Good in Bed and In Her Shoes earned her a place among women's book club aficionados everywhere, proves she still has the touch with Little Earthquakes, a tale of love, heartbreak, redemption, and friendship. Weiner's novel centers around four new mothers, all of whom must learn to adjust their lives and their marriages to deal with the challenges of raising children.

Ayinde is a beautiful, biracial newscaster who moves to Philadelphia after her husband, a star player for the NBA, is traded to the 76ers. She meets Becky, an overweight chef who plays the "pregnant or just fat" game every time she passes a mirror, and Kelly, an overachieving event planner who has her whole life mapped out down to the most minute details, after going into labor at a prenatal yoga class. The three become fast friends, and come to rely on each other for everything from burping techniques to intense emotional support. The group grows to include Lia, a semi-famous Hollywood starlet who leaves her husband and returns to Philly after a sudden tragedy.

While Little Earthquakes may leave little to the imagination, and some of the characters are laughably stereotypical (the Mama's boy Jewish doctor and the cheating ball player, to name a few), it is Weiner's gift for creating compelling characters with whom her readers can identify that make her such a successful storyteller. --Gisele Toueg

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Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood.

Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim -- and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly is an event planner who's struggling to balance her work and motherhood while dealing with unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. Ayinde's basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at her most vulnerable moment, putting their new family even more in the public eye. Then, there's Lia, a Philadelphia native who has left her Hollywood career behind, along with her husband, and a tragic secret to start her life all over again.

From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, Little Earthquakes is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive take on the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage.

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"First comes love. Then comes marriage. And then things start to get really interesting... In Good in Bed, Cannie Shapiro conquered public heartbreak and shaky self-esteem. In In Her Shoes, Rose and Maggie Feller learned about family secrets and the ties that bind. Now, in Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet, this highly acclaimed storyteller brings readers a tale of romance, friendship, forgiveness, and extreme sleep deprivation, as three very different women navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood. Rebecca Rothstein-Rabinowitz is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderful husband, supportive friends, a restaurant that's received citywide acclaim, a beautiful baby girl...and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly Day's life looks picture-perfect. But behind the doors of her largely empty apartment, she's struggling to balance work and motherhood and marriage, while entering Oliver's every move (and movement) on a spreadsheet, and dealing with an unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. And Ayinde Towne is already on shaky ground, trying to live her life to the letter of a how-to guide called Baby Success, when her basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at the most vulnerable moment in her life, putting their marriage in peril -- and their new family even more in the public eye. Then there's Lia Frederick, a Philadelphia native who has just come home, leaving Los Angeles behind, along with her glamorous Hollywood career, her husband, and a tragic secret, to start her life all over again. With her trademark warmth and humor, Weiner tells the story of what happens after happily ever after...and how an eight-pound bundle of joy can shake up every woman's sense of herself in the world around her. From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, from sisters and husbands to mothers and mothers-in-law, Little Earthquakes is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive Diaper Genie-eye view of the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage. "

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exellent book by excellent author!!.......2007-10-02

yet another fabulous book by one of my favorite authors! i became a fast fan after reading "good in bed" and have every one of her books, even collections of short stories featuring stories of her's.. i am not married, nor have any children, but i almost know what to expect, since weiner has a way of almost making YOU a character, like a fly on the wall... childbirth, dealing with sleepless nights, and endless days, not being able to get your baby to 'latch on' to feed, and sore nipples.. also products to buy.. like baby snugglis, baby einstein (which i have seen babies under a year old watch and do sign language with!) and the such. i recommend this book to anyone who likes a good story with a great story line that you can't stop reading (i stayed up until 4 am reading until i finally fell asleep with the book on my face LOL)... no filler BS to move the story along. believe me, once you read a book by jennifer weiner, you will want to read them all!

Little Earthquakes Jennifer Wiener.......2007-09-30

First of all I would say that this was one of my favorite books I have read in the last several years. I think Jennifer Wiener is an excellent author, and highly recommend this book and her others.

The book is about several women who are very different, and how their lives become entangled in a mystery. It kept me on my toes, and was so good I read the entire book within two days.

The book might appeal to mothers in that the main characters of the book were mothers (more so stay at home moms). I do not have children but loved the book. Again, highly recommended!

Well worth the cost!

Well written but depressing.......2007-08-30

As my title states, this was a very interesting story and very well written. However, as someone who has not had kids yet, I found it also to be a very depressing view of motherhood and really makes me think more than twice about having kids. None of the characters had anything good to say about motherhood, other than that they loved thier children. It was depressing!!!!

Chick Lit for the Baby Set.......2007-08-17

If you are a pregnant woman or new mom, this is probably a great read for you. However, for me, it was not up to the standards readers have come to expect from Jennifer Weiner. Author of "In Her Shoes" and "Good in Bed," I really enjoyed both of those chick lit tales. Weiner can write, and she certainly has her pulse on the women of today and their concerns. She creates characters that are not only believable but likable, women whose journeys are worth following.

Although I didn't relate to the subject matter of "Little Earthquakes"--motherhood and the non-ending focus on the perfect baby (with all appropriate accompaniments)--the struggles of the women in this story eventually had me finishing the book. There is no doubt much to recommend it to new moms...Weiner's story covers everything from prenatal yoga to decorating the baby's room to post-baby sex. Weiner is a natural writer, and she can draw you into a story. Just be sure you've got the baby bottle ready for this one.

Little Earthquakes book.......2007-07-27

Very good service - Book was here in no time - Thank you for a great service would come back

LOT 3 NOVELS GOOD IN BED, IN HER SHOES, & LITTLE EARTHQUAKES

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LOT 3 NOVELS GOOD IN BED, IN HER SHOES, & LITTLE EARTHQUAKES
JENNIFER WEINER
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WMENSG

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