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Managing Employee Retention: A Strategic Accountability Approach (Improving Human Performance)
Jack J. Phillips , and Adele O. Connell
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During the past decade, employee turnover has become a very serious problem for organizations. Managing retention and keeping the turnover rate below target and industry norms is one of the most challenging issues facing business. All indications point toward the issue compounding in the future and, even as economic times change, turnover will continue to be an important issue for most job groups. Yet despite these facts employee turnover continues to be the most unappreciated and undervalued issue facing business leaders.

There are a variety of reasons for this, for example, the true cost of employee turnover is often underestimated. The causes of turnover are not adequately identified, and solutions are often not matched with the causes, so they fail. Preventive measures are either not in place or do not target the issues properly, and therefore have little or no effect, and a method for measuring progress and identifying a monetary value (ROI) on retention does not exist in most organizations.

'Managing Employee Retention' is a practical guide for managers to retain their talented employees. It shows how to manage and monitor turnover and how to develop the ROI of keeping your talent using innovative retention programs. The book presents a logical process of managing retention, from identifying turnover costs and causes, designing solutions that match the causes of turnover, developing tools for tracking turnover and placing alerts when action is needed, and measuring the ROI of retention programs.

* Shows how to accurately cost turnover, providing examples and actual data from hundreds of organizations
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Most people's knowledge of the Hubble Space Telescope is limited to NASA's sheepish admission that the HST was built with a flawed optical system, a fact discovered shortly after the billion-dollar telescope's 1990 launch. But this blunder is just one chapter in the Hubble saga, a story that begins with the HST's initial conception in 1946 and continues to today's constant stream of stunning images that Hubble beams back to Earth. In Hubble: A New Window to the Universe, astronomy writer Daniel Fischer and research astronomer Hilmar Duerbeck seek to put the telescope back in its proper context: not as a symbol of government ineptitude, but as a complex, cutting-edge instrument of tremendous importance to science.

Fischer and Duerbeck accomplish this not only by sharing the fruits of Hubble's far-reaching vision in the form of dozens of striking, otherworldly images, but also by detailing the telescope's history and intricate inner workings. The bulk of the book by far, though, is a discussion of what Hubble has allowed us to see, interspersed with helpful diagrams, photographs, and illustrations. Hubble is a great find for anyone in search of a meaty primer on deep-space astronomy. --Paul Hughes

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At last, a book presenting the fantastic scientific results of the first five years of Hubble Space Telescope observations! While a number of books for the general public emphasize the technological accomplishments of this multi-billion dollar project or deal with the well-publicized flaw in the telescope's optics, The Hubble: A New Window to the Universe concentrates on its astromonical achievements. The authors use new and ground-breaking Hubble results to illustrate a wide range of astronomical topics, from the great questions about the universe as a whole to quasars and black holes, and from the life and death of stars to our planetary neighbors in the solar system. The first part of this book presents a brief historical overview, "From Babylon to Cape Canaveral," concentrating on progress in astromony from the instrumentation point of view and on the Hubble project itself. The central and largest portion presents the wealth of exciting astronomical results obtained with the Hubble. The last part describes the Hubble operations, as well as the plans for the future of the telescope itself and beyond. The text contains a large number of spectacular images, mainly taken with the Hubble, as well as self-contained portraits of astronomers and explanations of astronomical topics and instruments. Written in a style appealing to both the interested public and to individuals familiar with the field, this compendium serves as a testament to the significant role the Hubble has played in astronomical accomplishment and discovery the past five years.

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Good insight into the birth of the Hubble Telescope.......2002-05-24

Probably the first thing I would point out is the book was first published in 1996. Accordingly many of the photographs may have been superceded by more recent shots from Hubble, and recent developments with the telescope are not covered. That aside, I found this book an interesting read. Of particular interest is the coverage of the early days of the telescope and the scandal over the faulty optics. The comparative before and after photographs of the faulty and corrected optics are also fascinating. There are a large number of photographs in the book which really lends itself well to sitting on the coffee table and occassional viewing. The book is plain black hardcover with a glossy dustjacket. It is set in landscape view and I'm not quite sure what it is but the layout of the book doesn't really gel together that well. I would recommend prospective purchasers check out the book in a library before purchasing to see if it meets their requirements. This book would have received a higher rating in 1996, but it is showing its age now. Check it out first.

Great coffee-table book AND a good overview.......2002-02-01

I am fortunate enough to have supported the Hubble Space Telescope (helping with testing the ground system at the Goddard Space Flight Center), so I bring an extra level of interest to this book.

Which book provides a detailed background on HST, from the first notions of a telescope in space through the problems with the mirror and its resolution. It then goes into the astronomy that has been and is being done with the spacecraft, providing copious and interesting detail along with the breathtaking photographs that HST has become famous for.

The result is both a great coffee-table book (for the photographs) and a worthwhile overview of current astronomy and what's being investigated. Recommended.

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Implants into the human body, such as hip joints, heart valves and dental crowns, have been increasingly used over the last 40 years or so, and many patients have benefited from their use. But how much is known about the metals, ceramics and polymers that are used in these repairs?||This book provides a state-of-the-art account of the chemistry of the synthetic materials used in medicine and dentistry. It looks at the properties and interactions of these materials within the body at a molecular level, and includes discussion of bioengineering and cell biology. In addition, there is an account of the surgical procedures used, as well as extensive coverage of the possible biological reactions to the presence of foreign materials in the body. A brief look at the emerging field of tissue engineering completes the text.||Fully referenced, with detailed reviews of the current literature, "The Chemistry of Medical and Dental Materials" will be an essential starting-point for all those in academia and industry who are involved in the development of new and improved repair materials.

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Osseo-Integrated Implants, Volume I
Gunther Heimke
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The focus of this two-volume work is osseo integration. It discusses the use of glue to attach bony tissue as well as the use of the absence of biochemical interactions between some oxide ceramics (particularly pure A1203 ceramic) and the adjacent tissue. This book also demonstrates the possibility of controlling the interface remodelling by the stresses and strains created by the insertion of the implant. Written in a concise, easy-to-read format, this text covers the use of implants in orthopedics, maxillo-facial surgery, and dentistry. All those involved with bioengineering, orthopedics, maxillo-facial surgery, dentistry, and biomechanics will find this reference to be of particular interest.

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Crow Lake (Today Show Book Club #7)
Mary Lawson
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Release Date: 2002-01-13

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Canadian writer Mary Lawson's debut novel is a beautifully crafted and shimmering tale of love, death, and redemption. The story, narrated by 26-year-old Kate Morrison, is set in the eponymous Crow Lake, an isolated rural community where time has stood still. The reader dives in and out of a year's worth of Kate's childhood memories--when she was 7 and her parents were killed in an automobile accident that left Kate, her younger sister Bo, and two older brothers, Matt and Luke, orphaned. When Kate, the successful zoologist and professor who is accustomed to dissecting everything through a microscope, receives an invitation to Matt's son's 18th birthday party, she must suddenly analyze her own relationship and come to terms with her past before she forsakes a future with the man she loves. Kate is still in turmoil over the events of that fateful summer and winter 20 years ago when the tragedy of another local family, the Pyes, spilled over into their lives with earth-shattering consequences. But does the tragedy really lie in the past or the present? Lawson's narrative flows effortlessly in ever-increasing circles, swirling impressions in the reader's mind until form takes shape and the reader is left to reflect on the whole. Crow Lake is a wonderful achievement that will ripple in and out of the reader's consciousness long after the last page is turned. --Nicola Perry, Amazon.co.uk

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Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing—a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.

Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur—offstage.

Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she’s outgrown her siblings—Luke, Matt, and Bo—who were once her entire world.

In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one’s expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.

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A "must read".......2007-09-16

Crow Lake (Today Show Book Club #7)

Clearly a gifted author who speaks from the heart and personal experience. This book contains all of the elements of a classic: unforgetable characters, a logical and charming plot and clean, enthrawling prose.

Begins well........2007-09-11

Crow Lake begins with a fine account of 4 siblings, during the year following their parents' deaths in an auto accident. Especially meaningful to two of the siblings is the observation of pond life, as good an evocation as I have read of what nature can mean to the close observer. The rest of the novel is quite readable, but suffers both in its concept and its execution. The seven year old feels betrayed when her older brother marries and turns his back on further education (but not on her); she eventually becomes a loveless college professor, until everything works out in the end. If you haven't read Mary Lawson, begin with "The Other Side of the Bridge", as I did.

A wonderful experience.......2007-09-01

I am one of those people who reads Book Reviews and keeps lists of books that sound interesting. Because of an ancestor or two, I have a particular fondness for books written by Canadian writers. Maybe genetics plays a role somehow. But I had had this book in my "to-be-read' pile at home for sometime. But it was not until I took a cycling trip through Banff National Park this summer that I took time to begin it. I was browsing through a section of books by "Canadian Writers" at a Lodge where I was spending a few nights and chanced to read the opening paragraph. I guess I would defy anyone to read these beginning sentences and not want to continue on. The book is now solidly linked with all of the good times of that week and I am happy that it is. It is simply the best novel that I have read this year. Every character in it rings true for me and I was drawn into their lives and into this place--this Crow Lake--as I have rarely been drawn into any similar collection of people and places before. It is a simply wonderful story of a family--of several families--dealing with tragedies and successes as best as they know how. Try the first paragraph--if it grabs you, the rest will not disappoint.

A peaceful, predictable read.......2007-08-31

Crow Lake is a quick read. The characters (including the landscape and the town) are truly interesting. The story itself is a captivating drama, but make no mistake: this is not a mystery novel with a cliffhanger ending (though, at times, it seems that Lawson wants you to believe it is).

Narrated by Kate, from her perspective at age 7 to 20 years later, the story is held hostage at times by her juvenile melodrama. The reader is sometimes beguiled into "suspense" (which is Kate's doing) and at other times, the reader is smothered with a kind of foreshadowing that a preschooler couldn't miss (which is the author's doing).

Despite this predictability, the story's fluid writing, landscape, and remaining characters (other than Kate) are captivating enough to keep you reading till the end.

Luke is facscinating. Matt is fascinating. The Pyes are fascinating. Kate though, is overdrawn. She is an unrealistic character, fastened together by far-reaching anecdotes and wide-spread events. Her great-grandmother, the ponds, her brother Matt: the effects of these things are superimposed on her "character development"; in theory, it sounds plausible, but on the page, it doesn't work. Kate appears unrealistic and vapid - something I doubt Lawson was striving for. "Great-Grandmother Morrison" is planted in the story's arc - literally from the first page to (second to) last. Yet her "influence" on Kate is so unrealistic.

Put it this way: if Crow Lake was turned into a movie, it would be melodrama on Lifetime or an after-school special. It would not be the "gorgeous, slow-burning story" the book claims to be.

Haunting and lyrical ... .......2007-05-24

I picked this book up several months ago in the bookstore as part of a deal where you can buy four books for the price of three. I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover or even by its blurb, but I couldn't resist picking this one up to read even though I have not heard of it before. The other night, it struck my mood to read this one and once I've picked it up, I really and honestly could not put it down. I even read it in middle of the night when I couldn't sleep. That hasn't happened in years, let me tell you!

This book is set in rural Ontario. It spells out the heartbreak of a family of young kids ~~ two older teenage brothers and two young girls ~~ who suddenly lost both of their parents in a tragic accident. Unwilling to be separated, they tried to fend for themselves in the rural community of Crow Lake with help from the small community. The oldest son, Luke, gave up a promising scholarship to college to stay in Crow Lake to raise the two youngest girls with Matt's help. Matt was destined to go to university after he completed Level 13 and pass the board exams. There's Kate and Bo, the two young girls who needed their brothers in more ways than one. This is their story, even though Kate is the one narrating the story from the day of the accident and from her university years. The story twists and turns ~~ going from present (the university days) to past, sharing her story that is entertwined with her brothers and sister's stories.

This story is much more than about relationships. It is about life. It is about organisms that live in ponds and how they cling to life. It is about carrying on the dreams and hopes of previous generations. It is about education and how important it is and how sometimes, you miss life as it is happening. It is a lyrical and wonderfully magical story that ensares you in its' telling. It is dreamy and haunting. It is one of the better books I've read yet this year ~~ it is something I was not expecting to read and now, I wish there is more of it.

If you get a chance, read this novel. It is beautiful and haunting and will introduce you to a new place in this world that you may not be familiar with. It is a novel about life and relationships, dreams and expectations and about growing up.

5-24-07

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Crow Lake
Mary Lawson
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Walk the Lake District
Vivienne Crow
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Crow Lake: A Novel
Mary Lawson
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ASIN: 0770430104
Release Date: 2006-07-25

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Mary Lawson's debut novel is a shimmering tale of love, death and redemption set in a rural northern community where time has stood still. Tragic, funny and unforgettable, this deceptively simple masterpiece about the perils of hero worship leapt to the top of the bestseller lists only days after being released in Canada and earned glowing reviews in The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, to name a few. It will be published in more than a dozen countries worldwide, including the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Italy and Bulgaria.

Luke, Matt, Kate and Bo Morrison are born in an Ontario farming community of only a few families, so isolated that “the road led only south.” There is little work, marriage choices are few, and the winter cold seeps into the bones of all who dare to live there. In the Morrisons’ hard-working, Presbyterian house, the Eleventh Commandment is “Thou Shalt Not Emote.” But as descendants of a great-grandmother who “fixed a book rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning,” the Morrison children have some hope of getting off the land through the blessings of education. Luke, the eldest, is accepted at teachers college – despite having struggle mightily through school – but before he can enroll, the Morrison parents are killed in a collision with a logging truck. He gives up his place to stay home and raise his younger sisters -- seven-year-old Kate, and Bo, still a baby.

In this family bound together by loss, the closest relationship is that between Kate and her older brother Matt, who love to wander off to the ponds together and lie on the bank, noses to the water. Matt teaches his little sister to watch “damselflies performing their delicate iridescent dances,” to understand how water beetles “carry down an air bubble with them when they submerge.” The life in the pond is one that seems to go on forever, in contrast to the abbreviated lives of the Morrison parents. Matt becomes Kate’s hero and her guide, as his passionate interest in the natural world sparks an equal passion in Kate.

Matt, a true scholar, is expected to fulfill the family dream by becoming the first Morrison to earn a university degree. But a dramatic event changes his course, and he ends up a farmer; so it is Kate who eventually earns the doctorate and university teaching position. She is never able to reconcile her success with what she considers the tragedy of Matt’s failure, and she feels a terrible guilt over the sacrifices made for her. Now a successful biologist in her twenties, she nervously returns home with her partner, a microbiologist from an academic family, to celebrate Matt’s son’s birthday. Amid the clash of cultures, Kate takes us in and out of her troubled childhood memories. Accustomed to dissecting organisms under a microscope, she must now analyze her own emotional life. She is still in turmoil over the events of one fateful year when the tragedy of another local family spilled over into her own. There are things she cannot understand or forgive.

In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, Lawson ratchets up the tension, her narrative flowing with consummate control in ever-increasing circles, overturning one’s expectations to the end. Compared by Publishers Weekly to Richard Ford for her lyrical, evocative writing, Lawson combines deeply drawn characters, beautiful writing and a powerful description of the land.

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Ethnics and Indians: Social relations in a Northwestern Ontario Town

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David H Stymeist
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The first 100 years: Ruttger's Bay Lake Lodge 1898 centennial celebration 1998

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The first 100 years: Ruttger's Bay Lake Lodge 1898 centennial celebration 1998
Mae Ruttger Heglund
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Entertaining story but....
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The Lake Dreams the Sky: A Love Story
Swain Wolfe
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A departure from his critically acclaimed fable, The Woman Who Lives in the Earth, Swain Wolfe's second novel is a sensuous and haunting love story set near a deep mountain lake in Montana.

After twenty-three years away, Liz, a Boston career woman, returns to visit her eccentric grandmother and to seek solace from the lake that made her believe the world was alive and aware. Among her long-stored treasures she finds a primitive painting of a woman, which she connects to a legend from her childhood, a romance about lovers whose passion sets the lake on fire.

The Lake Dreams the Sky tells the story of the post-World War II romance between Rose, a local waitress, and a drifter named Cody. Their defiance of society's unwritten rules makes the lovers outlaws in an unforgiving time.

The Lake Dreams the Sky indelibly conjures a landscape of passion, shifting perception, and the visceral longing that shapes our lives.

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Entertaining story but...........2000-06-20

I really enjoyed reading this book. But all along, something bothered me. I finally figured out at the end what it was...I just couldn't FEEL for these characters. I couldn't relate to the depth of their love, it just didn't 'move' me that way. I did enjoy the other aspects though, the story line and twists.

wonderful multi-layered storytelling.......2000-06-15

"The Lake Dreams the Sky" has at its center the story of Rose and Cody, and how they had a love so powerful it could set the lake on fire. This sounds like an impossible myth, but as the story unfolds Rose and Cody become real people with a fascinating story to tell. Like Wolfe's work "The Woman Who Lives in the Earth," this beautiful story has a mystical feel to it. But unlike a pure fable, this novel contains the sense of a real place and characters which make a book truly memorable.

Loonie the loon: Dweller of Crow Wing County in the Minnesota lake country

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Loonie the loon: Dweller of Crow Wing County in the Minnesota lake country
Lois Mae Cuhel
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Oldtimers: Stories of Our Pioneers in the Cass and Crow Wing Lake Region

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Oldtimers: Stories of Our Pioneers in the Cass and Crow Wing Lake Region
Carl A. Zapffe
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Structural Evolution of Lake Malawi, Africa (Reprint from Nature, vol. 308, no. 5960, Pp. 627-629, April 1984)

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Structural Evolution of Lake Malawi, Africa (Reprint from Nature, vol. 308, no. 5960, Pp. 627-629, April 1984)
C.J.; Crow, M.; Rosendahl, B.; Livingstone, D.; LeFournier, J. Ebinger
Manufacturer: Macmillan Journals, Ltd.
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Binding: Paperback
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