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Excel's "what-if" data analysis tools let you experiment with your data to project future results. In turn, these predictions will lead to better decision making and unlock the mystery of many business analysis scenarios. For example, what-if data analysis tools will enable you to forecast how lowering the price per unit--while increasing projected unit sales--might affect your profit margins.
Beginning Excel What-If Data Analysis Tools explores the use of Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver to help you get insight on your data. This book is focused and to the point, and it provides tutorial treatment of what-if tools in a practical, hands-on manner.
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Getting Started With Microsoft Excel 5.0 for Windows (Getting Started With Windows Series)
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Each Excel feature in this exceptional guide is described clearly in a bulleted list, which can be used for reference, then it is used in a hands-on activity. Numerous screen displays provide visual aids for learning and illustrate key steps. The convenient Feature Reference summarizes menu commands plus mouse and keyboard shortcuts for each of the features covered in the lessons.
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Exploring: Getting Started with Microsoft Office (Grauer Exploring Office 2003 Series)
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For Introductory Computer courses in Microsoft Office 2003 or courses in Computer Concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2003 applications.
Master the How and Why of Office 2003! Students master the "How and Why" of performing tasks in Office and gain a greater understanding of how to use the individual applications together to solve business problems.
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Exploring: Getting Started with VBA (The Exploring)
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For Introductory Computer courses in Microsoft Office 2003 or courses in Computer Concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2003 applications.
Master the How and Why of Office 2003! Students master the "How and Why" of performing tasks in Office and gain a greater understanding of how to use the individual applications together to solve business problems.
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Getting Started with Excel
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Being able to build effective relationships is at once the most important factor and the most frustrating challenge in creating success and satisfaction at work.
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Practical advice on an issue that's always emotional.......2006-03-04
The simple truth is that being good at what you do simply isn't good enough if you can't work with people. Technical abilities may get you promoted into a management position, but it takes interpersonal skills to keep you there. Bob Wall explores first, what makes work relationships successful and what makes them fail. He then provides some common-sense steps you can take to improve work relationships that aren't working.
The most effective way to improve work relationships, says the author, is to learn to distinguish between personal and professional relationships. A professional relationship exists solely for the purpose of getting work accomplished, while personal relationships can have many purposes. In personal relationships there is an assumption of equality, while professional relationships are often hierarchical. Conflict at work is often based on miscommunication. We are often blind to how our behavior affects others, while we are very critical of the faults of others. When there isn't adequate communication, we often stereotype others as "aggressive jerks" or "incompetent" without understanding the issues or perspective of the other.
To confront conflict at work, you must first understand that most people honestly mean well, but often fail to understand how their behavior and attitudes affect others on the team. Unless someone tells them about it, how will they know they should change? This is true of your own behavior as well. You must be willing to listen to how others are affected by your behavior on the job.
The easiest way to begin fixing problems at work is to agree on goals, roles and procedures. The most common source of problems in teamwork is ambiguity. The team should begin by asking themselves:
· What goals are we going to accomplish?
· What role is expected of every team member?
· How will we coordinate our work with each other?
A Solid Effort!.......2001-06-02
If you’ve been at loggerheads with a co-worker, calm down and read this. Bob Wall takes a close look at why the ubiquitous “personality problem” persists at work. His conclusions boil down to basics: Co-workers mix professional and personal relationships, confuse organizational roles and expectations, and simply clash due to dislike or incompatibility. He offers a number of familiar solutions to workplace conflict, advising you to pick your battles, agree to disagree and consider the possibility that you might be at fault. Not exactly rocket science, but Wall’s book is fresh, easy-to-read and reader-friendly. We ... recommend this book primarily to supervisors, who will find the dissection of professional relationships useful in managing your sometimes-hard-to-understand employees.
An important job and business practice guide........2000-05-04
This practical, important business books offers specific advice for users interested in business advice and enhancement. Bob Wall's Working Relationships presents facts on how to get along with friends and foes alike in a business setting. From building professional relationships and understanding different personality types and their motivations to handling complaints and requests, this provides an important job guide.
Working Relationships: The Simple Truth about Getting Along.......2000-01-24
This book is both practical and insightful. I could easily relate the situations described to my own. Mr. Wall provides down-to-earth and effective solutions to at-work problems that have the potential to ruin the day, the week - and sometimes the job! The principles can be applied to personal relationships as well.
great tool for anyone who works with people.......1999-12-13
I found this book to be an enjoyable read as well as a great resource for solving problems at work. It has some great excersizes to do and believe me they do work. This book is a must to own for anyone who needs help with a situation or problem at work .
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There are an estimated 3 million–plus Americans suffering from Graves' disease and hyperthyroidism, and patient advocate Mary J. Shomon will guide them through the diagnosis and the wide–ranging treatments available. Graves' disease and hyperthyroidism are the result of the thyroid gland being overactive. This gland controls the body's metabolism, so people afflicted with the disorder can suffer from symptoms such as significant weight loss, fatigue, muscular weakness, and rapid heartbeat, among others. In addition to conventional treatments, this resource uniquely highlights holistic treatments, and through case studies and testimonials from patients and doctors, presents an honest look at the lifestyles and choices of people living with these conditions.
Shomon presents the reader with a comprehensive resource that spans from diagnosis to treatment to life after treatment. She goes beyond the conventional advice of other books, utilizing patient anecdotes and, as a fellow thyroid disease patient, her own experience. Her extensive network of experts––from conventional physicians to alternative practitioners––allows for a wide range of treatment options. In addition, a comprehensive Appendix serves as a fantastic resource for patients seeking treatment and additional advice.
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Helpful information.......2007-08-31
I found Mary Shomon's book to be very helpful in trying to understand Graves' Disease and hyperthyroidism. The book is written in easy to understand terms, and is a wealth of information when faced with diagnosis and treatment options. It is a comprehensive resource for thyroid patients.
Informative, but..........2007-03-27
I found an error in this book which makes me a little nervous about it's editing if not the entire content. On one page it specifically says that bugleweed is NOT indicated for hyperthyroidism when in fact it is one of the FEW alternative remedies that works for hyper's versus hypo's. I bought this book because of the lack of coverage for people with hyperactive thyroid so this was very annoying.
Other than that, most of this info is available on the internet free of charge.
Living well with graves disease and hyperthyroidism.......2007-01-21
This is an excellent book. Mary Shoman is an expert in her field!!
Not Helpful at all.......2006-10-16
I found this book not very helpful at all. There is general information but if you are looking for insights into treatment, they aren't here. Writer is anti-RAI which is fine if your symptons aren't very severe but if they are, this book won't help.
Promises, promises............2006-08-03
Same old information that is available everywhere, and a lot more on HypOthyroidism than I expected to encounter. The title seems to promise some hints for the often troublesome aspects of the disease, perhaps information the author might have gleaned from patients who had learned to cope. Unfortunately this promise is not fulfilled. I learned nothing new, and most of the areas of interest to me did not offer any solutions to "living well." A waste of $.
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Connecting Quarks With the Cosmos: 11 Science Questions for the New Century
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Career Management for Scientists and Engineers
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Advice to Rocket Scientists: A Career Survival Guide for Scientists and Engineers
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This book will be an important resource for both new graduates and mid-career scientists, engineers, and technicians. Through taking stock of existing or desired skills and goals, it provides both general advice and concrete examples to help assess a current job situation or prospect, and to effectively pursue and attain new ones. Many examples of properly adapted resumes and interview techniques, as well as plenty of practical advice about adaptation to new workplace cultural paradigms, such as team-based management, make this book an invaluable reference for the professional scientist in today's volatile job market.
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It's not just a job, it's a career........2001-04-07
Scientists and engineers are indeed a breed apart, and not just in their own minds. They should at least try to find to find a career -- or careers -- and not just a job. In this book, John Borchardt, an experienced chemist and technical writer, describes career management for this breed of professionals. Not only are individual skills and values discussed, but interaction of the individual with the work team, the organization, and the profession are treated as well. Use of computer technology and Net/Web resources are stressed throughout the book in addition to more traditional basics of all of the topics.
The book is divided into 18 chapters in four sections: Professional Skills, Today's New Working World, Job Hunting, and Back to the Beginning. Each Chpater is well referenced including works by such authors as Peter Drucker and Tom Peters.
Times are changing and the author stresses the need for self-evaluation and adaptability. Job performance may not be the only reason for either career advancement or stagnation, but evaluation and improvement of one's performance sure beats the alternative. I recommned this book to all who are -- or want to be -- in a scientific or technical career.
-- Bob Buntrock
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Model Letters and Memos: A Handbook for Scientists and Engineers
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Most scientists, engineers, and other professionals in technical fields are quite comfortable using their analytical skills and carrying out the most detail-oriented research. Yet when it comes to communicating highly technical information to others in a manner that is both clear and concise, even the best minds are often at a loss.
Model Letters and Memos: A Handbook for Scientists and Engineers shows technically oriented individuals how to communicate their ideas clearly to a wide range of audiences. The author uses two distinct formulas to help compose all kinds of effective, lucidly written correspondence.
The first formula is a four-step process called "AIDA," which stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action. This formula enables busy professionals to organize their thoughts and communicate them clearly, directly, and accurately.
The second formula covered in the book, "IBC," or Introduction, Body, and Conclusion, shows how to break down every memo into its three most important parts. Step-by-step and with specific examples, the author illustrates how to set up an introduction, communicate the desired information, and develop a conclusion.
In addition to these formulas, you'll learn how to: avoid the common pitfalls of writing letters and memos; make correspondence more effective; make lengthy documents more readable; and virtually guarantee that a recipient will read and understand the basic message.
You'll also find two chapters of boilerplate letters and memos on more than 125 different subjects, all written by technical professionals who are also accomplished writers and communicators. Because they can easily be used as templates for crafting similar communications, these sample letters are included on the computer disk accompanying the text.
For any technical professional who needs to communicate in writing clearly, quickly, and accurately, Model Letters and Memos: A Handbook for Scientists and Engineers is an indispensable, time-saving resource.
An invaluable resource for technical professionals who want to communicate their ideas quickly and effectively
Model Letters and Memos: A Handbook for Scientists and Engineers takes the struggle out of the writing process by demonstrating how to put any kind of information, no matter how technical, into a form that can be easily read and understood.
This practical, time-saving guide shows you how to:
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This indispensable resource also offers nearly 200 examples of effective technical letters and memos and an accompanying computer disk that includes all the letters and memos in the text for easy and immediate application.
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From Technical Professional to Corporate Manager: A Guide to Career Transition
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Staying current in a discipline where advances are defined by methodological developments can be a challenge - that's why more people choose Microbial Ecology over any other resource available. The fourth edition features enhanced coverage of hot topics such as biofilms, thermal vent communities, extreme habitats, starvation response, molecular methods for studying microbial ecology, microbial biodiversity, biodegradation and bioremediation, extensive updating including the latest research findings and references, and over 45 new art and photos that illustrate complex concepts and processes.
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The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald's follow-up novel to her bestselling debut (and Oprah Book Club pick), Fall on Your Knees, opens in 1962 when the McCarthy family moves from Germany to their new home on a Canadian air force base near London, Ontario. Madeleine, eight and already a blossoming comic, is particularly close with her father, Jack, an air force officer. Her loving Acadian mother, Mimi, and older brother Mike round out this family, whose simple goodness reflects the glow of an era that seemed like paradise. But all that is about to change. The Cuban Missile Crisis is looming, and Jack, loyal and gullible, suddenly has an important task to carry out that involves a scientist--a former Nazi--in Canada.
While Jack scrambles to keep his activities hidden from his wife, Madeleine too is learning to keep secrets (about a teacher at school). The Way the Crow Flies is all about the fertility of lies, how one breeds another and another. Although the writing flows with a strong current, the profusion of pop references, especially ad slogans, grows tiresome. The author can, however, capture a lovely image in few words: "The afternoon intensifies. August is the true light of summer" and "yes, the earth is a woman, and her favorite food is corn." At times the story is marvelously compelling, as the mystery of a horrific murder in the fields near the base is unravelled. When events lead to a trial and its outcome, the story peaks, in a conclusion with no easy answers. The last third of the book takes place, for the most part, 20 years later. Here the novel meanders somewhat, losing its ability to captivate with the same intensity. The reader longs to return to the earlier world, which MacDonald has captured in vital detail. --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca
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The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of high-spirited, eight-year-old Madeleine, who welcomes her family's posting to a quiet Air Force base near the Canadian border. Secure in the love of her beautiful mother, she is unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in a web of secrets. When a very local murder intersects with global forces, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine will be forced to learn a lesson about the ambiguity ofhuman morality -- one she will only begin to understand when she carries herquest for the truth, and the killer, into adulthood twenty years later.
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Memories.......2007-09-14
This book resonated with me on a very personal level so it is hard to review it objectively. There were a lot of parallels between my young life and that of young Madeline. I was also in grade school in the 60s, an Army brat, lived in Germany, and my parents were a lot like Jack and Mimi - wholesome and in love. The authors description of Army lifestyle was "spot on" and brought back a lot of memories that I had long ago forgotten. Driving into your new base and looking for the children who might be potential new friends. Your mom setting up your new house into a home within days. The friends you are leaving behind with the knowledge that you will never forget them - and forgetting them fairly quickly. I relived and enjoyed part of my childhood again through the book. It also made me more aware of what my own children are thinking at this point in time and how they keep secrets.
I've seen comparisons to Lovely Bones and My Friend, which are both excellent reads, but I loved this more.
Excellent.......2007-08-31
MacDonald's book is a terrific look at the ripple effects of secrets big and small. What is the understanding of truth, as seen by a young girl, Madeleine, and her father, Jack. Each are trying to do the best they can and their decisions create multiple complications in a grey world. MacDonald paints a convincing picture of life on a Canadian air force base at the height of the Cold War. There is a depth and richness to this novel that will resonate with the reader for weeks after finishing it. As a reader, the question becomes, is the story worthy of the time required to read 800 pages? Maybe not, but MacDonald's writing is so solid that you can look at it as one more bite of rich chocolate -- perhaps not necessary, but also not regretted.
The Way..........2007-08-07
Totally wish I would have never read this book. There were so many parts that could have been left out and it would have been a GREAT book. I liked a lot of it, but the parts that were bad were SO bad I had to skip over them. It's kind of like a soap opera...you could skip a few parts and still know what is going on!
Long & Shifty.......2007-07-11
I really liked the story and the characters. However, I did not enjoy the passages, phrases, quotes and somewhat "randomness" scattered throughout. I also did not enjoy the characters speaking in French, It added to Mimi's character and I understand that but there where times when I just wanted to know what they were saying. I liked the unique mix of a coming of age novel and a war mystery- it certainly made me want to finish it to know what happened even though I was frustrated with the writing/story telling style at times.
I would have given this book 5 stars if it was about 200 pages shorter, the beginning picked up faster, overall it read smoother, and the "extras" (little quotes and stories, etc) were removed. Often when I read the extras I said to myself, "ummm what??" They didn't really add to the book to me at all. I loved the story, I just wish it had all come together more, and I hate to say it... polished?
Harrowing.......2007-03-24
Ann-Marie MacDonald's "The Way the Crow Flies," can be a difficult and unpleasant read at times. The reader is first taken down the primrose path as we're introduced to the seemingly perfect military family -- handsome, good-humored Jack McCarthy; his beautiful adoring wife Mimi; and two bright-eyed adorable children Michael and Madeline. As the novel opens in the early 1960's, the McCarthy family has just moved to Centralia - a Canadian fighter pilot training base, where the men concern themselves with the potential of nuclear war (the Cuban Missile Crisis), and the women concern themselves with preparing dinner for their families. But, as one might expect, the picture perfect paradise is only skin deep.
The main character of the book, Madeline, who's a fourth grader in the first two-thirds of the book (and an adult in the last third) attends a class taught by Mr. March, a loathsome pedophile, who each day keeps certain girls behind after class for "exercises," which, tragically, Madeline and the others keep secret. When Claire, one of Madeline's classmates, is strangled to death, a popular teenager (whose father is a holocaust survivor) is accused, and Madeline's father, Jack, must withhold exculpable information to hide the identity of a nazi war criminal smuggled into the West to assist with the space race against the Soviet Union (in a real program designated "Project Paperclip"). There are agonizing moments in this book where I wanted to transport myself through the pages and shake sense into Jack and Madeline to reveal what they knew.
In the last third of the book, a grown-up Madeline grapples with her personal life, but especially with her past. As other reviewers noted, perhaps the author could have tightened up this part of the story, as it often goes off into tangents unnecessary to the major plot. Also, I really couldn't accept the major twist (what really happened Claire), because I don't think what is described is physically possible. But "The Way The Crow Flies," is powerful and unforgettable, and Ann-Marie MacDonald stands out as an extremely talented author with alot on her mind.
Highly recommended, but expect to spend a few restless nights as the frustrating and disturbing events are slowly divulged.
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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses the Novel The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Bookclub-in-a-Box)
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