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Diversity has become a "global necessity," a strategic advantage to be seized, not merely accommodated. Pamela Henry provides a pragmatic approach to positioning diversity as a business issue. Citing 10 business imperatives, Diversity and the Bottom Line provides a compelling case for the correlation between diversity and an increased customer base and better profitability. It provides valuable strategies, tools and metrics that will help organizations incorporate diversity into their practices.

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This is a great resource book!.......2003-08-04

This book has everything a person interested in the field of diversity would want and it's very comprehensive. First, it has probably the best business case for diversity I've ever read. I really liked the fact that the author stuck to the bottom line implications of diversity and didn't stray into the philosophical or moral issues surrounding diversity. She really tells companies how they can leverage diversity to increase their profits. Second, the author's style is very straightforward. She supplements her arguments with facts and current statistics, and not leaps of faith. If you look at the end notes, you will see just how much research has gone into writing this book, which really adds to its credibility. Her chapter on the war for talent was especially compelling. She tells us that the shortage of skilled, technical labor is increasing. Worse, the U.S. is producing far fewer engineers needed to narrow this gap than many Asian and European competitors. The data the author presents is both convincing and scary at the same time. The numerous examples of costly mistakes companies have made by not understanding the cultures of the customers they were trying to sell to is interesting reading. It serves as a call to action for companies doing business in the global economy. The author does a good job of outlining the cost benefits of hiring right the first time. Replacement and retraining costs come right off the bottom line. Since the emerging workforce is increasingly diverse, her insights on how to source and recruit diverse talent are valuable. I also liked the chapter on creativity and how diversity creates greater bandwidth in experiences and perspectives that makes for better problem-solving and innovation. The author likens diversity to the "DNA" of creativity. Having no diversity at the table, she warns, is missing an opportunity to arrive at the "most elegant" solution. The tools that she includes in the second part of the book are awesome. Like I said, this is a great resource book for anyone interested in starting or managing a diversity program.

review.......2003-07-31

I'm tired of the hoopla about diversity. So when my colleague at work loaned me this book and encouraged me to read it, I did so reluctantly. In hindsight, I have to say I like the way the author got me involved from the beginning. She asks the reader to assume the role of a CEO whose company is in trouble. She wants to take me on a "journey" to help me understand how diversity can help turn my company around. I found that just a little hokey. But by business imperative #10, I was surprised at how the "journey" concept really had worked. I liked the idea that I actually did turn my company around and that it was selected as one of Fortune's most admired companies. That was clever on the part of the author. The reader is provided with lots of statistics on population trends and emerging market trends. It was almost too much, but the author certainly makes her point that the world's complexion is changing. That did get my attention. Although the statistics may have gotten a little exhaustive, her summary highlights at the end of each chapter are a great idea. Crib notes for executives, or anyone else, who don't want to take the time to read the entire book. She makes the important facts easy to retrieve. I thought the best chapters had to do with creativity and the war for talent. There was really some good stuff in there.The author's style is very direct and matter-of-fact, a plus for this subject which often gets emotionalized or overly philosophical for my taste. So, overall, I would say that this was a good read about a subject that was not of real interest to me, at least until now. I would recommend it highly to managers and human resource professionals.

Diversity and the Bottom Line.......2003-07-31

This is one of the better books I've read on diversity. As the author states, there has been a lot written about why diversity is the right thing to do - why it's the politically correct thing to do. But when diversity is positioned that way, it still feels like affirmative action. It's still a focus on numbers. It's still lip service by companies that are concerned about legal liabilities. What Henry does is take a much more pragmatic approach. She focuses on the positive, bottom line, results businesses can realize when they leverage diversity. This book really underscores how diversity can be a competitive advantage. The author delves into the changing demographics. Her statistics are great, showing us that the workforce of tomorrow is increasingly diverse. So is the customer base. I didn't realize that the purchasing power of minorities here in the U.S. has grown so substantially. Henry reminds us that they are increasingly selective as well in terms of which companies they'll choose to buy goods and services from. I really liked her examples of marketing gaffes made by companies who fail to take the diversity of their customers into account. As the author points out, these blunders are examples of opportunities lost and costs to the company that come right off the bottom line. I'm impressed by the research, facts and statistics that the author compiles. Her bibliography and recommended resources are quite impressive. This is a really compelling call to action for businesses trying to compete in the global economy. I now understand what the author means by diversity is a "global necessity" whose time has come. The author argues with good back-up data that diversity needs to be embraced by organizations and no longer merely tolerated.

Diversity and the Bottom Line.......2003-07-31

This book is a bargain for anybody who's involved in diversity in the workplace. Pamela Henry has written the BEST argument I've ever read on why organizations need to start treating diversity seriously and incorporating it as a business strategy. She does so by discussing ten business "imperatives," which range from demographics, globalization and the war for talent, to business competencies like recruitment, retention, creativity and productivity. The author has done a lot of research. She also incorporates vignettes about her diversity experiences in Corporate America, sharing stories that really give the reader great insight into the advantages and challenges that diversity in the workplace offers. But that's not the best part of the book. The best is the second part in which Henry includes strategies, tactics, tools and metrics to launch and sustain a diversity initiative. She includes her 9-S model she's developed to give organizations a framework from which to plan and launch a diversity initiative. She includes great metrics and tools to ensure organizational accountability. The diversity scorecard is comprehensive. She even includes a cultural audit that is one of the best I've seen. Her insights into what skills and competencies leaders must acquire in order to create an inclusive culture that values all differences is really on target. So are her strategies and tactics for recruiting a diverse pipeline. This book needs to be read and utilized by companies that are serious about making a commitment to diversity and an inclusive culture. It's the best bargain going at $...

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This book comes a decade after the publication of "The Man behind the Syndrome" and continues the presentation of people who have given their names to disorders or syndromes which are thought to have a significant genetic or chromosomal component. Each entry contains a brief review of the evolution of the nomenclature, together with key historical references. The first section contains portraits, biographical data, accounts of the evolution of the nomenclature and relevant references for 100 eponymous persons who are deceased or retired. The second section contains brief biographical sketches of further physicians, the majority of whom are still active in their careers. Anyone interested in clinical, medical and human genetics and the history of medicine and its personalities will derive information and enjoyment from The Person behind the Syndrome.

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Person Behind the Syndrome: Making Pathology Fun !.......2000-05-11

As a student of medicine, I appreciate The Person Behind the Syndrome for the intrestesting backround of the lives and times of those Doctors who came before mt. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to know more about a disease, than just the basic science, and a list of signs and synptoms. I found The Person Behind the Syndrome to be an excellent tool to help me remember the vast list of conditions I must know for boards, and beyond. Enjoy !

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Quantenphysik mag kompliziert erscheinen, wenn man durch Details den Blick auf größere Zusammenhänge verliert. Sie wird einfach, wenn man durch Anwendung weniger grundlegender Konzepte ein Prinzip offenlegt und Größenordnungen abschätzt. Die Eigenschaften von Quantensystemen (Elementarteilchen, Nukleonen, Atome, Moleküle, Quantengase, Quantenflüssigkeiten und Sterne) werden mit Hilfe elementarer Konzepte und Analogien zwischen diesen Systemen dargestellt. Die Wahl der Themen entspricht dem Themenkatalog für die mündliche Diplomprüfung. Das Buch ist vor allem als Vorbereitung auf die mündliche Diplomprüfung gedacht. Einige der Kapitel sind jedoch weit über den Rahmen des Prüfungsniveaus ausgebaut worden, so daß das Buch auch für fertige Physiker von Interesse sein sollte.

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This introduction to descriptive inorganic chemistry is a systematic survey of the chemistry of the elements according to the Periodic Classification. Written for undergraduates and complementary in its approach to conventional inorganic chemistry textbooks, it allows the reader to acquire a firm grasp of the principles that underlie the inorganic substances that can be made, their preparations, structures, chemical reactions and physical properties. The book presents theory as a background to the facts of inorganic chemistry, rather than as an end in itself. It does not concentrate on structural detail or reaction mechanisms but stresses the interplay between thermodynamic and kinetic considerations in understanding stability. The ways in which the various theories of structure and bonding are related are thoroughly dealt with throughout. The approach of this book makes it a useful text for students of any intermediate inorganic chemistry course, as well as a helpful guide for earth and material scientists.

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This book addresses the topic of biomechanics from an evolutionary viewpoint, particularly how vertebrate evolution can be understood by studying biomechanics. The topic is addressed both from broad and specific examples of different vertebrates, and will be of interest to both biomechanic researchers and those interested in the evolution of the vertebrate body plan.

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Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane’s grounds. “[Zane Grey’s] popularity was neither accidental nor undeserved,” wrote Nye. “Few popular novelists have possessed such a grasp of what the public wanted and few have developed Grey’s skill at supplying it.”

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Better than the movie.......2007-07-25

I thought the movie was very good, so I bought the book.
The book has the little girl Fay who isn't in the movie.
The details about the Mormons in this era were in the book as well, but not the movie.
I have read books considered classic in English and European literature
that aren't as good as this one!
With this book the American western became literature.

Early Western but not exactly what you'd expect.......2007-04-04

One of the first Westerns, with plenty of action and the romance of the west. It features a rugged individual with a dark past, an independent and hardy woman who is in trouble and a cast of other interesting characters.

I think one of the reasons why we don't hear more about it is that most of the villians in this tale are ... (wait for it) ... Mormons. So there is probably some pressure in various publishing houses, etc not to promote it. Zane Grey paints the LDS group here as patriarchal, polygamous ruffians. You would guess that an early Western would use Native Americans, not Mormons, as the villians.

Anyway, if you are not offended by the choice of bad guys, it's a good story.

Recommended.......2006-07-22

I'm not much of a "Western" reader. But, this was Zane Grey's first book so I thought I'd give it a try. It turned out to be an interesting story. I "read" it as a book on tape. The reader of the book on tape was able to change his voice for each character so the result was like a "radio play". Very enjoyable!
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Riders - New Riders.......2006-06-28

There are two basic styles of English prose. One is that of Dashiell Hammett - short words, short sentences, short paragraphs, short chapters, short novels. The other basic style is that of Charles Dickens - long passages of minute, detailed description. Zane Grey wrote in this second style, and he did it very well indeed. The American West comes alive in the pages of this book, a true classic. Calling this "purple prose" is like calling the music of the Grateful Dead "boogie" - it's a putdown that doesn't really mean anything. (Incidentally, a Grateful Dead offshoot band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, was named after this book.) Just as Alice chased a rabbit into Wonderland, so Venters chases a rabbit into Surprise Valley. He discovers true spirituality in the natural world and in other people - not in organized, denominational religion. The theme of this novel is that tyrannical fanaticism - religious and/or political - is dangerous and wrong. Grey was not specifically anti-Mormon. In fact, some of his Mormon charactors were good people. He was against any religious system that was out of control in its lust for power. Think of todays' "religious right", or for that matter, Islamic extremism. Grey would have disliked both.

Great.......2006-02-26

The book came at a timely fashion. It was in great condition and it looked brand new. The book was just as described.

Zane Grey: Three Complete Novels: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Rainbow Trail, & The Lone Star Ranger

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Zane Grey: Three Complete Novels: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Rainbow Trail, & The Lone Star Ranger
Zane Grey
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Zane Grey
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No book has a better claim to have invented the myth of the American West.

It is 1871 in Cottonwoods, Utah.

This is the story of the gunman, Lassiter, and the Mormon rancher, Jane Withersteen.

No One to Cry To: A Long, Hard Ride into the Sunset with Foy Willing of The Riders of the Purple Sage

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No one to cry to: Hard Ride into the Sunset with Foy Willing of the Riders of the Purple Sage
A Long, Hard Ride, But an Easy Read

No One to Cry To: A Long, Hard Ride into the Sunset with Foy Willing of The Riders of the Purple Sage
Sharon Lee Willing
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It doesn't seem like much of a mystery that Foy Willing's name should be Willing, or that his widow should be named Sharon, and that she is graciously sharing what she can of Foy in her new book No One to Cry To. Foy was so willing to offer and share much of his awareness of the many things that had been bestowed upon him and within him, not the least of which was music.

Foy Willing was, and still is, an incredible source of inspiration for those blessed, like he, to pursue an understanding of the language of music. He spent his life learning all of the componentsCall of that which is found in a song. He so understood all the intricate pieces.

This man always had room and time in his world for those who needed guidance. He was one of the most gifted talents of country and western music, while at the same time contributing in a major way to popular music, before the term "crossover" had ever been coined. Those who knew him can appreciate that, and those who never met him can now have that same opportunity. No One to Cry To makes it possible to have a more complete picture of the man who brought us some of the smoothest western sounds ever recorded.

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No one to cry to: Hard Ride into the Sunset with Foy Willing of the Riders of the Purple Sage.......2007-01-18

I was intrigued by the book as my father in-law was Al Sloey, one of the Riders of the Purple Sage. I have some tapes of telephone conversation between Al and Foy. I also have quite a little bit of other memorabilia. The spelling of LaVeta Sloey was incorrect. I purchased copies for my Son and Daughter, Al and LaVeta's grandchildren. I also have letters from Mrs. Jackson to Laveta. Very interesting book.

A Long, Hard Ride, But an Easy Read.......2006-12-12

Anyone old enough to remember the golden days of movies, radio and early television when the cowboy was king and the kings sang some of the sweetest songs in the Golden West, is going to love "No One to Cry To."
This warm, intimate biographical work by Sharon Lee Willing evokes the great Foy Willing and his "Riders of the Purple Sage" whose velvet harmony delivered such classics as "Ghost Riders in the Sky," "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds," "Cool Water" and Willing's own "No One to Cry To" from which the title is derived. When the "Riders" weren't hitting the top of the charts with their singing, they were busy riding at a wild gallop behind Roy Rogers to head the black hats off at the pass in 13 movies. In addition to all that, they sang and toured with some of the brightest stars in the entertainment firmament, including Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel and Ann Miller.
The author knows the subject matter well. She is Willing's widow, and she tells the tale of his turbulent life, blessed by genius and cursed by the demons of drugs and alcohol, as no one else could. Even those not old enough to remember Roy, Dale and Trigger, and before them, cowboy star Monte Hall, with whom the Riders also costarred, still may find a taste in this story of what so entranced their parents and grandparents.
Certainly they will remember the songs because after half a century, they're still being played on country western stations.
There is so much in this delicious slice of nostalgia that few fans ever knew. Willing tells, for example, how Dale Evans, the wife of Roy Rogers, lifted Foy Willing's "Happy Trails," tweaked it and made it their theme song, listing herself as the composer.
Sharon Lee Willing, an agile and passionate writer, was married to Foy for 13 years, until his demons wrecked not only his health but their union. Even after they went their separate ways, however, they stayed in constant touch until his death in 1978, as evidenced by the letters they wrote to each other, which are included in the text.
The subtitle of the book is, "A Long, Hard Ride into the Sunset with Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage." Sharon Lee Willing rode a good bit the journey at his side, and her recounting of that adventure will win the hearts even of fans who may be meeting Foy for the first time. Read the book, then watch for the biopic that is bound to follow. Hollywood can no more resist this story than can Foy Willing's fans.

Riders of the Purple Sage (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

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This Audiofy audiobook chip packs John Hitchcock's full 11 hour reading of "Riders of the Purple Sage" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... Lassiter is the strong, silent stranger who takes on powerful agents trying to drive Jane Withersteen from her ranch. Riders of the Purple Sage is Zane Grey's best-known novel. Originally published in 1912, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction and played a significant role in popularizing that genre.

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Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
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Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled eyes. A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmen who were coming to resent and attack her right to befriend a Gentile. She wondered if the unrest and strife that had lately come to the little village of Cottonwoods was to in-volve her. And then she sighed, remembering that her father had founded this remotest border settlement of southern Utah and that he had left it to her. She owned all the ground and many of the cottages. Withersteen House was hers, and the great ranch, with its thousands of cattle, and the swiftest horses of the sage. To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste. She could not escape being involved by whatever befell Cottonwoods.

Riders of the Purple Sage: Book / Cassette Pack (Heinemann Guided Readers)

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Riders of the Purple Sage: Book / Cassette Pack (Heinemann Guided Readers)
Zane Grey , and Margaret Tarner
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Organized crime is renowned for its code of silence; the unavailability of material from government investigative agencies due to its sensitive nature makes the task of the researcher difficult indeed.

One source, which was used as the basis for the preparation of this case study, is court testimony - both criminal and civil - in cases involving suspected organized crime figures.

The task of using such sources is a tedious one. In excess of 8,000 pages of narrative testimony were read to prepare this paper, but the source adds an important measure to the further understanding of organized crime and its method of operation.

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