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A Company Policy and Personnel Workbook, 4th Edition (Company Policy and Personnel Workbook)
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This book will save many costly hours in creating or updating company policy manuals. In layperson language, this book explains the legal ramifications of employer-employee relationships. Further, this easy-to-use manual simplifies the policy manual process by giving your pre-written model policies and alternates from which to choose. They can used verbatim or can be modified to address issues such as:

Arbitration of Employee Disputes
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Company Objectives
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Extremely helpful.......2000-02-08

Clear and concise, with many written samples that can be incorporated directly with some changes to produce a basic personnel policy for your company. Addresses issues of deciding policy as well as how to write the plan itself

An outstanding first book on HRM.......1998-09-19

As a new practitioner of human resouces management in our company I have found this book particularly valuable. It provides the human resource manager with an essential check list of issues and responsibilities that are an integral part of managing, overseeing, interviewing, and trouble-shooting employee matters.

The authors discuss and explain a wide range of systems that must be in place for a company, large and small, to operate within the parameters of acceptable pactice and to provide the policy protection that the law requires. Forms are provided, interview check lists, sample policy approaches and professional standards are all a part of this valuable workbook.

I would have wanted to see what a personnel file would contain, though I guess the authors expected the readers to do a little work on their own.

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More than simply an annotated bibliography, this comprehensive guide is designed to evaluate the sources included so that readers can easily determine those sources most useful for their current needs. The organization of the book--a section on general works followed by three sections organized by broad subject topic and subdivided by formats--will make this especially useful to those conducting research outside their area of specialty. Throughout, the emphasis has been to inform the reader of the type and depth of information to be found in any source included so that each can be effectively weighed against the other available literature.

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This book contains a collection of papers prepared by leading experts on selected areas of particular importance to researchers in combustion science. The editors have gathered writings on fundamental physical and chemical aspects of combustion, including combustion chemistry, soot formation, and condensed phase and turbulent combustion intended to be a source of current understanding on the topics covered. The materials were originally presented as part of a Colloquium on Combustion held in honor of Professor Irvin Glassman.

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This book introduces the tools of modern differential geometry--exterior calculus, manifolds, vector bundles, connections--and covers both classical surface theory, the modern theory of connections, and curvature. Also included is a chapter on applications to theoretical physics. The author uses the powerful and concise calculus of differential forms throughout. Through the use of numerous concrete examples, the author develops computational skills in the familiar Euclidean context before exposing the reader to the more abstract setting of manifolds. The only prerequisites are multivariate calculus and linear algebra; no knowledge of topology is assumed. Nearly 200 exercises make the book ideal for both classroom use and self-study for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematics, physics, and engineering.

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not an intro - so exactly what is it ??.......2007-04-22

Let's be honest. No one could learn forms from
this book without a professor leaning over their
shoulder. The formalism and exotic notation
alone would be overwhelming.
To offset this the author should give detailed and
substantial worked examples (much more than just
the simple ex of polar coordinates as this one does).
Furthermore, there are some eccentricities in the
exposition such as section 8.9 which is offered as
a novelty but which in fact appears in virtually every
text on vector analysis which treats applications.
If you want to learn about this stuff
and have a much better time doing it,check out John Baez's
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Worthy.......2004-10-22

This text covers many topics and is quite approachable for a beginner but requires very careful reading. The author tends to express important definitions in the flow of the text inconveniencing references to said definitions from later sections. This book does not require and makes little appeal to notions from topology which renders the text more accessible but short changes the reader of important insights.

The definition of tangents and tangent space are introduced rather awkwardly; the set of continuously differentiable functions (C-infinity) is dumped on the readers lap without preliminary discussion. These issues are addressed by "Tensor analysis on manifolds" by Bishop and Goldberg though the latter book is _very_ terse.

I recommend the subject text but suggest that one simultaneously read "Tensor analysis on manifolds" by Bishop and Goldberg. I also recommend that the beginner/self studier consider reading either "Differential Geometry" by Kreyszig or possibly "Differential Forms With Applications to the Physical Sciences" by Harley Flanders before reading either of the said texts. Kreyszig does a much better job of actually writing a readable text (the notation used is a bit old though). Ideally the Bishop and Goldberg texts should be combined and rewritten in the Kreyszig style.

Not for everyone, flawed in basic ways.......2004-01-10

I disagree with reviewers who found this book useful for self-study. I would not recommend it for individuals first learning this material. The book is frankly contradictory in places, and frustratingly repetitive in others. In the early chapters it assumes concepts not yet explained, and introduces terminology and symbols that are nowhere defined.

If you already know quite a bit, you may find this approach enlightening. But if you're just beginning to master these concepts, I suggest you look elsewhere.

I also suggest that much tighter editing would do this book a world of good. Go with Kreiszig, or Lovelock and Rund instead.

Excellent book.......2003-10-07

This is a very modern, very concise, and very efficient book. By using vector bundles the curvature forms on semi-Riemannian manifolds are introduced. Definitions are given clearly and intuitively. Without spending tons of pages on digression to minimal surfaces, Hopf-Rinow thm, Gauss-Bonnet thm, etc., the book builds enough machinery to describe the gauge field theory in the last chapter. Most other differential geometry books either throw in too many applications to waste reader's time or give vague definitions (too bluntly abstract or not self-contained) to confuse the reader.

All exercise problems are interesting and important. Hints are given to some of them.

I found Warner's "Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups" is a good complement to address the algebraic and topological side of differential geometry.

The ONLY book really suited for self study.......2002-03-05

I would just like to point out that Darling's book is the only book I've encountered which is suited for self study. It resembles someone's classroom notes - i.e., nothing fancy, no glossy color 3-d graphics or such - but it is very neatly organized, with many examples and helpful problems, and it is really, really suited for someone trying to study the subject by him/herself (me ... ). It is not very physically oriented - not many physical examples are provided throughout the text, and it is mathematical in nature, but don't let that deter you! In fact, the sharp distinction between mathematics and physics is pedagogically wise.
Another good thing about this book is that it does not begin with completely abstract definitions. First of all it develops exterior calculus and diff. manifolds in ordinary Euclidian space. This is a must for anyone studying on their own, believe me! No matter how mathematically mature you are, those things just don't make sense unless you've seen how they work in familiar settings. You don't have to worry, though - Darling keeps his notation clean; Darling tries as hard as he can to keep everything in pure geometrical language, referring to a specific basis only when absolutely necessary (or when it helps one understand).
I cannot say how good a classroom text this is, but do yourself a favor and check it out if you're thinking of studying this on your own! Darling is a clear and (equally important!) responsible teacher.

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A greedy, unscrupulous man loses his business and lover. In his humility he begins to think of others and makes not a material, but spiritual and ethical rise. This is a book of tragicomedy, romanticism, realism, society and art, as well as a study of American culture.

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Brought up by nothing but hisself.

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Good Overall Experience.......2007-03-09

The merchandise arrived timely and the overall experience was a good one.

One of his best.......2005-03-25

You might be able to take a man of humble beginnings and make him a rich man, but can he ever cross the line into Society? Silas Lapham becomes rich from paint that he sells, but fails totally in his attempt to become an accepted member of the upper class. The book also concerns a misunderstood love interest by one of Lapham's daughters: the young man is actually in love with his other daughter. Lapham's business fails at the end, but he doesn't sacrifice his integrity. Which is why it is only the "rise" of Silas Lapham and not the "rise and fall." This is among Howells's best novels.

Should be called "The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham".......2005-03-03

This book blew my mind! I found it absolutely engaging and the character of Silas Lapham was endearing to the point of surprise. This book says a lot about a class conscious America and even more about how "mom and pop" capitalism gets pushed aside to make way for impersonal mega corporations.
Silas Lapham is a good-hearted, yet rugged individualist who pulled himself up by the bootstraps to make a giant fortune. Once he succeeds however, there is a whole group of people at the top of the ladder ready to push him onto his face, along with his whole "wretched family." No matter what he does to fit in with the "old money" he just can't seem to fit in and the more he works to fit the millionaire mold, the more he compromises his own values.
What's best though is that we see him and his family through good times as well as through the downward spiral after his business crashes, and while it is sad, we see that they return willingly to what once was without coming out any worse.
This book made me smile because the characters, especially Silas Lapham, are realistically flawed and human. I recommend this highly.

A perfectly symmetrical novel -- literally........2004-12-23

To the page, this book is symmetrical in its structure. It opens with a public confession (to a reporter) and ends with a private one (to a priest). In the exact center comes Lapham's moment of realization when he is drunk at a party. There is more to the structure, but that should be enough to get you going.

A reviewer below calls Lapham a 'mogul with a conscience' which is accurate. The true core of this book is the way Howells carefully built it, though. Considering it comes from an age before modernism, it certainly feels quite modern. Give it a shot.

Mogul with a conscience.......2004-03-31

William Dean Howells's "The Rise of Silas Lapham" is one of the earliest American novels about a businessman, and that qualification alone makes it a literary curiosity, but what is most remarkable about it is what its title character is not, rather than what he is. Silas Lapham is not a ruthless, villainously greedy tycoon who bullies his employees and relishes destroying the careers of his competitors and enemies, but a conscientious, likeable man to whom misfortune happens because of his gullibility and sense of guilt rather than hubris.

Lapham is a human emblem of the new American industrial economy of the 1870s. A self-made millionaire in the paint business, he is now one of the richest men in Boston and is radiantly proud of the fact that he has earned every dollar. Having grown up poor and undereducated in Vermont, he still speaks in a rustic vernacular and has yet to understand the rationale behind the rules of high society, let alone assimilate them. A simple, practical man with a sense of duty, he even put aside his business to serve in the Civil War, in which he was seriously wounded and achieved the rank of colonel. He can be boastful and garrulous, but he is not arrogant or overbearing.

Lapham is dearly devoted to his wife Persis, who in turn has supported him through thick and thin, and his two daughters. Penelope, the older girl, is relatively plain but witty and sardonic and, at least in the first half of the novel, never seems to take anything seriously; her sister Irene is the more beautiful but vapid and superficial. Irene falls for Tom Corey, the young man who comes to work for her father as a foreign sales representative, but Tom and Penelope have a mutual attraction that, Penelope fears, could break Irene's heart. This romantic subplot allows Howells to contrast Tom's family, part of the old Boston aristocracy, with the even wealthier but socially crude Laphams with whose daughter Tom's mother has snobbish doubts about his possible union.

The novel has almost the air of Greek tragedy in that Lapham is a man of stature who has fatal flaws that threaten to destroy him. He is a teetotaller, and when he does take the liberty of trying some wine at a dinner party, he embarrasses himself and his family by talking too much. He abstains from gambling, but, instigated by his former business partner and current gadfly Milton Rogers, he gets into financial trouble when he stakes money on bad property and bad stocks. And, to compensate for a traumatic event in his past, he is charitable almost to a fault to a pretty girl whom he employs as a typist in his office.

The style of "The Rise of Silas Lapham" is a dramatic realism similar to that found in the novels of Howells's contemporaries Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser; the structure is straightforward, and the dialogue cuts to the core in laying bare the characters' sentiments and unfolding the plot. It may fall short of being a "great" novel, but for its candid portrayal of a specimen of the nouveau riche, it can be considered a minor monument of nineteenth century American literature.

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William Dean Howells : Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Lapham (Library of America)
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Four novels by America's most influential man of letters at the turn of the century, which explore the conflicts of private life and social institutions with unflinching realismn. Contains "A Foregone Conclusion" and "Indian Summer," dramas of complex romantic entanglements set in Italy, "A Modern Instance," the first full-scale study of infidelity and divorce in American fiction, and "The Rise of Silas Lapham," a brilliantly skeptical portrait of American business and new money.

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Great introduction to Howells.......2007-07-12

William Dean Howells is one of those writers who everyone respects and recognizes as an important figure in American literature yet very few people read. This collection offers an excellent introduction. Four of Howells's greatest works are here. "A Foregone Conclusion" and "Indian Summer" are charming romances based in Italy. With the possible exception of James, there is no other male writer from the Gilded Age who captures American women better than Howells as the female leads from both novels show. Howells also offers some interesting social commentary on both Italy and America. Howells had a political background (he wrote offical biographies of both Lincoln and R.B.Hayes) and this is reflected in both novels. Both stories could be conventional romances; but with a skillful author like Howells, these tales are lifted to excellent studies of character, place, society and his times. "A Modern Instance" and "The Rise of Silas Lapham" are much more realistic and are set in the United States. They are also darker. Howell examines the newly rich, journalism, industry and the changes in the Republic during his life. He also continues to portray excellent characters. While these four novels are only a fraction of what Howells wrote (the man wrote over 100 books, including over 35 novels), they provide an excellent starting point. These books have quick plots, lovely images, memorable characters and offer insight into the human heart and into a distant past. The Library of America can be commended for its solid job in assembling this book. Both scholars and general readers will enjoy this collection.

realistic window into another literary age.......2001-08-05

My friend Paul caught me reading this book and said "Wow, I'd have to believe that I was nearly immortal in order to read Howells." For the early 1880s, though, this is a pretty readable book. The ideas are familiar: "Money is to the fore now. It is the romance, the poetry of our age. It's the thing that chiefly strikes the imagination. The Englishmen who come here are more curious about the great new millionaires than about any one else, and they respect them more." (Rise of Silas Lapham)

My favorite section from The Rise of Silas Lapham: "This comes of the error which I have often deprecated," said the elder Corey. "In fact I am always saying that the Bostonian ought never to leave Boston. Then he knows--and then only--that there can be no standard but ours. But we are constantly going away, and coming back with our convictions shaken to their foundations. One man goes to England, and returns with the conception of a grander social life; another comes home from Germany with the ntion of a more searching intellectual activity; a fellow just back from Paris has the absurdest ideas of art and literature; and you revert to us from the cowboys of Texas, and tell us to our faces that we ought to try Papa Lapham by a jury of his peers. It ought to be stopped--it ought, really. The Bostonian who leaves Boston ought to be condemned to perpetual exile."

If these novels lack the genius of Edith Wharton or Henry James they provide a much more realistic view of American life circa 1880. You might not learn as much about the interior of the human heart but you'll learn something about how people got from place to place, furnished their houses, and managed businesses.

The Minister's Charge.......2000-02-21

The Minister's Charge cannot be rated, in my estimation, as one of Howells better works. Although the relationship between the minister and his charge is intriging, the superferlous details of the young characters social life drags on and on in its useless verbosity. I enjoy Howells, and appreciate most of his works, but I labored through this book but ultimately had to leave the last 30 pages unread.

New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham (The American Novel)

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The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells's reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays argues the renewed importance of Howells's novel for an understanding of literature as social force as well as a literary form. In his introduction Donald Pease recounts the fall and rise of the novel's value in literary history, outlines the various critical responses to Silas Lapham, and then restores Silas Lapham to its social context. The essays that follow expand on this theme, challenging the accepted views of literary critics by explicating narrative methods and the genre of literary realism. Focusing much of its attention on economics of morality, manners, and pain, as well as the marketplace, the volume as a whole argues that a relationship exists between Howells's realism and its socioeconomic context.

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this book is a reprint of the first edition that was published in Boston by Ticknor and Company in 1885. Except for the correction of obvious typographical errors the text is a faithful copy of the original and has not been edited or abridges in any way. The typography and design have been altered however, to meet the requirements of modern production methods.

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