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Summary: This is a book about the practicalities of leadership for middle managers - about providing readers with the framework or scaffolding to being a better manager. It's not theory - it's all about what the seriously good managers actually 'do'. When we start our careers, we learn in compartments: this course on delegation, that workshop on motivation. Of course hit and run training courses help us, as does a good role model or two, but the best managers are the ones who construct a framework of actions around the main focus of getting the job done that means it gets done more efficiently, with less stress and is ultimately more rewarding for all concerned. The good news is that although there are some common, threads this framework, or scaffolding, has different shapes - depending on your unique business or management style. This book provides readers with that framework or scaffolding. Key Features: 1. A straightforward set of scaffolding from which you can choose, to suit your particular needs 2. Written from experience and research into what really good managers actually 'do' 3. Self-assessment checks to review progress 4. Full of actions you can take that will improve performance and minimise stress all round The Author: Judith Elliott, Chartered FCIPD (Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), is managing director of elconsulting Cambridge Ltd (elconsulting). Readership: The book is aimed at middle managers caught between the vision statement and a mixed ability team. Contents: Get your aim straight - distilling the company vision and the way we do things round here, designing your own business plan Select your scaffolding - choosing communication structures, levels of involvement, empowerment, and recognition Get people off on the right foot - defining accountabilities, levels of initiative and giving them the tools to do the job Information scaffolding - meeting frameworks, structure and style Developing the structure - measuring and developing performance Feedback on the construction - monitoring and reviewing people's progress Did it work? - reviewing and redesigning the scaffolding

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Hemp jewelry is being worn by everyone! The Hemp Masters knotting manual is a simple, easy to follow, instructional guide to creating outstanding chokers, bracelets, anklets and car mirror charms. This is not just a project book, it is a complete knotting guide which gives the reader tools for creating their own patterns. With market tested patterns and a little hippie humor, this guide will keep crafters smiling as they learn. And as the author says, If you enjoy doing something, you do it well. If you enjoy learning something, you learn it well. This book has an abundance of illustrations and photographs to complement the clear, comprehensive instructions.

The introduction has definitions of terms and facts about hemp. How To Begin details deciding how long to cut the hemp and how to start tying a piece of hemp jewelry. There is also a section of Helpful Hints for working with and knotting hemp cords.

The Knotting Guide explains and illustrates the Half Knot, the Half Hitch and dozens of variations on these knots, giving the crafter a plethora of choices for pattern combinations. The use of beads and of endings and clasps is also explained. Knots For Masters presents the Pretzel Knot and Phish Bone pattern; two of the coolest, bank maker patterns ever! Finally, there are 22 example projects, from the simple to the complex, all beautiful, with pictures and instructions for each.

Written for both beginning and seasoned crafters, this entertaining volume will prove invaluable for any person wishing to learn more about hemp, knotting techniques, and making irresistible jewelry. A very interesting book and a great gift idea!

24 illustrations; 61 photographs; 4 pages in full color.

Customer Reviews:

Great book.......2007-05-22

It is an awesome book and was in excellent shape for being a used book.

Easy to understand. Great illistrations. .......2007-01-12

I wasn't aware that there were so many different types of knots until purchasing this book. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it's fun to read and easy to understand. The pictures are very good and make it super easy.

I macramed almost all of my christmas gifts I gave away this year. It saved me a lot of money however, I had to begin working on them in October since I had quite a few people to give gifts to.

The chokers would usually take a couple hours each. I would only macrame while watching TV and only for a couple hours a day. Since I was learning, it took me a bit longer than if I would have been more familiar with the knots. But it was so much fun and people loved the fact that they received a one-of-a-kind, unique, Christmas gift.

I re-engineered some of the jewelry designs to make bookmarks for my dad and my husband's brothers.

Next Christmas I want to take it a step further and purchase a Chinese knot tying book and incorporate some more complex knots into the pieces I make.

I'm also on the lookout for more ideas and useful items to make with macrame.

Not so nutty Knots.......2005-08-17

This book is actually pretty good, but more for someone who has done knot work before. I dont know that i would necessarily recommend this to a beginnner that has never done any knot or macrame work before since the patterns do not give a step-by-step illustration of what to do and this might prove difficult for someone just getting started.
I actually had another copy but it went on a journey of it's own and so i bought a second copy because I like to have a reference for some knots I dont use that often.

So Great!.......2005-07-28

This book was just so much fun! My sister and I have a weekend hobby of macrame and other types of craft work and we have enjoyed this book a lot. It's just one of those great books you can go back to again and again for different techniques and ideas.

GREAT BOOK TO LEARN FROM!.......2005-05-04

I was totally new to making hemp necklaces etc. I started with this book and it has taught me to knot and make some great things. Now I have a bead and hemp collection and able to read other beading how to books with greater understanding.
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Hemp Masters - Getting Knotty: More Ancient Hippie Secrets for Knotting Hip Hemp Jewelry

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I love this hemp book!
Great for beginners and beyond!

Hemp Masters - Getting Knotty: More Ancient Hippie Secrets for Knotting Hip Hemp Jewelry
Max Lunger
Manufacturer: Eagles View Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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I love this hemp book!.......2007-07-06

I've been making hemp jewelry for quite a while and i've been looking for new styles to get into, so i bought this book hoping to learn some awesome new braids and it definitley taught me just that! If anyone is looking for a hemp jewelry book in order to learn new styles in making them, this is definitley the book to get. It's perfect.

Great for beginners and beyond!.......2006-03-18

This was my first knotting book and I found it very easy to understand. It also explains how to begin and end in very clean ways that other books don't usually show you. Also shows you how to add filler or knotter cords when they start to get short. I particularly enjoyed the phishbone pattern. Very pretty and easy to do projects that look alot more complicated. There's lots of techniques here that you can use and expand on. The writting is not dry like a usual instruction book either. It's personable and fun!

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What will happen to the near-Earth space environment? How can we ensure the survival of future scientific, commercial and military satellites and space stations? This book addresses the questions that must be asked as debris in space around the Earth--from dust particles to rocket casings, and even radioactive materials--becomes a critical problem. In this volume, many specialists from around the world address the issues, problems, and policies concerned with the preservation of near-Earth space. Their articles cover the technical aspects, and the economic and legal issues concerned, including the enforcement and monitoring of international agreements and the resolution of disputes. This clearly written and well illustrated survey offers the professional and concerned nonspecialist an authoritative and comprehensive review of the problems with and solutions to space debris.

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The state of the art in the area of security related civil science and technology concerning energetic materials and munitions is of pressing importance at the present time, because 10 years after the end of the cold war, in many countries in east and west, huge stockpiles of munitions still await destruction. The safety behavior of munitions and their energetic material is the determining factor for all precautionary measures for the protection of environment and population. The probability of a catastrophic reaction of munitions and their energetic components will be so more likely, the closer the munitions are to the end of their life time. Residues and undetected ordnance, recycling, destruction of ammunition and depletion or reuse of energetic materials will either cause more or less damage to environment. Scientific research and development have the aim to increase performance of munitions on one side and to improve safety in relation to unpredictable events on the other side. The impact on the environment by the production and normal use of munitions and their residues after use will acquire an increasing importance in environmental awareness. The excellent technical presentations were classified in five Groups, according to the technical programme. The "Introduction to the subject; Methods, tests and application; Insensitive and "green" munitions; Storage and transportation; and Demilitarisation and recycling" sessions, were closed by a final and general interesting discussion among participants.

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DESKTOP DATABASE OF INSTANT MATH AND SCIENCE DATA

A concise yet comprehensive compendium of formulas, functions, symbols, constants, and conversions, Mathematical and Physical Data, Equations, and Rules of Thumb is a treasure trove of data for everyone from electrical hobbyists to engineers. Consistent with the plan-English writing that’s made top science writer/author Stan Gibilisco’s books consistently popular, this handy guide provides you with crystal-clear explanations of:

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A single-source reference valuable to everyone from electrical hobbyists all the way up to engineers.

Mathematical and Physical Data, Equations, and Rules of Thumb

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Mathematical and Physical Data, Equations, and Rules of Thumb
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When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.

In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him.

His survival is testimony to the disciplined human spirit.
His story is gripping.

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stayed with me.......2007-10-09

Out of the over 100 books I read in college - this is one of the two I have never forgotten.

Escape from Laos.......2007-09-19

This book is one of the best true Military escape books that I have read. It's as good as Colditz.
M. Rutter

A Hero's Hero.......2007-05-27

An extraordinary account of the triumph of the human spirit, Five Years to Freedom relates the story of Captain Nick Rowe's incredible experience as a prisoner of the Vietcong in South Viet Nam from 1963 to 1968. Adapted from Captain Rowe's own diaries, the book recounts in often graphic detail the author's five years in captivity deep in the steamy, unforgiving jungles of South Viet Nam.

Rowe's dogged resistance in the face of extreme hardship and unrelenting physical and psychological torture endures as an example to U.S. military members serving today. Much of the modern day Code of Conduct guiding the actions of U.S. POWs reflects Rowe's experience and that of other Viet Nam POWs. Rowe remains one of the most prominent of the many U.S. Army Special Forces professionals to serve in Viet Nam.

Captain Rowe details his captivity in a clear, determined style that allows the reader to experience on a visceral level all that the author endured. The savagery with which Captain Rowe is treated by his Viet Cong captors is almost beyond comprehension. Often confined to a bamboo cage, placed in irons, and fed a steady diet of undercooked rice and barely edible fermented fish sauce (nuoc mam), Rowe suffers alternating bouts of dysentery, beri beri, and outbreaks of severe fungal disease. Though repeatedly incapacitated by chronic diarrhea and other debilitating conditions, he resists every effort by his captors to break his will.

Refusing to accede to the demands of his captors for intelligence on U.S. forces operating in South Viet Nam, Rowe continually stonewalls or provides misleading information. Even when offered many "privileges" culminating with his freedom, he refuses to give in. His perseverance in the face of such brutality is a testament to the indomitable spirit of one remarkable soldier and warrior.

Most "heart-wrenching" is Rowe's gradual awareness - resulting in part from his Vietcong tormentors' clumsy attempts at disinformation - that the American public is beginning to withhold support for the war. His deep devotion to his country, however, prevents Rowe from accepting this as reality, and he continues to resist. We are witness to a man struggling mightily with his emotions as he attempts to process this seeming dichotomy.

Rowe's Vietcong guards reward his defiance by withholding food, medicine, and other basic necessities of survival. Perhaps most poignant, the Vietcong ruthlessly chip away at his resolve through a sinister, carefully calculated combination of reward and punishment. His fellow POWs released, Rowe eventually seeks companionship through a pair of forest eagles. His painstaking devotion to these two birds, the only witnesses to the miserable conditions of his captivity and constant abuse, is an inspiration to animal lovers everywhere.

The most astonishing element of Captain Rowe's story is how he repeatedly risks certain death by attempting to escape. Remarkably, he succeeds on his fifth try and is eventually rescued by an American helicopter crew. Finally, he is free of the physical bonds of his imprisonment and, perhaps even more of a relief, the constant emotional highs and lows to which he was so cruelly submitted.

Interestingly, Rowe was only one of 34 Americans who escaped captivity during the Vietnam War.

Through Five Years to Freedom, we are witness to the barbarity that characterized treatment of many U.S. POWs by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong during America's sustained involvement in Viet Nam. More than a mere POW story, Rowe's book reminds us of freedom's great cost. Were it not for the sacrifices of men like Nick Rowe, our country and all that we value as a society would be perpetually at risk.

As a footnote to the story and perhaps the final irony in his extraordinary life, (Colonel) Nick Rowe was murdered in 1989 in the Philippines by communist insurgents.

To read Five Years to Freedom is to know the heart of a man deeply committed to the ideals of duty, honor, country. This book remains one of the greatest stories of one man's heroism ever told and a tribute to the many great men and women who serve our nation in uniform.

The Ironic Life of Nick Rowe.......2006-07-10

This is the second time I have read this book and I teach a university class on the Vietnam War and highly recommend it to my students. It was one of the earlier books on life as a POW and it verified what I had heard from a friend who also had been a POW in South Vietnam. Life was much harder for the POWs in South Vietnam than for those held in North Vietnam. The ones in the South were not tortured like those in the North, but the living conditions were better in the North. I especially found it interesting at hearing Nick Rowe's dismay and how much it affected his morale to hear all the anti-war propoganda provided by the VC but most of it was just reports of the ongoing anti-war protests in the U.S.-many by senators and congressmen as well as celebraties-a direct parallel to the ongoing war in Iraq. The irony was that Nick Rowe, after being a prisoner for five years in Vietnam, escaped in 1968 and was later killed in 1989 in the Phillipines by communist insurgents.

A tough book to read........2006-07-08

It's hard to imagine a person going through what COL Rowe went through and surviving, let alone maintaining the patriotism and will to live that he did. Some parts of this book will be lost on readers who've never served in the military. The story moves slowly at times, but by the time it's complete, the pace serves to give the reader some idea of Rowe's perception of the passage of time in his five years of captivity. It's too bad the US Army can't make this book required reading, since it can't send everyone to SERE School. It would give those serving a whole new perspective on being captured, living in captivity, being indoctrinated and exploited, and having to live in primitive condtions. Personally, after reading this book, I'll have a hard time complaining about military living conditions during training and deployments.

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