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Learn how to harness change and use it as a competitive advantage! Organizing Change shows you how to organize and activate a team process to accomplish a successful change initiative throughout your organization. Using the process outlined in this book, your organization will be able to respond quickly yet methodically to your organization's needs while your company maintains, and even increases, productivity and results throughout the change process.

"In Organizing Change Lee and Krayer have taken what most executives regard as consultant candy and transformed it into a science . . . a doable science."
--Joseph F. Carlisle, senior consultant, Training Consulting Softek, Denton, Texas

Written for organizational development consultants, human resources professionals, managers at all levels, and organizational change agents, this important resource is a valuable asset that contains a wealth of tools, ideas, as well as a wide variety of checklists, worksheets, templates, and forms that you can use to assist you in organizing change initiatives.

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The Best.......2003-09-05

What a book! I have used quite a few books about change, but this one is not "about" change, it is how to "do" change. The phases and the constituent roles under each are clear and very helpful. The tools are excellent, and the fact that I could use them off the CD-ROM saved me hours of time. I only wish that I would have had this book years ago. Anyone who is responsible for change is out of his or her mind for not following the wisdom found in this book.

In Defense of Change.......2003-06-28

This book uses a three-dimensional model ["The Cube"] to demonstrate key elements and their interaction to affect change. These three elements; stakeholders, the process and communication each have separate chapters in the book. Each chapter includes two case studies of organizations going through a change project. The case studies are the best part of the book because they help relate the theory with actual results and failures. The studies go through the seven steps in the change process from planning to evaluation. This book is for the OD consultant, HR professional or organizational change agent. Especially for one starting a change project right now. There are a variety of checklists, worksheets, templates and forms in the book and to download from the enclosed CD. Also helpful to change agents selecting a committee for a project is a suggested individual rating and interview form. Getting the best talent for the effort can be half the success. The author's acknowledge the time factor and overcoming resistance to effect any change. Their approach is to obtain widespread participation and input from a variety of sources. To paraphrase their work; Communicate a lot with all stakeholders as you work through the change process.

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This book clearly illustrates the limitations of using chemical thermodynamics to describe chemical phenomena in soils--especially with regard to kinetics and molecular mechanisms--and proposes that the quantitative description of soils is not complete without adequate characterization of the rates of the chemical reactions. The author, a renowned authority in the field, focuses on reactions in the soil solution and considers aqueous phase properties. He also cogently draws distinctions between thermodynamic chemical species and kinetic chemical species. This critical introduction to the use of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics for describing reactions in the soil solution will appeal not only to professionals but to students as well.

Chemical Equilibria and Kinetics in Soils

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Chemical Equilibria and Kinetics in Soils
Garrison Sposito
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Stars and Planets shows step by step how to locate bright stars, planets, and constellations with the naked eye -- from anywhere on Earth. This easy-to-use handbook requires no astronomical equipment and is suitable for both beginning and advanced star gazers. Stars and Planets also introduces the reader to new stars, variable stars, comets. meteors, and other night sky phenomena.

Features include:
-- 25 tables and 80 illustrations, including easy-to-read constellation maps
-- A calendar for the phases of the moon and the position of the five naked-eye planets to the year 2000 and beyond
-- A new simple method of finding and identifying the stars that remain visible in or near cities even under a full moon
-- How to identify more than 20 constellations using only your hand for measuring How to find Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
-- How celestial navigators accurately fix their position from the heavenly bodies
-- How to get compass direction from the sun and stars by different methods anywhere in the world. day or night
-- A pronouncing gazeteer for stars and constellations

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Good system, bad design.......1998-10-29

The system outlined in this book is very persuasive, but if clarity is the defining cryterium for saying it is "well written" then I'm sorry to say this book was not so good, at least for me. The diagrams were rather "amateur" and I noticed that it was written a few years ago - some of the tables only go to the year 2000 (from 1990).

A great beginner's book for stargazing!.......1997-03-09

If you know nothing about stargazing and are looking for a book to get started, then this book is for you. W. S. Kals shows you his system in an easy to understand manner. Other books sometimes don't let you see the forest for the trees, but this book gives you the big picture. This is an extremely well written book

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Naturalists Bible.......2007-08-14

I have personally met John Serraro many times in my work as a naturalist at Flat Rock Brook Nature Center, Engelwood, NJ and his book, Nature's Events, have been my bible when going to teach/lead a group at any time of the year. It is an account of week by week what you will find in nature in the northern NJ, southern CT, or western PA areas. John is the foremost naturalist of this region and his book is extremely useful and written for the budding and experienced naturalist/nature lover in each of us!

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Dave Pelz is a genius

Amazing Simplicity

Best short game advice

Finesse with Finesse

Getting Serious About Lowering My Handicap

Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible: Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score (Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series)
Dave Pelz
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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As the reigning rabbi on the mysteries of golf from 100 yards in, Pelz has earned the right to anoint his expansive instruction on the short game a "Bible." A scientist by training, he's analyzed the macros and dissected the micros to come up with a gospel for pros (Lee Janzen, Vijay Singh, and Anika Sorenstam, to name a few disciples) and weekend hackers alike. Pelz fills his scripture with photos, illustrations, charts, and plenty of sage advice on pitching, chipping, sandplay, putting, equipment, execution, mechanics, technique, practice, attitude, lots of questions, and plenty of answers. Much of the Short Game Bible is pretty sophisticated stuff aimed toward better players--or, at least, players who take their golf seriously. But its basics are appropriate to any skill level of the game: Accurately assess your own weaknesses, and then go about improving them systematically with the author's carefully researched and tested plan. It seems so obvious, but the truth is, most golfers either beat balls on the range in search of distance or slave over eight-foot putts on the practice green; they fail to pay enough attention to the shots in between. Pelz does the math for you here; his figures add up, so that yours can go down--the golfing equivalent of forgiving sins and absolving trespasses. --Jeff Silverman

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Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible is the first book in a four-book series, The Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series. The next volume in the series will be Dave Pelz's Putting Bible.

"He who rules the short game collects the gold."
--Dave Pelz's Golden Rule of Golf

Fed up with trying to imitate the pros, buying the latest expensive equipment, and seeing your handicap stay the same? The first book by bestselling author and internationally revered golf instructor Dave Pelz since Putt Like the Pros, his bestselling classic, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible can show you the way to lower scores by improving your short game. The result of decades of scientific research studying thousands of golfers, Dave's philosophy is as simple as it is revolutionary and groundbreaking: Instead of practicing the wrong things the right way, or the right things the wrong way, Pelz shows you how to find your own personal weaknesses and how to improve them to efficiently lower your scores. Packed with all the knowledge, charts, and photos needed to learn from the master, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible is the essential book for every golfer who's looking to improve his or her game.

Dave's approach to golf is easy to understand: 80 percent of the strokes golfers lose to par are determined by their play within 100 yards of the green--the crucial scoring game. The most important and yet the least focused-on aspect of golf, your short game, can indeed make or break your entire game. And nobody teaches the short game like Dave Pelz. His renowned golf schools and clinics focus exclusively on putting and the short game, attracting top players like Tom Kite, Colin Montgomerie, two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen, reigning PGA champion Vijay Singh, Steve Elkington, Payne Stewart, Peter Jacobsen, and many LPGA players including Annika Sorenstam and Liselotte Neumann. The pros know, as you are about to learn, that while others teach golfers how to swing, Dave Pelz teaches golfers how to score . . . and win.

A former physicist for NASA, Dave brings a scientific rigor to his research and instruction that has made him the top short-game expert in the world. Dave has observed and then taught thousands of golfers to improve their ability to score better. The years he has spent studying the short game, including chipping, lobs, pitches, distance wedges, and bunker play, have resulted in an unequaled expertise and a fascinating body of knowledge on golf, with the statistics and data to back it up. In this new book, Dave for the first time shares the understanding and techniques he has taught the pros, including a wide array of innovative tests and exercises for mastering those deceptive and high-pressure shots of the short game.

Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible is an essential book for golfers of all levels. Covering everything golfers need to know to improve their short game, Dave's system can--and will--help you to consistently shoot lower scores.

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Dave Pelz is a genius.......2007-10-17

Don't ask questions. Just get it, believe it, learn it, and use it. You will benefit.

Amazing Simplicity.......2007-09-28

I am a new golfer and just finished reading this book. I have been practicing 4-5 times a week at the range. I began using his techniques for Wedge play, and have seen marked improvement in my game since. I actually now have the four wedges he recommends. It is amazing how accurate I am becoming at picking the right wedge and correct swing for the distance. I am not perfect, but it is more fun to practice with my wedges than any other club. I get excited to see the improvement weekly. The wedges rule for me!! I still struggle with putting, so I bought his book on putting, and that is also excellent reading!!

Best short game advice.......2007-09-11

This book is written by a scientist golfer. I am one third of the way through it and it has already helped my game. In fact a lot of the instructions in the book are applicable to the whole game.

It is a little repetitive, but that doesn't hurt at all.
I am going to buy Peltz's other book as soon as I finish this.
Excellent book on golf.

Finesse with Finesse.......2007-04-10

Put the "finesse" in your finesse swing and learn how to use it to improve your distance. The diagrams and practice drills will show you how to perfect your golf swing.

Getting Serious About Lowering My Handicap.......2007-02-11

When I started to play golf again, after a lay-off of many years, I picked up "Putt Like the Pros", so when I ordered this book, I knew Dave Pelz's style.
His no nonesense, clear - albeit a bit technical at times, description of how to use the finesse swing to improve your distance wedge, pitch, chip and sand shots, makes sense to my engineering trained mind. Most of the illustrations, except 16 pages in the centre, are in B&W, and are not of the quality we are used to in the big name golf magazines. On the other hand, the diagrams and sketches are first rate.
All in all, I have found the Short Game Bible easy to read and very informative. I look forward to getting out in the backyard or on the practice range, when the weather gets better, to practice the many drills Dave Pelz provides in this excellent book on a much neglected aspect of this great game.

Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible (Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score)

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Poor maps

Informal approach to travel in TNT

Loaded with detailed information

Good book for travelers and daydreamers

A "must" for tourists and business travelers.

Adventure Guide to Trinidad & Tobago
Kathleen O'Donnell , and S. Harry Pefkaros
Manufacturer: Hunter Pub Inc
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Most Trinidad and Tobago guides (and there aren't many) assume you're there to sunbathe. A list of hotels, directions to the best beach, a brief mention of the bird sanctuaries in case you're into them, and that's that. O'Donnell and Pefkaros explore the adventurous side of the islands as well, with hiking and kayaking, mud volcanoes, water falls and swamps. They're beautiful, friendly islands and worth taking the time to get to know them well.

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Although definitely a part of the Caribbean, these two islands are unique, refusing to conform with the stock Caribbean image created by glossy brochures and travel agencies. They are both generous and Caribbean-spirited, but quite capable of going their own way.

This Adventure Guide takes you across the nation from mountains and hills to grasslands, savannahs and palm-lined beaches, offering the intrepid traveler a ticket to explore. Birdwatchers are drawn by the chance to see the beautiful scarlet ibis. Night-time excursions allow visitors to watch the miraculous egg-laying practices of the leatherback turtle. And caiman - smaller versions of the South's alligators - are a common sight. And then there's Carnival, which offers wild dances, fantastical costumes and frenzied revellers.

Whatever your reason to visit T&T, you have the right guide in hand. Accommodations, restaurants, travel tips, sights, museums, excursions - it's all here. A special section is dedicated to the nation's booming yachting industry, with details on marinas, facilities and services. Maps, photos, index.

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Poor maps.......2003-04-30

Good information, but lousy, hand drawn maps. Maps were in black and white, minimal detail, pencil drawn.

Informal approach to travel in TNT.......2003-01-23

I've been to TNT once for two weeks and am returning again in a few months. I bought the book to refresh my memory and, more importantly, get me excited about my return trip. It's a great read, and as the back cover suggests, it really is written for the traveler who wants to experience more than just sunbathing. However, once you've been to Trindad and Tobago, you discover that they are not your generic Caribbean islands. Visiting Trindad and Tobago is more of a cultural vacation than an island getaway. Once you step foot off the plane at Piarco airport, you'll never want to leave, or you'll want to go back once every year. The two islands are full of charisma, and O'Donnell and Pefkaros do a good job of capturing this spirit in the book. You really cannot be intimidated by the cultures of TNT. From the street vendor corn soup, to crab and dumplings, "down de islands", Maracas, Pigeon Point, Speyside, fried flying fish, Caribs, lorries, maxis, wining, Trinidad's great bar/club scene, the Northern Range, etc. - this book virtually covers all Trinidad and Tobago vacation opportunities and experiences.

Loaded with detailed information.......2001-04-20

Good book for travelers and daydreamers.......2001-02-18

I wish I'd had this book the first time I visited Trinidad and Tobago. The book fully describes the culture of these island people and this knowledge would make a trip to these wonderful islands even more enjoyable. I also believe it's a good choice for readers who can't make the trip but still want to taste the culture.

A "must" for tourists and business travelers........2000-08-03

An excellent take-long tote, as is the more adventurous Trinidad & Tobago, 2nd Edition by Kathleen O'Donnell and Stassi Pefkaros, which updates information on adventure travel with special focus on the wildlife and culture of the islands.

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It is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state.

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Be Militant for at least Once.......2007-05-07

Lee Roscoe has recently (© 2005) adapted Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here to the stage. This play is a militant agitprop work and is available to people who want to produce it for an audience in a militant perspective to fight against the present erring developments of Bush's presidency and to advocate the necessity to impeach him and his vice-president as the last defense against their systematic attack on the Constitution, hence the American people and the World's population. This enables us to rediscover the plot imagined by Sinclair Lewis in the mid 30s who was afraid of the possibility for a populist candidate to become President of the US and lead the country to some kind of fascist dictatorship. Apparently this fear is being revived in the world, or rather in some countries by the war on terror launched by President Bush and that has brought some fairly frightening developments against basic civil rights: the possibility for the police to know what you borrow or check in and out in public libraries and the restriction under which the librarian is not to tell you about it; the negation of habeas corpus for a whole set of people who have been imprisoned in Guantanamo for years without any basic constitutional or plainly universally recognized rights like the possibility to communicate with the outside world, the right to have a lawyer, the right to be informed about the charges that are leveled at them, the right to be tried in a normal court in due time and following proper procedures, etc (the procedure is so unbelievably wrong that quite a few of these prisoners have been released without any charges after several years of detention amounting to so many years of suffering, social cultural or professional damage, and even psychological torturing, and no damages, compensation or reparation when released); and of course the normal reaction of some American people who believed what they were told and started leveling harsh words at opponents and even at times taking harsh measures against opponents. The text of this play is being circulated on the Internet. The same mindset is developing in other countries, like for instance in France where some consider that the election of Nicolas Sarkozy for instance is leading to the same kind of mechanism that will necessarily lead to a police state if not fascism.
The process imagined by Sinclair Lewis is simple: a populist elected candidate and the defense of the absolute freedom of all markets to liberate the creative energy of capitalism and get us out of all possible crises. This will lead to work camps for unemployed people; the ruin of all independent newspapers and the hunting down of all alternative expression and media as unpatriotic if not anti-patriotic; the ruin of all businesses that do not support the policy of the President; the creation of some kind of militia to keep an eye on everyone; the increase of the powers of this militia that would have authority over all other police forces and even over justice. Of course one of the first triggering elements this President would need is some menace from a foreign country, hence a war against this menacing country, be it true or imagined, and a designated accomplice inside the country defined as anarchist, communist or terrorist. And the old world is then perverted enough for fascism to be born in the very sanctuary of human rights and civil liberties, and then "M and M" becomes Militia Man.
It is interesting to see this revival. It reveals several elements that we must keep in mind if we want to understand what is happening in the world. People are really afraid of the future in this changing world. People are afraid of change because it precisely is change and comfort means no change.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

Characteristic Lewis.......2007-04-10

As other reviews here have stated, this is not a subtle book. Anyone familiar with Lewis's other works will have no problem recognizing him here: he is heavy-handed and obvious, his writing is ham-fisted and clunkey.

But the book works, for the same reasons his more well known books works. Lewis has a fantastic ear for language and tone. His satire is always spot-on. Sure, his characters are exaggerated to the point of being caricatures, but the kernal of truth is always there amid the hyperbole.

It's not Babbit or Main Street, but a good read for Lewis fans.

5 stars isn't enough.......2007-02-20

While the time isn't clear -- I'd guess shortly after WWII -- it is mandatory reading for anyone who worries about the loss of individual liberties in the US, as well as movement to a "security state", written long before current concerns.

Important Message, Botched Delivery.......2007-02-14

I was drawn to this book by a quote from it I had read: "When fascism comes to America, it will be draped in the flag and carrying a bible." Strong and provocative stuff, no? I wondered why I had never encountered this book before, and why it is not better known. It turns out there is a good reason, and that is because the book is virtually unreadable--apart from that one quotation, apparently.

Lewis's premise is that fascism could establish itself in America with relative ease if the country is sufficiently worried about some threat--in this case, the great depression. The book's ironic title comes up in slightly varied forms in several early conversations. The clear implication is that it certainly could happen here, "it" being the consolidation of power in the hands of a demagogue who offers relief and protection to a frightened nation.

But the path Lewis takes in making this important point is exasperating beyond words. We first must get to know a small-town newspaper editor and his whole tedious family, and attend cocktail parties and picnics with him, and learn that his hired man won't do as he's told around the garden, and on and on. It's as if you know a person has desperately important news that you want to hear, but you must first allow him to recount, in detail, how his business is doing, and what a splash his daughter made at her ballet recital. I gave up on the book after 60 pages or so.

What decided me in the end was a growing conviction that Lewis himself didn't take his subject seriously. The novel's villainous demagogue is named Berzelius (Buzz) Windrip; he becomes President. His bible-thumping supporter is Paul Peter Prang, and the rational small-town journalist is Doremus Jessup--Doremouse to his wife.

I submit that no one who intends to write a serious novel about his country's descent into fascism would choose such cartoonish names for any of his characters, let alone the main ones. Such flippancy causes readers to smile at things that should be frightening and disturbing. It also comforts them with the false assurance that any potential dictator would be immediately recognizable by his outlandish pronouncements or at least would be ridiculous in some way.

It would have been more effective by far to give evil a bland, friendly face, as Orwell did in "1984," and to give the villain a common, ordinary name such as might belong to the fellow across the street. A name like, oh, I don't know--you think one up.

has it happened yet.... or will it soon?.......2006-09-25

" Sinclair Lewis, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize For Literature, wrote this satirical political novel in 1935, a time when the United States and Western Europe had been in a depression for six years. In this novel, Sinclair Lewis asks the question - what if some ambitious politician would use the 1936 presidential election to make himself dictator by promising quick, easy solutions to the depression - just as Hitler had done in Germany in 1933."
As frightening and politically current today as it was then...

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE the Great, Prophetic Novel About the Coming of Totalitarianism to America

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IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE the Great, Prophetic Novel About the Coming of Totalitarianism to America
SINCLAIR LEWIS
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IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE A Novel
Sinclair Lewis
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It Can't Happen Here A Novel
Sinclair Lewis
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Lady Rawhide: It Can't Happen Here
Don McGregor
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Before Batman, before all the other masked vigilantes to follow in his footsteps, the masked adventure known as Zorro meted out justice and aided the oppressed. Set in the early days of Spanish California these four volumes recapture the swashbuckling derring-do of the first masked vigilante: Zorro. Fans of westerns, high-romance and adventure will find their palates satiated with these volumes from some of today's greatest creators. Zorro: Lady Rawhide - It Can`t Happen Here - Zorro`s bustier sporting temptress flies solo as she tracks down a madman who is stalking and killing women.

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It Can't Happen Here A Novel
Sinclair Lewis
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When Roosevelt is Dictator - and How! A Fascist Prophecy. A Reply to "Red" Lewis's Novel, "It Can't Happen Here."

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When Roosevelt is Dictator - and How! A Fascist Prophecy. A Reply to "Red" Lewis's Novel, "It Can't Happen Here."
James Francis. Thierry
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