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In the current tight labor market, retention of key employee talent is essential. Given the high costs associated with new-employee turnover, no organization can leave new-employee assimilation to chance. Helping Your New Employee Succeed: Tips for Managers of New Graduates uses a 12-step process to give human resource directors, career counselors, and managers practical tools for supporting new members of their organization and encouraging them to acclimate to the corporate culture and succeed in their jobs.

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Must Read For All !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2001-02-14

Naquin and Holton have an effective straight forward approach to managing and training new employees. The book was quite educational and I recommend it to any business or institution that are faced with the challenge of hiring and maintaining new college graduates.

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Hard to follow.......2003-04-19

The book provides quite a well rounded basis, with good diagrams, but some of his calculation methods are a little hard to follow. I much much preferred Orbital Motion by A.E. Roy. It depends though on how you are used to seeing the formulas. I know some people find this book much easier.

A delightful insight on Kepler's laws of planetary orbits!.......1998-12-28

I found this text one Saturday afternoon while shopping at a university bookstore in Denver. I am a candidate for the M.S. degree in astronomyand physics and doing my thesis on Johannes Kepler and his three laws of planetary motion. While browsing through the physics section, I saw this text right in front of me. I spent the next half-hour thumbing through the pages. I purchased it, and I'm using it for part of my thesis. I also am part-time faculty at a unversity in the Denver area. I have shared this wonderful text with students and other faculty members. There are full explanations of orbits, detailed drawings, equations, and sample problems. Orbits include those of planets, moons, man-made satellites, asteroids and comets. I find it an enjoyable book for all that are interested in astronmony from the junior high student through a professional in the field.

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An informative book aimed at less experienced riders.......1998-06-11

This is a very good read and is handy as a reference for problems that may arise. It is more appropriate for less experienced eventing riders, perhaps those just getting started. More seasoned competitors will find Mark Todds Cross Country Handbook more useful. It is well illustrated and has a very good, helpful section on choosing a horse.

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From hot springs hikes to journeys among the mighty Sequoias, there's something here for everyone! Routes range from short day hikes to overnight backpacking trips, with difficulty levels (moderate to challenging) clearly labeled.

* Every trail has been updated in this new edition
* All maps are completely revised
* Now includes elevation profiles
* New "hike finder" chart for easy trip planning
* New hikes added in Henry Coe State Park and Los Padres National Forest, among other areas

Locations include:
Yosemite National Park
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
Pinnacles National Monument
John Muir Wilderness
Ansel Adams Wilderness
Hoover Wilderness
Ventana Wilderness
Emigrant Wilderness
Mokelumne Wilderness and more!

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Best of the Sierras.......2007-10-06

Since I purchased the book in 1995, it is my ultimate guide to the best sierra hikes. I now have #72 planned for next August, the "Buena Vista Loop" at 28 miles and 4 days. Each one that I've completed has my notes scrawled on the pages. I simply photocopy the hike to take on the trail, and then write the notes in the book later. Combined with a topo map of the area, it's the best guide to the best sierra trips.

A sierra hike is sometimes a big event, and the hikes in this book do not disappoint, from the short to the long trails. Everything is laid out very clear and simple, ultra clear and concise without an extraneous word and never lacking the important description.

I only wish I could complete all 100.

Just Description.......2003-09-11

I'm sure the authors loved these hikes, but I didn't see that in the hike descriptions. I liked the book, but the books by the Whitehalls were better.

100 Hikes in CA Central Sierra..........2002-06-10

Excellent book with an easy to follow layout. Mostly geared towards moderate to "difficult" hikes with overnight backpacks, or longer dayhikes, the most common. Lists 100 hikes and, in general, they spend 2 pages per hike, with directions to the trail head, max elevation, elevation gain, etc. They also give a sketched map and a photo for each.

This book is geared more towards the serious hiker/BPer, not the 2 mile family dayhike type.

I have done about 15 of the listed hikes and have found the info accurate.

One note: Some of the kiosks they list to get wilderness permits are no longer in operation. To be safe, plan on getting wilderness permits at the ranger station.

Excellent guide to backpacking highlights of the Sierra.......2001-06-03

I've used this book extensively over the past 3 years and have hiked over 20 of the routes described here. It is excellently laid out (it uses highways to organize the treks) and features an excellent and varied selection of short and long trips. I own most of the guides to the Sierra and this is the one I use most regularly.

The book is also very durable - mine has fallen in rivers, gotten scrunched against rocks, been boiled and frozen and is still perfectly serviceable.

For anyone who is trying to get their head around the central Sierra and identify some good trips - this is the ideal book.

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Journalist Elizabeth Fishel profiles 10 of her classmates from the class of 1968 at Manhattan's elite Brearley School, interweaving her own story with theirs to consider the choices they made in a period of wrenching social change. Raised in a privileged society where roles and rules for women were clear, these Brearley girls found after high school that none of the rules applied. Responses to this chaotic new world included dropping out of college, delaying marriage, bouncing from job to job, and having fewer children than their mothers (or none at all). Fishel finds her group more confused than her sister's generation, only five years younger, who could "assimilate the clash of cultures much more gradually" and who in her view managed the juggling act of career and motherhood with greater ease. Reunion also makes an interesting contrast with Miriam Horn's Rebels in White Gloves, a similar study of Wellesley College's 1969 graduates, who also seem more solidly grounded than Fishel's friends. Despite a tendency to overschematize (her categories of "untraditional traditionalist, unconventional career-tracker, seeker, and juggler" aren't especially illuminating), Fishel depicts with appealing sympathy a group of women whose winding paths toward maturity convince her "that being comfortable with change is the most important skill to develop early." --Wendy Smith

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"It was from my curiosity about the gap between childhood dreams and midlife realities, between youthful promise and womanly fulfillment, that the idea for this book was conceived. Raised to believe they were among their generation's best and brightest, my class can be seen as a bellwether for a generation caught without a compass on the cutting edge of uncharted territory. After graduation they faced an explosion of choices unimaginable when they were schoolgirls. Each graduate, willing or no, prepared or not, would become a pioneer trying to discover her path on roads that were not yet on anybody's map. Their choices energized and empowered some, stymied or sidelined others. I began this book to find out why."

In Reunion, Elizabeth Fishel interweaves the story of the Brearley School class of 1968 with the history of a generation of American women born into tradition in the 1950s and engulfed by radical politics and social change in the 1960s and 1970s.
Beginning at the twenty-fifth reunion of her class, Fishel traces the lives of ten of her classmates at one of the nation's oldest and most renowned girls' schools. Nineteen sixty-eight was a watershed year--a year Time magazine said "shaped a generation"--and Reunion explores how each of that year's bright, privileged, famously situated, but often emotionally struggling graduates coped with the social upheavals of the sixties and the decades beyond.

Reunion looks at the contradictions in the lives of young women born into a traditional world of nonworking mothers and propelled into an environment of feminism, sexual liberation, and political radicalism. Fishel explores what happened to her classmates, particularly behind closed doors, to discover why so many women from her class didn't fare as well in life as women who graduated only five years later.

Filled with moving anecdotes, important life lessons, and revelations, Reunion is a powerful story of the women at one of America's top schools, as well as a history of an in-between generation.

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Coming of age in the 70's.......2000-12-30

Reunion documents the lives of 10 members of the class of 1968 at the Brearley School in New York City. Each of the young women had the "advantage" of an elite education and the amenities of an upper class life. Each takes a decidedly different path...some encountering the sex and drugs so prevelent of the times. Marriages are entered into and ended. Some women have children, some choose careers, some wander from thing to thing. All seem to have to deal with families that are imperfect, from benignly so to worse. One member of the class commits suicide, all are touched in some way. Most are struggling with issues of self confidence and direction. This is the era when emotional issues are not talked about, and many turn to therapy. The stories are not really in depth and do not draw you in. I guess I measure every "what ever happened" type book to Goatbrothers, one of the best books of that type ever written. The stories are interesting but not compelling, which is in no way a comment on the women themselves.

interesting.......2000-05-03

I had expected something a bit different with this book -- I thought it would focus on the Brearley experience and lifestyle. Instead, it really concentrated on the girls' lives after prep school. It was interesting to find that many of them faced problems like anyone else would. Although this book did describe the experience of attending Brearley, it did so in the beginning, and then followed how its traditional education left the women unprepared for the rapidly changing society of the 60s and 70s.

Entertaining Book.......2000-03-26

Fortunately, I purchased "Reunion" prior to the posting of the above review! I found "Reunion" to be a fascinating story and free of the oppressive "insights", "dramas" and "accomplishments" that are force-fed to us by graduates of Wellesley, Radcliffe and Vassar. How delightful to see how much in common we "commoners" have with those who were priviledged enough to attend an elite school. I suspect that previous reviewers, possibly graduates of Wellesley, Radcliffe and Vasar, are loathe to find the myth of their superiority shattered by such a down-to-earth snapshot of a group of women who should have, in their (the previous reviewers') world-view, become bastions of Brahmin society. I was particularly struck by the character "Emma". Today's culture and society would benefit greatly by appreciating and nurturing the "Emma's" of our society. Peace-loving, generous and wise women of our world are too frequently overlooked, or their value dismissed, by vacuous and elitist Wellesley grads. Bravo to Elizabeth Fishel for her courage in sharing with us these true portraits!

Overwrought and facile........2000-03-17

The material here might have worked better as a novel, a la Mary McCarthy's The Group (1930s Vassar Grads) or Alice Adam's Superior Women (1950s Radcliffe Grads). Surely there is room for a coming of age story about bright, privileged women of the 1960s generation. The Brearley class of 1968 could have been the focus of such a work, and through narrative license the author could have provided more insight as to what motivated and in some cases tormented the individuals.

Instead, this non-fictional work presents girls/women whose personal demons are described through veiled references and through class and historical cliches. The ellipsis may be necessary to protect the women's privacy, but in practice it leaves many of the individuals looking like ciphers on to whom the author projects her pocket psychological interpretations. This projection pattern is particularly disconcerting when the author discusses the girls in elementary and high school; she provides too many pithy insights that can only be derived from (possibly romanticized) memory and not from contemporaneous observation. Why not protect the women by writing fiction, and then using the psychobabble to enrich fictitious characters based on actual acquaintances? At present, some of the portraits lack credibility.

Furthermore, the pat historical name and place dropping also hinder the work, as the women's personal struggles seem reduced to easy references to external political developments and pop culture. With overwrought prose the author states repeatedly that her classmates were caught between two Americas, the conformist old order and the tumultuous late 60s. More direct quotes from her classmates and less of the author's florid description of context would better illuminate this conflict. Instead readers are left with cardboard characters and jejune, melodramatic generational angst. The Brearley girls deserve better.

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The Used to be It Girl

Eveywhere You Go

Original New Teen Fiction

deep young adult tale

The Used-to-be It Girl
Amy Kaye
Manufacturer: Smooch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0843954736

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The Used to be It Girl.......2005-08-25

Rhiannon Taylor has been the star of a wing and a Prayer for 6 years. Nine out of ten are likely to watch it each Friday night. It's her 16th birthday. She has a new car. Everything's perfect, right?

Rhiannon has been replaced. The media is writing low stories about her. Her sister is against her. Secrets are going on. If you want to find them out, read this entertaining, but informative book.

Eveywhere You Go.......2005-08-11

Everywhere she goes people already know Rhiannon Taylor. The star from A Wing and a Prayer. Who wouldn't she's everywhere you go? Now she's been fired. This book is serious and funny at the same time. It shows how people really are. But I was expecting more pages.

Original New Teen Fiction.......2004-10-01

For years, Rhiannon Melissa Taylor, was the uber-adorable star of the Friday night kids sitcom, Wing and a Prayer, and she was everywhere you looked, magazines, TV, and more. Until, of course, 12 months ago when she gained a bit of teenage weight, and her TV Producer, who now refers to her as "Little Girl Lard," fired her, to bring on someone more cute. Rhee, utterly humiliated by her new nickname, and thoughts of being a child actor has-been, returns home to her family in Queens. Now Rhiannon is forced to face a sickening new truth, heading to a public high school. One that is co-ed. And being forced to allude the paparazzi at all costs, as they try to snap horrible pictures of her new fallen-personality, that will surely grace the covers of every tabloid. But as she's worried about her own problems, Rhee fails to see the fact that her family is falling apart now that she's not bringing home money to support them, which could lead to even bigger problems than being the used-to-be it girl.

As far as first impressions go, it was the magazine-esque cover of THE USED-TO-BE IT GIRL that captured my attention, but it was the plotline, and well-crafted story held within it's pages that kept me engrossed in Rhiannon's story until the very end. Amy Kaye has once again created an amazing teen novel, one that will have fans of teen celebrities the world over realizing what can really happen to their beloved stars once they disappear from the covers of magazines, and TV shows. Overall this was a fantastic novel, one that is sure to become a hit with teens, male or female, of all ages.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

deep young adult tale .......2004-09-29

For several seasons, Rhiannon Melissa Taylor was the star of the popular TV kid show Wing and a Prayer; last year she seemed to be on the cover of every magazine. However, at fifteen she gained teenage weight and recently was fired because with the loss of her cuteness her TV producer considers her as "Little Girl Lard". A humiliated Rhee returns to her family home in Queens.

Rhee must adjust from being the It girl to high school coed except she must elude the paparazzi, who enjoy snapping pictures of those who have fallen in where they are now milieu. She struggles with adjusting to being the ex cover girl princess and wonders if she is one of those child stars that never made it to adult status. While Rhee struggles with being a teen nobody, she fails to notice the conflicts at home. Instead Rhee remains buried in wallow that her life is yesterday's news, her present a disaster, and a future seems zeroed, but her family depends on her bringing in the income.

Rhee makes this young adult tale work as she seems so genuine struggling to adjust from the lights of Hollywood superstardom to borough amidst working class Queens. The story line is intriguing to follow as the weight of the world (or at least her family) is on Rhee's shoulders, but she sees no opportunity to regain all she lost when she fell from grace. Even adjusting to returning to the family fold is a trauma. Fans will enjoy "this rags to riches to rags" tale starring a wonderful teen facing demons and traumas in readapting to a totally new and what seems to her humiliatingly lesser life.

Harriet Klausner

Plays One: When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout..., When We Were Women, the Winter Guest, Borders of Paradise (Contemporary Classics)

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Ms Macdonald gives Universal life to the Scottish woman

Plays One: When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout..., When We Were Women, the Winter Guest, Borders of Paradise (Contemporary Classics)
Sharman MacDonald
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Ms Macdonald gives Universal life to the Scottish woman.......1998-08-11

I found this book years ago in London and every person whose hands I have placed it in has returned it to me with a mischevious light in their eyes. Ms Macdonald is truly one of the greatest contemporary playwrights, both for women and for Scotland. Each of these four very different scripts provides a rich dialect and dialogue, embracing Scottish culture and revealing it in its naked honesty. A portrayal of women of every age, from the single mother to the hovering grandma, from the brutally truthful child to the impetuous, rebelling teenager. Each story is humorous and cruel; my heart breaks with understanding as Morag tells her only daughter that she hates her, and loves her in practically the same moment. I cannot conceive of how Ms Macdonald has managed to capture the words which express so perfectly a kind of pain that all women deal with - and I must add here that the men in her plays are just as powerful. These scripts provide a richness of modern Scottis! h life and the women, the families, the people who struggle to survive and discover what "it all" really means. If you have found your way to this review please do yourself a favor and read Sharman. She'll say it like you've never heard it before - think Career Girls or Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh). If you are an actor you will find her plays to be a terrific fountain of material; if you are a woman, I can bet you won't find many stories that strike closer to the soul.

30 Days to Getting over the Dork You Used to Call Your Boyfriend: A Heartbreak Handbook

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30 Days to Getting over the Dork You Used to Call Your Boyfriend: A Heartbreak Handbook
Clea Hantman
Manufacturer: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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BEING DUMPED HURTS. But you know what? It happens to everyone. Even Gwyneth, even Cameron, even Madonna have been on the losing end of love. The part you might not believe is that no matter how brutally your heart’s been broken, those wounds will heal. But the longer you dwell on the dork, the longer your heart will remain cracked. Enter 30 Days to Getting Over the Dork You Used to Call Your Boyfriend. One day at a time, 30 days in a row. At the end, you’ll find you have the power to yank that dagger out of your chest, stand tall, walk proud, and move on. And along the way, you may just discover something marvelous and surprising about yourself.

FRENCH GIRLS ARE VICIOUS - And Other Stories: They Don't Know What Time It Is; A Dream of Love; Kilroy Was Here; I Want to Meet a French Girl; They Ain't the Men They Used To Be; Ruth and Bertram; A Baptism in Italy (by the author of Studs Lonigan)

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FRENCH GIRLS ARE VICIOUS - And Other Stories: They Don't Know What Time It Is; A Dream of Love; Kilroy Was Here; I Want to Meet a French Girl; They Ain't the Men They Used To Be; Ruth and Bertram; A Baptism in Italy (by the author of Studs Lonigan)
James T. Farrell
Manufacturer: Panther Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GVWGX2

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GATEFOLD GIRLS
Clyde (pen name used by William Knoles) Allison
Manufacturer: Corinth Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GVUAZS

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THE GIRL IN THE KILLER'S BED
Avon (pen name used by Jean Bowden) Curry
Manufacturer: Ace Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HL8WUM

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GIRL MEETS BODY
Jack (pen name used by Samuel Harvey Iams Jr.) Iams
Manufacturer: Dell Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GVUGHU

THE GIRL WITH THE HOLE IN HER HEAD - A Jeremiah X. Gibby Gibson Mystery

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THE GIRL WITH THE HOLE IN HER HEAD - A Jeremiah X. Gibby Gibson Mystery
Hampton (pen name used by Aaron Marc Stein) Stone
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HNXLP6

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