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Getting Promoted is the rare occupational-planning resource that doesn't insist that the grass is always greener in the business park across the highway. Chambers contends that many who move from company to company in order to advance their careers would actually do better if they stayed put and rededicated themselves to their existing positions. He focuses on making the best of the present job "and reaping the harvest from the field you have already cultivated, planted, and nurtured." In fact, he cautions, "it may actually be detrimental to your career to abandon your current efforts and achievements just to start anew!" Chambers, president of an Atlanta-based consulting and training firm, lays out workplace truths and challenges that can affect upward movement these days, as well as key skills that could boost the possibility of internal promotion. Fashioned from personal experience, research, and interviews with managers and trainers in diverse industries, Getting Promoted recommends a variety of tactics that readers can craft into personalized strategies. Periodic assessments permit the honest evaluation of appropriate talents and abilities, along with identification of realistic opportunities for growth and development. --Howard Rothman
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A practical and inspiring guide to moving up in your job and your career
For any ambitious person in business today, climbing the corporate ladder seems more cutthroat and challenging than ever before. In Getting Promoted, Harry Chambers dispels the modern-day myth that "the only way to move up is to move out" and provides a wide array of hands-on strategies and tactics to assess the potential for promotion, meet the challenges of intense competition, develop critical communication and organizational skills, recognize internal and external obstacles, and position yourself for success. Drawing from original interviews and research with managers and trainers in a variety of industries, Chambers shows you how to focus on your most promotable skills, manage perceptions of colleagues and supervisors, avoid promotion killers, and even use the performance appraisal process to your advantage. Packed with assessment tools, exercises, and no-nonsense advice, Getting Promoted will be an essential resource for anyone on the way up.
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Useless Purchase.......2005-06-28
I bought this book hoping for helpful suggestions on how to be more successful at work. What I found was a book full of buzzwords and cute acronyms. The writing style is convulted and the text lacks any real substance. The advice is so generalized that it is rendered meaningless.
There are much better books out there about getting promoted, doing well in the workplace, and improving on your weaknesses.
Powerful Knowledge.......2005-06-05
The author is highly knowledgeable of the subject of workplace promotion. He is aware of the current trends in the workplace and provides insightful suggestions on how one can dramatically improve the chance of promotion. There are three factors to promotion:
1)SAW (Skill, Ability, Willingness)
2)People's Positive Promotable Perception (relationship and leadership skills).
3)Promotional Opportunities within an organization.
Promotion is increasingly becoming more competitive. In most situations, one needs to be the best, not just good, worker to be promoted to the next level. One needs to set the highest standard in technical skills and constantly improve on it. Next, it is critical one has positive attitude even among those who are strongly negative. Emotional Intelligence in an increasingly stressful and hostile work environment (brought on by more work with fewer workers) is absolutely neccessary to create and maintain positive relationships with the coworkers, the boss, and the customers. Finally, one must be able to affirmatively answer the following question with measureable results: "Will promoting you result in creating greater benefit for the organization?". One must show the ability to put the team ahead of one's interest for the greater good in a consistent basis.
A Positive Outlook on the Career Advancement.......2001-10-24
I loved this book's positive outlook on getting promoted. It focuses on finding ways to motivate yourself and to improve yourself so that you are more productive. While the author acknowledges that other factors besides merit play a roll in getting a promotion, he encourages readers to focus on doing their jobs better.
I believe this is ultimately the best approach because if you try to get promoted by unethical means, it is easy to be exposed. This book is about being ethical and succeeding by doing things that you?re proud to stand behind.
I find this book to be good motivation to examine areas in which I could improve at work and to take action.
Terrific book.......1999-10-06
Harry Chambers has written a book that really says something. You're carer will get a big boost if you follow his guidelines. Yes, I've read a lot of these self-help get-ahead books, but this one cuts to the chase with the correct advice.
AN EXCELLENT GUIDE FOR THE AMBITIOUS AT ANY CAREER STAGE........1999-04-06
Drawing from interviews and research, the author shows how to utilize your most promotable skills, manage perceptions of colleagues and supervisors, avoid promotion killers, and utilize the appraisal process to advance yourself. Chambers outlines some of the most crucial promotional realities in today's workplace. He shows how to converge three pathways to promotion: (1) sharpening skills, abilities and willingness; (2) achieving visibility and positive perceptions of you; and (3) taking advantage of opportunities within the organization. An excellent guide for the ambitious at any career stage. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates and the Business InfoCenter, author of Stern's Sourcefinder: The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and Stern's Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.
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The topic for this interview is "managing the micromanager" which is the better and more proactive alternative to quitting and finding a new job.
My next special guest tells us that four out of five workers experience working for an overbearing manager and the best solution is neither to try and 'fix' the manager, nor to run, but to take personal responsibility and apply the highly effective strategies of defusing disruptive behaviors and satisfying the real agenda.
If you want to have less stress, more productivity, and better relationships at work, then I highly recommend you give your attention to this fascinating expert.
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International Real Estate Handbook: Acquisition, Ownership and Sale of Real Estate Residence, Tax and Inheritance Law
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International Real Estate: A Comparative Approach
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Today, many people no longer limit the horizon of their activities and aims to the borders of their own country. New transport and communications opportunities, the political stability and integration of Europe, cross-border activities and prolonged stays in foreign countries have made the acquisition of real estate abroad an increasingly popular trend.
The International Real Estate Handbook is essential for anyone who is serious about acquiring, owning or selling international real estate. A comprehensive general chapter introduces all the key aspects, and a detailed coverage of 16 key countries then provides a very useful tool for advisers to private clients, such as private bankers, tax advisers, real estate lawyers, fiduciaries and other professionals handling the private residential sector of international real-estate. The Handbook will be of equal interest to individuals/private investors looking to aquire or sell real estate abroad.
The International Real Estate Handbook is a unique reference manual. It features:
- A comprehensive general chapter introducing the reader to all key aspects of acquiring and structuring international real estate.
- Specific chapters authored by leading real-estate lawyers from the respective countries.
- A complete and extensively researched address section listing carefully selected contacts (lawyers, tax advisors, real-estate brokers, banks, etc.) for each country, representing an eminently useful and practical resource.
- Several unique tables of international overviews and comparisons covering topics such as purchase costs, tax rates and inheritance laws relating to real estate.
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After your casebook, "Casenotes" will be your most important reference source for the entire semester. It is the most popular legal briefs series available, with over 140 titles, and is relied on by thousands of students for its expert case summaries, comprehensive analysis of concurrences and dissents, as well as of the majority opinion in the briefs.
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Most of the lead cases are post-1980 with many 1990s decisions. There are significant new decisions in the "finders-personal property" area. The cases throughout deal with time-honored concepts in a decidedly modern context. Includes the nature and division of ownership, right of reasonable use, and nuisance. Covers rights above and below the surface, and water rights. Looks at the transfer of ownership and conveyance, and land use regulations.
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Great CaseBook.......2003-06-21
All casebooks should be written as well as this one.
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Soil Physical Conditions and Plant Roots
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Jerzy Lipiec
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Nature's Outcasts: A New Look at Living Things We Love to Hate
Des Kennedy
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Electric green pierced by neon blue, shocking pink spinning into violent red, and shimmering purple sidled up against deep indigo: never before have you seen such high-octane colors in the sky, and never before has a book shown the northern lightsaurora borealisin such vivid color. In Northern Lights, photographers Calvin Hall and Daryl Pederson bring to print nearly a hundred photographs of this amazing natural phenomenon, shot from remote locations all over Alaska and using no filters or digital enhancement. Just as fascinating are the legends, myths, and science surrounding this polar phenomenon, described by George Bryson. As 2002 marks the peak viewing time of the northern lights in an eleven-year cycle, this book brings the elusive magic of the northern lights to stargazers near and far.
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Xmas for Myrl.......2007-01-16
Thia was purchased for my son in law for xmas present. It came on time
A beautiful coffee table book!.......2001-12-23
This one was given to me as a gift by an Alaskan friend, and I shall cherish it. It is an absolutely awesome collection of photographs of the Northern Lights, with accompanying text describing the legends, myths and theories surrounding the phenomenon.
The typography and layout are first-class, and the whole project is an absolutely flawless collection of photographs and prose relating to the Aurora Borealis.
What an exquisite gift, Ted!
Joseph Pierre,BR>
author of The Road to Damascus and other books
In a word...Awesome!.......2001-12-09
This spectacular collection of Aurora Borealis photographs is absolutely breathtaking. Daryl Pederson and Calvin Hall have captured the essence of the mysterious wonders of the Northern Lights with their combined abilities. Having lived in Alaska we have long admired the rare talents of Mr Pederson. My husband and I own many of his prints and continue to enjoy them daily. We most definately will order some from this offering. This book is a must for everyone who appreciates the visual splenders displayed by the Aurora Borealis or just loves to look at georgeous photography.
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A good idea, but overly equation-oriented.......2004-10-13
This book represents a noble attempt to put together biological and medical applications for introductory physics courses. This is not just a good idea but really a necessity now that many students in these classes are pre-medical (at least in the US). Certainly it represents an excellent source of problem material for those who want to create an intro physics course that has relevance to future doctors and biologists.
Unfortunately, most of the examples are "set-ups" in which a biological system is used as a wrapper for an equation the students are expected to have memorized. For example, when discussing gravity, the book has a problem on a diving hawk (hawks dive by essentially going into free-fall), in which the students are expected to use (1/2) a t-squared, but for which the students are not expected to estimate the effects of air resistance or assess the realism of the physical situation. I.e., the book contains standard plug-and-chug physics problems in biomedical clothing.
It would be nice to see a book that helps students to learn, on their own, how to identify the relevant physics in a biomedical situation. I can't fault this book overly, since there are essentially no examples of what I am looking for, in either the physics or the bio textbook worlds, save for Steven Vogel's outstanding Biomechanics book (highly recommended).
Well structured book.......2003-10-27
This book has a good content structure for anyone who want to study biomedical applications of physics. For biophysics and first year medical students, this book used in conjunction with a standard calculus or algebra physics book, will be a big help on a better understanding and application of Physics.
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Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn: Boxed Set
Henry Miller
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Forty years have passed since Grove Press first published Henry Miller's landmark masterpiece -- an act that would forever change the face of American literature. Initially banned in America as obscene, Tropic of Cancer was first published in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards permitted its publication. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century." Also banned in America for almost thirty years, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature. Together, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are a lasting testament to one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century and his contribution not only to literature but to the cause of free speech.
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"The Humanistic Tradition is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful. Our professors praise its accuracy and scope and our students unanimously say it is their favorite textbook." — Sonia Sorrell, Pepperdine University
The Humanistic Tradition features a flexible, topical approach that helps students understand humankind's creative legacy as a continuum rather than as a series of isolated events. This widely acclaimed interdisciplinary survey offers a global perspective, countless illustrations, and more than 150 literary sources. Available in multiple formats, The Humanistic Tradition explores the political, economic, and social contexts of human culture, providing a global and multicultural perspective which helps students better understand the relationship between the West and other world cultures.
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An acclaimed science writer celebrates an enduring symbol of Ireland’s Celtic past, Christian tradition, and love of nature
Mount Brandon is one of several holy mountains in Ireland that attract scores of believers and secular trekkers from around the world. For thirty-two years, Chet Raymo has lived part of each year on the Dingle Peninsula, near the foot of the mountain, and he has climbed it perhaps a hundred times, exploring paths that have been used for centuries by pilgrims in search of spiritual enlightenment. But the history and geography of Mount Brandon are what drew Raymo to it and offered him a lens through which to view the modern conflicts between science and religion.
When Ireland converted from paganism, it became home to a kind of Christianity that was unique in Europe—intensely intellectual yet attuned to nature, skeptical yet celebratory, grounded in the here-and-now yet open to infinity. In this rich celebration of Mount Brandon, Raymo weaves together myth and science, folklore and natural history, spiritual and physical geographies. He takes us to a time on the wave-lashed edge of the Western world when Mediterranean Christianity ran up against Celtic nature worship and the Irish—with their fondness for ambiguity, double meanings, puns and riddles—forged a fusion of knowledge and faith that sustains us today.
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Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain Without the Faith.......2007-02-09
Mr. Raymo has a seasonal home near Mt. Brandon, has climbed the peak dozens of times and clearly loves the region and its history. The author interweaves tales of local natural and human history - both documented and legendary - with religious history, a smattering of Irish literature and his personal experiences on Mt. Brandon. But this book fails, in my opinion, to capture the feel and atmosphere, much less the spiritual aspect of the region of the Holy Mountain.
Instead the author focuses on how his interpretation of pre-Christian and early-Christian Celtic spirituality - mostly conjectural due to absence of contemporaneous written records - contrasts with what in his view is the rigid, obsolete, anti-human, anti-science Roman Catholic dogma that came to dominate pre-Enlightenment Europe as well as Ireland. That's the same dogma taught to Raymo in his alter boy childhood, a worldview he totally rejects in favor of the "truth" of contemporary western science which Raymo asserts is only reasonable modern worldview (Try telling that to the mullahs!).
At the same time Raymo keeps referring to the need for the scientific world view to incorporate "mystery" as a means to meet what he acknowledges is an innate human need for spiritual matters. But the religion-rejecting author never explains how this can be done. As near as I can tell he endorses - seeming for others but not himself - a return to a sort of pantheism that encourages people to replace prayer - demonstratably meaningless according to Raymo - with exaltation and celebration of daily natural phenomenon such as a mountain sunrise. In the single instance in which Raymo tells of a semi-supernatural personal experience - a solitary night vigil in an ancient Christian church in which he becomes "spooked" by his sense of an unseen "presence" - the entire experience is explained in the light of day - to himself at least - by the discovery of a bird's nest with newborn birds just above where he sat in the dark during the night. Mystery solved, once again, by science. Apparently Raymo thinks only other people - those too weak-minded, unlike himself, to boldly live in the "real" world where human logic and reason reign supreme - should experience or even believe in the possibility of mystery.
Finally, Raymo's obsession with Roman Catholicism's supposed blight on human thinking and history limits his ability to assess the reasonable proposition that a lot of the early Irish Christian church's supposed (superior) Celtic spirituality actually came, at least in part, from its documented historical connections directly with what we now refer to as Orthodox Christianity as opposed to the Roman variety.
There's an excellent generalized map of southwestern Ireland opposite the title page (a much needed map of the Mt. Brandon region is lacking), some nice sketches of local scenes illustrate the start of each chapter and there are reference notes and an index. The most interesting hisorical tidbits involved the author's version of the origin and practice of celebrating "cross dates" that evolved into Groundhog Day, May Day and Halloween.
Recommended to those who enjoy one-sided arguments for Mr. Raymo's worldview, but of limited interest for those seeking information to explore the Dingle Peninsula and its fascinating history, landscape and residents, much less, may I say, its spiritual aspects and opportunities.
Book doesn't quite deliver on promises still interesting.......2006-07-25
Climbing Brandon by Chet Raymo was a little bit of a disappointment to me. The last book I read by Raymo, Walking Zero, felt like being in a college science class with a great, enthusiastic instructor. This book just wasn't as engaging. While Raymo does a good job with his descriptions, they tend to be a bit dry. If ever a book called out for pictures or illustrations, this is it. I'm not familiar with all of the terms for parts of mountains so when he talks about a corrie or a moraine, I'm lost as to what I should be picturing in my mind. The book is supposed to trace Irish faith with the history of Mount Brandon, and I felt that Raymo wandered from that goal a bit often as well. He says over and over that the Celts infused their brand of Christianity with their naturalistic beliefs, but he never gives any examples of it. Ultimately it seems that the book is about Raymo's own search for faith and God, and I ended up feeling a little sad for him. He decries the belief in a transcendant God who answers intercessory prayer and cites double blind studies proving that it doesn't work. But then he offers prayer himself to a immanent God who exists in all of nature and is worth of praise and thanksgiving for the beauty of creation. Raymo is missing the most important part of God: the personal relationship and joy of talking to a God you know is listening. I get the opinion that Raymo isn't done with his search, and I hope that he finds what he's looking for.
Raymo's Best Yet.......2005-08-29
I only recently reencountered the writings of Chet Raymo. For some number of years a first edition copy of HONEY FROM STONE has graced my bookshelf. This summer though I picked up a copy of NATURAL PRAYERS and THE SOUL OF THE NIGHT the latter of which was my favorite, that is until I read CLIMBING BRANDON.
For anyone with a passion for Raymo's dense yet wonderfully expressive writing style so reminescent of Loren Eiseley's best, for anyone captivated by the tensions posed by the mysteries of science and faith, and for all of us who are fascinated with things Celtic, you can't do better. This is a prayerful book -- there is no better companion to climb and discover the mysteries of Mount Brandon with than with Chet Raymo.
R. Bruce Craig
Continuing the Search For Harmony Between Religion/Science.......2005-03-31
Raymo does it again! As in his book: "Skeptics and True Believers", his continuing search for harmony between religion and science leading to universal admiration and awe of God's creation, he writes a compelling argument for removing the detritus of dogma and the sterility of science- not that easy for a person who was brought up on Catholicism and schooled in science (physics, astronomy) where he started to articulate his personal misgivings about strict dogma and contradictions.
Climbing Brandon was written at his part time home in Ireland on the Dingle Peninsula near the foot Mt Brandon where pilgrims/tourist come from all parts of the world to walk the paths and visit the contemplation centers of long passed saints and monks, i.e., St Patrick, Brendan, et al.
With geographical descriptions, especially those garnered from various view points in the surrounding mountains where past contemplatives meditated/prayed, poetical/prayerful/anecdotal/scholarly treatments of Irish/Celtic religious history, including numerous citations, this beautiful book comes off as part: Travel Guide (and watch out- after reading this book, one might be compelled to drop everything and go tour the region!), a crash course in Irish/Celtic cultural history (Paganism, Pantheism, Christianity, etc.), Religio/Science dissertation, etc.
The premise that God is in all and not the exclusive property of humans (anthropomorphism) is cited in an early Irish poem attributed to one of the "Milesian" princes, Amergin: "Song of Amergin" or "The Mystery". Think of everything that exists and the poem covers it- this is God. Same notion as in the sermon of St Columbanus which ends with: [Those who wish to know God, he says,] "must first review the natural world". This same notion is put forth with citations from: Thomas Berry , E.O. Wilson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and many others. Thanks again to Chet Raymo for another beautiful, thought provoking book!
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Get your goat: wilderness trekking can be made easier for your family with some horned help.: An article from: Camping Life
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Title: Get your goat: wilderness trekking can be made easier for your family with some horned help.
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