Sharpen Up Your Interviewing: The Systematic Approach to Effective Interviewing for Busy Managers

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Sharpen Up Your Interviewing: The Systematic Approach to Effective Interviewing for Busy Managers
Jack Gratus
Manufacturer: Management Books 2000 Ltd
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ASIN: 1852521511

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Bravissimo!

If you want to have a little Italian on the tip of your tongue, Bravissimo! is just what you need. Be ready with the perfect expression, bit of wisdom, or simple "I love you" for all the right moments. Bravissimo! is the fun way to bring a little Italian into every day.

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This reference book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students and performers for evaluating and selecting piano solo literature. Concise and thoroughly researched, thousands of works, from the Baroque through the Contemporary periods, have been graded and evaluated in detail. Includes an alphabetical list of composers, explanations of works and much more.

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Advanced Literature not Included, otherwise recommended.......2006-11-04

I agree, the one thing lacking in this otherwise comprehensive manual is the advanced literature. No Chopin Etudes or Liszt Rhapsodies, here. Overall a good resource for the piano teacher. This one's for the pedagogues like me.

Excellent Source.......2005-08-30

This is an outstanding source book for the piano teacher. I have to respond to earlier reviewers in criticizing the collection because it contains only elementary music. If someone purchases this guide thinking they are going to have a list of elementary piano repertoire, they will be very disappointed. The book contains standard teaching literature that is considered elementary through early advanced. Magrath even titles the book "Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature". The term "standard teaching and performance literature" implies that this is not a source of advanced literature. Although, for the average piano student in the United States, this source will cover literature that would be appropriate for them through high school (except for the very precocious). Each piece or collection is given a level of difficulty number, a brief synopsis and the publisher is listed. If you are a piano teacher, you will welcome many of the obscure or forgotten pieces that are classified in the book. There are many excellent teaching pieces that are not normally seen in the best selling collections.

Excellent for certain applications........2002-07-16

This book would be particularly useful for piano teachers or for adult students of piano who are trying to expand their repertoire. It would be less useful for an advanced pianist (which I am not), as the rating scale is too simplistic and many well-known, but very difficult, works are not included.

There is a great selection of pieces from both well-known and very obscure composers, and includes virtually every significant teaching piece that one might think of. Each piece is graded in difficulty from 1-10. The grading is not as detailed as that used by Wolters, where each piece is given a separate grade for both technical and musical difficulty, but the grading is quite accurate and helpful in selecting pieces that you can actually play, if you're not a top-notch pianist. The biggest advantage of this book over other piano repertoire books is the very extensive coverage of twentieth-century music, including even some pieces for prepared piano, so it's a good place to look for some new stuff to play to annoy your friends and neighbors.

A minor weakness of the book is the lack of headings at the top of each page, which makes it sometimes irritating to use as a reference, since you may have to page forward or backwards several pages to figure out where you are in the alphabetical listing of composers. The typesetting and page layout make it look a bit amateurish, although it is carefully edited and doesn't contain a lot of typographical errors.

Good guide, but only for elementary instructor.......2001-07-13

It's quite a good book of "teaching literature", but for me an advanced pianist, and as a guide to "performance literature", it is quite unsatisfactory. For instance, even Bach's English Suites are not mentioned in this book at all! Especially if you've read some piano liturature books like in German (eg. Handbuch der Klavierliteratur by K. Wolters), you would feel this book relatively inferior. But it provides good information for the piano instructors indeed, like which repertoire is a good preparative study for another repertoire, etc. Acutally I would still suggest this book, because it is sufficiently informative for the basic piano instructors in my country.

Great book on solo literature for the piano.......2000-07-30

As a music teacher, I found this book to be a perfect guide to the selection of piano literature from elementary through advanced repertoire. The coverage is comprehensive, representing four periods of music history. It's a pretty solid guide for the experienced piano instructor as well as an important handbook for thw beginning instructor. It is also a dependable sourcebook for the advancing piano student. Highly recommended.

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Caldwell calls for a 'desegregation' of theory and practice in media scholarship and for an end to the willful blindness of 'high theory.'

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1st edition D&D module

Swords of Deceit (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons/Lankhmar module CA2)
Tsr
Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
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ASIN: 0880382767

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1st edition D&D module.......2001-04-10

This is a 1st edition D&D module set in the city of Lankhmar from Fritz Lieber's fantasy stories. It is very moody and dark and provides some good adventures. If you can get your hands on it I would highly recommend it.

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Swords of Deceit

Manufacturer: TSR Hobbies
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Adepts of Deceit: Behind Closed Doors (2 Volume Set)

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Adepts of Deceit: Behind Closed Doors (2 Volume Set)
R. Sword
Manufacturer: TGS Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IZ7APA

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This is a book that will create enormous debate within the technical and the counter-terrorism communities. While there will be the inevitable criticism that the material contained in the book could be used maliciously, the fact is that this knowledge is already in the hands of our enemies. This book is truly designed to inform while entertaining (and scaring) the reader, and it will instantly be in demand by readers of "Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box"

* A meticulously detailed and technically accurate work of fiction that exposes the very real possibilities of such an event occurring
* An informative and scary insight into the boundries of hacking and cyber-terrorism
* Written by a team of the most accomplished cyber-security specialists in the world

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Fun, Fun, Fun.......2006-08-01

I read a lot of technical books and also a lot of spy books. This mashed both of my favorite types of books. The authors who are hackers themselves did a great job of creating a story. I would recommend, and have recommended this book to a lot of people.

Fun, Entertaining..........2005-10-26

but the writing certainly isn't the best. They're a bunch of computer geeks writing about what they know best, and they make it entertaining as heck. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys computers.

How do you make a how-to-hack book into a compelling read?.......2005-09-21

Well, you can make a novel out of it.

Which is precisely what the folks at Syngress Publishing have done. The MO here is to gather a group of experts in the 'hacking' field. Then, have them each write a chapter that focuses in on their sub-area of expertise. Finally tie all the chapters together with an overriding thread, in this case an uber-geek villian looking to make a final score.

And it works quite well. If you are going to pull this off, then there is a balance between the techno-speak portions and the traditional elements of a novel (plot, characterization, etc). Granted, given this books target audience, it can pile on plenty of the technology and be just fine. But you can't igonre the story.

Most of the contributing authors are able to hold up the 'story' side as well as the 'tech' side. Some do not, and this is why I gave it 4 stars. In particular, one chapter so muddles the character motivations, plot lines, and timeline that the novel is not quite able to recover with a wholy satisfying ending.

I never expected Dickens, though. I did hope to broaden my knowledge of hacking - the hows and whys while being entertained. And 'How to own a continent' delivers the goods in a unique and fresh way. Kudos, and thanks.

Nice!.......2005-09-08

Nice book, seemed with hacker's novel!!
Pretty good read for fun. :)

Good Book.......2005-07-19

How to Own a Continent is the first Stealing the Network book I have read and although it kept me on the edge of my seat I was displeased with the ending. The book uses real tools and real methods on how these "hacks" occur but the end just leaves you hanging with no closure. While reading the book you think there is no better book for hacking theory and what it takes to pull hard hacks. But this book does leave you with a little bit of a bad taste in your mouth. Forthe most part the book was great but the ending was lacking.

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Lucid, illuminating, and fascinating.......2001-01-31

Imagine a 100 maps, arranged in chronological order, to resemble time lapse snapshots showing the growth and growing pains of the United States. Depicting explorers' routes, Native American homelands, changing population densities, and many other vital aspects of expansion, this provides colorful details about the transistion from red men and buffalo to white men and cattle. I was particularly impressed by the pen and ink drawings and the unusual collection of black and white photographs.

A final chapter, The Real Significance of the Frontier," gave me a new apprecition for the circles of conflicts that drove westward expansion: North vs South; West vs. East; and individuals vs big government and big business.

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Virtually no subject--politics, slavery, religion, gardening, music, architecture, natural history, or science to name a few--escaped the interest and attention of Thomas Jefferson. Through nearly 800 excerpts of Jefferson's writing, ranging in length fro

West Virginia Historical Almanac and Gazetteer

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West Virginia Historical Almanac and Gazetteer
Sam Edward Clagg
Manufacturer: John Deaver Drinko Academy, Marshall University
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West Virginia Historical Almanac
Sam Edward Clagg
Manufacturer: Mcclain Printing Co
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The American West, 1800-1925
Dick Kizewic
Manufacturer: J&M Printing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006S2TZ0

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A perfect melding of memoir and history.......2006-03-27

What M.G. Lord accomplished with this wonderful, moving memoir and history is the telling of the human stories behind the often dry history of space flight, including her own personal story of growing up with her father who worked for the Jet Propulsion Lab.

In the vein of Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff," this book captivates the reader with fascinating looks at JPL pioneers, like the persecuted Frank Malina and "Satanist" John Parsons, expositions of the dark side of rocket science, such as the Army's "Project Paperclip" that permitted Nazi scientists in the U.S., and explorations of the suppression of women in the industry. Lord accomplishes the telling of these obscure and sometimes stunning stories with her typical wry sense of humor that one finds in her other cultural history book, "Barbie Forever."

Pulling together the various threads of her story about the origins of rocket science, Lord weaves her own personal history that culminates with tough truths about her father who spent so much work time as a JPL engineer. Reading her last chapter that includes the triumph of the Mars rovers was worth the price of admission. The impact of her journey to tell the story of the societal and personal impact of the space program on us, and her, was well stated in this paragraph:

"Neither in my family's past nor at JPL did I find what I had expected. But as any experimental scientist will tell you, investigations take on a life of their own. And sometimes lead to startling destinations."

Growing up myself in the age of Sputnik and the Apollo program, I was always fascinated by rockets and missiles. M.G. Lord's "Astro Turf" shines a light on this whole crazy, wonderful, dark and inspiring era. It left me wanting more.

A fraud.......2005-12-11

Billed as a memoir of "The private life of rocket science", this book is nothing of the kind. It dwells on the experiences of women and homosexuals in the space engineering field, and emphasizes their exclusion.
Repetitively, M.G. Lord describes the field as masculine, and (heterosexual) male dominated.
By veering off-course to the story of those who (obviously) weren't there, she spends very little time exploring those who were there, what they accomplished, and their "private life".
"Astro Turf" is not an unpleasant read, and it has a number of interesting stories to tell. However, it will be a great disappointment to anyone looking for the story it purports to tell.

little girl dreams do come true.......2005-07-11

I have lived in Houston since 1978 and untill I read M.G. Lord's historical memoir, had forgoten the dreams I had in my childhood that I would someday go to outer space. My imagination was stirred by the images in Comic books and the low budget movies about space travel and life in this new terrain. Space travel filled me with longings for adventure and gave me hope that were new territories if man distroyed Earth with Atomic bombs and other horrors. I loved the history in this book about the people who developed the first missles and made exploration into space possible. Astro Turf examines the ways that manned space travel has made earth larger and the universe smaller. I recaptured the sense of those earlier dreams.

Life In The Space Debaucle........2005-06-27

This is an eye-opener. It is packed full of pictures, not only of her family but parts and people of the Rocket & Space activities out in LaJolla and Pasadena. I take back what I wrote about THE LONELY DOLL. That was before my time and I was not privileged to own one. This woman was essentially "the lonely doll." There is a family portrait of her dad, Charles Carroll Lord, as a child in 1906 with his parents.

Charles Edward Lord had died when the vehicle in which he was trapped was hit by a train as he was on the job working for the International Harvester Company. She learned the details of the accident, Oct. 19,1919, (the government could get rid of who they felt were untrustworthy) from her dad's filing cabinet ater his death. Her father never talked about it.

She calls Edward Teller, the architect of the hydrogen bomb, the real-life Dr. Strangelove. Not only did we bring Von Braum from Germany to start and carry on our defense program, there was another Theodore von Karman, legendary Caltech aerodynamicist.

"My father learned well before the '70s that technology could turn on you -- that a machine designed to make your life easier could rip that life apart." Her father was lucky to get a job at Harvester making mechanical drawing and designing tools, in the '30s. He was late getting into the atomic (nuclear) business: 69, but he did as he was told. His portrait at that time shows that he fit right in with that group from Massachetts and was used to keep tight rein on the formation of the Jet Propulsion Lab near L.A.

This little book tells all about the unlikely beginnings of the JPL, going from science fiction to science fact. My son is a patsy for NASA and takes large groups of young people on tours at this Lab and they stay for days on end. He too will feel what it is to die young when they think he knows too much.

Like Ms. Lord's grandfather whose door would not open, but two others escaped, before the train demolished the car and dragged him a long way down the track. Her father was only 46 when he died but he looks like an old man. That's what leaks from nuclear and atomic production will do for you. Maybe Jeff will last one more year. He's already having false heart attack symptoms.

This book is packed full of revealing pictures of how this government has and continues to fool Americans about the safety of this precise killing machine. Stephen Hawkings tried to warn us, but now he too is gone. Thank you, Ms. Lord. You have done a good deed letting us know the real life in the Space Exploration Center where anyone is expendable.

Isn't it exhausting to try and be the person in charge all the time? Why not sit back and let the universe drive -- just this once? Who knows? You may enjoy the experience so much that you decide to do it more often. And really, sometimes the arrangements that the universe comes up with are ever so much more appropriate than the ones you try to wrench into place. You may hate to admit it, but you know it's true. So relax and put your feet up.

Enjoyable, but puzzling.......2005-06-06

I thoroughly enjoyed reading MG Lord's Astro Turf, but I left it rather puzzled as to what she was trying to accomplish. The book is not exactly a history of JPL, although in some spots it strives to be just that. I suppose one might describe it as a "cultural history of JPL," but even that wouldn't fit, as her focus goes well beyond JPL. Lord spends time looking at project Paperclip and the influence that Nazis had on rocketry. This is very interesting and well written, but it's not clear why we spend so much time on this. To some extent it seems only to explain the sad life of Molina, one of JPL's founders who was drummed out of the U.S by McCarthyism. But why do we spend so much time discussing the biography of Molina, when his latter life had so little effect on the cultural history of JPL?

To some extent it seems to be a history of Lord's own attempts to understand her father's work. I'm really puzzled why she still believes in the last chapter that her father's work on Mariner 69 was somehow "slight" or unimportant. As an engineer who has worked on scientific spacecraft for NASA, I can say with confidence that to have a contractor with the title of "cognizant engineer for mechanical devices" indicates that this contractor, her father, was very well respected and had a very important position. Lord does not seem to appreciate how incredibly difficult it is to get any mechanical apparatus to operate reliably in the cold vacuum of space. Her petulant insistance that her father's role was less important than he made it out to be indicates that she really hasn't understood the culture of JPL yet.

In several sections Lord seems to be attempting to write a history of gender descrimination within engineering. The "Men and Missiles" pamphlet is hilarious, and Ms. Norris's "recommendation letter" from a chemical plant in New Orleans is heartbreaking: "We had to let Ms. Norris go because of her outstanding performance..." the letter begins. It continues to explain that she had earned her way to be assigned to a position "obviously inappropriate for a woman," and therefore they needed to fire her. Incredible that such things were written down!

However, the book is not thorough enough or structured well enough to provide an actual history of gender roles in engineering, so the reader is left just asking for more.

This book is a collection of very interesting pieces. While I enjoyed reading it, I cannot say that I strongly recommend the whole, as the pieces don't seem to hold together.

Astro Turf: the Private Life of Rocket Science

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Astro Turf: the Private Life of Rocket Science
M G Lord
Manufacturer: Walker & Company
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Rocket men: a daughter explores the male-dominated universe of her father.(Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science )(Book Review): An article from: American Scholar

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Rocket men: a daughter explores the male-dominated universe of her father.(Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science )(Book Review): An article from: American Scholar
Michael Upchurch
Manufacturer: Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Release Date: 2005-08-01

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Title: Rocket men: a daughter explores the male-dominated universe of her father.(Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science )(Book Review)
Author: Michael Upchurch
Publication: American Scholar (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Phi Beta Kappa Society
Volume: 74 Issue: 1 Page: 135(3)

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America's rivers are the heart of rich and vital riparian ecosystems: home to unique communities of plants and animals. Aesthetically pleasing as well as a crucial food source for wildlife, these habitats are slowly being destroyed by the nation's eagerness to harness natural resources. Biological diversity (the key to ecological stability) is threatened by a range of developmental projects, including efforts to dam and channel waterflow, to convert flood-prone land to agriculture, to harvest timber, and to undertake oil and gas exploration.

Down by the River defines and describes an ecosystem that is often ignored or neglected.

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DOWN BY THE RIVER THE IMPACT OF FEDERAL WATER PROJECTS AND POLICIES ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

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