The Rational Project Manager: A Thinking Team's Guide to Getting Work Done
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  • A refreshing reference to Project Management
  • managing projects in Special Collections
The Rational Project Manager: A Thinking Team's Guide to Getting Work Done
A. Longman , and Jim Mullins
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ASIN: 0471721468

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This comprehensive exploration of the project management process presents the tools, steps, and processes of project management and uncovers the critical thinking -- the why -- vital to project management excellence. Incorporating Kepner-Tregoes renowned and effective problem-solving and decision-making processes, the book guides you through the core activities of project management-planning, solving problems, making decisions, and assessing risk. It positions projects within an organizations "performance environment," an understanding of which is essential for effective team performance and alignment. Offering a combination of overarching insights into organizational dynamics, as well as specific processes and practices for effective management, this is a resource no project leader -- and no project team member -- should be without.

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This comprehensive exploration of the project management process presents the tools, steps, and processes of project management and uncovers the critical thinking -- the why -- vital to project management excellence. Incorporating Kepner-Tregoe's renowned and effective problem-solving and decision-making processes, the book guides you through the core activities of project management planning, solving problems, making decisions, and assessing risk. It positions projects within an organizations "performance environment," an understanding of which is essential for effective team performance and alignment. Offering a combination of overarching insights into organizational dynamics, as well as specific processes and practices for effective management, this is a resource no project leader -- and no project team member -- should be without.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A refreshing reference to Project Management.......2005-08-29

I must say that this book is indeed refreshing for me, especially after years of re-applying and re-understanding Kepner-Tregoe's methodologies in Project Management (PM), as well as, Problem-Solving & Decision Making (PSDM). For those who have undergone Kepner-Tregoe's workshops in PM and PSDM, this book together with "The New Rational Manager" are essential "re-iterative" references for anyone embarking on improving their PM and PSDM knowledge and experiences. These books are undoubtedly important to have on your bookshelf in the workplace that can be referred to over and over again.

5 out of 5 stars managing projects in Special Collections.......2005-05-25

I am now retired, but I wish that during my 27-year career as a university librarian I had had a guide like The Rational Project Manager to see me through the many complex projects I was responsible for carrying out. When moving special collections or setting up a preservation lab, my team and I would have benefited enormously from having a clear, easy to follow process for managing important projects.

Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum

The Rational Guide to IT Project Management (Rational Guides) (Rational Guides)
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Jeremy Kadlec
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ASIN: 1932577173
Release Date: 2005-01-15

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Foundation for Project Management.......2005-08-16

"The Rational Guide to IT Project Management" has architectural strength. The author is suscinct in laying out processes, specific actions and does full justice to organizing the steps to complete an IT project. Well written and well organized. This book provides thorough information specifically for IT management, however, the sequence and other tools provided can be applied to any type of project management.

5 out of 5 stars Great reference........2005-08-09

This book is a quick easy read with lots of practical advice. I think it breaks the complicated task of project management down into a clear path.

I would recommend this book for someone who needs to brush up on project management or someone who is just starting out. It is definitely a great reference tool.

Bringing Technology and Innovation into the Boardroom: Strategy, Innovation and Competences for Business Value
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                        The Dewey Decimal System of Love
                        Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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                        Josephine Carr
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                        4 out of 5 stars Laugh out loud funny.......2007-08-09

                        I am a librarian and I loved it. It was, in lots of wonderful places, laugh out loud funny. Just like a Lucy show. Most of what was going on was not plausible at the superb Philadelphia Public Library, but that was not the point. The stereotypes were to give you the idea of the situation without a great deal of description and most librarians and library users could easily picture the characters and situations: staff interactions, Ed-the homeless patron and the exciting tidbits of everyday lives with books, reference questions and historic documents. Fiction does not have to meet anyone's standard of real to be good! I was tickled with the ending!

                        4 out of 5 stars Love and lust at the library.......2007-08-07

                        This was a light, enjoyable book about a librarian who hasn't had sex in 15 years. Flitting around her periphery are Gordon, her handsome, womanizing boss, and Aleksi, the intriguing music conductor. The librarian gets sucked into a web of intrigue involving the music conductor's sudden interest in her library's collections and the conductor's wife study of poisons, supposedly for a novel she's writing.

                        The writing was a little weak and the pacing dragged a bit, but there was something charming and endearing about it, kooky as it was. I think most bibliophiles and library lovers would like it.

                        3 out of 5 stars fun read.......2007-07-31

                        The ending surprised me. It was only partly because I felt rushed through the resolution and was left with so many questions about what happened next. Mostly it's because I expected the last line of the book to be..."and then I woke up." It's a quick, entertaining read, but pure fantasy.

                        2 out of 5 stars Silly rather than funny.......2006-08-02

                        I thought the comedic episodes in the book were contrived and really not funny -- not at all the way a person would actually act. A decent read for a rainy afternoon.

                        2 out of 5 stars Comic?.......2005-10-13

                        If I hadn't know that this was considered a comic novel, I certainly wouldn't have ascertained it by reading it. Granted, the protagonist makes the occasional witty comment, but the incidents in the book that I gather were supposed to be amusing just...weren't. The plot is pretty entertaining for about 7/8th of the book, but, as so often seems to happen, the ending was a dud. Can no one write a satisfying ending these days?

                        A Terrible Love of War
                        Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                        • A Terrible Love of Himself
                        • A Terrible Love of War
                        • A terrible oversight
                        • abortion kills more than all the wars combined
                        • Hillman finally delivers ...
                        A Terrible Love of War
                        James Hillman
                        Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The
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                        From world-renowned psychologist and bestselling author of The Soul's Code, a profound examination of the roots of man's primal love/hate relationship with war.

                        War is a timeless force in the human imagination-and, indeed, in daily life. If recent events have taught us anything, it is that peacetime is not nearly so constant and attainable as wartime. During the 5,600 years of recorded history, 14,600 wars have been fought-2 to 3 for every year of human history. War is a constant thing. And yet no one really understands why that is.

                        In A Terrible Love of War, James Hillman, one of the central figures in psychology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, fills this great void and undertakes a groundbreaking examination of the origins, needs, and rewards of war. Moreover, in this brilliant inquiry, Hillman explores many other essential questions, such as:

                        € Is war a necessary part of our human soul and, therefore, a necessary part of our lives?
                        € Why do we need enemies?
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                        Hillman asserts that "if we want war's horror to be abated so that life may go on, it is necessary to understand and imagine." A Terrible Love of War is a crucial tool to understanding war-a crucial book for us all.

                        Customer Reviews:

                        1 out of 5 stars A Terrible Love of Himself.......2007-07-28

                        This incoherent ramble of a "book" succeeds only as a personal statement.

                        The main text is incoherent rambling, with little context either within or beyond the book's subject. Here's a random paragraph:

                        "The idea of the sublime as an aesthetic phenomenon akin to but distinct from beauty entered modern discourse also via the eye. Longinus was incidental, a text for professors of classics and rhetorical style, because his treatise focused mainly on writing and speaking in an elevated, inspiring manner. Boileau's translation and reflections (1674) on Longinus did not deeply touch the latent romanticism of the English soul. The sublime as a stunning concatenation of the baleful and the beautiful in one elevated moment came from nature, from the earth."

                        Ye gods.

                        If that weren't bad enough, the continual "Excursions" serve no purpose other than to inflate the book's length and the author's ego.

                        Still, for any author in a post-9/11 world to claim that "Christian monotheistic psychology is the one for our culture to focus upon and fear" is the sort of inane twaddle that one would expect from a university professor who probably hasn't spent five minutes of the last thirty years in a non-academic environment.

                        Yet for all that, he still manages to misinterpret his sources, from Tuchman to Tolstoy.

                        Unless you have a table with leg that is approximately 1-1/4" shorter than the others and needs propping up, skip this book.

                        5 out of 5 stars A Terrible Love of War.......2007-05-12

                        This is an incredible book. Hillman shakes all previous positions and shows the reader that war is the 'norm'. That does not mean he finds that laudatory, it just is.
                        "A Terrible Love of War" s not life-changing, but it is mind-changing.

                        1 out of 5 stars A terrible oversight.......2006-08-13

                        I generally respect Hillman, but he has wildly misconstrued the nature of war. His basic failure is an utter lack of examining the gendered nature of warfare. In short: Men make war. Yes, there plenty of instances where women engage in war, but those are far and away the exception and not the rule. Both the leaders who build wars and the soldiers who fight them are almost exclusively male. This is a consistent fact across all cultures around the globe and throughout history. Broadly speaking, women simply do not make war. This single and glaring oversight immediately destroy's Hillman's hypothesis that war is somehow a universal human archetype.

                        1 out of 5 stars abortion kills more than all the wars combined .......2006-08-10

                        This book doesn't address the condition of man and mans condition as its been forever, as in thousands of years.

                        and to single out Christianity as war mongers is tarded, the whole world is and has been into wars.

                        Name ONE century in history, yes all of history, where there has been no wars? ( hint, its zero )

                        oh yea yea i know the debate, we are getting smarter as people and will stop wars as soon as we get more educated.

                        below is from another reviewer in here.

                        To Christian readers I would recommend considering Hillman's view that Christianity has been martial from the start as a challenge to examine the relationship between the Christian emphasis on love and innocence and its long institutional history of intolerance and brutality. Is warfare endemic to Christianity? Are Christians who reject warfare exceptions to an almost universal aggressiveness? Must Christianity be a religion of missionaries who think they know better than the peoples they seek to convert? These are some of the questions raised by Hillman's study.

                        without even talking to any of you peeps in here that give this book 4-5 stars, I am willing to bet that you also are ok with abortion for any reason the women wants. Seems to always go hand in hand, hate war, abortions are ok.

                        Guess what, abortion kills more than all the wars combined. At least 1.5 million in USA alone.

                        yea yea I know, overpopulation ( Got War? ) unwanted kids ( 7 year waiting list for adoption ) on and on it goes.

                        Organized religion is at the head of many of mans problems, if not the most of them. This includes all religions. However, the Christ of the bible has nothing to do with organized religion, so hence, you see why we just continue to have problem after problem. I was raised catholic, bailed to Christianity, went over to right wing Christianity, and bailed out of all named denominations, now it's just flat Christian. The problem is, not many others are doing this, and wont as I see the world anytime in the near future, so hence, all our problems in the world are going to continue. Simple as that.

                        people are confusing getting rid of all religions ( john Lennon Imagine, etc etc ) With the real Christ. Jesus hated religion, yet his people still want to be a part of it, as they think it keeps them all in line.

                        I know so many people that were raised in a Christian home, Mormon home, JW home, a Catholic home, and as soon as they became adults, they bailed on all of it. going over to anything that sans organized religion and is "Just God".

                        5 out of 5 stars Hillman finally delivers ..........2006-06-03

                        Reads like drama. Just the time it takes to turn the page produced an anxiety reaction as I was so eager to keep reading.

                        A extremely well written cogent main thread is inter-populated with short "just in the right spot" and "just the right length" diversions. I especially enjoyed the diverson about Japan(1543-1879)and guns. A very nice presentation model.

                        Hillman presents war as an archetypal suprahuman truth he calls Mars or Ares. The book really gives no hope for the eradication of war as Hillman states towards the end:

                        "But war itself shall remain until the gods themselves go away."

                        As a vet, I also recommend this book for any veterans who otherwise might not be interested in psychology and mythology or give a hoot about archetypes.

                        uniquely fascinating!
                        A Terrible Love Of War
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                          A Terrible Love Of War
                          James Hillman
                          Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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                            3 out of 5 stars Not great..........2007-01-22

                            I'm using this book in a 10th grade general global history survey course. The actual text is easy to understand, but the problem is that the writing style gives no sense of which events were extremely important and which ones were less so, instead putting them all in the same long, boring paragraphs. Also, I'm no grammar expert, but I feel like it's very badly proofread and there are awkward phrasings/typos. It does include all the information though, so if used alongside a book of promary sources it would probably be okay. My teacher decided to use it for the information on Japan, but instead of the WW II section, we used Brinton's "A History of Civilization", which does a much better job of presenting the causes/events leading up to the war.

                            100 Greatest Inventions of all Time: A Ranking Past and Present
                            Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
                            • Good collection but description lacks depth.
                            • So-So
                            • Forgot some Biggies
                            100 Greatest Inventions of all Time: A Ranking Past and Present
                            Tom Philbin
                            Manufacturer: Citadel
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Hardcover

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                            Customer Reviews:

                            3 out of 5 stars Good collection but description lacks depth........2005-06-07

                            I guess any list is subject to debate, so I would say Mr. Philbin has come up with a considerably good list. In fact some of the items we take for granted are in this list. Overall this list looks good to me.

                            However, the text disappointed me. Every invention has three important parts: 1. Science and 2. Story of invention and 3. Story of the inventor. Science part should explain how the gizmo works. Story of the invention should tell how it was invented. And the story of the inventor should tell about the inventor. Instead of finding the real science, story and timeline behind these inventions, the author skims the subject at a very high level, sometimes wandering into unnecessary description of politics.

                            Inclusion of Condom as an invention caused me not to buy this for my child. I borrowed it from a local library with full intention of purchasing it later. But that particular invention is a sensitive subject. Not arguing whether the author should have included it or not. Just saying that because of that I don't find myself comfortable to give it to my son for independent reading. Others may disagree with me and I would respect their opinion.

                            Overall I like the book. So three stars instead of two.

                            3 out of 5 stars So-So.......2004-05-02

                            Some significant errors...according to this book, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, and the second on Hiroshima.

                            2 out of 5 stars Forgot some Biggies.......2004-03-17

                            The selection of the most important 100 inventions of all times is, in a sense, an impossible task, and the present volume only represents an honest attempt at it, rather than anything that can be called truly definitive. Other historians of technology would have a list that would only partially overlap this one to varying degrees. It might be interesting to see other lists of this sort, and to be able to examine their pros and cons. But it appears, unhappily, that this volume is meant more to entertain us, than it is to provide the best of all possible lists.

                            The inventions cited range from the prehistoric to the latter half of the twentieth century. They concentrate, it seems, more on inventions that require some sort of mechanical embodiment, leaving out any that deal with compositions of matter, with the lone exception of paint. Thus he ignores bakelite, polyethylene, and other plastics which have transformed our century. And also he forgets the invention of bronze, iron, steel, ceramics and clear glass. Chemical inventions such as tanning, Haber's nitrogen fixation, electrolysis, and other synthetic methods are ignored. He forgets soap, and antisepsis.

                            Cloth and rope are not here. Nor are the crops or the inventions of agriculture included: hay and wheat, all methods for the preservation of food, fertilizer, domestication of animals, methods for breeding animals and plants, irrigation. These are the basic inventions that moved us from hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists, and would seem to belong in a list that includes the plow and the wheel.

                            There is also, it appears to this reader, a distasteful pre-occupation with weapons of war: the tank, submarine, nuclear weapon, bow and arrow, gunpowder, pistol, rifle, cannon, rocket, barbed wire, dynamite, radar are all given. The spear, atlatl, personal armor, pike, trebuchet, machine gun and land mine are sundry examples of man's deviousness and ingenuity in the killing arts which might just as well have been included.

                            The methods used for the selection, and the apparently intentional ignoring of entire fields of innovation, is not discussed. No bibliography nor acknowledgements of previous attempts along these lines are provided either.

                            Philbin's greatest omission,though, is that he forgot to include the invention of the scientific method, used as a basis for many of the inventions he does list. This too, together with the invention of logic, geometry and mathematics, is certainly at least on a par with the VCR! Financial innovations, as well as any business oriented methods are left out, as is the Web, ebay and Amazon!

                            The book is lavishly illustrated with many diagrams and excerpts from the patent literature, and is thought provoking at times, but on the whole is rather inadequate to the task, I think. The writing style is rather leaden and it was hastily written, one discerns at a glance. And the insulting remark about Shockley, inventor of the transistor: "One other thing is remarkable about his life: he died of natural causes." is juvenile and gratuitous.
                            100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time
                            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                            • A fascinating and fabulous job
                            100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time
                            Kendall Haven
                            Manufacturer: Libraries Unlimited
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                            ASIN: 1591582644

                            Book Description

                            Inventions are the stuff of dreams, quickly gaining widespread use, becoming central to culture, and ultimately changing our lives. They teach us a great deal about creativity and scientific principles, and, of course, the power of invention is of utmost importance in today's world of technology and innovation. Focusing on the 100 most significant scientific inventions of all time, this ready reference presents fascinating facts about amazing inventions, a panoramic overview of the history of science, an introduction to some of the most important inventors in history, and a collection of engaging reads. Each entry, arranged chronologically according to when the invention was made, contains information on what the invention is, who the inventor was, and how the invention was created. It also provides the historical context of the invention, its significance today, and information on resources for further reading/research. More than two millennia's worth of inventions are covered, ranging from the practical (clock, eyeglasses) to the everyday (measuring spoons, ball point pen), the life-saving (antiseptic, chemotherapy), and the mind-boggling (the number zero, cloning). By covering inventions throughout history, rather than just the 20th and 21st centuries, and presenting information comprehensible to young readers, this book fills a gap in the literature. It is a wonderful resource for student research and reports; can easily be used for read-alouds or as an introduction to teaching units on inventions; as well as a solid general reference on inventors and inventions. Grades 4-9 (adaptable to other levels).

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                            5 out of 5 stars A fascinating and fabulous job.......2006-05-16

                            The author has done a truly wonderful job with this book. Cleanly written, fascinating and extremly educational, it presents the evolution of the world as we know it. This should be on everyone's bookshelf and in every school library.

                            Air Toxics: Problems and Solutions
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                              Air Toxics: Problems and Solutions
                              Kumar Ganesan
                              Manufacturer: CRC
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                              ASIN: 9056995049

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                              This timely new workbook is the result of a year-long effort by a group of university professors who first met at Montana Tech during the summer of 1994 for a college faculty workshop. The workshop was funded by the National Science Foundation's support for those faculty developing courses in the newly emerging field of air toxics. Part I of the book contains over 100 problems dealing with a variety of topics in this area. Part II provides detailed solutions. The problems and solutions provided will become a useful resource for the training of engineers and scientists who are or soon will be working in the field.

                              1998 regional geographic initiative air, water, waste, toxics : integrated solutions to local environmental problems (SuDoc EP 1.2:R 26/11)
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                                1998 regional geographic initiative air, water, waste, toxics : integrated solutions to local environmental problems (SuDoc EP 1.2:R 26/11)
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