SalonOvations Tax and Financial Primer (S Business Series)

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This is the ideal "how-to" book for salon owners planning the financial growth of their businesses.

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At your fingertips is this valuable source of ideas, concepts, and step-by-step activities. Now you can effectively promote the HR training function within your organization.

This unique guide shows you how to:
* assess and tune up your department's image
* promote HRD's added value to the business
* appeal to diverse company groups
* keep awareness high by staying visible
* enhance relationships inside your organization
* make sure administration doesn't tarnish your image
* capitalize on work with external consultants
* determine if the department should sell to a wider market

In addition, you will find:
* insightful case studies
* easy-to-organize activities
* a training image assessment survey
* an inventory of training styles
* a customer-focus checklist

Overflowing with ideas, 'HRD Survival Skills' supplies your training and development teams with actual examples taken from diverse industries, sectors, and countries. Here's your blueprint to ensure that the services you provide are the right services for your in-house 'customers'.

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HRD practitioners...market thyselves!.......1999-03-21

In the spirit of the now-accepted fact that we all need to market ourselves, this volume provides HRD practitioners with the tools and insights to do just that-market themselves within their organizations. The central theme is connecting with your customer and the heart of the book is all about marketing. The author succeeds in delivering a highly useful if not essential publication that deserves a place on every HRD practitioner's desk. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, hrconsultant.com and Stern & Associates.

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While much of traditional surface science has been concerned with equilibrium properties and simple kinetics, there is a growing effort in the area of dynamical processes at surfaces. This book draws together a series of chapters written by acknowledged experts in the field, which describe progress in a range of specific topics.

The emphasis is on chemical reaction dynamics, including both theoretical and experimental approaches and covering work on low index single crystal surfaces, on stepped surfaces and on supported metal clusters. Other processes, such as surface diffusion are also addressed. Further chapters discuss dynamical processes in electronically-induced desorption, and in surface diffusion on semiconductors and metals.

- Presents considerable advances in surface science field
- Collection of expert reviews in surface dynamics

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Introduction to Optimum Design is intended for use in a first course on engineering design and optimization. Virtually any problem for which specific parameters need to be determined to satisfy constraints can be formulated as a design optimization problem. The concepts and methods described in the text are quite general and applicable to all such formulations. Inasmuch, the range of application of the optimum design methodology is almost limitless, constrained only by the imagination and ingenuity of the user.

Throughout the text, simple design problems involving two to three design variables and three to four constraints are solved in detail to illustrate fundamental concepts and basic ideas. The necessary results from optimization theory are stated and their implications are studied through application to engineering design problems. Theory and concepts of optimum design are explained only through examples and simple engineering applications. Several of the numerical procedures and concepts described in the text are useful in many other engineering courses and applications.

* Allows engineers involved in the design process to adapt optimum design concepts in their work using the material in the text.

* Basic concepts of optimality conditions and numerical methods are described with simple examples, making the material high teachable and learnable.

* Classroom-tested for many years to attain optimum pedagogical effectiveness.

Customer Reviews:

somewhat less than optimal book on optimization.......2006-03-30

In all fairness, this is a pretty good book. It certainly presents many, many means of approaching design optimization. If you have a good background in linear algebra, you probably won't have the same reservations that I have, as much of the material will be old hat to you. The appendix has a large review of linear algebra that is vague and incomplete. If you have a background in linear algebra or have access to a good introductory book on the subject, this shouldn't cause too much concern. The actual examples of employing optimization techniques in design problems are often too simple, to the point of verging on the trivial. This is a common fault of many, many modern engineering books in my experience.

must have book!.......2005-07-07

I really liked this book. The book stresses the fundamentals really well and explains ths evolution of current methods in an organized manner. The section on Lagrange multipliers and why they are needed is extremely useful in the understanding of method of feasible directions. All the concepts regarding search directions, contraints and gradient related issues are explained. Students will like the field of optimization once they read and study this book! There are lots of examples that help in understanding the concepts. I use the book all the time.

Introduction to Optimum Design, Second Edition

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Introduction to Optimum Design, Second Edition
Jasbir Arora
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHSJES

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Ilse Ehlich was not a victim of the Holocaust or an Allied soldier fighting against Hitler and the Axis powers. She lived World War II Germany from an entirely different angle.

She has the perspective of a good little girl who came home one day to find all but one of the houses on her block completely bombed out. She was among the children who were registered in the Hitler Youth without knowing what that meant. At a time there was there was little to have faith in, she struggled with her father’s religion and rigidity. In her mid-teens she was sent to work in Alsace, and later imprisoned as a Nazi when the allies liberated France and died in captivity, from hunger and illness. All of this occurred as short period of time that forever changed history.

Ilse ultimately found herself in partnership with, and then married to, Hans-Rudolf Wever, a fellow traveler with whom she could build faith, family, career, and — as a result of writing her autobiography — a long-missing piece of her self.

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The Autobiography of a Journalist, V1
James William Stillman
Manufacturer: IndyPublish
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Journalists | Professionals & Academics | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1428061991

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Charles Godfrey Leland a Biography V1
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Authors | Arts & Literature | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Journalists | Professionals & Academics | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0548026351

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John Thadeus Delane, Editor Of The Times: His Life And Correspondence V1
Arthur Irwin Dasent
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1432531425

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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The Life And Times Of Samuel Bowles V1
George S. Merriam
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Journalists | Professionals & Academics | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

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In Two Volumes.

Personal Memoirs And Recollections Of Editorial Life V1

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Personal Memoirs And Recollections Of Editorial Life V1
Joseph T. Buckingham
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1430481390

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The Writings Of Brann The Iconoclast With A Biography V1

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The Writings Of Brann The Iconoclast With A Biography V1
William Cowper Brann , and J. D. Shaw
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0548072345

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Great travel writing, with a twist.......2004-07-10

For those who have ever been curious about what Foreign Service types have experienced in living overseas - or who enjoy the travel writings of Paul Theroux, Robert Byron or Rebecca West - I strongly recommend "The Royals and the Roaches." Written by a trailing spouse, it has nothing in common with the ponderous memoirs written by the likes of Henry Kissinger. This is about the life (or rather lives) we experience as global nomads. And most applies as much to the expat life of a businessman or missionary as it does to a diplomat.

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These daring stories shed light on what life was really like in the Last Frontier just before, during, and after Alaska joined the Union.

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Interesting collection of Game Warden experiences.......2007-10-17

Ray provides a good overview of the challenges and adventures he faced in his wildlife enforcement career in Alaska. I'm a pilot; hence I enjoyed Ray telling his stories from a flying game warden's perspective. A good portion of the book conveys flying-related experiences--hence you'll enjoy the book more if you are a pilot and/or if you enjoy reading about plane "stuff."

Paul Schmitt.......2007-05-15

Not a barnburning read, but still OK. If you are looking for a book that focuses on rural wildlife law enforcement--keep looking. The book deals more with Mr. Tremblay's aircraft than law enforcement. Angle of attack, pitch and rolls and shaky landings highlight the book with some animal enforcement adventures mixed in. Easy read, but not exactly what I thought it was going to be about.

Great!.......2007-02-27

My father worked with Mr. Tremblay so I was really interested in this book. It is a great book, exciting! Neat pictures! I loved it.

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A Memoir of No One in Particular is an autobiography of someone who purports to have no particular genius, experienced no formative tragedy, learned no life-affirming lessons, have no dead parents, no restaurant to run, no loony bin to escape from, no sexual affair with a parent in his past, and no sex with famous people in his future. Instead, Daniel Harris bravely delves into the hitherto unexplored banality of his everyday life. The result is an honest, inventive, unpredictably hilarious confessional.

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A delight ..........2005-03-20

This one's been sitting on my shelf for two years. Who needs to read a book about no one? No one. So I forgot about it until today, while weeding my unruly book collection. What a delight! Avoiding most cliches about life-writing and full of hard-won honesty, this collection of thematic essays from one ordinary-but-not life abounds with truth and sensitivity. Better than most biographies and most memoirs, the unflinching revelations by this one-out-of-many individual won my respect and my heart. Spring the $.38 and try this one. You won't be disappointed.

Sit-down comedy and much, much more.......2002-04-03

Daniel Harris is a clear thinker, a hilarious raconteur, a Ph. D. dropout (and therefore consigned to "the Gulag of the intelligentsia"), a gay man in his forties, a cultural critic, a student of sex and semiotics, literature and media and all things pop. He's his own best source of jokes and - in his latest effort - a thoroughly engaging and an intensely thoughtful autobiographer. The title, the subtitle, the flyleaf and the introduction ("Beginning") posture a disdain for the craft of memoir. Don't you believe it. Harris is great at the art of remembering, of retelling rivetingly well, and - best of all - of making some sense of his life up 'til now. His story as he tells it is by turns sad and serious, wonderfully sensitive, harsh (toward himself) in places and sweetly sympathetic in others. It's also hilarious. It's likely that you'll laugh uncontrollably in places. I tried to read this while eating and nearly choked on my food.

In a dozen intensely personal and readable chapters - among them "Writing," "Dressing," "Laughing," "Speaking and Listening," "Cleaning and Decorating," "Lying," "Reading," and others on sex and sexual preferences and practices, Harris generously hosts a tour - of his past, his present, and himself. He doesn't stint on self-criticism, either. In fact, he pathologizes his often quite harmless behaviors sometimes. Does he not know that hardly any men throw out old T-shirts? He has not talked to wives, for he seems to think there's something abnormal about his masculine habit of saving his worn-out clothes, calling it "my irrational tendency to hoard superannuated garments." You will laugh.

Harris grew up in "a liberal, middle class family," his father an accomplished Jewish academic and then a psychotherapist and his mother " a disaffected Southern Baptist, a country girl." He's appalled at some of his family tree - specifically, the Southern Baptist branch that lynched a black man. When he told his dad he was gay, his father thought it might be curable, and offered his son a home version of electro convulsive therapy. Harris smartly refused.

Sometimes it seems that he is his own worst enemy - but he's also his own best friend. He loves to shop, he can't afford expensive stuff, and his reportage is hilarious. He wants to be alone (needs to - in order to read and to write), and also longs for contact and communion. Life can be hard, and he tells you why. His lifelong best friend, a man named Philip, was killed tragically in Lebanon. He is "obsessed with straight men," and envies what he imagines is their easier lives, free of the fetishes and compulsions that Harris assumes are the ken of gay men. He loves conversation, and he's doubtless very good at it - but it distresses and disappoints him, because it is so inferior to his written words. But talk he must, and he deconstructs his conversational style ("I pour on the plain American accent so unconvincingly that at times my voice cracks like a prepubescent boy's, the mellifluousness of the elegant gay man giving way to the abrupt, hard-boiled delivery of a character out of a Raymond Chandler novel.") - along with dozens of other parts of his life. He writes about sex and his own proclivities, and traverses the complicated terrain of his own desires in intensely personal ways.

These are great autobiographical essays that are history, confession, and successful self-examination. Despite his protestations to the contrary, Harris is a brave and trusting man. In this self-deprecatingly titled book he's trusted his readers with his life. It's an act of faith, and of love. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

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