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For any woman with supervisory or management responsibility, Mar 19 2006
The Velvet Hammer: Powerful Leadership Lessons For Woman Who Don't Golf by international speaker and leader/management expert Elaine Allison clearly lays out for women just how they can be effective with leadership and management responsibilities in the corporate world. Readers will learn what brains, hormones and cultural expectations have to do with being a woman of supervisory responsibilities; how to handle professional jealousy and overseeing the work of friends; gaining the respect of more knowledgeable and experienced superiors or subordinates; handling discipline and mediating conflict; setting effective goals for work teams, and so much more. The Velvet Hammer should be considered "must reading" for any woman faced with supervisory or management responsibilities in a business setting.
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A detailed biography of a unique and dedicated woman, Jul 17 2004
Dr. Margaret Phillips (1876-1951) was educated as a medical doctor and went on to spend forty-three years in China as a Christian missionary dedicated to improving the health and circumstances of women, eradicate the scourge of tuberculosis, and provide medical services to legions of children with a distressing spectrum of all manner of illnesses and injuries. The Lady Named Thunder is a compelling and detailed biography of a unique and dedicated woman who, in a era when women were discouraged from engaging in "unladylike" activities and careers, was uncompromising and unflinching in her lifetime of service to the Chinese people -- including learning Mandarin so that she could translate medical texts and teach medicine to student doctors and nurses, as well as communicate effectively with her patients, their families, and their fellow villagers. Clifford H. Phillips (adopted at the age of two by Dr. Margaret Phillips) has done his mother full justice in this detailed and inherently fascinating telling of his mother's life and work.
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An absolutely compelling look into history itself, Jul 17 2004
The third and final volume of Indian testimony assembled by award-winning author Richard G. Hardorff, Indian Views Of The Custer Fight: A Source Book deftly presents thirty-five interviews and statements from Native Americans who were eyewitnesses to this historic battle. It was the last time there would be a major Native American success in a battlefield confrontation with American armed forces. Twenty-nine Sioux and nine Cheyenne detail events in their own words, from the point where soldiers were first detected in their march toward the Indian settlement to the end of the battle. Some of the interviews are in very straightforward question-and-answer format; others are more narrative. An absolutely compelling look into history itself, and a superb primary source worthy of American History reference shelves.
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Summer Olympics
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by Clive Gifford
Edition: Hardcover |
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The ideal companion for young readers, Jul 17 2004
Superbly enhanced on every page with outstanding digital illustrations and visually impressive full color action photography, Clive Gifford's Summer Olympics: The Definitive Guide To The World's Greatest Sports Celebration is a complete survey and introduction to every Summer Olympics event. Also included is a great deal of background information on the training routines of top athletes of today and great athletic competitive rivalries of the past. Summer Olympics is the ideal companion for young readers with its showcasing of the world pinnacle for international sporting events and competitions.
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Will rapidly translate to an improved bottom line, Jul 17 2004
Strongly recommended reading, Customer Satisfaction: Tools, Techniques, And Formulas For Success by Craig Cochran (Project Manager, Center for International Standards & Quality, Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute) is a slim, 93-page compilation of observations, advice, and techniques for proactively gauging customer perceptions and then aggressively acting on the findings thereby acquiring a competitive advantage in today crowded and rapidly evolving markets. Tools and specific instructions are laid out in a thoroughly "user friendly" manner and range from the very basic to the rather sophisticated. Informed and informative, Customer Satisfaction is one of those easily assimilated compilations that will rapidly translate to an improved bottom line regardless of the nature of a businesses products or services.
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Draws upon scores of resources and interviews, Jul 17 2004
In The Free Agent Marketing Guide: 100+ Marketing Tips For Free Agents, Independent Consultants, And Freelancers, Doug Florzak (Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach and Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication) provides 112 marketing tips thematically appropriate for time-stressed and budget-challenged freelance agents. In addition to his own impressive body of professional experience and expertise, Florzak also draws upon scores of resources and interviews with free agents who successfully implemented their own marketing strategies. To put it simply, The Free Agent Marketing can quite justifiably be considered as the "bible" for freelancers, free agents, and independent consultants.
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"Must reading" for all dedicated comic book fans, Jul 17 2004
A very lavishly illustrated autobiographical memoir of Murphy Anderson's varied career in cartooning, The Life & Art Of Murphy Anderson begins with his entry into the 1940s "Golden Age" of comic books. Anderson's credentials include having produced the very popular syndicated comic strip "Buck Rogers", as well as educational comics for the military services publication "PS Magazine". Anderson is perhaps best known for his exceptional and ground-breaking work at DC Comics in the 1960s and 70s on such superhero characters as Superman, Hawkman, Adam Strange, The Atomic Knights, and so many others. It was his style that defined the DC look for a generation of comic book fans. His anecdotal recollections are replete with insightful commentary on the state of the art, as and includes behind-the-scenes stories about the other artist he has encountered in the course of his long and successful career including Lou Fine, Will Eisner, Curt Swan, Gil Kane, and others. Illustrated throughout with a generous examples of work drawn from every phase of his career which also included Fiction House and Ziff-Davis, The Life And Art Of Murphy Anderson is "must reading" for all dedicated comic book fans past and present!
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Southern Winds
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by W. Everett Beal
Edition: Paperback |
| Price: CDN$ 12.75 |
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Exceptionally well written, Jul 17 2004
W. Everett Beal was born and raised in Valdosta, Georgia, eventually moving to Griffin, Georgia to practice pharmacy, and then retiring with his wife Judy to Sky Valley for 16 years only to return once again to Griffin. Man and boy, Everett Beal was a southerner. Southern Winds is both his autobiography and his eyewitness account of the deluge of changes that were to transform the segregated and impoverished state of Georgia into what was to become known as the "New South". Here is a compilation of stories, good and bad, of the early days of integration and a profile of just how hard it was for many to give up their family and community tradition enforced prejudices and customs. Southern Winds is a personal testament to the redeeming necessity to ignore and overcome ingrained prejudices, and to strive for common unity, love and respect, simply and honest compassion. That we must judge people by their character and personality, not by the color of their skin. Exceptionally well written, Southern Winds is very strongly recommended reading.
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Rivers of Wind
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by Gary Penley
Edition: Paperback |
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A kind of "window in time", Jul 17 2004
Rivers Of Wind: A Western Boyhood Remembered is the autobiographical story of how Gary Penley's growing up on a ranch in the plains of Colorado, the influence and example of his grandfather, his mother, and a yesteryear of ranch life that is gone now. Interwoven memories of the people, the geography of the land, the animals, and the climate of the high western plains, Rivers Of Wind is a kind of "window in time" that will engage the reader's rapt attention from first page to last. A tribute to a time and place now found only in memory, Rivers Of Wind is unique and enthusiastically recommended reading.
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Portal
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by George Mead
Edition: Paperback |
| Price: CDN$ 16.96 |
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Especially for fantasy fiction enthusiasts, Jul 17 2004
Portal is the debut volume of a planned series of fantasy titles the will explore the nature of life as a unique sort of organism comprised of an amalgamation of individual minds and separate entities, while simultaneously exploring the many diverse intellectual, emotional, and relationship problems of its characters. When John Tinker of Grandeville, Oregon, took a single step through the Portal and found himself in another world where their is amazing magic, ironic good, and twisted evil. Some he encounters are human, others are not -- but there is treasure and the promise of eventually being able to return home, back through the Portal from whence he came. George Mead is a natural storyteller with a particular flair the the unique and the memorable, and a writes with a great deal of wit and more than just a bit of wisdom too. Portal is recommended reading, especially for fantasy fiction enthusiasts who like to follow series titles set in a world of imagination and adventure!
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