Performance Books

Fantastic! Susan Merson is an inspiration as an actress and a writer. Reading this book is like having a personal coach who will get you up off the couch to performing your story up on a stage. Go read this book and then just go do it!

Not only does YOUR NAME HERE give you the "how-to" to write and design a solo performance, it serves as a companion for the writer who seeks inspiration.

Ms Merson gives practical advice and help based on her own successes. The skills she teaches are the right notes at the right time. Given the economics of theater today, this guide's timing is perfect.

This is a great book. If you have any interest in telling your story or doing a one person show on any story you may have in mind, this is the book to get. Ms. Merson knows just how to help trigger inspiration and action.

This book was insightful, informative and inspirational. The author's personal and professional wisdom clearly shines through. I've already passed it along to several of my colleagues. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who reaches in to reach out!

Funny book -- probably every guy should have a copy!

This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time! The History of Marriage as told in this book is so true!

Read this book and marriage will never look the same again. It was the best engagement gift that I got!

I gave this book to a friend of mine who was getting married. It was a great hit at the shower and she keeps it on her desk! Great fun and the perfect gift!

After 28 years in one single trade I think it legitimate to say that I am experienced. It is also right to be convinced that it would be the reason enough for success.

After studying the “The 2000 Percent Solution Workbook” I can say it does not suffice to be experienced and hard working to attain success. I needed a modern and methodic approach to get 20 times more out of my business. I am thrilled at the change in my approach to daily business problems after reading this book. For my personal situation I call it my stealth weapon.

I have read a few books on methods of constant improvements for sustainable solutions. I had read The 2000 Percent Solution before the work book, too. I thought that book contained very down-to-earth, honest advice on how to improve things in my business.

The workbook brings about the final cut to the diamond. If I had read it without a proper coaching, I would have missed out a disciplined application of the ideas of the authors and probably considered it as any other book. Coaching was like navigating with a compass in the ocean; imagine going sailing without it.

The size of the business was not important -- it was the approach that made the difference. But the workbook has given me very straight forward eight steps to go through and see how things improve while going through them. It particularly inculcates a new habit of asking different questions to get better solutions to problems which probably every one of us faces in business life. I have taken the course described in the workbook and found it very effective.

I confess that I approach most books with a healthy scepticism and ask myself, “What is the new mantra that this book will teach me now?” Subsequently I do begin with a tendency to look down on it with a slight rejection. As soon as I finished the first two chapters and applied the logic of this book in my business experience, I lost all scepticism and could see what is it that holds back the real success despite all the hard work.

There are very concrete examples in this book which I have applied to my business and achieved 20 times the result such as the example of a chip maker who outsourced the designing work and gained exponential advantage, because the chip designers were specialists. I have applied this method to quality control in my business. I have outsourced work to specialists and the results are very impressive. The economic advantage of this change was amazing; the outcome was that first it brought down the rejection rate to unbelievably low level. This saved my company the money that it would have lost on bad quality and the customer was delighted. The second advantage was that I did not have to worry about my own personnel getting complacent with the manufacturers or doing innocent favors of accepting small errors as a gesture of creating good personal relationships. I did not think of these methods before and have learned them from this book. I also found another question most impressive in the book. If my answer to my customer is the best answer that I can not afford to give to my customer . . . then I have to look for a better one.

I never thought of this before.

Professor Donald Mitchell and Carol Coles have done a superb job of describing stalls and how to overcome these stalls - be it organizational or personal.
The 2,000 percent solutions are available for just about any activity.The solutions improve efficiecy and effectiveness of an organization.The 2,000% solution workbook can be applied to reduce costs or increase profits by more than 20 times the current annual rate. Actually, the 2,000% solution workbook is a business mannual. I have applied the mannual on how to
help young people avoid contracting AIDS
through improving understanding of how sexual
practices can affect exposure to infection. The mannual helped make an enormous difference by spreading the word about how to stop AIDS faster than the disease itself is spread among the vulnerable and relatively uninformed young population.

Authors Donald Mitchell and Carol Coles have co-authored a number of interesting books. The 2000 Percent Solution (with Robert Metz), The Irresistible Growth Enterprise and The Ultimate Competitive Advantage.

These books represent new horizons for business models and also getting the most out of organisational change strategies. I particularly enjoyed reading the 2000 Percent Solution and it is the text for my current study course I am undertaking. In order to assist the student/planner two of the authors have completed the 2000 Percent Work Book to supplement the original text.This is a valuable resource tool for those who wish to pursue the original applications of the 2000 Percent Solution further.

The book is extremely well written and easy to follow. It assists the reader to work through the eight-step process to a 2000 Percent Solution. This book was the result of feed back received from a number of prominent business leaders and Professor Peter Drucker, well known management theorist.

The work book assists the reader to first identify stalls and that inhibit thinking and achievement. It contains a number of new 'stalls' that have resulted from suggestions from leading professionals. Recommended reading is also contained at the website: [...]

Chapter One examines what solution models can be applied towards a 2000 Percent Solution, a number of questions are posed, with a brief outline to assist the reader. Chapter Two deals with more of these 'insidious' stalls that block people's ideas and inhibit creativity and advancement within the organisation. After completion of looking at what opportunities there are that help with performance, there is the actual consideration of how long it will take to implement a 2000 Percent Solution.

Chapters Five to Twelve look at the eight-step process; please note, this is designed to help you arrive at your solution, not to find one. The questions posed in each of these eight steps assist the reader to look into all corners of each step, rather than looking straight ahead to the next step. Often, there can be a tendency to steer straight ahead and forget the in-depth detail.

The final two chapters deal concentrate on some very useful advice on getting the message across to those people you need to involve in this procedure for it to be accepted. The 2000 Percent Solution workbook is an invaluable aid to assisting the student and business professional alike.

I have read Don Mitchell's 2000% Workbook and I found it very practical and user friendly. In this book Don becomes your coach along the way to exponential growth. I read it after the 2000% Solution book and it vastly improved my ability to conceptualise ways of improving my dental practice. I fully recommend the book to any enterprising entrepeneur. It will walk you through the process in an exciting way. One of my major frustrations with authors is that they are too theoretical but I find Don Mitchell in this workbook refreshingly practical. I walked out of reading the book straight into applying the concepts. My business has never been the same. Thank you Dr Mitchell for showing us the way.

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Bill Hancock is one of the must knowledgeable experts on Ethernet in the world. Having spent years teaching about complex Ethernet networks at DECus (Digital Equipment Corporation Users Group) and other gatherings, Bill was the perfect person to write a book of this nature. Although two years old now, the book is still extremely useful for anyone trying to manage more complex Ethernet infrastructures. East to read yet technically complete, this book is worth having on your shelf.

Written on an advanced level, this book somehow doesn't read like stereo instructions from another planet. Definitely good to round out what you learned in those basic networking classes.

I was fortunate enough to attend a class taught by Dr. Hancock with this book as one of the texts. I have referred to it many times since then, and have always found the info to be very useful. It is written in an easy to follow manner, and never goes into a lot of unnecessary technical jargon.

I would highly recommend this book as a basic-to-intermediate intro to Ethernet networks, no matter which protocol you are using.

I'm pleased to see that academia is now starting to look to subcultural doings as they happen, instead of invoking the fond nostalgia that the Beatniks inspired. The ability to digest and deconstruct the events that take place in this otherworldly space is much to be commended, and I think that by doing so the authors of these various articles may be tapping in to something most of their colleagues shy away from. The articles themselves are intriguing and scholarly, but never lose sight of their subject. I would love to see more editions of this book as the event (and the world around it - the context) changes and grows!

in these pages? Read this book and you will. Tho the author comments that this book was a composite of many different burning an festivals, te undercurrent feels strangely like one which puts you there in the middle of things.

There are a few details which, if you've been there, are a little flaky, and the book gets off to kind of a slow start (ergo the 4 stars) but as you bury yourself in this read (and it's one read that, if you're at all a burner, you will end up burying yourself in) you will be amazed... engrossed... wind blown... with a lot of little surprises thrown in that you don't expect, even all the way at the end.

There is another thing, tho... if you've never been to Black Rock City, and wonder what all the hubbub is about, ad you want to know if that ticket's worth it... and what it's getting you into... this book will give you a fairly good idea. Of course, your experience is your own... but, like I said in the beginning... read this, and you can almost smell the playa dust in these pages...

Critical writing up to any academic standards fused with a joy in language and topic. Wonderful! It will make your mind spin with ideas, and what could be better than that!

Prior to reading this excellent sophisticated introduction to Burning Man, I had dismissed this event as shamanism and tantra for amateurs. However, these well written, knowledgeable, and at times quite learned articles, have convinced me that Burning Man allows for the creation of authentic rituals that are rife with both transformative and aesthetic epiphanies. Moreover, it appears that Burning Man has largely not yet been" recouped" (to the use Guy Debord's term) by bourgeois capitualist society, and thereby succeeds where its predecessors, the Surrealists and Situationists, left off. Next year, instead of visiting the Himalayas or Mongolia for my taste of the (w)holy other, I will just go to Burning Man.

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This classic text was used in my undergraduate aeronautical engineering classes 30 years after its publication (It's a classic ;). It covers in considerable detail airplane performance (climb, dive, turning, etc., and reciprocating engine (non-jet) and propeller performance), and aircraft stability and control (how does an airplane control its attitude and how to analyze the attitude dynamics).

Given that you understand differential calculus (not just Calculus 1), this is an excellent book for the professional and the serious amateur aircraft maker. This is a far better book than Perkin's second book on Stability and Control. That tome is both pompous and difficult to understand. Unlike his second book this book is written in a straightforward and very easy to understand manner. Therein lies the reason that this book has been a standard reference for 50 years.

This handbook is a collection of ideas from companies for designing employee training and learning systems. It covers such areas such as creating the "learning organization", outsourcing, electronic performance systems, interactive multimedia training systems, diversity training and development, training for global operations and benchmarking for best practices.

This comprehensive handbook helps trainers design classrooms, self-study and computer and web based training programs. While delivering the latest information on how adults learn best, it shows trainers how to prepare lesson plans, create visual aids, and deliver dynamic and powerful presentations.

This is a great resource for HR professionals from tiny to mega corporations. Contributing authors are the most respected experts in their fields. Primary focus is on training and development: accountability, justifying programs, format, leadership, pros, cons, pitfalls, challenges . . . all aspects are covered.

As I research and write my Adult Education thesis, this book is the most useful tool I've found.

The ASTD Training and Development Handbook, Fourth Edition, by Robert L. Craig, is an essential reference book for faculty, teachers, educators, and learning system administartors at all levels including University, Corporate, K-12, and Community Colleges. It is easy to use, very comprehensive, and has great quick summaries. With the fusion of the teaching, training, and tutoring into a learner centered model this book is more useful than ever. A MUST BUY. The price is worth every penny.

The Handbook is arranged to cover almost all aspects of Training & Development. The topics are carefully selected and their authors picked from among the top names in their respective fields and therefore, the chapters are focused, targeted and provide the right mix of information and practical guidelines.

Each chapter addresses a single topic (like corporate universities, customer service training, leadership development, etc.) and is written in a straight-forward manner at the right depth making them easy to read and the perfect introduction to the topic without losing it's functionality as a reference.

No T&D professional should go without this book whether as a reference and a quick source of information when memory will just not oblige or an informative and valuable resource for information and ideas.

The Handbook is divided into 5 Sections:
1) The Training & development Function - Covering such topics as the learning organization, history of training and cost accounting for training.
2) Program Design & Development - The chapters on ISD; HPT; Adult Learning; & Evaluation are brilliantly written. I keep on going back to them again and again.
3) Media & methods - Includes some good case studies as well as Thiagi's excellent chapter on instructional games.
4) Training Applications - This is a brilliant discussion of almost all training topics that you might come across.
5) Resources - While these might be a little dated, they are still quite useful.

Check the table of Contents and some of the samples in the pages so obligingly provided by Amazon.com and don't be deterred by the length or the price of the book. This book is worth every cent and will last you long after you have forgotten the cost.

I'm glad that there's finally one book about atl server, but this one seems to have been written in haste. Sure it shows you how to hook up to a database and pull out records, but the examples are not nearly as complex as msdn's . In particular, the caching section is seriously lacking...

This is an excellent book on the definitive technology for VC++ developers wanting to write web applications. ATL Server is the evolution of ISAPI; better, faster and much easier to write. If you are comfortable with C++ template programming and attributed Visual C++, you will find this framework a joy to work with. Just like ATL, ATL Server is streamlined, high performance and easy to extend.

Written by the ATL Server team, this book will guide you through the different parts of ATL Server, giving you not only reasons for why certain design decisions were made but also real-world examples.

The ATL Server library is the perfect addition to ATL, adding the ability to create web services and web applications with the light-weight model of ATL. I found this book very useful for getting new members of my development team up to speed on the basics of ATL Server development (both those with previous ISAPI experience and those without).

I also found this book very useful when tackling some of the more difficult problems that our application faced. In particular the Advanced sections on SRF files, Request Handlers and Web Services provided a number of useful techniques that we were able to apply in our application.

The book also outlines some techniques for using parts of the ATL Server library in non-web applications, which we are finding very useful as we update some of our existing code.

If you're a hardcore C++ developer wanting to do native web development, ATL Server is a great library to work with. If you've done ISAPI extensions, you'll find ATL Server to be a natural, flexible and very performant extension of that model, which makes development a *lot* faster.

And if you like that, then this book is a great way to get you up to speed on ATL Server. It is, after all, written by the people who wrote it. The book is wonderfully easy to read, covers both the basics and plenty of advanced ATL Server topics, and has tons of examples. Plus, it has the advantage of being written with real applications in mind.

On the other hand, if the profile above doesn't sound like it fits you, then this book is probably not for you :)

I recently dug my copy of this book out of a box as I was cleaning my office...and as I sat on the floor leafing through it, I realized how much it still rings true, even though it was published a few years ago. Mr. Melin--thank you for this gem. I've dusted it off and put it back up on my bookshelf for easy reference.

Such an entertaining and informative book! I read Mr. Melin's book when my business was going through some difficult times...my staff was not performing as I'd hoped and my finances were a mess...I thought it was the end! Luckily, I stumbled upon "Bang for the Buck" in a local bookstore and scanned its pages. To make a long story short, it made all the difference. I got my business back in order, found the best staff and learned how to work with them to get the results I needed. Extremely beneficial and worthwhile business book--beautifully written, easily read.

Such an entertaining and informative book! I read Mr. Melin's book when my business was going through some difficult times...my staff was not performing as I'd hoped and my finances were a mess...I thought it was the end! Luckily, I stumbled upon "Bang for the Buck" in a local bookstore and scanned its pages. To make a long story short, it made all the difference. I got my business back in order, found the best staff and learned how to work with them to get the results I needed. Extremely beneficial and worthwhile business book--beautifully written, easily read.

This is, by far, one of the very best business books around. It offers solid advice in an easy to understand, friendly manner. Will surely give your business or any endeavor a lot of bang. Bravo!

This practical book offers tremendous input for both parents and teachers. I have benefitted greatly from reading this book, and so have my 3 children and many students! -Tim Bedley Author of Mr. Tim's Tips for New Teachers

Easy to read, concise material on turning "wanting to be a good parent" to "being a good parent". Positive support and encouragement to try different techniques to communicate in a directive and positive manner with opportunities to practice your new skills. Good story example at the end of how one family practically applied the skills learned. Lots of good phrases to use. I've updated my skills and intend to use some of the strategies with my teens!

I looked through dozens of books on parenting for help with my teenage son. I found, and used, lots of advice on logic and consequences, but each day he became more withdrawn and remote. This book could not have arrived at a better time. I read the first couple of chapters and applied the skills I learned. Within two days, he began to respond and his mood brightened. Within two weeks, we were talking the way we did before he became a teenager. The communication skills in this book not only make you a better parent, they make you a better person--one with the tools to respond to and address the stressful situations in life with confidence and composure.

As reviewed by Marjan Glavac for the Busy Educator's Newsletter.

Here's a parenting book with a difference. Right from the beginning, Page outlines three parenting styles as "My Way", "Your Way", and "Our Way" parents and their pros and cons. Through examples and exercises, the reader soon learns not only what their parenting style is perceived to be, but what it actually is. What is unique about this book over many other parenting guides on the market today, is that Page doesn't make a judgement about a person's parenting style. Instead, the book is geared to all three parenting styles.

Page presents his 12 communication skills in very clear language, and well organized in the following 3 categories: Skills for discovering what's on your child's mind; skills for overcoming your child's objections and skills for solving and making decisions with your child.

Through exercises, and a special section on role playing, Page reinforces his 12 communication skills for effective parenting. If you follow each of his communication skills and work through the examples and exercises, you will communicate more effectively with your children and be the parent (and teacher) you want to be.