Performance Books

In the Roman world you didn't persuade by the written word but by rhetoric and gesture. Education taught the elite to read, yes, but it also emphasized oral skills. And because sometimes the voice of a speaker couldn't carry well through the audience, it was also vital to learn the proper gestures that could reveal the meaning of a poorly heard word.

There were many tricks to help the orator. "Many orations were deliberately composed to be rhythmic in nature and sometimes even to rhyme or resemble verse" (p 39). The audience responded in a variety of ways. "The custom of augmenting applause with brief shouted comments offered an occasion for spontaneous expressions of the crowd's opinion and an opportunity for praise of a popular emperor" (p 111).

Above all, a member of the elite needed to avoid looking like an actor or by borrowing gestures from the mime shows. Mime shows were the favorite entertainment of the poor, and famous for bawdy jokes.

This book should be of interest to anyone who wants a deeper knowledge of Roman society, and also to anyone curious about the difference between oral and written cultures.

Gregory S. Aldrete's work on Roman rhetoric is an important addition to the study of Roman history and the practice of elocution during the Republic and Principate. Although primarily focusing on non-verbal communication, this book is an important companion to Corbeil's 'Controlling Laughter' which deals specifically with invective in Republican speeches.

As with Corbeil, Aldrete explains that public speeches in Rome were spectacles involving both the speaker and his audience. A Roman speaker would use specific gestures and signs in the course of his speech to emphasize a point and/or to elicit a specific response from his audience. Aldrete's book provides an outline of Roman political speeches and what expectations its participants and principals had in such a context. The book then discusses various aspects of Roman elocution and explains their significance, their effects, and their application in certain contexts.

This is very important book contributing further to our understanding of Roman civilization and culture. It is an important in terms of expanding our historical, rhetorical, sociological and anthropological understanding of the Roman Republic and the Principate: I strongly recommend it to anyone who a serious student of any of these disciplines.

Aldrete's insight and clarity illuminate this subject far beyond the pale beam of traditional historical scholarship. The author writes so well, and has such a clear understanding and enjoyment of his subject that a potentially banal subject springs to life. The illustrations by Alicia Nowicki are crisp and also show a deep knowledge of the subject. This book is a true gesticulatory Tour de Force. I look forward to further books by the same author.

One of the best, if now the only, Reference manuals specifically written and aimed towards the practice of the wide field of industrial engineering. Within this massive 'CODEX' an IE can find information covering almost evey area in the vast field. Not meant as an introduction to the field, I however highly recomend it for the practicing members of our field.

In one word; perfect!
It is a must for an industrial, and system engineer
it serves and explains every useful information we need.
Thank you!

As soon as I received this book, I started realize the price is great compared to what the book is offering. We IE usually need to remember some things we learnt while we were studying, and instead of looking for it in many many books, you'll find it here. A friend of mine bought the Maynard's, and sincerely, Salvendy's is a lot better, better focused and clearly explained everything. Great buy!!

This book speaks great words of encouragement and wisdom for people at all places in their spiritual lives. It has words for those exploring Christianity, those having trouble living their new-found faith, as well as for those who are advanced in their faith and are looking to discover how to truly have peace and joy. I highly recommend this book.

David Seamands helped me to strenghten my conviction that the Christian life is about Grace, not about following the Law. This is an excellent book for people who are caught in the spiritual trap of feeling guilty for not being able to perform as well as they would like. The author clearly shows how accepting God's Grace is part of the spiritual healing we receive through Jesus Christ.

With insight and wisdom, David Seamands identifies the root cause of the insecurity and ineffectiveness that plague many Christians. Tracing the problem to its source--the shame at the core of our being--Seamands reveals how people develop quasi-identities in a fruitless attempt to earn the unconditional love and acceptance they so desperately crave. He then provides practical steps to help us lay aside our masks, embrace our identity as God's beloved children and allow God's unconditional love and acceptance to transform us from the inside out.

I've been using this book for several years as a recommended text in my gerontology classes. It is really excellent. It's quite readable and very helpful for the layperson or the health care provider.

I've been using this book for several years as a recommended text in my gerontology classes. It is really excellent. It's quite readable and very helpful for the layperson or the health care provider.

Originally designed as a text for those who want to work with those over 65 years, this softcover book is a comprehensive, well-referenced guide to issues and concerns of the growing elder population. Chapters cover demographics, theories of why and how we age, how age affects each body system and common illnesses. Also included are discussions of diet, exercise, sexuality, medications, health care, nursing home care and death and dying. Excellent, up-to-date reference. Written by a mother-daughter team (gerontologist and physician), the book provides a lot of information in a format that is easy to understand and presents a holistic approach to successful aging. A third edition is in the works.

This text is one I would recommend to anyone with serious aspirations to a professional career in the business of datacommunications networking.

Kenyon has presentated a complex discipline with no sugar coated spin, yet the material is accessible through the illustrations that quantify what are 'reasonable outcomes' in several useful scenarios. This last skill belongs to proven and experienced practitioners, Kenyon has evidently 'walked the walk' and provides the reader with the benefit of his knowledge and experience.

At the very least this text is an essential reference text for modern practitioners of Data Network construction and planning.
- Concept, Implementation, Budget and Risk Management.

At the most enjoyable points, this text provides a way of taking a technologist or student to their respective technical depths, without losing focus on the need to yield practical and cost effective implementations.

The bar has been set to other authors in this area, I hope that Mr Kenyon has more material to come.

I've read many network books, but this one really is beyond anything I've seen so far. This author, unlike others, has got it right, this is a book for engineers, a book written with so much detail it will blow your mind off. I especially loved two of its chapters: Chapter two which is on capacity planning and Chapter four which is on Network Cost Analysis, the two most important aspects that that will turn a network design into a real network.

This book is definitely worth every penny.

I own plenty of design books, unfortunately most of them just rehash design standards or design methods. I've waited a long time for a book that is written from an engineers viewpoint covering material that is relevant to my job and my interests.

My first impressions were great narrative and an exellent technical resource covering difficult and complex aspects such as capacity planning and performance. However, my particular area and what really drew me to this book was network costing and backbone design something that is usually under-represented.

The WAN and ATM sections are extremely well put together with some great insights. Overall, it is methodical, dense in some places definately challenging for the uninitiated but always accompanied with well thought out examples making it very readable, something that I thought made a great change from the norm.

Method is covered, but thankfully only where necessary and anyone like me who is involved in design will benefit from the design templates that are provided.

Overall, I'm extremely impressed and definately looking forward to the accompanying book on higher level security and routing. If it is as well written as this then, for engineers, it should be THE benchmark book set for anyone who is involved in network design. Top marks.

Dr. James Rippe is a Harvard trained cardiologist who practices in the Boston area. He has written a guide to upgrading your total health and fitness. In separate chapters, Dr. Rippe addresses various components of high-performance health. His tone is eminently practical, not preachy. Most chapters close with a short action item or "To-do" exercise for the reader to commit to in order to improve one aspect of their diet, health and lifestyle.

I particularly liked the inclusion by Dr. Rippe of the spiritual component as part of one's overall health. I would have expected most physicians to be phobic about venturing into this area. Again, he is not preachy but he is also not afraid or ashamed to consider the role of spiritual life or one's relationship with God as a component to one's overall health and life view. Doubtlessly, he will risk offending the gods of political correctness through venturing into this territory

Yes, Dr. Rippe does it never seemed to tire of reminding us that he is married to a beautiful TV newscaster, but despite this he seems genuinely humbled by entering into the role of father starting in his mid-40s.

Likely we all are aware of the health nostrums offered by Dr. Rippe in this book. The real kicker is in implementing these as daily habits. Each one of the habits that Dr. Rippe discusses is a brick, and together they can help you build your own personal health plan.

This is one of the finest health books I have ever read. And, that is saying a lot for I am frequent reader (and reviewer) of the best of new books in the field.

As a long time student and writer on the subject of personal peak performance, I am a strong believer that one of the keys to personal peak performance is giving oneself the gift of good health. Dr. James Rippe has done a fine job of presenting the holistic view that good health is largely a function of the totality of the choices we make, a view that I am pleased to see is increasingly being endorsed by mainstream health experts.

Critics will undoubtedly question where the new content is. I believe the value of the book and the new content comes from the author's strong focus on how to make the changes that we all know we should make but often don't make until we face serious repercussions for our negligence. His chapter on building a high performance health team and environment is a prescription that is well designed to transform irrefutable logic into an action program. Powerful forces (advertising, the actions of others, etc.) can pull even the most strong willed away from the path of doing what is best for our mind and body. Dr. Rippe lays out a multi-level support structure to counterbalance such forces.

As powerful as the content is, the style of writing made this book enjoyable reading. Dr. Rippe weaves into his guidance insights into his own personal health challenges so as to make clear that he is not some preacher on a pedestal. And, the genuine love he expresses for his family serves as great role modeling of just how important family is to high performance health.

Because health is such a complex subject, no one book can be the end-all. Those dealing with a specific ailment or disease will undoubtedly want to supplement this book with a more targeted disease specific book. But, one would be hard pressed to find a better foundational book. Couple this book with the excellent The 100 Year Lifestyle: Dr. Plasker's Breakthrough Solution for Living Your Best Life - Every Day of Your Life! and one will have the knowledge to experience better health and more vitality...assuming, of course, one chooses to act on the knowledge.

It isn't often that you find a book that truly touches you in a special way; this was the case with "High Performance Health." Written by a man who is not only an M.D., but has had much experience in keeping fit you immediately feel comfortable with what you are being told. This isn't your norm of a 'get-fit', book;you know the type, just listings, patting you on the back, and sending you on your way. No, our author puts real heart into this work and it can be felt within the read.
In this book, Dr. Rippe gives us 10 solutions to redefine our health such as, The Dos and Don't of healthy weight management, Power foods that provide high energy nutrition, and The top five barriers to achieving high performance health and how to overcome them, all packed full of intense learning information. These were very well written and definitely easy to incorporate in any life style. However, I absolutely love how he incorporates the spirit man into the overall importance of our health with such topics as, How to remove toxic people and avoid toxic situations so you can build a positive health performance team and environment around you, or How to improve your health by improving the quality of your relationships. I am very impressed that our spirit side was recognized in our overall health. Great job! It was wonderful to read some of the stories of those who took responsibility for areas of their lives that were hindering their healing and achieved better health through these steps.
I found this book to be trustworthy, easy to read, interesting and definitely a great incentive to overcoming my own problems in taking control of my health and helping to improve it. I truly recommend this book and thank Dr.Rippe for sharing the valuable information that is contained inside.I feel this work will be life changing for many.

This book provides a VP of sales or sales manager with the behind the scenes research that went into Professional Selling Skills and other landmark training by Learning International. If anyone has a questions as to why this training vs. others - this answers the question! By the way, I would highly recommend their training also. The best consultative sales training on the market.

This is a very clearly written book that puts definition to what you are likely already seeing as your new role as a sales person in the 90's. I found it very applicable for my sales position in aerospace sales. It gives an outline of how to assess your customers and meet their expectations. It further spells out what skills you need as a sales person today and what customers expect from you. It stresses the changing role to business consulant from order taker. Good reading

Kevin J. Corcoran is my uncle, so I thought his book was down right cool. Maybe I think that all those related to me have that benefit. But seriously, this book presents some very significant business information with some flair. Check it out! I should be in sales... Brian A. Corcoran (brian@princeton.edu)

The old saw that "there is no 'I' in teams" is poppycock. Of COURSE there are individuals on teams; every member is an individual and the idea that he or she should somehow abandon individuality to conform to some construct called a 'team player' does a huge disservice to great teams everywhere.

What's one of the secrets of great teams? Diversity! If we all thought alike, there wouldn't be much of a need for teams at all, except to have groups of people doing work together.

Gerke's and Berens' book is the first that I know that tackles this issue straight-on, with great insight and highly practical models and approaches. While it's written for remote and co-located teams, I think the appeal will be much broader than that. Every team leader should get this book and get versed in the principles it offers. The stuff is real, it's true, and it works.

We can only wonder how much productivity is lost when employees worry that to be a member of a team, they have to sacrifice being themselves. There IS an I in teams, and Gerke and Berens have written a useful guidebook for team leaders, consultants, and coaches everywhere.

"The I in TEAM" by Susan Gerke never loses its focus on real teams. Instead of theoretical models, Susan uses real team situations and sets forward practical steps in forming and maintaining a team... including special sections on stresses within a team, and remote teams.

It is refreshing to have someone say that it is essential to maintain one's individuality upon becoming a team member, rather than what is often taught. The chapters on clarifying the reader's personal temperament are invaluable, whether a member of a team or not.

I highly recommend this book.

I've personally worked with Susan Gerke on a number of business projects and can't recommend her highly enough. Her insight on interpersonal dynamics within teams is right on target. I highly recommend her books!

This book is the most comprehensive literature I have seen for credit risk modeling. It covers from the basic BIS regulatory capital framework to the state-of-the-art credit risk models. Numerous worked examples demonstrate the calculation for different risk weighted capitals with or without netting clearly. Well-known credit models such as KMV, CreditMetric and CreditRisk+ are rigorously explained. Advanced issues like default correlation, joint credit migration and loss tail events are also addressed appropriately. With the general framework, economic capital and risk adjusted performance measurement can be quantified. This book is full of concise but descriptive flow charts and diagrams for implementation purpose. I strongly recommend this book to those who want to understand and implement an internal credit model for capital regulatory and allocation purpose.

Detailed, but not overly mathematic.

Good coverage of all the main points required of any good credit risk measurement, management, and reporting system. Would recommend this book to anyone who might be using KMV's Portfolio Manager product, or for someone who's creating/programming a new credit risk management/reporting system and needs a good framework from which to copy from.

It provides a coherent framework for thinking about and modeling bank credit risk. It describes how to model default probabilities, expected and unexpected losses, time effects, default correlation, loss distribution and RAROC measures. The writer is a practioner and makes simple and important observations about the important issues. The text is clear and mathematics is used as example, not as explanation.

This booklet is a well written easy read. Loan it to parents, caregivers, and team members. It provides a great introduction to the How Does Your Engine Run Program- Manual. I use it in a few different ways. First, it is just short enough that I can ask parents to read it during a session or two so I can answer questions immediately. Second, I use it as a reference to describe this intervention during team meetings. Third, I am a clinical instructor and this booklet is "required reading" for all of my clinical interns prior to starting a rotation.

On the recommendation of a friend, I got this booklet, along with the Leader's Guide, in order to work with my son who has some sensory integration issues. This booklet, in particular, has been very helpful for me to use when explaining the concepts to my son's teachers, daycare providers, babysitters, and our family because it gave me a solid and respectable source to back up what I was trying to teach them.

Every time I tried to get people to understand my son's "sensory seeking" behaviors and appropriate ways to meet his needs, I was faced with attitudes like "well, he's a boy, isn't that what boys do?" So, this has helped me explain the nervous system in a way that folks who have no training in this area can begin to understand. I highly recommend this booklet to share with key people who are involved in a child's care in order to start discussing SI and the Alert Program.

This booklet is a well written easy read. Loan it to parents, caregivers, and team members. It provides a great introduction to the How Does Your Engine Run Program- Manual. I use it in a few different ways. First, it is just short enough that I can ask parents to read it during a session or two so I can answer questions immediately. Second, I use it as a reference to describe this intervention during team meetings. Third, I am a clinical instructor and this booklet is "required reading" for all of my clinical interns prior to starting a rotation.