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"Optimum Use of Space," takes us there in a very real way

An emotional read, novels hidden in small poems. I found it at the Safeway in Anchorage, & have read it at least 50 times. Every time some-thing new.

I loved this book! Kate Boothe is the most fun heroine in a long time. The story starts fast, and Mitchell keeps the pace going at breakneck speed all the way through. Just TRY putting this book down! It calls you back to keep reading until the very end, and then all you want is another Kate Boothe adventure!

This is a fast read about political powers and want-be powers. I love the feisty heroine, Kate Boothe, as she and Jack solve the murder of her new boss.

This is my second book by Michele Mitchell the other THE LATEST BOMBSHELL....and fast contemporary read that you can't put down till the last page.

The Performance Consultant's Fieldbook is a great practical tool for anyone seeking to address problems in an organization or opportunities to improve already solid organizational performance. It provides an approach to diagnosing root problems that I would describe as audit-like. It has helped me work through biases to get to the heart of various problems. Because I have done some training and process improvement work in the past, I often go into a diagnostic process looking for process or system flaws, or for what training might be helpful. This book gave me some great tools for objectively diagnosing organizational performance barriers and opportunities, overcoming my process improvement/training bias.

This book is an excellent introduction to performance consulting. It assumes that you already have the "tools" and know-how to address performance needs, so the focus is on the consulting process itself. What I found especially useful were the question lists. In almost every chapter, Hale includes a list of questions you might ask your client in order to guide them and pinpoint the exact issue and identify the best solution. This is the side of consulting that is often given little attention in books and in the classroom, but is of vital importance.

Another worthwhile highlight is the coverage on how to actually run a consulting business - in terms of financial considerations, record-keeping, etc. Another great book that goes into more depth on the "running your business" aspect is The Business of Consulting by Elaine Biech.

I first read this book several years ago and found that it provided a fresh look at careers for self-employed professionals in the creative field. It describes fields and specialties I never knew existed as well as some I had long considered entering myself. I found especially valuable the practical discussion of how to get past pschychological issues that stand in the way of self-employed individuals and sucess. I only wish I had taken the excellent advice in this book sooner.

In this easy read, George Sorenson lays everything out on the table regarding selling freelancing services.

Telling us what to watch out for and how to overcome challenges, Sorenson is realistic by explaining that freelancers will be blindsided by problems despite their care and caution.

Sorenson is light on helpful tips when dealing with the government, as well as what freelancers may claim by copyright and what is proprietary information when dealing with companies.

This book is a must read for any beginner freelancer or person considering freelancing.

Skore is a creative new-age storyteller who offers readers a thought-provoking premise and a plot that is skillfully crafted. He artfully blends science fiction and international intrigue with biblical elements to produce a story that kept me turning pages until its riveting conclusion. Would love to see this as a movie!

Once I started reading this book I found it impossible to put down. I would love to see it adapted and performed as a stage play.

Maybe Satisfying the Black Woman Sexually Made Simple is easy if you are coloured and have what it takes "downstairs.' But if you are white there is only one way to do it:

Enlargement surgery.

I was pleasantly surprised to purchase a book that was not HUGE and expensive, but was FULL of information that fit me and my Lady..... This book offers very good information that may be deceptively simple, but when followed-works like a magic! This book does not go into agonizing D-E-T-A-I-L about HOW to do everything, but it DOES give wonderful ideas and concepts and explains what drives Black women sexually and emotionally... This is a very good book! ed

Having gone from a great big place that had zillions of resources to a small ( under 50 Company)I found that organization training was a great challenge. This book gives great stories for our managers to lead groups in discussing real information about
decision making and building the concensus around the kind of organization WE want to be. We use a story every three weeks as a part of our team's development-- in our staff meetings. Everyone likes it and talks about the stories and the implications for days!

I had the pleasure of proodreading this book for my dad, co-author Ed Konczal. It was honestly one of the most enjoyable jobs I've had. The pages fly by as the authors recount strange-but-true stories from the world of Corporate America. As a novice manager of sorts, I found these stories invaluable in learning the dos and don'ts of leadership. Highlights include "Leaders And Luddites," a story about managers resistant to technological advancements; "Leaders Need To Be Seen," which stresses the importance of visibility; and "Leadership By Not Getting In The Way," a reminder that restraint is often preferable to micro-management. The text is punctuated by illustrative quotes and suggestions for further reading.

Update: This book has just been updated and re-issued as "Simple Stories for Leadership Insight in the New Economy (ISBN: 076182927X)" - now available on Amazon.com!

I think it is safe to say that, for the most part, executives and managers who run professional services organizations in technology companies are a no-nonsense, just-the-facts kind of folks.

If that is a fair description of you, you will love this book. In it you will find 165 practical, field-proven tips from people who have been there. Each tip can improve the performance of your people and make you a better leader.

The book is organized for easy access to information by topics. For example, if you are having trouble demonstrating the value of your PSO, look under the Strategy and Charter chapter and on page 10 you will find a practical tip on demonstrating the value of the PS organization. Do you want to do a better job of recruiting talent? Chapter 2. Organization Design/Human Resources has eight tips that can immediately help your hiring performance.

Looking for a competitive edge? Buy this book and invest ten minutes a day to read and digest two tips. In less than 90 days you'll have tapped into over 1,000 years of professional services experience! There is no faster way to improve yourself and improve your organization.

ProServ is a difficult business that yields no quarter.

Because of this, PS Execs have to get very close to being 100% right, 100% of the time. Tips from the Trenches fosters that level of PS success.

No theory here. "Tips" bursts with practical advice based on the actual experience of over 100 "knocked-about" PS leaders.

Good news for harried, time-deprived PS Execs: this work is easily accessed. The 165 tips are doled out in tight, quickly read chunks.

"Tips" covers the breadth of issues most PS organizations will face in the course of day-to-day business. A quick scan of "Tips" will convenience every PS Exec that they aren't alone. More importantly, they'll find practical solutions in reach.

"Tips" is a must for every PS Exec's desk.

I just read this book in little over a week and I am a slow reader. Michael Crichton is a very good writer and this book is an easy read. It picks up a few years later after Jurassic Park. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was nice to read more about the dino behavior. Overall all a good fun read - you will be satisfied.

This book fell far from the tree when compared to Jurassic Park. I started reading it and had to put it down because it didn't hold my attention much but a few years later picked it up again and finished it. Just not as intense of Jurassic Park and seemed a little forced.

Show me the right way to live life. That's the moral of this one.
Ian Malcolm has always been my Favorite Crichton character. He exhibits the true thinking mind.
It's a must have.
(^_^)

Dino somewhat disappointment.


Especially if you are going to take the title of a classic novel with a straight face, also about dinosaurs, etc., and come up ordinary.

It appears that not content to just mess up with the original Jurassic Park there is a second site with such beasts, and they, too, are restless.

Throw another crew together, complete with a couple of kids, and do it all again, just not as well.

An ok book but, but not in the same league as the first.

There are many fine reviews already listed so I will be succinct. This book is a sequel to Jurassic Park. We join the cast of characters six years after the dinosaur island park disaster in which humans fought off genetically engineered replicas of prehistoric animals. One survivor of that attack is now a member of a group who returns to the area, another island called Site B, and meet up with the remaining dinosaurs. The book does have strong language and violence. Even though it fills like you are reading 'Jurassic Park' again, it is worth reading.

this book was incredible. the detail was superb with all the added things such as when brian always thinks about one word and how paulsen describes the place and what is happening. excellent.

The River by Gary Paulson is a fantastic book. Once youstart this book you will not be able to put it down. I would reccomend this book to anyone 10 years an older. I promise that you will love this book: it is detailed, exciting, andventurous, and you really feel like you are there. If you love adventure books, this is the perfect book for you.

This sequel to Hatchet is a quick read, filled with interesting and exciting details. Appealing to 11-12 year olds, especially boys.

If you like stories of survival, then this is the book for you. It's about a boy named Brian who is about 15 years old and a scientist named Derek who is in his 30's go out into the wilderness so Brian can show him how to survive, since he did it about a year before when his plane crashed in the Canadian wilderness. They have to live out there for 3 weeks. After 3 days a lightening storm hits and Derek is struck by lightning and goes into a coma, so Brian has to build a raft and go for help at the trading post before it's too late for Derek.


The best part in the book was when Brian finished the raft and finally heads down the river to get help. Brian has to stay awake the whole time until he gets to the trading post because he has to steer the raft. At one point he loses track of the raft and loses it along with Derek because he got knocked off the raft.


The theme of this story is survival because Brian has to survive and keep Derek alive too.


This was a great book to read. I like how suddenly things turn bad for Brian when Derek goes into a coma. He has to keep himself and Derek alive and get help

Having read other books by Gary Paulsen like Tracker, Woodsong, Dogsong, The Monument, The Island, Night John,and the Hatchet series,ect, I realized that The River is not one of Paulsen's best work. The River seemed a little unrealistic and it had a very basic polt, Brian has to go back to the Woods, something goes wrong, he takes a trip down a river to a trading station and gets rescued. Its all very predictable. The part that seems un realistic is the part where Derek gets struck by lightning and Brian happens not to have been hit, and the radio happens to break. Also building a raft can be harder than Paulson makes it sound.

But to all Gary Paulsen fans, don't stop reading Gary Paulsen books just because this book has lowish ratings. Hatchet is the most wellknown book by Gary Paulsen and many who have read Hatchet haven't read many of the other great books by Gary Paulsen. I remeber a few years ago when I was in fourth grade, The River was the second Gary Paulsen book I read, But I still decided to keep reading books by him. I read Night John when I was in fifth grade adn it still is my favorite book by Gary Paulson now. You may have noticed that I'm not Ralf Kiehl, I'm his daughter, a 13 year old kid, but I still really like to read Gary Paulson.