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Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop

Published in Paperback by Puffin (2004-11-18)

Author: Lisa Shulman

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Grandpa's Favorite

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-09-17

Because I have my own wood shop and make toys for my grandkids I was attracted to this book when I first saw it. I have given it to my grandkids and to the grandkids of many of my friends and neighbors. The reports I haven gotten back from those who have received it tell me that it is their child's favorite book. The kids love the animals and especially the sounds the tools make. They also are able to learn the names of the tools used in the book. It just might spark an interest in creating wood objects for some of these children.

Great to read to a group

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Review Date: 2007-03-29

The fun noises, the familiar song, colorful illustrations and terrific ending make this a particularly good book to read to a group of children.

Great

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Review Date: 2007-03-08

It is as good as a new one, but at an awesome price. Thanks!!

Alternative Old McDonald

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Review Date: 2007-01-10

We came across this in our daughter's playgroup and had to own it -- it's a lovely version of the old song but integrates "non-standard" gender views by letting female animals take charge in the woodshop. The sounds accompanying each tool are wonderful, as are the illustrations. Our two-year old loves it and wants to spend more time in the garage now!

Great book - cute and good values

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2003-04-30

This book is definitely worth having. Our 2 1/4 year old son (who likes tools and loves music) loved the twist on a familiar and loved song. The depiction of Old MacDonald as a sheep and as a female!!!! who has a woodshop!!!! makes this a must have book to balance out, for both boys and girls, the lack of gender-neutral characters and over representation of gender-stereotypes that is ubquitious in both books and songs. The sounds used for the various tools are not that good so you may want to make up your own but otherwise the pictures and text are good and what Old MacDonald and the animals are building makes for a cute surprise ending.

Oracle Designer Generation

Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill Companies (1999-05-01)

Authors: Kenneth Atkins, Paul Dirksen, and Zikri Askin Ince

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An Essential Book for Designer Users

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 2000-10-19

Clear, focused, full of tips and techniques this book guides you generating forms and reports (even complex ones). It has adequate examples and enough discussion to assist you in choosing which technique fits best.

Relevant for versions 2 and 6. Specifically covers generation. So you may wish to check Oracle Designer Handbook if need help using the tool in other aspects rather than generation.

A bible for Des2K Developer

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 1999-12-18

I'm 3/4 through the book and still impress with the quality of the contents. The authors did an outstanding job in explaining the many intricacies of Designer as well as down-to-earth examples. I wish there was a book like this 2 years ago when I started doing Des2k works. This is a definite Bible for anyone doing Des2k work. Kudos to the Authors.

MUST READ - HURRAY for a non-introductory book.

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 1999-08-31

I've been using Designer for four years and still found good information on poorly documented properties, such as the meaning of the layout styles for reports item groups. GOOD tips, EASY TO READ. The best Designer book for generation BY FAR, and I've read all the others.

A descriptive indepth book for D2k

Helpful Votes: 6 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2000-02-15

Aithough i haven't read through the full content so far it seems informative especially generation of forms.Key concepts have been well explained.As a Oracle consultant and having worked in many Oracle based companies like BellAtlantic,USXchange etc and having used designer 2000 for database generation for the past 8 months , i would recommend this book to all oracle designers /developer/Consulatnts and other IT professionals

Regards

One of the best

Helpful Votes: 9 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2000-06-01

This is one of the best organized and most clearly written technical books that I have ever read. The authors clearly put a lot of effort into making a quality book. This is refreshing to find with so many IT books that are obviously written in a rush to "scoop" other authors.

Be sure that you know what you are buying. This book spends the first few chapters laying the groundwork and describing the application generation process in general. Then they get into the details of generating Oracle applications using designer with the goal being 100% generation. If CASE methods for application generation using Oracle Designer is not what you are looking for then keep looking, that is exactly and and only what you will find in this book.

Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction

Published in Paperback by Center for Effective Performance (1997-05)

Author: Robert F. Mager

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Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-01-03

Good information, presented in a light fun manner. Great intro to objectives book. Only thing keeping it from a 5 is it was a little long for the actual amount of info presented if you have previous knowledge on writing well-structured instructional objectives.

A Trainer's Necessity

Helpful Votes: 13 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 2006-08-17

Written by the patron saint of trainers everywhere, Robert Mager provides a quick, humorous and easy-to-understand read in what is the heart and soul of training--objectives.

This book offers the readers choice solutions or answers. The reader then turns to the page choice to see if she selected the right choice or not.

Another essential about this book is besides being less than an afternoon read, it is essential to review time and again when you are writing instructional objectives.

Buying this should be one of your objectives!

The easiest read in education!

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-07-09

This book is the easiest read I've had in studying education. It is a "choose your own adventure" in education. Read about how to write instructional objectives and then turn the page to find out if you understand what you've read. Very simple and to the point. You don't need any other book to help you write objectives!

Very Informative, useful, and fun. An excellent guide!

Helpful Votes: 23 out of 24 total.
Review Date: 1999-11-02

This book is a quick and enjoyable read. The content is very easy to understand. Through the use of humor and skill testing questions, Mager has made learning fun! As a student, I survived many of the poorly written objectives that Mager describes in this book. It was nice to realize I wasn't the problem...the objectives were! I look forward to using this guide to develop clear, concise objectives so students can focus more on the joy of learning and be more successful at it.

A must have for anyone involved in educating others

Helpful Votes: 7 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2002-12-23

Very straight-forward and easily digestible read. Step-by-step instructions will have you creating meaningful objectives, which translate into meaningful instruction.

Project Management ToolBox: Tools and Techniques for the Practicing Project Manager

Published in Hardcover by Wiley (2003-06-16)

Author: Dragan Z. Milosevic

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Highly recommended and extremely useful

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-08-16

This book is a fantastic resource for Business Analysts and Project Managers alike. I've recommended this book to several of my contemporaries, and use variations of many of the tools discussed in the book. If you've ever had a creative block on how to demonstrate good analyses, this set of tools will provide you with the spark you need.

Finally we have a ToolBox in one peace

Helpful Votes: 21 out of 21 total.
Review Date: 2005-03-23

Traditionally, project management tools and techniques have been seen as vehicles for reaching an objective or, more specifically, a project deliverable. However, most project management literature just describes individual tools and, at best, loosely gathers them into a quasi-toolbox to aid the project or program manager in doing the job more effectively. Thankfully, the business community finally has Project Management ToolBox by Dragan Z. Milosevic, not just another review of available tools and techniques, but the most comprehensive text ever published on the subject. The author makes a strong case for the need for a more systematic and pre-constructed project management toolbox, one that is of significantly more value than the simple sum of its individual tools.

Within the book, Milosevic develops a new role for project management tools and the toolbox in three distinctive ways. First, the book provides a clear roadmap for how to deploy and customize each tool depending on the specific project and company environment. Second, the book goes beyond individual tools by offering a more effective approach, i.e., constructing a toolbox, unique to an organization, which gathers together a predefined set of tools, thus supporting not only individual project management activities and deliverables but also the complete project management process. Finally, the book spells out how to customize the toolbox. Constructing a generic project management toolbox has value, but customizing it to fit a company's competitive strategy significantly enhances that value.

The book content is clearly and logically organized by project management process - initiating, planning, implementing, and closing - and then by practical applications. This helps users locate tools according to use, i.e., to support one or more specific deliverables in the project management process. Also, it reinforces the applications aspect of the toolbox for a standardized, company-specific project management process.

In summary, the Project Management ToolBox is not just the resource for a collection of project management tools and techniques. It offers an extensive set of tools that goes beyond the limits of generic domains and also takes the guesswork out of when and how to use them in order to support the project management process and to deliver concurrent projects as dictated by a company's strategy for competitiveness and profitability. It also describes how to link project goals and practices and the organization's mission, and it offers much value to managers of organizations of any size or endeavour. In short, it is a must-have book for the project manager.

"Project Management Toolbox" Helps Win Projects!

Helpful Votes: 25 out of 25 total.
Review Date: 2004-06-29

I don't share many of my consulting "know-how" secrets, but in this case I will, because I think the field of PM will benefit from the ideas presented in this book. After working 20 years in the consulting and project management field, I felt I was as knowledgeable as one could be about managing projects. Then one day, I came across Dragan's PM ToolBox. WOW! Every page is an eye opener. And this book really is a toolbox because its filled with detailed examples, report layouts, checklists, and figures which I have personally incorporated into my projects management and documentation. And those work examples have helped me win additional PM business many times over.

If you think this is just another "Here are the PM process steps" book, then click on by. But if you do, you will miss out on the chance to reach a higher level of excellence in the field of project management that will set you apart from the rest.

Thanks Dragan for a job well done!!

Great reference material for the daily life of a project manager

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-09

I must say I was excited to discover this book: finally a book holding a comprehensive set of templates! For each tool/template, the author provides answers to practical questions that most people face and provides a short case study to illustrate its usage.
Good Job ! It is to be used as a reference material, not to be read cover-to cover.

A Practical "Goldmine"

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-10

If you're a project manager, this is one of those invaluable resources to add to your personal "toolkit".

This is a very practical reference book to keep close to your workspace. It contains more than 50 tools you can incorporate into your practice.

When that moment arrives in the project where one of your managers demands some additional piece of information presented in a particular way (as Murphy's Law describes - always at the busiest, most hectic, time), and perhaps it's one of those things you've never personally done before ...

Don't panic, just reach for the "Toolbox".

Each tool is described clearly, most including a table, diagram, or sample of the tool, along with instructions as to best practice use of the tool, e.g.:

o When to use it

o The best place in the project life cycle to use it

o Its benefits (in case you need to "sell" its use within your organization), and

o Advantages/Disadvantages - enabling you to make smarter choices among the tools, and more effective application of the one you select

One suggestion for future editions: I'd like to see more correlation of these tools with the Project Management Institute (PMI)'s PMBOK - both in terms of consistent language and project phasing. (The author does include a short appendix that attempts to do some of this.)

Notwithstanding, I still consider this book a valuable resource for my practice.

Router Joinery

Published in Hardcover by Taunton (1997-09-01)

Author: Gary Rogowski

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Excellent: well thought out, well presented, excellent photography

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Review Date: 2007-05-07

Mr. Rogowski has created an excellent demonstration of router joinery.

Router Joinery (Fine Homebuilding DVD Workshop)

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-09-30

This simply the best DVD on using a router that I have seen. The DVD is a great value at twice the price. Gary makes using the router simple and easy to understand.

Much information to be gleaned!

Helpful Votes: 11 out of 11 total.
Review Date: 2001-11-30

I can't think of anything to add that the prior reviewers didn't say already. It's very well written, and easy to read and follow the diagrams. There are plans for versatile but simple to build and use jigs.

This book has inspired my woodworking and also helped me simplify many processes. Highly recommended!

Easy to read and easy to follow....

Helpful Votes: 20 out of 20 total.
Review Date: 2001-01-11

I came across this book originally in a bookstore. I thumbed through it, and read bits and pieces. Then I got online, and ordered it...it was cheaper...I've purchased several woodworking and handyman type books in the last 3 or 4 years, and this book ranks up with the best. It is very easy to read, and the author does not assume the reader has volumes of prior knowledge, like some other books do. It starts out describing types of routers, and bits, moves onto what can be done with each type. And, the segway into joinery is seamless. It is well written for both beginner and experienced woodworkers alike.

As useful as any tool...

Helpful Votes: 22 out of 23 total.
Review Date: 2003-02-06

I bought this book 'hot' off of my first project, my Joints needed help, and I loved to use the router - the title just sold the book to me.

I wouldn't clasify this book as a beginer book, nor would I say it's an advanced book. However it does have something for everybody, and it's very easy to follow.

Personally I think that every beginer wanting to do more than plywood boxes should pick up a copy. It starts you out with basics of a router (good to read before you buy one, though not diffinitive in that area).

This book really shines with all the stuff that a beginer doesn't know to worry about - how different boards are sawn from the log, and how that effects the way that they shrink/expand. How to plan your project so that the changing seasons do not cause it to self destruct. While this sounds out of the scope for a beginer - it is very easy to understand and will help anybody (short of a seasoned pro) get the most out of their work. And this is all before the basics of joining wood.

When it comes to the different joints the book is layed out from easiest to most complex. You can work to the back of the book as your skill and knowledge improve.

Everybody should have it, and beginers should not feel intimidated by it!

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

Published in Paperback by Prentice Hall Computer Pub (1986-12)

Author: Howard Rheingold

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Rheingold 10, Gates 0

Helpful Votes: 11 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 2000-12-29

Howard Rheingold, former Editor of the Whole Earth Review and one of the pure-gold original thinkers in the Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly circle, lays down a serious challange to both decisionmakers and software producers that has yet to be fully understood. Originally published in 1985, this book was a "must read" at the highest levels of advanced information processing circles then, but sadly its brilliant and coherent message has yet to take hold--largely because bureaucratic budgets and office politics are major obstacles to implementing new models where the focus is on empowering the employee rather than crunching financial numbers.

This book is a foundation reading for understanding why the software Bill Gates produces (and the Application Program Interfaces he persists in concealing) will never achieve the objectives that Howard and others believe are within our grasp--a desktop toolkit that not only produces multi-media documents without crashing ten times a day, but one that includes modeling & simulation, structured argument analysis, interactive search and retrieval of the deep web as well as commercial online systems, and geospatially-based heterogeneous data set visualization--and more--the desktop toolkit that emerges logically from Howard's vision must include easy clustering and linking of related data across sets, statistical analysis to reveal anomalies and identify trends in data across time, space, and topic, and a range of data conversion, machine language translation, analog video management, and automated data extraction from text and images. How hard can this be? VERY HARD. Why? Because no one is willing to create a railway guage standard in cyberspace that legally mandates the transparency and stability of Application Program Interfaces (API). Rheingold gets it, Gates does not. What a waste!

Essential reading if you want to understand computing

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2000-06-01

This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand computing all the way from the bare metal to the near-future. It ranks with Fred Brooks' "The Mythical Man Month." If you don't know this stuff, you don't really know what's inside the box, and how it got there.

It's also a pretty entertaining read, though I think the author gives a bit too much credit to von Neuman.

Informed and Thoughtful

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2000-07-03

The Afterword alone is worth the price of the book. Rarely does a thinker with the acumen of Rheingold also exhibit a willingness to re-examine, refine, and, on occasion, reverse positions taken a decade or more ago. Rheingold does in a way that is informative and mind-opening. Aside from the mound of solid information and provocative observations about the Internet in human life, Rheingold's prose is as comfortable and welcoming as those toes tucked into the grass as he composes on his laptop. A must read.

Really good book

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2001-06-05

Unwittingly maybe, Rheingold provides a really good account and even reference of the history of computing. He writes well and unlike some CS writers marries his subject with the real world. If you are studying the history of computing I really recommend this over Ceruzzi's book.

Learn from History

Helpful Votes: 6 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 2000-06-30

Entering the 21st century it's still amazing to find that so many of the pioneers of computing are still alive. Rheingold has interviewed many of them over the years and this book is an interesting and valuble contribution to the genre.

The novel feature of the book is the way in which past interviews are brought up to date and the interviewees give their opinions on the differences between what they predicted and what happened.

The writing is excellent and very accessible. The interviewees come across as very normal people (which indeed they are) but it is very easy to forget they were still amongst the movers and shakers of computing in the late 20th century.

I think this book is a valuble work for those who see technology are more than just a vehicle for making money.

Turning Green Wood

Published in Paperback by Guild of Master Craftsman (2000-10)

Author: Michael O'Donnell

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Turning Green Wood is a great resouce book

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-23

If you want to be successful when you turn green wood or newly cut lumber on your lathe. I recommend purchasing this book and reading it all the way through before you begin your wood turning project. When you use green wood there are different procedures that you need to follow than when you use dried lumber. I had tried to turn some green logs on my lathe and had many problems with wood cracking and was very unhappy with the results. After purchasing this book I learned the reasons why my previous attempts had not been successful. I only wish I had gotten the book at the same time I purchased my new lathe. It is an excellent resource on how to use green logs and newly cut lumber that can add flexibility and save money on wood costs when you use "found wood" and cut the logs yourself.

good as it gets

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-29

Great book - great photos - great ideas - great explanations and written so anyone can understand the directions and concepts (even me).

a god basic book

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2006-06-14

this is a good basic book of how to deal with green wood and also the use of crotchwood. well written and illistrated

Turning Green wood

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-07-31

Great and a must have for all turners. The book is more oriented toward bowl turning but covers a ton on green turning with plenty of pics and diagrams. Michael O`Donnell goes to great length to educate the reader on how wood dries based on where it is cut form the tree.

Great book for anyone interested in turning

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-02-21

As a beginning turner, I searched for books that were both informative and interesting to read. This book approaches turning with 'green' in mind but also has some very good information about wood properties and turning in general. Very much worth buying even if you are an experienced turner.

Virtual LEGO: The Official LDraw.org Guide To LDraw Tools for Windows

Published in Paperback by No Starch Press (2003-07)

Authors: Tim Courtney, Ahui Herrera, and Steve Bliss

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The pinnacle of LDraw instruction, right here

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 14 total.
Review Date: 2003-10-10

What a great pleasure it is to thumb through my buddy Tim's (and Ahui & Steve's) hard work and see the big payoff. Guys, this thing is great. Sits perfectly alongside any computer/instructional/technical/howto book. Things are made easy and very well explained throughout. And hey, any book I'm in can't be a bad one. :-)

sweet

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 20 total.
Review Date: 2004-06-07

Dude i know the guy that wrote this book. I had a beer with him one night and he told about this book and i was like wow. I think i might have to buy it. TIM YOU RULE

Excellent Book for People of All Levels of Experience

Helpful Votes: 10 out of 10 total.
Review Date: 2003-10-07

This book is excellent in almost every respect.
It does a great job of introducing the reader to the LDraw suite of tool for making LEGO creations on your computer. Though this book is geared toward beginners, it is also a great tool for those intermediate users looking to expand their LDraw horizons. I especially liked the sections on creating building instructions. Additionally, all the reference sections make this book worthwhile for even the seasoned LDrawer; I loved the visual color reference on the inside front cover. This book would make a fine addition to any LEGO enthusiasts library.

Great book for people wanting to make the most of LDRAW!

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2005-05-07

This is an EXCELLENT book for people SERIOUS about building simple AND complex models using LDRAW. While working with the program I found myself constantly referencing the book--which can be read front-to-back... but ALSO be used as a quick reference book. This has earned itself a permanent position on my bookshelf--no wait--next to my computer!

Lego CAD required reading

Helpful Votes: 8 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2004-09-18

If you want to do lego CAD, this book is for you! I had used MLCAD and LPub before I got the book to some degree, but my abilities exploded after going through the tutorials. LSynth is also very clearly explained. The CD that is included is a big plus for those who have had difficulty installing the software (all of which is free from the internet though) and also includes some tutorial models for use with the book. The additional resources described in the book show that he is interested in getting as much use out of Lego CAD from the general populace.

All in all, well worth the money and the read!

Wired That Way Assessment Tool: An Easy-to-use Questionnaire for Helping People Discover Their Go-given Personality Type

Published in Paperback by Gospel Light Publications (2006-05-31)

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A Must Read

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Review Date: 2008-03-07

This book has it all! It is an easy read with practical information that can be easily applied to your life. It will help you understand and know how to improve every relationship in your life. It will even help you understand yourself and how you can be a better person. The principles in this book have changed my life for the better, and they can do the same for you.

Move Over Katherine and Isabel - Florence and Marita are in the House!

Helpful Votes: 11 out of 11 total.
Review Date: 2006-08-29

Katherine Cook Briggs and daughter Isabel Briggs-Myers, shared an intense curiosity about typology and together they co-created what became the "gold standard" for personality profiling, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. In a remarkably similar fashion, Florence, with husband Fred, began research into the four temperaments, which led to her body of work on the Personalities, paving the way for daughter Marita Littauer to add her own research and insights. Together, sharing forty years of study, they are inarguably, the Myers-Briggs for a new generation.

Now Marita Littauer has written the definitive book (with insights from Florence) about the Personalities under the clever title, Wired That Way. Let me say this plainly - you won't find the Myers-Briggs 16 personality types in this book. What you will find is the latest available information on the four basic types - often attributed to Hippocrates - of Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Melancholy, and Choleric.

Ms. Littauer writes in a conversational style that pulls you through the book, as she dives straight into the heart of practical everyday application. Through the use of story and metaphor, she takes us into the familiar daily-ness of life, and along the way, we suddenly realize we can better understand the strange people at work and the - um - "quirky" behavior of certain family members, as well as those curious individuals in our Bible Study group. In other words, wherever you find people, you will find fertile ground for applying these techniques.

I don't think it will be giving anything away to say that Ms. Littauer concludes her book with a caveat: Don't let the preferences of your personality be an excuse for poor performance or behavior. Rather, focus on using your strengths to overcome your weaknesses. Understand that it's your differences that make you a unique child of God. She notes that throughout the Gospels of the New Testament, the personality of Jesus Christ "contained the strength of all four personalities and the weaknesses of none." Marita's powerful, heartfelt call to action is "to live in your strengths - to be more like Christ."

Buy one book for yourself and send another to a friend - you know - that person who really needs to read it.

Understand yourself. Understand others.

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2006-06-07

Marita's new book 'Wired That Way' combines in one place the resources anyone needs to build better relationships and understand oneself. With my business name as 'Word Wardrobe,' I ask the question in my speaking and writing, 'What kind of words do you wear?' Wired That Way provides myriad examples relating how we often hurt people's feelings who have different personalities than our own. Because my emphasis is on words and the response those words bring, I'm excited to share in my Personality Trainings one comprehensive book which meets the needs of everyone. After reading this book, no one will be able to blunder through life slaying people with their words.
Glenda Schoonmaker, Writer, Speaker, Trainer

Get this Book!

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2006-06-01

As a professional speaker who spends her days empowering others with the skills they need to build better relationships through improved communications, I'm just thrilled that Marita has updated her personality materials into one compelling resource. I've been recommending her books for years, and now "Wired that Way" is sure to become the primary foundational resource I will strongly recommend to everyone who is serious about communicating effectively with others!"
Christy Largent
Motivational Speaker, Trainer, Humorist and Member of NSA

Great resource

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-31

I am excited about Wired That Way! It's full of fresh stories and examples that help illustrate the principles. Having all of the information about the different aspects of The Personalities in one place is going to be an awesome tool!

1-Hour Expert: Negotiating Your Job Offer: A Guide to the Process and Tools You Need to Reach Your Goals (1-Hour Expert)

Published in Paperback by BookSurge Publishing (2007-02-01)

Author: Jeff Nutting

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Essential Tool for Job Offer Negotiations

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Review Date: 2007-04-25

Nutting and Pike take you through the job offer negotiating process step by step. They point out negotiating techniques that allow for both the employer and candidate to leave the table satisfied using a win, win strategy. Nutting and Pike also make it clear that an understanding of your desired quality of life versus salary is an important factor to leverage when coming to the negotiating table. I highly recommend this book for anyone that is looking to develop the skills to negotiate the best possible job offer.

Great read with lots of valuable info

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Review Date: 2007-04-17

I highly recommend this book. It really gives you a lot of good info on negotiations which can be applied to other situations besides just negotiating a job offer. But in any case, I was able to get 10% over the initial offer during my very recent job search. For such a low price, this book is a no-brainer.

Read This/Get Paid More

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-04-19

Clear and concise, this short book walks you through a process to identify your compensation package priotities and to negotiate strategies for satisfying outcomes. Use the efficient analytic tools presented to analyze the alternatives; then use the acquired skills to decide many other life issues!

Written with clarity and simplicity, the prose keeps you reading. This book works for me!

amazing success

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-04-19

Just entering the job market after graduation I was naturally apprehensive about job interviews and negotiating the most value for my qualifications. On a long shot, not having much faith in "how to" books, I researched and bought the 1-hour expert's "negotiating your job offer. After receiving and reading the book I was amazed at how concise and focused the information was. The book was a quick read and I came away with maybe 10 - 12 major points for me to focus on. I felt confident, informed and prepared for my series of job interviews. I finally got two offers I was excited about and chose the one where my compensation package was more comprehensive then I expected. I owe a great deal to this book for laying the groundwork and preparedness that led to my very satisfactory compensation package. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in gaining confidence and the skills needed to negotiate the best possible compensation package.

Quick, efficient and valuable!

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-04-19

I definitely recommend this book because it recently helped me to make a difficult decision between two excellent job offers. I did not have time to seek one-on-one guidance, yet I knew I needed the tools necessary to negotiate well and make intelligent decisions. I particularly found the work sheets to be useful and practical because I was able to see what aspects to my job were most important to me. I'm very happy with my current position and will most likely refer to this manual in the future should I find myself in a similar situation.