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This book's strength lies in the variety of information provided. Included are tips on everything from the best time of year to travel to different countries to making sure you get there in one piece, on time, with all of your training materials and that you don't offend anyone on your way. The exploration of the different learning styles in different cultures is invaluable in this day and age when, even if you are presenting training in your home town, the training may be broadcast and used by people all over the world. This book is invaluable for any business or training professionals who are traveling internationally, working with clients or learners in other countries, or who are simply trying to better their communication across cultures.

As a professional who instructs, trains and speaks to global audiences abroad and within the United States, this book is the first to address all the issues that can make or break your experience from getting the right airport details and IT information prepared to understanding 35+ cultures making the difference between your success or failure. The helpful tips section has really made me prepare for possible mishaps I never thought would happen and helped me get return business from my clients. This is also a great resource for people who employ or instruct others from different cultures. I highly recommend this book to schools and business everywhere. It is a "must-have" in the field of Training & Development.

Beautiful colorful book, full of designs from around the world. Gave me great ideas for my new home.

I already own her book, "Ethnic Interiors" and love it. I ordered this book online thinking it would be just as good. But it's actually the exact same book with a different cover. No kidding! I have no idea why she'd release the two books with different covers but identical content, but that's what's happened here. The content is wonderful. I wrote a great Amazon review of for the other book, which I won't repeat here. But I'm terribly disappointed that no one has bothered to mention in the item description that the two books are the same. I guess I'll be passing this book on as a gift.

Excellent, detailed, and a fun-read. Guides you through the internship from resume-writing to finding positions!

This book is excellent. It starts with locating internship opportunities, then moves on to how to write a resume, have an interview, and get the job. Highly recommend it!

Vicker and Hein's book, "The Fast Forward MBA in Business Communication" is a must have for business people in all levels of experience. "The Fast Forward" doesn't miss a step in modern business communication from basic memo writing to more advanced writing such as proposals and requests for proposals. This book is written in easy to understand language with charts, graphs, and plenty of sample documents that makes it extremely user friendly. It has a back to the basics approach that reminds even a frequent business document writer of some all-too-often overlooked ideas and concepts surrounding business communication. Especially useful is Vicker and Hein's revised four-step writing and editing process. Their addition creates a much needed six-step process that allows writers more thought and time during the crucial editing step. "Fast Forward" should find its place in business offices as a handbook and quick reference for business documents and other resources. It is also suitable for the college classroom. I used "Fast Forward" in a business communication course and it served as an excellent resource for my students. Vicker and Hein make tough ideas easy through excellent writing, lay-out and design. It is clear that they employed their six-step writing and editing process.

"Fast Forward" is an excellent resource for people at any level in the business world. Vicker and Hein take us back to the basics and beyond. "Fast Forward" reminds document writers of some often overlooked basic guidelines while contributing a unique six-step writing and editing process. The six-step writing and editing process allows writers a conceptual framework that keeps them on task and focused. "Fast Forward" is easy to read cover to cover or as a quick reference guide. The authors offer their personal experience combined with additional research on a variety of business communication topics including memo writing, proposals, research, and presentation skills. Sample documents and chapter end points make "Fast Forward" an indispensable resource for college students and people in the business world. Buy the book, write great documents, get a promotion. "Tough Ideas Made Easy!"

I have worn out my copy of this text. I sure wish it would be published again. Anyone know of the prospects of it coming into print again? Please email me with the facts. I cannot FAX without this book!

Everyone in the office wants to borrow it for their faxes!

This book has very practical advice for facilitating 1:1 and 1:many meetings. This book has helped me polish my communication skills and become a more effective business person. I recommend this book to anyone, novice and seasoned career folks alike, who want to take their interactions to the level.

I found this book to have practical advice around many of the stumbling blocks people have in conducting effective meetings. Well organized, humourous, and very practical suggestions have made a difference to several YMCA's in the US.

I read this book and could not put it down until finished. A very excellent motivational and inspirational book which gives real life experiences about caring, helping & learning from other people and motivates one to be thankful for the gift of life and to provides the catylist for greater achievements in his or her life. I am involved in Multi-Level Marketing in a very big way and reccomment all of my associates to read this book! Dr. Muriel is also a noted international keynote and convention speaker. I challenge anyone to read a single paragraph or chapter and put it down before reading on and on without stopping. Ed Bolin CAROLINA BUSINESS & COMMERCE

This book is so positive and uplifting without any hint of preaching or teaching. It's easy to read, and anyone who hears Dr. O'Tuel speak must have the book to look for the continuing warmth which she delivers. If anyone ever left footprints on thousands of hearts, it's this author with the powerful touch she brings through her book and her presentations. It's a delight!

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If you are new to Form Z, get this book. In very clear and concise directions, with loads of illustrations, the book provides the very best introduction to Form Z. I had tried other books but I was completely lost. (Some computer authors really like to talk only about themselves.) From creating objects, to rooms, to buildings, to lighting, to landscape, the book provides a strong basis for using Form Z on your own. I also really liked the author's insights into architectural form and context. This is a book for designers, architects, landscape architects etc. It gets you immediately into understanding the logic of the program, and gives you the capabilities to work quickly and creatively . I highly recommend this book.

Prevailing e-commerce and e-business applications are form-based, i.e., the user interaction with the systems is via a set of forms. This book presents a formal yet practical integrated solution to the design, analysis and specification of such applications. The formalism presented in the book draws on intuitive understanding of form-based systems in which the form allows interaction via message passing. The formalism allows abstraction from unnecessary details and focusing on the design and analysis of the business logic and its effect on the form.

On the practical side, the book presents a host of diagrams such as formcharts, page diagrams and screen diagrams to deal with different aspects of form-oriented design. Considering the limitations of diagrams, the authors also present a domain specific language called Dialogue Constraint Language that extends the Object Constraint Language (OCL) to accommodate the specification of dialogues in form-based applications. Relying on such a wealth of modeling artifacts, the book proposes a set of methods for the modeling of the data and communications between the different components of a form-based system.

This is a must have book for the professional analyst, modeler and programmer involved in the design, specification or development of form-based projects. The book provides the methods and the artifacts to better model form-oriented systems.

Kyriakos Anastasakis and Behzad Bordbar

This is a book that has been needed for a long time. There have been studies in the past, indeed a body of knowledge even, on the design of paper based forms. The problem with computer based forms such as those for ordering a book from Amazon is that the forms tend to be generated by programmers, not forms specialists. In fact in this book the examples being used are from a hypothetical on line book store.

At one point the authors are giving an example of a book page of an online bookshop. On it they give an abstract of their own (that is this) book. It reads: "What is the business logic of n enterprise system? How do I specify it in such a way that I know how to transform it into a running system, by skill and by automated tool support? This book gives a self-contained introduction to the modeling and development of business logic for enterprise systems."

In practice, the authors develop a couple of new technologies for the modelling of such forms. Page Diagrams are analagous to flow charts that show what a page does in terms of its interactions. From the home or Welcome page you can go register, go login, look at suggested books, do a search, etc. What links to what? What logic applies (bad password for instance, or is this user logged in). The page diagram is a way for the non-technical manager and the programmer to define exactly what a page or screen is supposed to do. It can become part of the specification that the programmer uses to produce what management wants.

The next concept the authors develop is the Form Storyboard. The storyboard shows pages with respect to the actions they cause in the server.

Other models such as information pages, and data interchange complete the description of the forms related system. For the most part, HTML based web sites are used as examples in this book. But the same kind of modelling is equally applicable to form/database related system such as accounting, payroll or other business applications.

Using the approach developed by these authors is the best way I've seen to document/specify/design a forms based interactive system.

A great book illustrating what Sci-Arc is and does for the institution of Architecture. Sci-Arc is clearly pushing the boundary as to what is preceived as architecture not only within itself but also for the community in whole. A good choice if interested in thinking how architecture can be understood on a deeper level or from a educational stand point of what is Sci-Arc philosophy. Also, Thom Mayne won the Pritzker Architectual Award this year who is one the guys that founded Sci-Arc.

Founded in 1972 as a radical alternative to conventional architectural education, SCI-Arc continues to defy the standard model of an academic institution. According to Neil Denari, SCI-Arc's Director,"since its beginning, the school has always been about ideas of progress and the frontier, by exploring architecture as the fusion of aesthetic, social and cultural concerns." SCI-Arc is continuing that traditional by teaching people to see, design and develop things other people don't see -by not only educating architects, but also by the school's lecture series, community projects, exhibitions, and publications such as this one by Monacelli.

Anyone interested in education, design and/or the creative process should enjoy this book!