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This book is fine for people looking to get into a US school. If you are also considering a European or Asian school, spend your money on the Economist (EIU) review.

Feels good with the information that was discerned with an initial review ...

The information is up to date and useful for potential applicants

This book is not for the quant jocks. tells a story not a lot of numbers but gives the important stuff that every other book has.

A book about creativity, that lacks spark and "creativity" - it's too dry and clinical to be an enjoyable read and the exercises are uninspired. This material is dispassionate and lacks the flame it promises to ignite in others. As much as I admire the author's 15 years of clinical research, this book fall short in it's execution.

I've used Epstein's book together with Michalko's "Thinkertoys," in my creative thinking seminars with great success. You can't fail with these two books.

This book focuses on the stimuli (inputs/old ideas) and effective capaturing of responses (outputs/creative ideas) vs most other books about creativity focus on the thinking process, like mindmapping, six hats, thinking toys, etc. Thus, it directs to a total different path of how we build an environment to boost creativity. My analogy is no matter what thinking process you introduce, a group of housewives cannot invent a racket to reach the moon (don't get me wrong, I highly respect housewives for their contribution to families). It's the relevancy and variety of the inputs that matters.

I guess the author is a behaviourist who see thinking process as black box, i.e. non-observable and non-measurable. Thus, he only concentrates on the observable and measurable stimuli and responses.

I am a trainer for creativity for my company. I find this book very useful. The only complaint is that not all the games are up to my personal standard: able to demonstrate the theory AND able to energize the participants.

All in all, I highly recommand this book. You will see creativity in a different angle.

Creativity Games for Trainers was realy useful for me because it its change my life and i realy feel of the creativity on me. I approached my job with new inspiration after I started taking time-outs with myself. I highly recommend this book.

What I have to say is complex, yet simple. I was a bedwetter who had tried everything, my parents tried the best they could to help. I wet the bed until I was sixteen years old. I was unable to do sleepovers like other children. At sixteen and deeply emotionally scarred I stopped wetting and was still hurting from the years of embarrasment. At the age of 20 I was volunteering in a library and shelved this book. I read it at that time and I was somehow healed of my wounds. I have searched for it since in every book store and now I have found it, thank God for Amazon.com. I cannot wait for the oppurtunity to share this treasure with my children.

this book is a great example of a real live experience. alot of kids felt the same as LB, that he/she feels like a baby wearing a diper to bed. so they try and try and try not to wet the bed and after well you get the picture. this book is great for kids that have that problem.

I bought this book for my 4 year old, thinking it would help us to train him to stay dry at night. In actuality, it is for children dealing with the stigma of bedwetting. The book emphasizes how it is OK to wet the bed and OK for Mom to constantly change the sheets and wash the PJs. It was not what I expected...I think it would be good for a child who is having serious psychological damage due to bedwetting, but not for a 4 or 5 year old.

I bought this book for my 3-1/2 year old daughter who, despite daytime potty training success, has not yet been able to stay dry all night consistently. Although we have always been comforting and encouraging, she is beginning to express frustration and disappointment in herself for not being able to stay dry through the night. This book was exactly what we needed.

The story is about Little Bunny (LB, for short), who really wants to stay dry all night but keeps waking up wet, confused, and sad. His parents are very supportive, telling him that when his body is ready, he will stay dry. By the end of the book, he does just that.

It's an adorable story, and a very sensitive treatment of the subject. My daughter was enthralled, and she smiled with delight when LB succeeded in staying dry all night.

I was really touched by the sensitivity with which LB's parents handled the situation, especially when they said LB didn't need to go back to wearing diapers since, "We don't mind washing your sheets in the morning if you don't mind changing your pajamas in the middle of the night." There was a lesson in that for me as well. After several months of doing extra laundry, I bought a package of training pants for my daughter. She was really disappointed, since she had long since graduated to big-girl underpants, but she reluctantly agreed to wear them. After reading the book to her tonight, I decided to back off on that and keep trying.

I know I'm not alone in feeling helpless when my child is unable to keep herself dry at night. This book offers a simple, sensitive way to reassure your child (and yourself) that this, too, shall pass.

This set would be much better if the author had hired a concert pianist to play on a superior piano. Just because you only intend to play one note at a time, doesn't mean any ol' meat handed lounge player can make the recording. On the contrary, on an ear training set you want to take care not to have distracting overtones caused by an inferior instrument and a careless touch. I can't recommend anything so sloppy for the purpose of training the ear.

I'm afraid to say that none of these focused ear traing methods are very good. If you want to do it right, get Schiff's recordings of the Well Tempered Clavier along with the Dover scores. First analyze the score, then listen to the CD while following along with the score. Schiff has the good taste to play only the Bosendorfer piano (nothing else comes close) and he won't rattle your brains with buzzing, hammered overtones.

Elvo's new book is a must for all serious ear training students.
Mastering the six basic tetrachords and their permutations put students way ahead when it comes to melodic and harmonic dictation. I encourage all musicians to make this book part of their learning library. The CD's make it easy to use and work with every day.

Sight singing / ear training with tetrachords is nothing new; Sacred harp, being one outstanding example. I find this to be an excellent beginning method and I use it with many private students. My one criticism is that there is no sight-singing material to accompany the tetrachords. After students become familiar with the first two or three tetrachords they need material to practice. Singing the twenty four permutations is a great exercise but not representative of real world examples. If Mr. D'Amante would consider adding some graded sight singing material-or put out a supplement-he would have the best book on the subject.

The study of ear training has always been an arduous and difficult task for musicians. There have been myriad of books wriiten on the subject, usually leaving the untrained with a feeling of emptiness, never fully attaining the intended goal of the author, that of training the ear to recognize certain chords, scales, modes, or various intervallic patterns. This has all changed with the arrival of Mr D'Amante's book, "Ear Training....Volume 1 Scale Forms through Six Basic Tetrachords". I found this book engrossing from the begining to the end. The emphasis is on the practical fundamentals of the six basic tetrachords and how scales are derived and formed from this series of four-note patterns (which is what 'tetra' means). The understanding and memorization of the seven modal scales are easily recognized when application of the basic tetrachord is applied. The material is not only presented in a cogent manner, but it allows the student to also practice what he/she has absorbed by presenting drills after each lesson, using the two CD's that are provided with the manual. This has been an invaluable experience for me and I'm looking forward to purchasing the other volumes that Mr D'Amante has so kindly written. This book is a MUST for any serious minded musician. I wish this book had been available when I started composing and performing some twenty years ago. It collects and presents so much painfully acquired knowledge that it is a signal advance in the study of ear training.

As a historian, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn should revisit the events of 1968. Elected President that year, partly in reaction to the rioting that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon gladly embraced the advice of Daniel Patrick Moynihan to practice a policy of "benign neglect" toward the African American community. The administration decided against rebuilding the nation's cities, and white Americans exited en masse to the suburbs.

Linking to the work of her father (Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism) Lasch-Quinn instead blames angry black men and wimpy white liberals for disrupting what had been, as she sees it, an ever-expanding, polite circle of inclusion. She claims that various individuals deployed the tools of humanist psychology to make piles of money making whites feel guilty and helping corporations deal with a more diverse workforce without expanding democracy's benefits. I was intrigued by her argument that diversity training, by dealing primarily with employes' emotions, distracts them from larger issues of equity in the workplace, but she doesn't develop it.

Instead, she's bent on belittling anyone who continues to argue that racism is virulent in America. She doesn't address the fact that African Americans as a group still receive poorer housing, education, and health care and greater prison time than their white counterparts. Putting all the "race experts" she despises out of business wouldn't change that, but perhaps she'd consider it impolite to say so.

This book lays the blame for the demise of the civil rights movement at the doorstep of a collection of professionals she calls "race experts." These so-called experts have carved out niches for themselves in the last thirty years in fields such as psychology and social work as well as newer professional roles such as diversity trainers whose main objective is to change the racist beliefs of white middle-class Americans. Here, Lasch-Quinn argues that rather than ameliorating racism, race experts have only served to make everyone overly anxious about inter-racial exhanges. To support this argument, she mines an array of sources from popular culture from the 1960s through the 1990s - including films, novels, and advice books, books about therapy and encounter groups, diversity training manuals and videos, and media accounts of multicultural education.

By focusing narrowly on particular sources, Lasch-Quinn ignores a number of other narratives about race that were also circulating during this 30 year time period. As many scholars of race relations have found, Americans continue to tell stories about innate superiority of whites and don't feel guilty about it, stories that disavow the significance of race altogether, and stories about building coalitions and universal human rights, to name only a few. Finally, what Lasch-Quinn fails to point out is that neoconservatives have already come up with a clever rebuttal to the ritual of racial reprimand. People of color who mention race or racism are now ritually reprimanded for "playing the race card."

While the evidence in the opening chapter is not convincing, Lasch-Quinn's exploration of race experts and their misadventures - particularly the chapters on the politics of therapy and encounter groups - brings to light some interesting historical connections between the rise of therapeutic culture and its appropriation of race. Here, Lasch-Quinn explores the convergence between the rise of the human potential movement and its focus on the self as the "new frontier" for change and growth with 60s Black Power rhetoric about empowerment. However, by the end of the book, one is left feeling that all Americans do is worry overly much about whether they are giving or receiving racial slights. While it is true that race is an emotionally loaded issue in the United States, this is not a particularly new finding. What is new is that Lasch-Quinn identifies a body of experts who believe they can solve these problems through the social engineering of feelings and attitudes and, as she argues, they have been largely unsuccessful. For this reason, her book would pose as a counterpoint to political and economic explanations for the demise of the civil rights movement in graduate seminars on American race relations. However, I would not recommend it for use in undergraduate courses. Its narrow focus on race experts as the main culprits in dismantling the civil rights vision of egalitarianism does not provide the necessary historical background for those who know little about the rise of the civil rights movement or the political and economic forces that brought about backlash and retrenchment in the years to follow.

The trouble with liberals and intellectuals is that they become so enamored of their concepts of the world as it should be that they are reluctant to check out the way it is. Why haven't all the prescriptions for fixing race relations worked? Is it that a racist conspiracy, of course well hidden, is pervasive throughout the land? Or are there other explanations for the different outcomes and behaviors of the races?

Ms. Lasch-Quinn makes those painful connections and comparisons for them. Between the "low self esteem" theory and the fact that those presumed to have low self esteem are in fact loaded with that quality. They just aren't intellectually very capable and they don't control their impulses. Between the "hurt feelings" school of dealing with diversity and the fact that people express rage more because it works and they can get away with it than for any other reason. Between the notion that whites "ought to to more" and the minority communities' often virulent rejection of their proferred assistance, unless it comes in the form of money or concessions.

As you will note from other reviewers' comments, minds are made up on this matter. Lasch-Quinn should not expect thanks from newly enlightened lefties.

Recommend that readers interested in the scientific aspects of the issue read "The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker and "Genes, Peoples and Languages" by Cavalli-Sforza. Both are troubling to diversity advocates in academia although both go out of their way to avoid saying anything about differences in ability or achievement between the races. Their theses do, however, undermine the notion that it is illogical to think there would be differences. The next question to ask is whether people have researched such differences and what have they found? Oh. Turns out they have. And why are their findings so successfully supressed and vilified, but never refuted?

... No made up hypothetical abstract theorization in this book. Not a vast this- or that-wing conspiracy, but instead only truthful reality. In tune with, "the criminals' behavior is so obvious they are now profiling themselves," her book makes great timing to display the excess of how white America is obviously being run over by what I see as revengeful behavior. Explaining how minority leaders and mainstream idols are profiling themselves as irrational, illogical, motivated by vile emotionalism and possibly allaround incompetent of any better leadership, the author's writing is backed with only the most blatant real-life, popular culture and everyday workplace examples of white societal submissiveness. She does not fabricate nor materialize, and the examples are so visable throughout society today (movies, television, billboard signs, music, workplace sensitivity, academic 'balancing,' etc.) that even after only one chapter no reader can escape feeling dumbfounded and thinking, "it's about time." The reader's eyes are opened not to a proposed concept but to the truth.

As a person myself who pays keen attention to the lopsided reverse-racism in America and it's idiocy, I indeed found continued use for the book and see it as almost by itself among hardprint. The author displays ingenuity and proposes new perspectives and new penetrating examples, and I particularly liked her investigative nature on how the mess is originating at the highest levels of academia and leadership, and simultaneously provides recent scenarios from such popular media as a Tom Cruise & Cuba Gooding movie.

I do want to emphasize that Lasch-Quinn, of who I do not know, is noticeably gifted in writing. There is a combination of simplicity, enjoyment, and wonderful truthfulness in her book that sincerely puts it in high regard.

What I needed to pass cirtification Part II. Excellent.

Thanks Bill for this book, honestly it's much better than the part 1. I passed the exam by getting 81%. Readers! please don't 100% rely on the sample questions on the CD(This is not a MS exam), but they give great support. GREAT book, hope there will be a book by Bill for network administration as well in the near future --Cheers--

I passed Part 2 today due to the Solaris 2.6 Administrator Certification Training Guide, Part 2. This book was actually an improvement over the Solaris 2.6 Administrator Certification Training Guide, Part 1.

The practice exam on the CD-ROM was much better than the one included in the Solaris 2.6 Administrator Certification Training Guide, Part 1. If you don't have the SunEd course book (I didn't) then the Solaris 2.6 Administrator Certification Training Guide, Part 2 will be invaluable. This book covers everything you need to know in enough detail that if you read the book twice, you should pass with flying colors. Thanks Bill!

There is demand for a study guide for the Solaris Network Administrator Certification, I just hope one is written by Bill Calkins!

I used this book and memorized ALL the practice questions. Questions aren't like a Trascender exam simulator. I got a 640 on first attempt. I then studied the original course material and focused on the objectives, then got 900 on second attempt. If you have the original course material, use it. If you don't, then don't rely on the practice questions being transcender-like. I even mastered just about all the practice questions on the Internet that I could get my hands on. Apparently, it wasn't enough.

Now in a completed revised and updated edition, Toilet Training by Vicki Lansky is a first-rate resource for new parents on the art of teaching toddlers how to take care of themselves in the bathroom. Step-by-step instructions, wisdom from experts, advice on the question of whether to use potty chairs or adapters, means to deal with bed wetting, and more fill this pages of this welcome, necessary, and "user friendly" guidebook. A bonus children's book, "Koko Bear's New Potty," is included for reading aloud to one's toddler to help him or her become used to the transition. Also very highly recommended are Vicki Lansky's earlier parenting guides, Feed Me! I'm Yours (Meadowbrook; ISBN: 0671884433); Games Babies Play: From Birth To Twelve Months (Book Peddlers; ISBN: 0916773582); and Practical Parenting Tips: Over 1,500 Helpful Hints For The First Five Years (Meadowbrook; ISBN: 0671792059).

I found this book to be very helpful in potty training my daughter. We had tried several different approaches. She was over 2 1/2 when we trained her. This book works.

I found this book to be offensive. On page 2, the author acknowledges the language differences of the process (toilet training vs. toilet learning). As a reader, I understood her position and was comfortable to progress onto further pages. As I continued reading, I was content with the author's writing until I accessed Chapter 4, where she discusses the positions of experts and references some of their works. On page 47, she references the controversial book of "Toilet Training in Less Than a Day," by Nathan Azrin, Ph.D. and Richard Foxx, Ph.D. and that their "program was devised not for speed, but to help the retarded learn this difficult skill." I think the term "mentally challenged" or "developmentally challenged" would have been more appropriate. In spite of my shock that someone would write a book and refer to those with special needs as "retarded", I continued on until I accessed Chapter 6, "How Can I Train My Child Under Special Circumstances?" Under the section "Using Public Restrooms Alone", the author discusses what she considers "supervised" use of facilities. She states that a parent can stand outside the door while the child uses the facilities alone. She states that a parent can "ask an appropriate-looking man to take the boy into the restroom while you wait outside the door. (Same for situations with girls, Dad.)" and to "only let a child alone to one that is in shouting distance or in view." In a world where pedophiles are lurking in such areas and seize those moments when a child is alone to harm them, I find that advice to be completely irresponsible. At that point, I could no longer continue reading this book and take advice from someone who would make such irresponsible suggestions. I would rather have my child in diapers for the rest of her life! Over 275,000 copies sold -- I wonder how many of those were returned, as mine was.

Being a new mother, this book has been a big help! My husband and I have found Ms. Lansky's advice to be very sensible as well as benificial to both us and our daughter. This book was recommed to me by a friend. and I would pass this information on to anyone I know with children.

I was disappointed in this book. It's 10 years old (almost), so references to studies in the 1970's and 1980's seem outdated, leading me to doubt their applicability. I found Gary Sisson's "Hands-On Training" much more helpful for my training needs, and a better use of my company's money.

I was completing my graduate degree when I started a search for sound practical material related to on the job training. (OJT) Much of what I found was weak, until I came across Dr. Rothwell's book.

This is an excellent book for someone responsible for OJT directly or even indirectly, ex. a Human Resources Manager. Dr. Rothwell provides a very clear and easy to follow format for establishing or fixing a broken OJT system.

I'm an HR Manager, and I used Dr. Rothwell's book as a part of a training program for our employee trainers who train our new and existing employees. They would read material assigned from the book and then make application to problems we experienced in our training. Using a facilitative style of training, in addition to the book for follow-up, provided for a good transfer of learning.

I highly recommend this for someone willing to put the effort into implementing or repairing an existing OJT process.

I was completing my graduate degree when I started a search for sound practical material related to on the job training. (OJT) Much of what I found was weak, until I came across Dr. Rothwell's book.

This is an excellent book for someone responsible for OJT directly or even indirectly, ex. a Human Resources Manager. Dr. Rothwell provides a very clear and easy to follow format for establishing or fixing a broken OJT system.

I'm an HR Manager, and I used Dr. Rothwell's book as a part of a training program for our employee trainers who train our new and existing employees. They would read material assigned from the book and then make application to problems we experienced in our training. Using a facilitative style of training, in addition to the book for follow-up, provided for a good transfer of learning.

I highly recommend this for someone willing to put the effort into implementing or repairing an existing OJT process.

Scott Tinley, one of the Big Four Triathletes, gives novice and expert triathletes an opportunity to experience triathlon through the eyes of one of triathlon's most influential and enduring figures. The several anecdotes and questions that Scott poses and provides make for a light and enjoyable reading that is more philosophical than technical

Scott T. tells the humorous tale of extreme training and racing by intense people(ask my spouse). Its a book to enjoy over and over when itrains or snows, or if you doubt that any more training will make a difference. As wine ages gracefully, so does Scott the old warrior.

This book offers practical wisdom on how to successfully design and implement a distance learning system. It is written by proven professionals who know what it takes to get a major change initiative completed in the corporate environment. I highly recommend the book!

This book is for those who want to learn more about distance learning, but don't know where to begin. The title of the book says "An Implementation Guide for Trainers and Human Resources Professionals" but this book would be helpful to any manager involved in distance learning, whether it is developing a program or evaluating the feasibility of implementation. Chapters include basic overviews of audio, video and web-based learning, determining if your company is ready and program design & delivery. The book includes some valuable information about the differences between the different methods of distance learning. This is a no-nonsense approach without a lot of fluff, but offers some sensible, solid content and a good introduction to the topic. Recommended.