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First of all, this "book" is more like a "pamphlet"...very thin-90 pages of actual 'authorship', with large margins and corny pictures.
The author gives an oversimplified description of anorexia, repeating the idea that everyone with anorexia's maximum weight is 7 stone--or 98 lbs. It does say that this weight may be higher for males or people who are taller, but by repeating this 'maximum weight' in sort of minimizes/invalidates the experience of tall (athletic) women suffering from anorexia. I am a tall and athletic woman with anorexia, yet with a weight not nearly that low. The meal plan is helpful, although the units of measurements are in grams, rather than ounces and may be difficult to convert if you are an american. Anyway, it is a decent book--a different approach to writing about recovery, but rather basic.

As a person suffering with an eating disorder, I really appeciated that fact that this book does not "talk down" to a sufferer. I felt like my indivdual problems were recognised. After reading this book I am excited, I now have a plan of action for recovery. The book states 30 steps to recovery, but I think a better title is 30 steps to FREEDOM. I would recommend this book to any sufferer, if they want to seek help!

This book added a new perspective to our work. It was very helpful.

This book deliver audit of the human resources department is a four step process:information gathering,evaluation,analysis and action planning.each step begins with specific instructions.

It shows professionals how to keep the process on track and in control, without omitting details or having to delegate this crucial task to outside consultants. After posing a series of questions that serve to gauge a department's effectiveness, he provides guidance for scoring and analyzing answers and developing action plans for immediately improving problem areas. Topics include recruitment and selection, training and development, employee relations, benefits, compensation, planning, diversity and equal employment opportunity, safety and environment, and more.

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Young children will find this book a delight. However, the content is only suitable for very young children and many people may find this book quite boring if it is not directed to the proper age group.

This book is what you would expect if you are familiar with Barney and company. The good news is it teaches your child(ren) about fire safety in a non-frightening way, while entertaining them. The best news is that you can do your own voices and you don't have to listen to B.J.!

The book has some interesting insights, for example it says that in many cases insourcing can be just as efficient as outsourcing, but overall however the book is very out of date. Almost all the case studies involve possible outsourcing of datacenters running main frames. It discusses cost cutting measures involving automating tape loading and batch printing of reports! It only once mentions in passing today's style of outsourcing which is to countries like India and China. I also found very annoying the constant repetitions of the same arguments and quotes from people the authors had interviewed.

Lacity and Hirschheim are the leading lights in looking at the outsourcing phenomenom. Unlike many who blindly push a point of view, they balance their advice through rigorous research and real case studies. This book demonstrates their immense understanding of the issues involved with the insourcing / outsourcing decision and gives page after page of practical advice on how to approach such a decision. The advice is easy to apply and works. I recommend this to information system managers and researchers who wish to review an exemplary approach to honest case studies.

Mr. Mylott has covered the topic of computer outsourcing very well. Anybody contemplating it should read this book first. It lays out the risks, pitfalls, and how to avoid them all. There are many risks in outsourcing, they are very large, and they will sink your project or company if you are not prepared. It has checklists and contract language and good advice throughout. Every IT manager needs a copy on their desk. Either they are doing it or contemplating it. Or, their CEO/CIO will visit them out of the blue with it. Be prepared.

This book was very useful to me. I could use it for my studies in the outsourcing market!

Considering that my interest is more in the images than in the text, the book is pretty generous in images, and there are many close-ups.
The color accuracy and vibrancy are not always the best, but for the price, as an introduction to this artist, it looks ok.

This is a delightful book of "Raphael's" art, sensuality and sensuousness.
One of the artists greatest achievements was to create and perfect artistic formulae of astonishing durability. The book discusses these, both because they are, in themselves, a reflection of his genius and because, unexplained, they can be an impediment to our recognition of his originality. Another feature of the book is the extensive consideration of Raphael's little known architectural achievements.
He was, I feel, the greatest of all Renaissance artists.....

This is a must read book for anyone interested in American political development, as long as you don't mind the academic language and narrow focus. As a study on statebuilding it is too narrow, but as a study of the development of bureaucratic autonomy it is a major achievement. In my opinion, Carpenter also shortchanges the antebellum era. It is an excellent compliment to Skowronek's book "Building a New American State." For a different perspective on the 19th centutry American state, see Jensen's book "Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy" and "Shaped by War and Trade" edited by Katznelson and Shefter.

This book narrates several episodes of executive leadership in the USPO, the USDA, and Department of the Interior during the last decades of the 19th and the early decades of the 20th centuries. The author shows how post office and agriculture department bureau chiefs effectively managed upward, outward, and through their organizations to create public value and thereby gained considerable operating discretion for themselves and their departments and how managerial failures in interior's reclamation bureau resulted in its loss. For students of public management, this book provides case evidence for many of Mark Moore's strongest normative claims. It is first rate, well written, plausible historical narrative. Its weaknesses are too little attention to the creation of public value (perhaps because that would smack too much of normative economics) and far too much attention to issues that could only be of interest to academic political scientists.

At Terromax you can find everything you might need for your world domination plans. Their mad scientists are hard at work creating genetic experiments, building time machines, and studying captured alien technology.

And Doug and Manny have to clean up after them. When machines go haywire, they get to fix them. When a genetic experiment goes wrong and leaves a fetid pile of . . . you don't want to know . . . they get to clean it up.

Maintenance is written by Jim Massey, drawn by Robbi Rodriguez, gray tones by Jared Jones and Lettering by Douglas E. Sherwood, and they all contributed significantly. Writer Jim Massey has developed some great characters. Robbi Rodriguez has a cartooney style with individual characters that are clearly definable and excellent storytelling. Jared Jones' tones are well thought out and aid the storytelling. And the lettering is noticeably good, giving different characters clearly different voices.

This volume collects the first 3 issues. Our first issue introduces a number of characters including Doug and Manny, of course, and their boss Dr. Mefulor who's not happy about being in charge of maintenance instead of working in a lab, Mendy the receptionist who Manny has a crush on, and K'arl, the alien found at Roswell sixty years ago. The main story of issue one though is the manshark who so far can only spend three hours at a time out of the water, and who's tired of spending those three hours being experimented on. So the guys take him to a bar.

In the second issue a mad scientist accidently sends the boys back in time, where they meet cavemen who the mad scientist has taught English, among other things. Here is where the letterer really shows his stuff. One of the cavemen is embarrased about his high-pitched girlish voice. When he talks the letters are petite and cursive, and really gives you a visual feel for what his voice should sound like.

The third issue, my favorite, focuses on K'arl, the alien from the Roswell crash. I don't want to give too much away, but if you crashed a car in the middle of primitive Africa, and the natives asked you to show them how to rebuild it and/or make more?

I know it sounds cliche, but this comic actually made me laugh out loud, and I haven't had that happen all that often. This is definately worth the cheap price. You will read it over and over.

Doug and Manny are two ordinary guys just trying to get through life without too much trouble. They are maintenance/cleaning staff. Unfortunately they work at TerrorMax, a think tank for evil mad scientists. They have to deal with everything from huge fetid piles of ####, aliens, intelligent germs, time travel, and runaway biologicals, all while trying to impress the cute receptionist. It doesn't help that their boss was given the position as a form of punishment.

This volume collects the first three issues. Herein Doug and Manny must face fetid piles, aliens, a lonely and bored manshark whose only view of reality is the movie Porky's 3, time-traveling cavemen and aliens. Tongue-in-cheek humor mixed with clean art makes for a fun series. Check it out.

This book is a must have for all who miss Chicago's one and only Marshall Field's, and or hate Macy's.

This is a SMALL book with SMALL print. I should have paid closer attention when I ordered it. I wish there had been more vintage pictures. Of course, I love to read anything about the late great Marshall Fields department store of which I have so many happy memories from childhood. There will never be anything else like it and I'm glad I can remember it so well. Shame on Macy's!!

Recents news reports of a possible nuclear "dirty bomb" threat as well as the ongoing biological warfare threat caused me to buy this book. I looked at the others, but this one definitely has less hype and comes from a knowledgeable source - the US Military! I found the information very easy to understand and practical. Especially good sections are on NBC contamination avoidance; especially the sections on how to decontaminate food and water and the minimum equipment and advance preparation requirements to ensure that you and your family are protected in case of disaster. The sections on biological and chemical contamination are enlightening and make me understand the risk areas I need to be concerned about. This book gives good insight on how the army conducts chemical and bio-defense. An overall worthy reference book to add to my "survival and defense" library.

Recents news reports of a possible nuclear "dirty bomb" threat as well as the ongoing biological warfare threat caused me to buy this book. I looked at the others, but this one definitely has less hype and comes from a knowledgeable source - the US Military! I found the information very easy to understand and practical. Especially good sections are on NBC contamination avoidance; especially the sections on how to decontaminate food and water and the minimum equipment and advance preparation requirements to ensure that you and your family are protected in case of disaster. The sections on biological and chemical contamination are enlightening and make me understand the risk areas I need to be concerned about. This book gives good insight on how the army conducts chemical and bio-defense. An overall worthy reference book to add to my "survival and defense" library.