Ohio Books

This is a valuable book (resource) for budding entrepreneurs. It seems to try to cover all the bases for starting a small business, but it can't do them all well in the space available between its covers. The book is only 288 pages long. If you are in the planning stages of starting a small business, then I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. Read it, study it, and outline it. There are helpful checklists to help you grasp the subjects. You will come up with a plethora of keywords and terms that you will want to google to find Web pages giving more detailed (and maybe more current) information.

I am a SCORE counselor (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) who typically does face-to-face counseling sessions three nights a month. It would really be neat if my clients would read this book BEFORE they came to their session with me because they would pretty much be "educated customers" ready to ask educated questions. Our sessions would be so much more beneficial.

My favorite chapters were:

1. Initial business concerns
2. Your business' structure
3. Business start-up details
5. Sources of business assistance (SCORE is mentioned here)
7. Your smart business plan (and a good sample plan is included)
8. Obtaining the financing you need

The book is weak when it comes to how the Internet can be used in corresponding, hiring, and marketing. But this is just one example of how googling keywords and concepts found in the book will make the book more complete. Don't treat the book as authoritative on the law. It isn't. Nor was it ever intended to be. It is light on tax information as it relates to small business.

I was particularly impressed with the material presented in Chapter 2: Choice of Legal Entity. That subject is sorely ignored in most small business books, and it is critically important. It is a subject I regularly must spend a great deal of time discussing at my SCORE sessions. This book does a pretty good job on the topic.

Chapters 4 and 9 through 12 are easy to find fault with. The topic of each could fill a book. But having these topics covered definitely will help a budding entrepreneur know some of the issues they raise.

I would have liked the book more if Chapter 6 (marketing) had been less superficial. When I read it I got the impression that the author was more a public relations expert than a marketing expert. I generally categorize public relations as a subset of marketing. Marketing includes advertising, public relations, and a whole host of other promotion techniques. I did not get this message when I read the book. I also would have liked the book better if the Internet, email, and Web sites had been discussed more. But there are many books on those subjects. Therefore, I can't complain too much about the limited discussion of computers.

When you read this book it may feel a little like it was produced on an assembly line. Maybe it was? There are 51 versions of this book sold; one for each state and the District of Columbia. Content is king, and this book has it. 5 stars!

It's an Excellent book full of color pictures of the IC's engine's and field locations.

If you are really interested in the Ohio Great Lakes region pick up this interesting book fast! Books like these tend to go out of print fast and then sell for high prices on the used market.

Gracefully written and heartfelt. Procacci throws a wide net (Italian history since the year 1000), but the format of his book helps the reader keep things straight: each chapter covering a certain period consists of subsections on five different city-states, so that a reader wishing to read only about, say, Florence, can easily follow just that strand.
Procacci focuses on political history -- he characterizes his approach as "ethical-political," -- with the occasional foray into social, economic and cultural history when necessary.
This book was originally was written for a French readership; I read it in Italian. I hope the English edition features the 1997 the afterword, which is quite moving: Procacci reflects soberly and sincerely on his formation and his practice as a historian, and yet he is writing about events that he lived through, and he keenly conveys his own hopes and disappointments.

This book has amazing pictures and is well worth owning. Not only is it packed with pictures of the different characteristics and features of this pattern, the pictures are large and bright. It is a really great reference if you love the Imperial line of lace edge or crocheted glass.

Meticulous scholarship and passionate care rekindles the best traditions of Western civilization in this remarkable treatment of Kipling as a touchstone of the hopes, possibilities, uncharted territories of governance, and human problems of the British Empire at its height. McBratney draws on critical and cultural anthropoligical publications of Kipling's day and later, up to the present, with ingenious exhaustiveness and care to identify the state of the art of civilization attained at the time, using the hopes and dreams of a number of Kipling's most striking characters to illustrate the painful nexus occupied by Kipling, the writer, poet, novelist, journalist and artist, as a touchstone of his time and place. The approach is deep and clear. In treating Kipling's work as anthropological artifact as well as thematic compendia, both synchronically and diachronically as Kipling aged, McBratney makes a contribution towards the best humanity by placing Kipling definitely in Western civilization's universalist project of creating it.

Not just for fans of the B&O, although they will definitely want this in their collection. Mr. Harwood examines all the problems that lay before those Baltimore businessmen in building a railroad from Baltimore to the Ohio River. Well researched and profusely illustrated, it shows from what seeds today's mighty railroads have grown!

Nice article. I just wrote a book on The Impostor Syndrome.

The Impostor Syndrome is the underlying feeling that you are not as smart, skilled, or talented as people think you are. It's a dread that people will find out you are faking it.

How do you know if you suffer from The Impostor Syndrome? In his book, The Impostor Syndrome: How to Replace Self-Doubt with Self-Confidence and Train Your Brain for Success, John Graden outlines some possible indicators:

1. Do you sometimes not speak up because you feel people will realize you're not as smart as they think you are?
2. Do you find it hard to accept praise?
3. Is it difficult for you to take credit for your accomplishments?
4. Do you feel like a fake and fear you are going to be found out soon?
5. Are you a perfectionist who is terrified of making a mistake?

Find out more about The Impostor Syndrome at www.JohnGraden.com

The author of "In Darkest Hollywood" is Peter Davis

A very extensive account of the fascinating species of Ohio. First class work.