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Francis Maguire's book is the best I've read on taking care of your employees. It makes all the sense in the world to treat employees like they're the greatest. And Maguire artfully and eloquently does this through examples and applications. He shows how validating employees is how wise managers conduct their daily routine.
I have learned much. Thank you Frank!
I heartily recommend this book!

Wow! How refreshing to meet someone who actually promotes the philosophy that more can be gained by a kind word than with a stern look. In this "Get Over It!" society it is nice to know that someone realizes the benefits of validation and even documents how it can produce profit. Told in a sort of biography of the life of Francis X. Maguire we follow him from his positions at major television networks, top U.S. corporations, and even the White House. With each step he has left his indelible mark on all those around him. He is responsible for guiding the careers of Ted Koppel and Charles Osgood as well as helping major companies such as FedEx and Kentucky Fried Chicken build their company policies towards employees. How wonderful if every company had a man like this encouraging employee performance with validation and a kind word. He is too good to believe!

This book is an exciting and fast read. It's excellent.
It was written by a woman who overcame severe dyslexia in her childhood. She's a great example of a success story.

I didn't want this book to end - it's been a while since I've had such fun while tackling a challenge.
My favorites had to be the rectangular 5 and 6 starred puzzles.

I will definitely be checking out more of his books.

Had Officer X written "10-8" later than 1994, it probably would have been a blog. As it is, this little volume includes ruminations, stories, experiences, advice from about a decade on patrol transferred to paper. None is longer than a page, and there is nothing deeply intimate about Officer X. It is not like a profound diary.

But almost every page has something interesting, either a tidbit about how cops react to different situations or thoughts about rehabilitation, retirement, raising children. Most anything is grist to a cop's mill, because, as X says, it's about dealing with people.

In theory, we are not supposed to know where Officer X works, but it is not hard to figure out from clues in the book that he is, or was, on the force of Glencoe, Ill., a small, almost lily-white and rich village of fewer than 10,000 people among the northern suburbs of Chicago.

Now, I'm not a cop, but I have worked around them for a long time as a newspaper reporter, and what Officer X has to say has the ring of real cops. He says some of what he writes may offend some people, and that's for sure.

To take an example, Officer X's particular passion is getting drunk drivers off the road, and he notes that Hispanics are way overrepresented in DUIs in his town. He explicitly denies having or offering any reason that should be so. Well, we track DUIs in my county, too, and Hispanics are way overrepresented here, too.

Everybody knows it, but nobody is supposed to notice it,

X is also frank about what cops I used to be around called `failing the attitude test.' In other words, beating up arrestees.

Of modern law enforcement, Officer X says, "the fear of video cameras these days keeps a lot of scumbags from getting tune-ups they richly deserve." That's frank.

There's plenty here to start a conversation with, presented in a graceful style that is definitely not usual for cops.

One thought deserves special mention: "Watch out for terrorism. Being geographically isolated has helped us to a point. But a continuing high profile has brought us all kinds of attention we don`t need. Americans have simply been too lucky for too long. Perhaps some of that evaporating defense money should be earmarked for anti-terrorism. The local cops aren't equipped to handle or prevent that stuff."

That was written in 1994. Officer X was a smart guy.

This is at least the fourth iteration of this work, edited by the grand master of Canadian Literature, Gary Geddes.
No-one else could have produced such a thorough and informed work dealing with contemp. CDN poetry. One can get lost for days, following various poets as they created a true national poetic literature in the face of the onslaught of toxic American cultural imperialism. An exhaustive and through compilation, tho wonders why he forgot to include Douglas Isaac.

The results of treatment of cardiac arrest by professionals (para medics and physicians) is dismal. Less than 5% survive. The solution is bystander resuscitation, and the use of the automatic external defibrillator, both of which are very will described in this pocket sized manuel.

This book provides a concise review of the subject, which is universally applicable, not just to professionals, but to those with little or no medical training. It is profusely illustrated, with easy to understand instructions of the Heimlich manuver, chest compressions, etc.

It covers the entire spectrum from basic life support to advanced cardiovascular support, by physicians.

Best of all, the price ...

Buy it! You can save someone's life someday.

3X3 Eyes: Blood Of The Sacred Demon is the fourth and latest graphic novel of the popular manga (Japanese comic) series by Yuzo Takada, about an immortal three-eyed demon girl who yearns to become human and the cursed, indestructible young man with whom she shares her soul. Pai has had her memory and her third eye sealed away, and she is leading a normal life blissfully unaware of who and what she really is. Yet Yakumo is determined to reawaken her, if only because the evil forces that seek to subvert her power can never be beaten back while she remains unaware. Fans of the animated version will notice significant variations in the original source comic, including a different twist ending to the pair's battle with a ruthless marionette! Highly recommended for fans of dark fantasy action-adventure, as are the previous three volumes: House Of Demons, Curse Of The Gesu, and Flight Of The Demon.

My 9-year old daughter actually asked for these, because she enjoyed them so much in math class at school. I was excited to find them so easily through Amazon and was glad to encourage her love of learning and creativity.

After studying this book and the book called Master the Manual I passed the ACE Exam with flying colors.

This is a refreshing change: a textbook that's readable, even entertaining at times. The author doesn't write in smarter-than-you "scholarese" & leave you to translate to plain English, but instead writes as if speaking to an intelligent person who doesn't happen to be familiar with the field. I like the bios of the major theorists, and the case studies used for illustration: after all, "people persons" like to hear about real people.