Practice Management Books

I really enjoyed reading Exceedingly Abundantly. The book discusses managing your finances with references to verses in the bible. You will learn how to take control of your money and began to live a life of abundance. Add this book to your library.

Linsey Mills
Author of Simply Outrageous

www.simplyoutrageous.org

I enjoyed reading this book. It taught me how to use biblical principles and apply my faith to walk in my debt freedom. It also is packed with so many helpful forms. Very inspiring!

This book gives abstracts of companies that implemented workflow, imaging and electronic document management.

The abstracts give insight as to how each company solved their respective business problems, the methodologies used and the outcomes compared to expectations.

This is a good book for management. The industries, problems, solutions, scale, and vendors are all varied. Management can get a good feel for the context within which workflow, EDMS and imaging can be used. (That it is an easy, quick read also helps.)

Worth the money. We bought 3 to disperse throughout our enterprise.

It was gratifying to get real details right down to how many computers, servers, scanners etc., with their precise configurations. The ROIs were clearly shown, and the business propositions were spelled out. We found the data in the case studies extremely helpful in presenting a case to management for our own reengineering effort.

So many of us enter the third sector with a lot of passion for our particular interest, but not much know-how of the specific financial issues facing nonprofits. This book is one stop shopping for the beginner and the seasoned ED or Development Director.

It may come as a surprise to learn that non-profits account for some 1/7 of the US economy. Non-profits vary from huge operations like the major museums, universities and foundations down to the local theatre group putting on a play once or twice a year.

As a non-profit grows, so do the requirements for financial management. The organization may begin to get a variety of assets, there may be needs to manage investments or trust funds, there may be debts, and of course there is fundraising.

The other side of this is a requirement for financial reporting, not the least of which is the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley which had increased the responsibilites placed upon the management.

This book is aimed at the financial manager who may have gotten the responsibility without formal training, business-only- training and of course too little time and too few support staff to do the job. It is specifically aimed at the small, resourse-constrained organization, as well as for larger operations.

This is a very complete book, not all of which will be needed by most organizations, but which may become more important as the organization grows.

I purchased this book for a class I was taking. Fire Officer 100. The book was well written, easy to read and understand. I recomend both the book and the class to anyone that is interestred in becoming an Officer in their fire dept.

After reviewing the two other books of this type available, this one is by far the best. The chapter on CRM is what makes this one heads and tails above the others. If you are thinking of buying this book to read, don't think about it anymore. Buy it!

This is a great book, written not from a journalistic point of view nor from an official point of view, but from that of somebody who was a fire boss for over a decade on the Grand Canyon's North Rim fire crew. Written as fiction, although it is based on actual events with only the names changed. Edward Abbey, who worked in a fire tower on the North Rim for a couple of seasons, makes a thinly-disguised cameo appearance here as "Abner". Effectively captures the work, the culture, and the humor of forest firefighters in a way that no other book I've read has. If you're at all interested in the subject I'd recommend picking this up.

This book describes a seasonal firefighters job in 1977. This was before the advent of much of the specialized equipment used today. He also capture the essencial conflict between the resource/ranger staffs and real live firefighters. Reading this book I can feel the B2 unit digging into my back from my green canvas backpack.

This book should fall into the lap of everyone involved in the fishing industry, ie. government officials, policy makers, lobbiests, commercial fishmen, recreational fishermen, concervationists etc. Anyone concerned with the oceans and the fish which live in them, this thoroughly researched book is an absolute must read. It is the greatest eye opener as to the decline of fish stocks around the world, how it happened and still continues.

This book should fall into the lap of everyone involved in the fishing industry, ie. government officials, policy makers, lobbiests, commercial fishmen, recreational fishermen, concervationists etc. Anyone concerned with the oceans and the fish which live in them, this thoroughly researched book is an absolute must read. It is the greatest eye opener as to the decline of fish stocks around the world, how it happened and still continues.

This book is specially good for students and professors, since its written in a very nice way. It contains all the essential information for fisheries biologists, mainly beginners. Must have for graduate fisheries students.

Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management is a good textbook which provides essential information on several modern methods of resources management for both temperate and tropical fisheries. Modern catching methods are reviewed in full, analyses of fisheries resource species are provided. Fisheries Biology Assessment and Management contains worked examples, graphs, charts, diagrams and line drawings. This title is useful to undergraduate of fishery biology and ecology. This is a really good textbook to fishery researches.

During this past summer, at least 12 firefighters have died tragically while fighting fires in California forests. Most, if not all, of these deaths occurred while battling fires that were natural occurring, lightning sparked fires in wilderness areas that were miles away from any buildings, towns or property of value.

Since fire exclusion became policy in our forests, the amount of fuel has increased steadily to the point where of forests, particularly in wilderness areas, are tinder boxes ready to explode. Some of that happened this summer, but there are many millions of acres in the West in a similar position. In addition to risking lives, we are spending millions and millions of dollars to protect something that really does not need protection.

This book offers a reasonable alternative to continued fire suppression in wildland areas and offers solutions that are workable and will return forests to their natural states. It is well written, heavily footnoted and presented in a style that allows readers with a minimum amount of knowledge of the science to be able to understand the information. Highly recommended!

Steve Arno is one of America's premier fire scientists. A solid professional with a knack for writing about technical things in layman's terms, Arno's book is 180 pages of succinct, highly readable, very accurate writing about this critical issue. What is happening with fire in America today? Why does it matter? What do we know? What have we learned? What can we do about it? If you don't read another book about fire, this is the one. Arno's followup, Mimicking Nature's Fire, is an outstanding primer on prescribed fire. I can't wait for Steve's next effort. This is the kind of science that anyone can understand and his conclusions that fire is both necessary and out of balance are compelling, as are his recommendations for where we go from here. To continue to suffer fires like the recent Tahoe disaster, human-caused in every way, with a book like this already showing us the way to more responsible living in the fire environment is just criminal malpractice on the part of citizens and angencies who continue to ignore the truths that Arno so clearly sees. Read this book and then buy a copy for your Senator.

Business which is based on profit maximization is usually considered to be in conflict with the goals of environmental protection. This contradiction can be even more severe when the business owned by private sectors in developed countries extend their activities in far-away underdeveloped areas. The book looks at the environmental protection from business perspectives, especially extractive industries' involvement in biodiversity conservation. It explores numerous cases ("best practices") showing how business interests reconcile with environmental protection goals. The dynamics of various stakeholders was investigated to illustrate how the business strategic calculation of benefit and cost has been shaped by other stakeholders. According to the authors, there are two major reasons of why business starts to voluntarily involve in environmental protection: corporate reputation (intangible value) and eco-efficiency (tangible value). The book is a big contribution to the empirical studies of how business operation has been shaped by environmental protection and vice versa. I recommend the book to environmental experts, project managers and corporate environmentalists.

Business which is based on profit maximization is usually considered to be in conflict with the goals of environmental protection. This contradiction can be even more severe when the business owned by private sectors in developed countries extend their activities in far-away underdeveloped areas. The book looks at the environmental protection from business perspectives, especially extractive industries' involvement in biodiversity conservation. It explores numerous cases ("best practices") showing how business interests reconcile with environmental protection goals. The dynamics of various stakeholders was investigated to illustrate how the business strategic calculation of benefit and cost has been shaped by other stakeholders. According to the authors, there are two major reasons of why business starts to voluntarily involve in environmental protection: corporate reputation (intangible value) and eco-efficiency (tangible value). The book is a big contribution to the empirical studies of how business operation has been shaped by environmental protection and vice versa. I recommend the book to environmental experts, project managers and corporate environmentalists.

Great look into the world of college athletics that you don't see on ESPN.

Gives the readers a real look at what goes on; what's really involved in the world of college sports and the "student athlete".

Great reading.

You think that college athletics have become more show than competition? Well, read this book and come away with what really goes on. Excellent read.

The book offers a great read on the history of intercollegiate athletics. The specific stories about universities and conferences allow the reader to connect to what is current in the world of college athletics. It is gives a good story of what was going on behind the scenes. It is a good book for policies concerning college athletics.