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This book is written very well and will make your course go a little more smoothly. It doesn't use long words that you must then look up to understand. I was also shocked that Amazon was cheaper than elsewhere on the web.

I HAVE USES MY BOOK TO WRITE PAPERS. ITS THE AS ANY OTHER COMMUNICATION BOOK. BUT THIS ONE WAS CHEAPER THAN BUYING IT FROM THE BOOK STORE.

I've been in the call center industry for over 6 years but the content of this book presented a lot of refreshing insights about managing a center. I also like the fact that the book is such an easy read--Brad Cleveland used clear and concise vocabulary in explaining Workforce Management even to the most novice call center employee. Great, great book--one that I'll keep for as long as I am in the industry.

I have been in the call center industry for some time and I find that you can't know it all, especially if you are in a large call center where roles are very specific. This book has help me understand the things that others do and has helped me to advance into other areas. The book is well laid out and explains everything fairly well, but not perfect. The book also gets right to the point of data is important to gather and how to best illustrate that data in a spreadsheet or chart. It has really helped me to better organize my KPI's and focus on just a few important pieces of data instead of having to sift through piles of numbers. This book has also helped me to become better at workforce management strategies and forecasting. Two areas I had little familiarity with. This book will certainly bring you up to speed quickly. Even after reading and applying everything in the book, I continue to reference it all the time.

How is it that the finest, wittiest, most humane writer in the United States was recently called "prurient" by a major book review? It would seem that the greatest threat to American letters remains the American literary establishment. Our greatest writers have always worked on the fringes of this establishment. One could list, for starters, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Ezra Pound. And Guy Davenport. The Cardiff Team shows this remarkable writer at his finest. As always, his fluent erudition and breadth of knowledge astounds. He moves with ease from Kafka in a nudist colony to the philosopher George Santyana eating dinner to Edgar Allan Poe reading about Chinese poetry (all excellent pieces) within the first twenty pages. The critic George Steiner wrote a number of years ago: "Davenport is among the very few truly original, truly autonomous voices now audible in American letters." This assesment hold true, more than ever. Davenport has developed a style and subject matter all of his own. But the gem of the collection is the moving title piece. We start in a vibrant metaphorical meadow created by an act of language, and brought to the story by an act of quotation (from Francis Ponge). We end in a geographical meadow, overhearing a delightful conversation about all sorts of learned things. That is to say, we overhear two people recognizing each other's humanity, like the people they speak of. In between these meadows, the most intelligent, sexy, and delightfully charming characters you can imagine (rakish children, single mothers, a lonely young boy, and a tutor finding himself ignorant even in his great knowledge) teach and learn about that central human mystery, desire, in all of its many open-ended forms. They grow to be comfortable in their own skin. The Cardiff Team continues a remarkable body of work unlike anything else in literature. Everything Davenport writes is essentially, wonderfully sane. His charcthers, like Davenport himself, wage war against what he has called the "meaness and smallness" that threatens to atrophy the world. As they learn from eachother, they teach US to recognize each other's humanity-- carnal, graceful, and most importantly, fundamental. That the accusation of prurience has been hurled at such work only shows how desperately we are in need of the lesson. -Jeremy Melius

If James Joyce had been a pederast, he'd have read like Guy Davenport. If salacious material were doled out at a Mensa Meeting, you'd have "The Cardiff Team," Davenport's mid-1990s opus.

The positive reviews cite the book's originality and erudition. The negative ones assert that Davenport's fine intellectual musings are "ruined" by his insertion of "gay kiddie porn" or somesuch.

I like work that is both very sensual and very intellectual. It's the heady combination we find in Hollinghurst's "The Swimming Pool Library," Nabokov's "Lolita," Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," certain passages of "Moby Dick," the poems of Neruda and Lorca, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and J. D. McClatchy.

It is well to remember that, however well-developed our intellect may be, we still inhabit bodies, frail unpredictable things whose oxygen addiction proves fatal in about 80 years. I would go so far as to say the the interplay between the body and the mind, between flesh and intellect, is the single salient theme of Davenport's fiction (and perhaps his essays as well), and that anyone who criticizes his erotic passages while lauding his intellectual ones, betrays his or her own prejudices rather than mounts a credible attack on Davenport's writing.

"Boys Smell Like Oranges" captures this dichotomy perfectly, as Davenport weaves two threads together: a pair of thinking men in heady conversation and a boys soccer team at rough-and-tumble sensual play.

Davenport has Camille Paglia-esque deep knowledge of a wide array of subjects and, like the author of "Sexual Personae," he likes to splash his erudition around bedazzlingly (if a bit excessively).

The first story "The Messengers" imagines Kafka at an Alpine nude spa. There are humorous lines, didactic lines, epigrammatic lines, and lines of pure poetic sensuality: "The sun-browned fingers of a classical hand would scratch around in hair the color of meal. Blue eyes would puzzle themselves closed."

In "The Meadow Lark," a strapping lad pleasures himself in a meadow and then tastes his own ejaculate ("alkali with a tinge of sweetgrass"). This is probably the kind of story that got the reviewer from "Kirkus" bent out of shape, but, reading it, it seems very natural rather than prurient. Even if it were prurient, so what? Even geniuses have glands.

"The River" is the most salacious story in the collection, full of homoerotic athleticism of the Thomas Eakins swimming hole painting variety. Let me try again: If someone edited a Jean-Daniel Cadinot exotic ephebe-filled porno down to soft core and then filtered it through the fused writing styles of Thomas Pynchon and Dylan Thomas you'd get "The River."

The titular "Cardiff Team" is the longest story in the collection, weighing in at 74 pages. It contains a line that sums up its author: "Eros is the most inventive of the gods, with an IQ way out beyond Einstein's."

This collection of short stories jumps settings and characters quite often but its central image seems to be a meadow in summer--perhaps cross-cut by a creek and speared by dusty shafts of sunlight--where adolescent boys with wheaten hair and blues eyes romp and play unabashedly nude. It is an image of perfect beauty, at once prurient and innocent; it is, I suspect, that place in the author's mind he goes after too much labor over a Greek or Hebrew translation.

"Veranda Hung with Wisteria," at only ten lines (!) if the shortest story in the collection of ten. Davenport manages, however, to cram a lot of painterly imagery into this heady paragraph, including a Chinese river "crowded with junks and sampans."

I close with the wittiest sentence I encountered in the book and hope that if you are a fan of the fusion of erotic and the intellectual you'll acquire a copy of this learned yet naughty book, with all the high-minded conversation of the symposium and all the greased wrestling of the gymmasium:

"Nude and naked are different conditions. Michelangelo's David was nude and the lean scouts in "Nas Skautik" were nude in or out of their short khaki pants, but the old fart over there with wings of hair...and pregnant with a volleyball, with spindle legs and wrinkled knees, is naked."

The mystery elements of this Fr. Dowling novel aren't quite up to par with the best of the genre (they aren't even as good as some of McInerny's own work). But the characters are compelling, life-like, and well-drawn. The real mystery isn't in who killed/kidnapped whom, but in figuring out the real-life counterparts to the main characters, some of whom are thinly-veiled, others who are barely-veiled, and still others who are well-disguised. Anyone who's been a student at Notre Dame in the past twenty years has a considerable advantage, of course.

McInerny does a fairly decent job of portraying the annullment problems within the Church. He has a perspective, of course, but it's not one that is easily dismissed as reactionary, unlike some other views. As with divorce, single-parent families, and a variety of other social problems, there are--regardless of the intentions and circumstances--consequences for the individual people involved.

The editorial reviews, collectively, are partly inaccurate and, even worse, give away too much. Suffice it to say that this book sees the return of many familiar characters and the introduction of intriguing new ones in a complex plot that takes place partly at Notre Dame, where the author teaches philosophy. Intermingled are numerous thoughtful philosophical asides.

However, don't buy this for the climactic football game. There must be a half dozen implausibilities in McInerny's account -- but he describes impossible games in other novels too. This book is not about football.

I have read The Care Team Approach: A Problem-Solving Process for Effective School Change and found it be an invaluable source for school support. It is a well-organized, nicely structured book that explains Care Teams, why they are effective, and how to implement one in your school system. It also provides examples of difficult situations in a school setting that people can relate to and it offers effective ways to problem-solve. As a teacher I found it to be resourceful and easy to follow- a "must read."

The concept of student assistance teams has floated around schools for decades. While few can argue against the high value of the idea and purpose driving these teams, processes of implementing these teams have been flawed. The book, the Care Team Approach seems to bring new light to the necessity of these teams in contemporary USA and provides proven instructions that guarantee success. Plus, it offers a lot of trouble shooting for those instances when care teams don't go in their intended directions. Inevitably, care teams will run off course, thus it is critical that new models address how to return the team back on course. And this new book seems to do just that in a very practical, easy-to-follow manner.

Bear Bryant's success was due in part to his ability to adapt when necessary. In 1971, Bryant knew that he had to make changes to his program or be left behind. Adopting the wishbone was a brilliant move by Bryant; but perhaps his greatest move was adapting to the social changes of the time. Southern football has never been the same since 1971. The author has certainly done his homework with countless interviews with players and coaches of the '71 'Bama squad. This insider's look into this historical season will be enjoyed by all 'Bama and Southern football fans.

Mr. Briley writes an incredibly insightful book about the changing times surrounding the Bear's career. This is a must read for any Bama fan or admirer of the Bear! There are many books written about this amazing man, but none as focused on this particular year in the life of this American icon. Hats off to John David Briley and his outstanding literary efforts. I look forward to reading more works by him in the future.

This bag is great. I got it for my hubby for christmas. Every one who saw it under our tree loved it and asked where I got it. Highly recommend! Also highly recommend amazon!! This is the best site to buy from, super saver shipping was such a big help, and they ship fast. Amazon prices are lower then walmart on some items I purchased.

This is a very nice large gift bag. It is sturdy, colorful and nicely detailed with team logo and name. It was a great b-day bag for my husbands gifts.

I read this book several years ago and found it quite enjoyable. I like to read about baseball pennant races and this one was an unforgettable one. Very thorough and readable!

During the summer of 1962 I was 11 years old, and baseball was the most important thing in my life. That summer I listened to every Dodger game and lived and died with every pitch. I knew all the players in both major leagues, but the Dodgers were my life. I can still remember the Koufax no-hitter against the Mets, the sweep of the Giants in L.A., and getting swept by them in S.F., and the September swoon by the Dodgers was epic (leading by 4.5 games with 7 to play!).
The 9th inning of the 3rd playoff game was a trauma that took weeks to recover from (no, I'm not a hopeless case like Red Sox fans!), but something that I still vividly recall today. David Plaut's book brings 1962 back in narrative, chronological form, and while I knew most of the things noted from the Dodgers' perspectives, I gained new insight into what the Giants clubhouse went through, and what their great players thought of the Dodgers, and the pennant race.
This was a classic pennant dogfight with two evenly matched teams going down to the final pitch of the year. Sandy Koufax's ailment can't be used as an excuse - the Giants played better when it counted, as no one remembers who finished second, except for broken-hearted Dodger fans, and David Plaut, who has put together a wonderful reminiscence of that magical summer of 1962.
I highly recommend this book to baseball fans of any age.

Warren Brown was a master of the English language! His brilliant style of writing is something that is sorely missed from today's so-called sportswriters.

If you can find any of his books (Cubs, Sox, Win, Lose or Draw or Knute Rockne's biography) pick them up to find out how a true legend covered sports!

If your a Cub fan, or a fan of baseball history, you will like this book. It covers the team from their beginnings in the 1800's through the 1945 World Series. Mr. Brown's writing style keeps things moving and indeed interesting. Each chapter focuses on a year or, in some cases, a particular player or event. Cub fans will love reading about the years when the team was no stranger to winning and winning championships!

I have been working in the dental field for over 30 years. Each time I read excerpts from this book I remember why I chose my career in dentistry. I am also a clinical instructor for dental assistants. I like to give this book to my students when they graduate. It also should be in every dental office. It is so easy to read, each story is only a few pages. Some made me laugh out loud, others made me cry because of how what we do as dental personnel can totally change lives. I can never be "down in the mouth" after reading this book...pun intended !!!

"Chicken Soup for the Dental Soul" is a compilation of lighthearted, humorous, sometimes sad, short stories from dentists, dental hygienists and assistants and staff.

Teeth are important but individuals don't realize how important until problems arise, teeth are lost, or the person is in great pain with a toothache. Getting to the dentist does not have to be all that bad. In fact, it can be fun and amusing sometimes. A strong bond is often developed between the patient and the dental team member.

If you know someone who is fearful of the dentist visit, thus leading to neglect, then this is a great gift book. Read it, learn and laugh.

Dentists are compassionate, empathetic professionals who serve in so many different ways. From the tooth fairy stories, to the experiences of the cancer patient who needed a helping hand to the person who couldn't help smiling into the mirror.

"Chicken Soup for the Dental Soul" will bring a smile to you just like the woman who cried when she first saw her new smile. "It was the first time I smiled in 28 years!"