The Forbes Book of Great Business Letters

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This unique collection presents the sharpest business acumen from the biggest names in commerce through their own personal and professional correspondence. Categories include Deal Proposals (Michelangelo pitches the Sistine Chapel to the Pope), Work & Ethics (John Adams to Abigail Adams on self-improvement), Complaints & Compliments (Clyde Barrow commends Henry Ford on the reliability of his cars-for quick getaways), New Ideas (Hugh Hefner approaches readers with a "brand new magazine for men"), Advice (Benjamin Franklin's advice to a young tradesman), Business & Legal Rights (Microsoft's e-mails about the threat of Netscape) and many more.

THE FORBES BOOK OF BUSINESS LETTERS is inspirational and informative and the perfect addition to the library of every business man.

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The Forbes Book of Great Business Letters

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Workers' Compensation 101

Workers' Compensation 101

Workers' Compensation 101
Michael L. Douglas
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A great source of information on workers' compensation, created for the injured worker.

This book contains over 150 pages of important information about workers' compensation, every injured worker should know. The book tells you everything from how to deal with comp doctors and rehabilitation specialist, to information on private investigator and things to watch out for.

Here are some issues the book addresses:

Workers' compensation seams to be in place to protect the employer, not the employee.

What you should know in general about workers' compensation.
The laws governing workers' compensation.
How to choose an attorney.
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A must read.......2003-05-21

I found the book to be informative; it's easy to read and puts in clear terms that anyone can understand. It has a lot of the information an injured worker should know. You'll be amazed by what it has to say and won't be able to put it down. If you or someone you know was injured on the job you must read this book.

Workers' Compensation 101.......2003-02-04

I am impressed with what it has to say and think you will enjoy reading it. It covers more than just the laws, You can see your self put in some of the situations described and after reading the book you will know what to do. If you or someone you know is receiving workers comp you must to read this book.

Workers' Compensation 101.......2002-12-10

I recommend this book to all injured workers.
I found the book to be informative; it covers information on workers comp I never thought about. It tells the dos and don'ts of the system and what to watch out for. It covers things like dealing with your rehab councilor to going to an IME.

Worker's compensation 101: a primer for the physician executive.(Health Law Update): An article from: Physician Executive

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Worker's compensation 101: a primer for the physician executive.(Health Law Update): An article from: Physician Executive
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Release Date: 2006-12-18

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This digital document is an article from Physician Executive, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3052 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Author: Christopher Spevak
Publication: Physician Executive (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
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Workers' Compensation 101
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This manual is intended to acquaint you with how the system works, what to expect and how to skillfully evaluate the value of a workers' compensation injury, whether you are on the paying or receiving end.

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How to Supervise People is a step-by-step guide that teaches the proven secrets of inspiring others to perform with pride...of delegating effectively and watching productivity climb. You'll learn how to empower your team members and staff to take ownership of their jobs and work better with one another. This friendly interactive format is ideal for team or individual use.

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A Good Read!.......2001-03-21

Donald P. Ladew's book is exactly the sort of manual that all supervisors should have. While the ideas are not generally new, they are effective. The book concisely presents many tools for supervisors. You don't need to sort through jargon - just turn to the thorough, step-by-step lists and scan them for quick reference. The simple and easy-to-follow techniques provide all of a supervisor's essential tools. Experienced supervisors can use this book to refine their skills and improve any weak areas, while neophytes can use it to supplement their knowledge as they gain experience. We at getAbstract recommend this book to supervisors at all levels and to employees hoping to be promoted to supervisory roles. If you keep this straightforward guide in your top desk drawer and refer to it regularly, you can sound like an expert anytime.

The sixty-minute Supervisor.......2001-03-16

The edition of this book that I read is part of the 'Sixty -Minute Training Series' published by the National Press Publications, a division of the Rockhurst College Continuing Education Center, Inc. It's the type of book that is handed out at two-day training seminars for new supervisors, i.e. heavy on bulleted lists and self-assessment quizzes, and somewhat light on content.

What does it mean to be a supervisor at a large to medium-size corporation, trapped as we are between the rock of upper management and the hard place inhabited by the people we are supposed to supervise? For one thing, it means we don't get much respect. Here is a direct quotation from the feedback section of my company's March newsletter:

"I see little contribution to our company's success when it comes to any employee in a supervisory/area leader role!"

Supervisors also don't get very much training (my company is a refreshing exception to this rule-although I'm not sure it helped in my case). Many of us come up through the technical ranks without a clue as to how to manage people instead of computers or warehouse stock or company finances. Therefore books like "How to Supervise People" can play an important role. This particular book, written by Donald P. Ladew, has valuable (although terse) guidelines in areas such as demonstrating leadership, handling people, team-building, and communication. At the beginning of each chapter, the author tells us what we're going to learn. Then the bullets and summaries come flying at us. We are given a brief pause to write up a plan, or reflect on the qualities of a supervisor we admire, or take a self-assessment quiz. The chapter then ends with yet another summary of what we should have learned. Biff. Bam. Boom. The End---an example of what the back cover calls an 'interactive format'.

I think books like "How to Supervise People" are particularly valuable for a quick review when I'm trying to solve a stressful, possibly long-term problem. It gives me a chance to organize my thoughts, come up with a plan to achieve a positive outcome (instead of giving in to my natural tendency to strangle the person who is causing the problem), and reflect on what I'm really trying to accomplish. Here is a list of the basic qualities that this book feels a supervisor should possess. I think it's a good one:

"1. Be an advocate for the people who report to you. 2. Be fair without playing favorites or being a 'pal.' 3. Create an environment where work can be accomplished. 4. Provide stability during times of change. 5. You must have courage."

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How to Serve a Fire Breathing Dragon for Dinner. Great Read

The Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book (California Studies in Food and Culture)
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Maestro Martino of Como has been called the first celebrity chef, and his extraordinary treatise on Renaissance cookery, The Art of Cooking, is the first known culinary guide to specify ingredients, cooking times and techniques, utensils, and amounts. This vibrant document is also essential to understanding the forms of conviviality developed in Central Italy during the Renaissance, as well as their sociopolitical implications. In addition to the original text, this first complete English translation of the work includes a historical essay by Luigi Ballerini and fifty modernized recipes by acclaimed Italian chef Stefania Barzini.
The Art of Cooking, unlike the culinary manuals of the time, is a true gastronomic lexicon, surprisingly like a modern cookbook in identifying the quantity and kinds of ingredients in each dish, the proper procedure for cooking them, and the time required, as well as including many of the secrets of a culinary expert. In his lively introduction, Luigi Ballerini places Maestro Martino in the complicated context of his time and place and guides the reader through the complexities of Italian and papal politics. Stefania Barzini's modernized recipes that follow the text bring the tastes of the original dishes into line with modern tastes. Her knowledgeable explanations of how she has adapted the recipes to the contemporary palate are models of their kind and will inspire readers to recreate these classic dishes in their own kitchens. Jeremy Parzen's translation is the first to gather the entire corpus of Martino's legacy.

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A wonderful translation crippled by cowardice.......2007-09-05

I've been reading through and trying out a number of the recipes from The Art of Cooking. Parzen and his collaborators are to be congratulated for translating this important work. I find myself somewhat puzzled and a bit unhappy at some of the recipes. The value of this work is that it showcases the flavors and techniques of another era. It seems strange that they went to so much effort removing them in order to substitute ones with which the reader would already be quite familiar.

The recipe section abounds with sentences like "Martinotti's recipe is sweet, but we've made it savory because that's what modern diners are used to" and "We've eliminated the broth, changed the seasonings and added ingredients of which he would have never heard. Isn't it wonderful?"

Honestly, no. If I wanted modern Italian recipes I would buy a modern Italian cookbook. There are many. The whole point is that it's Martinotti's cookbook. The reader with an interest in historical cooking would have been much happier had you turned your significant talents and impressive learning to giving examples that would allow one to create food in the style and tastes of the time. Likewise, if a recipe has remained unchanged for hundreds if not thousands of years why provide it instead of guiding the reader through the difficult parts of dishes with which he or she would not be familiar? We know how "air fritters", marzipan and sage fritters are made. As the authors crow, there has been no change over the centuries. It seems a waste to dedicate pages to these when there are so many dishes that are mysteries, truly novel and difficult to decipher.

There is also the question of measures. I count three different possibilities for the "libra". There is the Ancient Roman libra, the old French livre and the libra mercatoria. Martinotti could be referring to any of them given his background. They all represent different amounts. Some guidance as to which the writers thought was meant or at least a recognition that there is some ambiguity would have been welcome.

In short, the translation itself is a great service to the cook who wishes to delve into history. The modernized recipes often do little but confuse the issue and frustrate those who are looking for Martinotti's cookbook rather than Parzen's.

How to Serve a Fire Breathing Dragon for Dinner. Great Read.......2005-01-16

`The Art of Cooking' was written by the fifteenth century Italian Renaissance chef identified as `The Eminent Maestro Martino of Como'. This is a truly impressive and fascinating piece of culinary scholarship published in the `California Studies in Food and Culture' by the University of California Press. For serious foodies, this book documents several trends which dozens of food writers often repeat with no historical support. The book contains four major sections by three different scholars.

The text from Maestro Martino himself is translated by Jeremy Parzen, a food historian and musician (I will wager that his musical speciality is the Renaissance). Fifty modern versions of Maestro Martino's recipes are interpreted by Stefania Barzini, a Roman food historian and journalist for Italy's National Food Channel (Shades of Molto Mario). The Introduction, endnotes, and textual editing are done by Luigi Ballerini, a poet, translator, scholar, and instructor of medieval and modern Italian at the University of California.

By far the most engaging part of this volume is the introduction that chronicles Maestro Martino's career and his times in Renaissance Italy. Allowing for the rather dryly scholarly presentation, this often reads like a pitch for a cinematic costume drama starring Tyrone Power or Errol Flynn, with the evil cardinal played by Orson Wells or Sydney Greenstreet. All this steps right out of the pages of Machiavelli's `The Prince'. So much so that Machiavelli even shows up as a character in the story of Martino's career. As a journeyman scholar, I can attest to the fact that the story is thoroughly documented so that anyone wishing to pick up where these authors left off will find plenty of material to establish a starting point.

From a culinary point of view, the most interesting facts spelled out by the introduction show that modern trends in decorative plating are a faint shadow of the kinds of extravagances created by chefs to the princes of the Italian city states and the cardinals, the princes of the church, who were often as wealthy as their secular brethren. The most important contribution of Maestro Martino appears to be the introduction of vegetables from the peasants' cuisine into the meat laden dining of the nobility. This confirms all the talk from experts of contemporary Italian cuisine that this is based heavily on the food of poverty, but it does not refute the very important observation by Paula Wolfert that one of the requirements for the rise of a great cuisine is a nobility and the corps of chefs enlisted to serve them. A secondary contribution of Maestro Martino is the extent to which he standardized culinary terminology in Italy. This was an era in which no dialect on the Italian peninsula was dominant. It was hardly a few hundred years after the publication of Dante's Divine Comedy and Boccaccio's Decameron and the invention of moveable type. And, the unification of Italy was still almost 400 years off. The editor's citing this as an accomplishment reaffirms my concerns when I find culinary writers using the wrong term to describe certain cooking actions. This only reassures me that if words are not valued, the result is Babble.

By far the most interesting experience I have in reading the recipes is in the similarities I see in these Renaissance dishes to the Medieval fare described in `The Medieval Kitchen', written originally in French by Odile Redon, Francoise Sabban, and Silvano Serventi. Both books document the love the 13th to 15th century nobility had for the `cookie spices', nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, and sugar. These ingredients literally show up in virtually every dish. No wonder there was such an interest in finding a way to get these little darlings more cheaply. One can almost hear the echos when we read of Sicilian cooks and recipes which like to add nutmeg to their greens. This practice is not only hundreds of years old, it is `home grown' and not as much an influence from the Saracens as one may think. And, Maestro Martino's introducing local vegetables may have been one of the things which changed tastes away from Asian spices, although I suspect their rarity and the arrival of New World ingredients had a lot to do with this trend as well.

As a source of no more than fifty recipes written so that a modern cook can follow them, this book will not be a very good practical cookbook, especially since the dishes will tend to be either too sweet or too tart for modern tastes. The modernized recipes really are best taken as a means of understanding the connection between Renaissance dishes and their modern equivalents. The only thing I would suggest to the scholars who gave us this really fascinating volume is that pairing the original recipe texts with the modern interpretation would have done much to show us what the original author said versus the modern interpretation of his recipe. I also missed a good recipe or explanation for `verjuice' which the Larousse Gastronomique describes as a sour extraction from grapes; very similar to the wine vinegars we use today.

This book and some of the others I have read recently really fuel my interest in reading a good history of gastronomy. And, if I can't find one, this book is a totally welcome treatment of food of the nobility in Renaissance Italy.

Highly recommended for anyone with scholarly interests.

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The budget and economic outlook, an update (SuDoc Y 10.17:)
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Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update, A Report to the Senate and House Committees on the Budget, September 2004

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A CBO Study. Edited by Christine Bogusz, et al. Reports on the state of the United States economy and the Federal budget

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When Susan Coyne was five years old her family went, as always, to spend the summer in a cottage on Lake of the Woods in Western Ontario. One of their neighbors was an elderly retired school administrator and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Moir, whose garden was one of the local wonders.

Nearby was a ruined cabin now inhabited, Susan was assured, by elves; all that remained of it was a moss-covered fireplace, a miniature enchanted castle with tunnels and ramparts. If you leaned in close you could hear the hum of elves living and working deep within. Susan swept the heart, filled walnut shells with water, and left a small tribute of flowers. One day when she visited the fireplace she found a letter waiting for her; it was from a princess fairy. and so began a summer's correspondence that would nourish a lifetime.

Susan later knew that the letters were written by Mr. Moir, with whom she stayed in touch over the years. But to her they always remained pure magic, a pathway into the worlds that words alone can create. Here is a memoir for children of all ages - to be read, read aloud, reread, remembered.

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Magic Comes to Western Ontario.......2004-01-07

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by Amruta Gadgil

J.R.R Tolkien's acclaimed trilogy Lord of the Rings places New Zealand at the center of action, but the summer of '63 Western Ontario became a playground of fairies, kingdoms, fantasy, and a budding friendship for one five-year old girl. Author Susan Coyne relives and reflects on her magical summer In the Kingdom of Fairies.

While on an excursion at the family cottage, Susan stumbles onto a fireplace wedged between her house and the next-door neighbors. Her father's rationale is that the fireplace was built by elves. Intrigued, Susan leaves small gifts and flowers. The kind gestures prompt a correspondence from character, Princess Nootsie Tah through Queen Mab and Susan.

Susan strikes up a friendship with her neighbor Mr. Moir and shares her secret correspondence. Moir a good-natured old man is knowledgeable about the princess fairy Nootsie Tah and revels in Susan's curiosity and merriment in fairies and all things magical.

Nootsie Tah and Susan continue their exchange of letters and drawings while Susan's friendship with Mr. Moir blossoms, until it is time for her to go back to school in Toronto. After that summer, Susan's foray with elves and fairies stop. Nevertheless, her relationship with Mr. Moir never wanes even with the daily distractions of school and friends.

Ten years later when Susan's father sends her the old letters and cards that were exchanged, she discovers that the fairies and elves she communicated with were actually Mr. Moir.

In the Kingdom of Fairies is a true tale mingled with fantasy and friendship. Susan and Mr. Moir's friendship is uncomplicated in a complicated world making that summer one that will be etched in her mind forever.

read Read READ this book!.......2003-09-25

Lately I've been having the worst time trying to find something truly worthwhile to read. Countless titles have been started and then quickly set aside (since I am of an age where I no longer feel compelled to waste time reading boring books). Not only did this book not bore me, it brought me joy. Been a looooooong time since a book did that for me! If you sometimes (or oftentimes) feel as if the world has gone mostly mad, set aside a few hours for this book.

Bravo and thanks to Ms. Coyne (and Mr. Moir)!

strong bio of a child and an adult sharing values.......2003-09-04

This one-year in the life of biography describes how in 1963 then five-year old Susan Coyne spends a summer at the family cottage in Western Ontario. Susan discovered an abandoned fireplace in the hedge between her family house and that of the next door neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Moir. Her dad explained to Susan that the elves built the fireplace. Feeling some form of kinship, Susan leaves small presents for the elves that are gone by the next day. One day Princess Nootsie Tah on behalf of Queen Mab writes a thank you note. With the help of her nanny, little Susan responds. Soon an elf and a human child become pen pals even while Susan spent plenty of time with the retired Mr. Noir listening to his stories.

This true story is a great book that shows how one caring person can make a difference. Princess Nootsie Tah obviously cherished the classics and sprinkled much of that love into the letters (the allusions are brilliant) that fired the imagination of a child. The letters are incredibly written as Mr. Moir treats his young friend with respect and intelligence. Perhaps starting with that one summer provided the foundation to the dream of becoming an actress that Susan Coyne later fulfilled. IN THE KINGDOM OF FAIRIES is a strong bio of a child and an adult sharing meaningful social values.

Harriet Klausner

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