The Silver Pen: Starting a Profitable Writing Business from a Lifetime of Experience : A Guide for Older People

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Silver Pen is Golden.......2001-06-13

A pleasure to read and beautifully written, with a lot of life wisdom behind it, this is one book that can really help an aspiring writer. Canton's explanation of the difference between process and substance activities in the use of our time is alone worth the price of the book. I don't quite agree that good writing is a craft that anyone can learn but this book can give courage to people who've loved good writing but never thought they could do it themselves.

Message in a Book.......2000-11-07

Seniors have a lifetime of experience and that knowledge has a value. Your information can be sold thousands of times at $20 per sale-in the form of your book. Twenty dollars is a small price to pay for a detailed, insider's short-course. Many people just entering your field will gladly pay to learn what you know.

Then there is the obligation to your family to record their roots. Now is the time to dig out old papers, interview your older relatives and to research the family tree. Today, you can publish your book inexpensively one-at-a-time and distribute it to your family. You can even list it at Amazon.com to sell to other people with your family name.

Alan Canton is a gifted author and successful publisher with years in the industry. He writes from experience.

As a publisher, author of 113 books (including revisions and foreign-language editions) and over 500 magazine articles, I recommend this valuable book to all seniors with a book inside them. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.

The book opens new part-time income options for the retiree........1999-04-02

The Silver Pen is aimed at the retiree who wants to supplement an unearned income wirh a part-time home based free lance writing job . The author shows how to: sell articles to specialized magazines, do ghost writing, write public relations releases , do grant proposals, and do commercial writing. As a retired senior citizen with both business and accademic exerience, and having written many reports and conducted research, I chose to follow the author's step by step instructions on how to write and sell nonfiction articles to specialized magazines. With no illusions, the author shows the retiree why the pupil can start a part-time wrilting business. Canton ,using a unique mehtod, guides the retiree through the maze of finding his specialty - his genre. Having decided his specialty, the reader is directed how to find publications related to his genre. The author helped me to find market directories where I learned what editors are looking for, what they pay,and guidelines for article writers, Alan Canton considers the reader to be a novice who needs simple instructions to handle the nuts and bolts of the article writing profession. He devotes chapters to important how to's: how to write articles for different markets, how to determine the selling price, how to negotiate contracts, and how to protect the writer's rights. If you are a retiree, you have accumulated a store of valuable experience. Why not share it with others and start a new career with the joy of working at your own pace. The Silver Pen will show you how. ###

The book opens new part-time income options for the retiree........1999-04-02

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The fifth edition of this popular textbook presents a broad, practical approach to the study of business law principles and practices. The material has been extensively revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the legal field, and every chapter includes an abundance of real-world examples that illustrate the law at work. In- depth coverage of the latest issues in business law, including new coverage of technology, environmental, and international law, is also provided. Photos and a new, engaging design make the book easy to teach and understand, and the new and expanded pedagogy, with an emphasis on teachability and assessment, offers teachers and students a wealth of opportunities for enriching the learning experience. Students will come away with a clear understanding of business law topics and be able to identify, explain, and apply the principles of business law in the world around them.

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Info Good, Cases Not

Total Quality Management: Text, Cases, and Readings, Third Edition
Joel E. Ross , and Susan Perry
Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 157444266X

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Acclaimed and used in over 200 colleges and universities around the country, Total Quality Management: Text, Cases and Readings has been completely revised and expanded to meet the growing demands and awareness for quality products and services in the competing domestic and global marketplaces. Since the publication of the first and second editions of this book, interest in and acceptance of TQM has continued to accelerate around the world. This edition has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded. Some of the changes are: · A new chapter on the emerging Theory of Constraints · Expanded treatment of Process Management · Eleven new readings · Ten new cases · Chapter examples of TQM at 12 Baldrige winning organizations · End of chapter recommendations for further reading · Revised and updated textual material · The Varifilm case is retained as a comprehensive study that illustrates good and not so good practices. Each chapter contains an exercise which provides the reader with an opportunity to apply TQM principles to the practices illustrated in each case. Based on sound principles, this practical book is an excellent text for organizational development programs aimed at practitioners responsible for developing and implementing TQM programs in their own service or manufacturing organizations.

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Good Quality Textbook.......2006-05-26

The book explains the concept of Total Quality Management which involves the integration of all functions and processes in any organisation to ensure that it achieves continuous improvement of its products and services to meet customer needs.

Quality starts with understanding customer needs and ends when those needs are satisfied. Marketing processes establish the true requirements for the product or service. These must be communicated properly throughout the organisation in the form of specifications. Excellent communications between customers and suppliers is the key to a total quality performance - the organisation must establish feedback systems to gather customer information. Appropriate research techniques should be used to understand the "market" and keep close to customers and maintain the external perspective.

All effective quality programmes have at their centre a very clear focus on customers. Delivering customer satisfaction is the primary goal for an organisation and the approach is inherently simple - listen to customers and respond to what they say. An organisation should have a wide range of methods for listening to their customers, ranging from market research to asking customers detailed questions about how they feel about a specific transaction with the organisation. From this data an organisation can built quantitative models of the drivers of customer satisfaction which enable them to ensure that internal measures are aligned with what customers really want.

The cases reinforce the concepts discussed in the book which makes it valuable for those embarking on studies of TQM or those who need to learn how the concept can be applied in their organisation.

Info Good, Cases Not.......2000-05-13

The information contained in this book was strong. However, I was disappointed with the so-called cases. The cases include were only one or two page summaries. I was expecting full cases and details. I ended up wasting my time because the book was posted as having something that was not clearly defined.

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Foundations of Tqm A Readings Book
Joseph G. Van Matre
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing Company
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Foundations of TQM: A Readings Book
Joseph G. Van Matre
Manufacturer: Harcourt Publishers Ltd, a subsidiary of Harcourt International Ltd
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Quality Goes to School: Readings in Total Quality Management in Education

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Quality Goes to School: Readings in Total Quality Management in Education
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Readings in Total Quality Management
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Total Quality Management: Text, Cases, and Reading, Third Edition

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Total Quality Management: Text, Cases, and Reading, Third Edition
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Great resource, lots of ideas

Vinaigrettes - classical and not so classical

Shouldn't a vinaigrette have vinegar?

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Perfect Vinaigrettes: Appetizers to Desserts
Linda Dannenberg
Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
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Binding: Hardcover

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Tossed with salad greens, drizzled over poached fish, pooled around a nest of steamed vegetables, marinating a rib roast, or glossing a plateful of sliced potatoes, vinaigrette sauces-when properly created-jazz up the most elementary foods. At first glance a painless process-just a swirl of oil, vinegar, seasoning, and perhaps some mustard and herbs-the making of a good vinaigrette is in fact an elusive art, even for accomplished home cooks. Perfect Vinaigrettes finally unveils the mystery of making a fabulous dressing.

The book's 60 recipes range from the most fundamental and familiar-oil and vinegar, or lemon and cream-to more complex concoctions: Herbed Lemon-Caper Sauce for grilled veal; Orange Vinaigrette for barbecued pork; Olive, Herb and Tomato Vinaigrette for grilled sea bass; Earl-Grey Tea Vinaigrette for a watermelon-Roquefort salad; Raspberry-Orange Vinaigrette for an elegant wild rice salad. Nestled among them are tantalizing creations by renowned chefs, such as Ariane Daguin's Gascony Vinaigrette, to be served with a duck salad; Andr Soltner's tangy Lutece Vinaigrette, with a hint of onion and Tabasco; and three-star chef Pierre Gagnaire's Fruited Eggplant Vinaigrette for prawns or lobster tails.

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Great resource, lots of ideas.......2007-09-23

I think this is a great resource for salad and dressing ideas. I use the coleslaw recipe all the time and people rave about it. The quickie Caesar vinaigrette is also very good. Well worth buying!

Vinaigrettes - classical and not so classical.......2004-12-06

This book concentrates on the basics of vinaigrettes - the fundamental ingredients, classical additions, techniques, adjusting for the food context. It also expands the class of vinaigrettes to include sauces with alternative acids, most often citrus, or alternative oils such as yogurt.

Recipes for vinaigrettes are provided for green salads, composed salads, vegetables, fish, meat and fruit. These recipes demonstrate the creative adaption of the fundamentals into actual finished foods. Most of the recipes are simple to cook even when creating complex flavors. The ingredients for most recipes are basic; a few more "exotic" recipes nudge the creativity of even the most accomplished cook.

This is an excellent book for a cook who wishes to thoroughly learn the basics in order to become a creative cook, confident of their own adaptations to particular ingredients and pairings.

Shouldn't a vinaigrette have vinegar?.......2002-10-03

Generally, this book does a good job covering the class of sauces having an acid component, but I think the author could have done a better job compiling recipes of true vinaigrettes. Of the 60 recipes in the book, fully one third don't have vinegar as an ingredient; these generally use citrus juice as their acid. That's all well and good if you're just looking for a tangy dressing, but these definitely are not vinaigrettes. And while this probably isn't much of a failing if you're not a vinaigrette purist, the book has a few other failings as well.

While most of the recipes are extremely simple, some are unnecessarily difficult to follow the first time through, and many of the ingredients are definitely beyond the pale of what is available at the average city market.

The author does seem to have a good sense of flavor and offers many useful tips for how to create an effective sauce, but overall the book could have done a better job with the topic.

Tired of Store Bought Dressings?.......1999-11-30

"If you know how to prepare a vinaigrette, then you know how to cook" Stephanie Sedgwick quoted from "Perfect Vinaigrettes Appetizers to Desserts"

Although great vinaigrettes seem to be somewhat of a lost art (especially in today's world of pre-made dressings). Linda Dannenberg leads the way for any that are eager to learn the necessary techniques of making perfect vinaigrettes.

In her beautifully done book "Perfect Vinaigrettes Appetizers to Desserts" Dannenberg takes the mystery out of preparing perfect vinaigrettes by walking the reader step by step through the process. Broken down into easy to read sections the book is a great starter for the beginner cook or an excellent reference for the more advanced. Perfect Vinaigrettes is not at all overwhelming, in fact it is a fairly small book. I found that the recipes were very easy to follow, and the accompanying photography excellent.

There are many things that I like about this book, but what I liked best is the different stages it goes through in explaining to the reader how to prepare a truly great vinaigrette. In her introduction Dannenberg starts off by pointing out some of the philosophy behind making vinaigrettes and states that "something as simple as mixing oil, vinegar, and seasonings is often very difficult even for the best of cooks". Even though a vinaigrette has the potential for disaster, Dannenberg ensures you that all you need to know to create a perfect vinaigrette is elementary, the quality of your ingredients and the proportion.

Putting aside the philosophy of vinaigrettes, Dannenberg then goes into great detail describing the different components that make up a perfect vinaigrette. I found this to be an excellent section of the book, and aptly titled "The Vinaigrette Pantry". It is here that the reader will find such excellent information as to what purpose a particular ingredient serves, and recommended brands to use. An especially nice touch was the addition of an appendix (near the back of the book) of quality food purveyors where the reader can obtain the recommended brands.

The rest of the book is devoted primarily to the preparation and use of various types of vinaigrettes. Beginning with the most basic vinaigrettes, the book builds on this base throughout the book as it progresses towards the more advanced vinaigrettes. With over sixty excellent vinaigrette recipes through the book (many of the recipes are from top chefs from around the country) the book is an excellent resource for new vinaigrette ideas. Even if you don't feel very comfortable with the more advanced vinaigrettes, the beginning vinaigrettes will give you good base of simple vinaigrettes that you can try different variations with, and still achieve a great vinaigrette.

Perfect Vinaigrettes is an excellent book and offers a refreshing look at vinaigrettes, salads, and their preparation. If you are tired of the store bought dressings I highly recommend Linda Dannenberg's Perfect Vinaigrettes.

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A comprehensive overview of the supply and demand picture for natural resources globally.

Many analysts now believe that a tightening of natural resources (oil, gas, grains, metals) is opening the door to tremendous investment opportunity. Roland Jansen provides a fully up-to-date examination of investing and trading in natural resources through prudent, realistic, yet profitable means, including stocks, futures, and mutual funds.

Roland A. Jansen (Liechtenstein & the Netherlands) is Director of LLB Fondsleitung AG, the fund management company of Liechtensteinische Landesbank.

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Keep buying energy: Oil has already doubled in price ........1999-07-26

"Profits from Natural Resources" appeared in the book stores in November 1998, when nobody paid attention to commodities and oil was trading at $ 10 a barrel. Now oil has doubled in price and natural resources as an investment sector has been sofar one of the hottest and best performing sectors of 1999. Say no more !

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Straight Talk About Mutual Funds New And updated Edition
Dian Vujovich
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WOMAFC

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Through the selection of current articles, the goal of this Annual Editions is to present some different perspectives on understanding basic concepts and concerns of business ethics and to provide ideas on how to incorporate these concepts into the policies and decision-making processes of businesses.

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In the increasingly global economy, domestic tax policies have taken on a new importance for international economics. This unique volume compares the tax reform experiences of Canada and the United States, two countries with the world's largest bilateral flow of trade and investment.

With the signing of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the tax reforms of the 1980s, there has been some harmonization of tax systems. But geographic, cultural, and political characteristics shape distinct national social policies that may impede harmonization. As the U.S. and Canadian economies become even more integrated, differences in tax systems will have important effects, in particular on the relative rates of economic growth.

In this timely study, scholars from both countries show that, while the United States and Canada exhibit similar corporate tax structures and income tax systems, they have very different approaches to sales tax and social security taxes. Despite these differences, the two countries generate roughly the same amounts of revenue, produce similar costs of capital, and produce comparable distributions of income.

Canada-U.S. Tax Comparisons. (book reviews): An article from: Government Finance Review

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Canada-U.S. Tax Comparisons. (book reviews): An article from: Government Finance Review
Paul Ambos
Manufacturer: Government Finance Officers Association
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on August 1, 1993. The length of the article is 814 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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Title: Canada-U.S. Tax Comparisons. (book reviews)
Author: Paul Ambos
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1993
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: v9 Issue: n4 Page: p42(2)

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Canada-U.S. Tax Comparisons. (book reviews): An article from: National Tax Journal

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Canada-U.S. Tax Comparisons. (book reviews): An article from: National Tax Journal
Michael Rushton
Manufacturer: National Tax Association
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This digital document is an article from National Tax Journal, published by National Tax Association on March 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3519 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: Michael Rushton
Publication: National Tax Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1994
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Volume: 47 Issue: n1 Page: 229-235

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Life is wonderful! Ellen prepares for a family vacation and has just been picked to dance in a special performance at school. All of the glitter and hope in her life comes crashing down, though, when Ellen learns that her mother has breast cancer. In a rare yet necessary novel, Theresa Tomlinson waxes frankly about what it is like for young people when a parent is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Readers will witness Ellen's selfishness, worry, and--ultimately--her courage, as she begins to process her mother's condition.

Poignantly woven into the tale is the story of the uncovering of an ancient healing spring on Ellen's school grounds. At first Ellen and her chums think the spring is just a muddy, fetid, trash-strewn bog. It takes courage to trust their teacher and believe that with some earnest muscle power they could reclaim the spring. In Dancing Through the Shadows metaphors run strong and wild, just like a healing brook. Through uncovering the muddy bog, Ellen gathers the strength necessary to be of real support to her mother. Lovely, refreshing, and just what the doctor ordered in great literature for teens.

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Into the pattern of Ellen's days, filled with dance practice and vacation plans, comes an unwelcome surprise: her mother has breast cancer. Suddenly her family's life hinges on endless rounds of hospital visits and support groups, cancer nurses and chemotherapy. Ellen learns to cope with her mother's illness as she helps uncover an ancient secret that holds special meaning for her. As they work and learn together, her friends and teachers guide her through her own healing process shaped by life-giving water and life-affirming dance. In Dancing Through the Shadows, Theresa Tomlinson describes a family faced with a devastating crisis. In her sensitive handling of the topic she has written an exceptionally heart-warming and hopeful novel.

Touching The Shadows A Love Tested And Renewed

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It is hard to put down, must keep reading!

Touching The Shadows A Love Tested And Renewed
Bruce Nygren
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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Many issues can strain a marriage relationship, but none is as challenging as a life-threatening illness. Every year, almost two hundred thousand women are diagnosed with breast cancer. When Racinda Nygren joined the ranks of these women, she and her husband, Bruce, were thrust into an agonizing season of their marriage. With warmth and depth, Bruce shares their moving story. Touching the Shadows shows the power of love and faith amid a harrowing trial and will encourage readers to renew their own commitment to their spouse and celebrate God's special gift of love together.

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It is hard to put down, must keep reading!.......2001-03-21

I've never been a non-fiction reader but i must say that this book is very interesting. I am not fully done with it yet but i cant seem to put it down. Bruce Nygren uses such wonderful detail in this book, and you almost feel like he is talking to you. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in true sotries about real life situations.

Victoria's Story: A Journey Through the Shadows of Breast Cancer

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Victoria's Story: A Journey Through the Shadows of Breast Cancer
Victoria Fenwick
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
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