Directory of Grants in the Humanities, 2003/2004: Seventeenth Edition (Directory of Grants in the Humanities)

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Grants are supposed to enable work, not create more of it. You need a guide, a map, and the right tools for the job. Helping you from your earliest brainstorms to fully funded projects, this essential directory offers countless tips and resources for artists and arts organizations seeking funding for performances, exhibits, residencies, general operations, fellowships, and numerous other program types. This invaluable directory highlights over 3,650 current programs from 2,106 sponsors, including U.S. and foreign foundations, corporations, state arts councils and government agencies, and other organizations. Each record includes: BLGrant titleBLDescriptionBLRequirementsBLAmountBLApplicatio deadlineBLContact information (phone, fax, and email)BLInternet accessBLSponsor name and addressBLSamples of awarded grants (when available) Four indexes-subject, sponsoring organization, program type, and geographic-help you identify the right program quickly. Also included is "A Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing," by Jeremy Miner and Lynn Miner, which offers essential tips on the grantseeking process.

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Business Research Handbook is the best strategic approach to research. It gives you ready-to-adapt strategies that streamline and focus your information search, complete with:

* Procedures that progressively sift and regroup your research
* Decision points that allow you to evaluate which steps remain
* The most cost-effective ways to take advantage of today's electronic media resources
* Efficient ways to retrieve the information your search has located easy-to-adapt sample research strategies are found throughout the book to help you confidently and quickly conduct your research in unfamiliar areas.

You'll find Business Research Handbook designed in a graphic, user-friendly format with easy-to-recognize icons as reference pointers and extensive lists of sources and material to help you obtain the information you need to:

* Compile biographical information on key players or parties
* Investigate potential business partners or competitors
* Engage in marketing research
* Compile a company profile
* Locate expert witnesses and verify credentials
* And much more

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Authoritative source for locating electronic business data.......1999-01-07

The Business Research Handbook (Methods and Sources for Lawyers and Business Professionals) by Kathy Shimpock is a must buy. This noted author and lecturer has taken a very difficult subject - retrieving business factual information - but immensely valuable one and simplified it for legal professionals. This book covers basic research strategies, research tools, and how to retrieve information from libraries, government agencies, corporations, associations and a host of other organizations. Information can be located in areas such as accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing and insurance, retrieving government publications, corporate information, expert witness location and background research and a private company profile. Over the last 15 years we have observed and experienced an information communication revolution. As the Internet and other electronic sources continue their phenomenal growth it has become the first stop for legal researchers in collecting factual information. The foundation of this revolution is the fact that most information is available electronically today through the Internet, online databases or CD-ROM (soon DVD). However, one still must know how and where to look for this information. Knowledge derived from such information is indispensable in the practice of law. The uses for this information are endless. It can be used to counsel clients, for your opening and closing arguments, for counseling information for sentencing hearings, doing background research on a potential client, adverse party or employer or preparing for cross-examination of expert witnesses. The uses are only limited by the needs of your clients. If you are interested in an exhaustive, authoritative book that directs you to factual sources important to your practice and clients buy this one. Finding online nonlegal information is a must for lawyers as we transition into the new millenium. This book will start you down this valuable path.

Business Research Handbook: Methods and Sources for Lawyers and Business Professionals. (2005-1 Supplement).

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Business Research Handbook: Methods and Sources for Lawyers and Business Professionals. (2005-1 Supplement).
Kathy E Shimpock
Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: B000N65WL8

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"How to Work a Room" works for me

Practical and effective techniques

Keep looking.. this is not the book you need..

This book is really intended for women, not men

Well organized and sets out an effective strategy

How to Work a Room: A Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling
Susan Roane
Manufacturer: S.P.I. Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0944007066

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"How to Work a Room" works for me.......2003-12-22

How do you judge whether a "How-to" book is worthwhile? With business books, I ask one simple question: After reading the book, did I bring away at least one thing that made a positive, measureable difference in my life? If so, it was worth the time and money spent on it. "How to Work a Room" is just such a book. I picked this book up while waiting for someone, opened it to a random page, and read the short section on meeting people at parties by "acting like a host instead of a guest". A week later I went to a meeting of an organization I wanted to join, and found that I arrived at the same time as the woman in charge. Remembering what I had read, I immediately pitched in (before even introducing myself, and ignoring her pro forma protests) to help her get set up. Along the way, we introduced ourselves, and as the other officers drifted in, I was introduced to them (with the president's obvious stamp of approval), and so on until not only was I known to everybody there, but I was in the thick of things as a comfortable part of the inner circle. Now, maybe everybody else in the world already knows this stuff, but this kinda shy 40-something man didn't. I made more friends and business contacts in 3 hours than I had in the entire month before. Bottom line: I haven't even read more than a few pages yet and I've already got my positive, measureable difference! Buy it, read it, use it.

Practical and effective techniques.......2000-11-20

How to Work a Room includes very practical common sense ideas that can help overcome fear and shyness as well as offering encouragement for putting the ideas into practice. Ms RoAne set our to write a book that would enable anyone, particularly someone prone to fright at large crowds, to walk into a room and connect with people. Her techniques can help wallflowers move into the mainstream of a business or social gathering and have a more satisfying time (and have more fun). For example, one of Ms. RoAne's more powerful techniques is to encourage moving from guest behavior to hosting behavior. The idea is simple and non-threatening, yet by providing a purpose to interact with others at a gathering, a user of this technique can turn a situation that is usually intimidating into a good experience. Other techniques and strategies are also useful and all are summarized in the final chapter as the ten commandments of connecting with people.

A reader focussing mostly on the techniques presented by the author and not taking some of the examples too literally will benefit most from this book. I have seen her strategies and techniques work first hand and recommend this book.

Keep looking.. this is not the book you need.........2000-10-01

..if you really want to learn how to work a room. The book is written for women who are shy. Even if that describes you, there are better books to read. Most of the book addresses the issues of how to shake hands, how not to wear see-through blouses, and how to avoid having sex at trade shows. Unless these are burning issues for you, you will find nothing of value in this book. I am a professional consultant and attend conferences and networking events several times per month. I bought the book in an airport, read the first half, skimmed the second half and left it on the plane for the next person. It was a waste of an hour and a half and [my money]. Save yourself the time and expense, unless you are a 22 year female college grad in her first sales job who needs instruction on who to flirt without getting in over your head and need to be told that you shouldn't have sex at trade shows.

This book is really intended for women, not men.......2000-06-05

How to Work a Room is a reasonably good book, but I think women will get a whole lot more out of it than men will. I, as a man, was not terribly interested in worrying about being hit on by my co-workers ("The Intercepted Pass") or dressing in a business appropriate fashion. There are good points for both men and women, but these can also be found in other materials.

Well organized and sets out an effective strategy.......1999-09-25

This is a book fabulous. There are a few things that are common sense, but sometimes its good to have such things presented in the way this book does. Its an effective book and can have a powerful effect on a persons social life.

How to Work a Room : A Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling

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How to Work a Room : A Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling
Susan RoAne
Manufacturer: General Publishing Company, Limited
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HN12XE

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How to Work a Room : A Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling
SUSAN ROANE
Manufacturer: General Publishing Company, Limited
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000FA73H8

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Great for getting you out of your shell

HOW TO WORK A ROOM A GUIDE TO SUCCESSFULLY MANAGING THE MINGLING

Manufacturer: Shapolsky Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FPEM2M

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Great for getting you out of your shell.......2006-09-06

While I consider myself a person with a good understanding of manners, one thing I have lacked is the confidence to start a conversation with just about anyone. This book has given me a lot of tips to do just that and have the know how to follow up afterwards. I read several reviews of her newer book by the same title and found a lot of the reviews to say this book was too basic and that there was a lot of unnecessary info. I'm not a fast reader and I finished this book easily in a week. Even if there is extra info, it's not something you drag yourself through.

I'm going to be recommending it to those I work with.

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HOW TO WORK A ROOM A Guide To Successfully Managing The Mingling
Susan Roane
Manufacturer: Shapolsky Publishers, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IQ2YUK

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They say that in this world it's not what you know, but who you know. No other book I have seen will do more for you than this one in the area of making connections and developing professional contacts.

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How to Work a Room a Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling
SUSAN ROANE
Manufacturer: Commonwealth
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000TR68CS

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How to Work A Room, A Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling
Susan RoAne
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Binding: Hardcover
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How to Work a Room: A Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling
Susan Roane
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLD5K2

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How to Work a Room: a Guide to Successfully Managing the Mingling

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BEST book I have ever had

Betty Crocker Basics: How to Cook and Entertain with Confidence (Betty Crocker Books)
Betty Crocker Editors
Manufacturer: Betty Crocker
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Betty Crocker Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, New Tenth Edition

ASIN: 0764596454

Book Description

2 great books, 1 low price!

Cooking Basics and Entertaining Basics—all in one accessible guide

Do you yearn to cook something tasty for dinner, but don't know where to start?

Want to host an easy and elegant cocktail party for friends, but aren't quite sure how to do it?

Now you can—with a little help from Betty Crocker! With this 2-in-1 book, you'll learn to cook and entertain with confidence in no time. First, Cooking Basics gives you the guidance you need on kitchen tools and equipment, ingredients, cooking methods and more, complete with how-to photographs that guide you every step of the way. It includes the 100 recipes you most want to prepare—and shows you how to cook them, from Juicy Hamburgers to Caesar Salad to Frozen Chocolate Mousse. Then, Entertaining Basics gets you into party mode with a simple Entertaining Equation that helps you combine people, food, setting and planning into one great time. With the help of crowd-pleasing recipes and fun decorating ideas to get you started, you'll be completely confident throwing a party.

Betty Crocker Basics gives you:

200 delicious recipes for virtually every type of occasion
More than 150 illustrated cooking how-to's, from chopping a tomato to carving a turkey
Special menus for casual get-togethers as well as Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays
Simple do-ahead tips, serving suggestions and presentation ideas
Hundreds of color photos of techniques and finished dishes
And much more

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BEST book I have ever had.......2007-01-06

This was given to me as a gift when I got my first apartment 5 years ago. I still use it more than any other cookbook I've ever had.

This is a great item for someone who's never cooked before or someone who has a little experience too. Rather than just recipes, it starts out with the real basic stuff. What gear do you really need for your kitchen and what's nice to have. What do you use all that stuff for anyway? How do you cook something simple like a chicken breast?

It progresses into lots of simple, fast recipes (like chili or just how to broil a steak), before moving on to slightly more complex things that you'll want to do frequently (like all the fixings for Thanksgiving dinner!).

I purchased this as a gift for a cousin this year moving out of her parents' place. My only comment on this version is that the binding doesn't stay open on its own like when you buy the cooking basics or entertaining basics separately like I have. Minor thing, but it might make a difference to you.

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The concept of profiting from trading volatility is not new, but is known to only a few players in the derivatives industry. Buying and Selling Volatility is the first book to explain this trading strategy in detail without using complex mathematics. Offering a new approach to the subject of options, seen purely from a volatility viewpoint, the author uses illustrations to clearly explain the connection between volatility and options. He explains how investors can profit from the volatility, or lack of volatility, of an option price regardless of whether the market rises or falls. Useful to both novice investors and professional traders, Buying and Selling Volatility also supplies the reader with a risk management software system that is comparable to those used commercially.

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Great Introduction to Volatility.......2006-05-02

To get the most out of this book one needs to understand its original objectives. Many reviews seem to be critical of its elementary nature and concentrate on disputing its usefulness to those involved in advanced quantitative finance. I was initially skeptical of this book but a colleague insisted I look at it.

Connolly's analysis of option volatility and the `Greeks' is brief but precise and always to the point. (Why take five pages when you can do it in one?) The book is written without the use of complex equations so as not to intimidate the reader and appeal to a wider audience of new entrants to the field (both academic and practical). It is not intended to be the definitive options strategy guide guaranteeing instant profits. It does however give the reader a solid grounding in options fundamentals and leaves the reader confident in their ability to tackle texts of a more advanced nature.

Those comparing the lack of detail in this book to more advanced works have completely missed the point of this text. Even today, no other book (including Baird) equals this text in terms of introducing and explaining the mechanics of options.

Update needed but okay for beginners.......2005-09-07

Kevin B. Connoly's "Buying and Selling Volatility" is a useful work for beginning option traders and market makers, especially those coming from other fields. However, one should be strongly cautious on two fronts: 1) the book is now outdated by some years, both in strategies and more sophisticated technological advances (faster and better random number generators, automatic execution, VBA & C++ code, utilities, Excel advances, distributed networks, etc.); and 2) this book only addresses some simple strategies, and senior desks and hedge funds will be light years beyond those described here.

Both of these caveats are as one should expect from a book. Think about it, if Connolly had the holy grail of volatility trading, he would not write a book about it, he would be trading options.

This book, followed by Baird's superior work "Option Market Making" should give beginning junior traders and trainees a good foundation in basics, vocabulary, model techniques, etc. However, one should not look at this book as the only answer or a prime reference or authoritative. The chief advantage of BaSV is that it isolates option trading and techniques as a topic. In most other finance books, or even option pricing books, strategy and market making are left to the reader to figure out for themselves. Connolly joins Baird in writing from the perspective of a trader, not an academic. For this perspective alone it may be useful. However, for those with limited budgets, I suggest buying only Baird, and skipping this work.

Not worth the money.......2002-01-14

Very basic book not worth the $1.... I have been in the derivative market for 5 years. For a beginner, there are much better books out there that cover all the material of this book in one chapter.

To know what u're tradin'..........2001-02-17

The best way explained how an option price is calculated - use a dice ! The rest is ... idea-giving, good.

Good for beginners.........1998-11-12

I found this book to be a good beginner book in trading . The chapters didn't go into much depth for more advanced traders . I would say that if your imtimidated by math then this book will be a good buy , but if you want depth and a bang for your buck ..you could do better.

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Buying and Selling Volatility

Manufacturer: WILEY JOHN
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GTC0YE

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Citibank merged with Travelers. Daimler-Benz (Germany) acquired Chrysler (U.S.). In Japan three large banks combined to form the biggest bank in the world. What's going on? Cross-border and domestic megamergers continue to make headlines, but megamergers themselves are not new. What is new is their size. along with the fact that they increasingly occur across national boundaries. What are the consequences? Gup and his panel of distinguished contributors take a careful look. They explain why these combinations are occurring--the liberalization of markets, changes in technology, and the globalization of business generally are some reasons--and the possible results. They find that megamergers are risky--more than half of the cross-border ones do not add shareholder value--and they raise complicated, so far unanswered questions, such as "Who's going to bail these failures out when they're supposedly 'too big to fail' but do?" Also explored are topics on international regulatory issues and mergers in the banking industry specifically. Drawn from academia, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the contributors to this fascinating, understandable volume bring things into focus and perspective in ways that will be important to academics and practitioners alike.

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A straightforward, year-round tax planner that tells entrepreneurs in plain English how to accomplish something vital to the success of their business and dear to their hearts--saving taxes! Many entrepreneurs--from professionals in career transition to recent graduates creating their own jobs--have little or no business knowledge. They all need to deal with taxes, but most cannot or do not want to pay expensive professional fees for this information. This book's easy-to-read question-and-answer format explains clearly how readers can save taxes themselves, or use the information to help them save money on professional fees if they prefer to use accountants and other advisers.

Portrait Photography by Joseph Marranca. Used by Permission.

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Beat the Taxman! Easy Ways to Save Tax in Your Small Business, 2001 Edition, Updated for the 2000 Tax Year
Stephen Thompson
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MCUIFI

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1905 edition by México, Imprenta central.

El verdadero Juarez y la verdad sobre la intervencion y el imperio

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El verdadero Juarez y la verdad sobre la intervencion y el imperio
Francisco Bulnes
Manufacturer: Ediciones Ateneo
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Juárez y el Imperio
José Fuentes Mares
Manufacturer: Editorial Jus
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Binding: Library Binding

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A historical depiction of the war waged against French Imperialists by President Benito Juárez and the Mexican Republicans, aided by the US government, that helped preventing the instauration of an American monarchy.

This book is part three of a four part saga. The rest of its titles are Juárez y los Estados Unidos, Juárez y el Imperio and Juárez y la República.

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Lo que otros dicen.......2003-07-25

"Una valiosa lección de historia que debieran aprender los historiadores de partido, casta incorregible de destructores de la verdad. Es, ade más, un servicio a México, porque se esfuerza por entender posiciones y personajes protagónicos y por sintetizar en vez de proscribir." (Efraín González Luna)

"El esfuerzo de investigacion que revela esta obra es excelente; pero es sobre todo valiosa para mí su afirmación de la historia verdadera contra la mentira que asfixia a México. " (Manuel Gómez Morín)

"Con la obra de Fuentes Mares caen todos los mitos que acerca de aquel personaje de nuestra historia se habían erigido. Benito Juárez, puede decirse, ha empezado a morir como héroe, como hito en la historia de México." (Rubén Salazar Mallén)

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