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Engineers, Architects & Lawyers and the High Stakes Game They Play
Tony Kyzer
Manufacturer: Caesar Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0966611209

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Engineers, Architects, & Lawyers: And the High Stakes Games They Play.
Tony. Kyzer
Manufacturer: Caesar Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P64PT6

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Everyone hopes for a rewarding and fulfilling career, but the day-to-day reality can be just the opposite. The routine of our jobs, office politics, and problematic projects can often be the cause of frustration, worry, and disappointment. The quest to find personal satisfaction, much less pride in our work, can be daunting.

It doesn’t have to be that way. According to Nancy O’Hara, we can find meaning in our jobs—but the first thing we have to do is look within ourselves. Grounded in principles of Zen Buddhism and full of real-life stories, Work from the Inside Out presents a simple plan to reclaim your job and your life—and ultimately find the ability to truly love what you do.

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A workbook for being happy with the work you have now.......2003-02-28

Nancy O'Hara's book is an excellent guide to finding satisfaction at work - including your current employment (for those who prefer to stay or do not have an option to leave) or planning on new employment/career.

The book is a slow read - there are numerous exercises which take time and are meant to be part of the self discovery process. I recommend reading the entire text first before doing the exercises; it will help you better understand the logic and flow.

If you're looking for a quick fix or career guide, this isn't the book for you. If you are looking to change your own attitudes and action toward your work, this is ideal.

I found it excellent.

A good book to self-revelation, true and honest........2003-01-27

It took me awhile to finish reading this book. Not because it is boring, but I'd rather to read it thoroughly. I'd like to enjoy the exercise Nancy offers us, to take one day at a time, to take one step at a time for even the smallest change I decided to make. I successfully made an honest confession to myself and finally found a path of life that I was longing to find, both on my career decisions and personal life. This is a simple book that requires your patience, sincerity, honesty and compassion to get through our denial stage and to finally find our "true" decision out of so many choices in life. Read it full-heartedly, be honest and consistent... then, you'll find your way!

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Slight but mighty

Excellent cook book

Quiches & Savories (Le Cordon Bleu Home Collection)
France) Cordon Bleu (School : Paris
Manufacturer: Periplus Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 9625934480

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Slight but mighty.......2007-04-16

This surprisingly good cookbook may look slight but each page is packed with valuable information and hints to help even a novice produce excellent food right away. Recipes are graded as to level of difficulty, also a plus. I do a lot of baking and it's nice to see so much valuable information about pastry collected in one place - even the veteran quiche maker will find some good tips (how to prevent a soggy crust, for example). The savories section is particularly valuable, offering an enticing array of items suitable for appetizers, most of which can be prepared in advance.

Excellent cook book.......2007-01-08

I think this is a great book to make quiches and very easy to follow. I recommend it, its greatly priced too.

Wonderful World of Pizzas, Quiches and Savory Pies

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Wonderful World of Pizzas, Quiches and Savory Pies
Anna Teresa Callen
Manufacturer: Wings
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Binding: Hardcover

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Release Date: 1996-09-04

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The Book of Quiches and Savory Pies
Mandy Phipps
Manufacturer: HP Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1557884528

Book Description

Savory dishes that make low-carb living easy.

This new title in the popular "Book Of" series serves up the perfect recipes for quiches that can be served as appetizers, snacks, or meals. These easy-to-make quiches and savory pies make low-carb living easy, with simple, detailed recipes accompanied by step-by-step full-color photographs of delectable quiche creations.

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Cheese Sweets & Savories
Steve Sherman
Manufacturer: Viking/Allen Lane
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0828904642

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PIZZAS, QUICHES & SAVORY PIES.

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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PIZZAS, QUICHES & SAVORY PIES.
ANNA TERESA CALLEN
Manufacturer: Crown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GKTE6U

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PIZZAS, QUICHES, AND SAVORY PIES.

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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PIZZAS, QUICHES, AND SAVORY PIES.
ANNA TERESA CALLEN
Manufacturer: Crown
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Binding: Hardcover
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Wonderful Wrold of Pizzas, Quiches, & Savory Pies

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Wonderful Wrold of Pizzas, Quiches, & Savory Pies
Anna Teresa Callen
Manufacturer: Crown Publishers
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SET OF TWO COMPLETE COOKBOOKS: - / The Wonderful World of Pizzas, Quiches, and Savory Pies / Microwave Gourmet Healthstyle Cookbook / - [HARDCOVER]

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SET OF TWO COMPLETE COOKBOOKS: - / The Wonderful World of Pizzas, Quiches, and Savory Pies / Microwave Gourmet Healthstyle Cookbook / - [HARDCOVER]
Anna Teresa Callen , and Barbara Kafka
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000T8SD48

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PIXXAS, QUICHES, AND SAVORY PIES.

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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PIXXAS, QUICHES, AND SAVORY PIES.
Anna Theresa: Callen
Manufacturer: Crown Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LY1K7C

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Fantastic and open minded!

William E. Donoghue's Mutual Fund Superstars: Invest in the Best, Forget About the Rest
William E. Donoghue
Manufacturer: Elliott & James
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0963789902

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Fantastic and open minded!.......1999-06-17

I loved this book because it explores all mutual fund vehicles including sub-accounts of life insurance products. Many consumers will be introduced more to the insurance products in his next book "100% tax free investing"

Mutual Fund Superstars: Invest in the Best, Forget About the Rest

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Informative description of benefits of VUL insurance product

Mutual Fund Superstars: Invest in the Best, Forget About the Rest
William E. Donoghue
Manufacturer: Elliott & James Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0963789910

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Informative description of benefits of VUL insurance product.......1998-07-12

This is, among other things, one of few available positive viewpoints about Variable Universal Life insurance product (Ch.16) availabe for investors with the objective of tax advantage. The subject of VUL is mudded with misapprehansion and misunderstanding even among seasoned financial planners. W.E. Donogue has the courage to stand above the crowd of sceptics with solid logic and helpfull hints. So, I can recommend this reading to anyone interested in the subject.

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Common sense, how to for gaterhing information and data

Believable, credible and useful!

The Success Case Method: Find Out Quickly What's Working and What's Not
Robert O. Brinkerhoff
Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Telling Training's Story: Evaluation Made Simple, Credible, and Effective

High Impact Learning

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ASIN: 1576751856

Book Description

The Success Case Method (SCM) offers a simple, carefully crafted way of determining how well a new organizational initiative is working. Already shown to be effective in dozens of organizations, SCM is based on five steps: focusing and planning the study; clearly defining what outcomes will be considered "success"; identifying success cases; conducting interviews to learn exactly how success was achieved; and communicating results throughout the organization.

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Common sense, how to for gaterhing information and data.......2006-03-13

Dr. Brinkerhoff makes evaluating training tangible and easy to implement. I am a visual learner and the stories he tells about his experiences were very helpful to me. I also like the fact he found out what did not work in training classes. Many times he found out that the follow up or coaching was not done by the manager. This was a great reminder that implementation and how the coaches implement needs to be part of the training program. Coaches/managers need to be held accountable too.

As a result I have identified employees who I will interview to capture their successes.

Believable, credible and useful!.......2003-02-18

Finally! A simple, fast and credible evaluation tool that can be used to tell what is working in a new initiative, what is not working, and how the initiative could be more successful. This description sums up the evaluation technique described in The Success Case Method by Robert O. Brinkherhoff, a professor at Western Michigan University and an internationally recognized expert in evaluation and training effectiveness. If you are a manager trying to make things work better in your organization, this book will show you how to get compelling evidence that decision makers can actually use.

The Success Case Method is a simple book. Step by step, it takes you through the Success Case methodology, starting with planning the success case and creating an Impact Model. This model defines what success should look like. In completing the Impact Model, successful behaviors and results are listed that will happen if the initiative is working well. In leading up to successful application, the model includes the critical actions participants need to demonstrate to make success happen. It highlights the "line of sight," the linkage of an organizational initiative, to key business goals. The process is brief and concise, not strategic and comprehensive. It communicates the "business case" for the initiative -- how the capability produced in a new initiative can be used in actual performance to help achieve business goals.

The remaining chapters describe the process and tools used to search and identify the most likely success cases -- the stories that you need to understand and tell -- to figure out how well a new initiative is working. From the survey results, guidelines are then offered on interviewing respondents to determine what is really happening on the job as a result of application of the learned skills, what results are being achieved, the value of those results, and what could be done to get more people to use the skills.

Once the interviews have been completed, the author provides guidance in the creation and communication of Success Case study reports. Readers will learn how to create reports that are compelling and useful. Reports will drive not just an understanding of results, but help more people take action on those results. A Success Case study report also suggests changes that can be made to the initiative, the delivery of the initiative, or even the audience for whom the initiative is intended to strengthen the application of skills.

The methodology provides the means to combine storytelling with rigorous evaluation methods and principles to combine the credibility of scientific findings with the emotional impact of stories. The stories cite solid evidence and are backed by corroboration and documentation. The stories are verifiable accounts of the actions and results real people have experienced when applying learned skills in the workplace.

Overall, The Success Case Method is a must read for anyone involved in evaluating the impact of learning initiatives or anyone trying to get things to work better in their organization. The book presents simple tools, helpful illustrations, examples and checklists to use the Success Case Method constructively and easily. The end result of using this methodology is credible evidence that is believable, compelling and useful.

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The purpose of this book is to help you prepare yourself to pass Part 1 of the September 2000 IRS Special Enrollment Exam (SEE), which we refer to as the EA (enrolled agent) exam. Our overriding concern is to provide an effective, easy-to-use, and inexpensive preparation program. This manual

1. Defines topics tested on Part 1 of the EA examination.

2. Explains how to optimize your grade by analyzing how the EA exam is constructed and graded.

3. Suggests exam-taking techniques to help you maximize your exam score.

4. Outlines all of the subject matter tested on Part 1 of the EA exam in 10 easy-to-use study units reflecting 1999 tax law (which will be tested on the 2000 EA exam).

5. Reorganizes past exam questions according to the subunits within each of the 10 study units and presents an intuitively appealing explanation of each objective question answer.

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Three individual cases containing the following: Part One: Individuals - 5 cds. Part Two: Businesses - 6 cds. Part Three: Representation, Practice, and Procedures - 4 cds. From the back of the box: Each audio review consists of Thorough overview explaining core concepts and reinforcing the knowledge attained from studying the books, software, and/or Online Course. Presentations by Knowledge Transfer Specialists Digitally remastered for optimum clarity.

EA Review; Part 2 Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships

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EA Review; Part 2 Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships
Irvin N. Gleim , and James R Hasselback
Manufacturer: Gleim Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1581940394

Gleim's EA Review for the IRS Special Enrollment Exam 2005: Part 2 Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships

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Gleim's EA Review for the IRS Special Enrollment Exam 2005: Part 2 Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships
Irvin N. Gleim and James R. Hasselback
Manufacturer: Gleim Publications, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
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Gleim's Ea Review for the IRS Special Enrollment Exam Part 2 - Businesses 2007

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Gleim's Ea Review for the IRS Special Enrollment Exam Part 2 - Businesses 2007
Irvin N. Gleim and James R. Hasselback
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000S5WD6Q

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The analysis of decision making under uncertainty has again become a major focus of interest. This volume presents contributions from leading specialists in different fields and provides a summary and synthesis of work in this area. It is based on a conference held at the Harvard Business School. The book brings together the different approaches to decision making - normative, descriptive, and prescriptive - which largely correspond to different disciplinary interests. Mathematicians have concentrated on rational procedures for decision making - how people should make decisions. Psychologists have examined how poeple do make decisions, and how far their behaviour is compatible with any rational model. Operations researchers study the application of decision models to actual problems. Throughout, the aim is to present the current state of research and its application and also to show how the different disciplinary approaches can inform one another and thus lay the foundations for the integrated analysis of decision making. The book will be of interest to researchers, teachers - for use as background reading for a decision theory course - students, and consultants and others involved in the practical application of the analysis of decision making. It will be of interest to specialists and students in statistics, mathematics, economics, psychology and the behavioural sciences, operations research, and management science.

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Another lovely Hoosier memoir

A Girl Named Zippy

I liked reading a memoir that was just plain fun

A bit lacking in zip...

Just What I Needed ....

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)
Haven Kimmel
Manufacturer: Broadway
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0767915054
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Book Description

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.

Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.

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Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.

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Another lovely Hoosier memoir.......2007-10-14

I am originally from NW Indiana, so Mooreland is too far away from my childhood. But I enjoyed this easy read, the beautiful prose, and how the author wrote from a young girl's perspective.

She loved and adored her family, although her father's gambling and her mother's depression were hardly touched but maybe that is why Kimmel wrote a second book. Depression in the 1960s was stricly a woman's problem and of no concern to men and thus of no value to society.

Zippy was the youngest of three children. Her two older siblings were years older than her. She learned to admire them from a young age.

Smalltown life is wonderfully depicted in this little book. Ignorant farmers, arrogant Californians, mean old ladies lurking behind dark curtains (at least that is from a child's mind) all come to life here.

Because there was no epilogue in the end, the book leaves us wondering what happened to all the characters. Where did Dana go? What happened to Julie? How are her parents now, if they are still around? Did her brother follow ministry? There are so many questions left unanswered.

A Girl Named Zippy.......2007-10-01

Cute and thoughtful. An easy read that makes you remember how things were different way back when.

I liked reading a memoir that was just plain fun.......2007-08-29

I was able to laugh through this memoir..I have since picked up her second memoir and I am saving that for a rainy (or snowy) day when I can kick back and read it all day long-

A bit lacking in zip..........2007-08-07

It seems as though everyone these days feels compelled to write an autobiography, and Kimmel was no exception. Born in 1965 in small-town Indiana, the author recalls her childhood, when she was known as "Zippy" for her talent at racing from place to place.

While some of Kimmel's story is intriguing -- her best friend Julie, strangely mute; her friend Dana, who arrives from L.A. in the second grade, wearing a black leather jacket -- much of her recollections are just run-of-the-mill little-girl recollections. While most of us can relate to lazy summer afternoons, browsing comics at the store or visiting friends, there's usually got to be some compelling reason to want to read about others' experiences doing the same. As far as I could see, there was really no unique "hook," or anything that made me think, "Wow, this person is worthy of a book!"

Don't get me wrong; it's not a BAD book. It's just not likely to stay in your memory for more than a day.

Just What I Needed ...........2007-06-27

I just picked this book up at a rummage sale. Whoever donated it to the sale has my undying gratitude because this book was the sweetest and funniest book I have read in quite some time. I am a fan of memoirs and biographies but this one is so unlike any others that I am now hooked on Kimmel's writings. I want more Zippy!

Like Zippy, who is four years older than I am by the way, I grew up in a small midwestern town but not as small as hers! I would be considered big city girl in comparison! But the midwestern attitude is so familiar that reading this book was like traveling down memory lane for me! She's the youngest in a family of three kids. Her older brother and sister were already in Junior high by the time she arrived. Her mother refers to her lovingly as an "after thought." That is how the book started out (well, almost). Named Haven at birth, her dad decided to call her Zippy since she could never sit still. You can say that her memories of childhood reeked of love, laughter and cigarettes.

Zippy is precocious. Zippy is curious. Zippy is Zippy, a character that you will never forget. My favorite part is the scene where her sister told her that she's adopted. Outraged, she stomps in and asks her mother if that's true. Her mother stops reading for a moment and says, yes, you are. A band of roving gypsies with a pack of wolves that stand up and preach during a full moon came through the area. The whole conversation had me repeating it to my husband as it was so hilarious and something exactly like what my father would spin out to me when I was a child.

I haven't raved about a book in a real long time though I have read lots of really good books ~~ but this book is something I am going to urge my book club to read sometime in the next year. It is something I think we'll enjoy because not only is it funny and engaging, but it talks about a childhood that is now lost in the mists of time. Building your own bike? Who does that anymore? There are many instances in this book that I remember doing as a kid or have heard my parents do when they were kids. I know that Christmas is more different today than it was in the early 70s. It seems to be a simpler time back then even though it was harder especially after the Vietnam War ended. It was a time of change but Zippy had a happy childhood and those memories are funny and bittersweet.

This book comes highly recommended. If you need a laugh, this book is a good place to get one! It is just a really good read and perfect for a summer read!

6-28-07

A Girl Named Zippy - Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana

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A Girl Named Zippy - Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana
Haven Kimmel
Manufacturer: Broadway Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1OASW

Girl Named Zippy, A: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana

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Girl Named Zippy, A: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
Haven Kimmel
Manufacturer: Ebury Press
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Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

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Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana
Haven Kimmel
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K376S6

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