Atlanta Jobbank 1999 (Atlanta Jobbank)

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The Adams JobBank series has been the leading series of employment directories since 1980. The entire series contains 4,000 employer listings of companies in all industries, with up-to-date information including:

Company profiles
Addresses
Phone & fax numbers
E-Mail & Web addresses
Hiring managers
Common professional positions
Projected hires
Educational backgrounds sought
Internships offered
Benefits
Executive search firms & placement agencies
Professional associations
World Wide Web sites for job hunters
CD-ROM job-search sources
Sample resumes & cover letters
Job-search advice

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A great resource for the Atlanta job hunter

Atlanta Jobs 2000 (Atlanta Jobs)
Steve Hines
Manufacturer: Careersource Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Atlanta Job Bank (Atlanta Jobbank)

ASIN: 0929255240

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All information needed to find employment in Atlanta. Includes organization, resumes preparation with samples, marketing yourself and resume, interviewing tips with questions and answers, salary negotiation, correspondence with samples, and a self-guided analysis of your job search. Includes detailed info on most active employers, local professional associations, temporary and permanent agencies, and government offices.

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A great resource for the Atlanta job hunter.......2000-08-02

This is an excellent book. The author has done a great job in pulling together the elements which spell success in the quest for employment. I recommend it.

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Joy, peace, love and success grow from the inside out; they are our birthright and come from connecting all four aspects of being human - spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. Too often, especially in business, we use only two of the four - mental and physical, while ignoring or even repressing the other two, spirit and emotion. Is it any wonder we have the personal and social problems we have? It comes from playing with only half a deck. Become whole, use everything you were born with and experience the joy, peace, love and success that are yours by birth. Easy to read with cool illustrations and a place to write your own insights.

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Advanced Tools For Thinking About Thinking.......2006-12-18

Dr. Steve Liebowitz, a consultant, teacher and trainer of 30 years. has given us a roadmap to connect science and spirit. With humorous drawings by Humberto Lopez, he gives the readers many exercises to be become more empowered and
use the body-mind relationship. Dr. Steve gives the tools for thinking about thinking with a dash of compassion and humor.

I recommend The New Professionalism to anyone who wants to become a better professional(or human being for that matter) or for someone going through any kind of transition in life.

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Go from concept to cash in record time.

When you're working hard on a new product development project, you don't have time for abstract theoretical concepts. You need concise, practical advice that will help you make things happen-now! You need quick access to clear, proven procedures aimed at producing revenue and profit growth fast. You need Successful Product Development: Speeding from Opportunity to Profit.

This unique hands-on guide leads you step-by-step through the product development process, from the creation of ideas, through concurrent design and engineering, to just-in-time delivery of a superior product to the customer ahead of the competition. Every step of this process is driven by one guiding principle: the faster you can move from initial concept to product launch, the sooner you will generate income for your business and achieve your firm's profit objective.

Filled with invaluable time-saving guidance, Successful Product Development:
* Focuses on the most important product development topic, rapid profit growth
* Takes an event and interval approach tailored for industry professionals
* Features a concise format designed for quick reference and easy reading

Successful Product Development is the ultimate handbook for professionals in new product development, marketing, engineering, and senior and general management in both service and manufacturing firms.

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$5 Worth of Info with a $60 Tag.......2005-03-12

Okay, so maybe I fell for the "Price it high, and they will come" pitch. This book is very elemental and basically states: 1. Use Microsoft Project to manage development projects 2. Resource allocation is the most critical facet of development (ah, yeah) 3. Speed to Profit is more important that Speed to Market.
Okay, there, I just saved you the $60 I wasted.

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Anti-Hunger Programme a Twin Track Approach to Hunger Reduction: Priorities for National and Intl Action

Manufacturer: Food & Agriculture Org
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9251050511

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Here is a unique way to cut and piece together the time-honored popular Irish Chain quilt quickly and easily. Quilters learn to cut fabrics into strips, sew the strips together by machine, and then cut this fabric into blocks. 10 full-size quilting patterns are included along with easy-to-follow instructions.

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Good value.......2006-02-19

Once you get past the black and white line drawings, the information about Irish Chains is solid and easy to understand. This book explains the differences between the three types and simplifies their construction. Not much money for a book discussing this very specific type of quilt piecing. It is humorous to find that the author prefers to mark the cloth and cut with scissors instead of rotary cut. None the less, directions were easily modified to my preferred method.

Very Informative.......2000-05-25

The book was very informative about the art of irish quilt making. Each step was very well documented. However i would have liked to see color pictures.

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For more than 50 years, John Cort has been at the center of most of the social movements of our time. Writer, reporter, teacher, activist, Cort has spent his life fighting good fights, whether on a Boston newspaper, with the Peace Corps in the Philippines, as a labor leader, or in dozens of campaigns for justice, peace and human rights. Here is John Cort's story--the measure of an exemplary life and a vivid, personal chronicle of American radicalism across virtually every major struggle. At its heart, this is also the story of what it means to take seriously the distinctively radical Catholic vision that informs American political and religious life in this century. It started in 1935, when Cort converted to Catholicism as a Harvard undergraduate. A year later, he was in New York City on the staff of the Catholic Worker, working with such legendary figures as Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Plunged into the class wars of the Depression, Cort began a 20-year commitment to organizing workers, notably through the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists. Later, Cort served many social action causes while continuing to teach, report, and write. Whether running a model Cities program, a newspaper guild, or a homeless shelter, or as a delegate to a world apostolic congress, Cort brought to life in his radicalism and his socialism the teachings of Catholic activism embodied most vividly by Dorothy Day and John XIII. Desperate Conversions is a unique primer in Catholic social theory, told in the chapters of John Cort's own life. Quirky, personal, distinctive, his memoir captures one of the great stories of our American century--and tells it in a voice no one can forget.

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W.D. Wetherell sings the praises of mountainous western New Hampshire, where he has lived for many years in Thoreauvian simplicity, with wood stove and manual typewriter, without television or computer. His book is made up of little essays on such simple things and on low-maintenance pleasures like reading poetry, stargazing, and collecting local folklore and history. "I am revealing myself to be as extinct as a dinosaur, dead as a dodo, a relic of another era, a footnote to an age that not only rushes ahead in heedless bondage to the new, but tramples in contempt on anyone who stubbornly refuses to keep pace," he writes, all the while doing just that, refusing to keep pace with the larger world. He encourages his readers to follow suit, to learn to live more simply, to rely on their own abilities, and to remember the lessons of Walden. --Greg McNamee

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Beautifully written essays about the country life.

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Fierce Elegy.......2002-06-20

Somewhere Steve Martin says, "Some people have a way with words, and some - no have way."

W. D. Wetherell is one of those with a way. His newest book follows three novels, three books of short stories, and three previous collections of nonfiction essays, including [itals] Upland Stream and Vermont River. Wetherell's talent may accurately be called prodigious. For a young writer to have written so many remarkable books in a couple of decades begs the question of what kind of life fosters a literary sensibility in this age of the multi-media multinational mayhem.
North of Now aims to explain the place of writing in this man's life, and to place the man himself in a world he sees as assiduously hostile to that contemplative practice which yields works of art.

The book is praised on its jacket by Edward Hoagland as [ital] sui generis - one of a kind. There's no better way to acknowledge Wetherell's form and vantage point. Assembling the volume from a carefully sequenced set of meditations upon subjects such as "Remembrance," "Play," "Village Life," "Old-Timers," "Wild Trout," and "Genteel Poverty," Wetherell has written an anticipatory requiem for an existence many people in places such as northern New England still experience, day in and day out.

None of these topics is pondered by Wetherell as though it were of merely private importance. He is able to take the preoccupations of an self-avowed eccentric and turn them like lenses upon changes that press upon all of us. The chapter "Heavens," for example, is concerned with the diminishing darkness of our night sky - very few places on earth remain unbleached by glare from high-intensity lamps. This essay pivots upon the narrator's decision, at the birth of his child, to learn the names and shapes of constellations. Another essay, "Gravity," muses on the insight that bodily actions as well as aging are forms of [ital] falling. Wetherell's narrator has a voracious passion for physical exertion, and in the process of describing such exploits as hiking, biking, back-country skiing, and canoeing, he meditates in prose upon the tactile, irresistible pull of the earth. No athlete, even in the flush of pounding pulse, can break free of gravity's grasp. Yet our society is obsessed with speed, as though it were possible to efface the weight of the actual burdens we bear.

"Reading" and "Quiet" consider the possibility that - because the civilization around us, a civilization we've supposedly made, has devoted so much its efforts to consumption and destruction - we may be losing the capacity to concentrate, and therefore might be raising the last generation of readers and storytellers. Meanwhile Wetherell's detailed evocations of humans and animals, granite-veined landscapes and celestial expanses, are gorgeous reminders of those pleasures that reading makes intimate as no other medium can.

Wetherell is staunchly circumspect, invulnerable to simplistic faith. Certain passages are downright morose, and the vehemence of his lament now and then veers into effusiveness (antidote to bitterness?) that is treacherous in a book so astringent in avoiding emotionalism. Perhaps I don't feel as anachronistic, myself. From my perspective, there are countless hopeful signs, visible or intuited, that large numbers of people are struggling with these very questions. Many people in wide variety of circumstances are attempting to re-connect with other people, with physical work and play, with community mutual aid.

Trouble is, popular entertainment, including the publishing industry, titillates these widespread aspirations with a ceaseless flow of solipsistic self-help, personal "revelation," and pseudo-spiritual folderol.

Wetherell believes in his own tonics: no television, no computer, meals with family, and long spells of time in the woods, on the water, and in the solitude of his own mind. He is brother to Diogenes, the ancient Greek cynic who renounced civilized life and lived in a tub, climbing out at midnight to search with his haw lantern for an "honest man." Writing this angry, lucid book was a defiant act, which ought to embolden readers to take more seriously the prospect that what we love, we may be losing.

Thinking and Reacting.......2002-02-17

Wetherell writes lovely descriptions of the things he loves -- many times I said: "Yes" out loud as he nailed the particular qualities of a sunset or a river or a particular turn in a season. But he throws down a gauntlet when he insists that the modern world is "degenerate" the suburbs "monstrous" and the human beings of this century in general inferior to their ancestors. He doesn't think about the issues he raises; he just asserts. A certain type of manners and charactere are disappearing, he claims. How does he know this? Because his grandfather was an admirable person. Organized sports are dismissed in a paragraph. Why? Because Wetherell and his friends had such a great time playing in the schoolyard when he was a kid. Reading and writing are soon to vanish and he knows this because ......... he admits that huge numbers of books are sold, book clubs formed, and so on, but he just somehow knows that "real" reading is vanishing. Apparently this is clear to him because he read so passionately when he was a kid. Suburbia is a degraded life; this is so clear he barely feels the need to explain it. He ought to ask himself why more than half the country lives in suburbia. No-one forced them to. The past hundred-plus years has seen a massive move from the kind of "authentic" country life he reveres, to cities and suburbs. Could it be that the old country life was far harsher and lonelier than he wants to admit? He seems to suggest that moral fiber is lacking if people like good roads and shopping nearby. I suspect that there were Indians saying something similar when the first Natives bought iron pots and pans from Europeans. I don't like the suburbs either, and I'd love some clear thinking about how they came to be. Wetherell isn't interested in thinking. When I got to that preposterous comparison between writers and buffalo hunting, I began to suspect why he doesn't want to think. He's writing self-mythology. The hero of the book, after all, is Wetherell, who had the guts to pursue a life true to nature, go the hard road and follow his dreams, in a place without good roads and nearby shopping. If his kind of life is disappearing, it only makes him a more romantic figure. Actually, he is an admirable guy in many ways, but I find his disdain for the rest of humanity, and anyone who lives differently from him, unbearable. He is a curmudgeon, and that's not such a good thing. A curmudgeon is somehow trapped in their own narrow view of the world, unable or uninterested in seeing things through the eyes of others.

In truth, this book is so good, it transcends star ratings!.......2000-04-08

The reviewer McConnaughey has it right on the money in describing Wetherell's boyish enthusiasm in nearly all things, even when expressing his frustrated regret. This, folks, is a top-10 book and if I were the benevolent God of the universe, I would deem it required annual reading for all my followers. The essay on reading should be burned onto the back of every school administrator's eye lids until the ridiculously-obvious point that kids should be in required reading classes from 1st grade until they graduate from college (with not one break in between) hits home. It is an absolute masterpiece and it comes with a pretty reasonable reading list too! It is a masterpiece among masterpieces; there is not one essay that does not snap your head back and pull from somewhere in your depths a resounding, "YES!"

As if to punctuate that gap (chasm?) between Wetherell's teachings and the world at large, he will have no access to this praise by way of this medium! There is more than irony there.

Good God Wetherell, keep writing. I'd snap my favorite flies into oblivion all day long for the privilege of spending it on the river with you! We'd have a lot to talk about, that preacher and this choir!

A wonderful discovery.......2000-02-11

As one who shares many of Mr. Wetherell's Luddite curmudgeony tendencies, I found these essays to be a brilliant verbalization of many of my own thoughts. His powers of description are exceptional and his arguments against the excesses of "progress" are a much-needed tonic against the trampling of decency which seems to be the unfortunately accepted byproduct of economic advancement. What allows this work to transcend many other works of the genre is the author's ability to rant against the destruction of much of what he holds dear while maintaining a sense of wonder and joy in all the joys the world still offers despite its flaws. Bravo, sir.

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In this original and highly useful resource, Colin Rule—a pioneer in the field of online dispute resolution (ODR)—shows how ODR can be used to resolve conflicts which inevitably arise both online and offline in business and commerce. Based on exclusive research and up-to-date best practices, Online Dispute Resolution for Business presents expert advice on how ODR can save time and money, offering timely suggestions and proven approaches for resolving business related conflicts online.

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Dealing with Disputes in Cyberspace.......2003-05-06

With this work, Colin Rule, who is one of the pioneers of ODR, and also an excellent writer, has given us much to consider about dispute resolution in cyberspace. The book is written for "managers, employees, union representatives, and others who are looking for a better way to handle conflict in their businesses and organizations." There is a interesting overview of the development of online dispute resolution. Also the author discusses his personal experiences in the field, which adds to the overall credibility of the book.

ODR originated in online disputes for which traditional means of dispute resolution were not suited. With as many as 500 million plus people online worldwide, as more businesses and individuals come to realise this significant point, ODR will flourish.

Challenges arising from ODR are covered in sufficient detail by the author and not only alert us to the issues, but also to suggest realistic ways of dealing with them. The author believes that businesses will come to use ODR as matter of course. His book makes a persuasive case for such an outcome.

This is a practical work on an important aspect of ADR.

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Online Dispute Resolution for Business : B2B, Ecommerce, Consumer, Employment, Insurance, and Other Commercial Conflicts
Colin Lang; Rule
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LZESJI

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