The Complete Guide to Florida Foundations 2003 (Complete Guide to Florida Foundations)

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Repetition.......2007-10-24

This was a required book for my BSN class. While it is a proper choice for an adult learner, it is quite repetative and annoying.

school work.......2007-02-13

had to get this book for college class i love the class but i hate this book luckly we dont take tests for this class just have to write papers about it and we can argue it and diss it as much as we want so that helps its just really hard to understand but some chapters do what there suppost to.

Physician, heal thyself!.......2006-12-01

This book is woefully inadequate as a text for a critical thinking course. What are we to make of a critical thinking text that says almost nothing about objective truth, the central role of argument in critical thinking, the distinction between inductive and deductive arguments, the distinction between truth and validity, or which does not even mention any of the standard deductive forms of argument?

Furthermore, the authors do not seem to know how their "Standards for Thinking" apply to their own work. Just a few examples should suffice: (i) One of their standards is fairness. Yet in the chapter entitled "Develop as an Ethical Reasoner," the authors spend three pages laying out the arguments of PETA against the use of animals in medical experimentation, but barely a paragraph presenting the argument in favor of such experimentation. This hardly seems fair-minded to me. It would seem that, for them, being "fair-minded" involves closely arguing one's own position, but ignoring the arguments of your opponent. (One wonders if they themselves are members of PETA. But, if they are, shouldn't they admit this for the sake of honesty and complete disclosure? Or is it only bias when someone else does it?) (ii) Another of their standards is that of depth. The problem here is that they do not seem to have read the individuals whom they quote so approvingly with any depth. They repeatedly quote William Graham Sumner as an advocate of critical thinking, but seem oblivious to the fact that he is best known for his ethical relativism---a position that they themselves seem to repudiate in their chapter on ethical reasoning. Perhaps they would have discovered this for themselves had they read beyond the first 20 pages in Sumner's book, Folkways. (iii) The authors present contradictory positions in space of a few page, and do not seem to even notice. On the one hand, they embrace the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as morally binding because "every nation on earth has signed the declaration." However, four pages later they condemn such practices as slavery since they were justified solely in virtue of "social convention." What they do not seem to realize is that their justification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is itself based solely on social convention. Simply because it was signed by every nation on the face of the earth does not make it morally right or morally binding.

As a critical thinking instructor, I would be loathe to recommend this book to anyone as anything other than an instructive failure. As a useful alternative, I would suggest Moore and Parker's Critical Thinking. It is much more comprehensive and more in keeping with representative views in the field.

Loss for Words.......2005-07-20

Unfortunately, this book ranks with the worst books I ever tried to read. How someone in college could understand anything written here is beyond me.
I'm not sure if it just because the book is poorly written or what, but I would have to re-read paragraphs over and over again and I still had no idea what they were trying to say.
I skipped to various chapters and it was all the same.

My education goes beyone college and graduate school and I thought this book could add to my thinking process and make me a "smarter" person. If I could get only positive thing from a bokk, then it would all be worth it. I got absolutely nothing from this book. What is worse, is that it is the only book I ever read that was just incomprehensible.

Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning.......2004-06-11

Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life is a real eye opener.

This is where integrity begins. I consider Tools to be one of the most significant exposes on the human condition ever written.

Whether you are a teacher, a student, a parent, a professional developer, a curriculum designer, a lawyer, a scientist, a politician, a reporter, a business person, or a citizen at large, understanding the intellectual standards and best practices by which quality integration of ideas, concepts, and principles come together -- in teaching, in learning, in life -- is the fundamental prerequisite for all other information processing, understanding, problem solving and decision making. This foundation for learning is also pivotal to understanding, updating, reconciling, and validating individual belief system. Our intellectual integrity defines not only our beliefs but also our character as learners, integrators, visionaries, leaders, followers and doers throughout life. Tools is the best place I've found to start this journey of discovering and validating what I think as I think.

Dr Elder and Dr Paul have provided us with a masterful anthology of thought. Tools dissects, defines and lays out the fundamentals for self-examination as a basis for overcoming our irrational tendencies. It explains the stages of development, elements of thinking, universal intellectual standards that govern quality constructs for critical thought within which all ideas, concepts, beliefs, positions, and decisions are examined, understood, and validated and reconciled. It emphasizes the inherent humility, openness and independence of the critical thinking process as it leads readers through a matrix of self examination, demonstrating techniques for self-evaluation, for asking essential questions, for assessing their learning, and for ultimately taking charge of their irrational tendencies. This is also a book of discovering - clearly - the components of thought and for examining everything one thinks they think and believe. As ambiguity and self-deception clouds what we believe, critical thought clarifies, elevates, and leverages our ability to learn better, deeper, and faster. Personal integrity demands critical examination of clear, accurate, diverse, ideas and dialectic constructs. Left to the consequences of our natural, human, non-critical tendencies, we all have a lot to learn. In my opinion, there is really no better place to start than here. I recommend Tools to anyone and everyone with a conscience. I will tell you, this is the one book that everybody -- no matter who they may be -- needs to read next.

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Critical Thinking : Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life
Higher Education Publishing Staff
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Thomson Advantage Books: Foundations in Strategic Management (with InfoTrac ) (Foundations Series in Management)
Jeffrey S. Harrison , and Caron H. St. John
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0324259174

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Learn management the easy way with FOUNDATIONS OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT! With an up-to-date look at the most critical topics in strategy today and examples from cutting-edge firms, this management text will help you understand and develop decision-making and analysis techniques relevant in all types of organizations. See how strategies are applicable in the real world with opening vignettes that profile companies such as IBM, Honda, and BMW and the challenges they face.

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Crewel for Dummies

Excellent addition to the long history of Crewel

Absolutely Wonderful!

Excellent book for anyone who wants to know about Crewel.

Excellent book for anyone who wants to know about Crewel.

Creative Crewel Embroidery: Traditions & Innovations
Judy Jeroy
Manufacturer: Lark Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Crewel Embroidery

ASIN: 1579901875

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Crewel—the art of embroidery with wool—is a perennial favorite with embroiderers. Here’s a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment, with designs that range from the traditional to the truly innovative. All the basics are there for the beginner, including 68 stitches and 11 projects. Then, for adventuresome stitchers, there is inspiration: 55 pieces from today’s most talented and best-known embroiderers.

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Crewel for Dummies.......2003-08-16

Judy is an excellent instructor. She makes crewel seem easy. I took my first course from her. I left that class so proud of the accomplisments that I had made. I was able to retain her teachings and go on from there. This book is the BEST on the market. Don't hesitate to purchase it. There are many hours of happy stitching inside. Roxana Trimmer
SOME Embroidery Guild of Maine

Excellent addition to the long history of Crewel.......2000-02-14

Judy has added her own style and creativity to the ongoing tradition of crewelwork. She has used the various stitches in ways that are new and really guides the embroiderer to create beautiful crewel pieces. She hasn't just reworked the traditional stitches, but shows how to combine them in unique ways with modern colors and materials. She has "raised the bar" in the art of crewelwork. An excellent book for beginner and advanced crewelworker alike.

Absolutely Wonderful!.......1999-08-31

I have been watching my mother experiment with different embroidery techniques, fabrics, and stiches as long as I can remember. It is wonderful seeing the years of her work summed up in this great book. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Crewel Embroidery!

Excellent book for anyone who wants to know about Crewel........1999-04-21

I am the author's daughter and growing up, my most vivid memories of my mother is of she and her embroidering friends, sitting in our living room, chatting away about fabrics, stitches and the art of crewel embroidery. I, myself, have only begun the journey of discovery and self-expression throught the art of stitching. My mother's book is an excellent introduction to any newcomers or veteran stitchers.

Excellent book for anyone who wants to know about Crewel........1999-04-21

Creative Crewel Embroidery: Traditions and Innovations

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Creative Crewel Embroidery: Traditions and Innovations
Judy Jeroy
Manufacturer: Lark Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KIVVE6

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While finding and keeping a core group of clients remains the bread and butter of any consultant's business, doing so is far from simple in a field that's becoming increasingly crowded and competitive. Today, as the result of drastic shifts in the landscape—information technology, virtual organizations, telecommuting—targeting and attracting clients is a greater challenge than ever. To help you meet that challenge head on, Marketing Your Consulting and Professional Services, the bible for consultants and professionals worldwide, has been thoroughly revised and expanded. This brand new Third Edition gives you the tools and the know-how to survive and thrive in today's tough market.

Beginning with a comprehensive overview, this updated resource keeps you abreast of current trends and issues. In addition, you'll find complete coverage of Dick Connor's innovative—and highly effective—Client-Centered Marketing ^TM (CCM) approach, a practical "deliverables-driven" system for penetrating specific markets. This easy-to-follow, six-part process helps you achieve a myriad of essential marketing objectives: from expanding services for current clients and capitalizing on the potential within your business to generating profitable growth and managing your image with clients and targets.

With a wealth of new information that focuses on finding and qualifying new clients—what every consultant worries about most—this new edition of Marketing Your Consulting and Professional Services, Third Edition provides essential information on:

Analyzing your current business or practice—evaluating clients, assessing existing prospects, preparing a strategic profile
Becoming "client smart"—determining how the niche industry is organized, identifying requirements for success, determining its needs
Building market awareness—maintaining positive name recognition, establishing your firm's intended image
Prospecting—acquiring new, high-potential clients, preparing a winning proposal, selling the value-adding solution
Ensuring client satisfaction—handling service and relationship breakdowns with a practical recovery action sequence

Complete with helpful worksheets and checklists, as well as precise definitions of terminology and an annotated bibliography, Marketing Your Consulting and Professional Services, Third Edition is a must for today's fiercely competitive, highly demanding marketplace.

Praise for the previous edition of Marketing Your Consulting and Professional Services

"Loaded with examples, useful forms, and informative exhibits, Marketing Your Consulting and Professional Services is an extraordinary how-to manual that provides vital step-by-step instruction and advice on how to maximize profitability and success. . . . Marketing is a how-to you shouldn't do without." — Managers Magazine

"This is definitely a 'MUST READ' book for entrepreneurs and business professionals of all types. The attention to detail provides practical insights on the critical keys to marketing success." — Dr. Peter Johnson, Corporate Marketing Strategist

"As today's business environment becomes increasingly competitive, consulting professionals look for fresh approaches and innovative ideas to 'cut through the clutter' and increase their share of business. Marketing Your Consulting and Professional Services provides highly useful information for every professional consultant. It's an essential purchase." — Jonathan D. Blum, Managing Director — Ogilvy & Mather Public Relations, Singapore

"Marketing Your Consulting and Professional Services is excellent. It contains down-to-earth, indispensable tips for marketing consulting services. Vital reading for both beginners and seasoned consultants—worldwide. I wish I had had this daily guide during my rough start." — Dr. Oskar Pack, Management Consultant and Sales Trainer — Euskirchen, Germany

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Excellent Marketing tips.......2006-07-18

The book provides a comprehensive coverage on how to effectively market consulting and professional services. The skill of selling consulting and professional services is critical and is the one most often in need of improvement for professionals such as engineers, architects, lawyers, marketing, IT and management consultants, accountants, doctors, among others. The book contains useful advice and tips that all those providing consulting and professional services should find critical to winning and maintaining clients.

This is a fantastic book that is user friendly as it contains insightful examples, checklists, worksheets and exhibits that gently guides the reader through the steps that should lead to successful and profitable business.

The veteran consultant and novice should benefit from the updates the book provides on current trends and issues, advice on how to grow and expand the practice, acquiring new, high value clients and ensuring client satisfaction in the current highly dynamic operating environment.

Offers Insightful Marketing Advice.......2002-10-18

This book is about as good as it gets. It lays out a very fundamental way of approaching marketing for professional service firms. I found it easy to follow, although the language sometimes was a bit stilted. This is the third edition of this book, so the authors have had plenty of time to hone and refine their insights. I like the fact that there were many, many chapters, but each of them relatively short. This fits my style of getting through a book these days, because often I can only reach for a few pages at a time.

You can find everything everything inside.......2001-07-12

Ideas, ideas and ideas. Thats what the book lack. It attempts to provide a blueprint of how to market a professional service company, without giving much useful ideas on how to do it, and more lacking is how to implement the few ideas it provides. Will be useful for planning, and not ideas generation.

Marketing Your Consulting or Professional Services (50-Minute Book)

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Backstreet Markets

Marketing Your Consulting or Professional Services (50-Minute Book)
David Karlson
Manufacturer: Crisp Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0931961408

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A tactical handbook for management consultants and other professionals who want to learn how to market their services successfully. You'll learn how to define your market, build a marketing plan, identify and promote unique strengths, and more.

Learning Objectives: To learn the five key areas for successful management. To find out how to fill your market niche. To build your image for client-driven sales. To develop your marketing plan with four proven steps.

Customer Reviews:

Backstreet Markets.......2000-10-18

I've heard it said that advertising and marketing are great places to go if your parents can afford to send you there. Even so, David Karlson comes up with DIY market tactics. So MARKETING YOUR CONSULTING OR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES works well out your own back door along with Douglas A. Gray's START AND RUN A PROFITABLE CONSULTING BUSINESS, Jessica Keyes' HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL INTERNET CONSULTANT, Bob Nelson and Peter Economy's CONSULTING FOR DUMMIES, and Ron Tepper's BECOME A TOP CONSULTANT.

Just make sure your image, logo, name and services are clearly defined by your budget, clients, and six-month goal projections, with costs and income balanced monthly. Then, keep current clients happy with in-office questionnaires sensitive to expanding, narrowing or updating services. Finally, attract more clients with indirectly impersonal marketing, such as making media appearances and writing articles or books, and with directly personal contacts, such as exhibiting at trade shows, holding workshops, and setting up buddy or mentor systems and an informal board of directors.

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Marketing Your Consulting and Professional Services
Richard A. And Davidson, Jeffrey P Connor
Manufacturer: New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1985
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXHNOA

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100 tips on marketing and selling your consulting and professional services
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Marketing Your Consulting & Professional Services
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Richard A. Jr. & Davidson, Jeffery P. Conner
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Richard A. Connor
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Marketing Your Consulting and Professional Services Second Edtion
Dick and Davidson, Jeffrey Connor
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GRCV0E

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This book enhances the reader's opportunity for career success by targeting fundamental skills. Handling Conflict will provide foundations for effectively dealing with criticism and aggression in the workplace. Covering topics such as avoiding conflict, channeling anger and giving/receiving criticism, this is the perfect tool for the experienced professional, those re-entering the workforce and those beginning their careers.

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Every industrial nation in the world guarantees its citizens access to essential health care services--every country, that is, except the United States. In fact, one in eight Americans--a shocking 43 million people--do not have any health care insurance at all. One Nation, Uninsured offers a vividly written history of America's failed efforts to address the health care needs of its citizens. Covering the entire twentieth century, Jill Quadagno shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met with fierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilized their considerable resources to keep the financing of health care out of the government's hands. Quadagno describes how at first physicians led the anti-reform coalition, fearful that government entry would mean government control of the lucrative private health care market. Doctors lobbied legislators, influenced elections by giving large campaign contributions to sympathetic candidates, and organized "grassroots" protests, conspiring with other like-minded groups to defeat reform efforts. As the success of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-century led physicians and the AMA to start scaling back their attacks, the insurance industry began assuming a leading role against reform that continues to this day. One Nation, Uninsured offers a sweeping history of the battles over health care. It is an invaluable read for anyone who has a stake in the future of America's health care system.

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Surprisingly interesting and readable primer on such a complex issue.......2007-10-09

One Nation Uninsured is brought to life in a fresh way by various first-hand recollections that are peppered throughout detailed, academic sketches of the major historical episodes that failed to produce national health insurance. Instead of reading like another dry textbook, this book provides an informative, intimate, and plausible narrative of why many of the major players did what they did in light of their different circumstances, motivations, and temperaments. Particular attention is also paid to other important non-health care events, such as the Red Scare, Brown v. Board of Education, Watergate, and Iran-Contra, as they indirectly affected the political will to mobilize for and against national health insurance, making this account all the more believable and nicely nuanced.

My only complaint is that since the book was published in 2005, 2006 Part D legislation which expanded Medicare coverage, could not be discussed, but hopefully an updated edition will be written in a few years. Overall, a surprisingly interesting and readable primer on such a complex issue.

Special Interests Prevail.......2007-05-12

Very enlightening historical perspective on national health insurance. It seems special interests dominant in our democratic society. Quite surprising that both republican & democratic presidents tried to pass national health insurance. Special interests contribute to both parties and when the going gets close focus on those candidates who are vulnerable in order to entice their vote.

In our current lack of bi-partisian political climate, it seems very doubtful that national health insurance has a chance of being passed.

book was cheap and new.......2007-02-10

the book came on time, looks new and was incredibly cheap

Praise for One Nation, Uninsured.......2006-03-13

"An important book. Jill Quadagno provides an impressive array of historical evidence to advance original arguments for why the United States lacks a comprehensive health care system and why health insurance should be viewed as a social right. This book is must reading for those concerned about health care reform in the United States." -- William Julius Wilson, author of When Work Disappears

"A chilling historical account of how powerful groups with self-serving financial interests have successfully blocked attempts to enact national health insurance for seven decades, leaving tens of millions of our citizens without adequate health care coverage and often without even minimal care. Anyone eager to seek reform of our badly fragmented health care system must study its lessons and its blueprint for action; a task that will require nearly unprecedented political skills and monumental organizational prowess." -- Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D., author of On The Take: How Medicine's Complicity With Big Business Can Endanger Your Health

"Jill Quadagno has produced the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the power and effectiveness of interest groups in defeating a century of national health insurance reform campaigns. An impressive combination of theory and historical research, One Nation, Uninsured sets the parameters for the next round of debate over why the U.S. remains the only country without universal health insurance and how it might still expand access while reigning in costs." -- Lawrence R. Jacobs, McKnight Land Grant Professor, University of Minnesota

"A fresh, savvy, powerful, ambitious, lyrical explanation of how America became so heartless about health care. Highly recommended for both citizens and scholars." -- James A. Morone, author of Hellfire Nation and Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair

"Quadagno, a distinguished sociologist with a long-standing interest in policy, explores a century of government attempts to create universal health care and the powerful forces that have defeated those attempts.... Her sociological insights illuminate a path to reform." -- The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Readable and engaging.... Some of the most interesting portions come from Quadagno's own archival searches and her interviews with people who lived the history that she describes.... Quadagno's sustained focus on interest-group politics seems right on target." -- New England Journal of Medicine

"A strongly argued account that provides useful ammunition for anyone seeking to effect change in a medical system that willfully excludes so many who need it." -- Kirkus Reviews

More bogus literature.......2005-07-04

See my review of "Uninsured in America: Life & Death in the Land of Opportunity" for reasons why this argument is bogus and filled with lies.

Jill Quadagno, One Nation Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has no National Health Insurance.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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Jill Quadagno, One Nation Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has no National Health Insurance.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Stephen Pimpare
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Volume: 33 Issue: 3 Page: 171(3)

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One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance

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One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance
Jill Quadagno
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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