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Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (JOSSEY-BASS HIGHER & ADULT EDUCATION SERIES)
Sharan B. Merriam , Rosemary S. Caffarella , and Lisa M. Baumgartner
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In this updated landmark book, the authors have gathered the seminal work and most current thinking on adult learning into one volume. Learning in Adulthood addresses a wide range of topics including: Who are adult learners? How do adults learn? Why are adults involved in learning activities? How does the social context shape the learning that adults are engaged in? How does aging affect learning ability?

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Good Experience.......2007-09-26

Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (Jossey-Bass Higher & Adult Education)

I was quite pleased with my purchase. I was especially happy that I received the book within 5 days of my purchase. The purchase price was significantly lower than the purchase price at my university's bookstore.

excellent for studies.......2007-09-07

I'm doctoral student and I found this volume extremely useful for getting to the primary resources in the topics of interest. Previuosly I've studied the 2nd edition and it was very good. But the 3rd ed. I like ver much, as it expanded my approch to some new issues in adult education. I'd highly recommend this Guide to everyone who wants to get an understanding about tendencies in AE and who's watching for valuable reference resource in AE

Excellent Book.......2007-08-13

This is an excellent book. The book arrived in excellent condition. The book is easy to read as well.

Learning In Adulthood (Merriam).......2007-05-07

This book is ideal for an intro. course in Leadership. This is not a book for leisure reading. It is not an easy read and is quite dense with theory and critiques. I found myself having to re-read my sections of this book becasue the information is very dense. It apprears to be very comprehensive and many theories are repeated more in depth thorughout the text.

Learning in Adulthood ook review.......2006-11-10

I found this book to be informative and very helpful in learning the varoius theories of adult learning. Chapters are well organized and written. It might be a bit dense for the new student, but completely worth the investment of time to read and comprehend.

A Comprehensive Guide To Attention Deficit Disorder In Adults: Research, Diagnosis And Treatment

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EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR THE PROFESSIONAL
A "must have" for therapists and agencies treating adult ADD

A Comprehensive Guide To Attention Deficit Disorder In Adults: Research, Diagnosis And Treatment
Kathleen Nadeau
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This groundbreaking volume, written by pioneering clinicians and researchers firmly convinced of the neurobiological underpinnings of ADD in adults, is the first to provide broad coverage of this burgeoning field. Written for professionals who diagnose and treat adults with ADD, it provides information from psychologists and physicians on the most current research and treatment issues regarding our understanding of ADD as a neurobiological disorder. According to the contributors, ADD in adults may be responsible for difficulties ranging from minor attention, memory, and organization problems in well-functioning adults to drug abuse and criminal behavior. A Comprehensive Guide to Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults begins by addressing the history of ADD and the evolution of our understanding of the disorder. The neurobiology of ADD is examined, laying a solid foundation for the clinician to develop a scientific understanding of this complex syndrome. The assessment and differential diagnosis of ADD isexplored from the perspectives of a variety of specialists in the field. This includes an exploration of the interrelationships between attention deficit disorder and other neurodevelopmental disabilities that may interact with ADD to affect cognitive functioning, and an examination of the connections between ADD and a host of psychiatric conditions. Also covered is the process of differential diagnosis from a neurological perspective, which will help the non-medically trained clinician better to determine when a complete neurological evaluation seems warranted in the assessment process. Authors examine ADD with and without hyperactivity and describe a wide range of assessment tools that can be useful in developing a full diagnostic picture of different conditions that must be addressed in treating adults with the disorder. A wealth of experience, highly practical suggestions, and an optimistic outlook are the hallmark of the section on treatment. The authors strongly recommend a multifaceted treatment plan combining medication, psychotherapy, and addressing the pervasive self-esteem issues which typically haunt the adult whose condition has gone untreated. Specific treatment issues for Adults with ADD are also discussed. These include:-
* the development of practical life management skills
* the difficulties in relationships
* ADD within the context of marriage and family
* and higher education and the workplace. The volume concludes with a discussion of the legal implications of the diagnosis of ADD in adults as it pertains to education and employment, the important role of support groups for adults with ADD, and a thought-provoking examination of current and future research including the need for increased public recognition of ADD in adults. A Comprehensive Guide to Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults is a pioneering volume that will bring the most current information available to the attention of those able to help adult ADD sufferers...vocation and rehabilitation counselors,and numerous psychotherapists who recognize symptoms of depression and anxiety, but perhaps overlook the underlying attention deficit disorder. It will stimulate the interdisciplinary research that is the key to increasing knowledge and educate those who can truly make a difference.

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A first rate handbook for professionals.......2001-08-18

While six years have passed since Ms. Nadeau published the "comprehensive guide" it's thorough, relevant coverage of the basic topics/issues in the assessment and treatment of adults with ADD compares favorably to recent works by P. Wender M.d. and T. Brown, Ph.D. Despite a growing list of titles on the bookshelf this book stands out as one of few that offers well researched and systematic reviews of basic etiologic and developmental factors. Several chapters discuss the array of differential diagnostic and treatment issues faced by men and women with ADD and/or multiple disorders. Other chapters provide thoughtful analysis and treatment guidelines for dealing with college and graduate students, while other sections offer thorough coverage of assessment issues and strategies. For those seeking a broad-based, well-researched and accessable reference for treating adults with ADD, Nadeau's "comprehensive Guide" remains one of the best.

EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR THE PROFESSIONAL.......1999-11-09

In A Comprehensive Guide to Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults, Kathleen Nadeau put together one of the most helpful books for the professional working with clients or patients with ADD. Each chapter is written by a different specialist about a different issue. All chapters contain current information which makes it an invaluable resource for the professional working with ADD clients and patients. I highly recommend it to any professional working with ADD adults and children.

A "must have" for therapists and agencies treating adult ADD.......1998-09-26

A very well documented and scholarly book. There are chapters on medications, interventions, career issues, assessment, and special topics for women with ADD. Consider buying it for your reference library.

Few other books offer such a comprehensive guide to identifying, treating, and understanding attention deficit in adults.

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Higher Education, published by Ohio State University Press on July 1, 1993. The length of the article is 907 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide.
Author: Geoffrey Squires
Publication: Journal of Higher Education (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1993
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Volume: v64 Issue: n4 Page: p497(3)

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Almost everyone has heard of an "Achilles heel,"--an expression derived from the Greek myth of the warrior who, when he was born, was dipped by his mother in the magical River Styx, but was held by the heel, which remained his vulnerable spot. A psychotherapist who is a consultant to many corporate leaders offers a brilliant analysis of the "Achilles Syndrome" of many people today who downplay their many strengths and talents and become consumed by real or imagined weakness. Revealing examples of famous people (made anonymous through composite case histories) show how the fear of "pseudo-competency" arises from a person's early experience in self-image, and how it's possible to close the gap between one's low assessment of oneself and the high assessments by others. The range of examples includes those of executives and middle managers as well as artists and musicians, spouses and parents, and even psychotherapists.

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Amazing one!.......2007-07-01

I have read numerous , self-help and psychology books. However one thing that eating me away inside was my inability to put 100% in my work. I just didn't have enough motivation. However, after reading this book, I realized that I had skipped some essential skills required for my job and pretending that everything was alright when it was not. This explains why I was not genuinely happy at the job, but just dreading the work to be done each day. Thank you Petruska for this intelligent work with acute awareness of what goes inside minds of people like me.

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Zvi Griliches was a modern master of empirical economics. In this short book, he recounts what he and others have learned about the sources of economic growth. This book conveys the way he tackled research problems. For Griliches, economic theorizing without measurement is merely the fashioning of parables, but measurement without theory is blind. Judgment enables one to strike the right balance. The book begins with economists' first attempts to measure productivity growth systematically in the 1930s. In the mid-1950s these efforts culminated in a startling puzzle. The growth of measured inputs like labor and capital explained only a fraction of the growth of national output. Economists called this phenomenon "efficiency" or "technical change" or "the residual." However, Griliches observes that the most accurate name was a "measure of our ignorance." What explained the rest of economic growth quickly became one of the most important questions in economics. Over the next thirty years, Griliches and his colleagues and students looked for various components of the residual in education (the formation of human capital), investment (the formation of physical capital), and research and development. In 1973, after the oil price shocks, productivity growth slowed and the residual almost disappeared. Since the shocks were a short-term phenomenon, they could not account for the slowdown. A main focus of this book is therefore the puzzle of the productivity slowdown and how to date it and how to explain it.

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The Complete Book of Woodworking: An Illustrated Guide to Tools and Techniques
Jack McConnell
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Whether you've mastered the mitered corner or don't know its definition, you'll find something useful in this book. Packed with practical information (step-by-step instructions illustrated in close-up photographs), THE COMPLETE BOOK OF WOODWORKING takes you from laying out the workshop to carving a scallop jewelry box.
Here you'll learn to tell the difference between such woods as bubinga and zebrano; how to lay veneer three different ways; why chairs are the ultimate challenge for furniture-makers; what is the proper way to use a chisel; how to apply lacquers, oils, and waxes; and lots more. The book also provides an introduction to design, including sketching and drawing techniques; a tool directory; and nine projects (among them, making a glass-topped table, a breakfast tray, and a parquetry shelf and mirror) to put what you've learned into practice. Including advice from eight experts, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF WOODWORKING tells you just about everything you want to know about this enjoyable hobby.

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In-depth, easy-to-follow, and accessibly excellent.......2004-05-16

Packed from cover to cover with full-color photographs detailing the instructions step by step, The Complete Book Of Woodworking: An Illustrated Guide To Tools And Techniques is a superb guidebook covering showcasing beginning, intermediate, and advanced techniques. featuring advice by experts, sample projects, equipment recommendations, and solid information on everything from hardwoods vs softwoods to board materials, sawing methods, veneers, sketching techniques, safety tips, and more, The Complete Book Of Woodworking is an all-around, in-depth, easy-to-follow, and accessibly excellent resource which is strongly recommended for woodworking enthusiasts of all skill and experience levels, ranging from first-time hobbyists to experienced professionals.

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In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order. During the 1920s, Germans were fascinated by American economic success and its quintessential symbols, Henry Ford and his automobile factories. Mary Nolan's book explores the contradictory ways in which trade unionists and industrialists, engineers and politicians, educators and social workers explained American economic success, envisioned a more efficient or "rationalized" economic system for Germany, and anguished over the social and cultural costs of adopting the American version of modernity. These debates about Americanism and Fordism deeply shaped German perceptions of what was economically and socially possible and desirable in terms of technology and work, family and gender relations, consumption and culture. Nolan examines efforts to transform production and consumption, factories and homes, and argues that economic Americanism was implemented ambivalently and incompletely, producing, in the end, neither prosperity nor political stability. Vision of Modernity will appeal not only to scholars of German History and those interested in European social and working-class history, but also to industrial sociologists and business scholars.

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A Guide For Entry Level Marketers

Indespensible reading for the market planning pragmatist

Marketing Plans That Work 2nd Edition
Malcolm McDonald , and Warren Keegan
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Marketing Plans That Work is a practical and insightful step-by-step guide to successfully preparing and executing a marketing plan. The book combines the very best of current practice with necessary theoretical and technical background. Marketing managers and business executives developing marketing and e-business strategies, especially those integrating new marketing technologies, will profit tremendously from Marketing Plans That Work.

Readers praised the first edition of this book its pragmatic marketing framework and best practices. Now this new edition builds on the first edition's success by including new examples, the latest techniques, and new chapters on marketing strategy and e-commerce. This edition adds technology to its focus in response to today's need to enhance sustainable competitive advantage.

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A Guide For Entry Level Marketers.......2002-09-24

The book is good and cursory. I recommend it as an introductory book. However, the information is outdated and does not reflect current marketing knowledge and understanding. The book does not discuss value based pricing, an integral part of any modern day pricing and marketing policy. It's branding concepts are weak. Most people would be better off with an introductory marketing textbook which explains fundamentals, or specialized expert books.

Indespensible reading for the market planning pragmatist.......1998-05-07

At last, a marketing planning book that really leads the reader through the marketing planning process. As Philip Kotler, the famous marketing guru at Northwestern says on the back cover, "finally a book devoted to assisting mangers to understand and develop first rate marketing plans."

The authors' McDonald and Keegan have written an extremely readable book outlining in detail a comprehensive, strategic approach and guide to market planning. In 236 pages including the index, the authors set forth for the reader how to prepare a marketing plan that will insure that unique value is created for the market and competitive advantage for the firm. I personally like the strategic approach that draws on the leading marketing and strategy thinkers including George Day and Michael Porter as well as the best work of the top consulting and strategic management firms like Boston Consulting Group and General Electric.

To put the book in a larger context, even though responsibilities and corporate environments have undergone radical changes with reengineering, TQM practices and cross-functional teams, to name a few of the most well-known and widespread influences, most organizations continue to overlook a critical component for success namely, comprehensive, strategic market planning and initiatives as an integral part of the overall corporate planning process. To understand and address this need, McDonald and Keegan offer insightful, pragmatic guidance on understanding marketing analysis tools and implementing and effectively structuring market strategies that strengthen a company's competitive position. This book provides a road-map and comprehensive plan to achieve marketing success grounded in firm analysis and assessment.

The authors' provide insightful analysis of well-known market planning, mapping and strategic assessment tools, supported by easily-understandable flow-charts, graphs and detailed bullets. Specific attention is paid to the strategic definition of product, the product life c! ycle, the diffusion of innovation and the concept of product portfolio both as it relates to market planning and to the corporate planning process. Highlighted is a discussion of the well-known Boston Consulting Group Matrix and the Directional Policy Matrix. The resulting competitive marketing strategies are differentiated and analyzed in an understandable and practical manner. An easily understood discussion of gap analysis leads logically to a discussion of new product development, market extension and diversification strategies. An insightful discussion of organizing the enterprise for effective market planning, corporate cultural issues and the implication of size, complexity and diversity of functional operations, addresses three of the more difficult contextual issues in the field of market planning.

All in all, a well-designed book, which one can read sequentially or focus solely on Chapter 12 which outlines a step-by-step marketing planning system-- a thorough and comprehensive approach that more corporate strategists and market planners should utilize for strategic and sustainable results.

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Since the dawn of human history people have been facing problems arising from the operations of systems in which they themselves are a part. However, the idea that systematic scrutiny in the spirit of science can help solve them, became widespread only in this century. The Handbook of Systems Analysis brings together in systematic form the core of the systems analysis knowledge and experience it has developed so far. The Handbook of Systems Analysis consists of three volumes: the first offers an overview aimed at a widely varied audience of practitioners and those interested in the problems treated by systems analysis; volume two is aimed at a more technical audience and deals with how a systems analysis study proceeds and resolves the technical and professional issues. Now this third volume exemplifies the general principles and wide variety of practice by means of eight carefully selected cases described by the principal analysts involved. Like the first volume, it is accessible to a wide variety of people professional and non-professional who are interested in how such work is carried out and what its useful effects can be. Features include:

a comprehensive approach without undue technical detail, giving a clear view of what was done and how it achieved its aims
an overview discussion drawing together the aspects of the practice exemplified by the cases
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Those working in operational research, management science, and policy analysis will find that this book, and the other two volumes in the set, add value and good practice to their work. The three volumes of the Handbook of Systems Analysis are: Handbook of Systems Analysis: Volume One Overview of Uses, Procedures, Applications, and Practice (ISBN 0-471-90743-X) Handbook of Systems Analysis: Volume Two Craft Issues and Procedural Choices (ISBN 0-471-92020-7) Handbook of Systems Analysis: Volume Three Cases (ISBN 0-471-95357-1) Handbook of Systems Analysis Three Volume Set (ISBN 0-471-96301-1)

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Title insurance is central to the health of the home mortgage market and the commerical real estate business, and its regulation has a profound impact on the prices that consumers pay for title insurance and the kinds of coverages that are available. Dr. Lipshutz provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the key economic policy issues that arise in regulating this small but critical segment of the insurance industry. This is the first book to examine title insurance from a primarily economic viewpoint and contains much information on the operations of the industry that is available nowhere else. The book is particularly timely because title insurance regulation is currently under intensive study by a number of state insurance departments and by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

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Title Insurance, 2nd Edition
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The Regulatory Economics of Title Insurance

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