The Extracted MBA: A Topical Reference for the Contemporary MBA

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This book faithfully encapsulates the MBA experience!.......2000-11-20

This is the most unique and pertinent book on what MBAs learn! Highly recommended!

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"This book is so valuable! I would recommend it to any educator or parent. Elaine McEwan hits all the important points, supports them with research, and still makes the book reader-friendly!"
Jeannie Wanzek, Research Assistant
Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts
University of Texas, Austin

" Teach Them ALL to Read examines the top ten fallacies in current reading instruction that contribute to reading failure in our schools. It gives me insights into current research, effective strategies and the piece of the literacy puzzle that must be in place so that every child in school learns to read."
Kathy Ryan, Reading Specialist
Rockwood School District
Ellisville, MO

Reach even the most reticent and challenged readers in your classrooms!

In this insightful and practical new book, noted educator and reading authority Elaine K. McEwan offers teachers at all levels the understanding and motivation they need to teach children to read—especially those students who need help the most. Administrators at site and district levels will find invaluable data on creating a reading culture that leads to marked improvements in achievement scores.

Teach Them ALL to Read provides educators with the most current reading research about how students learn, regardless of age or grade, and helps educators understand that learning to read is only the first step. Students must also develop fluency, acquire cognitive strategies, and continue to "read-a-lot" to enrich knowledge and comprehension.

Important features include:

Step-by-step information on developing an action plan
Graphic organizers throughout
Brief sidebars that prompt reader reflection
Glossary of technical terms
Comprehensive list of phonetics readers
Checklist of "Fifty Strategies to Build a Reading Culture"
Easy-to-read samples, forms, and templates

No student has to fall through the literacy cracks, and Elaine McEwan shows how practitioners can keep it from happening in their schools.

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Book Review on Teach Them All to Read.......2006-11-06

Very practical for teachers and easy to read. Lots of hands on suggestions to be used right away in classroom. All my classmates who are veteran teachers like this book the best among all three text books that we use in our ESL classroom.

Best Book Available about How to Get All Students Reading.......2002-07-09

Before I coordinated an early literacy project for inner city students, I knew that improving the reading achievement of students in high-poverty, low-performing schools was going to be difficult and take every resource and skill my colleagues and I had. Even knowing that reality, it wasn't until a year after we'd rolled up our shirt sleeves and started working in three urban schools, that we TRULY understood the effort behind maintaining fine-tuned curriculum coordination, retaining the ability to duck sudden blockades from administration, and motivating teachers to keep employing the continual academic press needed to develop students' reading and language skills.

Elaine McEwan's new book, "Teach Them All to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall Through the Cracks," is the first book I've come across that truly captures all the necessary ingredients needed to create a reading culture where every student learns to read. I always enjoy McEwan's vivid metaphors and chatty practical tips which won't disappoint in her latest book. Thematically, McEwan uses jigsaw puzzle imagery to help the reader understand the necessary role of phonological awareness, phonics, spelling, reading a lot, a reading culture, language, fluency, knowledge, and cognitive strategies. But wait - this is far more than a book providing information about effective teaching of reading.

In addition to her years as a principal who dramatically increased reading performance in her school, McEwan draws upon her years of experience crisscrossing the country to consult with school districts attempting to turn around their reading programs surround by a mishmash of misinformation from the reading establishment that hurls at them from all directions. A strength of this book is her intimate experience with Best Practices that often have no research substantiation.

I should mention that I'm not totally impartial about this book and have been eagerly waiting for it to come out in print since our literacy project was used as one example of a comprehensive program, with interview quotes from some of our staff. Those of you who enjoy reading Consumer member Nettie Griffin's commentary and descriptions of her teaching, will also find a section of this book highlighting her teaching.

These are my three favorite sections of the book:
1. The section that identifies common fallacies in the teaching of reading that frequently surface, boldly exposes myths that have no research basis. I wish that my local whole language curriculum director would read about two of her favorite myths: "The Three-Cueing System: A Genuine Urban Myth" and "The Fat Cat Sat on the Rat is Borrrring and Bad for Kids"

2. The comprehensive chapter entitled: "Fluency: The Forgotten Piece of the Puzzle" is a must-read!

3. "Why Can't we Just Drop Everything and Read?" details what McEwan calls "reading in the zone," or the intersection between (a) reading a lot and (b) reading at an appropriate or somewhat challenging level of difficulty, and (c) reading with accountability.

McEwan set forth the following goals in the preface and these should provide more information on the book in its totality:
1. To give you a short course in the most current reading research regarding how students learn to read, regardless of age or grade, so that you can make informed decisions about curriculum and instruction.
2. To help you understand that learning to read is only the first step: students must also develop fluency, acquire cognitive strategies, and continue to read a lot to deepen their knowledge and understanding.
3. To focus your attention on the variables at work in your school and district that can be altered to create a reading culture and make a huge difference in reading achievement-especially for those students who are currently falling through the cracks
4. To convince you of the power that rests in you and your colleagues to teach every child to read.

Read and enjoy. Mary Damer

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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Motivating Employees Shawn Doyle

Hundreds of reports and statistics prove that a motivating workplace is essential to the success of an organization. This practical guide concisely outlines the steps to creating and maintaining a fun, energized, and highly motivating work environment where employees want to work—and stay.

The author believes a smart manager can get 60% of workers to work harder. If a staggering increase in your productivity sounds good, The Manager's Pocket Guide to Motivating Employees is for you.

The book inspires managers to accept their responsibility to foster motivation in the workplace. And it makes what they need to do to fulfill their important role simple and understandable.

You'll discover proven tips for creating an environment which fosters motivation, including how to:

• Hire motivated people
• Convey the goals of your organization and how employees fit into the big picture
• Generate enthusiasm throughout your staff
• Set expectations and provide opportunities for growth
• Guide and direct employees so they know where they are headed
• Understand what really motivates people
• Reward and recognize employees for their efforts
• Relieve pressure and find balance

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A book for people who would like to manage themselves, their time, and their business better, but are too busy to begin.

Customer Reviews:

Academic Text.......2007-06-26

Fairly good text book, while it explained the use and need for CLD's it fails to provide a first reader on how to actually draw the loops! It does not guide or recoomend what software to use in doing the drawing... we are all not technical drawers.....

Best used as a course book.......2002-06-22

At 144 pages this book is a short introductory text and workbook that is designed to introduce systems thinking. It starts by building an awareness of systems thinking as a discipline, and by providing a series of learning activities that lead you through the basics.

The two main techniques that this book teaches are (1) behavior over time graphs and causal loops, both of which are the main tools employed in systems thinking. These are also the foundation of system dynamics of which systems thinking is a subset (system dynamics uses expanded techniques such as simulation models and analysis of alternatives).

What I like about this book is the clear explanation of the basics and the use of illustrations and learning activities. I also like the summaries of system archetypes and system thinking tools included in the appendices, which provide starting points for further study. It's not the best book for self-study because it is written more as a workbook than an introductory text. As such it is best used in an instructor-led course, or in conjunction with more in-depth books about system thinking (my favorite is Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity by Jamshid Gharajedaghi).

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Systems Thinking Basics: From Concepts to Causal Loops
Lauren Johnson Virginia Anderson
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MU6R28

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Winter Wonders: 15 Quilts and Projects to Celebrate the Season
Jennifer Rounds , and Catherine Comyns
Manufacturer: C&T Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1571202315

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Quilters are treated to a gorgeous collection of new Christmas designs from Japan's leading quilt publication, Nihon Vogue. Offering a new take on traditional Western quilting, Japanese quilters share their fresh, unexpected vision and fabulous finishing touches for holiday designs. Quilters will find fresh ideas, clever piecing, and unusual color palettes, plus unique gift and home decor projects that are perfect for stocking stuffers. Fifteen quilt and accessory projects such as Gingerbread Wreaths, Silver Trees, and Dancing Santas include techniques ranging from traditional and paper piecing to appliqué and embellishments.

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Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 presents a new view of German history in the late nineteenth century. Dr Grant argues that many of the problems of Imperial Germany were temporary ones produced by the strain of rapid industrialisation. Drawing on the tools of development economics he argues that Germany passed through a labour surplus phase as desribed by the Lewis Model. This period came to an end around 1900, creating more favourable conditions for political reform and social reconciliation. But Germany's progress to full political and economic maturity was derailed at the outbreak of war in 1914. Dr Grant bases his argument on an analysis of the economic and demographic forces driving migration in nineteenth-century Germany. High rural-urban migration led to the rapid expansion of German cities. The main factors driving this were social and economic change in the countryside and the process of the demographic transition. The release of surplus labour onto urban labour markets held back wage increases and led to an increase in inequality. The German economy behaved in a way which seemed to bear out the predictions of Karl Marx and this contributed to the appeal of Marxist ideas and the rise of the social democratic vote. However, this was a temporary phase. The labour surplus period was largely over by 1900. The rise in inequality which had begun in the 1820s came to an end, and inequality began to fall. Contrary to received wisdom, Germany was not on the brink of a general socio-economic crisis in 1914; instead it was moving away from one. However, the political system failed to take advantage of this opportunity, and Germany's dependence on imported food and raw materials led to a strategic crisis which combined disastrously with internal political problems.

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Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913
Oliver Grant
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKU2EA

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If you are an E-Commerce entrepreneur, this is the book that you'll want your technical staff to read before creating your Web Site. This book provides future developers and designers information on how to think about creating a successful Web Site. In terms of the physical site and its role in the overall success of the dot-com business, it urges readers to think about their business as a complex program that responds to the needs of the customer who contact it over the Web. Broken down into three sections, this comprehensive book covers the following areas: Planning and Analysis, Designing and Developing, and Marketing. Managing and Marketing a Successful Web Site is for the programmer or developer who is serious about exploring the nature of a successful Web Site.

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An easy to read but informative book.......2007-03-09

This book covers the essentials of planning, developing and marketing a web site. The book uses real-world examples and case studies, and while easy to read, does not over simplify the subject.

IT'S OK.......2007-03-09

There was some useful information, but the organization of the book could use some improvement. Some of the information is outdated and needs to be updated with the changing environment.

Revenue and Advertising.......2007-03-09

The book does not provide enough case studies of successful websites such as Amazon or eBay on how they generate revenue. Does not focus on the shopping cart model or experience. Also, topics on Online Banking and Transactions are not explained. Overall a good book for business majors trying to understand the Web from a very high-level.

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People Problems. Do your employees give you burn out? Are the difficult people around you sapping the life out of you? The solution for this problem often comes from looking at conflict management. Good conflict can bring improvement to organizational life and decision making. Yet unresolved conflict can do great damage to programs and persons. What makes the difference?- Our understanding of certain personalities- Our understanding of anger- Our ability to master certain leadership techniques- Our case in preparing people for change- Our skill in emphasizing teamwork vs. internal competition- Our creativity in designing recognition and rewards- Our capacity to see beyond positions, power, and politicsDerived from Dr. Stevenin's thirty years' experience in corporate and organizational life, Win/Win Solutions will give you a new perspective on dealing with difficult people and increasing the productivity of your organization.

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