Project Management Research at the Turn of the Millennium: Proceedings of Pmi Research Conference 2000

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Updated Edition of Best Seller!

"Heartwarming and motivating! Strategies are brought to life by teachers’ descriptions of specific principal behaviors and how their principals helped them grow as professionals."
Educational Leadership

"Should be read by all practicing principals! An extraordinary, perceptive account of how a principal can influence teachers and make an impact on school culture."
Richard R. Tranter, Principal
Murray High School
Murray, Utah

New insights into creating willing and motivated teachers—from the teachers’ point of view!

Joseph and Jo Blase provide a unique opportunity for principals to learn what really works in empowering teachers to be their best. Based on interviews with over 800 teachers who describe in detail what their principals do on a daily basis to influence and empower them, the authors show the transformative effects principals can have on teachers’ work both in the classroom and in the wider school setting. And now, an expanded and updated edition makes this critically acclaimed book more valuable than ever.

In this considerably expanded second edition, the Blases have added—

Recent data and insights from research, literature, and national reports
New figures, models, tips, and reading lists
New emphasis on instructional leadership as it relates to facilitative-democratic leadership

Learn what successful principals do—

The authors present descriptions of what successful principals do—from teachers’ actual experiences—that leads to such impacts as improved self-esteem, confidence, commitment, innovation, autonomy, and reflection. Relevant concepts, models, and strategies from the literature help practitioners think through their approach to implementing shared governance.

For both the practicing and prospective principal who want to construct meaningful ways of working with teachers—this book offers critical reflection about leadership using a relevant knowledge base—the teachers themselves.

Joseph Blase is professor of educational leadership at the University of Georgia. He has published widely in the areas of teacher stress, principal-teacher relationships, and shared governance leadership. Blase earned the Memorial Award given by the University Council for Educational Administration, and in 1999 he was recognized by the American Educational Research Association as an elite scholar.

Jo Blase is professor of educational leadership at the University of Georgia and a former public school teacher, middle and high school principal, and director of staff development. She has published widely in the area of preparation for and entry to educational and instructional leadership as it relates to supervisory discourse. Blase is winner of the 1997 University of Georgia College of Education Teacher Educator Award and the 1983 American Association of School Administrators Outstanding Research Award.

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It's a great reference tool of strategies and practices........1998-11-14

Empowering Teachers: What Successful Principals Do

Blasé, J. & Blasé, J.R.. (1994). Empowering Teachers: What Successful Principals Do. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc. ISBN 0-8039-6092-1

The Objective of Empowering Teachers is to clearly explain what successful principals do to empower teachers, ultimately improving learning. The book is based on data collected from 285 teachers in 11 schools that participated in a study associated with Carl Glickman's League of Professional Schools. The authors have based their book on shared governance, which they suggest is the foundation necessary for empowerment to occur. Therefore Blasé & Blasé wrote about common strategies and practices of successful principals who implemented shared governance. Only those principals described as successful were studied; success was measured based on League Criteria, annual reports, on site visitations, teacher reports and facilitator reports. The book, Empowering Teachers, is broken into ten easy to read chapters: 1) Shared Governance 2) Trusting the Experts: Why do we need trust 3) Creating Structures that help Teachers do Their Best 4) Supportive Resources 5) Encouraging Autonomy and Innovation 6) Modeling Personal Dimensions 7) About Risk and Threat 8) Valuing and Rewarding Good Work 9) Helping Solve Problems 10) Providing Leadership That is Facilitative and Democratic Each chapter describes a strategy, discusses its importance, and provides a break down of specific practices that are effective in implementing the strategy. An abundance of teacher feedback is also provided which describes how teachers felt about principals' techniques. The strategies the principals used affected the "three dimensions of teacher empowerment" to improve learning: · "The affective dimension: teacher satisfaction, motivation, esteem, confidence, security, sense of inclusion, identification with the group and its work (sense of "we") · The classroom dimension: innovation, creativity, reflection, autonomy, individualization of instruction, professional growth, classroom efficacy. · The schoolwide dimension: expression, ownership, commitment, sense of team, and schoolwide efficacy" Empowering Teachers could be utilized as a reference tool throughout a principal's career because it provides essential strategies for success.

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Despite the surge of interest over the last decade in cultural phenomena in organizations, researchers of widely differing disciplinary backgrounds, epistemologies, methodological preferences, and political ideologies continue to disagree about fundamental issues--with good reason. Consolidating a diverse array of theoretical and empirical studies into an analytical framework that clarifies and challenges the assumptions that have guided organizational culture research, this pathbreaking book delineates three competing perspectives and offers a way out of the conceptual chaos caused by conflicts among these viewpoints. This analysis acknowledges incommensurabilities without creating pressures toward assimilation, while offering insights unavailable to any single perspective. Exploring tcpks to major intellectual developments (postmodernism, feminist theory, environmental dependence) within and outside of organizational theory, Cultures in Organizations brings a critical, interdisciplinary perspective to the field. This theoretical approach has an extensive empirical base, drawing on studies of a wide variety of organizations, including a large multi-national electronics corporation, the Peace Corps, universities, small non-profit organizations, and several large and small private-sector companies. By alternating between theoretical abstractions and studies of particular organizations, Joanne Martin delineates and bridges divergent approaches to the study of cultures in organizations, offering a breadth and an openness to multiple viewpoints not available elsewhere.

Cultures in Organizations: Three Perspectives

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Cultures in Organizations: Three Perspectives
Joanne Martin
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Cultures in Organizations: Three Perspectives
Joanne Martin
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Cultures in Organizations: Three Perspectives
Joanne Martin
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Instant Strategist

Great tool for developing a strategy!,

Great tool for developing a strategy!,

Instant Strategist

Instant Strategist
Dan Geller
Manufacturer: WizBizWeb, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0972233849

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This strategic planning guidebook contains the most unique strategic planning methodology ever created. The Instant Strategist™ methodology is the result of many years of research, development and successful implementation.

Instant Strategist™ is a must for every executive and manager who wants results! Regardless of your type of business, you can succeed just by following the most innovative and proven strategic planning methodology ever created.

Executives, managers, and business people, just like you, are raving about this innovative guidebook to strategic planning. See what they have said about it.

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Instant Strategist.......2003-03-24

My MBA class in Strategic Leadership used this very simple text to develop a Strategic Business plan during our first term in the MBA program. The book is very succinctly written; and, when suggested guidelines are followed, a comprehensive Business Plan is the result. I felt that the plan I wrote was presentable for the implementation of a new business endeavor. Dan Geller has a gift for making a seemingly complex subject / project seem simple to accomplish.

Great tool for developing a strategy!,.......2003-03-24

A must-have book for anyone interested in developing an e-strategy and/or starting a new business. It really helped me turn my vision into a viable business. You cannot write an effective business plan without reading this book first!

Great tool for developing a strategy!,.......2003-03-24

Instant Strategist.......2003-03-24

Instant Strategist PowerPoint Presentation

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Instant Strategist PowerPoint Presentation
Dan Geller
Manufacturer: WizBizWeb, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: 0972233881

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Use this PowerPoint presentation to customize your own strategic plan presentation, or to make a presentation on the topic of strategic planning. In either case, you will save hours of preparation by using these preformatted slides.

This strategic planning presentation (PowerPoint) contains over 160 slides all ready format for presentation.

If you are an educator or a presenter, you will appreciate having a ready-made slides for your presentation

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Instant Strategist Software
Dan Geller
Manufacturer: WizBizWeb, LLC
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Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: 0972233873

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The Instant Strategist™ software is based on our highly popular Instant Strategist guidebook.

The Instant Strategist™ software contains step-by-step instructions for constructing a winning strategic plan at a fraction of the time it would otherwise take.

The user interface is easy to follow and will guide you through the process in a logical and systematic manner.

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For every successful mining district celebrated in history, there were failed dozens whose stories have been largely forgotten. The Mechanics of Optimism fills a void by documenting, in rare detail, the boom-bust cycle of Hot Spring District, a mid-1860s Montana gold camp that didn't pay, despite early predictions of a bonanza.

Author and historian Jeffrey J. Safford examines how gold mining ventures were developed and financed during and after the Civil War, and how men, primarily Easterners with scant knowledge of mining, were willing to invest large sums in gold mines that promised quick and lucrative returns.

Safford explains how these mining companies were organized and underwritten, and why a little-known district in southwestern Montana was chosen as a center of operations. What were the businessmen involved in these ventures thinking? Why didn't new mining technology triumph as predicted? Why did their financial strategies fail to produce lavish profits? Relying on extensive primary sources, Safford answers these and other questions while reminding the reader that the rapid rise and decline of Hot Spring was not unique. The mining frontier is littered with short-lived "sure-fire investments." True bonanzas were the exception, not the rule.

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The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City
Joan W. Scott
Manufacturer: Wipf & Stock, Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000U6IDQC

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There's nothing easier, more natural--or more dangerous--than to latch on to wrong information. Salespeople do it all the time, as they mistakenly build their sales philosophies on foundations of half-truths and falsehoods, such as "you must be aggressive to succeed in sales" or "lower your price to close the sale."

The 24 Sales Traps and How to Avoid Them debunks sales truisms like these. Based on field-tested and scientifically validated research, the book replaces conventional wisdom with hard facts and an updated approach. For example:

* "If you generate sales activity, you'll be successful." Sales managers preach this as gospel, but the research uncovered here shows that it only applies to small, transactional sales, not large, consultative sales.

* "The Internet has changed selling." Not so, readers learn. The Internet has shifted traditional direct marketing to the virtual channel, but not selling.

* "Handling objections helps you meet the prospect's needs." True, but: research shows that the fewer the objections, the more likely the sale will take place.

The 24 Sales Traps and How to Avoid Them will appeal to both sales managers and reps searching for a fresh infusion of real-life advice on how to achieve better sales.

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Forewarned Is Forearmed.......2003-06-05

The number is essentially unimportant. Canada could have focused on seven (out of respect to Covey) or on 14 or on 34 "sales traps." In fact, there are hundreds of incorrect or inappropriate actions and strategies undertaken by salespeople or a sales organization because of incomplete or false information, illogical thinking, "tradition," poor decision-making, and/or not knowing what they don't know. Canada brought to the writing of this book a wealth of real-world experience in sales and sales training. He also drew upon extensive published research (e.g. a sales research project sponsored by Xerox) as well as studies conducted by the Dartmouth Group, Ltd. and the Institute for Global Sales Studies. In the Introduction, Canada asserts that "It is not what sales and marketing people don't know that is most likely to significantly hurt their performance; it is what they think they know that turns out to be a partial truth, a fallacy, or a mistaken belief that affects their results more."

According to Canada, the most successful salespeople, sales teams, and sales organizations are guided and informed by six principles: Focus outside, get the most out of the best people, train effectively, create value, offer feedback and create opportunities for learning, and use the Internet and databases effectively. He illustrates each of these six by identifying and then examining 24 different sales traps, each of which violates one or more of the principles. He then explains how to avoid them. For example:

Sales Trap #6: Either Sales People Have It or They Don't

Action Points: Be patient, Give constructive feedback, and give consistent feedback that doesn't exclude anyone.

Sales Truth #6: Sales people are developed [in italics], not born [also in italics]

Canada uses this same format for the other sales traps, devoting a separate chapter to each of the 24. He provides brief annotations with each Action Point throughout the book and also inserts observations, suggestions, and examples so as to create a context for each combination of Sales Trap/Action Points/Sales Truth. He concludes with an Epilogue in which he shares his thoughts about the next generation of performance change programs, suggesting that there are two unique points that should be carefully considered when devising a program by which to move sales performance and sales results to the next level. First, performance change programs must incorporate a customer survey that is customized for the program, and performance change programs should also examine the success factors from the customer's perspective." Although Canada does not italicize the last four words, I would. "Second, the program must incorporate into each case study the 'best practices' of your top salespeople. In other words, we must leverage the insights of an organization's best people in order to help others within the company." I could not agree more, presuming to add that the aforementioned "best practices" would also be of substantial to those not directly involved in sales (e.g. receptionists, telephone operators, CSRs, accounting) who also have direct and frequent contact with customers.

After reviewing the 24, many readers will probably have a few sales traps to add to the list. Perhaps if enough readers share them with Canada (he is a member of the marketing faculty at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University), he will accumulate enough new material for another book. My own rather extensive experience in sales and sales training suggests these troublemakers:

MISTAKE A: Negotiating Against Yourself (i.e. assuming what a customer can and cannot afford)

TRUTH A: Let the customer say "No."

MISTAKE B: Constantly "Cultivate" Customers

TRUTH B: Contact a customer only when there is a legitimate reason to do so.

MISTAKE C: Ask Lots of Questions

TRUTH C: Do your homework. Lots of it. Request only the answers you cannot be expected to know already.

MISTAKE D: Closing Skills Are Most Important

TRUTH D: More often than not, so-called "closing skills" work best when used to pre-qualify a prospect.

Although this book will be of great value to relatively inexperienced salespeople, especially to those without the safety nets and air cover of an established sales organization, I also think it will be of substantial value to sales managers and to peak performers who can so easily become entrapped by what Jim O'Toole refers to as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom." Probably the worst sales trap of all is to continue to think and sell the same way, day after day, and then expect better results. Even the most experienced of salespeople should constantly be challenging their own assumptions, premises, etc. about sales...but seldom do. Canada's book can guide and inform such a re-evaluation.

Especially for organizations with limited resources and a small sales force, Canada's book can serve as the basis of an especially effective sales training program. Larger organizations can also use it as the focal point of a workshop. Obviously, those who understand what the 24 sales traps are and why they are so dangerous are most likely to avoid them.

A Home Run.......2003-04-14

Finally, someone uses more research-based information than personal opinion to discuss the field of sales. This book was extremely helpful and the author hit a home run. Hope there is a second book like the first.

Fantastic book.......2002-01-10

This is a fantastic book. It is so hard to find any books in the sales or marketing field that are actually based on facts versus opinions. If you like this book you should check out books by Neil Rackham.

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In just few years, case-based reasoning has evolved from a research topic studied at a small number of specialized academic labs into an industrial-strength technology applied in various fields. The INRECA methodology presented in detail in this monograph provides a data analysis framework for developing case-based reasoning solutions for successful applications in real-world industrial contexts.

The book is divided into parts on:

- smarter business with case-based decision support;
- developing case-based applications using the INRECA methodology; and
- using the methodology in various application domains.

The book provides a self-contained introduction to case-based reasoning applications that address both R&D professionals and general IT managers interested in this powerful new technology.

In this second edition, improvements and updates have been incorporated throughout the text. Particularly useful is the systematic coverage of experience factory applications at various steps; and, of course, the references have been extended substantially.

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MNReview

Far from earlier brilliance!

Boring and Repetitive!

Started out slow

a major disappointment...

The Ravenscar Dynasty
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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H.R.H. H.R.H.

I Heard That Song Before: A Novel

ASIN: 0312354665
Release Date: 2007-07-31

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Bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford introduced the illustrious Harte family in her blockbuster A Woman of Substance. Now she has created a powerful new cast of characters whose lives are filled with drama and danger, romance and revenge: the Deravenels.

IN ONE HEARTBEAT THEIR LIVES CHANGED FOREVER…
When Cecily Deravenel tells her eighteen-year-old son Edward of the death of his father, brother, uncle, and cousin in a fire, a part of Edward dies as well. Not only is he too young to shoulder the responsibility for an entire family, Edward is also suspicious of the deaths. So he vows to seek the truth. Avenge the deaths. And retake control of their global business empire.

IN ONE MOMENT, AMBITION AND REVENGE ARE BORN.
As he grows into a handsome, charismatic man, Edward is torn between duty and desire. There are women in his life for whom he’ll risk everything—and one woman who might destroy him. But madness and secrecy lie at the heart of the family, and Edward’s enemies are far more ruthless than he knows. He will need his strength more than ever when the house of Deravenel is fatally rocked by betrayal from within. Who will become the ultimate ruler of the Deravenels?

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MNReview.......2007-10-02

Another super, can;t put it down book. (Review may be biased, as I am a huge Bradford fan.) Book would be a great gift - asorbing story to 'just read".

Far from earlier brilliance!.......2007-09-30

"The Ravenscar Dynasty" is the first book in a saga about two families, the Deravenels and the Grants, and the struggle for power of the house of Deravenel. The story takes place in Edwardian England and starts in 1904. Loosely based upon the life of King Edward IV, but with obvious flaws, I don't applaud this idea.

Most of what happens is, however, not entirely unexpected. Convenient "co-incidencies" easily guessed by the reader, destroy any hope of possible page-turning quality. When, for thirty pages or so, none of the book's characters have a clue about what the reader already knows, it's easy to just skip those pages.

"The Ravenscar Dynasty" is still not totally unenjoyable. I suppose the setting, English upper class in the old days, with their grand homes and traditions, has its attraction, a special "glamour of lost times". Not much excitement, but a certain charm. It did not keep me awake at night. Neither am I eagerly awaiting Book II. Compared with the unforgettable "A Woman of Substance", it lacks a lot. Too much is predictable. The people are settled in their world, in spite of a bit of trouble to maintain it. There is nothing of the strength and magic of the story about a young woman from Leeds who single-handedly built an empire. Emma Harte crept into my heart and her story is one of those unforgettable moments in literature.

I'll follow the Deravenel's destiny further, but next time I'll wait till the paperback.

Boring and Repetitive!.......2007-09-26

urgh.. couldn't stand this one. How many times can the author tell us that the main character is good looking and likes older women?? How many times can she explain the family and its history? Boring.

Started out slow.......2007-09-23

The book started out slow but then got much more interesting. Love Barbara Taylor Bradford, she does weave a great story. Ordered "the heir" which is the second book of the trilogy!!!

a major disappointment..........2007-09-19

I so looked forward to reading this book because I truly enjoyed a "Woman of Substance" and others by this author. Sadly I found it to be tiring with its overstated descriptions of wealth, opulence, gratuitous sex, and pretentious dialogue. Getting to the actual plot came about three fifths of the way through and was so shallow, I felt robbed. New characters were still being introduced in the last 100 pages, almost as though the author herself was getting bored with where it was going.

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Hot, Sexy, Rich
Bring the Drama
Hot Boyz? How About Lukewarm Men
AWESOME!!
Awesome Read

Hot Boyz
Marissa Monteilh
Manufacturer: Avon
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ASIN: 0061227617
Release Date: 2007-01-30

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But beneath the surface of ideal lives are secrets that could shatter three perfect dreams and shake a family to its core. Legacies of loss and obligation, of tragedy and madness, threaten everything the Wilsons have worked so hard to achieve, exposing deep, raw, and devastating wounds that an outside world cannot see—wounds that can only be healed through honesty and love.

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Hot, Sexy, Rich.......2007-07-26

Marissa Monteilh wrote an excllent novel titled "Hot Boyz". She took 3 extremly sexy and wealthy black men and wrote about their lives. The women in their lives, the children and their jobs. You saw the love of family in the story. It was an awesome story that encourages you to move on each and every day. It teaches you to let go when somebody doesn't want to be with you. A great story indeed! Check it out!

Bring the Drama.......2007-04-10

There are no siblings more charmed than the Wilson brothers of Ladera Heights, California. Fine and famous pro golfer Mason has money, respect, a beautiful, loving wife and two wonderful teenage children. Claude's the most successful realtor in the "Black Beverly Hills." And handsome, carefree "baby boy" Torino, who runs big brother Mason's club, Foreplay, can pick and choose the honeys he wants to share his time and his bed with.

But beneath the surface of ideal lives are secrets that could shatter three perfect dreams and shake a family to its core. Legacies of loss and obligation, of tragedy and madness, threaten everything the Wilsons have worked so hard to achieve, exposing deep, raw, and devestating wounds that an outside world cannot see--wounds that can be healed only through honesty and love.

The characters in this book seemed believable. I felt sorry for them at times and laughed hysterically with them at others. The brothers in this book had it going on...the type of men any woman would love to be with. Even still, no one is perfect and this family is riddled with problems. Marissa Monteilh brought the drama in this book. It did not disappoint.

Hot Boyz? How About Lukewarm Men.......2006-10-10

I found this one on the discount shelf of my favorite book store. I was expecting something alot more fiery based on the title. What I got was a long and drawn out story about a family who has to pick up and move on when a tragedy occurs in the home of one of the brothers. I never really got into this story. It certainly wasn't a page turner, but it was well written and the story made sense. I did appreciate the fact that the story explores several relationships (brother to brother, husband and wife, mother to children), although the relationship between Mason and Mercedes did not end as I anticipated. I'd pick this one up from the library.

AWESOME!!.......2005-08-18

This book was the best. Hot Boyz gives every emotion that could possibly be envoked by one single human being. You will want to cry, laugh, scream, and holla! The characters are so real and every person can relate to something in this storyline. Not many authors have the ability to entertain and give a message all at the same time. Hot Boyz does just that!

Awesome Read.......2005-07-28

I really enjoyed this book. The Wilson brothers are off the hook. Claudes behavior was a definite no no, how could he marry his dead lovers girlfriend? Just nasty, but that kept me more intrigued. If you love scandal and drama this is the book for you. ENJOY...

The Baby Chronicles: The Whitney Chronicles Series #2 (Life, Faith & Getting It Right #20) (Steeple Hill Cafe)

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entertaining and spiritually uplifting

The Baby Chronicles: The Whitney Chronicles Series #2 (Life, Faith & Getting It Right #20) (Steeple Hill Cafe)
Judy Baer
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Whitney Blake left spinsterhood behind when she became Mrs. Chase Andrews, and marriage is all she'd hoped for. But when her friends Mitzi and Kim start going baby-crazy, she longs for her own little bundle of joy. Wouldn't it be fun if they all could embark on their baby journey together? And so begins The Baby Chronicles, Whitney's journal of pregnancy, recording every bump and blessing—and a few unexpected detours and discoveries— on the road to motherhood.

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An entertaining story.......2007-09-24

After two years of marriage, Whitney Blake Andrews is convinced her husband Chase is perfect. She still lives in a romantic daze, and life couldn't be better. Sure there are times she'd like to ship Mitzi, her assistant, to another planet, but other than that she has no complaints. Mitzi has a talent for geting on Whitney's nerves, and can turn a compliment into an insult and never even notice. It's all about Mitzi.

Whitney's best friend, Kim Easton, has survived breast cancer, and is eager to have a baby, but her doctor, and her husband are afraid with her medical history, a pregnancy will enhance her risks of the cancer returning. Then Mitzi announces she's trying to get pregnant, and Whitney feels a yearning for the patter of little feet.

The Baby Chronicles is a really fun book. Judy Baer knows how to spin a yarn that will keep her readers smiling. Warm, witty, with a wacky cast of characters, who get their exercise leaping from one mess to another, The Baby Chronicles is just as entertaining as The Whitney Chronicles. I hope there's a book three in this delightful series.

entertaining and spiritually uplifting .......2007-09-12

When she turned thirty Whitney Black assumed she would never marry as she vowed to never settle for anyone except her soul mate. When she kept running into her best friend Kim's Doctor, Chase Andrews, she realized he was her destiny. He swept her off her feet and they married (see THE WHITNEY CHRONICLES).

Whitney, Kim, and their other best bud Mitzi discuss how neat it would be if the three were pregnant at the same time so that their children could become best friends like them. However, the road to babyhood proves more complex than the three decades path to marriage. As Whitney chronicles her adventures in pregnancy driving the patient Chase crazy, she shares her turmoil her pregnant pals, who drive their spouses insane too.

Whitney's latest adventures, this time in pregnancy mode, are entertaining and spiritually uplifting as she struggles with her delicate condition, but thanks God (and Chase) for her happy life. The story line starts a bit slow as the audience is reintroduced to the dynamic trio and their husbands, but once Whitney's journal begins to discuss her pregnancy and its raging hormones, THE BABY CHRONICLES turn into a fascinating read. Fans will appreciate this fine look at the bare essentials of creating a life.

Harriet Klausner

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Individual and Family Markets

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Dearborn insurance licensing preparation textbook

Individual and Family Markets
Dearborn Financial Institute , and Dearborn
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Dearborn insurance licensing preparation textbook.......2001-08-25

This is a universally-accepted Life Insurance licensing textbook with review questions after each chapter. 208 pages. Dearborn R&R Publication. This text refers to 1995 edition.

Individual and Family Markets (Dearborn Career Development)

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Individual and Family Markets (Dearborn Career Development)
Dearborn Financial Services
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Individual and Family Markets: Total Needs Planning (Dearborn Career Development)

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Individual and Family Markets: Total Needs Planning (Dearborn Career Development)

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Adult day care centers growing trend, lack state licensing.(Healthcare Mississippi)(Mississippi Adult Day Care Association ): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal

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Adult day care centers growing trend, lack state licensing.(Healthcare Mississippi)(Mississippi Adult Day Care Association ): An article from: Mississippi Business Journal
Lynn Lofton
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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on June 27, 2005. The length of the article is 1122 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: Adult day care centers growing trend, lack state licensing.(Healthcare Mississippi)(Mississippi Adult Day Care Association )
Author: Lynn Lofton
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 27, 2005
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 27 Issue: 26 Page: B10(1)

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Alzheimer's care model may open market. (San Diego County, California)(Health Care Update): An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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Alzheimer's care model may open market. (San Diego County, California)(Health Care Update): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
Laura Kaufman
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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on July 24, 1995. The length of the article is 1319 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: Alzheimer's care model may open market. (San Diego County, California)(Health Care Update)
Author: Laura Kaufman
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 24, 1995
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
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Breaux calls for individual health insurance mandate.(Practice Trends)(John Breaux): An article from: Family Practice News

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Breaux calls for individual health insurance mandate.(Practice Trends)(John Breaux): An article from: Family Practice News
Mary Ellen Schneider
Manufacturer: International Medical News Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000AJQ34I
Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 505 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: Breaux calls for individual health insurance mandate.(Practice Trends)(John Breaux)
Author: Mary Ellen Schneider
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 35 Issue: 7 Page: 80(1)

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