Peer to Peer: Using Peer to Peer Strategies in Drug Abuse Prevention

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This text is based on a hands-on theme meeting on Peer to Peer (P2P) techniques for drug abuse prevention. Held in May 2001 in Norrkoping, Sweden, the meeting brought together (P2P) groups from fourteen European Union countries. These youth groups and youth workers discussed the principles and methods of a good Peer to Peer drug abuse prevention program. Included in this document is an overview of their discussions and a set of guidelines.

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PREPARATION = SUCCESS

THE ISAT
* The knowledge and skills it measures
* Interpreting your child's and your school's test results
* How you can help your child's teacher and school raise ISAT scores by reinforcing key concepts at home

YOUR CHILD
* Developing a positive, confident approach to the ISAT
* Home activities to build problem-solving and reading comprehension skills measured by the test
* Coping with test anxiety

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helpful introduction and tips.......2005-02-19

A nice book to learn about the ISAT tests. It gives concise reviews of what kids needs to know, so you can check their readiness. The test taking tips are very useful for first-timers to raise scores. A very helpful warm-up for both parents and kids. Note that such a thin book doesn't do much to improve math or reading. That requires daily learning in school and study in home. There is a nice web site http://www.beestar.org you can use to assess your child's skills step by step. With the fundamentals in place, this book is a nice warm-up.

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Disneywar Battle for the Magic Kingdom
James B Stewart
Manufacturer: SIMON & SCHUSTER @ TRADE
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Total Quality Outcomes Management: A Guide to Integrating Outcomes Measurement and Tqm to Improve Health
Mara Minerva Melum
Manufacturer: Goal Q P C Inc
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Empowering Employees Through Delegation
Robert B. Nelson
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Empowering Employees Through Delegation shows managers how to-along with what and when--to delegate effectively. This Briefcase Book will take the manager step-by-step through the process of delegating by communicating responsibility in a way that ensures all parties know exactly what is expected of them.

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This bibliographic guide to the history of economic conditions in Central Europe assists in the examination of German-speaking Europe from the first efforts at economic growth and political unification through full industrialization and the disaster of war to the complexities of a region torn between competing economic and political systems. The materials included in this bibliography--monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, Festschriften, and journal articles--were selected from the holdings of a number of major European libraries. Individual chapters are devoted to the fields of agriculture, industry, business, commerce and finance. The chapters are subdivided first into the broadest subfields of economics, then by country, then by historical eras. Finally, regional and local histories are grouped first by state, then by province or canton.

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Sales professionals are seeking new ways to increase their sales and their income. Organizations are striving for top line revenue and greater profits. Sales Secrets is the solution.

Most companies suffer from one problem: lack of sales. A study by Dun & Bradstreet reported that the biggest difference between successful and unsuccessful companies was one attribute: successful companies sold more than unsuccessful ones.

"Nothing happens until a sale is made" is truer now than it has ever been. Some sales people blame the economy, while others sell regardless of economic conditions.

Sales Secretsenables companies to avoid downsizing, expand their business and improve their profitability. Using the techniques inside, growing revenue, rather than cutting expenses, will become a reality, in spite of the economy.

Author Mark Shaughnessy imparts reference materials designed to provide sales people with all of the tools and resources needed to fully develop and maximize their sales potential. These secrets represent the best techniques and ideas available in the market today.

Sales Secrets is a comprehensive answer to help sales people and companies dramatically increase their revenue. Upon adopting these techniques, companies and their sales professionals will experience an immediate increase in their sales results.

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Sales professionals are seeking new ways to increase their sales and their income. Organizations are striving for top line revenue and greater profits. Sales Secrets is the solution.

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Very nice book

Fundamentals of Management, Fourth Edition
Ricky Griffin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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ASIN: 0618472428

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The Third Edition combines a focused overview of recent scholarship with a practical approach to key functional areas (planning, organizing, leading, and controlling). To promote active skill-building throughout, the text features new opening incidents, boxed inserts, and closing cases. In addition, the text's brief format gives instructors the flexibility to assign case studies, exercises, and projects from outside sources without sacrificing thorough coverage of the fundamentals in the text.

Marginal icons refer students to the Knowledgebank on the Real Deal UpGrade CD-ROM for additional discussion of in-text topics such as motivational techniques, strategies for reducing workplace stress, and ethics.
Management Infotech boxes highlight technology in the context of real-world management issues.
New! An exceptional suite of multimedia supplements includes the Real Deal UpGrade CD-ROM for students, the HM ClassPrep CD-ROM for instructors, an expanded set of videos designed to spark class discussion, and distance learning support through Blackboard and WebCT.

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Very nice book.......2007-06-29

This is a very good book on managment. I read this book and enjoyed it.
The only reason I rated it 3 and not 5 is because I'm not very interested in managment. I don't want my recommendations to full of manamgent books.
I'm studying computer science and this was the text for a required class. It is a very good book though.

Fundamentals of Database Systems, Fourth Edition

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don't judge the book by its looks
read the first 5 chapters so far
The Bible for Database Systems
A confusion of purpose
Decent book

Fundamentals of Database Systems, Fourth Edition
Ramez Elmasri , and Shamkant B. Navathe
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ASIN: 0321122267

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Responding to the requests of database professors nationwide,the leading textbook for the introductory database management course is being fully revised in time for the startof Fall 1999 classes. Fundamentals of Database Systems, Third Edition is updated to reflect the latest developments indatabase research and practice. It combines clear explanations of theory and real systems, broad coverage of modeling and design of databases, and excellent examples with up-to-date introductions to modern database technology.

Features of the Third Edition

Presents clear and complete discussion of the relational approach including modeling, design, and query languages

Reorganized material on data modeling to clearly separate entity relationship modeling, extended entity relationship modeling, and object-oriented modeling

NEW! Gives examples of real database systems - Oracle and Microsoft Access - in Ch. 10

NEW and EXPANDED! Provides coverage of the object-oriented and object relational approach to data management including ODMG and SQL3

NEW! Includes discussion of decision support applications of data warehousing and data mining, as well as emerging technologies of web databases, multimedia, and mobile databases

NEW! Covers advanced modeling in the areas of active, temporal, and spatial databases

NEW! Discusses current database application areas of GIS, genome, and digital libraries

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don't judge the book by its looks.......2007-01-13

it's a thick book but doesn't have much depth and the way they cover the material will put most to sleep. An expensive >$100 database book should be much better.

read the first 5 chapters so far.......2007-01-11

I bought this book for a graduate level database management course. It starts off with the very basics. Thankfully, my professor breezed through the first few chapters. Overall, the content is good and I would recommend it for anyone who wants to learn the theory behind database design and management.

The Bible for Database Systems.......2006-12-11

This is an excellent and thorough analysis of database processes involving transactions, concurrency control, security and covers relational tables, object-relational dbs as well as object oriented technology. There is a thorough overview of UML as well as ER design tools. It is a tough read and covers alot of material and is very theoretical but practical. Relational algebra and calculus are covered thoroughly. This is recommended for an advanced database course as it's coverage of SQL is coarse and cursory. Instead this book is intended more for a behind the scenes analysis of database technology. An excellent database course as a prerequisite for using this book would use Mannino's Database Design, Application, Development and Administration. Mannino's book has an excellent coverage of SQL and its applications.

A confusion of purpose.......2006-11-27

This 1100 page tome of a book is a case study in what happens when you try to be all things to all people. There's a good book on database theory in there somewhere (most of chapters 5,6,10,11,...), and there's a good book on database design and practice, and there's a good book on database implementation.

This book, though, is none of those good books. Instead, it is a gigantic bunch of unmotivated information that lacks any kind of focus or goal. It's impossible to read about database theory without being lectured about ER and EER diagrams or wading through "business" examples with employees and payroll systems. It's impossible to read about database design without encountering extreme formalism in the descriptions of the normal forms. The information needed for implementation is scattered so sparsely that one would be well-advised to find another book (preferably that weighs less than five pounds).

Decent book.......2006-11-11

This was a good book for what was required for the class I took.

Fundamentals of Management, Fourth Edition

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Reasonably priced, quality book.
Low Quality Printing and Poor Examples
Excellent Introducton to Management
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Fundamentals of Management, Fourth Edition
Stephen P. Robbins , and David DeCenzo
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This streamlined volume covers the principle concepts of management to provide readers with a solid foundation for understanding key issues. Organized around the four traditional functions of management—planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, it reflects current trends in management and organizations, and presents the latest research studies in the field. The authors address managing in today's world, foundations of planning and decision making, basic organization designs, staffing and human resource management, foundations of individual and group behavior, leadership and trust and foundations of control and value chain management. For managers of all kinds.

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Reasonably priced, quality book........2007-09-13

I received the right book just in time my class started. I am so thankful that there is another way to buy college textbook aside from my bookstore. Highly recommended.

Low Quality Printing and Poor Examples.......2006-07-17

This text was published on the cheap. Be forewarned that even the condensation from a glass of ice water, transferred by your hand to the page, can cause a paragraph of text to run easily. The binding is also not well constructed. I would have preferred an electronic edition of this book due to the sheerly poor nature of its print quality. As for the text itself, it is often contradictory and perpetuates myths that have long been debunked in the business world. In one of my favorite examples, the book praises organizational planning and rigid structure, referring to systems that sound like communist five year plans; the book then proceeds to upend its argument by touting that Steve Jobs and Apple Computer have been successful not just in spite of organization structure but rather because they have turned the old concepts upside-down. Some would say this simply shows the book being fair and balanced. Unfortunately, many times it simply comes off somewhere between pedantic and silly.

Excellent Introducton to Management.......2005-08-04

The book covers all the basics. It's easy to read, and keeps your attention.

Review of Fundamentals of Management.......2001-03-29

I used this text book in an Introduction to Management course in College. I felt that the text did a great job explaining the different concepts and functions of management. The examples made it easy to understand. I also felt that the exhibits were very helpful and easy to understand. The tables and diagrams were all easy to interrupt. I also found the end of the chapter summaries very useful. I would reccomend this book to anyone who has an interest in understanding the basic fundamentals of management.

Book Review.......2001-03-29

I found this book to be very informative and helpful as an introductory management text. The order of the book was clear and precise with smooth transistions between concepts. I appreciated the use of relevent stories to follow the concepts and also the Ethical Dilemmas in Management. They forced me to apply the concepts being introduced so that I would really learn them. This is an excellent book to use and follow and will help any student who is taking an introductory management course to successfully learn the material.

Financial Accounting Fundamentals, Fourth Edition: For May and November 2004 Exams (CIMA Official Study Systems: Foundation Level (2004 Exams))

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Financial Accounting Fundamentals, Fourth Edition: For May and November 2004 Exams (CIMA Official Study Systems: Foundation Level (2004 Exams))
Henry Lunt , and Margaret Weaver
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The fourth edition of CIMA's Official Study Systems is published by Elsevier on behalf of CIMA. Key sections of the 2004 Study Systems are again written by examiners so each text fully reflects what could be tested in the exam.

Updated to incorporate legislative and syllabus changes, the 2004 Study Systems provide complete study material for the May and November 2004 exams. The new edition maintains the popular loose-leaf format and contains topic summaries and recommended reading articles from a range of journals. CIMA's Study Systems are the only books with past papers and examiners answers. Nov 2002 and May 2003 Q&As are included in this edition.

* The official study systems are the only study materials endorsed by CIMA
* Key sections written by examiners for the most accurate, up-to-date guidance towards exam success
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Management Accounting Fundamentals, Fourth Edition: For May and November 2004 Exams (CIMA Official Study Systems: Foundation Level (2004 Exams))

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Management Accounting Fundamentals, Fourth Edition: For May and November 2004 Exams (CIMA Official Study Systems: Foundation Level (2004 Exams))
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Griffin
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Instructor's guide to accompany Database processing: Fundamentals, design, implementation, fourth edition

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Instructor's guide to accompany Database processing: Fundamentals, design, implementation, fourth edition
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Study Guide, Fundamentals of management: essential concepts and applications, Fourth edition, Stephen P. Robbins, David A. DeCenzo

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Study Guide, Fundamentals of management: essential concepts and applications, Fourth edition, Stephen P. Robbins, David A. DeCenzo
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A "Must Read" for leaders and high level administrators.......2001-01-15

Management and Information Systems In Human Services: Implications for the Distribution of Authority and Decision Making By Richard K. Caputo Ph.D.

Caputo's book, published in 1988 is an excellent resource for high level administrators. Although, it is an academic pursuit, Caputo, does a fine job of describing implications for decision making, authority and legitimacy in human service organizations. The application of information systems in organizations are not neutral; they affect the authority structure, decision load and power of the organization. In other words: How are decisions made and information used in your agency?

Caputo probes the nature of humans service organizations and discusses how they are different than profit & nonprofit. The differences have a direct bearing on the functions of management and the uses of information within them.

Caputo includes footnoted material and an excellen reference list for the dedicated leader in the information age.

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MIS in organizations & affects: structure, decision, service.......1999-09-29

FIVE STAR ALL THE WAY

This is the best book I came across in three years of graduate school. This is a very comprehensive book with a foward vision for human service organizations that require the best in structure, efficiency, decision making and service delivery.

The implementation of MIS and their integration in an organization will directly affect the power base, authority structure and reporting relationships. This is critical to executives in service organizations and government who make decisions that will lead all of us into the future.

Caputo examines authority, decision load, and MIS that will enable the reader to think differently about efficiency. He also considers socio-culture and philosophical issues that reveal the global transformation of the way we think about problems and how we resolve them.

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