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College Accounting: A Comprehensive Approach
Phoebe M. Woltz
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Book Description
In today's job market, getting to "yes" doesn't mean getting a break. Like most new employees today, you'll probably get thrown into your new position with little or no orientation. You'll have to "sink or swim" in the first 90 days-or face termination.
No worries. Sink or Swim shows you how to be a top performer from day one.
"Everyone starting a new job should have this book under their arm at work, next to their plate at dinner, and under their pillow at night." -Jeffrey Fox, author of the national bestseller, How to Become CEO
With week-by-week charts, and straightforward, no B.S. information, Sink or Swim enables you to decode the company's culture, discern what your priorities should be, and survive and thrive in your first twelve weeks-no matter what industry you're in.
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Read This and Refer Back.......2007-08-22
Within the first week of starting my new job at a startup internet company, I came across this book and it made all the difference. Working at a startup can often be disjointed, especially since we didn't have an office to call our own. By incorporating some of the advice in my weekly routines, I created a structure for myself that I continue to follow. The advice was clear, concise and right on.
This is definitely a must-read for anyone starting a new job.
Another 5-star review from SF, jeffnc!.......2007-07-03
Pay no attention to Jeffnc, the bitter reviewer from SC! I live in SF and have no idea who the Sidells are, but this book is fascinating! Follow everything they say week by week,a nd you'll get that "This is going very well" at your 90-day review just like me! What's more, you look not only super organized with this book on your desk, but also super-conscientious....I brought this book into a one on one with the boss, and I cracked the book and said "I'd like to talk about my career goals.." she asked me what the book was...she was impressed!
A Great Resource/Tool.......2007-04-10
"Sink or Swim" is the book that I wish I had when I started in the working world over 18 years ago! It is a simple, step-by-step tool that shows new hires how to "get it right in 12 weeks". The week-by-week approach gives individuals the opportunity to set good habits and strategies that can be applied throughout one's career. This book has been very helpful to me as an HR professional in getting my recent college graduate new hires to better engage with the company and job they accepted within it! I would highly recommend this book.
Mediocre.......2006-12-20
Be knowledgeable about your industry. Be knowledgable about your company. Be knowledgeable about your required job skills. Communicate well with people. Set goals for yourself. Dress like others around you dress. Pretty common sense stuff.
By the way, check out some of the other reviews. It's pretty unusual for any book, especially a one like this, to get all 5 star reviews. Look at the earliest 8 reviews. This is the only review that has been written by each of these 8 reviewers. All written on May 8. Almost all from San Francisco/California (interesting that the company founded by the authors is in San Francisco.) A bunch of people from San Francisco just happened to swarm to Amazon on May 8 to give the book a bunch of 5 star reviews. Interesting.
An Excellent Guide that Came in Handy.......2006-09-25
Let me begin by saying that I started a new job, and before the transition, I bought four books on this same topic. I hoped that between all of them, I would learn everything necessary for my first 3 months at my new job.
After having read all of them, I came to the conclusion that I would have saved some money had I only purchased Sink or Swim. It was by far the most comprehensive, week by week guide about how to start a new job and successfully chart your path within the first three months of your new job.
Some of the sage advice includes simple matters like knowing the right time to speak to your boss, the types of conversations you want to have when first being introduced to your new colleagues. Some of the best advice comes in the form of advice for the reader that helps them present the best possible image to others.
Readable, engaging and formatted in a clear reference style, I highly recommend this for anyone who is starting a new job, or for anyone who wants to start their old job, anew.
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Take Your Career to the Next Level with the New York Times bestselling Knock `em Dead series!
For more than a decade, Knock `em Dead has been the first, middle, and last word for job seekers on navigating a competitive, and often cutthroat, job market. Praised by BusinessWeek for its comprehensive content and "fast-paced, upbeat" style, the Knock `em Dead series has helped over 3 million readers ace the interview and seal the deal.
However, Knock `em Dead knows it's not just about getting the job—it's about managing a career. The ability to present authoritatively is critical—and often required—to succeed in the career arena. In today's business environment, a "presentation" is not limited to a speech at the annual meeting—trade shows, product launches, media inquiries, phone calls, interviews, and even performance appraisals are all considered business presentations.
Knock `em Dead Business Presentations includes information on:
· Researching your presentation
· Finding the "magic bullets" that will capture your audience's attention
· Effectively using visual aids to make a point
· Crucial preparation points that shouldn't be ignored
· Audience involvement techniques
· Combatting speech anxiety
· Making the most of nontraditional speaking venues
· Using presentations to build professional recognition
Knock `em Dead Business Presentations gives you the tools you need to make a dynamic impression.
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Fundamentals of making a successful business presentation.......2003-01-06
Knock Em Dead Business Presentations tackles the fundamentals of making a successful business presentation; from researching a presentation and capturing audience attention to using visual aids to make a point, and involving an audience in a presentation. Everything is found within the pages of Knock Em Dead Business Presentations necessary to creating an effective, nuts and bolts presention of a fine business program from scratch.
Highly Recommended!.......2002-12-17
Career management expert Martin Yate and finance whiz Peter Sander have assembled a dandy handbook on making effective presentations. After pointing out the value of developing this key career skill, they focus on how to prepare a good speech. They go from identifying your audience, to determining how best to deliver information, to being ready to be hot stuff at the podium. Similar books have explained these steps before, but the authors couldn't offer their meatier advice without beginning with the basics. Familiar instructions include researching your audience and topic, being yourself and using effective communications techniques. The more distinctive information covers turning your talk into a kind of conversation with the audience, employing audio visual aids effectively and adopting proper stage dress and manners. Though the material is familiar, we from getAbstract appreciate this well-organized, clear presentation and suggests that beginning speakers might want to walk this way before stepping up to the microphone.
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This book provides readers with basic information and skills needed to enter the health care field. It equips readers with the skills necessary to research many different occupations in the health care field and to become effective health care workers. Includes throughout four values indicators—dignity, a sense of justice, a spirit of service, and a desire to provide excellent care—referred to throughout. Includes basic review materials on recognizing and reading numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, and fractions. Provides readers with critical thinking questions and activities to deepen their level of understanding and provide opportunity for expression of their attitude, feelings, and personal growth. OBRA training structure, National Standards and JACHO standards are addressed. Margin glossary included. For anyone interested in a career in the health and medical fields.
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Perfect Text for entry level students.......2001-04-22
Students will find this book easy to use and understand. The material allows students to start their learning experience at an easy level and move gradually to higher levels. Vocational students will achieve success in reaching their entry-level health career goal with this book. Students easily follow the workbook guidelines and teachers appreciate the easy to follow instructors materials.
The intent of this book.......2001-02-10
This textbook and accompaning materials is written for a specific audience. It is a text that helps English as a second language, returning adults who may not have completed high school and for those needing simple and careful information. In some cases a student in the class may excel and the material seems redundant, etc. The text meets a very important need and the course instructor purchases texts to meet the need of her students. The previous reviewer was very disappointed in the book because of the level it is written for. She is probably a more advanced student.
Horrendous.......2000-11-26
This text is absolutely the most horrendous book I have ever used in a college class. It is written at about a 4th or 5th grade reading level, and within the text will highlight common, everyday words like "familiar", "prioritize" and "accurate" and then in a sidebar will actually define the words for you! I have never been more embarrassed to own a book (which is required for a health care class I must take). In another unbelievable chapter the reader is even told how to add numbers like 2 and 3! I kid you not. (check page 131 for verification) I cannot believe this book is marketed for a college audience, and will most certainly sell this book back at the end of the semester, as it is TOTALLY useless. The writers of this text definitely display a lack of knowledge in the fields of medicine and physiology. Don't waste your money on it.
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A fascinating and incisive look at a growing population: women who by choice or by chance have remained childless.
Thanks in part to birth control, delayed marriages, and the emergence of two-career couples, 42% of the adult female population is childless, representing the fastest-growing demographic group to emerge in decades. Alternately pitied and scorned, childless women are rarely asked directly about the reasons for their status; the elephant in the living room, childlessness is a taboo subject.
Asking the hard questions, Madelyn Cain uncovers the many reasons for childlessness--from infertility to a focus on a career to even political action--and explores the ramifications, both personal and sociological. Simultaneously compassionate and journalistically curious, The Childless Revolution is informed by the stories of over 100 childless women, at long last giving voice to their experience and validating the jumble of emotions women feel about being a part of such a controversial population. For childless women and their families everywhere, this is the first--and long overdue--book to put a face on women who have made a largely misunderstood reproductive choice.
Customer Reviews:
2 Stars With Reservations.......2007-05-11
Madelyn Cain's definition of "childless" and "childfree" are childless individuals are people who wanted children but never conceived and childfree individuals are people who actively chose not to have children. After this point is made the book is mostly complete rubbish but this was apparent from the author's introduction where Cain discusses that the most important ambition, goal, and purpose of her life was to have children. She wrote the book for herself as consolation of her fear of, "What would my life have been if I had never had a child?" Cain is a mother writing about the experiences of the childfree/less and she seems to greatly miss the point.
I was interested in this book because every time I stumble across a childfree book list - there it is! The book is divided into three childless sections (choice, chance, and happenstance) and the choice/childfree section is the shortest. Without saying these things are explicitly true Cain does ensure to link and even suggest within the childfree chapter that women who dislike children have a genetic disorder, men seeking vasectomies at young ages are associated with a religious cult, not wanting children (if not genetic) as a result of childhood trauma/abuse, and of course the never failing favorite - childfree people are selfish/bitter. The section is then broken into three further categories of positively childfree, environmentally childfree, and religiously childfree. Cain does a successful job through her interviews to make everyone in these groups (excluding the religiously childfree) sound crazy.
Other problematic areas in the book include some very negative discussion about adoption (a la the orphans will put arsenic in the well variety), a pervading idea that men are forcing women not to have children, if you don't have a husband OR a child you will be old and alone, it's "ironic" that lesbians have so much trouble having/adopting children rather than homophobic, the extreme level of Christianity everyone expresses, little discussion about disabled couples and no comment at all about individuals who couldn't conceive from birth, no comment on the continuous "my genes" conversations that occur, etc. The list does just go on and on.
The last saving grace of this book is the brief section about childfree/less complaints. This includes tax, work, housing, etc issues. I would not suggest this book to anyone but if you are going to read it please do so with extreme reservations.
Have and open mind..........2006-11-30
I fall into the category of tragically childless, although, I don't view my situation as a "tragedy" but rather an unexpected twist in my life journey. Ms. Cain's treatment of this material was sensitive and respectful. We are more than statistics we are wives, sisters, daughters, co-workers, friends, lovers and unique individuals who have much to offer society. I believe the greatest take away from this book was that women need to stop forming camps an begin respecting and embracing every woman's choice or situation in life. Many early feminists would likely be disappointed to see women pitted against each other in the workplace, family, and society. We are all valuable individuals who deserve love and support from each other. While I don't have children, I have been given the gift of freedom and time to care for my family and friends who are working very hard to nurture their own children who will one day become productive members of society. I also have time to support those individuals who for one reason or another do not have a family of their own and have found themselves alone in the world. My family is not just a biological circle, but one that extends to people I have connected with in my life who are all ages and come from many walks of life. Once women begin form a united front and embrace all types of individuals, we will truly be a force to be reckoned with in the world.
The Author is not childless.......2006-07-17
You can't possibly know what it means to be childless today when you are not childless today. The author describes in the book, a nightmare she had in which she dreams she has no children and awakes in a panic and runs down the hall to find her child sleeping. HUH!? The author has no credibility and nothing to offer.
Response to Author.......2006-07-14
I recently finished reading this book and just read all the Amazon reader reviews. I normally wouldn't write a review myself, but I was struck by Madelyn Cain's review and wanted to respond to it.
Lowkell is not claiming that statistics from the U.S. Bureau of the Census are inaccurate. She is suggesting that your interpretation of the statistics is misleading to your readers. I think that Lowkell was justified in writing, "The problem is that the 42.2% figure refers to a huge age range (15-44), and that the vast majority of what Cain calls "childless" women are actually under age 25. Census Bureau statistics from 1998 show that the incidence of childlessness declines as women age, from 90.1% of 15-19 year olds, to 64% of 20-24 year olds, to 19.8% of 35-39 year olds, to 19.0% of 40-44 year olds. So, the relevant number here is more like 19.0% (not 42.2%), which is the percent of women moving out of childbearing years who have not had a child. And this number is indeed up since over the past couple of decades, from 10% in 1980. A big increase, but it still represents only a relative minority of women."
Lowkell's statistics can be verified at the U.S. Bureau of the Census website (http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0037/twps0037.html).
I am sorry that Lowkell's review has caused you pain. It seems to me, however, that her review, which compliments your work at times, could have been a lot worse (a much harsher review can be found at www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2002_12_000429.php). I think your response to Lowkell exaggerates the harm she's done. One could argue that your response to her review is going to draw a lot more attention to it.
Personally, one moment in the book that made me wonder was when you said that you could find no college or university with a women's study course that explored the topic of childlessness. I was shocked by that statement. It made me wonder how many colleges and universities you contacted.
Overall, I appreciated your book, and I would encourage anyone interested in the topic of female childlessness to read it. I also appreciated your bibliography, and I would be grateful if future Amazon reviewers would give the titles of related books they consider worthwhile.
author's response.......2006-05-09
i am the author of 'the childless revolution' and for years i have had to see the review from lowkell listed on your site. at first i thought i would just turn the other cheek but i've had enough. i have no problem with people liking or disliking my book but this review is downright nasty.
this writer claims i did not conduct my research thoroughly and in fact believes my stats are inaccurate. first let me say that it took 4 years of painstaking research to complete this book. every stat, every figure, every claim in the book was first-sourced and vetted not only by me but by my publisher as well. i stand by everything i have written. how can lowell claim that statistics from the U.S. Bureau of the Census are inaccurate?
what is painful is that someone can spend three minutes writing a nasty review which cripples the hard, conscientious work a writer has done and we have to sit by and see it for all the world to read and people don't know the reviewer is WRONG.
i wrote this book to help childless women gain respect. this reviewer is actively standing in the way of that happening.
i think in the spirit of fairplay, that review should either be removed or mine should go right along side of it.
madelyn cain
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This valuable guide provides an introduction to the basic health care environment and a preview of various popular health careers designed to help students make informed choices based on their interest and their commitment to the educational and professional responsibilities of each health career. It gives students a realistic glimpse of various health careers available today, outlining the roles and responsibilities, levels of education and credentialing, daily functions, and key disorders and assessment tools that are involved.
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Health Care (Careers for Today)
Linda Barrett , and
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Student Workbook for Health Careers Today
Judith Ann Erdin
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Workbook for Health Careers Today
Judith Gerdin
Manufacturer: Mosby
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ASIN: 0323048420 |
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With this Workbook, you will enhance your understanding of the material in Health Careers Today, 4th Edition! Organized by chapter, this Workbook includes puzzles and exercises that reinforce important key concepts from the textbook. It's an excellent way to master the material and prepare for exams!
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Features student activities and exercises which reinforce materials, and competency sheets which evaluate students' understanding of the skill lists.
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This book is both an indispensable reference on the history of astronomy in Australia, and a highly readable study of a scientific discipline in the context of emerging nationhood. It covers not only the science, but the individuals involved and the social and economic climate in which they worked. Starting from the ancient Aboriginal beliefs about the Sky World--the earliest known astronomy anywhere in the world--the authors lead us to the most exciting, high-tech, current and projected research being carried out at Australia's world-class astronomy facilities and universities. The authors cover all branches of astronomy--optical, infrared, X-ray, gamma-ray, microwave, gravitational wave and theoretical--and they include the contribution of amateur astronomers. The nontechnical language, many illustrations, and explanatory figures, ensure that this guide will appeal to a wide range of readers, including professional astronomers, historians of science, students, amateur astronomers and general readers.
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world class efforts.......2005-02-20
In modern science, astronomy is one of the few areas in which Australia maintains world class standing. In part because it is a developed country, with the resources to spare for a modest investment in various observatories scattered throughout Australia, as discussed by Haynes. But also because by default, about the third of the night sky cannot be seen by the northern hemisphere. So Australia's main rivals in this regard are only Chile and South Africa.
The book does cover a history of astronomy in Australia. Starting with the efforts of Aboriginal astronomers. But perhaps to many readers, the most interesting sections are on the contemporary front. Here, Haynes explains the contributions in the many areas of the spectrum. Including the telescopes of Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring. Which were quite considerable monetary investments, by Australian standards.
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