The Microsoft Project Management Toolkit: Microsoft  Office Project 2003 Step by Step and On Time! On Track! On Target! (Bpg -- Other)
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The Microsoft Project Management Toolkit: Microsoft Office Project 2003 Step by Step and On Time! On Track! On Target! (Bpg -- Other)
Carl Chatfield , Timothy Johnson , and Bonnie Biafore
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0735623449

Book Description

With these two books, youll learn essential skills for leading any project, as well as techniques for using the rich functionality of Microsoft Office Project 2003 to help you successfully complete your project. On Time! On Track! On Target! focuses on the core project management skills you need to manage any project, giving you a practical education in project management and how-to instruction for using Microsoft Office Project 2003 and other Microsoft Office programs. With Microsoft Office Project 2003 Step by Step, you work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and practice exercises to learn exactly the tools and techniques you need. Discover how to develop a project plan with tasks, resources, and assignments; create reports; manage multiple projects and dependencies; and track progress and costs while making real-time adjustments.

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4 out of 5 stars Great Value..........2007-01-18

Both books are good references to have with you when working with project, and very affordable.
The Project Management Office Toolkit
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Jolyon E. Hallows
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ASIN: 0814406637

Book Description

Formal project management is no longer limited to big companies. Even small firms are looking for ways to organize and control the flood of details that make up the average project.

At the same time, they're realizing that such efforts need to be coordinated companywide, not merely at the individual project level. That means setting up a project control department or office--a process spelled out step-by-step in this much-needed book. Packed with field-tested checklists and forms, it shows readers how to:

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars The Project Management Office Toolkit.......2002-09-03

I am completly aggre with Leo. This is not a book, its quite simple and general. Definitely its not a good book for its value.

1 out of 5 stars Book is mediocre.......2002-04-30

This is NOT a book. It is a binder. Definitely NOT worth the 100$ U.S I paid for the book. I should have gone to a local bookstore and seen it first before I ordered it, if I would have seen it, I would have never ordered it. Overall, I consider this book to be very general in content.

Leo

5 out of 5 stars Worth its weight in gold.......2002-03-29

This is exactly what I was looking for.........in order to implement a PMO
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    Project Management Office Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Project Management
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      The Complete Reference Checking Handbook: Smart, Fast, Legal Ways to Check Out Job Applicants
      Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
      • Mostly Obvious Information & Whining
      • Makes the Case for Real Reference Checking
      • Not quite what I expected
      The Complete Reference Checking Handbook: Smart, Fast, Legal Ways to Check Out Job Applicants
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      THE COMPLETE REFERENCE CHECKING HANDBOOK Smart, Fast, Legal Ways to Check Out Job Applicants

      One third of all job applicants lie on their resumes. When these bad apples get hired, it means putting high turnover, low productivity, discipline problems, and legal nightmares on the payroll.

      This new book is the only comprehensive guide available to the delicate art of reference checking. Managers, small company owners, and human resources professionals can top troubles before they begin by using this book's dozens of proven techniques for getting at the truth. It shows readers how to:

      ** detect lies or evasions on resumes and in interviews ** avoid illegal questions during the interview and reference-checking process ** get meaningful information from what references say -- and don't say ** check public and official sources such as credit, criminal, and driving records -- even workers' compensation claims EDWARD C. ANDLER (St. Louis, MO) is a recognized authority on reference checking. Since 1988 he has headed Certified Reference Checking Company, which conducts reference checks for hundreds of companies nationwide.

      Customer Reviews:

      1 out of 5 stars Mostly Obvious Information & Whining.......2005-03-20

      Most of the info was obvious.

      One new thing - get the interviewee to set up the references to call you.
      He kept whining about how companies refuse to provide more than the usual hire date, job title and last day of work. He never answers the question of why a company would want to help its competition in the hiring game.

      He assumes that past performance ALWAYS PREDICTS FUTURE PERFORMANCE. This may be true in a theoretical sense but he fails to acknowledge that management styles, environment and hard lessons in life also predict future performance and never indicates that these also should be inquired about.

      He also failed to mention that the interviewee is also judging the company and deciding whether they want to work there or not and that certain things should be done to mitigate the feelings of interrogation and controlling that some of Andler's recommended techniques will create.

      5 out of 5 stars Makes the Case for Real Reference Checking.......2000-10-04

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      It also contains excellent practical advice for guerilla tactics for getting reference sources to talk. Good checklists for conducting the reference process. Well worth the cost.

      1 out of 5 stars Not quite what I expected.......1999-01-11

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      Edible Horticultural Crops: A Compendium of Information on Fruit, Vegetable, Spice and Nut Species
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        ASIN: 012312820X

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        The General Introduction.
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        The information contained in the compendium is intended to serve exploratory thinking. Such thinking attempts to review all the cropping possibilities, exclude those which are obviously unsuitable, and identify those worth considering further using detailed information and different methods of thought and analysis.
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        G is for Galaxy: An Out of This World Alphabet Edition 1. (World/Country Alphabet)
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        5 out of 5 stars G is for Galaxy.......2006-01-03

        Appealing introduction to astronomy for targeted 4-8 year-old audience (or precocious younger ones) as well as to expand knowledge. This grandma learned some new tidbits!! Wonderfully informative, engaging text "talks" to reader, holds interest. Details in illustrations provide added information. Author and illustrator background information of interest to young readers as well. Three households of grandchildren and their parents were delighted with this gift book.
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          Out of This World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • Too Technical
          • About as exciting as the user's guide for my new fridge
          • Great Work Webb!
          • Another enjoyable and informative read by Webb
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          Customer Reviews:

          2 out of 5 stars Too Technical.......2005-03-05

          I agree with the previous reviewer. This book is much too technical for the general reader. The author repeatedly uses jargon without any explaination of what it means. I have a background in biological science and like to keep up to date on physical science. I have previously read extensively on string theory, yet I found myself repeatedly adrift in this book wondering what on earth the author was talking about.

          3 out of 5 stars About as exciting as the user's guide for my new fridge.......2004-11-06

          Before I begin what may be construed as a rant, I'd like to say that I did complete this book and that I enjoy books of this genre on a regular basis.

          "Colliding Universes, branes, strings and other wild ideas of modern physics" screams the cover. The cartoonish cover art further reinforces the idea that the reader is in for a fun ride. Sadly this book suffers from being entirely too technical for its own good. I've read every single stephen hawking book so I do not consider myself ignorant in this area. Yet I found myself lost amidst the jargon that is littered too liberally throughout this book. Somewhere between learning about SU(2)s and the SU(5)s I found myself thinking that I'd rather be driving a SUV. I think after reading this I care about as much for the X or Y boson as I do for their namesake chromosomes.

          To be fair I did find the last third of the book to be interesting and not quiet as dense. And the book does cover a wide range of theories, from particle physics to strings and branes. But I still could not help feeling cheated in the end.

          If you're a casual reader who just likes to to read up on concepts without getting too deep in the technical aspects of it, this book is not for you.

          If you're a total newbie looking for your first book on the wild side of physics, I suggest anything by Stephen Hawkings. This book may turn you off the genre entirely.

          If you're looking for something a bit more technical, but not quiet going into equations you might enjoy this book.

          Personally I'd just recommend Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawkings. A superior book, by a far superior author.

          5 out of 5 stars Great Work Webb!.......2004-08-20

          Out of this World - Colliding Universes, Branes and other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics by Stephen Webb is a humble exercise in reminding one not to judge a book by its cover.
          I was surprised by the difference between my initial judgment (by its title & cartoonish cover) and my evolving sense of appreciation for the depth & thoroughness this author brings to a general lay-audience. Stephen Webb provides a clear & accessible introduction to the most important subjects in fundamental physics while bridging the gulf between "gee wiz" popular science books (e.g. "Fabric of the Cosmos") and the deeper, more technical treatments that top out at the Undergraduate and Graduate level. Keep in mind this book is, strictly speaking, categorically qualitative (i.e. non-mathematical). The 11 chapters are subdivided into succinct & digestible sections with generous figures, tables and photographs (145 total) illustrating concepts of physical processes and the key physicists involved. A 14 page Glossary, 2 page Bibliography, and a fairly thorough 6 page index close out the book.
          The scope of this book is grand in its broad range of subjects is covered in a concise no-nonsense, no-holds barred language. Group Theory & Gauge Symmetries, Special & General Relativity, Quantum Theory, the Standard Model of particle physics, Quantum Field Theories (Electroweak (QED) & Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), Big Bang cosmology, and a fairly comprehensive coverage of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS), Supersymmetry (SUSY), Superstrings and M-Theory. All these subjects are put into proper historical context placing appropriate credit to the key physicists.
          After an introductory chapter, Webb leads us through a profundity of symmetry principles in chapter 1: continuous & discrete symmetries, spatial & temporal translations, Noether's Theorem (symmetry & conservation laws: time-energy, rotation-angular momentum), mirror & parity symmetry, Lorentz transformations/invariance principles. The chapter concludes with a rather nice qualitative treatment on mathematical groups - introducing the reader to Special Orthogonal/Unitary (SO(N), U(1) & SU(N)) and exceptional Lie groups and their importance to symmetries in fundamental physics.
          In chapter 2, the author crafts a beautiful real-world example of a practical application of both physics on a large scale (General & Special Relativity) and small scale (Quantum Mechanics: Planck scales, the Uncertainty principle and virtual interactions) by discussing how these "Twin Pillars of Physics" make the Global Positioning System possible.
          Chapters 3 & 4 are my favorites. They quickly bring you through the way high energy physics produces and classifies the constituents of our Standard Model. The key concepts of units of energy, rest mass, Electric charge and spin; Fermions & Bosons, leptons, and the Quark model of Hadrons are fleshed out for our edification. Also, a fascinating aside reminds us that the World-Wide Web was created at the CERN accelerator facility in Europe and foretells of the next generation "Grid" global network system. Local Gauge Symmetry, Dirac field, QED, Feynman diagrams, perturbation & renormalization programs; the Strong interactions of SU(3)c Quark-Gluon, & color and the SU(2) X U(1) Electroweak plus Higgs unification close out chapter 4 with a nice ring. Chapter 5 is a quick but inclusive read where the fruits & faults of SU(5) GUTS and N=8 SUSY are aired out.
          The early history of extra dimensions (1919 Kaluza-1926 Klein) and Edward Witten's 1981 eleven dimensional compact manifold paper are introduced in chapter 6. Chapter 7 brings us through the meat of Superstring Theories proper where Veneziano, Nambu, Susskind; Schwarz & Scherk; Calabi-Yau, Green, Witten, and Gross, Harvey, Martinec & Rohm ("Princeton String Quartet") are given due credit in the development of the Theory. Loop Quantum Gravity shows up in a one-page aside. The five types of consistent Superstring Theories are spelled out towards the end of the chapter.
          Chapter 8 is titled "The Story of M". Here, Webb covers electromagnetic duality, monopoles & superconductors (`t Hooft, et. al), QCD again, heterotic SO(32), s and t duality and finally M-Theory itself. As with the rest of the book (and In the spirit of true scientific practice), the author includes both good arguments for and general criticisms against these theories. These pros & cons are given fair "air-time". D-BRANES and Black Holes are added to the mix in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 is a brisk cruise through the "Holographic Universe" principle via anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS), Conformal field (CFT) and large-N theories.
          The closing chapter (11) is a great synthesis & synopsis of some earlier travels through the lands of Quantum Fields, the Standard model of particle physics, symmetries & symmetry breaking; gravity waves & missing matter; extra dimensions, Strings, "Brane worlds", the Anthropic Principle, and "coming attractions" in high energy physics (HEP)...
          All in all, this book is a substantial complement to my extensive library of physics multimedia. "Out of this World" undeniably meets my expectation for a great author to bridge the yawning gap we autodidacts crave to step across between purely pop-science to academic textbooks in the subject. I have to recommend this book to all seriously interested physics laymen who want a bigger & better picture of the way we humans strive to understand how the Universe ultimately works...
          I'll read it several times and eventually pass my copy around when all this knowledge gestates & gels in my mind. Great work Webb!

          5 out of 5 stars Another enjoyable and informative read by Webb.......2004-07-20

          The first book I ever read by Webb concerned the Fermi Paradox and was written in an enjoyable and easy style. He takes the same approach in this new one "Out of This World". The subject, on the surface anyhow, seems in some ways less-friendly - super string theory and the building blocks of the universe - but he handles it in the same easy style that a non-mathematician or scientist (such as myself) can understand.

          I had recently read "Elegant Universe" and found Webbs examples more approachable. It also goes further in some areas (though on the whole I think the two compliment each other). I consider myself technically minded but not too knowledgeable of physics other than what I covered at school. His level of explanation gave me a deeper insight and the coverage of black-holes and gripping. Normally I could not imagine using the words "page-turner" in describing a book like this, but there where points where I wished my commute was longer. Whoever thought I'd understand zero to eleven dimensions!

          In short I would recommend this book. It is one of the few books that has changed and shaped the way I look at the world around me. There were a few points here and there which I could not understand but that wasn't a failing on the authors part rather mine (I mean in the end, it is deep physics!).
          A Look at Moons (Out of This World)
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            A Look at Moons (Out of This World)
            Ray Spangenburg , and Kit Moser
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            The Magic School Bus Out Of This World: A Book About Space Rocks (Magic School Bus)
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            5. The Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feet: A Book About Hot-and Cold-blooded... (Magic School Bus) The Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feet: A Book About Hot-and Cold-blooded... (Magic School Bus)

            ASIN: 0590921568

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Educational Fun!.......2007-05-07

            My kids really enjoy the Magic School Bus series, and this book was no exception. My 8 yo daughter wants to be an astronaut, and her mind hasn't changed since reading this! I recommend this to all parents with younger kids who want colorful illustrations and good information without being overwhelming or boring.
            G Is for Galaxy: An Out of This World Alphabet (Sbp-Alphabet)
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              G Is for Galaxy: An Out of This World Alphabet (Sbp-Alphabet)
              Janis Campbell , and Cathy Collison
              Manufacturer: Sleeping Bear Press
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              Out of This World (Making Pictures): Lots of Space Pictures To Make
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                Out of This World (Making Pictures): Lots of Space Pictures To Make
                Penny King , and Clare Roundhill
                Manufacturer: Heinemann
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Library Binding

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                Out-of-This-World Astronomy
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                  Joe Rhatigan , Rain Newcomb , and Greg Doppmann
                  Manufacturer: Lark Books
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                  ASIN: 1579906753

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                  With 300 fabulous images, 50 fantastic projects, and lots of fascinating scientific information, this is simply the most out-of-this world introduction to astronomy a child can have.

                  "An excellent introduction to astronomy...outstanding background information ...Spectacular color photos and other graphics, useful charts, and graphs augment the text."--School Library Journal, starred review

                  What are stars? Why does the moon change shape? Budding astronomers will find answers to all their questions about the night sky--and far more--in these 50 eye-opening activities. Three-hundred color photos and illustrations, some from NASA's magnificent collection, help kids soar out into the solar system and get their bearings among the stars. Youngsters will learn to use binoculars and telescopes, and how to chart their viewing highlights in a stargazing notebook. A photographic trip to the moon will inspire kids to map its many phases, calculate a person's lunar weight, and find out what happens during an eclipse. Voyaging farther out also reveals why the other planets wouldn't make a good home for humans, and will help children understand why Earth is avery special place. A Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club and the Scholastic Book Club.
                  Life on Other Worlds (Out of This World)
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                    Life on Other Worlds (Out of This World)
                    Ray Spangenburg , and Kit Moser
                    Manufacturer: Franklin Watts
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Paperback

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                    Artificial Satellites (Out of This World)
                    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                    • Color photos pepper a history of satellite discoveries
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                    Ray Spangenburg , and Kit Moser
                    Manufacturer: Franklin Watts
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Paperback

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                    5 out of 5 stars Color photos pepper a history of satellite discoveries.......2001-07-06

                    A little over a hundred pages of information will appeal to kids in grades 5-6, offering a fine survey of artificial satellites and their current uses. Color photos pepper a history of satellite discoveries and research uses.

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