This is a well written, comprehensive presentation of compensation and benefits, including such subjects as skill / knowledge based pay and executive and international compensation. Its features include summaries, questions with links to the www, key terms, and thought-provoking "flip side of the coin" and "reflection" inserts. Includes a useful glossary of terms. The author places considerable emphasis on current issues and that is appreciated.

I am writing as a reviewer, consultant and university instructor. I use this text in teaching my introductory compensation course at UCLA's School of Business and Management. I have tried many texts that my students bemoaned as too technical, boring, and somniferous. But my students find this text highly readable, understandable and interesting. That's a victory, especially when my students are mostly working HR professionals who drag themselves to class through the clogged freeways of Los Angeles. The least I can offer them is a good textbook; this is it!

It's a misstary story and a good one at that if you have read the book the older son had gone out on a rainy night to watch a paper boat float down the stream he lost his arm and was found dead his brother always went back every 4 years to face the creature who took his brother and faced worst fears everytime he went there. He was in the drain as I recall. He took a Life of one every year and his Younger brother studder He Learned how to talk slow without studdering, and went on into his own business so that he could make sure he was there every 4years to face the creture that took his big brothers life. He won the first go round I really can't remember the rest it has been awhile since I have read the book You ought to get it if you have not read it.

By Kathy Truman

Marshall has succeeded where others before him have failed. Street Soldiers offers all the "urban reality" stories to get you out of your comfortable chair, but doesn't simply stop there. Outlining a clear and concise approach for dealing with youth violence, Marshall has put forth the solution for tackling one of our nations hidden epidemics. Whether your a frontline worker with youth or not, you will find this a must read book to find out how you can best help stem this incidious disease impacting all of us.

This is an excellent work on the stregthening of the United Nations System. I have had the good luck of having Dr. Baratta as my history professor at Worcester State College in Worcester, Massachusetts- the gentleman does live up to what he writes in the work, as he is a passionate admirer of the United Nations system.

So, in short, 'Strengthening the United Nations' is an excellent work for all people who are interested in the United Nations itself. He writes in a beautiful prose, reminicent of the 19th century- his sentence structure is admirable; this alone merely adds to the luster of this most wonderful work.

A fascinating book that explores the hidden factors behind anxiety, written when Freud was still studying his first hysterical patients that became famous in the psychoanalytic literature. The collaboration with Breur was actually sealed with this book, but ironically it was also the end of their friendship. Apart from the psychoanalytic concepts, the reader can really enjoy the five case studies included in "Study on hysteria". Only one case study was written by Breur and this goes to show that Freud really wanted to go deep into the unconscious whereas Breur after the first patient didn't go any further; basically because he would have had to confront himself with the patient's sexual drives as well as his instincts. This is a very stimulating book that allows the reader to appreciate the kind of female patients affected by hysteria before the 20th century, that were not understood by most psychiatrists. Freud menaged to understand why the repression of the sexual instinct led to a neurosis.

Succeeding At Jewish Education was written by ethnographer Joseph Reimer in response to the problems that increased present day social mobility and contemporary demands upon children's time have for Jewish parents trying to teach their children about their religious and cultural heritage. The synagogues are often called upon to supplement children's education; Succeeding At Jewish Education studies how one synagogue rose to the challenge with exceptional religious education programs. Succeeding At Jewish Education is highly recommended as an insightful, deftly worded, and thoroughly "parent friendly" examination at the struggle to maintain family roots from one generation to the next.

With 27 years of restaurant experience I know the importance of design to the success of a restaurant. What is often overlooked, however, is that the kitchen and dining spaces have to work together. The authors of Successful Restaurant Design are the first to point out the importance of a holistic approach to restaurant design. Their insights into the design process are a must read for anyone planning a new restaurant or renovating an existing facility. The chapter of interviews offers readers design tips from leading designers and restaurateurs. And the case studies offer a straighforward way of understanding simple solutions to complex issues. This book belongs in the library of every restaurateur and designer interested in keeping up with front and back of the house design.

Given the importance of this book, I find myself puzzled by thefact that I am the first to review it..., but am delighted tohave the opportunity. This book was a real milestone when itappeared. In a very factual, unbiassed but totally proficient andpersuasive way it demonstrated in great detail that the persona of thepoems is presented, through them..... Sonnet 20 is of course a crucial targetfor Pequigney, and he reads it superbly, but he is hardly less good ona great many other of Shakespeare's wonderful poems, and is by nomeans narrow or obsessive about his point of view: on the contrary, hehas an excellent notion of how his argument fits into a wider schemeof things. Those who read the poems in Katherine Jones's disappointingArden 3 edition will realise, if they examine Pequigney's work, thatthat editor's claims about the supposed novelty of her views on thebisexuality presented within the poems is greatly exaggerated, andthat Pequigney makes many of the important points both earlier andbetter. Anyone seriously interested in the Sonnets will want to readthis book, which I would rank as one of the most significant and bestworks concerned with those poems: more essential to read than, forexample, John Kerrigan's edition, competent though that is, and insome ways more to the point than Stephen Booth's excellenttome. Someone reading both Pequigney and Helen Vendler would perhapsbenefit more from those two books than any others, though I wouldrecommend using Ingram and Redpath's edition of the Sonnets alongsidethese critical works....

This is a necessary "referral" book for clients in the crisis of experiencing unexpected failed relationships. Written by someone who has weathered this crisis,it is empathetic, comforting, and inspiring.

This book should be required reading for all international law courses of study. Covers the subjects of judicial competence, jurisdiction, service of process, venue, IMMUNITY - INCLUDING DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY, Choice of Law, The Act of State Doctrine, Procedural Reforms, REMEDIES, Execution and Enforcement in other Fora. Includes a Table of Cases and a Bibliography for easy reference.