The book includes the samples of letters suitable for virtually any stage of the job search - from initial resume mailing to the post-interview follow up letters. Basically, this is what is good about the book - lots and lots of samples, with a few basic guidelines. It also includes some networking and job-hunting suggestions, but I wouldn't use this book as a single guide for job-hunting.

Ideal book for all kind of Job hunting letters, one will ever come across, the letters are simple, heartfelt and not academic and dry like written by a school boy.
Some find it novel way of writing job hunting letters.
But effective believe me.

After a section on writing effective correspondence, this book provides models of the many letters needed in a job-seeking campaign, including 1) telling your friends about your job hunt; 2) requesting a meeting; 3) announcing your availability for part-time, temporary and consulting work; 4) substitutes for resumes; 5) targeted mailings to employment agencies; 6) respnses to want ads; 7) guidance to references and information on your achievements; 8) introductions to hiring officials you do not know; 9) preparing your prospects for a phone call; 10) a response form that makes it easy for people to reply; 11) informing people who might help you find a "hidden" job; and 12) thank you letters informing people you found a job!

This is one of the best books in the hundreds I read for possible inclusion in the bibiography of Learning A Living; A Guide to Planning Your Career and Finding A Job for People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder and Dyslexia by Dale S. Brown.

I liked the book and it was excellent in the areas covered, but it missed the largest part of the US PNW geographic area - the high deserts and dry land conifer forests East of the Cascades in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. As one born and raised in the Northwest, I would really like someone to write a book that acknowledged and showed the styles of architecture and interior design found in places like Pendleton and White Swan.

Most of the PNW is not wet and cloudy, but drier with a harsh and stark beauty that can clearly be seen on the old highway between Ellensburg and Yakima, or cruising between Bend and Madras. Or in the forested places near La Grande and in Northern Idaho. There is the Horse Heaven and Pend Orielle country as well, which have their own forms of architecture that pay tribute to a beautiful and fascinating, and not always kind country.

I wish for a book on PNW style that covers more than the narrow coastal strips and Willamette Valley.

It is obvious Ann Wall Frank loves homes. Her beautifully written text is like poetry, and the photography is stunning. It is a must have for anyone who cherishes making a house a home. The humor, warmth, and intelligence of Ann Frank's writing style sets this book apart from others of its kind. We in the northwest are proud of our style, and Northwest Style captures who we are perfectly. Encore!

Who knew the Pacific Northwest had such an eclectic range of home styles, from Japanese influenced designs to rustic log cabins, to stunning urban lofts. This book is written in an accessible (versus snobby) style, warmed by humor and with an irreverent eye to the iconoclastic bent of the nation's current power center. Beautiful photographs and "real" homeowners--not royalty or billionaires.

The Pit was obviously not written recently. With its dated language and pre-PC attitudes toward sex and gender roles, it portrays a simpler time. However, when it describes trading and the risks of falling in love with a position and believing that the market is "wrong", it is as topical as the internet bubble.

While reading it, I couldn't help but compare it to Arthur Hailey novels like "Wheels" or "Airport", because this is the story of an industry told through the eyes of real people with their own foibles, loves, and idiosyncrasies. Laura Jadwin, nee Dearborn, tells most of the story. Her inner conflict between self-centered materialism and desire for "perfect" love forms the backdrop to the financial saga enmeshing her husband, Curtis. All in all, this is a good read but may move too slowly for some people--except for the climax of Jadwin's corner of the wheat market, which is as fast-paced as a Clancy novel.

The Pit is a story about the Chicago Wheat market during the early 1900's. Norris writes a historical / romance book in which Laura Dearborn finds herself in Chicago from Boston. Almost immediately, she is beset by a variety of suitors. However, she is most taken by Curtis Jadwin, a sophisticated businessman who is influential on the Chicago Board of Trade.

After marrying Laura, the conservative speculator, after making a nice profit on the wheat market, becomes obsessive over controlling it. As the story unfolds, his wealth grows in a short period of time and for a while he captures the market. Ultimately, though, the market corrects itself and he must save his fortune as well as his wife, Laura, whose love begins to flee from lack of attention from Jadwin.

I found this book very slow at the beginning. However, once the market traps Jadwin, the book becomes exciting and the pages fly by. Laura is a realistic character, although I didn't have a lot of sympathy for her - she come off rather spoiled and hapless. Norris's point about the addictiveness of speculating on wheat futures and the power that it has over the rest of the world is evident. A solid book and worth reading by those who like that period of time or are interested in Chicago's history.

norris thrilled me as a junior in high school with realism. "The Pit" my recent read some 17years after highschool can only be understood by someone that has gone through trading on some level. It wasn't so much greed but lust to trade. go downtown ny or chi right now and watch the faces of the boys/men /women and this novel will transcend time for anyone.

expected:
an up to date explanation of the digital prepress process, tools and applications in simple terms.

got:
an outdate but thorough explanation of digital prepress written like a stereo manual. Alot of things were left unexplained and the writing was repetitive due to the "poket guide" style i suppose.
While i did learn some tips and got some detail (sometimes much more than i needed) the material is needs alot of updating. Some areas were better written and fully explained than others and the use of diagrams and tables was OK but they did not tie in well with the text..they would just appear.

One other BIG complaint is the horrible quality of the diagrams and the fact that they were all in black and white/greyscale. How can you try to explain color processing and printing using black and white diagrams?

Bottom line:
may make a good quick reference for older processes, but does not do a great job at emplaining some important stuff.
The author needs to update the material and GET COLOR into the book, even if it's just some pages with color plates. also he needs to use a better drawing program to illustrate points, b/c it looks like he used MS Word's drawing tools.

I started a graphic design Department out of my love for design and printing, but I had no knowledge of the "REAL" Graphic Art Business until I read this Book. It has all the information you need starting from working your files on the computer, how to save them, problems encountered with saving files in the wrong format, as well as information on AM and FM screening, dot gain, banding, exposure,... and all the information one needs to know about the business and ART of Digital printing. If you are a biginner or a professional, this book will satisfy you since it has all the answers to your "UNASWERED" questions. It will guide you through all the process as well as the "SECRETS" of Prepress. This is a MUST READ AND HAVE BOOK.

Simply put, this is the finest single volume devoted to the subject...highest recommendation!

A concise history of the legendary political scene in Hudson County from the Gilded Age to the administration of the author and Mayor, the late Tommie Smith, in the early 1980s. While the author does drift a bit towards the book's end in just mentioning as many supporters as he can (hey, he IS from Jersey City), this book is perhaps the definitive history of the mayoralty of Frank Hague and his defeat at the hands of John V. Kenny after WWII.

If you even want to understand Hudson County politics today, this book is required reading. If you want to learn about urban politics in Industrial Age America, this book is a great start.

Great book about Jersey City's history from a man who is now a part of that history, the late Thomas F.X. Smith. In reality, Jersey City's "Renaissance" started with Mayor Smith's famous "eyesore" quote in the Jersey Journal. From that point, future Mayors -- such as Gerry McCann -- started a road to "gentrification."

This book covers the early history of Jersey City from a political view. Of course, it covers the Hague administration in livid detail.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone really interested in Jersey City's history. This is the book to read if you are interested in Jersey City, not Helene Stapinski's senseless dribble about her family problems.

I am a life-long resident of Jersey City. I was in Jersey City when the late Tommy Smith was Mayor. I lived through a lot of the incidents covered in this book: J.V. Kenny getting elected, Thomas Gangemi being recalled because he wasn't a U.S. citizen, and Mayor Whelan getting thrown in jail for political corruption. Make no qualms about it, Jersey City -- as well as Hudson County -- was the mecca of political corruption for well over half a century. New York had its Tammany Hall, New Orleans had the Long Family, and Jersey City had the Hague and Kenny Machines.

Indeed, I was intriqued by the Hague administration, and how "der Mayeur" got away with all his political imbroglios. During the 1920's, the rest of the U.S. lived under the dark cloud of Prohibition -- but not Jersey City. During the 1930's, communities had to "compete" for federal projects to help with "depression relief" -- not Jersey City. As a matter of fact, because there was a "red phone" connected between City Hall (on Grove Street) and the Oval Office, Jersey City greatly benefitted from federal projects during the 1930's -- The Medical Center copmplex is just one of these projects. From about 1920 through the 40's, Hudson County -- with Der Mayeur at the helm -- made and ruined the political careers of many an individual.

The Poweriticians is a book about political corruption, and how these political wheeler-dealers used their power to secure their own "empires." After reading this book, you will see how a man with a sixth grade education (Hague) could rule a city for over twenty years. More amazingly, you will read how dedicated people -- like the super-intelligent Tony Cupo (a gentleman and scholar par excellence)-- helped to topple the Hague machine -- only to introduce a new generation of Jersey Cityites to the infamous "Kenny Machine."

It would be too simple to call The Powerticians a Jersey City example of Machiavelli's the Prince. Instead, the Powerticians goes well beyond the Prince, and into another dimension -- that of Jersey City politics where political figures switch sides more often then you change your socks. In Jersey City, one time political allies turn into bickering foes at the drop of a hat, and vice-versa. Instead, this book is like Grave's I, Claudius, where the author discusses the history of Rome (the deals, corruptness, and betrayals) from the eyes of Claudius. The Powerticians does just that. It looks at Jersey City's political history of corruptness, back-room deals, and cloak-and-dagger episodes from the eyes of one of her Mayors, Tommy Smith.

This is an excellent book covering the political history of Jersey City from the late 19th century. It is good, enjoyable reading. You'll read about the famous, the infamous, and the hilarious personalities of Jersey City's past. Well worth having in your library.

Pre-release review...

This book is exciting to read, coming as it does in the wake of the collapse of the Japanese bubble economy and the Asian monetary crisis. What looked to be invincible massive corporations now seem to be mere edifices once supported by nepotism and unsecured bank loans. Richter draws on his broad experience to take the reader easily through a mass of detail with well argued text - some arranged in a tidy academic fashion being well referenced, and some clearly derived from personal knowledge. All in all it builds up to an impressive document, which, far from boring the reader continues to offer insights in the operations of the Japanese firm - such as their willingness to de-staff and indeed de-skill at the shop floor level by using more and more robots for repetitive tasks; but where intelligence is needed, they maintain a surplus of personnel able to filter and channel an enormous volume of data. Organisational slack is seen to be placed where it can be effective, and this applies also to their use of networks exploited for the strategic benefit of the co-operating organisations.

Inevitably, in this day and age, Richter grapples with the development of Organisational Learning and the management of Knowledge Creation in the context of firms networking for their joint advantage. Herein he notes historical antecedents from the Edo and Mieji-times, but this is just to place certain modern case studies into a robust context, leading the reader into an understanding of the need for organisational boundaries to be permeable in order that synergies can take place. Thus he comes to the acknowledgement that the visions of senior management can act at once as goals, and also as the catalyst for individuals to unfold goal-oriented tasks - essentially these chief executives have to be both anarchists and organisers within a network setting where other like-minded persons co-operate trustingly.

Recommended!

As Michael Porter shows with the terms like value chain, cluster, the firm can't live on its own. It's in the environment consisting of other firms which compete and cooperate to each other to survive and manage uncertainties coming from competition. In the era of globalization, uncertainties from competition have been intensified to the unprecedented level. So the interfirm cooperation to manage uncertainties has become ever more critic. Keiretzu system or cluster like Silicon Valley is typical example of interfirm cooperation. Such a form of cooperation is called as the interfirm network. But unlike Silicon Valley, Japanese network system, keiretzu, is much more formally organized enough to be presented as a model. The aim of this book is not to dissect the keiretzu (such books are already abundant), but to offer conceptual tools to see through interfirm cooperation. The author mobilize various aspects and cases from Japanese business. But those are no more than real life examples. The focus lies in developing abstract enough tools to be applied to everywhere. In so doing, the author put extant concepts to use, mainly from organizational learning theory, systems theory. Author's picture is vivid, convincing, and effective.

The book is particularly strong in analyzing the attitudes of knowledge creation of Japanese firms. Still, the book is of greater use for academics than the general reader.

I recently started fishing quite a bit of the cape and found this book to be an excellent resource. There are some parts where directions are somewhat vague, but it basically gets you in the area. I have also fished a little bit of Ct and NJ, and found most of the information accurate and insightful. Cross reference with other resources and you should find fish and parking.

This book is a good basic book for any one who wants to know where the are places to fish from the surf, but some of the directions to get to the places are a little fuzzy.

Duing the day I have caught the most fish ever at thislocation. Mostly blues but some bass. 20-25 fish in an afternoon.FUN

The key to successful surfcasting here is getting the most distance possible out of your cast. I use a 12ft rod, new 20lb test, and a 40 lb mono shock leader (tied correctly) with 4oz. metal during the day; sometimes white painted metal with a white rubber tail help with the bass during the day.

I have seen a distance of 20-30 feet on a cast make the difference between an instant hook-up and casting again.

The cost related to getting to wasque is getting more and more expensive every year. During the Summer months fishermen are evan charged to walk on the property. If you have a four wheel drive, and plan fishing the spot with four or more people, for a couple days or more, opt for the 4-wheel oversand permit, (not cheap and more $$ every year) but worth it...

Losson has written a book about a military leader and his division of the War Between the States, both of whom were nearly forgotten in the wealth of books about that war. Both a biography and a history, the author stays focused on his subjects, not letting the broader picture of the war distract him.

Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, a career soldier who served in the War with Mexico, commanded Hood's corps for a while. His entire career in the war was served in the western theater, most of it in and around Tennessee. The war wasn't just with the Yankees when Braxton Bragg commanded the corps, for the two men despised each other.

Cheatham was a man who found the going rough between the two wars, but made his mark in the later conflict, in spite of accusations against his character. After the war, he was more successful as a citizen than before, heading the Tennessee State Penitentiary system for time. However, over the years, with most interest in Lee, Grant, and the eastern theater, he was nearly forgotten

This book is well written and an easy read, but could have used the skill of a good proofreader. Typos and other errors are sometimes distracting. Readers interested in the Civil War, particularly the western theater, will find this an interesting account. They might also enjoy "Five Tragic Hours" by McDonough and Connelly, and "Shiloh: In Hell before Night" by McDonough.

This is an excellent book about a little-written about general. Although Frank Cheatham rose to the rank of major general, was active in Tennessee after the war, was one of the Western Theater's more colorful and controversial figures, and his division was considered one of best in the West, he and his division have not received much attention from writers. Losson has changed this and has written both an excellent bio of Cheatham and a good look at the men that made up his division. Another good thing about this book is that Losson focuses on Cheatham and his division, rather than straying to other generals or divisions. The book takes a good look at the battles, both military and political, that Cheatham fought. Overall, the book is excellent, reads well, has tons of diaries and letters, and is entertaining. However, I gave 4 stars rather than 5 because the text has many errors, whether it be spelling or grammatical. There are many of them and it gets annoying after a while. Other than that, a great read.

This book has given us a lot of valubable information concering the time period. we would strongly recommened this book to any one who wanted to learn more on the subject. 5 stars!

Interesting account of ones personal experience through the emotional and complicated process of hair transplant surgery. The book is written as a narrative tale that clearly depicts the difficult decisions a patient must make in pursuing hair transplant surgery. Unfortunately, there is little information concerning the actual outcome and results of the process- which may be the most important issue. "What the doctors do not want you to know" was not clearly discussed.

I wish someone had told me about this book before I took the plunge and had hair transplant surgery. The authors account was honest and heartfelt with a touch of humor. I feel it is a must read for anyone considering any type of plastic suregery.

I first started experiencing hair loss at 28 yrs old and I wish this book had been around sooner. I explored so many different types of treatments, which none had proved helpful. I spent an enormous amount of money on so-called solutions. I give this author much credit for such bold honest statements about the hair transplant industry.

Walker's shows you how to work up a price and customize your bids. It takes some computation of your own (you definitely have to know your local labor costs) but it's definitely worth the effort because Walker's explains how jobs wind up costing a certain amount. A great book for sure.

This book is unique in that it gives you the tools to obtain an accurate cost for your project with its own specific data. Having control over a project, and its BUDGET, depends on how well you know your estimate; and this book will teach you most of what you need to know about estimating.

This is like five books in one. I think it's an amazing value. My father used this book for about 40 years and, as a result, I became a disciple of the Walker method. I just picked up the new edition and I found the concrete and masonry chapters vastly improved. It teaches you how to factor in all those variables and to account for the unexpected and how to put together your own bid, something that estimating software has yet to do.