This is a must read for anyone in leadership. When working with two or more people, it is important to establish clear expectations of how groups are to work together. Harvey and Drolet's book is laid out in a simplistic format, easy to read, with simple procedural steps to follow to build teams of people to work productively for a common vision. Emphasis is placed laying strong foundation for the group and then identifying the importance of conflict and managing it.

A nice follow up to this book is The Practical Decision Maker by Harvey, Bearley and Corkrum. This book takes the next step and gives specific tools and strategies on how to harness and direct the conflict to elevate the team to higher levels of thinking and reaching stronger decisions.

This book is very clear, with many neat, simple and effective igures. It has extremely interesting and challenging examples and topics from applied mathematics (particularly fluid dynamics) which are very well explained given their complexity. In addition this book is a bargin at only 55 dollars, and has good problems with solutions in the back. recommened to anyone learning calculus on their own or looking for a nice, compact, cheap reference book on calculus (covers through multi-dimensional caluculs with excellent emphasis on vector calculus)

We know that people who have lived the experience are the best teachers... I suspect Andrew Harvey lives leadership. At the core of leadership is humility, the willingness to know oneself, and the passion to learn. It is a journey with no destination. Harvey pegs this within the first twenty-seven pages. I believe this work is the most pragmatic and inspiring work on leadership offered today. It should be read over and over and it needs to be on every leader's bookshelf. It would be best if the principles were every leader's mind and reflected in all of their transactional behaviors.

Oddly, I don't know if the novice would see the leadership wisdom collected in Andrew Harvey's work. It is a complete library on essential leadership thinking. It is sharp and concise. It is written with the passion of a leader. For those who are well read in leadership, you will recognize this immediately and the book could well be used for soul searching or daily meditation. For those searching for what leadership is... this is a road map. Get it.

Like Harvey's previous and companion volume, "Carving the Western Path - By River, Rail, and Road Through BC's Southern Mountains", this is an entertaining, informative, and stimulating read. Here he deals with transportation development along the upper Fraser River, the Peace River, and basically everything in the northern half of British Columbia. This is a book about how paddlewheel steamers, railroads, and finally highways came to be in this vast and remote northwestern part of North America, making possible cities, ports, industries, and travel in general. Particularly interesting were the sections covering the transportation demands of the Klondike gold rush of 1897-98, and the amazing effort during World War II that resulted in the building of the first road to Alaska through northern Canada. The author includes the effects of telegraph construction and early aviation on development, as well. This is a story that encompasses rogues and heroes, silly politicians, and people of courage and vision; a few famous, and most not. There is humour too, especially in the pipe-dreams of a few, such as the proposal to build a monorail up the Rocky Mountain trench. The author is very familiar with his material, and has a pleasant sympathy for the native people, the railroad laborers, and the transportation needs of the miners, settlers, farmers, and the common people of the times. As in the earlier companion book, Harvey has included good documentation, and both are written in an easy-going style, have a nice clear typeface for those of us whose eyes are ageing, and contain a number of helpful maps and information boxes that work well. And as in the previous volume, there are a lot of great period photos here! Though not strictly necessary, the reader should strongly consider getting and reading both volumes, as I did. Separate or together, they are an excellent immersion into a little-known aspect of the history of the west.

Harvey describes in considerable but not tedious detail the factors that led to the past and present tranportation corridors in southern British Columbia, spanning a period from the mid-nineteenth century, into the second half of the 20th. Every citizen should become familiar with the shenanigans of the big corporate and government interests that retarded transportation development, and the settlement and livelihoods of the ordinary working people in this part of the west. This account is a good start. The author takes us into the stupid and expensive competition between the early railroaders and the steamboat companies, and the struggle to build roads across the land from east to west. He describes the immense difficulties in creating east-west transport links across a rugged land of north-south valleys, and terrible mountain passes. Given the love/hate relationship many westerners have had with the big railroad interests, Harvey debunks the legends of some of the construction personalities, including the americans J.J.Hill and W.C. VanHorne. He is critical of the short-sighted company and government decisions that led to great inconvenience and delays in development of the interior of the northwest that lasted decades. Clearly a fan of the Sternwheelers in the west, he dwells upon their charms and gives us a clear sense of the romance of traveling the interior lakes, and on the Columbia, Fraser, and Kootenay rivers. He gives us an implicit warning here too, of the dangers of applying yesterday's technology to tomorrow's transportation needs. Harvey knows his stuff, at least partially a result of his long time employment in government Public Works. He has included maps, fascinating photos, good chapter notes, a bibliography, and an index in this well-edited book. This volume is written for the general reader in B.C. and western frontier history, and is recommended for those old enough to remember nothing but dusty gravel roads in the west, youth who think highways and railways have always just been there, rail and steamboat fans, and anyone who wonders why the northern Pacific coast is the way it is! This was an excellent historical read, very entertaining, and hard to put down. Together with it's companion volume, "Carving the Western Path - By River, Rail, and Road Through Central and Northern B.C.", Harvey has written a very good 'popular history' account of the coming of modern transportation and its' enormous effects on settlement and industry in the far west.

I believe that this is one of the best books i have seen in the area of international finance case studies. It brings out the underlying issues in a very clear manner and all cases focus on key areas of international finance. I would recommend it to anyone who would want to truly master the techniques used in international finance.

Okay. So this book isn't for everyone, but if you work in maritime law, and are involved in chartering documents, it's most certainly for you. Williams has a professional, logical and authoritative writing style and deals effectively with a complex subject. I highly recommend this "how to" book as a one-stop-shop to chartering documents.

It is a classic in the field. It is rather steep, at $49.95, but I think well worth it. Alderson, who revised the 3rd edition, is noted children's book historian in England. It deserves a place on any children's literature reference shelf.

If you are interested in a deeper historical perspective of British children's literature, this is the book.

As far as a "text" for the history of BRITISH children's book, I think it is one of the best. Here is a description from the book jacket:

"Harvey Darton said of his book, first published in 1932, "Not a collection of queer facts or antiquarian scraps," but "a chronicle of the English people in their capacity of parents, guardians and educators of children." Certainly, literature --albeit a "minor literature"--was his central theme, but through it he wove biography and the facts of social and commercial history, the "human aspect." When "Children's Books in England" was published it proved to be a work whose insights and authority transformed our understanding of its subject." In preparing this new edition, therefore, the publishers have been at pains to provide a text that will sustain Darton's reputation for a new generation of readers. The editor, Brian Alderson, has checked the multitude of small details in the book in an effort to ensure that they are accurate by the standards of modern scholarship; he has added a number of bibliographical notes; and, in a supplementary chapter, he has filled out the discussion of children's books during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, which formed a natural end-point to Harvey Darton's history. In addition, more than sixty new illustrations have been added, in order to expand upon facts and arguments put forward in the text."

Trainer, teacher,employer - we all want to make best use of our resources! This small, compact book is stuffed with information and a CD loaded with music to help you and your group be creative, energetic, reflective... to work happily and to produce more.

Sure we've heard the teens say they study better with their walkman, and if you've been in Long's Drugs or the Body Shop recently maybe you've noticed that it's *not* muzak, but "music." Brant and Harvey explain clearly how music affects our bodies and brains to bring us to a state of concentration that will promote creativity, energy, reflection. We have examples from history and from current research which back up the intuitive feelings that most people have about how music can help or hinder them in their daily tasks. So this book is a great resource for any trainer, especially with the CD - instead of carrying around 20 difference disks, I now have it all on one disk - 75 minutes of well-chosen music that takes my group from 'welcoming', through 'creativity - energizing -reflecting ' to 'departing.' They loved it! We had a very successful session, but the questions raised about the music made the participants not only appreciate my efforts as a trainer, but also it made them think about the music choices *they* could make when working on their own - which of course, is always the long term goal of the trainer.

If you are an NLP practitioner, then you will be familiar with the use of music for accelerated learning, but Choosing and Using Music in Training is a useful resource, and certainly should be a textbook for any 'train the trainer' workshops. The authors also cover how to use music, the importance of silence!, choosing equipment, licenses, and a useful FAQ section.
As a memeber of ASTD, I would say this is all you need to get you on the right track!

I read this book 6 years ago - had a great impact on my life. Intelligently written with a strong Biblical foundation.