Recruiters, job search sites, corporate career sites, HR testing online -- these are standard elements of the 21st century world of work.
If you are experienced at clicking in and out of employment-related sites, you will appreciate the very professional presentations of 500 sites the authors consider the best. There are also references to 2000 other sites.
If you're overwhelmed by the topic, or fear you'll never catch up, this volume is a place to begin. After perusing the book, you will know more about professional uses of the internet in the areas of job search and employee recruitment.

Every job seeker and recruiter should own this book!
This book is a tremendous resource to a job seeker. It offers advice on everything from networking to resume development. On the recruiter side, it offers advice on how to maximize your recruiting efforts in a variety of ways. The index and rating of internet sites is an invaluable tool to both [I should know - I used this book during a recent job search and now use it on a regular basis as I have found a new position as a Partnership Recruitment Manager!]
I have met one of the authors [Mark Mehler], and he has a true committment to helping individuals and companies use the internet to its full potential in job and candidate searches.
I highly recommend this book!

I am a career management consultant. The first two suggestions I give all new job seekers at any levels is to get a copy of CareerXRoads and get some business cards printed.

Job hunters nowadays must use the internet in their job search but it can be "needle in a haystack" time if you don't have good reliable navigational tools. Crispin & Mehler have provided a great roadmap in their book Career X Roads. When I was searching last year, I used their book constantly. It's a great help for career coaches too who are helping others to find the right web sources to further their job search.

This is the job hunters bible. For those looking for a new job, this book has it all. Everything you need to find your next job. If you are an employer or recruiter the listings and reviews of hundreds of job sites will help you target your search to find the best candidates.

This is a reference I keep on my desk at all times. I have used it in my job and have used it to find new jobs. I would highly recommend it for anyone looking to stay on top of the rapidly changing job market.

The latest version of CareerXroads continues to be the definitive source for job seekers and recruiters using the Internet. This outstanding reference enables the reader to determine, quickly without wasting valuable time, which are the best web sites to review for job opportunities and the resumes of qualified candidates. In addition to the directory portion of the book, there are many helpful articles on career management for both the job seeker and the recruiter. Whether you are looking for a new opportunity or searching for the best candidate to fill an open position, don't go on the Web without CareerXroads!

"Love Lies Bleeding" (1948) is the fifth of the Professor Fen mysteries, falling between "Swan Song" (1947) and "Buried for Pleasure" (1948). It involves foul play at the Castrevenford School for Boys, the second of Crispin's mysteries to take place outside of Fen's usual haunts in Oxford.

From 1943 to 1945 the author, Bruce Montgomery a.k.a. Edmund Crispin worked as an assistant master at Schrewsbury School, and he attributes his "knowledge of the criminal in human nature" to this experience. I'm certain the fictional Castrevenford School and its inhabitants bear a close resemblance to Schrewsbury School and its inhabitants. In fact, my Penguin edition of "Love Lies Bleeding" does not include the usual disclaimer about 'work of fiction whose characters bear no resemblance, etc. etc...'

Hopefully, there weren't quite as many homicides at Schrewsbury.

One of my favorite characters in the Fen mysteries, the ancient and possibly senile Professor Wilkes, is missing from "Love Lies Bleeding." However at Castrevenford, Professor Wilkes has an eerie alter-ego in the ancient and possibly senile mixed Bloodhound, Mr. Merrythought. In fact, the dog almost steals the stage from Fen:

"'Good God,' said Fen in a muffled voice.

"The dog was a large, forbidding bloodhound, on whose aboriginal color and shape one or two other breeds had been more or less successfully superimposed. He stood just inside the doorway, unnervingly immobile, and fixed Fen with a malevolent and hypnotic stare....

"'He ought to be put away, really,' said the headmaster, regarding Mr. Merrythought with considerable distaste. 'The trouble is, you see, that he's liable to homicidal fits.'

"'Oh,' said Fen. 'Oh.'"

Mr. Merrythought turns out to be a hero, not a murderer although there are plenty of those to go around. Fen is invited to Castrevenford by his old friend the Headmaster, as a last-minute substitute to give out the prizes on Speech Day. By the time Fen arrives, a student from the nearby Castrevenford Girls' High School has gone missing. By the end of the day, two of the teachers at Castrevenford School for Boys are dead.

"Love Lies Bleeding" is less farcical than many of the Fen mysteries. The school setting and its characters are marvelously depicted, without the exaggeration that Crispin sometimes used in his other books. If it weren't for the murders, "Love Lies Bleeding" could be classified as a minor gem of an English pastoral. It's my favorite Fen.

Of course, no Fen mystery is complete without a thicket of literary allusions. If you are familiar with Wordsworth's poem, "Love lies bleeding," then you may be able to guess the fate of the missing schoolgirl:

"You call it, "Love lies bleeding,"--so you may,/ Though the red Flower, not prostrate, only droops,/ As we have seen it here from day to day,/ From month to month, life passing not away:/ A flower how rich in sadness!..." (William Wordsworth)

"Love Lies Bleeding" (1948) is the fifth of the Professor Fen mysteries, falling between "Swan Song" (1947) and "Buried for Pleasure" (1948). It involves foul play at the Castrevenford School for Boys, the second of Crispin's mysteries to take place outside of Fen's usual haunts in Oxford.

From 1943 to 1945 the author, Bruce Montgomery a.k.a. Edmund Crispin worked as an assistant master at Schrewsbury School, and he attributes his "knowledge of the criminal in human nature" to this experience. I'm certain the fictional Castrevenford School and its inhabitants bear a close resemblance to Schrewsbury School and its inhabitants. In fact, my Penguin edition of "Love Lies Bleeding" does not include the usual disclaimer about 'work of fiction whose characters bear no resemblance, etc. etc...'

Hopefully, there weren't quite as many homicides at Schrewsbury.

One of my favorite characters in the Fen mysteries, the ancient and possibly senile Professor Wilkes, is missing from "Love Lies Bleeding." However at Castrevenford, Professor Wilkes has an eerie alter-ego in the ancient and possibly senile mixed Bloodhound, Mr. Merrythought. In fact, the dog almost steals the stage from Fen:

"'Good God,' said Fen in a muffled voice.

"The dog was a large, forbidding bloodhound, on whose aboriginal color and shape one or two other breeds had been more or less successfully superimposed. He stood just inside the doorway, unnervingly immobile, and fixed Fen with a malevolent and hypnotic stare....

"'He ought to be put away, really,' said the headmaster, regarding Mr. Merrythought with considerable distaste. 'The trouble is, you see, that he's liable to homicidal fits.'

"'Oh,' said Fen. 'Oh.'"

Mr. Merrythought turns out to be a hero, not a murderer although there are plenty of those to go around. Fen is invited to Castrevenford by his old friend the Headmaster, as a last-minute substitute to give out the prizes on Speech Day. By the time Fen arrives, a student from the nearby Castrevenford Girls' High School has gone missing. By the end of the day, two of the teachers at Castrevenford School for Boys are dead.

"Love Lies Bleeding" is less farcical than many of the Fen mysteries. The school setting and its characters are marvelously depicted, without the exaggeration that Crispin sometimes used in his other books. If it weren't for the murders, "Love Lies Bleeding" could be classified as a minor gem of an English pastoral. It's my favorite Fen.

Of course, no Fen mystery is complete without a thicket of literary allusions. If you are familiar with Wordsworth's poem, "Love lies bleeding," then you may be able to guess the fate of the missing schoolgirl:

"You call it, 'Love lies bleeding,'--so you may,/ Though the red Flower, not prostrate, only droops,/ As we have seen it here from day to day,/ From month to month, life passing not away:/ A flower how rich in sadness!..." (William Wordsworth)

This is a literate British cozy that takes place in a school setting. The mystery begins with a missing schoolgirl, the murder of two faculty members, and a theft from the chemistry lab. Eccentric characters include the amateur detective, Oxford English professor Gervase Fen; a rustic innkeeper; a ponderously Johnsonian carpenter/lay preacher and his obsequious assistant; and an elderly bloodhound mix, Mr. Merrythought, an unlikely hero who saves the day. Well written, with a light touch, "Love Lies Bleeding" is full of literary allusions and plenty of humor. If you like Michael Innes' mysteries, there's a good chance you'll like Edmund Crispin's too.

I loved this book so much. Normally I do not like sci-fi but my mom picked out this book. I had to read a sci-fi book for a science book report and I didn't know what kind of book to get. At the beginning of the book it is very confusing and even boring but once you get into this book it is so good. The ending is terrific and if I had the time I would read it 24 hours a day. I would recamend this book highly. I hope my review helped you!

I came across this rather bizarre little author in a chat room, and felt the need to read one of her books at random - this one. I fear i was needlessly insulting to her during an argument I had with her, because now that I've read this mindless, awful drivel, I wonder if perhaps she wasn't being a little ironic about the general quality of sci - fi writing.

So a review of the book - If you are the sort of person who likes this sort of thing, you are the sort of person who likes this sort of thing.

And of the author - If you are the sort of person who writes this sort of thing, you are the sort of person who writes this thing.

Irredeemable, really, but five stars for trying.

In this book Andre Norton has begun tying together most of her important Witch World families. I really enjoyed watching the songsmith work her way from one part of the world to the other. She picks up a horse-racing ringer and barely excapes with him from a mob who felt that they were cheated. (Imagine that!) There is a wise woman gone to the bad who wanted to drain the racer's power, Garth Howell is on the prowl, and assorted other badies. All comes right in the end though, (I like good endings) the songsmith triumphs over all of these obstacles, finds the cure for her father, rescues her mother and little brother, finds her talent, and gets a hubby. Ms. Norton is my favorite and if she must team up with someone A.C. Crispin is the best of them all. This is a good book.

In high school around 1985, I tried to argue with a Republican classmate that US bombers were targeting civilian neighborhoods in Libya. "No," he said, "You see, the A-rabs don't know any physics. They're firing antiaircraft missiles at ninety degrees, and their own bombs are falling back on them." The following year, when our government teacher announced that the Challenger had exploded, another classmate of mine said with a crooked smile and a faux-childlike tone, "Gee, Mr. Duffey, it's a good thing *you* weren't the teacher they chose to go into space!" I only began to understand these incidents--the naively credulous belief in government statements, the postemotional reaction to atrocities--when I read Mark Crispin Miller's essay on "The Hipness Unto Death." MCM exposes the vitiating effects of late Seventies and early Eighties media--the sadism of Jerry Lewis, the subtle thuggery of Bill Cosby, the crazed sensationalism of Dan Rather, the vacuity of Reagan's public face, and the ability of "Lettermanesque irony" to drain everything of meaning are among his themes. Miller is a dissident ironist, in the tradition of his sometime friend Christopher Hitchens and his avatars Michael Berube and Thomas Frank, but he is also a prophet: no one familiar with Boxed In was surprised when audiences began to treat the characters on Seinfeld as role-models, when Sam Donaldson became a Republican spokesman, or when Bill Maher smiled while pantomiming the attack on the World Trade Center. Fans should look at Miller's other books and his articles in The Nation, Extra!, and CONTEXT magazines.

The first 8 or so essays in this book constitute some of the greatest writing on TV and advertising that I have ever run into. Analysis of texts is often so freaking esoteric and bookish that there's no point in reading it unless you want to impress an english undergrad at a department meeting. However, everyone who has any ability for introspection will benefit from the essays in this book, which use the tools of text analysis to help understand american culture and the motivations behind the culture creators. Other than incredible essays about advertisting and TV news, there are also some pretty decent essays about technology and movies and some pretty mediocre essays about music. Notwithstanding that, this book is required reading for all smart Americans, and you really won't be able to read advertising until you've read the opening essay, Hipness until Death, which becomes more and more applicable with each abstraction put out by Sprite or Arizona Jeans. Thank you Mark Crispin Miller!

"Boxed In" is a collection of essays on TV, Elvis, movies and the future. Miller's piercing critical analysis of the world of pop culture is no dry thesis. It contains hilariously colourful, laugh-out-loud, read-to-your-friends, genius (and often biting) observations of the media and the world we live in. There is a cunning essay on the TV game show "Family Feud" as well as a very shrewd essay on the Jerry Lewis telethons that are especially clever and funny. A must read.

The title of this Gervase Fen mystery is dredged from English folklore: "Buried on Monday, buried for health, /Buried on Tuesday, buried for wealth; /Buried on Wednesday, buried at leisure, /Buried on Thursday, buried for pleasure; /Buried on Friday, buried for fun, /Buried on Saturday, buried at one; /Buried on Sunday after eleven, /You get the priest and you go to heaven."

A more macabre folk jingle than, say "Monday's child is fair of face..." but appropriate for a murder mystery that our detective-don solves while standing for Parliament in rural England.

Along with the eccentric detective Gervase Fen, Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Oxford, Edmund Crispin also features one of his eccentric animals in "Buried for Pleasure." This time it is a 'non-doing' pig that falls in love with the village's pub manager.

The plot also works in that most obvious of red herrings: an escaped lunatic who believes himself to be President Woodrow Wilson. His normal mode of dress is a pince nez, and he must be the only lunatic in literature who declares, as he is captured and led away, "I warn you that if my Fourteen Points are not adopted, Western Europe will be at war again within a decade." Since "Buried for Pleasure" takes place in 1949, his prophecy was correct, although tardy.

We never do find out exactly why Fen is standing for Parliament. One of the other characters challenges him to explain his motives:

"'Well, what on earth...I mean, why are you standing for Parliament? What put the idea into your head?'

"Even to himself Fen's actions were sometimes unaccountable, and he could think of no very convincing reply.

"'It is my wish,' he said sanctimoniously, 'to serve the community.'

"The girl eyed him dubiously.

"'Or at least," he amended, 'that is one of my motives. Besides, I felt I was getting far too restricted in my interests. Have you ever produced a definitive edition of Langland?'

"'Of course not,' she said crossly.

"'I have. I've just finished producing one. It has ...psychological effects. You begin to wonder if you're mad. And the only remedy for that is a complete change of occupation.'"

Read this book not so much for the mystery, but for Fen's final campaign speech when he decides that he doesn't want to get elected after all.

As for the mystery, Crispin ties all of his loose ends together in a climactic automobile chase that involves the lunatic who thinks he's President Wilson, the Cockney pub manager and her non-doing pig, the murderer, a candidate for Parliament, and the rector who is plagued by a poltergeist.

And the poltergeist.

"Buried for Pleasure" is vintage Crispin.

For my money, this hilarious book is the best mystery by Crispin, better even than the (also wonderful) Moving Toyshop. Literate, intriguing, and funny. The book has a mood and flow that really comes together, with never a false note. Scene after scene hits the mark, with high points including the testimony of the "mullocking" couple, Fen's speech to his political meeting, and the memorable and mellow final scene. They don't write books like this anymore. Highly recommended.

All of Edmund Cripsin's mysteries featuring Oxford don Gervase Fen are hilarious. THE MOVING TOYSHOP is the only one commonly found in bookstores and is (rightly) considered a classic of the genre. However, for my money, BURIED FOR PLEASURE is the best of the Fen mysteries. It's certainly the funniest, with priceless bits including one of literature's best hauntings and a most memorable pig.

Gervase Fen's non-campaign for parliament isn't just insanely funny--it also includes some very intelligent insight into the political process, and reminds us that a great deal of good sense underlies a comic approach to many things. This is one of the best detective novels ever written.

The movie? What can I say? It was O.K.

However, for this latest entry in the Alien series you better read this book before renting the video or you will be confused indeed. I'm surprise the other people on this message board haven't mention this. It's so good to read a novel that explains something that for some reason coouldn't be place on film. I've never heard of A.C. Crispin before, but he obviously knows what he's doing.

Ripley is the Best. If the movie is going to be like the book then go see it. This book has all the suspense of Alien, Aliens, and Aliens 3. It gives a good showing in the feelings department of the main characters. How people can go too far. The character Ripley is done great. She soul search on what she is. Call personality turns out to be the safe guard for the entire group. The rest add up to be great minor characters. This is a book worth reading. It also worth going to see the movie.

One question...who can write a novelization that is better than the movie it's based on? Answer...A.C. Crispin and Kathleen O'Malley, of course. Crispin did it before in her practically epic novelization of V years ago, and now she's back, with her wonderful co-author from Silent Dances and Silent Songs, to write another. I was blown away after reading this book. Ironically, the movie didn't give this book enough credit. The book gave a lot more insight into Gediman and Wren's motives for conducting the experiments, and made Perez, Distephano and Purvis more than just meat. The story is not only given to us from the point of view of the prey (us, that is), but also from the point of view of the Aliens. Which was very unsettling, and wonderfully wicked of Crispin and O'Malley. The descriptions of the deformed cloans and the Newborn were especially vivid, and actually put the ones on screen to shame. Having read the book before seeing the movie, I cared more for Ripley and Call than I would have after only seeing the movie. Don't get me wrong, Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder were brilliant. The best parts were what they didn't say (don't take that the wrong way either). I love it when a sequel refers to its predecessors, because it ties eveything together making you think. And the book contained more of a connection with the previous movies than the movie did, which was odd. There were references to Jonesy (Ripley's cat, that was killed in the first one), Newt (the little girl, who Ripley basically adopted in the second movie, and died somewhere between Aliens and Alien3), and also Ripley's own daughter (who died not being able to see her mother again while Ripley floated in deep space for 50 years). Crispin and O'Malley took Joss Whedon's screenplay and ran with it, making it their own story, and adding things that would never have been able to be done on screen because of time restrictions. That's what's great about novelizations, though, isn't it? This book is just more proof of the fact that Crispin and O'Malley are masters of their craft and should be given more shelf space in the stores. This book is wonderfully written with skill and vivid details. A wonderful addition to a series in need of a story like this. It was fun to read, and at the same time made you stop to think about cloaning, and what role humans play in the universe, and how much control we have over nature. Bravo to A.C. Crispin and Kathleen O'Malley for another wonderful novel! Here's hoping for more!

What a delight to run across a book that makes me feel so much love for my own Crispin the Terrible. Chrildren and adults should be able to relate to such a sassy malcontent. I can't wait to share this with my fiesty little nephew over the holidays.

Could a book be any more fun, more charming, more silly? I think not! Yesterday, I was reading "Crispin the Terrible" with my three year old niece and we had such a great time. We crawled around on the floor and acted out all of the mad-cap crazy Crispin antics. All I can say, is that is too bad that Halloween was last month, otherwise, I know exactly what we would be- Crispin the Terrible.

My kids love this book: The story is great, the illustrations are funny, and the hero Crispin is simply charming. What else has this great illustrator done??? As an adult (so what do I know), it strikes _me_ as a highly sophisticated book that is directed towards urbane city children--or their parents. I don't think it's coincidental that the book is set in New York City. The characters/plot/tone couldn't ring so true anywhere else... could they?

Although other reviewers speak of a "Gryphon series" of books, this is actually just one of more than twenty books set in Andre Norton's Witch World. The characters of Kerovan and Joisan were introduced in The Crystal Gryphon and brought back for Gryphon in Glory. Gryphon's Eyrie continues the tale, which is finally resolved in The Warding of Witch World.

Kerovan is partly descended of the Dalesfolk and partly descended of the Old Ones. The Dalesfolk entered the Witch World centuries in the past, settling in the highlands along the coast of the Witch World's "western continent". They found traces of the Old Ones, an ancient and apparently indigenous group of races who had mastered the Power, what we could call "magic".

Kerovan's mother bargained with dark forces to give her a child she thought she could control for her own ends. But he proved to be other than what she expected, and these books have followed Kerovan as he has sought his true place in the world, and the right heritage. With Joisan, who gives Kerovan unconditional love and support while resolving her own conflicts, Kerovan proves to be one of the strongest fantasy characters I've ever seen.

Norton takes strong female characters and makes them appealing for wide audiences. But she succeeds with Kerovan and Joisan as with no other husband-wife team. The first book is the best in the sub-series, and Gryphon in Glory is probably better than this one.

All of Norton's collaborations leave something to be desired when compared to her own original work, but Ann Crispin was always one of the better collaborators. She seems to have a real feel for the Witch World settings and pacings Norton made legendary in the 1960s and 1970s before she started sharing her world with other writers.

I hadn't read much of Andre Norton before I came accross this book, I didn't know about the Dales or the Waste, I got the book because I was in love with Gryphons and wanted any book to do with them. Though this was the third book in the series it was the first I read and the one that inspired me to get the rest of the series. This is the story of Kerovan and Joisan as they search through a new land on the far side of the waste searching for a new home and fighting the demons of their mind and past. Read on as Joisan begins to learn the depths of magic and Kerovan finally comes to terms with his destiny and all that this will bring to him.
Any one who loves Andre Norton must read this book, even out of the series it can stand alone.

The first two books (Crystal Gryphon and Gryphon in Glory) introduce us to Kerovan and his axe-wedded wife, Joisan. They follow this determined pair as they discover Kerovan's true nature and ancestry. Gryphon's Eyrie concludes the story in a deeply satisfying way as it brings kerovan to his true inheritance, Landisl's ancient home. Be prepared for a typically Norton wild ride.