I was taken down a peg in excitement when I discovered that yet another book doesn't seem to grasp truly helpful information for blue collar work seekers but none the less takeing some time everyone can find helpful information in the pages of this book. It's incredibly informative and after reading it I was amazed at how easy it was to impress interviewers. I felt much more prepared for the task or job hunting after reading this book. Makes a great graduation gift too.

There is nothing like going into a job interview, one of the most stressful events life has to offer, and feeling as though you are prepared for anything the interviewer throws at you.

This book is one of the most valuable resources I have ever come across. It is a wellspring of advice for virtually any interviewing situation you can imagine. The writing is simple and to-the-point, yet very engaging and thought-provoking. It can be read either from cover to cover or picked up and thumbed through at random. The advice is practical, concise, and can be applied to job-hunting at any level, from blue-collar to white-collar executive positions.

What did this book do for me?

Before I read the book, I spent an exhausting week interviewing with everyone in my field who would see me. I scheduled thirty interviews in a period of five days, and came away with exactly nothing. And rightly so: I spent most of my time in the interviews fumbling for words and passively hoping that the interviewer would instinctively recognize what a great person I would be for the job. In a nutshell, it was a heartbreaking and deeply disappointing experience, not to mention a monumental waste of a perfectly good vacation.

After reading the book, I began the interviewing process again. The first two interviews I had turned into job offers. Furthermore, one of those offers was for a position for which I was not the best qualified. The two other potential candidates had a great deal more experience than I, but as the hiring manager told me, there was just something about my attitude that made them believe they would rather train me to do the job than hire the applicant with the "perfect" qualifications. So there!

I now have the job I have always dreamed of, and I believe I can credit The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Interview with a great deal of my success. If you're looking for a job, buy it. Read it. Know it. It is such a small price to pay for the delicious feelings of confidence, competence and complete control that you will no doubt experience. Good luck and happpy hunting!

This book is a fascinating memoir of an engineer who worked on the SoCal Edison Big Creek project. It details the creation of Shaver, Huntington and Florence Lakes as well as the Big Creek tunnel system. Nice photos as well

book was great, and the shipper sent it quickly. I would recommend the book and the store where I bought it.

This book is pure nonsense. I found it in our public library, a two-volume set from 1904. It consists of poorly-written hearsay masquerading as scholarship.

(Paperback edition)
In the 1890's, when F.W.H. Myers wrote Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, people didn't believe they necessarily had souls, much less that the soul would survive their death. After Myers experienced communication with his deceased wife, he set out to prove his contemporaries wrong.

Myers was a scholar who became a scientist when he began investigating paranormal phenomena. He conducted research and experiments in a variety of fields, including personality disintegration, genius, sleep, hypnosis, and trances. His goal was to "break down that artificial wall between science and superstition." He believed that questions of the soul should be subjected to the same open mind and critical analysis used in other scientific inquiries.

His landmark investigations set the standards for subsequent research into human consciousness. In his interpretive introduction to the book, Jeffrey Mishlove says that Myers's "classic synthesis of nineteenth century field research [is regarded] as the most important single work in the history of psychical research." He adds that it is still "fresh, vigorous, and contemporary."

Like many of the classic metaphysical texts, Myers's book has been out of print for years. Hampton Roads Publishing Company has begun to reissue the classical texts in their new series, Studies in Consciousness/Russell Targ Editions. Their current edition of Myers's book is an abridgement of the original, "prepared to make its major content more readily accessible to the modern reader."

Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death documents Myers's extensive experiments and conclusions that personality does, in fact, continue after death. Readers will discover that he achieved his goal of proving that the human personality is not limited to material life.

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Myers writes this book to assist Doctor of Ministry students with dissertation research approaches. He presents a systematic approach to the process by beginning with stating the problem. The goal is to define a specific problem in a clear one-line statement. Myers advocates a case-study method for the final paper. Next, the studies' unique context is to be defined in terms demographic, structural, historic, and symbolic terms. At this point at theory is to be developed that remedies the problem being focused on. The theory ought to consider the four-fold dimensions of reason, scripture, experience, and tradition.

The remainder of the book considers appropriate research methods to validate and evaluate the theory. Three methods are identified: quantitative research (objective proof), ethnographic (understanding contextual meanings), and pro-active research (transforms individual and collective settings). Myers then presents a simple outline of a "project proposal." Once the specific problem, context, theory, and research approach are articulated in a proposal data from the setting must be generated, collected, and organized. This is done through field notes, interviews, existing documents ("found documents"), questionnaires, journaling which give information about the ministry being studied, the participants affected, and the researcher. Finally, all of this data must be coded, reorganized, and shaped into a case study to be presented. Myers provides examples at each step of the process.

Research in Ministry serves as a very basic introduction to the process of developing a case study for Doctor of Ministry final projects - that is, after all, why it was written. The serious researcher better delve into more thorough books on research and dissertation writing to prepare for the task ahead.

Research in Ministry, by William R. Myers is a useful how-to-do-it eighty-five pages long manuscript. The Quantitative Research Method, the Ethnographic Research Method, and the Pro-Active Research Method are presented. The case study approach included under the Pro-Active Research Method option is the one favored by Myers. Identification of a 'problem in ministry' (Chapter 1), and its related thesis statement, needs to be carefully articulated in the beginning, so as to control the scope of the dissertation project. Further development would include identifying the context of the problem in the practice of ministry (Chapter 2). In addition, any theories that offer possibilities for exploration need to be identified (Chapter 3).
The quantitative research approach is primarily statistical and attempts to focus on measurable objective proof as borrowed from the scientific method. The value in this approach rests in the development of supporting documentation for answering the question posed by the ministry problem. Myers' cautionary note to this approach is that the 'means of measurement' (surveys) can prove unwieldy, time consuming, and otherwise limited. Also, the scientific approach may inadvertently devalue persons in the process. The idea is not to hurt people in the process of exploring a problem in ministry, but to uplift the human spirit.
The ethnographic research approach may be understood as 'the Martian's eye view' of the ministry question under consideration in a particular setting. The 'outsider' attempts to describe what he/she observes as participant/observer. Field notes, the use of media, interviews, questionnaires, and researching historical documents are valid ways of gathering information for the dissertation project using this method (See: Chapters 6-8).
The pro-active research method intentionally focuses on encouraging changes in attitudes and behaviors in the subject group as a result of inclusion and cooperation. It is both descriptive and supportive as a process. Here, the means and the ends are organically linked. The weakness in the pro-active approach lies in the tendency for the project to become too advocacy oriented at the expense of reporting the truth as found in the particular circumstance.
Each approach has advantages and disadvantages. The right blending of the methods suggested by Myers is a matter of choice. Myers stated four challenging questions to help the researcher: "1. What audience will this paper impact? 2. Can the implicit thesis of the author be made explicit? 3. Are the project's theories connected to a named disciple/body of research? 4. Are the theories of this project also integrated and consistent with the author's theological position in ministry? (2000:32-33). Good answers will help hone the researcher's final project presentation.
In summary, Myers encourages D.Min. candidates to tell their story, their 'good news,' by utilizing various methodologies, so that the final result will provoke discussion and critical reflection, and otherwise contribute to world ministry in some significant way.

William R. Myers in this book explains how to write a concise doctoral thesis. He talks about how "students are ... to become more intentional, more critically reflective, and more explicit regarding what it is that they think they are doing theoretically in their 'practices of ministry.'" (22) The personal experience becomes very important when writing. (31) This book was very helpful for me to be able to understand how that personal experience is reflected in the thesis for a doctoral. Myers is very adamant that the "D.Min. student formulates a "project" (34) for engaging in "the practice of ministry." (34) As we write the thesis, our findings must be reflective of our personal ministry. It is important for us to understand that as data is gathered that we personalize the data into meaningful ministry.
The book gives an excellent detail of the process of doing a D.Min paper. The book also gives examples of how to go about doing a questionaire, gather data, do interviews, and how to keep a daily journal to reflect the data that is being gathered. This book is an excellent handbook for reference while doing a D.Min thesis.

This text provides a quick, concise review of the pimary topics covered on emergency medicine exams. I found it to be a good way to prepare for inservice exams and the written boards.

Caution! The text and art in this book are identical to the title, HARVEST, published in 1939 by The Viking Press, and by North Point Press in 1983. I'm pleased to see that The Harvill Press has republished the text, though it would have been helpful if a note had been included on the Amazon display page identifying this title as a republication of HARVEST.

Although the century old language is a bit difficult to read initially, once you get rolling, it isn't difficult. The neatest thing is how amazingly applicable James' observations are in today's society. The book is fun and interesting to read. I learned a great deal.

any lover of philosophy OR psychology should doubtlessly buy this book. if you are interested in the work of William James, and are searching for the right compilation of his writings, you have found it, no doubt. but i strongly recommend buying the second volume to this, which basically looks the same but with a different picture on him on it and obviously other works by him.

now as for the works themselves.... Will does seem to change his basis for thought a lot of the time. one thing that particularly got to me is his lack of psychological/scientific integration into his "the moral philosopher". it is nevertheless a wonderful peice. and the writing is wonderful.... his talks to teachers and students being the more effortlessly read. Psychology: Briefer Course outlines psychology in a way that allows us to think in a way that integrates actual physical psychology into our perspective, instead of mystical talk of "souls", etc.

The Will to Believe is a collection of enthrawling works, and i particularly enjoyed talks to teachers and students. i can say my favorite work in this book is "On a Certain Blindness", one of the 3 talks to students. when philosophy becomes spiritual, is when you know you can really use it. a great book, buy it.

The authors take their experience in British tile and present an indepth analysis of the work of William Morris. Although well-known for his other products, the authors bring the overshadowed tile work to light in text and pictures.

Although collectors will not be able to add most of the picturend pieces to their collection, the book can be. Unlike many books geared toward collectors, this book showcases many installation, many of which are in abbeys, and English manor homes. It is definitely not a "my collection book."

The indepth analysis of the artists who worked for Wm Morris should hold some information to even knowledgeable collectors