This is a must read for CEOs, HR professionals, Organizational Behavior/Effectiveness professors, graduate students, and trainers that teach leadership and management courses. Today, with approximately 45% of the workforce is comprised of women/minorities and the numbers are large enough to create a societal consciousness regarding the need of a harassment-free work environment.

Studies indicate that sexual harassment touches the lives of 40 to 60 percent of working women, and similar proportions of female students in colleges and universities. Additionally, it is estimated that 90 percent of all sexual harassment claims are bona fide with an average settlement of $200,000. No organization is immune to being impacted with a sexual harassment lawsuit and employers have a duty to provide a workplace free of harassment and unwelcome sexual advances. Today, courts hold organizations liable for the acts of the supervisors and employees who engage in on-the job sexual harassment even when management is unaware of the problem. Author, Dr. Daniel Moses, defines the two types of harassment and suggests 10 policies and procedures that CEOs, corporate officials, and HR professionals can implement to prevent/reduce the number of organizational harassment claims. The goal of any company should be to have zero claims of sexual harassment and to encourage good employee morale, high productivity and teamwork.

Employee education is the key to reduction of sexual harassment. Dr. Moses offers his readers interesting and revealing court cases that can be used as training material to illustrate how and why policies/laws have evolved. Additionally, Dr. Moses provides recommendations detailing 8 key elements that an organizational sexual harassment policy should contain, and he provides numerous best-practice suggestions for creating a sound sexual harassment program
Reviewed by Dr. Freda Turner, September 2002. Dr. Turner teaches in Graduate/Doctoral Programs for University of Phoenix.

Yo leí parte de este libro en español hace algunos años cuando una amiga me lo presto, sin embargo cuando lo quize comprar no lo encontré y hasta la fecha no lo he podido encontrar en español. Yo realmente estoy interesada en tener este libro conmigo ya que lo que pude leer me gustó mucho y me ayudo a encontrar mucha paz espiritual. Es algo que yo siempre habia querido leer. He buscado libros similares pero no contienen lo que yo quiero o lo que yo ya había encontrado en este libro.

The Desert Is My Mother is a simple to read, yet richly written poem celebrating the majesty of the desert by those who understand and love it. The verses are written in both Spanish and English by Pat Mora who also understands and loves both languages. For a classroom teacher, this book makes a perfect reader's theater for including both bilingual Spanish and English students and also creates a natural springboard for discussions of language, culture, and ecology. The beautiful illustrations support the text perfectly, giving important clues for readers to unlock the graceful language. If you are studying the desert, no matter what age, I highly recommend this book. If you are a parent who loves to read with your child this is a must have and if you are a bi-lingual Spanish-English parent, lucky is the child to have your two voices to bring this book to life.

Most books on Tantra today are Westernized versions that have little to do with the original teachings. Daniel Order conveys the essence of Tantra in this excellent book. One of the things I took from this work was the idea of "micropractices" of simple exercises that lead to greater awareness and enjoyment of the present. Such simple things as becoming aware of the breath, touch, and desire a few seconds several times a day have increased my level of awareness and pleasure in life- obviously, these things are so simple we overlook them in our quest for whaterver we are looking for in life. Daniel Order describes his Tantric path as "nothing spectacular...lack[ing] in the exotic, the magickal, the extraordinary.....there was no ritual other than to breath, walk, bathe... to look at the earth, the lichens, the trees, the leaves, common objects; to enter deeply into contact with life, reality." He does discuss the sexual aspects of Tantra but puts it in the framework of the greater goal of simply living and experiencing life in full awareness and freedom. If you are tired of mystical gurus and masters promising you a big bunch of nonsense this book is an excellent place to start finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.

This is a delightful book. It has a chatty, breezy, easy-to-read style (I am reminded of the style of a good review in the New York Times Book Review). It is interesting, educational, persuasively argued, and thought-provoking. After reading this book, I felt like I had learned some interesting things about some interesting people, and I wanted to know more. At times, it can be clever or funny, but not in a way that is strained or that trivializes the subject. If only more writing about legal theory were this good!

Just as Jim Daniels has grown as a poet, he has grown as a fiction writer. The working class stories of No Pets have become the more diverse stories of Detroit Tales. Daniels characters in Detroit Tales are in complex and tough situations. These are not stories for those looking for sugary, uplifting fiction, though some of the stories do provide a flicker of redemption. Many of the stories center around characters who have lost someone, often to suicide. It befits a book set in and around Detroit, a city that often leaves its residents feeling as though they've lost something, something that died in the suicide that follows building an entire city around one industry. Daniels' characters, young or old, are always struggling with something that nearly anyone can connect with. His characters are up against bullies, bad neighborhoods, bad work situations, faltering marriages, and stifling lives. Although, some of his characters are more on the fringe. There's the Vietnam Veteran biker of "Renegade," the sexually confused twenty-something of "Middle of the Mitten" and the nearly adulterous minister of "The Jimmy Stewart Story". What I really like about Daniels stories is the fact that they don't seem like so many other stories I've been reading. I think MFA programs have done a disservice to fiction in this country. Stories are becoming faddish. Right now the fad seems to be to have characters so far on the fringe that nobody can connect with them. I don't see that in Daniels. Then again, he didn't come through an MFA program. He writes stories out of an innate instinct to write stories -- like writers did before there were MFA programs and writing workshops. As a result, his stories are a pleasure because they are so often surprising -- especially in their lack of overly crafted endings. Sometimes Daniels endings are so subtle that they seem more like life than anything else. Sometimes there are no great epiphanies or changes in character, just characters who are slightly altered, scarred or scared after what they've been through. It seems that Daniels understands life better than he understands the formula of short fiction which, in the end, makes his fiction so much better than most of the Mc-stories coming out of MFA programs.

From the Publisher

This practical guide offers information and ideas which will help you set up and maintain student support groups. The rapid changes taking place in Further and Higher Education have included the growing demand for students to be offered more flexible learning while tutors are required to cover the same amount of material in less contact time, as well as fostering the personal and professional development of individual students. The emphasis on encouraging independent learning may leave some students feeling isolated and dissatisfied with their learning experience. Student support groups are increasingly being used to address some of these challenges. Such groups facilitate team working and also offer personal and social support, and development for the individuals involved.

FROM THE BOOK

Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Advance Planning - Setting Up 15
3 Advance Planning - Monitoring, Support and Review 37
4 Advance Planning - Assessment 57
5 Dealing with Potential Difficulties 75
6 Conclusion 83
7 References 87

This is an excellent introduction to the subject of social determinants of health as they apply to infant and child development. It is well written and the coverage is very even considering it is a multi-authored book This is a must buy!

This story grips one's intrest from page one. A new twist of true history from start to finish. Never before has this story been told with such passion and insight. Pablo and Juan Jose each strive to save the land for their people, one legaly the other by night. Both methods are redeaming and at the same time futile. Every chapter has history packed into all words. Santa Fe and Las Vegas are forever intertwined. If you are interested in the hidden history of New Mexico, this book is a must read. Get the real picture. It will stick in your mind!

This book is wonderful! I come home from a very busy day and I can have a wonderful quick meal and watch my health at the same time!!!