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My high-school literary magazine used this book to get started and found it very helpful. It has advice on everything from fund-raising to writing an evaluation form for writing to efficiently organizing and routing submissions. Definitely aimed at the student staff.

Ann Klaiman was my senior high english teacher. She was also the "producer" and sponsoring staff member of our school literary art magazine. Her knowledge and expertise helped us earn awards from organizations such as Scholastic several years in a row. I can't speak highly enough about this book (I still have my original copy) or her expertise. If I was going to produce a magazine again I would definately use her book to do so.

Similar to HIT MEN, in that it explores the darker side of the music industry, ROCKONOMICS describes the huge record budgets that predicted the current wave of signing deals that put Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Janet Jackson on the cover of major magazines and newspapers in the early nineties. Marc Eliott makes a very classy presentation, and, like HIT MEN, ROCKONOMICS is a heady read, because both the artists and the deal makers are familiar current names. This book seems to be driven by the author's anger over the commerciali- zation of rock, and Eliott's zeal seems to qualify his book for membership into a quintet of fascinating books: ROCKONOMICS, HIT MEN, STIFFED, THE AGENCY, and Jory Farr's 1994 title, MOGULS AND MADMEN: THE PURSUIT OF POWER IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. Unlike most music industry titles, ROCKONOMICS, after surfacing in the early nineties, has gained sales momentum and stayed in print throughout the decade. The credibility of its premise seems to grow with each passing year. Ron Simpson, School of Music, Brigham Young University. Author of MASTERING THE MUSIC BUSINESS.

This is a great book about the busines side of the music business. Eliot pulls no punches and sides with the artist. I highly recommend it. --Joseph Schleimer, Esq.

Great book. Very concise and answers any questions you could possibly have about the road to, through and away from law school. Highly recommend to anyone thinking about the law. Covers every step of the way, thoguht getting a job and passing the bar. Also includes a great guide to US and Canadian law schools.

This book has just about everything you need to know about what to expect in law school, what the job market is like, what you need to do to get accepted to the school of your choice, etc. The approach of this book is very straightforward, and it helps dispel some of the myths surrounding the legal profession. Many lawyers, looking back, wish they had never chosen law as a career. If you're thinking about law but aren't sure yet, don't jump into something that you might not be able to get out of. Read this book. It will give you a realistic understanding of law school and the legal profession.

While not as detailed as similar titles, this is a good overview of running a school.
There is a lot to learn in these pages.

This book is well thought out for anyone who wants to start and run their own martial arts school, regardless of style. Topics are kept brief, but are easy to read and relate.

Lou offers great insight and wisdom in the art of "human engineering" - training managers to become true leaders. Being part of the greatest generation, Lou captures a slice of American salesmanship that makes this country great today. While some of the stories may seem dated, anyone that has customers or business associates can learn from the pages of this book regardless of industry, timeframe or position. I have ordered copies of this book for employees from entry-level to CEO. All have come back to say thanks and have forwarded it on for someone else to read!

Today, everyone in business throws around the term "partnering" when discussing business relationships. Lou Pritchett was one of the first to break the traditional, often adversarial approach of selling to the customer...This book is filled with insight and anecdotes that will help any business person seeking to drive costs out of the business and work more closely with customers and suppliers. Any student of modern supply chain management knows that building trust between all parties in the chain is the key element to success and the one that many companies find the most difficult implement. Lou will tell you that this is not rocket science. However it does take courage and hard work to keep rocking the boat and change the old way of doing business.

As I'm writting my graduation thesis on marketing for schools, I'm really intertested in any book on this subject. I found in Kotler the one that best fits my research job. If any of you guys know about anything about this subject, I would appreciate if you notified it to me. Thanks!!

This is the definitive manual on marketing schools and colleges. In addition to containing tons of helpful stategies, the most important part of the book is that it articulates what marketing really is. It's not "sales," it's not "promotion," it's a two-way street that forces the institution to be flexible and adapt to the market. If you are charged with marketing an educational institution, you need to read this book. Most importantly, you need to make sure the people who are the obstacles in a successful marketing plan's path (and they exist in every school and college) read it as well. The only bad thing about this book is that it's out of print. If you can find one - BUY IT!!! Better yet, petition the publisher to bring out another edition.

This book does a great job of explaining what an MBA is going to do for you. It summarizes first year curriculum in an easy to understand format. It also could be used as a pocket guide for defining your business. A great weekend read.

This is a great book that teaches you all you need to know about Harvard Buisness School without having to invest $50,000 in tuition. I highly recommend it to anyone trying to learn more about marketing, buisness, finance, etc.

Robert Kiyosaki wants to break the cycle of winners and losers in society by re-educating our youth. This process begins by providing people with the financial understanding necessary to succeed in today's society. Kiyosaki remarks, "Given the structure of modern society, the neglect of this information is comparable to neglecting to teach farming skills in an exclusively agrarian society" (10). The purpose of education is to provide our children with the skills needed to succeed later in life. The ability of education to respond to the times should be the marker by which we judge its overall utility and effectiveness. The fact that school still ends at 3pm and that students have off during the summer testify to the failure of our educational system to transition itself from the needs of the agrarian age to that of the new information age. The information age speaks the language of money and ideas. According to Kiyosaki, recognizing the importance of money in today's society is essential:

...in the past 100 years, money has become almost as necessary for survival as air, water and food. In today's world, money is synonymous with survival...To say that money is corrupting and evil in a world which runs on money makes about as much sense as saying that pigs or potatoes are corrupting an agrarian society (72).

Our educational system should adjust to reflect this new reality. By meeting the special needs of today, we are better able to develop the potential within all of us, thus preparing each of us to make a unique and valuable contribution to the world.

Kiyosaki believes that by embracing the Malthusian doctrine of scarcity the American educational system stifles the "gift of genius" that each child is born with. He rejects the zero-sum game begun in school and perpetuated afterwards permeating throughout all walks of life. Educators must realize that scholastic achievement is but one measure of genius, and the long-term effects on a child who may be a musical or mechanical genius, but not an academic genius, are disastrous. This inevitably leads to many societal problems that are ultimately education-based. Kiyosaki demands action now and asks, "Must the problems land directly on our own doorsteps before we can care" (48). Change can only be wrought once we accept that there is no such thing as a stupid child.

The fundamental principle of human learning rests upon making mistakes and learning from them. More effective learning requires engagement of not only mental learning, but also emotional and physical learning. Kiyosaki believes that today's education system errs because, "Of all the methods of learning that are available to us, memorization is the most monotonous, the least challenging, and the most boring" (127). Many blame teachers or professionals for our system's failings. However, 94% of the time it is the system itself that has failed.

Some ways in which our system fails us includes asking the wrong questions and accepting only one right answer, and by promoting specialization, rather than generalization, to early on in life. School teaches specialization. While this is good for corporations, it is bad for you. Specialization leads to decreased opportunities and obsolescence. Therefore, beware of the detrimental effects of specialization. Learn to become a generalist by committing yourself to lifelong learning and self-improvement in many areas of your life. Concentrate on such practical business matters as production, sales, accounting, organizational management, and finance. Most importantly, affect change by leading by example.

I had always thought school was a waste of my time and my kid's time, but I never had the balls to ignore convention and do anything about it. Kiyosaki changed all that for me, though. His advice and insights on life and money changed my life, and I now realize how foolish itis to put my son's future into the hands of a group of overpaid, unionized morons.

Without Kiyosaki's stock advice, I'd never be able to break even and get out from the cost of day care. Now, not only can my wife and I afford to pay for a full-time au pair for 7-year-old Ricky, but we can almost afford steak every week! Kiyosaki's tips on how to think of the classified advertising section of the newspaper as a tool has really helped our bank account. Every day, I go to the local library and steal the classifieds right before my second job so I can put his money-earning nuggets to work. And he's right. Our education system can't possibly help my son learn the basic skills necessary to grow rich in this world. If only my father knew enough to pull me out of school early before Cornell and Columbia eroded my brain with their erudite, competely financially useless claptrap.

Kiyosaki writes brilliantly, and with a flair for real drma. I actually felt for the humble security who foolishly invested his paycheck based on the advice of others. If only he had learned in high school that not all free advice is good advice, then maybe his life would have turned out differently. In five or six years, when my son learns how to read, I plan to hand him my dog-eared copy of this book and put his money to work for him.

I have read all of Kiysaki's books and played the game (loved them all!!!) and each time my mind expanded that much more. 'If you want to be Rich and Happy - Don't go to School' was the first book of Robert's I ever read, and its impact on me has been significant. As I write I am in the process of changing my chosen career path (I am currently at University studying to be a teacher - for the last 2-and-a-half years) because I agree so fervently with Kiysaki's observations about the school education system - he only put into words what I have felt for a long time and dared to question. All my University colleagues don't want to bother messing with the 'system', the 'system' is going to provide a secure job for them as well as reasonable pay. If you are a parent especially you will value this book. If you are a teacher or educator of young people, please read this book. To wrap up I would caution anyone who does read this insightful, ahead-of-its-time book that your mind will be opened and you won't be able to think of education as our society knows it in the same way again. Enjoy!!!!!!! I know you will! (P.S. If you could recreate the education system, what would you do or how would you go about it? email me: mcila@yahoo.com)

This guidebook on how to approach all aspects of the MBA application process is very helpful, and I strongly recommend it. However, one must be realistic when applying to the top MBA programs, and this aspect needs to be emphasized more. Interested in studying finance, I was fortunate enough to get into one of my top choices (Univ. of Chicago), but failed to get into a number of other programs that are equally or less competitive. This surprised me since I have substantial international work experience with excellent grades and a high GMAT score, and I devoted a great deal of time and effort to my essays. I know that my letters of recommendation were also very strong. Because of the sheer volume of highly qualified applicants, even if you follow all of the recommendations in this book, you may not get in. Unless you have a 3.7+ GPA and a 730+ GMAT and incredible work experience, I would recommend that you apply to more schools than Montauk suggests: go for at least 8 if you can manage it.

Also, some of the overly detailed recommendations by Montauk are questionable. For example, when you dress for the evaluative interview, he says that your shirt should be professionally cleaned, pressed, and starched. That's a bit over-the-top. If I'm going to be evaluated negatively for wearing a self-ironed shirt, then the interviewer and the school can go to hell. Let's get real. Nevertheless, most of the recommendations are insightful and helpful.

If you are applying to a top MBA program, good luck! It's an exhausting process, but hopefully you will be rewarded in the end with an acceptance letter. If so, I know you will agree that it's definitely worth the effort!

This year I got accepted to two well-known programs, and this book helped me a lot. every aspect of the admissions process is covered: essays, interviews (this was especially helpful), work experience, ratings,etc. Most importantly, this book gives you a very good idea of what your application should look like. This, of course, is only half the battle. You still have to accumulate some work experience, do your best on the GMAT, and so on. Nevertheless, this book will certainly help. Buy it as soon as you start thinking about applying, not 2 weeks before the application deadline. I would also ignore some of these one-star revews here. They really exaggerate the book's shortcomings and downplay its numerous strengths. Also, just a word of caution. The competition is so intense, it is absurd. The smartest people get rejected from top MBA programs, so unless you are Enstein, apply to at least 4-5 programs, if possible.

I'll keep this simple. I liked the book - it gives general and specific advice about the whole MBA admissions process. I suggest you read it at least the year before you start the whole process (including taking the GMAT). And if, like me, you pick it up in the middle of the whole process, it can still help you.

Basically - when you're sitting alone in that room while prepping for your GMAT, or staring at a computer screen while typing up yet another attempt at soul-baring in an essay, the book gives you some important guidelines and things to avoid. I especially like the parts where admissions people from colleges are quoted. In the end though - you write the answers and you smile during the interviews. Just make sure you know exactly "Why X College" and "Why an MBA".

It's a good read with commonsense advice - a good weapon as you hack your way through the admissions process.

Imagine instant-messaging your friends in your mind. Imagine all those obnoxious computer pop-up ads happening right in your brain. Imagine retailers knowing precisely what you've ever bought, your favorite color, your shoe size. Imagine liking it. This is the scary, weird world described in M.T. Anderson's "Feed". Titus and his friends are average middle-class American teenagers of the future. They take for granted the weird convergence of technology, corporate intervention, and mind-control they live with known as a feed. Enter Violet; a girl Titus meets on spring break, a girl who wants to 'fight the feed'.

There are important and compelling issues raised in this novel about advertising, privacy, conformity, individualism and technology. It's a book that demands discussion, explanation and consideration. Unfortunately, I think that much of it may be over the heads of its teenaged target audience. Readers who need things spelled out may be challenged by this book because significant aspects of the setting (and what a grim future it is) are implied, or only mentioned in passing. I think few teenagers will be satisfied with the ending. And fewer still will probably spend much time thinking about the issues in the story after they've put it down. It's too bad that the profanity and few mild references to sexual situations will keep this book out of most classrooms, because it's really a story that deserves to be discussed, especially by young adults.

I do recommend this book for advanced and thoughtful teen readers. Sci-fi fans in particular will enjoy it. Other readers should appreciate the accurate portrayal of teen dating, cliques, jealousies, insecurities and friendships. I hope the larger, more important themes of the book will be grasped as well.

I enjoyed reading the novel Feed, by M.T. Anderson very much. Reading this novel had many positive effects on me. It taught me to respect and care for your friends and family. It also taught me to appreciate what you have. This novel had many themes and overall was a very influential read. I learned much from this book while I enjoyed reading it.
The characters of the novel Feed were very interesting and realistic. While the novel was of the science fiction genre, I would say it could also belong to the realistic fiction genre. The characters deal with very life-like problems and were very believable. My favorite character was Titus, as he reminded me of myself. Our personalities were very much alike, having a sense of humor while being mature and intelligent. The author did an excellent job of creating the characters of the novel as they are just like you average, every-day teenagers. M.T. Anderson wrote this novel as if he, himself were one of the characters.
The novel Feed, was very interesting throughout. The author was able to maintain the reader's interest the whole time. Something exciting, interesting, or strange would happen at a dull moment sparking the reader's interest even more and making them want to turn to the next page. This novel was very intriguing as it is an extraordinary aspect on the future. Just the main idea of the novel will keep you reading because it allows the characters to do incredible things that we thought a computer was needed to do.
I learned much from reading this novel. I learned to respect and care for my friends and family and also to appreciate what I have. After reading this novel, I gained a new philosophical view on the future. I would recommend this novel to anyone who is curious about what the future may be like. This novel should be read by students in years to come. It is a very interesting and intriguing book. I learned much from and enjoyed this novel. It was a fantastic read.

I'd heard good things about this book, so I was willing to give it a try even though I was less than impressed with the same author's vampire novel, Thirsty.

Feed, however, deserved all its buzz, plus more. This book is a piece of brilliance. In this dystopian novel, you'll hear echoes of Holden Caulfield, as well as bits of Minority Report and language worthy of writers like Douglas Coupland and Francesca Lia Block, but M.T. Anderson still creates a world that is at once unique and frighteningly familiar.

The invented slang and the culture from which it has sprung are pitch-perfect, and the tone of the writing rides a fine line between absurdly funny and darkly horrifying. The futuristic world described in the book is exhausting, sickening, ridiculous, seductive and brokenly beautiful. The fact that it is, more or less, the world we live in today, makes this the most terrifying book I've read since Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale."

This book is for people who like to think and who are willing to examine their lives. Such people -- no matter how young they are -- will be able to handle the occasional curse word that pops up in the book.

I couldn't put this book down. It's a fast read, and worth rereading. I felt the ending was a little "light" and disappointing, but the ride that gets you there is unique and unforgettable.