education-economics

I found this cassette very useful as a refresher course on manners. I had forgotten many of the pointers Marjorie Brody mentioned! It was great listening to it in my car during a long business trip. Many of us believe that we know about proper etiquette, however our actions show differently! This tape can really help.

Honestly, I have no time for activities/events when I train or facilitate meetings that accomplish only one goal. So I look for things that simultaneously meet multiple needs, or desires. This book contains 61 such tools.

Pike and Solem write clear, concise directions for each opener or energizer. With very little effort, each can be adapted to different needs by changing questions. (Instead of asking "What is your favourite hobby," for example, you can ask "What skill do you most use on the job?") In the opening pages, they provide a matrix so you can identify at a glance whether an activity is most useful as an Icebreaker, Networker, Team Builder, Task Tension Reducer, Relationship Tension Reducer, Personal Tension Reducer, or Focussing Activity. Better yet, each of the 61 activities falls into a minimum of three of these categories--accomplishing multiple goals for me in my meetings and trainings. The nine-page introduction offers hints and tips from Pike & Solems' years of experience. The combination of the matrix and the introduction are incredible added value.

I have been consistently pleased with the results I get from these activities. The four-quadrant name-tent, dreams and nightmares, group milling, and uniqueness and commonalities are consistently useful for me. I have no hesitation in recommending this book to trainers and meeting facilitators.

This book has the statistics and brief explanations on about the 180 law programs. It is a very good reference for the hard facts on the programs that one is interested in. It has a very useful admissions matrix (the probability of being admitted given one's GPA and LSAT score) in almost each school's profile.

Wow, accounting, what a thrilling weekend of reading. As far as prep guides go, I find these cliffsquick books to be excellent. I read this book as well as the accounting I book from the same series. I have never had any exposure to accounting, and this book brings you up to speed quickly. Of course, this is the more advanced in the series so you may consider not starting here if you're new. It's well written and includes some visual aids that really help.
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Now in a fully updated and revised fourth edition, Darlene Weingand's Administration Of The Small Public Library is an indispensable reference for the operation of small community libraries for villages, towns, and municipalities seeking to offer their patrons and communities a visible, well-funded library system that embraces emerging information technologies, enhances accountability through effective management techniques, and encourages community involvement while addressing local needs. This new edition will enable the library staff to adapt sample documents (including a long-range plan, job descriptions, organizational charts, budget worksheets, policies, and construction plans) to their facility. A necessary addition to any academic library science reference collection, Administration Of The Small Public Library is invaluable and very highly recommended in-service training text for library professionals in small to mid-sized community library systems.

I found this book to be authoritative, credible, full of easy-to-read material that is up to date and that will enable any administrative office manager to become more proficient at his/her job. I've become so much more knowledgeable after reading it.

The twentieth-fifth volume in the Academic Press "Advances in Librarianship" series, this latest body of work showcases outstanding contributions to library science by seasoned professionals and experienced researches. The articles include Marybeth McCartin and Paula Feid's Information Literacy for Undergraduates: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?; Martha Smith's Information Ethics; G. E. Gorman and Ruth H. Miller's Collection Evaluation: New Measures for a New Environment; Susan L. Perry and David C. Weber's Evaluating Academic Library Quality Today; Danuta A. Niteckl's Quality Assessment Measures in Libraries; Ronald Milne's Enhancing Access and Progressing the Collaborative Agenda: The UK Research Support Libraries Programme; Jonathan B. Bengston's Reinventing the Treasure Room: The Role of Special Collections Librarianship in the 21st Century; Ole Harbo's The Development of Public Libraries in Denmark Since 1964; Thoger Kristensen's Acquisitions Reengineering; Evgeny Kuz'min's New Information Technologies in Russian Libraries. A strongly recommended addition to Library Science reference collections and reading lists.

Thomas Sowell again delivers a data filled analysis of what really happens, not what people wish would happen with affirmative action. By providing detailed examples over several decades of affirmative action in many countries, he provides insight into what could be the results in the USA. This approach removes some of the inbuilt perceptions about our black/white affirmative action problems here.

A must buy for anyone who wants real analysis, not the usual "diversity" fluff.

It's about time that Cullen & D'Innocenzo brought their refreshing common sense and trademark motivational spirit to the topic of coaching. If you want tangible, on-the-mark tips to help you develop those intangible qualities we all recognize as true coaching, this is the book.

In All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools Through Public School Choice, Richard Kahlenberg (senior fellow at The Century Foundation), advocates giving every child in American the opportunity to attend a public school in which the majority of students come from middle class households. He persuasively argues that the only way to make good on the American assumption that public schools will provide equal educational opportunity is by teaching disadvantaged and advantaged children together within the same facilities, with the same faculties, the same curriculums, and the same educational resources. The only way to achieve this socioeconomic integration is to establish a critical mass of middle-class students within all schools. The recommendations offered in All Together Now outline a blueprint for creating middle class schools and draw upon the experiences of current experiments with economic integration in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Connecticut, and elsewhere. Based on these case examples are practical ways to bring about integrated schools for the future, and guidance for successfully overcoming political, logistical, and legal obstacles to an economic desegregation. All Together Now is informative, challenging, and occasionally inspiring reading which is particularly recommended to education reform activists, policy makers, school administrators, faculty members, and concerned parents.