education-economics

The authors attempt to tailor their writing to Ph.Ds who wish to pursue careers outside of academia. This is an admirable goal, as this is a genre in which relatively little has been written. Unfortunately, WEYCDWAPhD doesn't add significantly beyond what one finds in most job-seeking books, mostly relegating itself to basics like how to write a resume, how to interview for a job, etc. Their use of the Myers-Briggs personality indicator to guide readers to jobs which fit their personalities was fine, if necessarily abbreviated because of the book length. I liked the chapter on negotiating, as that is something too many get-a-job books for new graduates don't cover enough - I suppose because those books' intended readers often have no advanced skills to barter with, something not true of this book. ... However, this would be a good acquisition for university job centers or libraries.

This book consists of reports, which describe the state of the ASP market about a year ago. While writing my diploma thesis about this topic, I had to realise, that this topic loses its actuality rather quickly as the only constant element in the ASP market is change. The book focuses on so-called First-Generation ASPs putting most business emphasise on quick market presence. In the meantime the market has matured leading to 2nd and 3rd Generation ASPs, which qualifies the reports contained in this book as partially outdated basic knowledge. Today, potential ASP customers and providers use far more complex strategies to utilize the ASP concept.

I purchased this book looking for an overall, logically flowing picture of the ASP concept. While the content is valid, I was disappointed to find that it was just a collection of publicly available white papers and industry articles. The book is smaller than I thought - only 300 pages, and it contains advertisements for various vendors (the only color sections of the book). There are many graphs and pie charts that are useless because the different segments are all different shades of gray, and I think that it is far too much to spend for what seems to be a collection of white papers an intern could assemble after surfing the web for an afternoon.

I don't agree with mr Brian Madden. I can image why there are some ads in the book, but they did help me to reach and to get in touch with these vendors. The articles are clearly whitepapers, casestudies and reports of research companies and the are not commercial in my opinion, they only inform you of the several options. The HOTT Guide gave me an objective idea of the possibilities of ASP for my company, although I already knew some of it.

This book is WORTHLESS! Not only is it written in a nauseatingly bad style but the book doesn't tell you anything you can't find by doing a little Internet research. That's what I was looking for and this book failed to provide it. Save your money and search the web instead.

It was a great tool in learning .

It is nice to have a book that not only gives you an advantage on the written test, but gives you one on the computerized test also. Not all MEPS give the test in written form anymore and it is nice to be able to practice on the test in computer form so it is not a surprise to you when you get there. The CD Rom was simple to install and easy to use. The only negative response about this book/CD that I can think of is that on the CD Rom, it repeats the same questions over and over again, just in a different order. A greater diversity in questions would be much more beneficial when striving for that high composite ASVAB score. After all, the higher the composite score, the better chance of getting what you want out of the military.

If this book could be updated, with CURRENT industry and student remarks, I would give it a much better review. The MBA 'payback' and education approach is now currently under turmoil with the global downturn and the corporate scandals worldwide - this book of course is now too old to consider these aspects.
Be very careful, particularly if you expect an MBA in the current climate to 'spoonfeed' you a job with Morgan Stanley, to take this book too seriously. I am currently in the final term of a top-flight MBA in the Asia-Pacific region (which included a European exchange to a highly regarded school), and have had the time of my life, so can speak with a fair bit of authority about the book.
It is very well written and honest, so that's a good thing.
Unfortunately it was written right towards the end of the Internet bubble, and way before Sep. 11 and Iraq, so the book's advice in the second part in particular is now almost like reading a quaint history book of a bygone era.
It also at times takes too much credence from some of the studnent's comments, many of whom have a very US-centric/investment banking view of the MBA (ironically the region/sector that has been affected worst by the MBA downturn)
As a book telling you about the CURRENT situation of what you get out of the MBA, it is hopeless. It badly needs to be updated.
The MBA is still the most amazing experience of my life, but my current class have learnt to become 'optimistic realists'. The book needs to reflect this.
Have a look at the latest articles on [website](uk - education section) regarding the tough situation for current MBAs to see what I mean....

Also somewhat one-dimensional in its approach

Next to the Vault.com MBA career website, I found the MBA Planet book to be the most critical resource for MBAs.

I was somewhat surprised that any publisher would consider this text a guide. Basically, it is formatted like a dictionary with various business-related vocabulary listings and their definitions. Usage applies to the spelling and capitalization of the listings. My expectations were that this book was similar to a Chicago Manual of Style within a business writing context that includes recently created words germane to the business world. Unfortunately, it isn't useful in this regard. For example, if you want to find out how to use colloquial business language such as "leverageable", you probably won't have much luck with this text as such words appear to be absent.

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Lastly, the organization leaves something to be desired as the usage topics such as Abbreviations are mixed in with the vocabulary entries, which essentially is the entire book. I really see very little value in acquiring this book...

If you want to know the meaning of derivative claims, leveraged buyout, offshore buying units or Brady bonds, this is the book for you.

If you need to know the definition or usage of the words Amish, tort, girl or the location of Exxon, then, by all means buy this book.

But I don't know why anyone would want to spend $30 (the standard price) for this book, put together by the Wall Street Journal's Paul R. Martin, because it is uneven, moving from the obvious (the word girl, for example), offering up tidbits of definitions of rather well-known words (the Amish) and the obscure (offshore buying units.) It is a book of multiple purposes or no clear purpose at all to the public.

Internal stylebooks sometimes suffer from a fuzziness growing out of dual purposes, meant to fix the same errors that crop up regularly, to define the words most troublesome for that publication, to provide consistency in usage and presentation. Sometimes they are little more than a compilation of the memos issued by a copy desk or news editor, reminding people about the correct names of companies or the policies on datelines, or to remind editors on acceptable headline practices.

Other times, stylebooks grow out of a sense of mission to guard the language from silliness and doublespeak while allowing the language to grow, as English does.

What I didn't find in this book was the Journal's obvious ability to teach, as demonstrated in some other WSJ guides. While a stylebook doesn't have to take education as a mission, once it goes public, the educational component would seem to be essential.

Why else would anyone not worried about whether to capitalize executive director buy this book? As an internal publication, the stylebook is useful. It sets standards and clearly tackles problem words, I'm sure fed by repeated misuses of certain words or facts by its own staff. I'd be willing to bet that the items on defuse/diffuse, or bizarre/bazaar, for example, are included because someone(s) on the staff has demonstrated confusion on their proper usage.

This is no knock on the obvious effort that went into putting this book together. Virtually every editor I know flees in terror at the prospect of having to produce a stylebook for the company. But once it went public, it needed some more thought. I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes to collect style and language manuals, or people who need more sources of information on certain business terms. But I wouldn't rush out to buy this as a first choice on either language or business.

As its title says, this book is The Wall Street Journal's *style* guide and, to a lesser extent, a usage guide. A style guide is something specific to the book-magazine-newspaper publishing world: a volume that tells the writers and editors for a given publisher how they should handle certain recurring situations. ("Style" in this context refers to the mechanics of prose composition, not to a writer's individuality of expression.) Any style guide's main purposes are to promote consistency and to save the time that would otherwise be wasted in continually rethinking issues that the house has already decided. Whether the guide also promotes "good usage" in the sense of Strunk & White or Fowler is almost irrelevant. A style guide is thus a series of more or less arbitrary decrees from the boss -- don't use a serial comma, don't put a comma before "Inc.," capitalize "The" in "The Wall Street Journal," etc. It's not the job of the typical style guide to explain why one usage is preferred over another or to give its user choices; rather, its job is to set forth the rules followed by a given publisher.

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Usage is exactly what its title suggests and a bit more. It tells you how The Wall Street Journal has answered the questions that, experience has shown, arise when writing about business. It doesn't debate the wisdom of hyphenating fractions, for example, but simply tells you, "This is how we do it at WSJ."

In addition, it contains helpful definitions of business terms and (much less frequently) of grammatical terms. But, if you want a business dictionary or grammar book, then this should not be your first choice. You should buy this book if you write, or edit writing, about business, and you want to know how the world's foremost business publication handles the same problems you face.

Although some of Mary Hunt's work is OK for people who have a major problem with credit card debt, most of her suggestions are obvious and not terribly insightful. Tightwad Gazette is far more practical, and much less padded with silly emotionalism.

While this book is acceptable, like other reviewers I found it a bit over-emotional and feel Amy Dacyzycn's tightwad books are MUCH better. This reads a bit like a Heloise book, lots of scattered tips, some are good, some are obvious. Half the book is spent talking about credit cards. Yes, credit cards can be evil, but it all depends on the person using them. Overall, I was not very impressed with this book, and I'm glad I got it out of the library.

I read this book and like the other people who made reviews, I found that too many chapters were taken up with credit card advice. I also didn't particularly like the format of the book. You had to read chapters upon chapters to find any useful information rather than in point format. Some of the information was useful, but I think Miserly Moms and The Tightwad Gazette's are much better.

This book offers no relevant information whatsoever. Peterson's is very confused with the term 'Worldwide' as there are ONLY FOUR schools not in the USA. It also seems that the schools in the book are advertised rather than rated. This book will be going straight into the bin.

There are better choices for learning about MBAs by distance learning than this book. One is Bears' Guide to the Best MBAs by Distance Learning. I bought both books and it's not even close. This is particularly true if cost is important. Bears' book provides many more international MBAs (UK, Australia, Canada) which are far cheaper than almost all of the U.S. programs, but are still academically quite strong (and better than many of the U.S. programs).

It is now well-known that Peterson's sells ad space in their books disguised as research. Shame on them! Obviously these schools are allowed to say whatever they want.

I liked the book when I bought it, but then I read, in mid-2000, that Peterson's had been selling advertising in the book, that looked just like editorial material. In other words, many of those lovely write-ups on schools were written by the schools themselves. Peterson's said they will identified the paid ads in future editions, but their credibility is really shot with this kind of behavior, and I'm really disappointed.

I read some of the reviews on Amazon and should have paid more attention. I knew not to expect a helpful book, but some of the reviewers said the book was humourous. NOT! There is no point or purpose to this book.

Meyer's book is funny and well-written. Sprinkled throughout with tales from the author's own experiences, it is a fast and easy read. This book is best for the grad who has never lived on his or her own before, and probably too basic for those who had their own apartments, jobs and roommates while in college. While not a comprehensive guide, it does give good ideas on where to start. Don't depend on it to tell you everything, but count on it to give you a push in the right direction.

I just made the transition from college to the "real world." And to make things even more complicated for myself, I moved across the country. Not only did I have to deal with starting new and paying off debts accrued from life as a student, I was doing so thousands of miles away from my nest. Ingrid's book came to me in the nick of time, before I packed my bags and headed back to mom's house. I found her advice reasonable, her delivery sound. I was a bit reluctant at first since I dare say my ego cannot take much talking down to from someone my own age with a book deal, but I didn't find ON YOUR OWN TWO FEET preachy or stuffy in the least bit as I have found other personal life management books. Her tone was light and funny, a quality much appreciated from a gal who spends nights with a furrowed brow glancing over credit card statements and bills.

I would recommend this book to anyone who finds themselves in the transition after graduation, when the funds from student loans have dried up and repayment looms, when apartment life away from the folks is appealing but seems out of reach, etc. I hope to see more from Ingrid, perhaps something for us approaching 30.

and the ones I wanted were discontinued; definately not worth the money

The previous editions of this book were full of energy and conveyed the spirit and practice of what it was like to take college courses online. This edition is no more than a list of courses. What a disappointment!

This is definitely a find for anyone who wants to further thenselves. A wonderful reference and easy to use, I suggest it for anyone who wants to be more educated. I will finally finish my master's thanks to Internet University.

An outrageous price for what you get: a thin, flimsy paperback containing few new ideas.

relatively costly paperback that fails to provide even one novel idea. perhaps the best shoestring advice i can offer is to save the purchase price.

Theda Snyder offers no-nonsense, compelling advice to lawyers who want to practice law economically and efficiently. If you care about keeping expenses to a minimum and turning a profit in your practice, this book is a must.