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Boot Camp for Your Brain: A No-Nonsense Guide to the SAT I 103 reviews
M. Denmark Manning
Xlibris Corporation, 2001
A perfect companion to "The Official Guide to the SATs"
I have tried plenty of different programs to enhance my SAT scores - books, classes, you name it. Boot Camp was organized in a fashion that was easy to use, and more importantly, yielded desired results. The contents of the book are concepts that are on the actual SAT and don't waste your time. I (like any other high schooler) have little to no time to practice SATs, but the great thing about ...
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The Rocket Review Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT (2006-2007 Edition) (Rocketreview Revolution: ...42 reviews
Adam Robinson
NAL Trade, 2006
IF YOU BUY ANY SAT BOOK--THIS IS THE ONE TO USE
I have tried everything--$1000 SAT prep classes (no help, they are only for students who have no idea what the SAT is), doing constant practice from the Official Study guide by College Board (kind of helped but there aren't any explanations for the answers!), funny vocabulary books to help memorize vocab, etc.
None of those really worked.
Until I stumbled upon RocketReview. Everything in ...
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Less Is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity40 reviews
Jason Jennings
Portfolio Hardcover, 2002
On the lean culture of cost leadership firms
This spring, I had a night-flight from Houston to Europe. I never got any sleep due to this book. It reads like a fiction novel while the focus is very much on the softer issues of productivity businesses. The well-written behind-the-wall stories and interviews with successful top executives give us insight to many issues that usual case stories do not explain.
Business magazines often glorify ...
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Sew Fast Sew Easy: All You Need to Know When You Start to Sew35 reviews
Elissa K. Meyrich
St. Martin's Griffin, 2002
My new found sewing bible
I just bought this book because I wanted to freshen up my sewing. I knew how to home sew from my mother but I didn't know much about sewing techniques or terms or sewing notions and how to use them. This book was very easy to understand and explains everything I need to know about sewing and using notions and patterns. It's now my sewing bible! If I get stuck on something I grab my sew fast sew ...
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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business18 reviews
Douglas W. Hubbard
Wiley, 2007
Quantifying Soft Knowledge
Perhaps the most frequent question from decision analysis team members is, "How do we get the inputs?" In most evaluations, there are several key variables about which we know little. Consider oil price, for example. We have abundant historical data, yet forecasting future prices is a daunting challenge.
Doug Hubbard has written an entire book about capturing quantitative judgments. His approach ...
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Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success22 reviews
Dean R. Spitzer
AMACOM, 2007
The Social Side of Performance Measurement
This has to be the absolute best book I have read in this field of performance measurement.
Spitzer goes straight to the heart of what performance measurement is all about - transforming organisational performance - and he makes it crystal clear why it is more about the social system (the people) than the technical systems (dashboards, analysis, data).
His writing style is engaging, ...
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The Family of Adoption20 reviews
Joyce Maguire Pavao
Beacon Press, 1999
If you only read one
As an adoptive mother, I have read and collected a shelf full of books on the subject of adoption. Joyce Pavao's well researched and thoughtful book, The Family of Adoption, is one of the very best. It's the first book that I recommend to anyone interested in or touched by adoption.
Joyce Pavao, herself adopted, encourages the reader to look at adoption from all perspectives. She shows us ...
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Total Performance Scorecard: Redefining Management to Achieve Performance with Integrity21 reviews
Hubert K. Rampersad
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003
Dr. Rampersad's processes bring organizations face-to-face with their own moral fiber
"Dr. Rampersad's book is just as timely an exhortation to American business as was In Search of Excellence. In this case, the survival of corporations depends on possessing an integrity that can both fuel their drive for performance
and keep it in check. Such integrity cannot be legislated by government or management. Fortunately, Dr. Rampersad's processes bring organizations face-to-face with ...
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Storm Chasing Handbook18 reviews
Tim Vasquez
Weather Graphics Technologies, 2002
A good introduction to storm chasing.
A fairly comprehensive guide to introductory storm chasing. A little more info on the forecasting would have been good, though much of it is covered in Vasquez's Weather Forecasting Handbook. After a one-week storm tour with Silver Lining Tours in 2003, this book really helped me to make sense of the things that I saw and springboarded me on a year of research so that I will be better prepared ...
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Industrial Ethernet: A Pocket Guide17 reviews
Perry S. Marshall
ISA International Society for Measurement and, 2002
Great little reference book
This is a great book. Like the size - perfect for job site references. It always gets passed around! The material is well presented. Perry does an excellent job of providing "need-to-know" information in an extremely easy to follow format. I would strongly recommend this pocket guide to automation and control engineers and technicians. Buy this book - I guarantee it will find a spot in your ...
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The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, ...13 reviews
R. K. Jain
Wiley, 1991
a classic text..
This is an absolute gem. I really think that this book must be read by every CS/EE engineer. Performance analysis is always something that comes as an afterthought and engineers think that some some "mathematical" guy called a perf analyst will stop by after the product is completed and analyze the product. This is def wrong. PA should be done at every stage of production. This book has been ...
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Psycho-Pictography: The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind12 reviews
Vernon Linwood Howard
Prentice Hall, 1996
Truth
I found this book in a used bookstore and have been carrying it around ever since. I usually dont get into self help type books. But this book is different. Ive since bought more products by Vernon Howard. This book describes the human dillema perfectly. Truth has never been spoken so clearly, Ive found nothing that equals this masterpiece. And if you give it a chance, you'll forever be ...
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Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers12 reviews
Thomas A. Angelo, K. Patricia Cross
John Wiley & Sons, 2005
CATs for the classroom
The text was used in a course through UW Stout and it is a very good resource for methods that can be used to assess learners progress towards a goal. Great tool to have on the bookshelf!
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Six Sigma Business Scorecard : Creating a Comprehensive Corporate Performance Measurement System12 reviews
Praveen Gupta, A. William Wiggenhorn
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003
Best business book since "The Goal"
Praveen, I just have to buy you a cup of coffee or a drink one day. I am just finishing your book, "Six Sigma Business Scorecard " and have to say that I haven't been this riveted to a business book since "The Goal". Books like this for me have been far and few between.
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Approaches to Physical Measurements in Biotechnology13 reviews
B. C. Blake-coleman
Academic Press, 1993
Too Good to Leave Out of Print!
Surely the publishers are going to reprint this book or get out another edition. It is, after all, a quite unique book and still absolutely current in its content and objectives.
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Sew On: All You Need to Know to Start Sewing and Serging Today! (Sew Fast Sew Easy)17 reviews
Elissa K. Meyrich
St. Martin's Griffin, 2008
If you everything or if you know nothing of sewing..
Buy this book with confidence if you are just starting out in sewing or an experienced seamstress. Good overview of tools, terms and all other sewing related items, especially if you did not grow up with a sewer in the house. If you already know how to sew, it is still a good reference book to have your sewing library. Beginners with absolutely no sewing experience will not need more than just ...
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Web Site Measurement Hacks: Tips & Tools to Help Optimize Your Online Business (Hacks)17 reviews
Eric Peterson
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
A rare one-size-fits-all book!
Web Site Measurement Hacks is the best book in the Web Analytics field. The book explains introductory topics as well as the most advanced ones in a chronological natural way. Subjects like what is web analytics, how to choose a vendor, how the technology works, and how to implement a web analytics program in your company are covered extensively.
Besides being well written and almost ...
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Preparing for the Texas PreK-4 Teacher Certification: A Guide to the Comprehensive TExES Content Areas Exam14 reviews
Janice L. Nath, John Ramsey
Allyn & Bacon, 2003
This book is a must!
This is an excellent, thorough guide to help you prepare for the EC-4 TExES. I looked at several books, but felt like this one had the best information. Though there is not a full practice test, there are practice questions throughout, which are just as (if not more)helpful. Each answer is explained fully (not only why answer A is correct, but why B, C, and D are incorrect).
Several professors ...
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Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences15 reviews
Gravetter Wallnau
Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999
An awesome stats book!
I have taught statistics for many years and this is the best stats book I have seen. It is clearly written, has easily understood formulas, and excellent examples. I highly recommend it!
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Voice Lessons12 reviews
Nancy Dean
Topeka Bindery, 2000
Great book for HS English teachers!
Voice is perhaps the hardest of the 6 traits to teach. With my sophomore core English students, I would do 1 voice lesson each week for their warm up and it was amazing how much more accessible that vague idea of "voice" came to both myself and my students over the school year. The whole English department at my school uses Voice Lessons...9th grade teachers do a certain number, 10th grade, ...
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