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Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth: An Integrated Approach (with CengageNOW, InfoTrac® 1-Semester ... 2 reviews
G. Tyler Miller
Brooks Cole, 2006
Well written and thoughtful
I am a college student taking an Enviromental Science class that uses this text book. All the things you will need or want to know about the Earth's sustainable enviroment and how it shapes our lives is not enough to learn in one semester or quarter, but the author G. Tyler Miller JR. does a great job of condensing a LOT of important information into this text.
One of the great things is that ...
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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth 50 reviews
Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
the real thing
As CEO of LMS Technical for 28 years, my use of books to help me plan, sustain and improve my business has been a priority. Introduced to this book by my daughter who is presently a student of Christensen, I was skeptical that a "Harvard" read would be too far off the track for a small consulting firm like ours. WRONG! For the past two months, the application of his core beliefs had led our firm ...
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Tested in the Trenches: A 9-Step Plan for Building and Sustaining a Million-Dollar Financial Services Practice14 reviews
Ron Carson, Steve Sanduski
Kaplan Business, 2005
Building your own Financial Planning practice
There are a lot of different books out there written by owners of different financial service firms but of all the books I've seen this book is by far the best. The advice may seem simple but it is highly effective. We have already referred to this book many times within the practice I work to help design processes that have simplified the way we do things. The advice on how to attract new ...
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Stepcoupling: Creating and Sustaining a Strong Marriage in Today's Blended Family24 reviews
Susan Wisdom, Jennifer Green
Three Rivers Press, 2002
Wonderful and Inspiring Book...Especially the Last Two Chapters!
This is a wonderful and valuable book for anyone currently in a stepfamily or contemplating a remarriage with children involved. The last two chapters stick out in my mind the most, especially the second to the last Chapter - Empowering Everyone. The stories and insights shared throughout the book are very honest and inspiring. The fact that the author wrote this book based on her own personal ...
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The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business 27 reviews
Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson, ...
Doubleday Business, 2008
Inspirational
Overall this book was filled with inspirational wisdom and while somewhat common sense approaches to life I still felt it was a good experience to read them.
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Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining ...13 reviews
John M. Bryson
Jossey-Bass, 2004
Strategic Planning Textbook
Excellent book for strategic management course. Along with the workbook, this textbook is a good resource for those developing and implementing strategic plans in public service and nonprofit organizations. It outlines and details valuable information to help public admininstration leaders use effective strategic plannig and implementation techniques.
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Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships16 reviews
Tristan Taormino
Cleis Press, 2008
Opening Up
To be honest, I wasn't sure what I would take from Tristan Taormino's new book Opening Up - A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships. That's not to say that I wasn't excited about reading it - I'm fascinated by how people navigate different relationships and don't think monogamy is always the best choice. However, I am in a monogamous relationship, because that's what works for us. I ...
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Making a Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance36 reviews
Daniel G. Md Amen
Three Rivers Press, 2006
Excellent book
This is an excellent book: informative, clear, and packed with practical suggestions. Current brain research coupled with a wealth of individual case studies makes this a valuable guide.
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance38 reviews
Michael E. Porter
Free Press, 1998
Using IT for Competitive Advantage
In his 1985 book titled Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance Free Press 1985 Management and IT (information Technology) author Michael Porter set fourth some very useful ideas about creating competitive advantage with IT (e.g. building a strategically valuable system.) I've added an example or two after each of his points. They include:
(1) Building barriers to ...
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The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations18 reviews
Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, ...
Doubleday Business, 1999
Great book to look at change from different lenses
This book is touted as a "resource" to the Fifth Discipline, but my view is that it could itself stand on its own steam as a handbook for change management. With articles contributed by a variety of authors, the book looks at the challenges of triggering, initiating, aligning and sustaining change and the various diverse ways to confront and solve those challenges. The challenges that the book ...
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Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity1 review
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
A must have for conservationists and general public (and cheap!!)
First the more practical stuff. I think the book is very cheap, because I found for a much higher price somewhere else, but also because of its size and print quality (I expected something smaller). And it arrived very fast (I got super-fast shipping for free).
Now the book. I like that it has a lot of figures. I'm a scientist and usually have to read long, black and white papers, with only ...
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Responsive Literacy Coaching: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Purposeful Change
Cheryl Dozier
Stenhouse Publishers, 2006
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Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage (3rd Edition)9 reviews
Jay Barney
Prentice Hall, 2006
PERSPECTIVE IS EVERYTHING
This is a great book - more for what it organises than what it adds as new ideas. Barney sets a model for Competitive Advantage (VIRO) and them compares strategic models as potential sources. It places many of the modern attempts in perspective. Without this starting understanding, the modern gurus (Hamel) are almost impossible to apply as their ideas lack the perspective on the role of ...
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Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Assests (with InfoTrac®)1 review
T. Laine Scales, Calvin L. Streeter
Brooks Cole, 2003
Excellent book
This is an excellent book. I am a social work student and I learned a lot using this. r-
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The Art of Conducting1 review
Donald Hunsberger, Roy Ernst
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1991
As described, delivered quickly.
The book was new as described and I received it quickly and in time for classes.
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Flow in the Office: Implementing and Sustaining Lean Improvements3 reviews
Carlos Venegas
Productivity Press, 2007
Excellent Lean Addition to your Library
There aren't many good books that show you how to practially implement lean in the office. Most are based on theories, or just tell you the principles are the same. They are of course, but this book is very useful especially if you are trying to convince reluctant people. Both lean leaders, facilitators, and those trying to learn about lean can learn from this excellent resource. Looking ...
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Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)27 reviews
Luke Hohmann
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
Useful book for Software Product Management
I'm not the kind of person who burns through business books or even likes reading them at all. I do, however, actively pursue information that will help me do my job better and more efficiently, which presents a bit of a problem when the information I need is stuck in a book somewhere. That's one of the reasons I like this book.
Being fairly new to software product management, I've read a ...
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Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World5 reviews
Brian Walker, David Salt
Island Press, 2006
Well written explanation of complexity in ecosystems
This is a great book. I've read several books on this topic, and so far, they have all had a similar issue: They are written by people who are scientists first, writers second. This book has two authors. One is a scientist and the other is a science writer. This made for a well put-together, understandable explanation of complex adaptive systems, which are what ecosystems are currently understood ...
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Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age2 reviews
Timothy Beatley
Island Press, 2005
What elements constitute a real community?
What elements constitute a real community, and how is that sense of community changing in the wake of global connections? Timothy Beatley's Native To Nowhere: Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age uses research and the author's own travels to communities across North America and Europe to examine concepts of place in modern life. Trends which have undermined these roots, new ideas set ...
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