Improvement is something we aim to do in our next article on bargain books. We intend to provide an improved article on bargain books in the near future.
Another Great bargain books ArticleHow To Sell More of Your Ebooks Online
Have you written an e-book? An e-book is a digital document that can be sold online in a purely digital form. Thus, unlike with selling a physical product, the fulfillment of an e-book is done completely online. This is great for you, the author, since you can completely automate the order taking and fulfillment processes.
Once you have the fulfillment process automated, the question becomes how to market the e-book online in order to get people to buy it. "How do I effectively market my e-books online?" is one of the most common questions I hear from my clients. Here are five tips that will help you sell more of your e-books and generate more revenue:
- Find a target market to sell the e-book to. Many people think that everyone is their target market, and as a result try to sell their e-book to everyone. They usually end up chasing after potential customers who are not in their target market and are not likely to ever purchase the book. Their e-book sales suffer as a result.
Instead of trying to sell your e-book to everyone, concentrate on a smaller group of people who comprise your target market. These people are much more likely to purchase what you have to offer, and as a result you will get many more sales.
- Create an effective sales letter for your e-book. Since you cannot take a picture of your e-book and post it on your web site (unlike a piece of jewelry, for example), your need to use the sales letter to promote the e-book.
Make sure that your sales letter effectively describes your e-book and focuses on the benefits your clients will get by purchasing your e-book. Highlighting the benefits will keep people reading the sales letter, and it will generate more e-book sales.
- Give your customers just a few options on your web site. Sometimes clients tell me that their sales letters don't sell. When I take a look at the sales letters, they are usually a big mess. Sales letters that do not sell contain too many distractions for the reader: they have links to other web pages and web sites, banners, and text ads for other products.
Make sure that your sales letter provides only a few options to your customers - an option to buy the product and an option to subscribe to your newsletter, and that's it. The fewer options you give to your web site visitors, the more likely they are to buy your product.
- Have a newsletter subscription on your web site. Sometimes people who come to your web site and see your e-book are not ready to purchase the e-book. However, they are ready to subscribe to your newsletter and learn more about you and your products. These people will be ready to buy your e-book eventually, so make sure that you keep in touch with them through your newsletter.
- Use online marketing techniques to promote your e-book further. Use search engine optimization, business blogging, article publishing and other online marketing techniques to promote your web site and e-book. These methods will bring more visitors to your web site, who are craving the information that you share in your e-book.
You can only make money with your e-book if you sell it. Follow the five tips that we discussed to sell more e-book copies and make more money.
About the Author
Biana Babinsky is the online business expert and author who has taught hundreds of people how to sell their ebooks and make more money online. Learn all of her online marketing secrets in her Complete Online Marketing Course at http://www.CompleteMarketingCourse.com
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Here's the calibration program that will render all other calibration programs obsolete. Digital Video Essentials is the most advanced program for calibrating today's televisions, including high definition, plasma and other state-of-the-art screens and home theater systems.
Customer Review: Useful product
This product is very useful at basic calibration and defining what different components in the tv and menu are for. I would recomment this dvd for anyone that does not want to spend the $300 for professional calibration.
Customer Review: Good Content - Lousy Execution
I have used this disc to calibrate my displays as well as friends and family's displays with fantastic results. You don't know what your missing until you have calibrated the picture on your display. This disc has all of the patterns you will need but it does a poor job of walking you through the process. The disc's menu system is not intuitive at all.
Once
Once
Even those allergic to musicals may be won over by Once, a tender-hearted Irish romance with songs by Czech Republic-born Markéta Irglová and Frames frontman Glen Hansard. (The film's director, John Carney, actually used to play bass in the group.) The trick here is that Irglová and Hansard also play the leads; because their characters are shown busking, writing music, or rehearsing, the songs are smoothly integrated in the film. The overall acoustic mood won't surprise fans of the Frames--some tracks ("Say It to Me," "When Your Mind's Made Up") have even popped up on the band's albums, though the arrangements are more pared-down here, befitting the scruffy, street-musician setting. Being the lesser-known entity, Irglová feels like a revelation; she sounds a bit like a folkie Björk on "If You Want Me," and her song "The Hill" is downright heartbreaking. Irglová and Hansard had already made the 2006 album The Swell Seasontogether, so their collaboration here feels really organic--they sound particularly good together on the title track, for instance. Now that's the kind of magic you want from musicals. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Customer Review: Once
Love it, love it, love it! The movie was great, the cd was great but seeing them live is even better! :)
Customer Review: I only need to say this "once"..........
I genuinely LOVE this soundtrack. Glen Hansard is incredibly talented. His style seems influenced by: (insert any great acoustic artist before him here). The song arrangement is also amazing. And Marketa Irglova's hauntingly soft voice is sweet and pure.
The Rabbit Corkscrew
The Rabbit Corkscrew
Bid crumbling corks adieu. Award-winning design meets everyday convenience with this fast-as-lightning yet incredibly smooth-pulling corkscrew. Metrokane's Rabbit corkscrew opens any size wine bottle in just three seconds, and then automatically releases the cork. Features a user-friendly ergonomic design. Also includes a foil cutter. Handsomely packaged in a convenient storage case. Ten-year warranty.
Customer Review: How to use the Metrokane Rabbit
From a design standpoint, this is a very good product. But the documentation is pathetic, and was clearly never tested with new / real users. There is no explanation of how it's supposed to work. That understanding is very helpful: with it, you'll never have trouble, and will marvel at the clever design. Let's get started.
Have a bottle of wine handy on which you've already used the supplied (and very good) little foil cutter to remove the foil over the cork.
Take the unit in your hand and look at the movable parts. The overhead lever that swings outward / downward and then is reversed / brought back over the top - moves the spiral corkscrew up and down. To see this, operate the overhead lever with one hand while holding the clamping "side handles" with the other. When you move the overhead handle the corkscrew rotates.
Why is the corkscrew turning? Because it's forced to do that as it goes through a "guide" (the metal collar with gray plastic center). The gray plastic piece has an internal spiral track that forces the corkscrew to rotate as it passes through.
Here's the critical point: as long as the guide mechanism is locked in place and can't move up or down, the guide forces the corkscrew to rotate when going through.
What if this guide were locked in place on the `down-stroke,' but could move vertically on the `up-stroke'? Then the guide would force the corkscrew to rotate on the way down (so the corkscrew would penetrate the cork), but the guide would stay attached to (and _not_ rotate) the corkscrew on the way up - thus pulling the cork.
When the unit is operated correctly this is exactly what happens. But how?
Look more closely: Before using the Rabbit's `side-handles' to hold the wine bottle neck, the guide is locked in place by two protruding spring-loaded latches and can't move vertically. Try it: it won't budge. (You can actually see these small latches projecting over the top of the guide and keeping it from moving - by looking in the area above and to the far rear of the guide, near the smooth rod.)
On the other hand, when the clamping handles are squeezed onto the neck of a bottle, these latches above the guide _retract_, releasing their hold on the guide so it can move upward.
Do this now: Take your bottle of wine and, with the overhead lever rotated to its fully outward / downward position, place the guide directly over the cork and grip the neck of the bottle _firmly_ with the clamping side handles.
Look at the latches described above: they have retracted, and no longer restrain the guide from moving upward. This has no effect during the down-stroke / cork penetration phase, since the guide is already as low as it can go. Because the guide can't move, it forces the corkscrew to rotate when you operate the overhead lever - thus penetrating the cork. Perform this down-stroke.
Now watch what happens when the overhead lever is pulled back to withdraw the cork (while you at the same time continue to grip the bottle neck firmly with the side levers). Because the guide can now move vertically with the corkscrew, it imposes no rotation on the corkscrew. The corkscrew stays inside the cork as the overhead lever is moved outward / downward, and the cork is extracted. Do it. You now have the cork out of the bottle, suspended above the bottle neck, and are still gripping the side handles around the bottle neck.
Release your hold on the side handles and move the Rabbit away from the bottle. The cork is still attached to the corkscrew. Re-grip the side handles with one hand and once again operate the overhead lever, bringing it all the way back to its fully closed position again (as if you were on the original down-stroke into the cork).
As you get to the very end of the stroke, you will feel resistance and will hear a click: the latches have snapped back into place over the top of the guide, locking it in place. The guide is once again `captured' - and cannot move vertically. The cork is still attached to the corkscrew.
Finally, move the overhead lever back yet again to its fully open position (as if pulling the cork from the bottle). This time the latches _don't_ retract (because you're not using the side handles to grip the bottle neck) - so the latches again keep the guide from moving, and this forces the corkscrew to rotate `in reverse' as it passes upward through the guide. The corkscrew backs out of the cork and the cork drops off. It takes all of a few seconds once you get the hang of it.
Understanding the operating principles should help. None of this is well explained (or, indeed, explained at all) in the almost non-existent documentation.
Steve Ferris
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Great packaging and well built. It works fine and as advertised but the directions are less than adaquate. Even a mechanical minded-friend had to fool around with it before he got it to work and could show me. I've always been a dunce at this kind of stuff.
FlipKlip Treadmill Book Holder 1-Pak
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Customer Review: Best bookholder ever
Works with any book...Perfect for ANY treadmill, elliptical, bike. Superior to other more expensive bookholders. It's perfect!!
Customer Review: FlipKlip treadmill book holder
I had been looking for something to hold the pages of my book down because the book holder on my treadmill was not deep enough for some of the books I have. This is small and portable and, therefore, convenient to bring when I exercise elsewhere. Being able to read while on the treadmill makes the time go faster. The FlipKlip serves its purpose well.
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Accent the sleek look of your 15.4-inch MacBook Pro notebook. Get great hard case protection, a hint of Color and a massive dose of shine. SeeThru MacBook cases are made of translucent hard plastic to beautify and protect.
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the product was great and was delivered very quickly. i am very satisfied with my purchase
Customer Review: Works as advertised
I know many people have commented about problems on this product. I had none of the issues many have described.
I use my MacBook Pro ALL day. I haven't seen any heat problems, not edge abrasiveness nor any issues putting it on.
It makes my Mac look pretty cool and its easily distinguished.
I was even able to wipe off all the finger prints on the casing with the palm of my hand. Pretty cool, I'd say.
Just a note, when you put the bottom on, I would recommend putting the rear part of the laptop in first and then the front. There are some hooks that go on easier that way.
Other than that, it's a great product and I'm glad I purchased it.
LeapFrog Leapster® Educational Game: Scooby-Doo™ Spooky Snacks!
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This game is fun for my child(age 4) but its not as educational as I would have liked. He played it some but he likes several of the other leapster games better.(cars, dora, letterpillar) The game is ok but if your kids not a big scobby fan I would get several of the other games first.
Customer Review: scooby Doo leapster
This game is too simple in nature. There are three levels which indicate that the addition question just gets slightly harder. There is only one very simple repetative main game, throwing food at the monster with the correct answer and a simple round of eating snacks before the timer runs out. Other Leapster games are more elaborate. The kids are not interested in this one because there isn't much to it. When you buy online it is hard to read the box and deduce the game details. I got it on sale for about half price, at least.
Onimusha(TM) 2: Samurai's Destiny Official Strategy Guide
Onimusha(TM) 2: Samurai's Destiny Official Strategy Guide
Brady Games Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Official Strategy Guide
BradyGames' Onimusha 2: Warlords Official Strategy Guide provides an exhaustive walkthrough, with beautifully rendered maps that cover everyaspect of the adventure.
Short Description:
The comprehensive Scenario Route Chart will help gamers complete the entire game, while game secrets will allow them to unlock bonus costumes and the mystery behind the Puzzle Phantom Realm. In addition, gamers will successfully finish the sub-characters' side quests, with complete coverage of Kotaro, Magoichi, and Ekei's quests. All details arerevealed on the Man in Black mini-game, while in-depth coverage of the Gift Exchange feature provides methods for item trading and alliances.
ThisSignature Series guide features a special cover treatment, a Team Oni tear-out booklet and exclusive Onimusha 2 wall scroll--all in one, an interviewwith the game's director, Keiji Inafune, and more!
This Signature Series guide features a specialcover treatment, a Team Oni tear-out booklet and exclusive Onimusha 2 wall scroll--all in one, an interview with the game's director, Keiji Inafune, and more!
Customer Review: Great guide and is in-depth
If you're like me, then you like Dan Birlew and the BradyGAMES Signature Series guides. These guides are very in-depth and after the Devil May Cry guide got this off to a great start, the Onimusha 2 guide keeps it going. I'll give you tons of reason why this is the best Strategy Guide (in my opinion) then any other Onimusha guide out there.
First of all, like any guide (or hopefully any guide), there is the walkthrough. This walkthrough is very in-depth with ultra detailed maps that pin-point every item! The walkthough is precise and quite possibly one of the most in-depth organized walkthrough from BradyGAMES to date. The author does a great job explaining the strategies, and talks about the better approach for Offensive and defensive battle tatics against bosses.
The game basics section is for me especially. If you don't feel you get enough explanation on attacks etc. from the instruction booklet (like me) then the game basics section does a great job on explaining just how to get critical hits, when is best to attack and when its best to just haul you butt out of there.
There is also a list included for trading items. The only gripe I have with this list (and the guide) is that this trading list isn't in alphabetical order, meaning you'll be reading up and down the list just to find if the item is worth trading to another. But they do explain how to trade and tell you what you'll get too!
The alliances to form are listed in the back of the book in a flowchart. This shows you just what path to take! But it also explains just how you should form alliances as well. They tell you what the benefits are as well.
The secrets and sidequests and telling you how to use each character (combos and everything are explained). The side quest are brillantly outlined and easy to use. They tell you who gets what too. The secrets also explain a lot about the different difficulty levels and the Man in Black mini game.
Lastly, the guide completely covers the Oni mini game with a tear out wall scroll to go along with it. This is a great guide and if you're going to get Onimusha 2 then you should definitely get this book!
On the Positive side:
+Great Maps!
+Great Strategies!
+Crystal Clear screens with helpful captions
+Hey! Its Signature series
+Tricks of Trade revealed
+Side Quests explained
+Both mini-games explained
+Game Basics actually help you learn the game better then the manual.
+Interview with Keiji Inafune!
But on the downside
-The trading items list is out of order
-Some boss strategies are a little too focused on defense
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I DO have a problem with the Sony eBook store. I certainly hope they make it more reliable and user friendly - soon! But since these reviews are about the Reader I can truly say I am very happy with it. We travel a good deal and I don't have to decide which book I want to take along - I can "pack" lots! :D
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Another Great bargain books ArticleHow To Sell More of Your Ebooks Online
Have you written an e-book? An e-book is a digital document that can be sold online in a purely digital form. Thus, unlike with selling a physical product, the fulfillment of an e-book is done completely online. This is great for you, the author, since you can completely automate the order taking and fulfillment processes.
Once you have the fulfillment process automated, the question becomes how to market the e-book online in order to get people to buy it. "How do I effectively market my e-books online?" is one of the most common questions I hear from my clients. Here are five tips that will help you sell more of your e-books and generate more revenue:
- Find a target market to sell the e-book to. Many people think that everyone is their target market, and as a result try to sell their e-book to everyone. They usually end up chasing after potential customers who are not in their target market and are not likely to ever purchase the book. Their e-book sales suffer as a result.
Instead of trying to sell your e-book to everyone, concentrate on a smaller group of people who comprise your target market. These people are much more likely to purchase what you have to offer, and as a result you will get many more sales.
- Create an effective sales letter for your e-book. Since you cannot take a picture of your e-book and post it on your web site (unlike a piece of jewelry, for example), your need to use the sales letter to promote the e-book.
Make sure that your sales letter effectively describes your e-book and focuses on the benefits your clients will get by purchasing your e-book. Highlighting the benefits will keep people reading the sales letter, and it will generate more e-book sales.
- Give your customers just a few options on your web site. Sometimes clients tell me that their sales letters don't sell. When I take a look at the sales letters, they are usually a big mess. Sales letters that do not sell contain too many distractions for the reader: they have links to other web pages and web sites, banners, and text ads for other products.
Make sure that your sales letter provides only a few options to your customers - an option to buy the product and an option to subscribe to your newsletter, and that's it. The fewer options you give to your web site visitors, the more likely they are to buy your product.
- Have a newsletter subscription on your web site. Sometimes people who come to your web site and see your e-book are not ready to purchase the e-book. However, they are ready to subscribe to your newsletter and learn more about you and your products. These people will be ready to buy your e-book eventually, so make sure that you keep in touch with them through your newsletter.
- Use online marketing techniques to promote your e-book further. Use search engine optimization, business blogging, article publishing and other online marketing techniques to promote your web site and e-book. These methods will bring more visitors to your web site, who are craving the information that you share in your e-book.
You can only make money with your e-book if you sell it. Follow the five tips that we discussed to sell more e-book copies and make more money.
About the Author
Biana Babinsky is the online business expert and author who has taught hundreds of people how to sell their ebooks and make more money online. Learn all of her online marketing secrets in her Complete Online Marketing Course at http://www.CompleteMarketingCourse.com
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Even those allergic to musicals may be won over by Once, a tender-hearted Irish romance with songs by Czech Republic-born Markéta Irglová and Frames frontman Glen Hansard. (The film's director, John Carney, actually used to play bass in the group.) The trick here is that Irglová and Hansard also play the leads; because their characters are shown busking, writing music, or rehearsing, the songs are smoothly integrated in the film. The overall acoustic mood won't surprise fans of the Frames--some tracks ("Say It to Me," "When Your Mind's Made Up") have even popped up on the band's albums, though the arrangements are more pared-down here, befitting the scruffy, street-musician setting. Being the lesser-known entity, Irglová feels like a revelation; she sounds a bit like a folkie Björk on "If You Want Me," and her song "The Hill" is downright heartbreaking. Irglová and Hansard had already made the 2006 album The Swell Seasontogether, so their collaboration here feels really organic--they sound particularly good together on the title track, for instance. Now that's the kind of magic you want from musicals. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Customer Review: Once
Love it, love it, love it! The movie was great, the cd was great but seeing them live is even better! :)
Customer Review: I only need to say this "once"..........
I genuinely LOVE this soundtrack. Glen Hansard is incredibly talented. His style seems influenced by: (insert any great acoustic artist before him here). The song arrangement is also amazing. And Marketa Irglova's hauntingly soft voice is sweet and pure.
The Rabbit Corkscrew
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Bid crumbling corks adieu. Award-winning design meets everyday convenience with this fast-as-lightning yet incredibly smooth-pulling corkscrew. Metrokane's Rabbit corkscrew opens any size wine bottle in just three seconds, and then automatically releases the cork. Features a user-friendly ergonomic design. Also includes a foil cutter. Handsomely packaged in a convenient storage case. Ten-year warranty.
Customer Review: How to use the Metrokane Rabbit
From a design standpoint, this is a very good product. But the documentation is pathetic, and was clearly never tested with new / real users. There is no explanation of how it's supposed to work. That understanding is very helpful: with it, you'll never have trouble, and will marvel at the clever design. Let's get started.
Have a bottle of wine handy on which you've already used the supplied (and very good) little foil cutter to remove the foil over the cork.
Take the unit in your hand and look at the movable parts. The overhead lever that swings outward / downward and then is reversed / brought back over the top - moves the spiral corkscrew up and down. To see this, operate the overhead lever with one hand while holding the clamping "side handles" with the other. When you move the overhead handle the corkscrew rotates.
Why is the corkscrew turning? Because it's forced to do that as it goes through a "guide" (the metal collar with gray plastic center). The gray plastic piece has an internal spiral track that forces the corkscrew to rotate as it passes through.
Here's the critical point: as long as the guide mechanism is locked in place and can't move up or down, the guide forces the corkscrew to rotate when going through.
What if this guide were locked in place on the `down-stroke,' but could move vertically on the `up-stroke'? Then the guide would force the corkscrew to rotate on the way down (so the corkscrew would penetrate the cork), but the guide would stay attached to (and _not_ rotate) the corkscrew on the way up - thus pulling the cork.
When the unit is operated correctly this is exactly what happens. But how?
Look more closely: Before using the Rabbit's `side-handles' to hold the wine bottle neck, the guide is locked in place by two protruding spring-loaded latches and can't move vertically. Try it: it won't budge. (You can actually see these small latches projecting over the top of the guide and keeping it from moving - by looking in the area above and to the far rear of the guide, near the smooth rod.)
On the other hand, when the clamping handles are squeezed onto the neck of a bottle, these latches above the guide _retract_, releasing their hold on the guide so it can move upward.
Do this now: Take your bottle of wine and, with the overhead lever rotated to its fully outward / downward position, place the guide directly over the cork and grip the neck of the bottle _firmly_ with the clamping side handles.
Look at the latches described above: they have retracted, and no longer restrain the guide from moving upward. This has no effect during the down-stroke / cork penetration phase, since the guide is already as low as it can go. Because the guide can't move, it forces the corkscrew to rotate when you operate the overhead lever - thus penetrating the cork. Perform this down-stroke.
Now watch what happens when the overhead lever is pulled back to withdraw the cork (while you at the same time continue to grip the bottle neck firmly with the side levers). Because the guide can now move vertically with the corkscrew, it imposes no rotation on the corkscrew. The corkscrew stays inside the cork as the overhead lever is moved outward / downward, and the cork is extracted. Do it. You now have the cork out of the bottle, suspended above the bottle neck, and are still gripping the side handles around the bottle neck.
Release your hold on the side handles and move the Rabbit away from the bottle. The cork is still attached to the corkscrew. Re-grip the side handles with one hand and once again operate the overhead lever, bringing it all the way back to its fully closed position again (as if you were on the original down-stroke into the cork).
As you get to the very end of the stroke, you will feel resistance and will hear a click: the latches have snapped back into place over the top of the guide, locking it in place. The guide is once again `captured' - and cannot move vertically. The cork is still attached to the corkscrew.
Finally, move the overhead lever back yet again to its fully open position (as if pulling the cork from the bottle). This time the latches _don't_ retract (because you're not using the side handles to grip the bottle neck) - so the latches again keep the guide from moving, and this forces the corkscrew to rotate `in reverse' as it passes upward through the guide. The corkscrew backs out of the cork and the cork drops off. It takes all of a few seconds once you get the hang of it.
Understanding the operating principles should help. None of this is well explained (or, indeed, explained at all) in the almost non-existent documentation.
Steve Ferris
Customer Review: Directrions?
Great packaging and well built. It works fine and as advertised but the directions are less than adaquate. Even a mechanical minded-friend had to fool around with it before he got it to work and could show me. I've always been a dunce at this kind of stuff.
FlipKlip Treadmill Book Holder 1-Pak
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Customer Review: Best bookholder ever
Works with any book...Perfect for ANY treadmill, elliptical, bike. Superior to other more expensive bookholders. It's perfect!!
Customer Review: FlipKlip treadmill book holder
I had been looking for something to hold the pages of my book down because the book holder on my treadmill was not deep enough for some of the books I have. This is small and portable and, therefore, convenient to bring when I exercise elsewhere. Being able to read while on the treadmill makes the time go faster. The FlipKlip serves its purpose well.
Speck MacBook Pro 15" See-Thru Hard Case - RED - Fits all versions of 15" MacBooks
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the product was great and was delivered very quickly. i am very satisfied with my purchase
Customer Review: Works as advertised
I know many people have commented about problems on this product. I had none of the issues many have described.
I use my MacBook Pro ALL day. I haven't seen any heat problems, not edge abrasiveness nor any issues putting it on.
It makes my Mac look pretty cool and its easily distinguished.
I was even able to wipe off all the finger prints on the casing with the palm of my hand. Pretty cool, I'd say.
Just a note, when you put the bottom on, I would recommend putting the rear part of the laptop in first and then the front. There are some hooks that go on easier that way.
Other than that, it's a great product and I'm glad I purchased it.
LeapFrog Leapster® Educational Game: Scooby-Doo™ Spooky Snacks!
LeapFrog Leapster® Educational Game: Scooby-Doo™ Spooky Snacks!
Scooby-Doo Spooky Snacks is great learning fun with Scooby and the gang! Help Scooby-Doo and Shaggy fend off monsters -- feed snacks to the right monster while learning addition, subtraction and counting in multiples. It's a race against time to keep themonsters fed andkeep them from chasing you!
Customer Review: Scobby Doo fun
This game is fun for my child(age 4) but its not as educational as I would have liked. He played it some but he likes several of the other leapster games better.(cars, dora, letterpillar) The game is ok but if your kids not a big scobby fan I would get several of the other games first.
Customer Review: scooby Doo leapster
This game is too simple in nature. There are three levels which indicate that the addition question just gets slightly harder. There is only one very simple repetative main game, throwing food at the monster with the correct answer and a simple round of eating snacks before the timer runs out. Other Leapster games are more elaborate. The kids are not interested in this one because there isn't much to it. When you buy online it is hard to read the box and deduce the game details. I got it on sale for about half price, at least.
Onimusha(TM) 2: Samurai's Destiny Official Strategy Guide
Onimusha(TM) 2: Samurai's Destiny Official Strategy Guide
Brady Games Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Official Strategy Guide
BradyGames' Onimusha 2: Warlords Official Strategy Guide provides an exhaustive walkthrough, with beautifully rendered maps that cover everyaspect of the adventure.
Short Description:
The comprehensive Scenario Route Chart will help gamers complete the entire game, while game secrets will allow them to unlock bonus costumes and the mystery behind the Puzzle Phantom Realm. In addition, gamers will successfully finish the sub-characters' side quests, with complete coverage of Kotaro, Magoichi, and Ekei's quests. All details arerevealed on the Man in Black mini-game, while in-depth coverage of the Gift Exchange feature provides methods for item trading and alliances.
ThisSignature Series guide features a special cover treatment, a Team Oni tear-out booklet and exclusive Onimusha 2 wall scroll--all in one, an interviewwith the game's director, Keiji Inafune, and more!
This Signature Series guide features a specialcover treatment, a Team Oni tear-out booklet and exclusive Onimusha 2 wall scroll--all in one, an interview with the game's director, Keiji Inafune, and more!
Customer Review: Great guide and is in-depth
If you're like me, then you like Dan Birlew and the BradyGAMES Signature Series guides. These guides are very in-depth and after the Devil May Cry guide got this off to a great start, the Onimusha 2 guide keeps it going. I'll give you tons of reason why this is the best Strategy Guide (in my opinion) then any other Onimusha guide out there.
First of all, like any guide (or hopefully any guide), there is the walkthrough. This walkthrough is very in-depth with ultra detailed maps that pin-point every item! The walkthough is precise and quite possibly one of the most in-depth organized walkthrough from BradyGAMES to date. The author does a great job explaining the strategies, and talks about the better approach for Offensive and defensive battle tatics against bosses.
The game basics section is for me especially. If you don't feel you get enough explanation on attacks etc. from the instruction booklet (like me) then the game basics section does a great job on explaining just how to get critical hits, when is best to attack and when its best to just haul you butt out of there.
There is also a list included for trading items. The only gripe I have with this list (and the guide) is that this trading list isn't in alphabetical order, meaning you'll be reading up and down the list just to find if the item is worth trading to another. But they do explain how to trade and tell you what you'll get too!
The alliances to form are listed in the back of the book in a flowchart. This shows you just what path to take! But it also explains just how you should form alliances as well. They tell you what the benefits are as well.
The secrets and sidequests and telling you how to use each character (combos and everything are explained). The side quest are brillantly outlined and easy to use. They tell you who gets what too. The secrets also explain a lot about the different difficulty levels and the Man in Black mini game.
Lastly, the guide completely covers the Oni mini game with a tear out wall scroll to go along with it. This is a great guide and if you're going to get Onimusha 2 then you should definitely get this book!
On the Positive side:
+Great Maps!
+Great Strategies!
+Crystal Clear screens with helpful captions
+Hey! Its Signature series
+Tricks of Trade revealed
+Side Quests explained
+Both mini-games explained
+Game Basics actually help you learn the game better then the manual.
+Interview with Keiji Inafune!
But on the downside
-The trading items list is out of order
-Some boss strategies are a little too focused on defense
E-reader 6IN Portable Silver E-book Approx 170 Pix/inch
E-reader 6IN Portable Silver E-book Approx 170 Pix/inch
displays eBooks purchased from the CONNECT eBook online store * displays Adobe® PDFs, plus TXT, RTF, and Microsoft® Word files * plays MP3 and AAC files (protected files not supported) * internal 192MB memory * memory slot holds an SD Memory Card (up to 2GB capacity) and Memory Stick® Duo media (up to 8GB capacity) *
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Have had my Reader for about 3 months now and I really am happy with it. I have a friend who managed to get her hands on a Kindle so was able to compare the items. My Reader has a much "cleaner" design. No, you can't type on it but I wouldn't use that feature much anyway.
I DO have a problem with the Sony eBook store. I certainly hope they make it more reliable and user friendly - soon! But since these reviews are about the Reader I can truly say I am very happy with it. We travel a good deal and I don't have to decide which book I want to take along - I can "pack" lots! :D
Customer Review: Does not work with Apple Computers even if running Parallells
I had the earlier eReader 500, and it worked fine with my 2007 iMac I liked it so much I wanted to upgrade and give my old one to my daughter. Dealing with Sony was a nightmare. I was routed to a dozen foreign countries, and spent hours and HOURS with customer service, and their managers. NO RESOLVE< and nobody was able to tell me until I returned it that it won't work with my computer. After being promised free return shipping (I was to receive an email with instruction...it never came), I paid to return it to Sony. The product was fine, but I will NEVER BUY ANOTHER SONY PRODUCT.
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The Best mystery books Articles on WineSPIRITUAL WARFARE: Religion Against the Occult -- Recommended Books
With the publication of Dan Brown's ANGELS & DEMONS and THE DA VINCI CODE, there has been an increase of sales in books dealing with Religion -- and the Occult. The new SPIRITUAL WARFARE has begun...
What are these important books?
The most important book, of course, is the BIBLE. Start there!
The most important books after the Bible are:
3 CRUCIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT SPIRITUAL WARFARE by Clinton Arnold
What is Spiritual Warfare? Can a Christian be demon-possessed? Are we called to engage territorial spirits? These provocative questions stand at the heart of evangelical discussions of the supernatural, and they represent the subject of Clinton Arnold's 3 Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare.
Arnold brings his exegetical skill and extensive knowledge of early Christianity to bear on the contemporary understanding of the spirit realm. "Spiritual warfare is an integral part of the entire Christian experience," the author explains.
"To think that a Christian could avoid spiritual warfare is like imagining that a gardener could avoid dealing with weeds. Our goal should be rather to gain an accurate and sober-minded understanding of spiritual warfare, not a view tainted by frightening superstitions and odd practices."
POWERS OF DARKNESS: PRINCIPALITIES & POWERS IN PAUL'S LETTERS by Clinton Arnold
Looking for a Biblical theology on demons, principalities and powers, and our battle with them? Clinton Arnold wrote Powers of Darkness as the first step toward a complete biblical theology on Spiritual Warfare.
Arnold sees the danger in the growing influence of the occult and the New Age movement and seeks to help Christians understand the very real problem of Satan and his minions. He focuses on the letters of Paul to see how Paul views the powers and principalities and how we should respond to them.
Though some authors have interpreted principalities and powers as impersonal social, economic and political structures, Arnold argues that the biblical view of principalities and powers is that of organized, powerful and personal beings actively fighting against God and Christianity. As strong as these beings are, Arnold reminds us that Christ has already dealt them a grievous setback in the cross and will totally defeat them when he returns.
Once we have acknowledged the reality of our battle against the principalities and powers, the next question becomes "What can we do?". Arnold offers practical answers to that question, answers that will both inspire and challenge the church to again take up arms in this cosmic struggle against Satan.
OCCULT ABC by Kurt Koch
Theologian Kurt Koch spent much of his life researching the occult and ministering to those affected by it. In Occult ABC he combines those years of work into an informative guide to the practices and ideas that form the foundation of the occult. If you learn its language, its alphabet, you can better combat it. That is the spirit that Occult ABC is written in.
Though some may not agree that all of the practices mentioned in here are occult (charismatic occurences and Pentecostalism come to mind), most will agree that Koch has provided useful information on what is going on in the occult.
Each topic includes a brief introductory description, as well as examples from Koch's life and research. Alphabetically arranged, with extensive footnotes, this is a valuable resource for those who have dealt with, are dealing with, or will deal with the occult.
FANTASY AND YOUR FAMILY: EXPLORING THE LORD OF THE RINGS, HARRY POTTER AND MODERN MAGICK, by Richard Abanes
This book engages popular culture in the hugely successful stories of Harry Potter, Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings, Richard Abanes guides the reader through these contemporary fantasy stories, illuminating them with light from the Christian faith journey. The book opens doors to faith-sharing, particularly with young people, while also taking on the issues within the stories that have led some Christians to reject them.
Should Christians be reading fantasy literature? Is there really a difference between the magic and wizards in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series? What about book burning, or banning books? Isn't it better that children read Harry Potter instead of watching television? If you are not satisfied with quick easy answers to these questions, this book will help.
Richard Abanes is a cult/occult expert. He is also a huge fan of fantasy and science fiction literature. The Harry Potter series gave him a unique chance to combine his two passions, and this book is a fascinating look at both the fantasy genre and the two series which best exemplify it.
It is also an exposition of the themes, characters and spirituality in The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Abanes casts an educated eye on the genre of fantasy, looking at both its positive and negative aspects. He even uses child development information to examine how fantasy affects children at various stages of development. He offers parents the information necessary to make wise decisions about what their children are reading.
Abanes never says that Christians should not read Harry Potter. He does point out, however, that some of the fears that have been expressed about the occultic references in Harry Potter are valid, as some children have developed a deeper interest in the occult because of Harry Potter.
He has documentation that shows a significant minority of children are more interested in the occult since reading Harry Potter. The most dangerous aspect, in Abanes' mind, is the fact that Rowling and her supporters blithely brush off reports about increased interest in the occult.
One of the most fascinating aspects of this book is the in-depth comparison of The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Abanes focuses on several moral/religious issues, arguing that the magic in Tolkien is vastly different from the magick (the traditional occultic spelling for the term used when discussing witchcraft, divination, etc.) in Harry Potter.
Abanes also answers several important questions about fantasy, in general, and Harry Potter, specifically, that people have been asking. Finally, Abanes explains why the occult needs to be viewed as dangerous for children.
This books is very aptly named. It is designed to give parents vital information about fantasy and its related titles, so they can make informed decisions about what their children are reading. Abanes offers us the information we need, and allows us to make our decisions based on the facts.
In the end, he urges parents to act as true guardians of their children, protecting them from those things which seek to harm them.
WHEN THE ENEMY STRIKES: THE KEYS TO WINNING YOUR SPIRITUAL BATTLES by Charles F Stanley
In the Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis pointed out the perils of either obsessing about spiritual warfare or ignoring it altogether. From all appearances, our generation tends towards the latter error. Thus, When the Enemy Strikes we do not know how to stand firm and overcome the onslaught of the evil one. Fortunately, in this battlemanual Dr. Stanley teaches us how to identify the enemy's activity, stand our ground in battle and cry out for God's power and protection.
JESUS: THE MAN AND HIS WORK by Wallace D Wattles
"Jesus said of himself, 'If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me.' Well, he has not drawn all men, not even a majority of men, and I am inclined to think that he has never been lifted up. An unreal, imaginary character is being lifted up instead, and men are not being drawn by it."
On November 11, 1905, Wallace D. Wattles, who went on to write some of the most powerful, life changing books ever written, including his classic masterpiece, "The Science of Getting Rich", addressed an audience gathered at the Auditorium in Cincinnati, Ohio to hear him lecture.
In that short, but very powerful lecture, Wallace D. Wattles shattered orthodox misconceptions, misunderstandings and outright misrepresentations of the character and teachings of Jesus and shared his vision of the real Christ and His true call.
The lecture made such a favorable impression on certain listeners that they wanted to have it printed if Wallace D. Wattles provided the manuscript.
That he did and the manuscript was privately printed.
Like many privately printed publications of this type, it had a very limited distribution and like many of them from its day, its few copies quickly disappeared over time never to be seen again...UNTIL NOW!
*** The new publication of JESUS: THE MAN AND HIS WORK has been called a "Spiritual timebomb!" ***
To get your free BIBLE, and to see more about these books, including JESUS: THE MAN AND HIS WORK, go to MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM & MODERN DREAM INTERPRETATION
...
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About the Author
Brian Alan Burhoe is the author of many articles and short stories. His Home Page is ORNITHANTHROPUS Science Fantasy by B Alan Burhoe. Many of his animal-related articles can be found at PUPPY DOGS INFO. Or just do an Author Search at GoArticles!
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A first look at golf, written for young children. Colorful, delightfully illustrated. Great fun for story time.
Customer Review: Intro to golf fun for the very young
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Customer Review: First golf book
I returned this book because it has absolutely nothing to do with golf--sand castles in the bunker and kids rolling around on the green. I guess adding lightning to the rainstorm might have taught one lesson in the book. It certainly doesn't portray the behavior I want from my children on or near a course.
Remember Me?
Remember Me?
With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament….
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed.
Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband—who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she…well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all.
Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?
Customer Review: Just so-so
I liked the first half but it went downhill after that. I thought most of the characters were just not likeable, from the dad to the mom, husband, ex boyfriend, friends, coworkers,her lover, the sister. What role did she really play? I had such high hopes for this book but found I didn't care what happened to any of them. Then I find out the main character is having an affair? YUK! I really liked Can You Keep a Secret! This Remember Me is forgettable.
Customer Review: Just about loved it....
Lexie isn't quite as lovable as Becky Bloomwood and I agree the story line isn't as original as the Shopaholic series (my favorite!) But still a great read. There are some great characters and wait till you find out what "MontBlanc" really is! I highly recommend this for a perfect summer beach book.
Dog Treat Kit With Book and Mix
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Fall 2007 Dog Treat Kit. 10 dog-themed cooked cutters packed in a bright red pail. Use the tin for storing treats or the cookie cutters. Tin dimensions are 6 1/2" wide by 5 1/2" deep. The set includes dog treat mix and the Ultimate Dog Treat Cookbook. Cookie Cutters include, 1-dog paw 3", 1-5" dog bone, 1-3" dog bone, 1-2" dog bone, 1-3" fire hydrant, 1-3" dog house, 1-5" daschund, 1-3.5" scottie, 1-schnauzer, and 1-3" poodle. IncludedUltimate Dog Treat Cookbook (hardbound)10 Dog themed cookie cuttersDog treat mix (chicken flavor) USARed dog treat pail.
Customer Review: A little disappointed
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The Best mystery books Articles on WineSPIRITUAL WARFARE: Religion Against the Occult -- Recommended Books
With the publication of Dan Brown's ANGELS & DEMONS and THE DA VINCI CODE, there has been an increase of sales in books dealing with Religion -- and the Occult. The new SPIRITUAL WARFARE has begun...
What are these important books?
The most important book, of course, is the BIBLE. Start there!
The most important books after the Bible are:
3 CRUCIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT SPIRITUAL WARFARE by Clinton Arnold
What is Spiritual Warfare? Can a Christian be demon-possessed? Are we called to engage territorial spirits? These provocative questions stand at the heart of evangelical discussions of the supernatural, and they represent the subject of Clinton Arnold's 3 Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare.
Arnold brings his exegetical skill and extensive knowledge of early Christianity to bear on the contemporary understanding of the spirit realm. "Spiritual warfare is an integral part of the entire Christian experience," the author explains.
"To think that a Christian could avoid spiritual warfare is like imagining that a gardener could avoid dealing with weeds. Our goal should be rather to gain an accurate and sober-minded understanding of spiritual warfare, not a view tainted by frightening superstitions and odd practices."
POWERS OF DARKNESS: PRINCIPALITIES & POWERS IN PAUL'S LETTERS by Clinton Arnold
Looking for a Biblical theology on demons, principalities and powers, and our battle with them? Clinton Arnold wrote Powers of Darkness as the first step toward a complete biblical theology on Spiritual Warfare.
Arnold sees the danger in the growing influence of the occult and the New Age movement and seeks to help Christians understand the very real problem of Satan and his minions. He focuses on the letters of Paul to see how Paul views the powers and principalities and how we should respond to them.
Though some authors have interpreted principalities and powers as impersonal social, economic and political structures, Arnold argues that the biblical view of principalities and powers is that of organized, powerful and personal beings actively fighting against God and Christianity. As strong as these beings are, Arnold reminds us that Christ has already dealt them a grievous setback in the cross and will totally defeat them when he returns.
Once we have acknowledged the reality of our battle against the principalities and powers, the next question becomes "What can we do?". Arnold offers practical answers to that question, answers that will both inspire and challenge the church to again take up arms in this cosmic struggle against Satan.
OCCULT ABC by Kurt Koch
Theologian Kurt Koch spent much of his life researching the occult and ministering to those affected by it. In Occult ABC he combines those years of work into an informative guide to the practices and ideas that form the foundation of the occult. If you learn its language, its alphabet, you can better combat it. That is the spirit that Occult ABC is written in.
Though some may not agree that all of the practices mentioned in here are occult (charismatic occurences and Pentecostalism come to mind), most will agree that Koch has provided useful information on what is going on in the occult.
Each topic includes a brief introductory description, as well as examples from Koch's life and research. Alphabetically arranged, with extensive footnotes, this is a valuable resource for those who have dealt with, are dealing with, or will deal with the occult.
FANTASY AND YOUR FAMILY: EXPLORING THE LORD OF THE RINGS, HARRY POTTER AND MODERN MAGICK, by Richard Abanes
This book engages popular culture in the hugely successful stories of Harry Potter, Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings, Richard Abanes guides the reader through these contemporary fantasy stories, illuminating them with light from the Christian faith journey. The book opens doors to faith-sharing, particularly with young people, while also taking on the issues within the stories that have led some Christians to reject them.
Should Christians be reading fantasy literature? Is there really a difference between the magic and wizards in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series? What about book burning, or banning books? Isn't it better that children read Harry Potter instead of watching television? If you are not satisfied with quick easy answers to these questions, this book will help.
Richard Abanes is a cult/occult expert. He is also a huge fan of fantasy and science fiction literature. The Harry Potter series gave him a unique chance to combine his two passions, and this book is a fascinating look at both the fantasy genre and the two series which best exemplify it.
It is also an exposition of the themes, characters and spirituality in The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Abanes casts an educated eye on the genre of fantasy, looking at both its positive and negative aspects. He even uses child development information to examine how fantasy affects children at various stages of development. He offers parents the information necessary to make wise decisions about what their children are reading.
Abanes never says that Christians should not read Harry Potter. He does point out, however, that some of the fears that have been expressed about the occultic references in Harry Potter are valid, as some children have developed a deeper interest in the occult because of Harry Potter.
He has documentation that shows a significant minority of children are more interested in the occult since reading Harry Potter. The most dangerous aspect, in Abanes' mind, is the fact that Rowling and her supporters blithely brush off reports about increased interest in the occult.
One of the most fascinating aspects of this book is the in-depth comparison of The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Abanes focuses on several moral/religious issues, arguing that the magic in Tolkien is vastly different from the magick (the traditional occultic spelling for the term used when discussing witchcraft, divination, etc.) in Harry Potter.
Abanes also answers several important questions about fantasy, in general, and Harry Potter, specifically, that people have been asking. Finally, Abanes explains why the occult needs to be viewed as dangerous for children.
This books is very aptly named. It is designed to give parents vital information about fantasy and its related titles, so they can make informed decisions about what their children are reading. Abanes offers us the information we need, and allows us to make our decisions based on the facts.
In the end, he urges parents to act as true guardians of their children, protecting them from those things which seek to harm them.
WHEN THE ENEMY STRIKES: THE KEYS TO WINNING YOUR SPIRITUAL BATTLES by Charles F Stanley
In the Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis pointed out the perils of either obsessing about spiritual warfare or ignoring it altogether. From all appearances, our generation tends towards the latter error. Thus, When the Enemy Strikes we do not know how to stand firm and overcome the onslaught of the evil one. Fortunately, in this battlemanual Dr. Stanley teaches us how to identify the enemy's activity, stand our ground in battle and cry out for God's power and protection.
JESUS: THE MAN AND HIS WORK by Wallace D Wattles
"Jesus said of himself, 'If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me.' Well, he has not drawn all men, not even a majority of men, and I am inclined to think that he has never been lifted up. An unreal, imaginary character is being lifted up instead, and men are not being drawn by it."
On November 11, 1905, Wallace D. Wattles, who went on to write some of the most powerful, life changing books ever written, including his classic masterpiece, "The Science of Getting Rich", addressed an audience gathered at the Auditorium in Cincinnati, Ohio to hear him lecture.
In that short, but very powerful lecture, Wallace D. Wattles shattered orthodox misconceptions, misunderstandings and outright misrepresentations of the character and teachings of Jesus and shared his vision of the real Christ and His true call.
The lecture made such a favorable impression on certain listeners that they wanted to have it printed if Wallace D. Wattles provided the manuscript.
That he did and the manuscript was privately printed.
Like many privately printed publications of this type, it had a very limited distribution and like many of them from its day, its few copies quickly disappeared over time never to be seen again...UNTIL NOW!
*** The new publication of JESUS: THE MAN AND HIS WORK has been called a "Spiritual timebomb!" ***
To get your free BIBLE, and to see more about these books, including JESUS: THE MAN AND HIS WORK, go to MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM & MODERN DREAM INTERPRETATION
...
See more Articles by Brian Alan Burhoe at PUPPY DOGS INFO: http://www.puppy-dogs.info
About the Author
Brian Alan Burhoe is the author of many articles and short stories. His Home Page is ORNITHANTHROPUS Science Fantasy by B Alan Burhoe. Many of his animal-related articles can be found at PUPPY DOGS INFO. Or just do an Author Search at GoArticles!
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This is a great book for those who want to introduce young children to the concept that golf is fun! My 3 children have enjoyed this book since they were very young and it has helped my 4 yr old son develop an interest in the sport. At a young age it's most important to focus on how much fun the game can be and not get caught up with being concerned that your children with actually build sand castles in the traps. The author, a PGA pro, really did a nice job on this book!
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Remember Me?
With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament….
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed.
Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband—who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she…well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all.
Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?
Customer Review: Just so-so
I liked the first half but it went downhill after that. I thought most of the characters were just not likeable, from the dad to the mom, husband, ex boyfriend, friends, coworkers,her lover, the sister. What role did she really play? I had such high hopes for this book but found I didn't care what happened to any of them. Then I find out the main character is having an affair? YUK! I really liked Can You Keep a Secret! This Remember Me is forgettable.
Customer Review: Just about loved it....
Lexie isn't quite as lovable as Becky Bloomwood and I agree the story line isn't as original as the Shopaholic series (my favorite!) But still a great read. There are some great characters and wait till you find out what "MontBlanc" really is! I highly recommend this for a perfect summer beach book.
Dog Treat Kit With Book and Mix
Dog Treat Kit With Book and Mix
Fall 2007 Dog Treat Kit. 10 dog-themed cooked cutters packed in a bright red pail. Use the tin for storing treats or the cookie cutters. Tin dimensions are 6 1/2" wide by 5 1/2" deep. The set includes dog treat mix and the Ultimate Dog Treat Cookbook. Cookie Cutters include, 1-dog paw 3", 1-5" dog bone, 1-3" dog bone, 1-2" dog bone, 1-3" fire hydrant, 1-3" dog house, 1-5" daschund, 1-3.5" scottie, 1-schnauzer, and 1-3" poodle. IncludedUltimate Dog Treat Cookbook (hardbound)10 Dog themed cookie cuttersDog treat mix (chicken flavor) USARed dog treat pail.
Customer Review: A little disappointed
The varying sizes of bone cutters were nice but the paw print is difficult to make out and the individual breed cutters are a bit too large. Metal is flimsy too and very prone to rust.
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Today's book of shadows ArticleWhat You Can Learn From Dr. Phil About Writing Non-Fiction Books
Even if your career doesn't involve being a full-time writer, being the author of a book can be a huge boon for you. Our society holds authors in such high regard that anyone who has written one is seen as knowledgeable, self-disciplined and special. A book can help your business or career by making you more visible and sought-after for your expertise. All very good things. But if your natural talents don't involve writing regularly, it may be difficult for you to figure out how to organize your expertise into an engaging book. Luckily, there are tricks that make it far easier to write non-fiction than fiction. Here's how to get started. I'll use Dr. Phil McGraw and his successful line of books as my example.
It's Not About You
Okay, it's easy to forget that writing a non-fiction book is not about you. After all, most likely, your picture is going to go on the cover! But let's face it: people are not going to buy your book just because of you. People don't buy Dr. Phil's books because they're so excited to hear what he has to say. No. They are buying it because he's going to help them solve a problem like losing weight, strengthening a family or salvaging a marriage. Where do you come in? People will be attracted to your overall message and how it makes them feel. Dr. Phil's message is to make you take charge and "get excited about your life". That's what's going help you lose weight, strengthen your family or salvage your marriage. Note that the message is simple, clear--and not about Dr. Phil. What is your message? Make sure you connect it to others and don't overthink it. Most likely it's something you already radiate in your words and your being and you don't even know it!
What Aspect of Your Expertise Do People Want Most?
What do people come to you for? Are you a mortgage broker, but you find most people come to you with questions about their credit? Are you a family therapist and you observe that most of your patients don't know how to talk to each other? Are you a house painter and most of your customers don't know how to choose colors for their home? Wherever you see such a void, there is room for a book on that topic. You have to figure out what people want to know. Notice I use the word "want", and NOT "need". People rarely buy what they need, no matter how good it is for them.
That's a trap many new writers fall into. They write with a sense of duty, thinking "people really need to know this", like they need to know what being overweight can do to a body in the long term--and that's probably true. But readers would rather buy a diet book that will tell them how to solve the overweight problem as quickly and easily as possible. Dr. Phil's The Ultimate Weight Solution is a book about doing the real work of exercising and correcting inner problems to solve weight issues--Dr. Phil has said he didn't want it to be a book about telling people what to eat. And yet that's what people wrote in and said they wanted most--they wanted Dr. Phil to tell them what to eat. So what did he come out with next? The Ultimate Weight Solution Food Guide and then The Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook! You too can find out what people want by just asking. Create a survey if that's possible for you, but the more you can find out about what your readership wants, the easier it will be for you to decide how to write it for them.
Write a Punchy Title
Once you've figured out what people want, you have to make it crystal clear that you're going to give it to them. You'll do that with the title and subtitle. It may help you write the book if you come up with your title first, because a good title will remind you of what you have promised to deliver. When you find your working straying and unfocused, you come back to the title and think, "oh yeah, I'm supposed to be telling them how to do X." Ideally, the title should be a grabber, and the subtitle tells exactly what the reader will get. Dr. Phil's titles do that really well. Here are a few examples: Love Smart: Find the One You Want--Fix the One You Got, and The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom and Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan to Creating a Phenomenal Family. Note how each subtitle makes you think, "Yeah, I want that! or I want to know how to do that!". Result: reader picks up the book!
Think Steps, Keys and Strategies
Note Dr. Phil's use of "keys" and "steps" and "plans". Even if you're working with a complex subject, you want to chunk it down as much as possible and keep it simple for your readers. You want them to see that they can do X on their own just by reading your book. You will give them everything they need. Again, this tactic will also make it easier to organize all your knowledge and expertise because you know you only have to focus on one particular "how to" and the X steps it will take to handle it.
Tell Stories
This idea goes all the way back to the Bible and beyond: we learn best from stories. It helps to hear how someone else handled the same situation because we can see what is possible. As you outline your book, make a note as to what story or stories you will tell to illustrate every point you'll be making. Tell the stories of your clients (changing names, of course, to protect their privacy) or use anecdotes from your own life experience. Dr. Phil's Family First is peppered with his stories of growing up with his own family issues. Make sure you use the right stories. You want them to be clearly connected to your concept so there's no mistaking your point.
And that's it. Following these guidelines should help you create a book that not only showcases your expertise, it will also be one that's sought-after by a market hungry for what you have to offer. All you have to do now is get started!
Recommended book of shadows ItemsClear Solutions Under Cabinet Cookbook Holder
Clear Solutions Under Cabinet Cookbook Holder
This Cookbook Holder folds up under cabinet when not in use saving counter space. The hinged front allows easy page turning and protects from kitchen splatter. US made with native maple base and decorative metal hinges. Folds flat for storage.
Customer Review: Easy as the Pie My wife Just Made
My wife said she wanted one of these for her birthday. I found some boring looking plain vanilla clear acrylic models (from other companies and websites) but I thought this one generally looked more interesting, and also matched our wooden cabinets better.
It works great, and looks great. The installation was easy, and it comes with some spacers that help make sure it will screw in even to thin shelves (our bottom shelf is quite thin - the screws would have protruded up into the cabinet without the spacers). The only hard part of the installation is working upside down to do the pilot hole drilling, and then holding the unit flush while you put in the screws. If you have 2 people this would be a piece of cake, but I did it myself and it took about 10 minutes of holding screws in place while putting in the other screws - they kept wanting to drop out. I managed to get it installed before her birthday passed and that is a first for me.
Anyway, my wife loves it, and thats all that matters. If you'll be installing it yourself a magnetic screwdriver might be a lifesaver. Highly recommended.
Western Digital WDG1U2500 My Book Essential Edition 250 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
Western Digital WDG1U2500 My Book Essential Edition 250 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
With USB 2.0 interface, enjoy not only this sleek unit's 250GB storage capacity but also the compatibility with both PC and Macintosh. 7200 rpm for fast read & write times 8.9 ms average seek time Automatic power-up, Safe Shutdown and LED activity lights make this drive easy to use Capacity gauge lets you see at a glance how much space is left on your drive Stackable metal case looks like a book and sits horizontally or vertically Compatible with PC and Mac Average Latency - 4.2 ms System Requirements - Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, Mac OS 9.2.2, X 10.2.8 or later, available USB port
Customer Review: Really is Essential
I believe that this is a good product. Its a good price for a ExHDD, is fairly durable (I dropped it about 2 feet and it still works), and comes with a product warranty. I have had this for about a year now, and its never really let me down.
However, my biggest, and only complaint is that the power cord is huge. I know these need their own power source, so its fine, but if you plan on lugging this around with your laptop, you're going to need a larger bag, or a separate one the carry this with it.
Overall, I believe that this product is a great buy and it can save you heartache and pain if you ever lose your files.
Customer Review: Great while it lasted.
I had this drive for over a year. I had it just about full of important video files. I had it standing up instead of flat, and when the cat bumped it, it tipped over. That's right, it just tipped over. It didn't fall off the desk or smash on the ground, it just went from standing to sitting. Well, I guess that was enough, because after that, it stopped working. Goodbye files. Overall, I'd say look elsewhere.
CONFLICT GLOBAL TERROR
CONFLICT GLOBAL TERROR
Conflict: Global Storm brings the Conflict series into the 21st century! Take controlof a highly trained, quick response counter terrorist squad in teh near-future. The 21st century will be a global battlefield as you respond to terrorism. Generations of hatred fuel the enemy, keeping them angry and fighting against superior weapons and tactics -- sometimes even giving them an advantage. Your goal is to shut down their threats to national security before they go too far! New character actions - Vault over objects and walls, climb through windows, rappel from helicopters and utilize zip-lines and ladders Issue entire team or individual soldier orders via an intuitive and rapid control system Online co-op play for up to 4 people, plus split-screen multiplayer
Customer Review: When is the next great Conflict game coming out?
All of my gripes will be under the paragraph so named. I just want to hit the high points of this game first:
1. Mission Diversity: This truly is a reflection of some special operations missions in a war on terrorism. The first two installments in the Conflict series were pretty much just a small A-Team running around the battlefield doing their "traditional" special operations missions. This installment has your team going from a jail-break in Colombia to South Korea and an executive security mission. The final mission is the assault on a nuclear missile base in the Indian Himalayas. This variety shows the fluid character and truly global reach of terrorism and the war against it.
2. Controls: The squad controls are much more simple and intuitive than the other Conflict games. I especially like the ability of a downed soldier being able to call another to heal him/her rather than take control of that soldier or order him/her there with a third soldier. This is great when you have to have a guy covering and need to get two downed soldiers back up. The delay orders are great for assaulting rooms or pieing corners in multiple directions at once. It also aids when you can stealth guys into position and then cut loose on an unsuspecting enemy when all your guys are in place with the click of a button. It is also good to be able to lean and shoot.
3. Graphics: These are the best graphics of the whole conflict series. The Desert Storm installments had bearable graphics but overall they looked cartoonish. Vietnam was getting there and I like the feel of its graphics more for some reason but the Global Terror ones are on par with Rainbow Six or SOCOM. Not as good but on par. Some of the jerkiness has been taken out of soldier movement.
4. AI: The AI is better but not vastly. Your squad's AI seems to have improved little but I note that soldiers will tend to act on their own better. For example, if they are shooting at a guy they just can't hit then they may move into better position to kill him or simply lob a grenade. The enemy AI will flee from grenades and this opens them up to fire when they get out from behind cover.
5. Gripes: They are few and usually to do with storyline rather than gameplay. The gameplay gripes I have are mainly the level of difficulty or additions I want to see in the next game. I also wish they would have brought some things over from Vietnam. I believe that Vietnam was the best game as far as feeling in the storyline, keeping the action quick and constant throughout the maps and I think that all in all it was the most difficult of all the Conflict series.
However, there are singular missions or portions of missions in Global Terror that are rathcheted way up compared to anything in the Vietnam ones. The first few minutes of "Pressure Drop" will test your ability to move your squad around and survive as well as deal out damage and repel attacks. Otherwise you will spend your time healing downed people and getting shot until no one is left to heal anyone. Keep your head on a swivel during this mission. After that it just lets off from there until the very end of the map. This is similar to a lot of missions, which are more realistic to combat; 99% sheer boredom punctuated by 1% sheer terror. I do not mean to say the game is boring but it does seems to follow the big-battle then pick off stragglers then regroup and crossload ammo, medic kits, grenades etc.; then move to next big battle and start all over. Why not have one mission where the whole army comes down on top of you and you have to set up correctly to fight it off like in Desert Storm, Back to Baghdad or Vietnam? To be fair no counter-terrorism unit would want to be caught in that kind of situation but for gamers it is fun. I guess this is keeping with the game's storyline realism.
Also, I miss the vehicles especially the choppers. Nothing beats loading up "Ride of the Valkyries" to your custom soundtrack on the chopper mission in Conflict: Vietnam. Could they not have put a mission with a helicopter in it like in Conflict: Vietnam that was more like the chopper mission in Delta Force: Black Hawk Down? The times you do use vehicles in this game are only setting your whole squad up to get wiped out by hidden tanks, mortar fire, or RPG wielding enemies whom you may miss while sweeping through an area.
I wish they had an option to view the weapons' sights realistically in zoom like on Conflict: Vietnam especially with all the new, authentic weapons in modern armies' inventories. Some things are more "gee whiz" than actually useful; mainly laser sights on weapons. I also wish that they would have the weapons behave more realistically. Case in point: M-16's have longer range and are more accurate at distance than AK-47's but AK's are more powerful. Why then does it take the same amount of body shots to down someone or that they have the same zoom distance? Just a small wish I have. I also wish they would incoporate some sort of throw adjustment on grenades like in most other games of this type.
I also wish that the characters' dialogue in this game was as "colorful" as that in Conflict: Vietnam. The dialogue in that game was the most realistic since the majority of Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen/Marines/Coasties pepper all their speech with profanity. I think I counted only one four-letter word in this whole game. This was probably done to allow more people to buy this game but come on, it's M+ already and I think that bad language is less problematic than graphic violence. Anyway, any game involving combat soldiers should have profanity, if they have any dialogue at all, to be realistic.
When will game makers realize that there are no women in American Army Special Forces units or even CIA direct action teams? I admit putting women in is to be PC and maybe to draw the growing number of female gamers but it takes away from the realism in the storyline. Also, to go with storyline realism, why not use more realistic terror groups? The South Korean missions have you up against terrorists from South Korea. It is more realistic to have North Korean terrorists operating in the south. The drug cartels in the Colombia missions were the most believeable. Also the main enemy in the game has a private army of former German special forces operatives. Most private armies/security companies today are made up of former Spetsznaz(USSR/Russian special forces). Just think about real world intel/organizations for the next game Take2.
If you like the other Conflict series games then you will love this one. I realize that most of my review is devoted to gripes but this is just in hopes that some developer will try to make a great game perfect.
Customer Review: Squad-Based Heaven
is a sqaud-based shooter/wargame. If you played any of the
Desert Storm games before you kind of know what to expect
already. The big difference with this installment of the
series is that the game has made some dramatic improvements
which were needed in the other "Desert Storm" games.
Once again The U.S. Delta Force team is sent on
dangerouse missions to fight global terrorism. The team
consisting of four kick-butt soldiers: Bradley (infantry
soldier), Jones (stealthy) Conner (heavy weapons) and Foley
(the sniper). You'll be sent to a variety of countries and
diffrent terrain types. In the first level, you start in
a P.O.W. camp trying to make your escape, other levels you
fight through jungles, urban (city), deserts, snow fortress,
nuclear reactors and chemicle plants. You can order your
squad to follow, hold position, go to point, attack target,
stealth to point, fire at will, hold fire, heal teammates
and themselves if wounded and to gaurd an assigned target
. The controlling is
excellent, and your soldiers are now able to jump over
small walls, your firing accuracy is more dependant on
your skills instead of auto-aim, your team's A.I. and
enemies are intelligent, now they try to out-flank you,
flush you out with a grenade if you hide too much, charge
in panic or even retreat. So it basically comes down to
your shooting skills and how well you manage your teams
and issue orders in the midst of heavy fire fights. The
levels are fun to play as you try to figure out what's
the best approach to the different areas of the map, in
a way it has a bit of a free-form gameplay to it, which
adds to the replay value. You can sneak up behind
unsuspecting enemies and cut their throats with a knife!
Out of ammo? No problem; just smack them with the butt
of your gun! There's a total of 14 levels and I enjoyed
every single one of them! If you enjoy squad based shooter,
buy this game. I also recommend the, "Rainbow Six",
"Ghost Recon" and "Brute Force". Don't want squad-based
shooter? Want pure action: get the game, "Mercenaries"
Pro:
+excellent controls
+excellent action
+excellent A.I.
+excellent game tutorial
+excellent level designs
+excellent sound effects
+excellent weaponry
+excellent characters
+play co-op with a friend
+play on XBOX LIVE
+adjustable difficulty
+blood splatters
+rag-doll physics
+stealth elements
+characters can peak around corners
+smack enemies with your gun
+a bit of freeform gameplay
Cons:
-weak unlockable stuff
-needs to be more freeform.
Honda Civic & del sol: 1992 thru 1995 All SOHC models Haynes Repair Manual
Honda Civic & del sol: 1992 thru 1995 All SOHC models Haynes Repair Manual
Manuals for the Do-it-yourselfer All Haynes manuals explain how to carry out routine maintenance, restoration and servicing of cars and motorcycles, and are aimed primarily at the Do-it-yourselfer
Customer Review: It's okay but not great
It's a detent starters, but if you know how to search on the web, you can find the Helms manual which is much better. The big flaw of Haynes is that if you don't know where to search for a part, the close-up won't help you locate it.
It also won't help you troubleshoot soemthing. For that join a forum or club, and use the book as a reference to do the repair once troubleshooting is done.
I used it for electrical and for such it's fine...
Customer Review: excellent! timely!
I way out in the middle east, and I got this item in a much faster time than anything else i've been sent!!! bravo zulu!
Panasonic TH-50PZ77U 50" 1080p Plasma HDTV
Panasonic TH-50PZ77U 50" 1080p Plasma HDTV
built-in QAM cable TV tuner receives unscrambled programs without a set-top box (cable service required) * 1920 x 1080 pixels * 5000:1 contrast ratio * 2 HDMI v1.3 (accepts signals up to 1080p) *
Customer Review: Just an awesome TV-even without HD sources
After a lengthy research period, I finally settled on the 50" PZ77U. I'm happy to report that after two weeks of use the experience has been fantastic. First off, the picture is just gorgeous. Of course I expected that with HD cable and a Blu-Ray (PS3) player -- it's jaw-droppingly great -- but I was very impressed with the SD picture of this unit. Sure, it pales in comparison to HD, but the SD channels don't have that processed look that makes everything appear like it's been through a photoshop watercolor filter. I've seen that on a number of LCDs and plasmas before and it drives me nuts. Remember, they never will show a SD signal to you at most stores-- it's always a sharp HD signal. The good SD clarity is even more impressive for a 50" model.
I'm still in the break-in period-- trying to make sure the phosphors burn in easily; I downloaded a burn-in disc from eaprogramming.com, which has been helpful.
Lastly, a few nice words for the purchase experience via Amazon and 6ave: The unit was shipped to my home in Michigan within a week; upon delivery the unit was inspected as required; everything was great. I'd certainly use 6ave again.
Customer Review: EXCELLENT TV - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
I highly recommend this TV... first of all, why buy LCD for the same size when you can buy plasma for $1000 less? if u are worried about light reflection on the plasma TVs this panasonic has anti-glare in it... and the colors are jaw dropping....
This panasonic in specific I highly recommend because Panasonic is the 2nd best in Plasma after Pioneer (which is way over priced)... the 50PZ700U has better speakers than this one (but who buys a 50 inch TV without seperate speakers anyways) and u can hook your laptop to the TV and use it with the TV, but you would have to pay $300-400 more for it... if u need a 3rd HDMI input then go with the PZ750U nd play $600 more for it (I am sure 2 HDMI is more than u need)... so if u dont need to hook ur laptop to the TV and don't need a side HDMI cable that u probably wont use, then save urself $300-600 by buying this awesome TV right here, because the technology is the same...
I have an LCD Samsung and I have this 50PZ77u and i love my panasonic more.. with w panasonic blue ray (which uses the same remote control and is way better than the sony blue ray or samsung blue ray) then you wont go wrong... add some nice surround sound system and u will be amazed ...
E-reader 6IN E-paper Portable Dark Blue E-book Approx 170 Pix/inch
E-reader 6IN E-paper Portable Dark Blue E-book Approx 170 Pix/inch
Holds up to 160 books / 8-Level Gray Scale Panel / 170 Pixels Resolution / 6" Screen Size / Dual SD and Memory Stick(R) Pro Duo Expansion Card Slot Audio and picture playback Dual SD Card and Memory Stick(R) Pro Duo Explansion Slot Mountable USB Drive Charges via USB
Customer Review: Sony Reader is great
The Sony reader is a great carry on for long travel. The only thing I wish it had was a backlight to read in low lighting situations, as when you have a light on it, the glare seems to get in the way of reading it.
Otherwise, I have probably sold 10 of them because of all the inquiries I've had on planes and a cruise I was on.
Customer Review: The best thing for readers!
I received this as a Christmas gift, but was eyeing this gadget for myself since Sony announced it. I use the Reader on a daily basis for several weeks now due to my long commute time and especially was grateful to have it while waiting for flights at the airport. I did have some hesitation at first since I do enjoy the actual feel of a book. Now that I have used the Reader, I wouldn't say there is any difference, I may not feel the actual paper but it's outweighted by the convenienve.
So many pros:
-Holds many books; If I finish a book, I have many more at my fingertips and can always remove the books from my Reader and add new ones.
-Lightweight; I carry this in my purse everyday and don't even notice it. It fits into any type of bag.
-Comfortable to use; Very easy to hold and navigate one handed.
-Screen; the screen is large and easy to read. I noticed many reviews listing the screen and the lighting as a negative, and I did agree prior to getting the Reader. Now, for me, it's a positive. I stare at a computer screen for hours everyday, and my eyes get very tired. Not so with the Reader, I can read for hours and not even feel any fatigue in my eyes. The screen and lettering is dark enough that I can read extremely easily but don't have the strain of staring at a bright, white background. And as one reviewer put it, you don't have lighting with a book and no one complains, there is no difference with this.
-Storage space; since all the books are maintained on my computer or the Reader, I never have to worry about where to put the books. And the Sony store allows me to re-download any books I purchased easily.
-Free books; Sony was running a promotion of 100 free classics when I received the Reader. Now who doesn't like free stuff?
-Battery life; the battery life is better then most other gadget battery lives. I can read several books before I have to re-charge the battery.
So few cons;
-Really don't like to Sony ebook store; it takes forever for the search and for the pages to load. Really hinders the impulse purchases (bad marketing in my opinion) or if I have to run out the door.
-No outlet charger, only USB; the Reader comes only with a USB cord and can be charged via the computer. This can be really inconvenient if you are traveling without a computer (vacations). You can load as many books as you need, but if the battery runs out mid traveling, it's useless. Sony should really devise an outlet charger.
-Price; the Reader is pretty expensive, but that is the case with all new gadgets. I just hope the price goes down as the technology becomes more prevalent.
-Nor really a con, but something I would really like: Ability to be able to lump books into a favorites, genre, "read" or any other kind of list. I download a bunch of books at one time and don't always remember the names exactly when I am ready to read it. I have to scroll through several pages of books to find the one I am looking for. Would really be helpful if I was able to segregate books the I have read, by genres, or possibly authors.
I would recommend the Reader to any avid reader.
StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY?
Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions to discover their top five talents.
In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you'll use it as a reference for decades.
Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself -- and the world around you -- forever.
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NEW & UPGRADED EDITION OF STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0
(using the unique access code included with each book)
* A new and upgraded edition of the StrengthsFinder assessment
* A personalized Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide for applying your strengths in the next week, month, and year
* A more customized version of your top five theme report
* 50 Ideas for Action (10 strategies for building on each of your top five themes)
* The more user-friendly StrengthsFinder 2.0 companion website, with a strengths community area, library of downloadable discussion guides and activities, a strengths screensaver, and a program for creating display cards of your top five themes
Customer Review: Great insights!
Great insights!
First of all: quick, easy and clear assessment through internet. Results are presented to the point, detailed and personalized about one's strengths.
Each of 5 defined "strength themes' is accompanied with 10 action ideas.
This is a real must do!
Customer Review: The value-add of this book is minimal
I was disappointed by this book. I gained very little value or insights from it. The online test revealed nothing beyond what I've already learned through basic HR testing at my current job.
If you have never taken any sort of PAPI or skills inventory testing before, you might find a benefit in the online test. However, I suspect there are more valuable inventories available on the web FOR FREE. You just have to google around a bit to find them.
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit: Special Promotion Edition
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit: Special Promotion Edition
WINDOWS SVR 2003 RESOURCE KIT
Customer Review: Not casual reading but good
This could never be called a casual read, but it is a good read. I've spent much time in the Group Policy book, pair that book with Stanek's Windows Server 2003 Inside Out and you have everything you need to master Active Directory and Windows. Recommended.
Customer Review: A must Have in our Bookshelf
I've been studying to MCSA 2003. The tools and the explanations provided are easy to understand and are helping me in my certification for MCSA and maintaining my network at work, too. I'm very glad to have this books in my bookshelf.
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Today's book of shadows ArticleWhat You Can Learn From Dr. Phil About Writing Non-Fiction Books
Even if your career doesn't involve being a full-time writer, being the author of a book can be a huge boon for you. Our society holds authors in such high regard that anyone who has written one is seen as knowledgeable, self-disciplined and special. A book can help your business or career by making you more visible and sought-after for your expertise. All very good things. But if your natural talents don't involve writing regularly, it may be difficult for you to figure out how to organize your expertise into an engaging book. Luckily, there are tricks that make it far easier to write non-fiction than fiction. Here's how to get started. I'll use Dr. Phil McGraw and his successful line of books as my example.
It's Not About You
Okay, it's easy to forget that writing a non-fiction book is not about you. After all, most likely, your picture is going to go on the cover! But let's face it: people are not going to buy your book just because of you. People don't buy Dr. Phil's books because they're so excited to hear what he has to say. No. They are buying it because he's going to help them solve a problem like losing weight, strengthening a family or salvaging a marriage. Where do you come in? People will be attracted to your overall message and how it makes them feel. Dr. Phil's message is to make you take charge and "get excited about your life". That's what's going help you lose weight, strengthen your family or salvage your marriage. Note that the message is simple, clear--and not about Dr. Phil. What is your message? Make sure you connect it to others and don't overthink it. Most likely it's something you already radiate in your words and your being and you don't even know it!
What Aspect of Your Expertise Do People Want Most?
What do people come to you for? Are you a mortgage broker, but you find most people come to you with questions about their credit? Are you a family therapist and you observe that most of your patients don't know how to talk to each other? Are you a house painter and most of your customers don't know how to choose colors for their home? Wherever you see such a void, there is room for a book on that topic. You have to figure out what people want to know. Notice I use the word "want", and NOT "need". People rarely buy what they need, no matter how good it is for them.
That's a trap many new writers fall into. They write with a sense of duty, thinking "people really need to know this", like they need to know what being overweight can do to a body in the long term--and that's probably true. But readers would rather buy a diet book that will tell them how to solve the overweight problem as quickly and easily as possible. Dr. Phil's The Ultimate Weight Solution is a book about doing the real work of exercising and correcting inner problems to solve weight issues--Dr. Phil has said he didn't want it to be a book about telling people what to eat. And yet that's what people wrote in and said they wanted most--they wanted Dr. Phil to tell them what to eat. So what did he come out with next? The Ultimate Weight Solution Food Guide and then The Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook! You too can find out what people want by just asking. Create a survey if that's possible for you, but the more you can find out about what your readership wants, the easier it will be for you to decide how to write it for them.
Write a Punchy Title
Once you've figured out what people want, you have to make it crystal clear that you're going to give it to them. You'll do that with the title and subtitle. It may help you write the book if you come up with your title first, because a good title will remind you of what you have promised to deliver. When you find your working straying and unfocused, you come back to the title and think, "oh yeah, I'm supposed to be telling them how to do X." Ideally, the title should be a grabber, and the subtitle tells exactly what the reader will get. Dr. Phil's titles do that really well. Here are a few examples: Love Smart: Find the One You Want--Fix the One You Got, and The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom and Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan to Creating a Phenomenal Family. Note how each subtitle makes you think, "Yeah, I want that! or I want to know how to do that!". Result: reader picks up the book!
Think Steps, Keys and Strategies
Note Dr. Phil's use of "keys" and "steps" and "plans". Even if you're working with a complex subject, you want to chunk it down as much as possible and keep it simple for your readers. You want them to see that they can do X on their own just by reading your book. You will give them everything they need. Again, this tactic will also make it easier to organize all your knowledge and expertise because you know you only have to focus on one particular "how to" and the X steps it will take to handle it.
Tell Stories
This idea goes all the way back to the Bible and beyond: we learn best from stories. It helps to hear how someone else handled the same situation because we can see what is possible. As you outline your book, make a note as to what story or stories you will tell to illustrate every point you'll be making. Tell the stories of your clients (changing names, of course, to protect their privacy) or use anecdotes from your own life experience. Dr. Phil's Family First is peppered with his stories of growing up with his own family issues. Make sure you use the right stories. You want them to be clearly connected to your concept so there's no mistaking your point.
And that's it. Following these guidelines should help you create a book that not only showcases your expertise, it will also be one that's sought-after by a market hungry for what you have to offer. All you have to do now is get started!
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Clear Solutions Under Cabinet Cookbook Holder
This Cookbook Holder folds up under cabinet when not in use saving counter space. The hinged front allows easy page turning and protects from kitchen splatter. US made with native maple base and decorative metal hinges. Folds flat for storage.
Customer Review: Easy as the Pie My wife Just Made
My wife said she wanted one of these for her birthday. I found some boring looking plain vanilla clear acrylic models (from other companies and websites) but I thought this one generally looked more interesting, and also matched our wooden cabinets better.
It works great, and looks great. The installation was easy, and it comes with some spacers that help make sure it will screw in even to thin shelves (our bottom shelf is quite thin - the screws would have protruded up into the cabinet without the spacers). The only hard part of the installation is working upside down to do the pilot hole drilling, and then holding the unit flush while you put in the screws. If you have 2 people this would be a piece of cake, but I did it myself and it took about 10 minutes of holding screws in place while putting in the other screws - they kept wanting to drop out. I managed to get it installed before her birthday passed and that is a first for me.
Anyway, my wife loves it, and thats all that matters. If you'll be installing it yourself a magnetic screwdriver might be a lifesaver. Highly recommended.
Western Digital WDG1U2500 My Book Essential Edition 250 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
Western Digital WDG1U2500 My Book Essential Edition 250 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
With USB 2.0 interface, enjoy not only this sleek unit's 250GB storage capacity but also the compatibility with both PC and Macintosh. 7200 rpm for fast read & write times 8.9 ms average seek time Automatic power-up, Safe Shutdown and LED activity lights make this drive easy to use Capacity gauge lets you see at a glance how much space is left on your drive Stackable metal case looks like a book and sits horizontally or vertically Compatible with PC and Mac Average Latency - 4.2 ms System Requirements - Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, Mac OS 9.2.2, X 10.2.8 or later, available USB port
Customer Review: Really is Essential
I believe that this is a good product. Its a good price for a ExHDD, is fairly durable (I dropped it about 2 feet and it still works), and comes with a product warranty. I have had this for about a year now, and its never really let me down.
However, my biggest, and only complaint is that the power cord is huge. I know these need their own power source, so its fine, but if you plan on lugging this around with your laptop, you're going to need a larger bag, or a separate one the carry this with it.
Overall, I believe that this product is a great buy and it can save you heartache and pain if you ever lose your files.
Customer Review: Great while it lasted.
I had this drive for over a year. I had it just about full of important video files. I had it standing up instead of flat, and when the cat bumped it, it tipped over. That's right, it just tipped over. It didn't fall off the desk or smash on the ground, it just went from standing to sitting. Well, I guess that was enough, because after that, it stopped working. Goodbye files. Overall, I'd say look elsewhere.
CONFLICT GLOBAL TERROR
CONFLICT GLOBAL TERROR
Conflict: Global Storm brings the Conflict series into the 21st century! Take controlof a highly trained, quick response counter terrorist squad in teh near-future. The 21st century will be a global battlefield as you respond to terrorism. Generations of hatred fuel the enemy, keeping them angry and fighting against superior weapons and tactics -- sometimes even giving them an advantage. Your goal is to shut down their threats to national security before they go too far! New character actions - Vault over objects and walls, climb through windows, rappel from helicopters and utilize zip-lines and ladders Issue entire team or individual soldier orders via an intuitive and rapid control system Online co-op play for up to 4 people, plus split-screen multiplayer
Customer Review: When is the next great Conflict game coming out?
All of my gripes will be under the paragraph so named. I just want to hit the high points of this game first:
1. Mission Diversity: This truly is a reflection of some special operations missions in a war on terrorism. The first two installments in the Conflict series were pretty much just a small A-Team running around the battlefield doing their "traditional" special operations missions. This installment has your team going from a jail-break in Colombia to South Korea and an executive security mission. The final mission is the assault on a nuclear missile base in the Indian Himalayas. This variety shows the fluid character and truly global reach of terrorism and the war against it.
2. Controls: The squad controls are much more simple and intuitive than the other Conflict games. I especially like the ability of a downed soldier being able to call another to heal him/her rather than take control of that soldier or order him/her there with a third soldier. This is great when you have to have a guy covering and need to get two downed soldiers back up. The delay orders are great for assaulting rooms or pieing corners in multiple directions at once. It also aids when you can stealth guys into position and then cut loose on an unsuspecting enemy when all your guys are in place with the click of a button. It is also good to be able to lean and shoot.
3. Graphics: These are the best graphics of the whole conflict series. The Desert Storm installments had bearable graphics but overall they looked cartoonish. Vietnam was getting there and I like the feel of its graphics more for some reason but the Global Terror ones are on par with Rainbow Six or SOCOM. Not as good but on par. Some of the jerkiness has been taken out of soldier movement.
4. AI: The AI is better but not vastly. Your squad's AI seems to have improved little but I note that soldiers will tend to act on their own better. For example, if they are shooting at a guy they just can't hit then they may move into better position to kill him or simply lob a grenade. The enemy AI will flee from grenades and this opens them up to fire when they get out from behind cover.
5. Gripes: They are few and usually to do with storyline rather than gameplay. The gameplay gripes I have are mainly the level of difficulty or additions I want to see in the next game. I also wish they would have brought some things over from Vietnam. I believe that Vietnam was the best game as far as feeling in the storyline, keeping the action quick and constant throughout the maps and I think that all in all it was the most difficult of all the Conflict series.
However, there are singular missions or portions of missions in Global Terror that are rathcheted way up compared to anything in the Vietnam ones. The first few minutes of "Pressure Drop" will test your ability to move your squad around and survive as well as deal out damage and repel attacks. Otherwise you will spend your time healing downed people and getting shot until no one is left to heal anyone. Keep your head on a swivel during this mission. After that it just lets off from there until the very end of the map. This is similar to a lot of missions, which are more realistic to combat; 99% sheer boredom punctuated by 1% sheer terror. I do not mean to say the game is boring but it does seems to follow the big-battle then pick off stragglers then regroup and crossload ammo, medic kits, grenades etc.; then move to next big battle and start all over. Why not have one mission where the whole army comes down on top of you and you have to set up correctly to fight it off like in Desert Storm, Back to Baghdad or Vietnam? To be fair no counter-terrorism unit would want to be caught in that kind of situation but for gamers it is fun. I guess this is keeping with the game's storyline realism.
Also, I miss the vehicles especially the choppers. Nothing beats loading up "Ride of the Valkyries" to your custom soundtrack on the chopper mission in Conflict: Vietnam. Could they not have put a mission with a helicopter in it like in Conflict: Vietnam that was more like the chopper mission in Delta Force: Black Hawk Down? The times you do use vehicles in this game are only setting your whole squad up to get wiped out by hidden tanks, mortar fire, or RPG wielding enemies whom you may miss while sweeping through an area.
I wish they had an option to view the weapons' sights realistically in zoom like on Conflict: Vietnam especially with all the new, authentic weapons in modern armies' inventories. Some things are more "gee whiz" than actually useful; mainly laser sights on weapons. I also wish that they would have the weapons behave more realistically. Case in point: M-16's have longer range and are more accurate at distance than AK-47's but AK's are more powerful. Why then does it take the same amount of body shots to down someone or that they have the same zoom distance? Just a small wish I have. I also wish they would incoporate some sort of throw adjustment on grenades like in most other games of this type.
I also wish that the characters' dialogue in this game was as "colorful" as that in Conflict: Vietnam. The dialogue in that game was the most realistic since the majority of Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen/Marines/Coasties pepper all their speech with profanity. I think I counted only one four-letter word in this whole game. This was probably done to allow more people to buy this game but come on, it's M+ already and I think that bad language is less problematic than graphic violence. Anyway, any game involving combat soldiers should have profanity, if they have any dialogue at all, to be realistic.
When will game makers realize that there are no women in American Army Special Forces units or even CIA direct action teams? I admit putting women in is to be PC and maybe to draw the growing number of female gamers but it takes away from the realism in the storyline. Also, to go with storyline realism, why not use more realistic terror groups? The South Korean missions have you up against terrorists from South Korea. It is more realistic to have North Korean terrorists operating in the south. The drug cartels in the Colombia missions were the most believeable. Also the main enemy in the game has a private army of former German special forces operatives. Most private armies/security companies today are made up of former Spetsznaz(USSR/Russian special forces). Just think about real world intel/organizations for the next game Take2.
If you like the other Conflict series games then you will love this one. I realize that most of my review is devoted to gripes but this is just in hopes that some developer will try to make a great game perfect.
Customer Review: Squad-Based Heaven
is a sqaud-based shooter/wargame. If you played any of the
Desert Storm games before you kind of know what to expect
already. The big difference with this installment of the
series is that the game has made some dramatic improvements
which were needed in the other "Desert Storm" games.
Once again The U.S. Delta Force team is sent on
dangerouse missions to fight global terrorism. The team
consisting of four kick-butt soldiers: Bradley (infantry
soldier), Jones (stealthy) Conner (heavy weapons) and Foley
(the sniper). You'll be sent to a variety of countries and
diffrent terrain types. In the first level, you start in
a P.O.W. camp trying to make your escape, other levels you
fight through jungles, urban (city), deserts, snow fortress,
nuclear reactors and chemicle plants. You can order your
squad to follow, hold position, go to point, attack target,
stealth to point, fire at will, hold fire, heal teammates
and themselves if wounded and to gaurd an assigned target
. The controlling is
excellent, and your soldiers are now able to jump over
small walls, your firing accuracy is more dependant on
your skills instead of auto-aim, your team's A.I. and
enemies are intelligent, now they try to out-flank you,
flush you out with a grenade if you hide too much, charge
in panic or even retreat. So it basically comes down to
your shooting skills and how well you manage your teams
and issue orders in the midst of heavy fire fights. The
levels are fun to play as you try to figure out what's
the best approach to the different areas of the map, in
a way it has a bit of a free-form gameplay to it, which
adds to the replay value. You can sneak up behind
unsuspecting enemies and cut their throats with a knife!
Out of ammo? No problem; just smack them with the butt
of your gun! There's a total of 14 levels and I enjoyed
every single one of them! If you enjoy squad based shooter,
buy this game. I also recommend the, "Rainbow Six",
"Ghost Recon" and "Brute Force". Don't want squad-based
shooter? Want pure action: get the game, "Mercenaries"
Pro:
+excellent controls
+excellent action
+excellent A.I.
+excellent game tutorial
+excellent level designs
+excellent sound effects
+excellent weaponry
+excellent characters
+play co-op with a friend
+play on XBOX LIVE
+adjustable difficulty
+blood splatters
+rag-doll physics
+stealth elements
+characters can peak around corners
+smack enemies with your gun
+a bit of freeform gameplay
Cons:
-weak unlockable stuff
-needs to be more freeform.
Honda Civic & del sol: 1992 thru 1995 All SOHC models Haynes Repair Manual
Honda Civic & del sol: 1992 thru 1995 All SOHC models Haynes Repair Manual
Manuals for the Do-it-yourselfer All Haynes manuals explain how to carry out routine maintenance, restoration and servicing of cars and motorcycles, and are aimed primarily at the Do-it-yourselfer
Customer Review: It's okay but not great
It's a detent starters, but if you know how to search on the web, you can find the Helms manual which is much better. The big flaw of Haynes is that if you don't know where to search for a part, the close-up won't help you locate it.
It also won't help you troubleshoot soemthing. For that join a forum or club, and use the book as a reference to do the repair once troubleshooting is done.
I used it for electrical and for such it's fine...
Customer Review: excellent! timely!
I way out in the middle east, and I got this item in a much faster time than anything else i've been sent!!! bravo zulu!
Panasonic TH-50PZ77U 50" 1080p Plasma HDTV
Panasonic TH-50PZ77U 50" 1080p Plasma HDTV
built-in QAM cable TV tuner receives unscrambled programs without a set-top box (cable service required) * 1920 x 1080 pixels * 5000:1 contrast ratio * 2 HDMI v1.3 (accepts signals up to 1080p) *
Customer Review: Just an awesome TV-even without HD sources
After a lengthy research period, I finally settled on the 50" PZ77U. I'm happy to report that after two weeks of use the experience has been fantastic. First off, the picture is just gorgeous. Of course I expected that with HD cable and a Blu-Ray (PS3) player -- it's jaw-droppingly great -- but I was very impressed with the SD picture of this unit. Sure, it pales in comparison to HD, but the SD channels don't have that processed look that makes everything appear like it's been through a photoshop watercolor filter. I've seen that on a number of LCDs and plasmas before and it drives me nuts. Remember, they never will show a SD signal to you at most stores-- it's always a sharp HD signal. The good SD clarity is even more impressive for a 50" model.
I'm still in the break-in period-- trying to make sure the phosphors burn in easily; I downloaded a burn-in disc from eaprogramming.com, which has been helpful.
Lastly, a few nice words for the purchase experience via Amazon and 6ave: The unit was shipped to my home in Michigan within a week; upon delivery the unit was inspected as required; everything was great. I'd certainly use 6ave again.
Customer Review: EXCELLENT TV - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
I highly recommend this TV... first of all, why buy LCD for the same size when you can buy plasma for $1000 less? if u are worried about light reflection on the plasma TVs this panasonic has anti-glare in it... and the colors are jaw dropping....
This panasonic in specific I highly recommend because Panasonic is the 2nd best in Plasma after Pioneer (which is way over priced)... the 50PZ700U has better speakers than this one (but who buys a 50 inch TV without seperate speakers anyways) and u can hook your laptop to the TV and use it with the TV, but you would have to pay $300-400 more for it... if u need a 3rd HDMI input then go with the PZ750U nd play $600 more for it (I am sure 2 HDMI is more than u need)... so if u dont need to hook ur laptop to the TV and don't need a side HDMI cable that u probably wont use, then save urself $300-600 by buying this awesome TV right here, because the technology is the same...
I have an LCD Samsung and I have this 50PZ77u and i love my panasonic more.. with w panasonic blue ray (which uses the same remote control and is way better than the sony blue ray or samsung blue ray) then you wont go wrong... add some nice surround sound system and u will be amazed ...
E-reader 6IN E-paper Portable Dark Blue E-book Approx 170 Pix/inch
E-reader 6IN E-paper Portable Dark Blue E-book Approx 170 Pix/inch
Holds up to 160 books / 8-Level Gray Scale Panel / 170 Pixels Resolution / 6" Screen Size / Dual SD and Memory Stick(R) Pro Duo Expansion Card Slot Audio and picture playback Dual SD Card and Memory Stick(R) Pro Duo Explansion Slot Mountable USB Drive Charges via USB
Customer Review: Sony Reader is great
The Sony reader is a great carry on for long travel. The only thing I wish it had was a backlight to read in low lighting situations, as when you have a light on it, the glare seems to get in the way of reading it.
Otherwise, I have probably sold 10 of them because of all the inquiries I've had on planes and a cruise I was on.
Customer Review: The best thing for readers!
I received this as a Christmas gift, but was eyeing this gadget for myself since Sony announced it. I use the Reader on a daily basis for several weeks now due to my long commute time and especially was grateful to have it while waiting for flights at the airport. I did have some hesitation at first since I do enjoy the actual feel of a book. Now that I have used the Reader, I wouldn't say there is any difference, I may not feel the actual paper but it's outweighted by the convenienve.
So many pros:
-Holds many books; If I finish a book, I have many more at my fingertips and can always remove the books from my Reader and add new ones.
-Lightweight; I carry this in my purse everyday and don't even notice it. It fits into any type of bag.
-Comfortable to use; Very easy to hold and navigate one handed.
-Screen; the screen is large and easy to read. I noticed many reviews listing the screen and the lighting as a negative, and I did agree prior to getting the Reader. Now, for me, it's a positive. I stare at a computer screen for hours everyday, and my eyes get very tired. Not so with the Reader, I can read for hours and not even feel any fatigue in my eyes. The screen and lettering is dark enough that I can read extremely easily but don't have the strain of staring at a bright, white background. And as one reviewer put it, you don't have lighting with a book and no one complains, there is no difference with this.
-Storage space; since all the books are maintained on my computer or the Reader, I never have to worry about where to put the books. And the Sony store allows me to re-download any books I purchased easily.
-Free books; Sony was running a promotion of 100 free classics when I received the Reader. Now who doesn't like free stuff?
-Battery life; the battery life is better then most other gadget battery lives. I can read several books before I have to re-charge the battery.
So few cons;
-Really don't like to Sony ebook store; it takes forever for the search and for the pages to load. Really hinders the impulse purchases (bad marketing in my opinion) or if I have to run out the door.
-No outlet charger, only USB; the Reader comes only with a USB cord and can be charged via the computer. This can be really inconvenient if you are traveling without a computer (vacations). You can load as many books as you need, but if the battery runs out mid traveling, it's useless. Sony should really devise an outlet charger.
-Price; the Reader is pretty expensive, but that is the case with all new gadgets. I just hope the price goes down as the technology becomes more prevalent.
-Nor really a con, but something I would really like: Ability to be able to lump books into a favorites, genre, "read" or any other kind of list. I download a bunch of books at one time and don't always remember the names exactly when I am ready to read it. I have to scroll through several pages of books to find the one I am looking for. Would really be helpful if I was able to segregate books the I have read, by genres, or possibly authors.
I would recommend the Reader to any avid reader.
StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY?
Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions to discover their top five talents.
In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you'll use it as a reference for decades.
Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself -- and the world around you -- forever.
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NEW & UPGRADED EDITION OF STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0
(using the unique access code included with each book)
* A new and upgraded edition of the StrengthsFinder assessment
* A personalized Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide for applying your strengths in the next week, month, and year
* A more customized version of your top five theme report
* 50 Ideas for Action (10 strategies for building on each of your top five themes)
* The more user-friendly StrengthsFinder 2.0 companion website, with a strengths community area, library of downloadable discussion guides and activities, a strengths screensaver, and a program for creating display cards of your top five themes
Customer Review: Great insights!
Great insights!
First of all: quick, easy and clear assessment through internet. Results are presented to the point, detailed and personalized about one's strengths.
Each of 5 defined "strength themes' is accompanied with 10 action ideas.
This is a real must do!
Customer Review: The value-add of this book is minimal
I was disappointed by this book. I gained very little value or insights from it. The online test revealed nothing beyond what I've already learned through basic HR testing at my current job.
If you have never taken any sort of PAPI or skills inventory testing before, you might find a benefit in the online test. However, I suspect there are more valuable inventories available on the web FOR FREE. You just have to google around a bit to find them.
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit: Special Promotion Edition
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit: Special Promotion Edition
WINDOWS SVR 2003 RESOURCE KIT
Customer Review: Not casual reading but good
This could never be called a casual read, but it is a good read. I've spent much time in the Group Policy book, pair that book with Stanek's Windows Server 2003 Inside Out and you have everything you need to master Active Directory and Windows. Recommended.
Customer Review: A must Have in our Bookshelf
I've been studying to MCSA 2003. The tools and the explanations provided are easy to understand and are helping me in my certification for MCSA and maintaining my network at work, too. I'm very glad to have this books in my bookshelf.
Headlines on book of shadowsOff-day randomness: Book Review - AZ Snake PitFri, 18 Apr 2008 06:01:20 GMT
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The nature of strongholdsSun, 04 May 2008 02:46:03 GMT
A BABY'S first reaction when dropped into water is to float! She doesn't start gasping for breath; she just does what comes naturally to her and float! A baby is not afraid of the water, she simply adapts to ...
Off-day randomness: Book Review - AZ Snake PitFri, 18 Apr 2008 06:01:20 GMT
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