Book Description
Find satisfaction and financial success with a new career in coaching
Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching offers a go-to reference designed to help every mental health professional build, manage, and sustain a thriving coaching practice. Packed with hundreds of proven strategies and techniques, this nuts-and-bolts guide covers all aspects of the coaching business with step-by-step instructions and real-world illustrations that prepare you for every phase of starting your own coaching business.
This single, reliable book offers straightforward advice and tools for running a successful practice, including:
- Seven tools for making a great first impression
- Fifteen strategies for landing ten paying clients
- Seven secrets of highly successful coaches
- Ten marketing mistakes to avoid
Complete with sample business and marketing plans and worksheets for setting rates and managing revenue, Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching identifies the fifteen biggest moneymaking markets to target and offers valuable recommendations for financing that get the most impact and mileage from every budget. Quick "Action Steps" for applying ideas and techniques make this book useful right away.
Get started in coaching today!
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This comprehensive, "How To" book offers the tips and tools necessary to build a successful private coaching practice from the ground up, providing sample business and marketing plans, as well as checklists, sidebars, advice on choosing a type of coaching, and information on money management.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent How-To run a coaching business.......2007-02-25
If you want to get into the details on how to set up and run a coaching business, whether personal or executive coaching, this book tells you how. It walks you through the set up to full running. Highly recommended.
It does not cover how to be a coach. This is the business side of the coaching business.
GOOD BOOK.......2007-01-13
But before you consider coaching, YOU must ask yourself if your life and career are exactly as you want them to be before you go and work with other people. Remember: most people out there are only settling for second best instead of going to fulfill their true fantasies! ARE YOU ONE OF THEM???? I WAS!
A "Must Have" for coaches in their first years of practice.......2006-11-17
A terrific combination of comprehensive business planning, sales and marketing frameworks; practical action steps and real data to back up the advice. The book guides you through all the key steps required to succeed in this challenging professional services business.
Everyone starting an executive or life coaching practice should grab this book and read -- and reread -- each one of the book's 356 pages.
Excellent tips on establishing & growing your coaching business.......2006-04-19
Note that this is NOT a book about how to coach. This is a great resource for someone who is looking for a well structured set of tips on how to establish a new coaching practice. It is also a great reference for experienced coaches to dip into. The networking and marketing sections are particularly useful. Experienced coaches will likely find some new ideas, but may get more value by being reminded of techniques that already knew about but have just forgotten to implement...
The book follows a logical progression for a new coach.
- What type of coaching you should focus on and why (business vs personal coaching)
- Which markets to target
- Planning - financial & marketing
- Networking - first impressions, relationships & referrals
- Finding your first clients
- Marketing tips & mistakes
- Internet marketing
- Traits & techniques of very successful coaches
There's also a section focusing on individuals from a professionally regulated field, such as psychology or counseling, who are considering transitioning to coaching.
I enjoyed the style of the book, which is quite "checklist" oriented. As someone who makes lists for everything, it very was easy for me to digest. More importantly is that it's a book that I continue to pick up and reference as it's so easy to dip into. Nicely laid out.
I also like the mini-interviews with successful coaches (usually just a page or so) providing tips & perspectives from growing their own businesses.
As a nuts and bolts description of how to operate & grow a coaching business, you can't go wrong with this book. Look elsewhere if you need a resource for developing coaching skills & techniques.
Highly favorable.......2006-02-20
This book will be my coaching "Bible!" It is well-written and full of invaluable guidance for launching and sustaining a profitable coaching practice.
Book Description
Who is the devil you know?
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?
In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too.
We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people—one in twenty-five—has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or remorse. One in twenty-five everyday Americans, therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbor, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt.
How do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or interesting than the other people around them. They’re more spontaneous, more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced. Fundamentally, sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn early on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to others’ suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win.
The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know—someone we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for—is a sociopath. But what do we do with that knowledge? To arm us against the sociopath, Dr. Stout teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game.
It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.
Customer Reviews:
When running next door for Sugar means packing a Gat!.......2007-09-28
Welcome to my World!
Yep, many have called me a sociopath in my day. Only one of them, however, got to say something after that, and that was only because the gun jammed.
Ha! Ha! Kidding. Martha Stout has put together this slender little tome, packed with pop science and plenty of white desert-like margins, that sets out to let you know that:
1)Four percent of the population exhibits sociopathic qualities. For the mathematically challenged---that is, pretty much 96% of the population---that means 1 out of 25.
Think about that statistic for a minute.Take an office with 25 people, and chances are Herbie the Courier Guy or Roald (you know, Roald, the guy with glasses and the shaky sweaty hands, the Quiet One. Roald. Sheesh) has invested in some XP-142 Night Vision goggles and a serrated knife, and, um, a GPS device that might lead him to your front door.
At 2 in the morning. Just so we're clear.
2) These sociopath guys, like the Wu-Tang Clan, ain't nothing to mess with. No sir. They can't love. They don't feel emotion. They're Republican. They're corporate chieftains. They ride in the Lear, the Limo, the Maybach. They invented War. They smear cats with napalm, then duct tape them to the underside of your car, right by the rear exhaust, with a tricked-out bic lighter just waiting for ignition.
Sorry, I made that last one up. But you get the general gist of the book.
"Sociopath Next Door" is simply not scholarly, and verges on dangerous. Sociopath is a pop-term, like psycho, like axe-murderer, like boogeyman, El Diablo, or Janet Reno, with about the same level of erudition & exactness. It's jarring to see the term used so callously. Isn't it dangerous to fling terms and profiles, particularly ones as crudely formed and ill-defined as this, in what is essentially piece of pulp pop-science?
"Sociopath" even tries to put together a home-made psycho alarm for the Gentle Reader, the better to ferret out whether weird Mr. Fishbein, the crazy coot who lies next door, lies awake on his bed at nights dressed only in a giant plastic baggy whispering to his AK-47 and plotting your demise. Guess what should set off alarm bells & unleash the hounds?
That's right: someone who asks for pity. For mercy. For clemency. A pity-junky, according to this book, is a ravening sociopath probably plotting to get you fired, pour acid on your car, and eat your firstborn child with some fava beans and a fine chianti.
"Sociopath" also spends some time talking about the supposed human superstition against killing: according to her, people really kill only when supervised by (you guessed it!) a drooling sociopath. The irony here: the author indicates one means by which men make their subjects kill is by de-humanizing the Other: using language to demonize, to turn the Outsider, the Pariah, the Unclean (usually some target ethnic or religious group), into an "It".
It's a fair point. But skim her book, and simply replace sociopath with any ethnic epithet and take a look at how it reads. Avoid the devilish sociopaths. They don't feel. They're not human. They have cold blood. They're killers. Four percent of the planet is responsible for all the rape, the killing, the torture, and the endless popularity of David Hasselhoff.
Hasn't this book demonized sociopaths as brutally, as unfairly, as unjustly, as anything any Monster of History did with their fave victim class? Where's the Love for the American Psycho? Are we not also Human? Cut* us, do we not bleed? Cut us twice, do we not make you bleed more?
But what "Sociopath" edges away from is the really interesting question here: what if sociopathy is not a malady? What if it's evolution? What if the guy who doesn't get all weepy over "Beaches" is really Humanity New New Thing, the silver-suited astropath who will transcend this miserable mortal coil and help us defeat the Ichthyoid Nasties from Betelgeuse 14?
In the meantime, using the book's 'method' for spotting psychos is about as useful as playing spin the bottle. Intuition, instinct, and your own experience probably cuts the mustard, and you don't have to waste your money on this one-way ticket to Paranoia. Granted, instinct isn't perfect.
But it sure beats fretting over whether your trip next door to borrow the lawnmower should include a can of mace, a sawed-off 12 gauge, and kevlar body armor.
JSG
Very Informative and Balanced.......2007-09-22
I would recommend this book to anyone who is struggling to find the answers for that mentally challenged family member who does not assimilate into society well. This book answered so many questions for our family. I found it to be very balanced and not "opinionated". The author did an excellent job of presenting the characters personalities,or lack therof, in a way that all readers could understand. The medical community seems somewhat hesitant to place labels on certain individuals and it was refreshing to see that there is some explanation and definition for what our family has been enduring for years. A great read!
Amazing information.......2007-08-27
Pretty scarey to know there are so many among us! Very easy read book and very informative.
Curses! That meddling Stout has revealed my devious plot!.......2007-08-23
I am one those people next door who can literally do ANYTHING.... and feel no guilt. I am unable to love. I am magnetic, sexy, and the word "charisma" does not begin to explain the animal magnetism I exude. I live to dominate and win. I eat my steaks rare--singed a bit on the outside and bloody inside. Very bloody. And I'll tell you what. Until Martha Stout wrote this book that gives all the ordinary sad-sack suckers out there the tools to identify my deep EEEEEEEEEE-vil, I was on track to dominate the world! BWA-HA-HA!!! But now that even an average schlump can look at me and think "psycho" without straining his limited mental faculties, the world shall never be my own personal oyster--with a fully stocked harem of beautiful captives, and my legions of enemies working themselves to death in salt mines. Thanks for nothing, Martha Stout!
Very Interesting!.......2007-08-23
This is a great book for anyone interested in Sociology. This book provides not only a glimpse into the lives of sociopaths, but is truly a first line of defense for everyone. It personally gave me a lot of insight into how these mentally ill people operate. I have a great understanding and unbelievably, empathy for sociopaths.
Book Description
Who is the devil you know?
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?
In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too.
We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people—one in twenty-five—has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or remorse. One in twenty-five everyday Americans, therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbor, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt.
How do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or interesting than the other people around them. They’re more spontaneous, more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced. Fundamentally, sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn early on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to others’ suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win.
The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know—someone we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for—is a sociopath. But what do we do with that knowledge? To arm us against the sociopath, Dr. Stout teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game.
It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.
Customer Reviews:
the sociopath next door.......2007-09-26
a must read for anyone who lives with or thinks they know someone who is a sociopath.
Why slip politics into this book?.......2007-09-11
Simply as an introduction to the concept of Sociopathy, this is an interesting book, although the use of composites rather than actual individuals in her case studies certainly weakens much of the work.
But like some other readers, I can't fathom why the author felt it necessary to keep making veiled political commentary in nearly every chapter of this book. From invoking SLA Marshall's widely questioned statistics around the propensity of soldiers in combat to fire their weapons, to referring, not so obliquely, to America's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan to sociopathic behavior on the part of the nation's leaders, this book just keep leaning leftward.
I'm sure this is going to thrill some readers, go undetected by others and be noted by ignored by others. But for some, me included, its about as tiresome as it gets, and furthermore, will reduce the relevance of the book as the years pass.
Do I recommmend you read it? Sure. Do I wish that the author would edit out the political claptrap? Yes, that would make it a better book. When I'm reading a book on Psychology, I don't care what one's politics are - liberal, moderate or conservative - and I don't want to hear about them.
Interesting, but a little bland.......2007-08-24
The book is at its best when the author is giving her descriptions of actual sociopaths. It tends to falter in the more technical part, describing the science of psychology. I found it interesting and of course disturbing at the same time. I agree that there are at least 4% of the population out there who are sociopathic. I have known at least two of them myself and recognized the traits so well it was like I already knew it.
The author's liberal politics could not be hidden in some of her asides and comments here and there. Perhaps that is why she avoided discussing what we as a society should do with these people. Well, she was plenty willing to diss on sociopaths as corporate boardroom hooligans, but the much more common run of the mill criminals, not so much.
Her best advice was to recognize these people and stay away from them. A common mistake is to get drawn into a sort of courtroom argument where they make you have to prove they are what you recognize them to be. You don't have to. Just ditch them. They will never change.
Too fluffy.......2007-07-05
A fuzzy, broad and indistinct treatment of the subject. Felt more "pop-psyche" than solid and factual. A "girls" book of psychopathy. I liked "Without Conscience" much better.
excelent starter book on psychopathy.......2007-06-19
Every "normal" human should read this book. Martha Stout writes an easy to read book on a very important subject sociopathy/psycopathy people without a conscience, it's shocking to realize that at least 4% of the population walking amongst us in our every day lives are born without a conscience no wonder our world is in a mess! I also recommend Martha Stout's Myth of Sanity.
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The only book you will ever need to teach spelling. Lists for grades 1 through 8. Latin and Greek roots and word lists can be used to build vocabulary in higher grades as well. Word lists are organized by both sight and sound patterns for use with students having diffiulty with long-term retention. Includes phonic, spelling, and punctuation rules, as well as teaching tips. Activities include practice with grammar, dictionary, and composition skills. Allows individualized pace. This award-winning book has been popular with homeschooling families for over a decade.
Customer Reviews:
The name says it all "Natural Speller".......2007-08-23
This product is easy to use, understand, and incorporate into a learning at home lifestyle. The word lists are sensible and reasonable. Many different grade levels can be taught useing the one book.
I love it.
Homeschool Speller.......2007-05-31
I've had trouble with the homeschool spelling programs offered in the past. This has been an answer to my prayers. The Natural Speller outlines how lessons should be done each day. It has word lists for all levels at a glance. This is a great feature for a mom schooling 4 kids. It has been a tremendous help to me as a teacher. A lot less frustrating than other programs I've used.
Natural Speller.......2007-02-24
This book has great spelling lists, grouped by grade, along with spelling rules to be learned at different stages. It covers 1st-12th grade spelling in one book and in non-consumable - so it is a great buy!
The best spelling program!.......2007-01-12
I've tried different spelling programs, and this one is the best! It includes 1-8 grades, very easy to use, and easy to see our progress. I love it!
The Only Speller You Will Ever Need.......2006-11-04
This speller has lists for grades 1-8. It has plenty of activities and includes dictionary and grammar skills as well as vocabulary builders. It's filled with abbreviations, calendar and color words to name a few. There are sections for Latin and Greek word parts as well as spelling and writing rules. There is so much help in this book that you can use it for years because of the way it is designed. Whether you are looking for a speller to take your child through middle school or you are teaching multiple grades at once this is the spelling program you want to have to streamline your curriculum library.
Average customer rating:
- All the Nero Wolfe books are gems ...
- Enjoyable, but not the right reader
- Excellent entertainment
- Top Form
- Wolfe saves a murdered who didn't murder anyone
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Book Description
Paul Chapin's college cronies have never completely forgiven themselves for the tragic prank that left their friend a twisted cripple. Yet with their Harvard days behind them, they thought it was all in the past - until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall, and mysterious poems swearing deadly retribution begin to arrive. Now this league of frightened men seeks Nero Wolfe's expert help. But are Wolfe's brilliance and Archie's tenacity enough to outwit a most cunning killer? This is the second mystery in the Rex Stout's Wolfe series, originally published in 1935.
Customer Reviews:
All the Nero Wolfe books are gems ..........2006-10-09
I don't understand someone who would think that any of the Nero Wolfe boosk were not good. Of course some are better than others, but frankly, his worst is better than the best of just about anyone (well, Raymond Chandler is an example of someone who you may prefer, but for gods sake, he's a legend).
The man deserved the Nobel Prize. Oliver Wendell Holmes considered him the best of all the detective writers. I agree.
Enjoyable, but not the right reader.......2006-07-03
I love Nero Wolfe mysteries and this was very enjoyable. But in my opinion they chose the wrong reader. The narrator sounded very good being Nero Wolfe. But all the Nero Wolfe stories are written from the point of view of his legman, Archie Goodwin. The narrator did not at all sound like Archie.
I don't regret the purchase but I wish they would choose another narrator for further stories, one who sounds more like the cocky, streetwise Archie, who doesn't know what 'rancour' means.
Excellent entertainment.......2005-10-20
I love Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin! This book was definitely up to their standards!
Top Form.......2004-10-08
I really loved this book even before I read "Stout Fellow" by "O.E.McBride." Her insightful analysis of all of Rex Stout's work confirms what I already suspected: Rex Stout's earliest books were his best.
This one can be forgiven some narrative excesses (the pink tie and soup, for example) in fair exchange for some of Wolfe's best Wolfeisms. The one about membership in the Hardvard Club is in this book.
And finally, Paul Chapin is a much better "Moriarty" than Arnold Zeck. He's much deeper and more complex, in fact, than virtually any other of Stout's other characters, doubly subtle by the way in which his villainy is propounded.
Fetishism, kinky stuff - all here more so that in anything else of Wolfe's that comes to mind. And it is expertly read in audio.
Wolfe saves a murdered who didn't murder anyone.......2004-07-19
A bit longer than most of Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries, but still well worth the read. This is also one of the earliest Nero Wolfe books so there are a few differences between it and later stories, which made it even more interesting.
A good read, a great story line, and great value for the money compared to the $9 or $10 for a 90 minute movie, not including the 20 bucks for popcorn and soft drink.
Book Description
A sourcebook unearthing the ruins and secrets of the fallen empires of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.
For the first time, the secrets of past empires of the Forgotten Realms world are chronicled in one comprehensive sourcebook. For players, this book contains new options for characters wishing to delve into ancient ruins, including new feats, prestige classes, magic, and equipment. For Dungeon Masters, this book contains new material associated with ruins, including rules for how to build and sustain a ruin-based campaign, more than a dozen detailed adventure sites with maps, and new monsters and artifacts.
Customer Reviews:
Absolutely Splendid!!!.......2006-09-18
I found this title the best supplement ever written. That says a lot, since this series has been around since 1987. At last, in one volume, the history of this magical world is laid bare. I have speculated and wondered in the past why the world is like it is. This volume has given up most of those secret! I stand in awe of most of them. This is the flower of Realms lore. Most are not intended for most gamers. I read the novels and continue my illustrations outside this "gamers" world.
I can only say that the Forgotten Realms have come alive at last with a rich and frightening history in its past. Long live Netheril!
Excellent!.......2005-12-14
If you're interested in the history of Faerun, this is a excellent book. It goes into great detail and has a lot of extras, like relics and historical weapons. Great art and a good read.
Excellent Resource.......2005-05-14
Very well detailed and has a great amount of information that can be used in adventures. I would give it 4.5 if I could because of the usual lack of REAL MAPS that Wizards of the Coast seems to neglect. Great book though and a must have for DM's and Players in the forgotten realms.
Relevance is the key.......2005-04-14
I greatly looked forward to this book and was not disappointed. The Forgotten Realms is extremely rich in history that has been developed over the long years of its publication and this is truly a comprehensive source of that. The authors have touched on just about every area I can think of and they have done it well.
The book is divided into several sections, each dealing with a different geographic or cultural area. For instance, one section deals with the crown wars (wars between elves almost exclusively) and the elven nations involved (which covers a large area of Faerun) while another area covers the North and includes detail on several elven realms that had little part in the crown wars. They have timelines for each section of the book.
To be clear though, these histories are given not as a tool to play during those times, but as reference points to incorporate the locales of these ancient empires into the current timeline and an existing campaign. They bring the histories up to the current timeline and give you a good idea of what is going on in the ruins of these empires and the doings of the decedents of these empires.
On top of all of this rich history and information is a great deal of good crunchiness. There are several prestige classes, all of which seem well balanced and a great section on new spells and magic items. They even have specifics on mythal creation which is just plain cool to me. Going back to the integration of the past to the present, there is a section about Hellgate Keep and there they specify magic items of goodly races know to have been lost by fallen heroes there (items from the PGtF and this book).
All in all, a great tool for ANY dungeon master running ANY Realms Campaign for its information on ruins (dungeon - hint, hint) and its balance of historical information and crunchy bits. By far one of the most useful Realms products for any edition.
The misty past of Faerun, now yours to discover.......2005-03-19
I always loved the 3.5 (3.0) Forgotten Realms accessories, but I must say that this book is perhaps the best in the series.
This books gives you a +10 competence bonus to your Ancient History(Faerun) skill, as it offers you in-depth knowledge on almost all of the great empires of the past. You can learn all, about the great elven empires, about the history of the Sword Coast, about the phaerimm manace, etc.
Also, you will find some great feats, prestige classes and spells in the book. Some of them are not really for players, but for the DM (and to the NPCs). Players will also find it interesting, if for nothing else, then to add some flavour to the game.
I found it also great that young DMs get some help in a separate chapter to create adventures based on the "ancient theme". Of course, even old DMs, like myself can learn a lot from it.
Book Description
Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, by Blocher/Stout/Cokins/Chen is the first cost accounting text to offer integrated coverage of strategic management topics in cost accounting. The text is written to help students understand more about management and the role of cost accounting in helping an organization succeed. This text aims to teach management concepts and methods, and to demonstrate how managers use cost management information to make better decisions and improve their organization’s competitiveness. In teaching these key management skills, the text takes on a strategic focus. It addresses issues such as: How does a firm compete? What type of cost management information is needed for a firm to succeed? How does the management accountant develop and present this information? This text helps students learn why, when, and how cost information is used to make effective decisions that lead a firm to success.
Customer Reviews:
Review Update.......2007-06-10
To All Readers of the Posted Comment regarding Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis--the posted comment refers to the 2nd Edition of this text. The most recent edition, of which I am now a coauthor, is the 4th edition, which carries a 2008 copyright date. The latest edition of the text is materially different from the previous editions. Please keep these points in mind as you consider the latest edition of the text. Thank you.
David E. Stout
Youngstown State University
destout@ysu.edu
Good for managers bad for students.......2003-07-29
I bought this book to help me studying for my part 3 CMA exam.
The reason I removed the fifth star from my rating is:
First : It does not have enough questions, or questions are irrelevant to the ones you get in a CMA exam. Besides, there are no answers given to help you evaluate your self.
Second: Though it has a good website for student support ... some main chapters are still under construction!!
My Conclusion is that If you are a manager, you will find this book very helpful more than any other book but if you are a student you better use another text book like Horngren .
Customer Reviews:
Covers 3 unrelated cases.......2003-03-16
This omnibus edition of _The Black Mountain_, _Before Midnight_, and _If Death Ever Slept_ is titled _Three Trumps_ only because three cases are covered, and because somewhere along the line Stout and his publishers got into the habit of naming his omnibuses (omnibi?) in a card-playing style, even though few if any of the stories therein had any significant connection with cards.
_The Black Mountain_ (1954) was the 24th Wolfe book, and is one of the few cases Wolfe concerned himself with solely for personal reasons: the story opens with Archie answering the office telephone, then breaking the news to Wolfe that Marko Vukcic - Wolfe's oldest, closest friend - has been found murdered. Marko, it turns out, had been supporting the resistance movement against the Communist regime back in Montenegro. Wolfe had warned Marko of the risks he was running with his high-profile activities, and the dangers appear to have come home to roost. Even Wolfe's adopted daughter (introduced and last seen in _Over My Dead Body_, so if you haven't read that book, her appearance here may be a bit of a shock) turns up to berate Wolfe a little for not helping the resistance more, and soon she, too, is found dead. By the time Wolfe identifies the murderer, the killer has already fled the country for Montenegro - Wolfe receives a cryptic message to that effect, stating that the killer is within sight of 'the Black Mountain' from which the country takes its name.
Wolfe very nearly refuses to take Archie along, because for once *Archie* will be a fish out of water; his street smarts and better physical condition notwithstanding, Archie only speaks English, and Montenegro is completely alien to him. Archie, however, isn't about to let Wolfe traipse off into Montenegro alone, of course.
_Before Midnight_ (1955) was the 25th Wolfe book, with no mention of the Montenegrin adventures of the previous book or the fallout from Marko's death, although other stories set in the 1950s mention Wolfe's duties as an executor, and his insistence that Marko's restaurant, Rusterman's, be kept up to standard while he acted as trustee. By contrast, Wolfe is in _Before Midnight_ solely for the money. His client is the advertising firm LBA (Lippert, Buff, and Assa); the rising star running their biggest advertising campaign - a gigantic cosmetic historical trivia contest launching Pour Amour perfume - has just been murdered. (Some of the contest questions are sprinkled through the book, including the corresponding answers, although not usually together; the later ones should give the reader a run for his/her money.)
Not, you understand, that the partners really *care* who killed Louis Dahlmann; the real problem is that a few hours before he was murdered, he passed out the tie-breaking contest questions to the 5 finalists, then brandished a piece of paper from his wallet, saying it held the answers. When Dahlmann's corpse was found, the paper was missing, and LBA wants to be able to point to the thief, disavow that set of questions, and keep the contest from turning into a nightmare. Of course, as Inspector Cramer points out, it'll be tough for Wolfe to find the thief without fingering the murderer. :)
_If Death Ever Slept_ (1957) was the 28th Wolfe book, and like _Too Many Women_ before it, begins with a cold war in the brownstone, which results in Wolfe accepting a job that involves Archie taking an undercover assignment - in this case, one that involves having Archie move out for the duration to take a job as Otis Jarrell's private secretary, as a cover for finding out how his daughter-in-law has been sabotaging his business interests. (Jarrell doesn't like Susan for various personal reasons, and would really like Wolfe and Archie to break up his son's marriage, but Wolfe draws the line at that sort of thing.) The puzzle is more fair to the reader than that in _Too Many Women_, although there's a large lump (fortunately just one lump) of timetable information that makes unexciting reading. On the plus side, the stormy atmosphere in the brownstone has more interesting causes and side effects than that in _Too Many Women_. :)
For more detailed discussion of the individual works herein, see reviews of the 3 separate books; no changes were made to include them here. They have few points in common, not even being 3 back-to-back books in publication order. While they're no worse here than taken separately, this omnibus edition provides no added value.
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All the tips and tools you need to build a successful mental health practice from the ground up
Many mental health professionals currently working for group practices, hospitals, and private or government agencies have both the skills and the drive to become solo practitioners. But how and where do you begin?
Getting Started in Private Practice is a reliable reference that offers the comprehensive information and armchair motivation you need to establish and build your own practice from the ground up. User-friendly and full of helpful tips, this handy book provides you with tools and techniques for starting and maintaining a thriving private practice, including information on:
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From major concerns such as ethics and liability to day-to-day matters like selecting stationery and business cards, Getting Started in Private Practice puts the best solutions at your fingertips. Whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned pro, this invaluable resource will help you minimize the uncertainty of establishing a solo practice while maximizing the rewards.
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This comprehensive, "How To" book offers the tips and tools necessary to build a successful private mental health practice from the ground up. This "hands-on" guide provides sample business and marketing plans, as well as checklists, sidebars, and simple mathematical formulas for determining service rates, revenues, return on investment, and more.
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Must have for new therapists.......2005-07-20
I bought three other guides to starting a private practice and this one outshines them all. Everything I needed and nothing I didn't. The information about setting fees was specific and very helpful, unlike many other books that give only a very general overview. Even the small things like business cards and stationary were discussed. Marketing ideas were great as well.
An excellent primer that is concise and to the point.......2004-10-31
Unlike most books on starting a private practice, Getting Started in Private Practice, doesn't waste time with nonsensical fluff on whether one should be in private practice and other "touchy feely" irrelevancies. The authors presume you are reading the book because you have already decided private practice is for you and takes off from there.
The book is concise and straightforward with information on the financial and legal aspects of starting and running a private practice. Whereas other books tend to focus on complaining about managed care, this books tells you how to effectively deal with it from a business stand point. Whereas other books delve into "getting in touch" with your business self, this book tells you what it takes to actually run a business.
The only complaint I have is that some areas are only glossed over and not enough detail is provided; however, that information can easily be obtained from other generalist business books.
Overall an excellent starting point and reference for starting a private practice in mental health. Highly recommended.
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The Biography On Mia Hamm.......2006-06-01
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Mia Hamm was a talented soccer player. As a toddler she lived in Italy, that is how she discovered her love of soccer. Her dad was a marine and so she moved around frequently. During High School she decided to focus on soccer, and so all through High School and college she played on her schools' teams. Mia graduated college in 1994 and married her college boyfriend, Christian Corey. After that, Mia and her team went to Sweden to defend their world cup title. IN 1998, she was named America's best female athlete.
My book, On the Field With Mia Hamm, gave me lots of information about Mia. The cover page is green with a colored picture of her running down the field with the ball. This book is organized into chapters and that made it a lot easier to sort the information about Mia. In the middle of the book are nine colored pictures of Mia and her teammates. In would have made the book easier if there were more pictures, though. I would recommend this book to anyone that loves soccer!
Fun Review.......2006-03-14
Very good review of a current sports star. Easy for my 7 year old daughter to understand and keep her interested.
Mia Hamm and How She Started.......2002-04-13
I would recommend this book not only to people who love soccer, but to everyone who enjoys a true story about a great athlete and role model. The story of Mia Hamm is basically about how she was introduced to soccer and how she follows her dream to be the best women's soccer player in the world.
The book is really better than it looks like!.......1999-11-19
On teh field with Mia Hamm by Matt Christopher was a very goodbook. I didn't have a very good idea who Mia Hamm really was though.The only thing I know is a professional soccer player. I aw the book and it looked pretty interesting. I'm about a quarter of the way through the book and I'm liking it so far. Usually I don't read books , let alone a whole book.
This book is the best!.......1999-04-16
This book is by far the best i've ever read. It has great pictures and has lots of info on Mia. I think she is the best player i've ever seen. So this book was very interesting. If you love to play soccer, and enjoy watching and learning about Mia , this is THE perfect book! Once you start reading it, you won't stop reading until you've finished! SO GET OUT THERE,GET OFF YOUR BUTT, AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER, AND READ!
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