November 2012 | sf business times

THE ABCs of MUTUAL FUNDS: Everything Your Financial Consultant Really Doesn't Have Time to Explain Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The ABCs Of Mutual Funds: Everything Your Consultant Really Doesn't Have Time To Explain is a thorough sourcebook for company securities written in plain terms for the lay reader. The ABCs of Mutual Funds explains precisely how mutual funds, contractual plans, hedge funds, exchange traded funds, folios,...

Career Reboot: 24 Tips for Tough Times Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Yet again a highly practical, contemporary guide from John Lees - check it out.John knows his stuff and his recommendations really work.Enjoy!Click Here to see more reviews about: Career Reboot: 24 Tips for Tough TimesHow does anyone make sense of work and career choice in times as tough as this? This...

Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat (Agora Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I enjoy the occasional book on marketing and how to acheive success. The cover blurbs for "Ready, Aim, Fire" seemed promising as did some of the Amazon reviews. So I figured why not. I can now answer the question "why not" in detail and at length. First, the good news. Michael Masterson does a reasonably...

The Basic Guide to Pricing Your Craftwork: With Profitable Strategies for Recordkeeping, Cutting Material Costs, Time & Workplace Management, Plus Tax Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Mr. Dillehay's advice is aimed squarely at handcrafters, which means he's able to recommend courses of action that might be contrary to more general advice. For example, while it's common in many stores to price just under a dollar amount ($.99 or $.95 amounts), you don't want to do that with most handcrafted...

Financial Fitness: How to Budget Your Time, Your Money and Your Life Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am an avid reader and this is THE best resourse on personal finance that is out there. I have personally used Kevin's system to completley reduce my debt and find time for the wealth building tips.Kevin has a style that is humor filled along with a sensability that is clear. At first I was'nt sure...

It's Show Time: How to Plan and Hold Successful Sales Meetings Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Extremely well written, based on a world of experinece in the high stakes arena of corporate meetings and presentations...the author has a no holds barred approach, often funny...a true insider's guide...his website, www.the writingworks.com, compliments the book with a newsletter for event and meeting...

The Life and Times of an Automation Professional: An Illustrated Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This illustrated guide packs in cartoons both whimsical and pointed which reveal the life of an automation professional from office to pool. More than just a spoof on habits and ironies, each panel tells a story and offers a joke in the process: it'll make a fine gift for any engineer, offering delightful...

The Project Management Time Cycle: Time Cycle Module: From Concept To Feasibility. Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an unique guide on Project Management giving a step by step build up methodology. of a Project from a one line requirement of a CEO. The first part of the Book is developing the project documentation from the concept. It is demonstrated in simple terms how to build up the initial project constraints...

Shadows of Time Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book continues a conversation about myth that has passed through thinkers such as Joseph Campbell, James Joyce, and Olivier Messiaen. The force of these images, in the order they are viewed, offers a force that sums the force of the sun, the darkness, ancient man and technology into one cohesive...

A Nice Time Being Had by All Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Peter Biddlecombe has carved out a niche writing silly, amusing travel essays about his business travels, seasoned with the occasional profound observation of why some countries are hives of prosperity while others are starving. He is not among the politically correct -- brace yourself for snide remarks...

A Summer for a Lifetime: The Life and Times of George I. Purdy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As George Purdy passed on recently it is worth bringing attention once again to this memoir. It is rare that a book ends too soon but that is the case with this tale. I assumed that there were many more tales to tell and would have been happy to keep reading.Click Here to see more reviews about: A Summer...

Managing Projects in Organizations: How to Make the Best Use of Time, Techniques, and People Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a refreshing look at what is most important in achieving project success: people functioning in organizations. While it reviews key tools and techniques in a user-friendly fashion, its chief goal is to raise readers' awareness of the central role of people and organizations in delivering...

Forecasting, Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the book that I've been looking for on State Space approaches to Time Series. As I was reading it, I was struck by how well written it is. It really puts almost all of my recent reading (on any topic) to shame. It's like being around a master craftsman who communicates well and really understands...

A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a collection of essays on the movement of information, and how it has transformed the United States from its colonial beginnings to today. At the very beginning, the founders of the country subsidized the transportation of newspapers through the postal system; this allowed the free flow...

Workplace Evolution, Common Sense for Uncommon Times Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)WORKPLACE EVOLUTIONCommon Sense for Uncommon TimesGayle A. Gregory"Once we drop from fear's influence, a world of new possibilities emerges.""Acknowledging fear doesn't make us weak; it makes us strong when we turn and face it." Gayle has done a great job of describing fears as nothing more than universal...

A Time Well Spent: A Biography of Jerome Brody Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A dear friend in the restaurant business recommended this book to me, and I was a bit skeptical not being an advid reader of books devoted to restaurant themes. However, I found the book delightfully surprising. The behind the scenes story of the hardwork and hardship required by Jerome Brody to create...

Finish What You Start: 10 Surefire Ways to Deliver Your Projects On Time and On Budget Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a new project manager I bought this book for a couple of reasons. One the interesting title ("Finish What You Start" and the subtitle (10 Surefire ways...). However I was disappointed to find the book did not hammer away at either of these ideas in a systematic way that I was expecting.There is some...