I think Linda Ashour is the greatest writer in the world. I think who ever is her publisher should pay her a lot of money for her next book. She's hot!

I really enjoyed this book. It has everything women should know about life every step of the way. This book covers relationships, careers, health, parenting, home maintenance, and extends to the later years covering menopause and becoming a grandmother. The book is laid out well, easy to read, and includes charts for time management, menstrual records, and financial records. I would recommend this to any woman, especially young women just starting out on their own.

An extremely well written, wonderful treatment of its subject. I highly recommend this book to all persons interested in excellent, powerful writing on the subject of Religion. A truly amazing, creative work. A masterpiece.

This book explores the history behind American vocal training, describing how different attitudes towards school singing has affected the choral sound as we know it today. The author also effectively presents how singing is a psychomotor process, and one that is not always easily taught or learned. He reviews the vocal parameters of younger and developing voices, and explains the difficulty with the adolescent voice change (especially with boys). He also encourages teachers to express singing as a "sport", one that requires physical involvement of the body! The second half of the book is dedicated to 90 specific exercise methods for teachers to use in developing their choir. He has broken it into three age levels so that teachers anywhere within the grades 1-12 spectrum can use it effectively, or just use it to supplement a program they may already use and like. The exercises develop repiration, phonation, resonance, diction, and expression within choirs. Eighteen wonderful vocal exercises are explained for each of these areas. This would make an excellent reference book for any music teacher who is involved with teaching singing to any age level. The exercises are specific and help coordinate the students' overall approach to singing.

The authors provide a practical guide to developing a training program designed to help people with communication difficulties. The authors also provide a state of the art review of the current training issues regarding the treatment of shyness, apprehension, and reticence.

This book is easily the most comprehensive of its type on the market. The paperback price is a bargain when considering the volume of instructive text and hands-on exercises that can be done with teams at all stages. Don't pass this one up!

many top level managers are goal-driven,results-oriented, and have little patience with any long-term process that needs to be effected by a team.

Have you, the individual investor, read books by Larry Swedroe, Burton Maklkiel, and John Bogle? Do you think you now know a great deal about investing? If so, STOP. DO NOT PASS GO. BUY THIS BOOK.

Once discovered this text will become an investment classic. For the average investor it will challenge your thinking, present some very valuable insights that otherwise might be ignored, and reinforce some sound principles of investing.

Following an introductory examination of the long-term performance among various asset classes and the risks to investors posed by inflation, Bruce Temkin then delves into the impact of taxes upon real investment rates of return. He then aids the investor in understanding market volatility and various types of risks. Additional insights follow in his frank discussion of personal risk factors, investment time horizons, the role of (and limits of) diversification, and the role emotions can play in making investment decisions. Charts and graphs throughout the 258 pages help explain and reinforce the concepts presented.

Throughout this book Bruce Temkin challenges us to carefully consider the steady diet we have been fed of misleading historical charts, the illusion of "average" rates of return, and longevity statistics. Mr. Temkin effectively explains why both "conservative" and "aggressive" investment portfolios can be far riskier than many investors think, and why investment portfolios should be (and must be) rebalanced periodically.

The author scatters various insights throughout the easy to follow text - precious nuggets to absorb, contemplate, and apply to your individual situation. For example, he summarizes the benefits and limitations of financial software programs, including those employing Monte Carlo simulations. Also, he effectively conveys to the reader in several places the central theme that there are no guarantees in investing.

Think you know it all, or most of it? This book is clearly for you. To quote the author, "When it comes to investing, feeling invincible can be dangerous. It can lead investors to overlook the principles that significantly contributed to their success in the first place."

This is perhaps not the first book the beginning individual investor should read. But this is the one book on investing that should not be overlooked by investors and their advisors. This book will challenge your thinking, whatever level of experience you may possess. This is one book that deserves to be read carefully not only a first time, but every several months again, lest the individual investor think he or she has explored all there is to consider in investment and financial planning decision-making.

Candid and insightful, this text is a must read for those seriously interested in investing and financial planning.

Bob Phillips is the Charles Kuralt of Texas and this book proves it. He has "it," the ability to connect with regular folks. Great, great book.

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