Timm Esque has created an outstanding book with many practical insights for project managers. I am a performance technologist for a high tech company. Timm's case studies and templates contribute to making this one of the best books that I have read concerning performance improvement in business environments. The book is well thought out and based on Timm's extensive experience in industry. Tom Gilbert would be proud (if you don't know, read the book to find out who Tom Gilbert is).

This is a two flight book! A coast-to-coast round trip about does it. Actually, Timm's ideas are so straightforward and elegant that it should have taken one flight, but I got into a long conversation about the book with a client on the way. The top-down, bottom-up approach is something I've been teaching for some time in my project management classes. But what Timm has done integrating human performance technology and PM is a breakthrough. The PM community often talks about "the human side" as if there are the real skills (which are very technical--the good stuff) and the touchy-feely things you have to do to glue a team together. Not surprisingly, manipulation is a recurring theme. Timm has hit the Achilles heel of the traditional approach: getting commitment. Traditionally, project management is like scar tissue: it builds up layers of protection against the inevitable re-injury. "No Surprises" reframes the whole conversation into a way of enabling project teams to self-manage the 'how's" while putting the project manager in the role of "making trade-offs visible."

This is an extraordinarily practical book, filled with tools and techniques you can pick up and use right away.

This is a true example of collaboration between Eastern and Western archaeologists. This handsome book is divided by region and contains very useful essays on each culture, demonstrating past achievements and new developments in Russo-Soviet archaeology. There are plentiful illustrations and an exhaustive bibliography. The book is extremely valuable for Western scholars and a great help in teaching.

The scope of the Nomads volume is astonishing - the Eurasian steppes from Eastern Europe through Central Asia and to Mongolia, with a millennial time frame that encompasses components of the Late Bronze and the whole of the Early Iron Ages. The anthology's 10 authors, all of whom are recognized specialists on steppe nomad prehistory, synthesize Soviet research undertaken between 1960 and 1990. Hundreds of line drawings, bibliographies, index.

My son got this book as a gift when he was 4 years old. Before Kindergarten he was able to "read" it from memory (with full character voices). Don't tell his friends, but he still likes it in second grade!

This is my favorite of all of Cyndy Szekeres' Golden Naptime Tales. It tells the story of a puppy who thinks he has nothing to do until he goes in search friends to form a Nothing-To-Do Club and ends up exhausted after a day filled with playing, dancing, reading and making mud pies.

The illustrations are simple and heartwarming. The animals play with sweet abandon and the looks of joy conveyed on their faces make you want to pluck them from the book to give them a good petting and a resounding kiss!

I'm also thrilled that the first line of this book is "Momma is away. Daddy is dusting." Throughout this series of books, the author/illustrator has communicated (without any Politically Correct sledgehammering) that men and women have an equal responsibility in taking care of children and the home and receive equal joy in the process.

Great photographic reproductions of wonderful old photos of Philadelphia. This book is a treasure to those interested in architecture, photography and/ or Philadelphia. Highly recommended.

The illustrations in this book were most valuable when I was researching my novel, "A Daughter Of Liberty," by Allan Cole & Chris Bunch

This book truly shows the art of a great speaker and orator. Cicero is the best!. "On government" truly develops the mind. (The book is also handy if you want to expand your vocabulary.)

Cicero is the greatest of latin writers. His knowledge is so wide. This book brings together many of his thoughts on government.This book makes it obvious how much he loved the republican form of government. Our founding fathers were widely read on Cicero's treatise's and rightly so. Excellent reading.

I have not read this book from cover to cover. Although, with it's wonderful index, it has provided me with an excellant resource manual for Baroque music.

Articulation, aesthetics, phrasing, ornamentation, character, tempo, practicing, accompaniment, style, notation, how to give a concert, how to breathe when you're nervous, how to play in an orchestra, ... it's all here. This book from 1752 covers the art of being a musician, not just a flute player.

Quantz' text is for anyone who cares about any music from about 1720 into the time of Mozart and Haydn. And it's essential performance practice material for anyone who would play this music: required reading for any serious student. It gives an indispensable window into German, French, and Italian taste.

Modern flautists, string players, keyboard players, and singers can learn a tremendous amount here. The pages about "good" and "bad" notes and varied articulation/tongueing are worth the whole price of the book. They describe the sound that composers were thinking of, the expressive range, the tremendous variety of effects *within* melodic lines. Take Quantz seriously: he was there, and he was a good player and writer.

What more needs to be said, except to thank the publisher for this edition? The previous issue by Schirmer has been out of print for far too long. This book should NEVER be out of print.

Don't believe me? Read the book. St. Theodore's work is an excellent defense of the veneration of icons and should be read in conjunction with St. John Damascus' "On the Divine Images" and Leonid Ouspensky's "Theology of the Icon".

C.S. Lewis once wrote on the importance of reading primary sources. This little book is an excellent example of how much reading translations of the early Church fathers can help Christians today. St. Theodore is writing to defend the veneration of the Icons from the second wave of Iconoclasm in the 8th century, in which the iconoclasts had developed a more sophisticated theological attack on the Icons. Theodore the Studite deals with the accusation of idolatry, drawing his defence from the Holy Scriptures. Then he solidly bases the veneration of icons on the Incarnation, saying "He who had created everything became matter (that is, flesh)." He meets the iconoclasts' own arguments, demonstrating that iconoclasts must either be docetists (not believing that the Incarnation was real) or monophysites (Christ's human nature being submerged into His Divinity). He also maintains that Christ is still circumscibable after his Resurrection. While Theodore repeats arguments previously made, such as John of Damascus' distinction between worship and veneration, - saying that we worship only God, but we venerate the images of Christ and His saints, - he also articulates further the connection between the Incarnation and the depiction of Christ in the Icons. Easy to read, this book shows how the veneration of the Icons of Christ and the saints comes directly from an Orthodox understanding of who Christ is and what the incarnation means.

Al-Farabi is one of the greatest Moslem philosophers who had lasting influence on many Moslem thinkers coming after him. His book " on the perfect state" shows a clear "Shia" influence on his thoughts.

Though this book is somewhat expensive, it is definitely worth the money for those interested in understanding the political philosophy of al-Farabi. His book is truly beautiful in its philosophical grace. As a Christian whose tradition also was profoundly impacted by its contact with classical philosophy, I could not help being pulled in with great fascination peering into how Greek philsophy was adapted and understood by a philsopher of Arab-Islamic culture.

This edition is excellent. Included with the translation is the parallel Arabic text with variants and an extensive introduction and notes written by the translator, Richard Walzer. Walzer's work here is excellent making a reading of the contents of this book a study in itself.

Excellent book about the early Church's belief in the Oneness of God and how the doctrine of the trinity was developed. An interesting and informative read.

This is truely a wonderful book if you are interested in how the godhead was viewed from 100-300. This is a scholarly work yet done in a readable style. I reccommend to anyone interested in the subject of oneness or trinity.

My dear sister Heather gave me this book for my birthday. I am an avid internet dater, so this was the perfect gift for me. I guess the best word to summarize Cosmo Fox's book would be: CAPTIVATING. I couldn't put the book down! The next day, I dropped the book off to one of my friends that has been having hazardous dates. I would completely recommend purchasing this book and give it a FULL FIVE STARS! Know someone who chats and dates online? "Online Dating: The Early Years" should be their next birthday gift! Thanks, Cosmo.

Very entertaining and fun to read. It was interesting and kept my attention throughout the entire book.