The purpose of this book is to help the reader use mentoring to achieve what they want in life. The book explains the benefits of having a mentor or being a mentor, how to fnd a mentor or protégé and how to involve mentoring in every facet of your life. This book would be good for anyone who is looking for a step by step process on how to set up a mentoring relationship. At the end of each chapter there are highlights given that recapture the main ideas. This is a handy guide to refer to when needed. I felt the book acclaimed the many benefits of having a mentor but didn't adequately address the benefits of being a mentor. The general tone of the book seemed a bit too self-serving and business oriented. The important aspect of a mentoring relationship, self reflection, is not addressed.

Mentoring, A Success Guide for Mentors and Protègès by Floyd Wickman and Terri Sjodin is an excellent, enlightening and comprehensive book on the art of mentoring. For anyone who wants to enhance their knowledge and abilities in the practice of mentoring, this book meets their needs and expectations. What makes this book especially unique is that it is written as a guide for both the mentor and the mentee or protege. The authors provide a litany of practical information accompanied with charming anecdotes which give the reader simple, practical and easily understood information which can be applied to any developing mentoring relationship. Like an unfolding story, Mentoring describes insightful stories and letters about the mentoring relationships of others that are shared throughout the book. I especially enjoyed these stories because they touched the heart of human interaction, and personal growth, providing the reader brief moments for reflection and insight. Starting with a history of mentoring, the authors explore the reasons mentoring works. I found it interesting that the authors themselves were mentor and mentee in writing this book. After covering a number of aspects of mentoring: the 7 basic types of mentoring, the benefits of having or being a mentor, the qualifications of a good mentor and mentee and how to select one, the authors outline what they call the 16 Laws of Mentoring. Each chapter reaches into the soulful depth of a mentoring relationship without preaching. The feel is more in the lines of take what you want and leave the rest without threatening the developing relationship. If a mentor takes the advice, the opportunity for success increases tremendously. One needs to be conscious of where and how one chooses a protege and how a protege chooses a mentor. Each person needs to take responsibility for areas of reflection which create for each growth and insight into new areas of professional and personal development. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. This marvelous book offers the reader methods for taking advantage of the information given by those teachers who have learned well, embraced reflection, sacrificed, delved and explored their potential and are willing to share it with others. When one takes advantage of these angels who seem to appear at the right time, with their guidance, their support can only benefit one's journey and direction. Practical means of determining forces which direct a person to seek a mentor are revealed throughout the book. "Mentoring reveals the secrets to achieving high degrees of personal, professional, economic and emotional success through a real-world formula you tailor to create your own mentoring road map. One's mentor is a sounding board and source of pearls of wisdom. A mentor is someone who can help solve your problem yourself, a surveyor of your continent." (pg. 53) The authors believe that if each of us had a mentor, and each of us had a protege, then the world would be greatly improved. If a person responds to the gentle nudges of advice exchanged in the mentoring process and is committed to adapting the mentoring lifestyle, one will see marvelous change take place. This book would be an excellent resource for any class or discussion on mentoring. The authors have modeled each of the roles, the relationship, and the lifestyle involved in mentoring. It is obvious and apparent throughout the book that they practice what they so enthusiastically preach. Mentoring, A Success Guide for Mentors and Protègès by Floyd Wickman and Terri Sjodin is an excellent, enlightening and comprehensive book on the art of mentoring. For anyone who wants to enhance their knowledge and abilities in the practice of mentoring, this book meets their needs and expectations. What makes this book especially unique is that it is written as a guide for both the mentor and the mentee or protege. The authors provide a litany of practical information accompanied with charming anecdotes which give the reader simple, practical and easily understood information which can be applied to any developing mentoring relationship. Like an unfolding story, Mentoring describes insightful stories and letters about the mentoring relationships of others that are shared throughout the book. I especially enjoyed these stories because they touched the heart of human interaction, and personal growth, providing the reader brief moments for reflection and insight. Starting with a history of mentoring, the authors explore the reasons mentoring works. I found it interesting that the authors themselves were mentor and mentee in writing this book. After covering a number of aspects of mentoring: the 7 basic types of mentoring, the benefits of having or being a mentor, the qualifications of a good mentor and mentee and how to select one, the authors outline what they call the 16 Laws of Mentoring. Each chapter reaches into the soulful depth of a mentoring relationship without preaching. The feel is more in the lines of take what you want and leave the rest without threatening the developing relationship. If a mentor takes the advice, the opportunity for success increases tremendously. One needs to be conscious of where and how one chooses a protege and how a protege chooses a mentor. Each person needs to take responsibility for areas of reflection which create for each growth and insight into new areas of professional and personal development. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. This marvelous book offers the reader methods for taking advantage of the information given by those teachers who have learned well, embraced reflection, sacrificed, delved and explored their potential and are willing to share it with others. When one takes advantage of these angels who seem to appear at the right time, with their guidance, their support can only benefit one's journey and direction. Practical means of determining forces which direct a person to seek a mentor are revealed throughout the book. "Mentoring reveals the secrets to achieving high degrees of personal, professional, economic and emotional success through a real-world formula you tailor to create your own mentoring road map. One's mentor is a sounding board and source of pearls of wisdom. A mentor is someone who can help solve your problem yourself, a surveyor of your continent." (pg. 53) The authors believe that if each of us had a mentor, and each of us had a protege, then the world would be greatly improved. If a person responds to the gentle nudges of advice exchanged in the mentoring process and is committed to adapting the mentoring lifestyle, one will see marvelous change take place. This book would be an excellent resource for any class or discussion on mentoring. The authors have modeled each of the roles, the relationship, and the lifestyle involved in mentoring. It is obvious and apparent throughout the book that they practice what they so enthusiastically preach.

This book was a pleasure to read...it provides a "how to" guide for both mentors and proteges that is REAL! I really appreciate the specific ideas and steps that show you what to do. Great Stories from both sides of the fence.

I'm not sure the author of this book knows the definition of 'weird'. What makes Isadora Duncan 'weird' or Tecumseh or 80% of the other people listed in this book? One of my all time heroes Nikola Tesla's actual 'weirdness' is glossed over in less than three sentences, then we're told it's 'bizzare behavior' to watch and enjoy a lightning storm or to feed and care for animals in the park. This book is pap, a meaningless collection of watered down facts about people you've barely or never heard of and won't care about once you have.

I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of "mini-biographies" by E. Randall Floyd. These people were truly good, bad and mad--and definitely "weird" in every sense of the word.

I have passed this book along to several friends who have also enjoyed learning so much "dark stuff" about some of America's greatest literary, artistic and historical icons. I hope to see a follow-up book very soon!!!

This book makes me wish I had Professor Floyd as a history teacher. These crazy people come to life in a way that makes me almost cry one moment, laugh the next. Some were quite scary and makes me wonder how I missed knowing all this stuff about them for so long. I really think more teachers should tell the truth about the people in our country's past the same way Prof. Floyd has done. Excellent job and highly recommended!

This book is very broad based and applicable to those delving into the arena of fasting. Foundationaly sound, this book pulls the most relavant scriptures for the legitimacy of fasting even in our "modern" times. Not only is this book convincing, it also gives practical advice for the hesitant follower. I thought it did a nice job of balancing the notion of fasting for the appropriate reasons yet not with the wrong motives. I'm not quite sure why he subtitles the book "10 secrets of spiritual strength" though, unless for marketing reasons. Overall, this is a good place to start if you're considering fasting.

As we enter the 21st century, society is experiencing shortcomings in its moral fabric which pose a threat to the overall advancement of society. And where is the Church? Ronnie Floyd's book shows how prayer and fasting can be effective on a personal and church and level and if embraced by people nationally, can stem the tide and bring national revival. I appreciate the book because he intersperses narratives which help illustrate the 10 points. The book helps give a proper intellectual, mental, and spiritual mindset to have as one enters into a time of prayer and fasting. These disciplines, prayer and fasting, must be practiced effectively if revival is to be experienced in our personal and corporate lives.

Having just read Bill Bright's book The Coming Revival, I thought, what could Ronnie Floyd's book teach me in addition about Fasting & Prayer? DO NOT HESITATE to buy this book. It is excellent. The story behind Jonathon Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is riveting. We are just leading our church into Fasting & Prayer now. I would recommend this book for anyone who is going to consider this incredibly powerful discipline. It took the gut-wrenching, illness of cancer in his wife, to bring him literally to his knees. It's those trials of life that strengthen us and teach us.

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What's the difference between this book and ISBN# 0130163945 ?
They appear to be the same.

I had engineering years ago, but no electronics. I bought the 4th edition of this book and used it for self-study. I think its a very good book. I thought the examples were good and I worked a lot of the problems. I dont't recall many mistakes in the text or the answers. I also thought the section on the oscilloscope was good. I did have to read some of the material over several times to understand it. Chapter 19 Amplifiers and Oscillators was the hardest material to me. There was some material in that chapter that I never could figure out. I learned a lot from this book!

This book is an excelent introduction to electric circuits and some electronics. It presents everything in a very simple and comprehensive way. So if you are initiating in this fiel this book is for you. If you have readed the review below, let me say that there is no problem with these book, because the reality is that electrons move from negative to positive terminals. And because electrons make current you can think of current moving to positive side, or you can think reversely (like the convention) this doesn't matter, this doesn't change the analysis.

This book is an excellent resource for the topics that it covers. However, many of the topics had not yet been released at the time of publication. Rather, the author was able to work along with the development team of XML to get information on those subjects. Before you pick this book up, you should also have knowledge of XML, not only what is behind it and what it is, but also the basic syntax. If you have a working knowledge of XML and can live with semi-outdated information, I would strongly recommend this title.

I liked this book. As a consultant, I'm forced to assimilate new technology without consideration for my personal interest. I lean more towards the pragmatics of solving my customer's problems, and while XML as a data transport mechanism can be a very appropriate technology choice, XML for presentation, in my experience so far, has fallen short in providing any compelling argument for adoption over conventional client technology in combination with server dynamics.

This book provides a fine over view of a subject that seems to be rarely addressed directly. It provide good comparative evaluation of technologies, but leans slightly toward Microsoft Centricity - mostly because at the time of the books writing Microsoft IE was the only browser to offer any XML support and it's XML on the server technology was arguably the most mature.

The book provides a good look at what you would use different XML related technology for and how you might approach certain problems including how to support XML enabled browsers and "XML Challenged" browsers in the same code base.

The book comes with a CD, the good news is you don't have to type in the code samples; the bad news is the samples have lots of bugs and yje CD contains ONLY samples from the book. No extra code or goodies.

The Prentice Hall XML Series is well regarded. This book is a valuable tutorial for Web Developers - Front End or Back End.

Joe@ASPGurus.com

This book was my introduction to XML. I purchased it specifically with the intention of creating the XML driven web site at http://mobile.act.cmis.csiro.au. The book provided an excellent background on the purpose, advantages and development of XML and the use of XSLT for transforming XML to HTML for viewing. It also describes the document object model and its use and has short sections on document type definitions and XML schemas. Unusually for a computing book I found it a great read and couldn't put it down until I'd read cover to cover with some skimming where there was too much detail for a first pass.

The book aims to be "platform neutral" and describes implementations in Java and the use of Apache in the Unix environment however there is an emphasis on the Microsoft environment, due mainly to the native support in the Microsoft browser and the integration of various components and tools that make this environment easy to use for XML development. The anti Microsoft fraternity may not approve of this emphasis but it suited my needs, as it was the Microsoft environment I was intending to use.

It is apparent throughout the book that XML standards and development tools are still very new and undergoing rapid change. The book describes a number of XML vocabularies that are in early stages of adoption, discusses standards that are still evolving and includes speculation like "This chapter... examines... and discusses the role XML will play over the next several years." This makes for a contemporary text and is in part what makes the book an interesting read as I got quite excited by some of the scenarios described and possibilities that became apparent. But it does mean the book will rapidly become dated and need a second edition. It also left me with a feeling that the book was rushed for publication in an unfinished state.

The book includes a CD that contains the files for a "full blown Web site" that "includes template files, style sheets, and server pages that you can use to create your own site for serving XML." The techniques employed are discussed in the book and this is a great approach. I created a new directory in the Web server's path and copied the files and subdirectories to my new directory with the intention of starting with a working site and modifying the files supplied to create my own site as suggested. This was a great disappointment. Nothing worked. Absolute rather than relative addressing was used so that hyperlinks were invalid. The cascading style sheets were full of errors so didn't work. The scripts assumed my computer had a recent version of browscap.ini, which most computers wouldn't so they didn't work, and it wasn't obvious why. Getting it to function was tough because fixing up the problems with something you don't yet understand is a big ask. Had I realized how much effort it would take I would not have used the sample templates as a starting point for building a Web site. As well the site includes a database sample but no XML is used in the sample and the HTML is constructed entirely by scripting in an Active Server Page, the opposite of what the book is talking about. It was this disappointment that convinced me the book was published when not yet finished. The source code should have been accessible from the accompanying web site and updated as required with additional implementation issues discussed as they emerged when readers tried to use the supplied code.

With the exception of my major criticism I regarded the book as an excellent and wide-ranging introduction to XML and its uses.

I guess we have finally reached the stage where anything written about the Vietnam War is considered a classic work. I was a student of the author in the late 70's, at which time his course requirement was purchase of this at the time unique work. One whole semester of this drivel. It was enough to make you wish you were in the foxhole with him and didn't survive. I guess if you suffer from flashbacks, this conjures up pleasant memories. What is next, poetry about the OJ Simpson trial, Chandra Levy or Desert Storm ? I guess it's easier to get published than we all realize.

This book, although not a classic, I agree, is a naked view of the war through the eyes of the soldier. This book addresses some of the most raw, most difficult things about war - the emotions behind the bloodshed. Previous writer may want to rethink their comments about the book, and read it for what it is - a bit of history through one man's eyes.

Wilfred Owen, Britain's warrior poet of World War I, could not have done a better job of describing war from the warrior's perspective. Bryan Alec Floyd has written a masterful collection of poems. Lovely stuff, really.

I recently bought this book, and I can tell you...what a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon! I would have given the title 5 stars if it had gone into greater depth on some of the subjects, but hey...it is 100 of the World's Greatest Mysteries, they've got a lot of ground to cover here. This is not an in depth exploration of life's deeper meanings. This IS a brief telling of great mysteries that skips, like a rock on still water, from subject to subject. Purely entertaining, light reading, and a truly enjoyable vacation for the mind. Enjoy...

I have always enjoyed reading about BigFoot, sea serpents, UFOs, ghosts and other so-called "mysteries." Some books are pure trash, but I found Mr. Floyd's book a thoroughly pleasurable experience. It's history and science and mythology and religion all rolled into one. It gets right to the point and does not stray, as do so many books that try to cover this material. The writing style is pure bliss--but packs a punch and leads the reader panting for more information. One thing about this book is that the author does not appear to draw preposterous conclusions; he leaves that up to the reader. Each one of these articles would make a nice book in its own right. Both of my teenagers have read this book and have recommended it to their friends. Just thought you'd like to know!

I found this an excellent introduction to many of the world's greatest mysteries. Concise and well-written, this author refuses to go where so many "fringe" authors go. In other words, he presents the facts as a good journalist would, without drawing sensational conclusions. This is good reading, highly recommended for readers of all ages. For those readers wishing to learn more about the material, there is an excellent bibliography.

This book is a well-known essay on differences in childbirth by an anthropologist; recent editions owe a lot to re-editing by Robbie Davis-Floyd, an anthropologist and "childbirth activist." The editor's comments are often gratuitous, frequently misleading, and short on medical knowledge. The book is descriptive, lacks anything approaching substantive data, and demonstrates a persistent anti-medical bias. It shows no familiarity with the obstetric literature, and there is no discussion of maternal mortality or morbidity. A reader is likely to miss the fact that 500,000 - 1,000,000 women die each year from pregnancy-related causes, and that 99% of those deaths occur in the developing world. The morbidity from pregnancy-related causes is even higher, and similarly ignored. Forget this book if you want to find out about cross-cultural differences in childbirth. Read Irvine Loudon's Death in Childbirth, Oxford University Press. Come back to this book when you have some data at your fingertips.

I loved this book. It brought a whole new perspective on giving birth and the beauty of it. I gave birth at a big HMO Hospital and I felt that I was treated as a number basically. This book has taught me a lot and probably I will make different choices for my next baby.

Jordan examines the birth event within the context of the social norms of that culture. For example, in a culture where no one is "in charge" of the birth, a specialised tool (e.g. forceps) has no place, for that would defeat the equality of all participants. The midwife's role is to assist the family in fulfilling their decisions. By contrast, in a country where birth is hospitalised, birth often becomes an "illness" which needs to be "treated" - the mother becomes the patient, and the doctor takes charge.I preferred this to "Birth traditions and modern pregnancy care" (Priya), which listed a variety of customs without examining the sociological implications. "Birth in four cultures" touches upon a variety of lessons that a culture's birth event can teach: the women's role in society, how the birth experience is defined (natural vs medical), etc. Jordan writes in the first person, and gives many accounts of births she attended. This is an excellent read for anyone interested in comparing the birth experience in the USA with other countries, possibly with the aim to change their opinions of what an "ideal" birth is. As a feminist, I found this empowering: since the birth experience is uniquely female, the societal norm will tell us a lot about our place in that culture.

When I was given this book by an ambitious Evangelical friend of mine, I eagerly dove right into it. Unfortunately, I was expecting something a little more original. McElveen doesn't come up with anything new, but rehashes things that have been refuted . . . nay, ANNIHILATED . . . numerous times before.

When writing anti-Mormon fiction, one must always come up with new ideas. Don't forget that, people. Improve your arguments! Don't advance on us Latter-day Saints like a horde of mindless zombies. Show at least a glimmer of creativity!

I do give this book three stars because I enjoyed following McElveen's extremely obvious polemical animosity toward the LDS faith throughout the book. His anecdotes of fictional bungling, stupid Mormons are also quite amusing.

I am astounded that I have been a Mormon my entire life, yet never questioned any Mormon doctrine. This book has opened my eyes. I am thankful for the author who put much of his time into research to clarify what was brought up in his book. My life has changed and I believe I have found the Christian God and I will be forgiven for my sins without all the conditions the Mormon religion held over my head. If there are any Mormons out there who are courageous enough to read this book, I ask that you keep an open mind. This book has brought me closer to God and his teachings than I ever thought was possible.

The Mormon Issusion gives a detailed account of Joseph Smith's claims and compares them with what the Bible says. The author includes archeological evidence as well as scriptural evidence to make his point. To anyone even casually interested in checking out the truths of Mormonism this book is a must! It is an easy read, and packed with facts that are simple to document. I enjoyed it very much and would recommend it to anyone searching for real truth.