Every new writer/author needs this book. It could help prevent many mistakes, and could help increase the chances of your success!

Over the years, I have perused many, many books on entrepreneurial creativity, but this book is the only one that really covers the evaluating and testing of your ideas with great depth. The author's IVS (idea value score) system involving a total of 250 test questions is worth many, many times your book investment. The test is self guided and self monitored. According to the author, he had studied some 100 case histories to compile the test questions for readers. His sources included the Harvard School of Business and the American Managament Association. Hence, the test questions are quite sophisticated. Although this book has been written from the pre-internet era, the book's coverage of test questions is still very relevant and appropriate to entrepreneur wannabes. I enjoy particularly the book's logical discipline in helping me to develop and enhance my own evaluative thinking processes. The book ends with a Blueprint for a Winning Proposal. Although the end portion is not indepth enough - it is not the focus of the book anyway - I still find the author's 10-must-point suggestions for a good proposal very useful. For a broader and deeper focus of the latter, I would recommend readers to get hold of Joseph McLeary's By the Numbers: Using Facts & Figures to Get Your Ideas Approved. I am very glad I found this idea testing book in a used book store.

Stone and Duke have an excellent style of writing. They make you feel as if you are sitting with them around a comfortable table having a late evening discussion over a hot cup of coffee. Their real world examples bring their theological concepts into crystal clear focus and assists the reader in transforming external theological principles into interalized spiritual practices

Employers: Buy this book, read it & give it to all your employees. Ms. Erickson's short but highly insightful 25 ways will improve your bottom-line when your employees take new interest in their job & demonstrate greater productivity as a result of what they learn from Ms. Erickson's gem of a book. Simply to read, comprehend & use -best investment you'll make this year for employee training.

Employees: If you care about your career, buy, read and begin to live this book. It's got all you need to become a true "star" at work and see yourself move up, on and land bigger raises and better jobs. SO, if you want job security -insure your own by following the sage advice that Ms. Erickson offers in this quick but powerful guide.

Robin Ryan, Career Counselor & Bestselling author of 60 Seconds & You're Hired! and What to Do with the Rest of Your Life

This is for Amazon.com, not for readers. This book has only one author--Victor R. Fuchs. Please remove the other name!

The state of Tennessee has had a proud political heritage from the days of the Declaration of Independence to the election of 2000. One of Tennessee's most recent shining lights was Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr. Baker's story is one of true grin-and-bear-it grit. A political fighter, Baker learned the art of compromise in dealing with the heavily Democratic senates of the 1960s and early 1970s. He was a powerful senator during the Nixon years, vice chairing Senator Ervin's Select Senate Committee on Watergate, earning him the respect and admiration of a grateful nation. Baker's candor and likeability allowed him to become the Minority Leader for the Republicans and sent him stumping all over the nation in the eventual hopes of having a Republican Senate. Baker fought his aspirations of the presidency through Watergate, the Energy Crisis, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the START II negotiations because he believed that a strong nation stemmed from a working relationship between parties rather than gridlock. He fought hard for partnership rather than partisanship, but his good deeds and responsibility to his leadership duties cost him in his 1980 campaign to be his party's presidential nominee. The book is a great read for all those interested in political history or for those just itching to hear the tale of a politician who actually helped build America up rather than tear her down. Very similar to Lee Annis' co-authored book Tennessee Senators 1911-2000 (authored by Sen. Bill Frist).

This book contains a wealth of information about the history of animation as well as the art and science of creating an animated film. This well written and very readable book reflects the hard earned experience and wisdom of a true expert in the field. The book is also chock full of useful and amusing illustrations by the author. No student or professional in the field of animation should consider his or her library complete without a copy of this book. But this book will not get dusty sitting on a shelf. It's a wonderful resource that you will want to refer to time and again.

A wonderful book, which allows the reader to enter the world of Reverend Howard Finster, the greatest of the outsider artists to and visit Paradise Garden, his environmental creation. Reading this book is like visiting Howard and it is filled with great examples of his artwork. This is the sort of wonderful book which goes out of print and becomes collectable, so get it now!

In Howard Finster: The Early Years, Thelma Bradshaw (Finster's daughter) provides an informative, intimate memoir and tribute to her 80 year old father's life and work. The reader is treated to rare and previously unpublished family photos of Finster in Trion, Georgia, along with his early work. Howard Finster: The Early Years is a welcome contribution to American art history and highly recommended reading for those who appreciate his original artistic visions -- including his "Paradise Garden", which is an incredible maze of found-object art and sculpture which he created near his home in Summerville, Georgia.

I have read this book several times, and review it before any major photo expedition. Howard concentrates on the essential art of underwater photography in a concise, readable, meaningful way. He avoids extraneous technical information that so many other manuals use as filler, and focuses clearly on the essence of underwater photography. I gave my original copy away as a gift, and was overjoyed when I was able to pick up a used copy of this out of print paperback. I recommend this superb book to all underwater photographers, new and old.