The most comprehensive, single source, small business strategy guidebook I have read and applied.
The tactical processes Robert Frey recommends gets you focused early by crystallizing your business strategy, mentoring you step by step, establishing knowledge-based decision points and executing a successful proposal.
The CD is a great plus with schedules, proposal templates, and more to get you started for your next contract award!

In this blue-ribbon edition, Robert Frey provides enough valuable proposal management detail to establish your proposal department, to write your proposal manager's job description, to outline your proposal team's functions, to produce topflight and winning proposals, and to measure the proposal team's success. And if that were not enough, Frey offers his bravura insights into knowledge management and how this wonderful concept can be realistically and incrementally applied to the proposal development process.

Frey mentors you to success with regard to every aspect of proposal management. Frey's style is not staid and wooden. To the contrary, his love for his audience and his desire for their proposal management success shines forth. I would pay twice as much for the book. My company's proposal win rate this year alone proves the worth of the material in these pages. Invest in it, do what it says, and prepare for the reward.

Bob Frey has again created a valuable source of information that should be on every Business Development professional's desk. It presents a clear and concise approach to properly managing the proposal business acquisition process, including creating a winning proposal. The use of Knowledge Management approach to leveraging intellectual property provides an excellent approach to crafting a winning strategy and incorporating it in the proposal. I highly recommend this book.

Just for the record there are MORE than 12 books. Furthermore, yes, they are incredible. It's an ongoing adventure with a fantastic plot. I've used them to get my students into reading allowing them to DO something with their reading. But yes, there are more than 12, I DO in fact have them all and am NOT in fact interested in parting with them.

The Lone Wolf series is a great series. I have all 12 books and am going through them all again. Get this book.

The book basically brings you right smack into the surreal world,whereby evil and good fight for control.I can say joe dever moves you with all the vivid memories of how lone wolf journeys through the land to arrive at durenor to get the sommerswerd.The book made me think about life in fact and could even control my feelings[angry,sad,etc.]with the vivid descriptions of the situations.UNFORTUNATELY the books are all out of print.I just wish joe dever would actually consider reprinting new issues,as i never had a chance to find out how lone wolf developed in the later issues.PLEASE DO REPUBLISH THE BOOKS.

It's a user friendly book, that has help me save money. It is very well cross referenced in the main section and in the index. I was surprised to find out the hundreds of ways as well as health and other uses tea tree oil is good for. It helped my teenage daughter clear-up her acne. Discovered tea tree is great for disinfecting and cleaning uses. Best idea was how to use tea tree oil with my regular toothpaste to get rid of plaque. The dentists hygenist asked me if I'd recently had my teeth cleaned, sincew there was so little plaque. That tip alone, made the book worth it.

Explains well the many ways to use this incredible natural remedy. A frined follwoed the books instructions and it healed the fungal infection on his foot. As the book recommended, I told a girlfriend to massage some onto her scalp and add some to her shampoo, to get rid of her itching scalp and dandruff that she had unsuccessfully tried many dandruff shampoos on, it worked. I used it for my eczema, like the book said and finally have something safe and easy to use for my skin problem. tea tree and this book are staples I wwould not want to be without - they are great!

The book explained and gave many scientific studies about the uses of tea tree oil. Which made me more comfortable about using tea tree oil. I liked the fact that the methods of using tea tree oil for each conditon, were clearly given. In a few weeks it helped me clear up swollen gums (gingivitis), and I discovered loads of other health, home and pet care uses because of the book. I browsed a few other books on the subject and this was the only one that told me how to safely use it on my dog, and gave the warning signs of tea tree oil poisoning of small pets and what to do about it. This book helped me discover the lot's of ways to safely use tea tree oil.

The kingdoms hintbook is, without a doubt the most brilliant, moving and ultimately breathtaking novel of its day. It will grab you from the beginning and never let go. Few authors come to mind in comparison to this masterwork. Among them Chaucer, Dickens, and Mary Higgens Clark. I highly recomend this chef d'ouvre to anyone who enjoys classicly pronounced literature.

I'd like to know how those two guys rated a book and a game that has not been released yet? Why would the web master allow these comments to be published. Lets all be a little more responsible please.

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I first read this book when I was in high school, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I have read it about 4 times now. It actually made me laugh and cry. I loved how the Navajo culture came out in the subtle "every day" way. She didn't bombard you with statistics and make you feel like you were reading a history book, however you really feel like you are getting to know the culture/history. It inspired admiration, sympathy, anger and hate towards the characters. Beautiful, beautiful story.

On a sad note, why are there no more books by Sabina Grant? The first thing I did when I finished reading this book was to try to find more books by her to buy and read, and it appears that this is the only one she wrote.

This book ranks number 1 in my favorite all time books. It is full of compassion, beauty and history. I have read it 5 times and will probably read it again one day. The writer had a way of weaving Navajo tradition into the fabric of the romance story and I fell in love with the Navajo people. I recommend this book very highly.

They were going West, the courageous young Elspeth and her beautiful but ailing married sister, leaving their civilized life in Boston for the uninhabited unknown. Elspeth told herself they were going for her sister's health, but when she looked into her brother-in-law's eyes she saw greed....

When they finally arrived near Santa Fe, Elspeth became friendly with Maria, a young Navajo girl captured and working as a slave. Through Maria, Elspeth began to respect the ways of the Navajo-and to be sympathetic when Maria's brother, Tall Man, swept into the village to rescue her....

From the moment Elspeth saw Tall Man, she could not get him out of her mind. She knew she would follow him to the ends of the earth, and that she would forsake her past to embrace the man and Navajo people, she had fallen in love with forever....

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The book shocked me when I started reading it. It was as if I was reading about myself through the whole book. One of the chapters that covered suicide thoughts made me feel like I was not alone. Reading this book gave myself and my husband a better understanding of what to expect when healing from sexual abuse.
I can't say enough about this book. It's not only well written and very easy to understand but it is written by someone who has been through the healing process with his partner.
Thumbs up on this one!

Cameron takes you into the world of a child sexual abuse survivor and explains in layman terms how to help, deal, and cope with the process of healing. I brought this book for not only myself but my husband. My husband devoured the book in about a week. If you area survivor of child sexual abuse and really want to give your significant other or partner a gift buy this book. It will help them understand you, your feelings, and the child within. Actually my favorite chapter is the Child Within, where he speaks about the inner child. There are a lot of authors out there who DO NOT talk about the inner child as he does. With such understanding and sensitivity.

If you are a partner or significant other, you will find this book enlightening. You will finally understand the survivors anger, grief, and pain. You will learn how to back off and give space or embrace them for comfort.

This is also a good book for therapist who are working with couples or families. Highly recommended.

Grant Cameron and I argue constantly on the Internet on a number of subjects. However, this book was so right on target that I can find little to disagree with him. Grant's book helped me understand why my special friend is the way she is, and, in fact, the very things that she says are echoed by Grant from his own experience of helping his wife heal from childhood sexual abuse. The road to healing for the woman abused during childhood is hard and filled with difficulties, but partners may not be prepared for just how difficult the process may be on them. Grant has prepared an outline, a road map for those with the courage and concern to stand by the woman they love while she goes through the ordeal--and it is indeed an ordeal--of healing. If one is the same situation as Grand, they cannot do better than heed his advice and learn from his experiences.

This book is one of the best i've ever read on Greek/Roman myth, and i've read many in my life. This book contains entries on characters rarely found anywhere else such as Nox, the Greek personification of night. As such i often use this book as a measuring stick against other books in this area.

Grant and Hazel have provided a finely grained and authoritative dictionary-style reference that is quite handy for identification of any figure from classical mythology. The book will prove useful for keeping at one's side when reading Homer, Hesiod, Sophocles, Euripides and company. Very helpful appendices include genealogical trees, alphabetical list of classical authors referred to, and clear and informative maps.

Who's Who is an excellent resource, but it is not meant for those who wish to sit down and read Greek myths. The book is set up in an encyclopedic fashion. References to specific Greek mythological figures are easy to locate. However if you are looking for Greek myths in story form, this is not the text for you.

This is a book about possibilities. It is an excellent resource to anyone who is considering ideas outside the traditional religious teachings of our culture.

This book is an inspirational instruction book for your mediumistic self. Appealingly clear and free of ethereal, new-age jargon, it provides simple and powerful guidance for connecting with your own "companions in spirit." I read the entire book in one sitting, and found it was immediately useful, and the results illuminating! I find myself referring back to it over and over, as well as giving it as a gift to friends. Full of fascinating antecdotes and grounded advice from a seasoned professional, this is a great book for beginners as well as for experienced metaphysicians.

Ever needed a switchboard operator to help you with a connection... This book is one. Again, Laeh M. Garfield has the ability to entertain, while offering very down to earth ways to tackle the spirit world. With a lot of common sense and no new-age fog, one can learn to communicate with one's own spirit guides. This book contains a great many tips and stories on how to do that. With all the new-age books about spirits out there, this is a refreshing very valid book that has nothing in common with the airy-fairy way of its new-age peers. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in their own guardian-angel etc.

Different from most java books. Not a single image of a Java widget. The diagrams are graphs of various scientific equations. Palmer knows his audience. Primarily, you are in a field where programming is very much just a tool; a means and definitely not an end in itself. Typically, you had to learn Fortran or C to, say, integrate an equation or converge a series.

While a snazzy GUI might be pretty, you often just want a set of numbers as output. Granted, this might reflect when you learnt programming. Before 1990, graphics were still uncommon. But even today, output as a set of numbers is still the most important case, because often that output becomes the input of another number cruncher.

If the above describes your case, and you have never used Java, then this book may be well suited. Palmer expends no time in teaching a GUI. And scarcely more time on an exposition of object-oriented layout. He puts enough details that you can easily read the examples, which are really the core of the book. These show how you can solve a common equation with relatively small amounts of code.

Guess what? It is not difficult at all. The core subroutines in numerical programming look much the same in Fortran, C, C++ or Java. If you can take an equation on paper and express it in one of the first 3 languages, then you can easily transition to doing it in Java. For a given problem, the amount of work you have to do to express and debug it in code is about the same, across all these languages. None of these languages gives you a magic potion that makes your work much easier.

So why choose Java? Well, if down the road you want a GUI, then only Java [of these 4 languages], comes with a built in set of widgets. And using them is very easy. Much easier that writing with X on top of C or C++, for example. Plus, if you want to assemble a library of subroutines, and make it widely available, then Java offers nice ways to arrange these in a hierarchical fashion.

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this book is an excellent book on java for a person with
scientific and engineering background like me. Having written
programs in FORTRAN and C, it is delight to know that someone
is out there ready to publish a book like this to dispell
myths that Java can be used for making GUI screens or writing
EJB components to be put on the server for database access etc.

After explaining the constructs of the languages in the 1st few
chapters with a scientific slant, the author takes up complicated

numerical methodss algorithm and shows java can be used for the
same.

if a person like integration, differentiation, numerical methods,
FT .. sorry fourier transformation, and is interested in learning
java, this book is a worthwhile book and a must have for your
reference shelf.

this is an excellent book and I would like to thank the author
for thinking of engineering/scientific oriented people like me.
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An elegant and erudite guide to using Java for sophisticated mathematics, this book is nonetheless very readable, even by the mathematically challenged. Yes, it demonstrates how to code a lot of beautiful math, but that comes later in the book. First and foremost, it provides a concise and easily comprehended introduction to the core concepts of Java and object-oriented programming.

Dr. Mullen has written a book of hope for depression sufferers and families or caregivers of sufferers. This is not a clinical analysis of the problem, but a personal journey to which the reader can relate. The tone of this book is conversational, and not preachy or didactic, making it quite readable. Dr. Mullen gives the sufferer permission to feel the way he does and is not judgmental. Conversely he approaches this subject very seriously and does not give the reader the impression that there are easy answers. He does not propose a single formula for all sufferers, but rather he sees value in drug therapy, counselling and deliverance. The personal annecdotes included in this book are very encouraging and give hope to those who are suffering that others have indeed recovered. Dr. Mullen has done an excellent job of taking the guilt for feeling depressed out of the equation and given the sufferer the freedom to find help. This is a most readable book and highly recommended for Christians suffering from depression.

Unfortunately, the church isn't always a place of refuge for those of us who suffer with depression. In several circles, there is a stigma of spiritual weakness or lack of faith associated -- at a time when support is needed most.

Dr. Mullen examines all the issues in a very practical & spiritual manner, encouraging the reader to both lean on God and also to change the way he/she regards the illness. The author also covers the sometimes-controversial topic of taking medications to treat depression and other anxiety-related afflictions: take medication in order to feel well enough to be able to pray & take part in one's own recovery.

If you personally suffer from any of these problems, I hope you have the support you need from friends, family, and your church family. May Christ's blessings follow you daily.

This book has been a blessing to me. It describes my mood disorder and how to get the help I thought was not available. I would highly recommend it to anyone who has unhealed emotions from the past . Thank you Dr. Mullen for writing it.