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The murder of a notorious public figure places Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone in the harsh glare of the media spotlight.
When the body of controversial talk-show host Walton Weeks is discovered hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone finds himself at the center of a highly public case, forcing him to deal with small-minded local officials and national media scrutiny. When another dead body-that of a young woman-is discovered just a few days later, the pressure becomes almost unbearable.
Two victims in less than a week should provide a host of clues, but all Jesse runs into are dead ends. But what may be the most disturbing aspect of these murders is the fact that no one seems to care-not a single one of Weeks's ex-wives, not the family of the girl. And when the medical examiner reveals a heartbreaking link between the two departed souls, the mystery only deepens.
Despite Weeks's reputation and the girl's tender age, Jesse is hard-pressed to find legitimate suspects. Though the crimes are perhaps the most gruesome Jesse has ever witnessed, it is the malevolence behind them that makes them all the more frightening. Forced to delve into a world of stormy relationships, Jesse soon comes to realize that knowing whom he can trust is indeed a matter of life and death.
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A solid mystery keeps you guessing; sub-plot brings Jesse and Sunny together again.......2007-10-18
The main plot of the book involves the killing of a celebrity talk show (radio and television) host and columnist whose claim to fame was his equal-opportunity questioning of his guests' political beliefs - no matter on which side of the fence they sat. Also murdered was a young woman later revealed to be his mistress and discovered to be 10 weeks pregnant with his child. Jesse has to uncover a tangled web of lies to discover whodunit and how. The mystery aspect of this book is well done and solid and it kept me guessing until the end.
A subplot involving Jesse's estranged wife Jenn seemed a bit superfluous - something to add some bulk to the book, pretty much. Jenn comes to Jesse telling him she was raped by a man who followed her into her house and took her at gunpoint, and now this same man is stalking her. Since Jesse is in the middle of this hot murder investigation, he calls on his friend Sunny Randall to take care of Jenn and find out who the stalker is so Jesse can take care of the situation.
As I said, the subplot seemed superfluous - something to add bulk as well as to continually bring home the point that Jesse and Jenn are both completely screwed up in the head about their "relationship." The fact that this has been going on for so long makes me want to grab both of them and repeatedly slam their heads together. Who in their right mind wants to stay with a woman who refuses to commit to them, yet wants them to always be there whenever she crooks her finger? It's ridiculous. Anyway, that is why I knocked a star off my review.
Nonetheless, fans of Robert Parker should enjoy the word play between Jesse and the various other characters in the book - especially Suit and Molly. All in all it is a solid entry into the Parker universe.
Ack.......2007-08-17
Thirty-five years ago Mr. Parker started a series about a guy who thought and and acted differently, and the books were fresh and clever. The thing about the books was the way the charaters thought about things, and that was expressed through dialog. By now, we all know very well how RBP's chraacters think, so there's really nothing new to say, unless we start having the characters say things that no person on earth would say. If you can sit through this without wishing that most of the protagonists would be stabbed or beaten, God bless you.
Worthy addition to the Stone sagas..........2007-08-09
First, it might help if the readers understand that I get my Parker books from the library, so I have not invested the typical $20 or so purchase price. Second, I have been a Parker fan for about 30 years, so I tend to give him a break now and then. He does not need the benefit of the doubt for this entry into the Jesse Stone series, however. It is a quick read, as are all of Parker's dialogue-heavy, description-light productions, but the two murders which set the plot going are interestingly done. The suspects are numerous, the clues few. Even better than the murder mystery however, is the double triangle Parker set up by bringing private detective Sunny Randall into Jesse's love life. Sunny, of course, has a book series of her own, but in this one she is a supporting character. Events bring her into an important temporary role in the life of Jesse's former wife Jenn. Jesse and Jenn can't live together, but can't make their divorce a firm fact, either...just as Sunny cannot get her former mate, Richie, out of her own bed totally. Yet Sunny and Jesse seem ideal for each other. Many fans may resent the love complications taking up so much of the book, but to me, they have become more compelling than the killings being investigated. You'll be done with reading this in three hours, so whether it is worth buying instead of borrowing is a tough question. But for me, it worked, and gave me pleasure.
Jesse please get over that low life ex wife , or i am firing you!.......2007-08-04
This is enough! I love Parker, and i love Jesse Stone.He showed great promise in the beginning of the Stone series.However, i am tired of his hanging on to that low life, cheating, obviously disturbed ex wife. I also found Sunny's relationship with Jenn to be odd. If i had the opp to be with a great guy, no way would i condone the way his ex wife jerks him around. Geez, either add more plot or i am firing you Parker.
Jesse Stone in Paradise.......2007-07-22
This is the last book I will ever purchase by Mr. Parker, after a lifetime of buying his hardcovers. The reason? His ridiculous and unreal mooning over a really unlikeable, unbelievable ex-wife which serves only to detract from the real character of Jesse Stone.
We like to think of Jesse Stone as a solver of problems: he is doing just that now in Paradise, MA...it is unreal to believe that, five books later he has come no further than the juvenile pining portrayed by Mr. Parker in this book. It seems to be getting worse, rather than better which only serves to make us feel Jesse is going backwards....and we do not want to believe that for a moment.
Hopefully, Mr. Parker will find a really good shrink and clear his head of this unproductive mess. Then, we can concentrate and the terrific plot and story lines he brings us and not be sidetracked by the dumbdown of an unbelievable side story. Too many pages on too little reality.
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Markets in Profile explores the confluence of three disparate philosophical frameworks: the Market Profile, behavioral finance, and neuroeconomics in order to present a unified theory of how markets work. The Market Profile is an ever-evolving, multidimensional graphic that gives visual form to the market's continuing auction process, revealing the myriad underlying dynamics that influence market activity. Behavioral finance posits that investors are driven more by emotional factors and the subjective interpretation of minutia than by "rationality" when making investment decisions. And neuroeconomics is the study of how investor psychology permeates and affects the financial markets. Mr. Dalton explicates the ways in which irrational human behavior influences the market's natural auction process, creating frequently predictable market structure, which results in opportunities for investors to ameliorate risk. The book will improve investors ability to interpret change in markets, enabling better, more confident investment decisions.
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Essential.......2007-08-22
I am a fan of the Dalton (and Jones) Gang. See my review of their other superb work, Mind Over Markets.
I am not an author, like some of the reviewers here. I am a trader. We are all aware of the favorable reviews that authors often provide one another, however, these 5 star ratings are legitimate. Rest assured.
Simply, Markets in Profile is an essential addition to a trader's library. Read it, and read it often. I will likely consume the entire text every year. It is that valuable. This will become, if it is not already, a classic, not only in the field of Market Profile, but for trading in general.
I use concepts from Market Profile in my trading every day. With these concepts I am able to determine mundane things like, support/resistance areas, something I call price level magnets, i.e., areas of price that will be revisited during the trading day, and overnight trading strategies for the futures contracts that I trade. But more importantly, given the current day's profile, and profiles from the past several days, it is when price does NOT perform as expected that can lead to some of the largest profits.
No other author has produced the quality of work that is presented here, as it relates to MP. The discussion of the three time frame participants and their styles is required reading for understanding the financial markets. Each time frame player has an agenda. The authors do an excellent job describing how to identify their activity, and more.
I could write more in praise of this fine work, but others have provided a volume of commentary that may be unsurpassed for review of a book about trading.
My advice is to read this book, and read reviews written by traders who trade every day (and Brett Steenbarger, he is a wonderful author too).
Looking at what price alone doesn't tell you.......2007-04-12
At only 200 pages, Markets in Profile isn't exactly a hefty tome. Don't let its length deceive you, though. This is an intellectual book which incorporates a fairly wide array of topics, including some common academic theories, in to the mix. While there are loads of graphics included to provide visual examples in support of the text, which serves to cut down the actual amount of textual content, do not expect to breeze through this book in an afternoon sitting. It delves in to the heart of trading in a way that will force you to examine how you approach the markets.
One of the things that most, if not all of us forget when we're analyzing and trading the markets is exactly what's going on. We see the movement of prices and fail to remember what is really happening to create that price movement. That's the auction process. To quote the authors, "... price and volume move over time to facilitate trade in the pursuit of value."
A great deal of effort is expended by market participants to determine value. Fundamental stock market analysts spend hour upon hour trying to come up with a figure that represents the worth of a company based on earnings, book value, and other factors. That is all fine and good, but it is the market, in the end, which defines value. And it does so on a running basis.
The problem we market participants have is that we focus too much on price, which the authors indicate is merely the advertising side of the auction process. They demonstrate how price is just a way for the market to seek value. There's an important distinction here. Price is not value. It is just a way for the market to find value, which is defined as the price area where volume is generated because buyers and sellers meet in agreement.
To help us understand that process, the authors use some easily understood examples to define the basic mechanisms of the financial markets. They are the same as in other markets, after all. The process might operate faster and on a broader scale, but otherwise it is the same. Sellers are trying to recieve the highest possible value in the sales price, while buyers are trying to minimize the price they pay in relation to the value the expect to recieve. When there is disagreement between the two, little trading takes place. When they agree, lots of trading happens. It doesn't matter if the product is automobiles, banannas, or stocks.
About the first half of Markets in Profile is laying the kind of mental groundwork needed for really getting in to the analytic method known as Market Profile. Market Profile is the technique the authors use to identify the levels where the market has found value and when the market is in search of value. It is an approach first developed by Peter Steidlmayer (see Steidlmayer on Markets) at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) for the futures market, and which they spent considerable time defining and outlining in their previous book, Mind Over Markets.
On the surface, Market Profile appears to be just another way to present price history in graphic form. The authors, however, demonstrate how the Market Profile distribution patterns put "market-generated information" to excellent use in identifying value and the market's pursuit of it.
Using numerous examples, the authors explain in detail the ways Market Profile can be used to identify what they refer to as "asymmetric opportunities". These are market set-ups where not only do the odds more favor a move in one particular direction, but the situation is such that a move in that direction is likely to be substantially larger than were the market to go the other way. Think of it as you would a trading system that has a win rate incess of 50% and a high average winner to average loser ratio. That's a pretty good combination!
This is a book that can make a huge difference in the way you look at the markets, and by extention, the way you trade, but only if you let it. The authors challenge quite a view elements of trading. Some readers may put up walls where that happens. The open-minded reader, though, will find themself thinking along completely new paths and gaining massive insights in to the way they see price action.
(For the record, years ago, when I was a professional analyst focusing on the futures market, I used Market Profile extensively and with considerable success. In the intervening years I fell away from it when I shifted market focus, but I'm not making a move back.)
Highly Recommend.......2007-03-08
Trading is never easy and this isn't one of those books which gives you a system to beat the market. Instead, it shows you how to read the market, organize market information around the auction process, and interpret the actions of other traders. It provides a framework for making rational, informed trading decisions -- and that alone will put you head and shoulders above most speculative traders. This is one of the best, most honest trading books I've read in years.
A Must Read.......2007-03-07
Context, context, context is one of Dalton's key themes in his new book "Markets in Profile". It is interesting that this new book "Markets in Profile" provides the needed context for Dalton's earlier book "Mind over Markets". In "Markets in Profile", Dalton displays great care in crafting a framework that shows how to leverage Market Profile to identify asymmetric opportunities (low risk high reward trades) which can lead to long term trading success. A must read!
Compelling addition to Market Profile literature.......2007-03-07
Having read all the books on Market Profile, I have to say this is the most informative and best-written guide on the subject. I studied Market Profile when it first surfaced in the mid-1980s. In retrospect the problem I had in using the Profile was my focus on the single day time frame and my inability to detect the transistion from trending to bracketing markets. Dalton and co-authors provide a clear explanation of how markets change conditions and show how to use the profile to interpret market behavior in different time frames. The Market Profile remains the single best way to organize and interpret market action and this book is an excellent addition to the literature.
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Watch your income soar! Today's customers are better educated and more sophisticated than ever before. To keep a competitive edge in the market, salespeople have learned that a “low profile selling” style and exceptional service are what gets prospects' attention. But it's Tom's techniques that will eventually turn those prospects into clients. Eleven chapters discuss:
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Once you learn to diffuse customer likes and dislikes, you'll stand head-and-shoulders above your peers and earn the respect and repeat business of hundreds of satisfied customers.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book for the BEGINNER SALES GUY! (or girl!).......2006-12-10
I have absolutely NO sales experience. None, zilch, zero.
I studied medicine since the age of 18 and eventually received my Medical Assistant, EMT, LVN and Paramedic Licenses. I then studied more, continued to grad school and received my Masters Degree in Chinese Medicine.
How does this relate to me now? Folks, don't fool yourself. It does not matter what you have studied or what degree you received. 99% of us need to "sell" ourselves. Yes, even doctors and lawyers! Having a "niche" is important, but you still need to know about SALES in general.
I wondered why many doctors simply "drop their prices" while others charged double and sometimes TRIPLE than others. Was the technique different? Not hardly. It was the presentation, communication, the value and confidence.
Thank you Tom for this book, you have made a difference!
The days of the sterotypical "salesman" is over. No more pink pants, gift of gab, talking and not shutting up is over. I talk less, listen more and am simply amazed over and over of my results.
Don't "talk yourself" OUT OF A SALE!
Read this book, its worth it!
The best Sales book I have read.......2004-04-11
I think that of all the sales books I have read, this is the best. It is more powerful than Hopkin's "How to master the Art of Selling" and also more concise. I think that the advice in this book can actually be put to use by people dealing with well educated consumers, it won't double your sales, but it will stimulate imporvement, I recommend it if you are in a sales career, or thinking about it.
Worth Reading If You Sell For A Living.......2002-12-07
I enjoyed reading this book. Tom has a great way of presenting his material in a way that is easy to remember. I use and have shared with other salespeople the qualifying system that he outlines in this book and found it to very effective in getting the imformation needed to move the customer toward owning my product.
The author is an astute student of the language of selling and has some good closing techniques that help refocus the customer on making the decision to buy. In short, I have made money and helped my customers make good decisions using the techniques I learned from this book. It is worth your time to read.
Helpful Update of "How to Master the Art of Selling".......2000-10-06
Tom Hopkins's book, How to Master the Art of Selling, is the Bible for many sales people. In that book, he outlines the 7 steps for selling: prospecting, originating contact, qualification, presentation or demonstration, handling objections, closing, and getting referrals.
In Low Profile Selling, he builds on that book by focusing attention on the 4 areas that make the most positive difference in creating a higher income (originating contact, qualification, handling objections, and closing). His message is that the emotional tone you set in these four areas makes all of the difference. "Act like a lamb. Sell like a lion."
These observations are based on the distaste that many customers have for the usual strong-arm tactics that many salespeople use. Mr. Hopkins encourages you to use questions to do your work for you, and provides many scripts and examples of how to do this. Although I think he is on the right track conceptually, I found the material here clearly inferior to the newer book, Socratic Selling, both in terms of explaining the need for questions and in the tone of the scripts. I found the material here to still feel manipulative to me as a potential customer.
In chapter three, he encourages you to build rapport. Again, this is the right concept, but the execution is clearly inferior again to any of the many good books on Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Consider "How To Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less" as a much better resource in this area.
I graded the book down two stars for its obvious weaknesses in explaining the details in these two critical areas. Basically, I think Mr. Hopkins needs to update this book to expand and improve these two sections.
Should you read this book? Yes, I think so. It will give you a good overview on the importance of connecting emotionally with the other person. Chapter 6 is excellent on the importance of the words you use to make the person you are talking to comfortable or uncomfortable. The goal setting work in chapter 10 will also be very helpful to you (although it would have worked better at the beginning of the book). I do suggest that you also read his earlier book and the two new ones I cited above that he did not write if you want to make the most improvement.
After you have finished reading and applying the four books discussed above, I suggest that you also spend some time sharing these principles with someone you care about who is also involved in sales. You will improve much more by teaching this material to someone else than by just focusing on applying it yourself.
Exceed all your goals quickly!
Low Profile Selling.......1999-11-29
Nobody, but nobody, understands the nuts and bolts of selling like Tom. If I were stranded in middle America trying to make a living in sales with only one book in my car this is the one! A must read for any new sales person or a great refresher for any vet!
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Only good for workstations, not complete........2007-09-24
For managing GPOs for locking down servers, this is not a complete book. This is an excellent book for managing desktops or workstations, laptops and terminal servers. There are many user rights assignments and security settings that are left completely out of this book.
A must!.......2007-03-25
When you're working with Group Policies or Profiles, it's simple: you must read this book. Jeremy Moskowitz learns you the tough parts of Windows in his own matchless style.
Excellent source for IT professionals.......2007-01-14
This book isn't for beginners but if you're a network or systems administrator it is an excellent source of group policy information for Windows servers and workstations (2000, XP, and 2003).
Easy to Read.......2006-08-31
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Awesome Book.......2006-06-03
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Designed to help readers comprehend the complexity of child development, this edition of Developmental Profiles: Pre-birth through Twelve, 4E outlines major characteristics for each of the developmental domains in a concise, non-technical, point-by-point format. Coverage of developmental profiles has been expanded to include middle childhood, and content has been updated to reflect current information about prenatal care and brain research. A new feature identifying important safety considerations at each developmental stage is given along with suggestions for appropriate adult supervision. Each chapters offers objectives, key terms, and case studies, and each section includes tips for promoting children?s curiosity and learning. Web resources provide relevant information to chapter topics for further consideration of child development.
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great seller for text books.......2007-02-10
Seller was very professional. My purchase was brand new and sent in a timely manner.
Developmental Profile Overview.......2007-01-05
An easy read... The information is quite familiar, if you have read other materials on health, safety, development, and nutrition issues for young children. The enclosed CD-ROM provides real and practical examples of classroom settings, setup, and activities--based on age.
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This is an excellent book for Early Childhood Educators. The book is easy to read and it covers before birth to 12 years of age. It has excellent resources.
Helpful information.......2006-03-19
Although this book is a textbook I purchased it as a new parent for use as a guide to my daughter's development. While it does contain a great deal of useful information it doesn't go into significant detail about any particular phase of development but rather gives an overview of each stage, hitting the highlights. Nonetheless I would buy it again and think it was a good investment.
general review.......2005-09-30
This book gives the basic expectations for the ages specified. The book breaks the developmental expectations down by age, and covers most developmental expectations such as physical and cognitive and social. This is a good beginners book or one to reference.
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Thrive on challenge!
Some professionals, feeling overburdened by challenging job tasks, struggle through projects and avoid additional responsibilities that might prove enriching. They often find their careers unsatisfying, and their job performance may suffer as a result. This field-tested profile shows employees how to seek challenge and to develop valuable skills from their professional lives.
Professionals will use their feedback from the JCP to assist them in:
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The Facilitator's Guide, which includes a sample copy of the Participant's Workbook, details the essential workshop procedures--including setup, administration, and follow-up--and provides you with reproducible overhead and handout masters. You don't need to be a training professional to use this tool in your organization: this guide gives you all the basics.
Your participants will quickly be able to score and interpret the inventory using the practical Participant's Workbook. With the aid of this action guide, they will determine what and how much they are learning, what parts of their jobs hold key challenges, and what strategies they might adopt to derive maximal learning from these experiences. Every participant will need a copy. Use the world-renowned expertise of CCL to create a learning environment where challenge is welcome!
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Sure, it's neat to know which famous people have the same birthday you do, but wouldn't it be fascinating to know what else you have in common with these celebrities? The Secret Language of Birthdays will show you this and much more. Through "personology" (a combination of characteristics influenced by sun sign, season, and day of the year) and an analysis of several thousand character profiles, authors Gary Goldschneider and Joost Elfers have pinned down the traits most common to people born on the same day.
Rather than taking a strictly astrological approach--how the planets, sun, and stars affect a person's behavior--the authors compare the commonalties of people who share birthdays, and piece together a personality for each day of the year, effectively slicing through geographical and cultural differences, while avoiding the one-size-fits-all trap of newspaper sun-sign horoscopes. Some readers may find the authors' strict use of the Gregorian calendar limiting, but conversion to other time-keeping systems is fairly simple (the authors make note of this problem and contend that a day is a day, whether someone names it October 21 or 1 Rajab). Goldschneider and Elfers focus on a model of the year as a wheel spinning in a recurring circle of patterns, an idea that reaches back far beyond the linear calendars we use today. Each birthday discussed includes important numbers, tarot cards, and a dose of psychology, so while you learn a little about the other people with your birthday, you may even discover something new about yourself. --Brian Patterson
Customer Reviews:
An Eye Opening Experience.......2006-07-15
This book is a must-have! It's a great conversation piece for get togethers. When I read my birthday I was amazed at how the analogy applied to me. I bring it to work once or twice a year for people to read about themselves, their children, spouses, etc. Most are awed at the accurate depiction illustrated of themselves or loved ones born on a certain day. The only people that have picked up my book and denied the accuracy of what the book depicted were people whose personalities were negative. When I read their birthday personality I felt the book was right on about them. It described their negative and maybe vindictive personality which I saw in these people. The negative/pessimistic personalities that read about themselves denied any truth to what they read because they don't want to accept who they are. I have read numerous birthday personalities for my spouse, my children, relatives, friends and acquaintances and found this book to be very accurate. I feel it's a must-have. You should know what YOU are capable of and know more about the people in your life. This book is very accurate in my opinion!
Fun to read but you will quickly tire.......2006-01-23
Each birthday gets two pages of trivia such as who was born on this day, a personality evaluation, numbers & planets, tarot, health, advice, meditation, and more. Just imagine being born on 20 April. Adolf Hitler. The book is too old to remember the Columbine shootings.
There are a few other sections in the book that cover periods in the zodiac cycle.
Nice superficial book that may give you some conversation for a day or two. This also makes a good coffee-table book. Soon though even your visitors will get bored with the book.
If you like this book you will love "You Were Born on a Rotten Day" by Jim Critchfield.
Nice to read a book .......2005-07-09
that doesn't go into great detail about how flawed we have been since birth and if we don't do certain things on certain days in certain places, we're all going to burn in this terrible place forever.
For those who "believed" in this book to the point where they lost their jobs, houses, and everything else, that's their problem that they want to believe everything they read (I've also known people of questionable character and motives who believe everything the bible says word for word and then have the nerve to go around judging people who don't meet their standards - losing their jobs, houses, etc. in the process - and I don't see anyone complaining about that).
It's a fun book to have around and I love hearing the half-cocked explanations as to how a complete stranger can pick up the stronger points of your personality just by looking at your birthdate.
No one astrology book contains the whole truth. This book is meant to attempt to explain what you *may* be like, personality-wise.
Lighten up.
Wicked Book.......2004-12-12
This book is not to be taken seriously. However, because it is often accurate, you cannot not take it seriously. And when you do, you will lose yourself. You will believe whatever the book says about you. The more you dwell into it, the more you become out of touch with reality. Some people who got hooked on this book actually lost their jobs, their houses, and their personal life. This book will cause turmoil once you believe in it. Absolutely destructive.
It's a book, and contains what you'd expect. Amusing!.......2004-12-06
Highly entertaining book! If you want to have fun, and don't take this sort of thing too seriously, I highly recommend it. If you DO take this sort of thing as total fact/truth, more power to you. "Today you will have a deep feeling" "Today you will make a choice that will change your life" Horoscopes and astrology are as ambiguous as they are for a reason. ***FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY***
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The Virtual Student is an essential resource for online educators working with students in higher education and training settings. The authors offer an overview of the key issues of student online learning and provide a practical guide to working with online students. The book covers a broad range of topics including learning styles, multicultural issues, evaluation, retention, and the challenging problems of plagiarism and cheating.
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Excellent book for virtual teachers.......2004-06-26
Are you entering the world of virtual education? This book can give you clear information on how to design your courses, how to analyse the work of your students, how to grade forum's participation and what mistakes you must avoid. A great introduction for all teachers who are interested in active pedagogy and collaborative learning!
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Proven techniques for market profile users at any level
A "market profile" presents a number of basic elements from the market in an easily understood graphic format that, when analyzed properly, can yield profitable intraday and swing trades that traditional indicators do not reveal. Steidlmayer on Markets shows readers how to find these opportunities using the innovative techniques developed by the author during his many years of trading the market. This fully updated Second Edition covers innovations in both technology and technique-and broadens the scope of "market profile" to include stocks.
J. Peter Steidlmayer (Chicago, IL) joined the Chicago Board of Trade in 1963 and has been an independent trader ever since. Steidlmayer served on the Board of Directors of the Board of Trade in 1981-1983. While a director, he was responsible for initiating Market Profile and the Liquidity Data Bank. Steve Hawkins (Chicago, IL) has experience in trading in both stocks and commodities. Over the past seven years, Hawkins has educated traders across the globe. He has also collaborated on the writing of books on trading and written articles for industry trade publications. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in economics.
New technology and the advent of around the clock trading have opened the floodgates to both foreign and domestic markets. Traders need the wisdom of industry veterans and the vision of innovators in today's volatile financial marketplace. The Wiley Trading series features books by traders who have survived the market's ever changing temperament and have prospered-some by reinventing systems, others by getting back to basics. Whether a novice trader, professional or somewhere in-between, these books will provide the advice and strategies needed to prosper today and well into the future.
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A New Understanding to the Markets.......2006-06-02
This is an excellent read and well worth the investment. It will give any trader a better understanding of why markets do what they do. This book does not give a specific trading strategy (which was one of the things I was looking for) but rather insight into a tool that will support your trading and help you make decisions. This is the type of tool that the pros use. My biggest disappointment is the acknowledgement that Market Profile doesn't work like it used to, now you need new sophisticated tools and techniques that leverage Market Profile data as a starting point, which is convenient because the authors happen to have the software to do just that, Capflow32.
The great book to start day trading.......2005-02-25
This book can help to to identify the pattern in the market and trade the trend. However, the real time data and the program to give a graphical layout may not be easily obtained.
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- at most a work of fiction
- Average age at death 61 for blood type A?
- The book of anxiety
- Definitely in favor of type "O"!
- Amazing research based on proprietary data
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The book content explains the direct link between ABO blood types of people and diet, disease, longevity, and compatibility. It explains what one`s blood reveals about the person, why some people within a family stay healthy and others do not, how to add 20 healthier years to one`s life, why certain common foods are considered poisonous, and how to lose body fat without starving. It also contains menus that are blood type specific per individual, refuting the one-for-all-diet philosophy.
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at most a work of fiction.......2007-03-11
In large bold print, the book quotes Albert Einstein as saying, "THE THEORY IS CORRECT ANYWAY." This simple quote serves as the foundation for Joseph Christiano and Steven Weissberg's theories in The Answer is in Your Bloodtype. This book was written to educate people about what their blood type can potentially translate into. The authors claim that knowing one's blood type is important for staying healthy, eating well, and having good relationships. The Answer is in Your Bloodtype, although "written by a renowned physician and an internationally known fitness expert," makes superfluous scientific claims without any strong evidence. The assertions that the authors make may seem to make sense, but when further analyzed, are nothing but pure pseudoscience.
The book begins with a thorough explanation of human blood groups. The analysis of the anthropological distribution of the four blood groups (A, B, AB, and O), their trends in diet and exercise, and various "interesting phenomen[a]" related to each blood group are presented in the first few chapters. For example, the authors note that "almost every" older smoker "tends to be Type O," a phenomenon that they give no scientific evidence to besides "what [their] research shows." The book continues by giving evidence of blood group on longevity, disease, and sexual compatibility. The book rounds off by providing "grocery lists" for each blood type and a seven-day menu for both active and inactive persons of each group.
It seems likely that the authors intended The Answer is in Your Bloodtype for people interested in improving their fitness and well-being. The book does indeed touch on various subjects that would pertain to this audience: nutrition, exercise, spiritual and social well-being, etc. It also gives suggestions for people in each group regarding what foods they should purchase and what foods they should avoid. The authors do a good job explaining the rudimentary aspects of nutrition science but the more complex areas are lacking evidence.
Although The Answer is in Your Bloodtype is presented as a scientific breakthrough, the book is full of individual case studies without a compilation of statistical data and analysis. The first appendix, for example, contains a list of research subjects. Whereas actual scientific case studies would be presented as statistics, the authors list their research as "Jose L., smokes heavily, tortured in Nicaraguan prison, age (67)." The authors seem to believe that a mundane list of worthless information will suffice for scientific evidence. Additionally, when data is presented it is usually followed by an extreme conclusion without any proof. For example, "In our research, we found individuals who were A2 by virtue of their muscle mass, but had to eat vegetarian to stay healthy. Those who did not follow a vegetarian diet invariably developed high blood pressure or heart disease." Logical flaws such as this are not uncommon in this book.
As a final note, the authors illustrate the validity of their research (as pertaining to personality) by listing a "small portion of the JFK, Jr. family tree." President Kennedy is used as, yet another, case study due to his blood type - "John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the only confirmed blood type AB president in the history of the United States." The authors go into great detail about President Kennedy's unique life, his personality, marriage, and the various people he met (as if one's blood type would predict who one will meet.) The information is mere fluff, an excuse at trying to give backing to their research. Yet, "in terms of The Theory of Compatibility, it is [all] explainable."
The Answer is in Your Bloodtype does a wonderful job at keeping a biochemist, such as myself, entertained. The heavy emphasis on believing the authors without any scientific proof renders this book at most as a work of fiction. Research linking one's blood type to health and personality does indeed exist. Publications regarding the scientific validity of the theory can be found from 1927. Dr. Weissberg and Joseph Christiano, however, do their utmost best to keep this information a secret. They end the book with yet another quote of Einstein: "God does not play dice with the universe" -- The Answer is in Your Bloodtype.
Average age at death 61 for blood type A?.......2004-06-25
Many people claim they lost weight on the blood type diet, but look more closely, regardless of your type. Eat lean meats, fresh fruits and vegetables, Essene bread instead of commecially prepared white or wheat, and stay away from sweets and processed foods. Common sense. I have relatives who were blood type A that died in their 80's and a few in their 90's, and some of them were smokers. Sorry, but I don't buy into the "fact" that type A's are guaranteed to die before 70 years of age unless they take extra special care of themselves. However, I do agree that A types are more prone to stress and anxiety than type O's and that A types have low stomach acid, since I'm type A and never took antacids a day in my life and I know numerous O's who munch on them like candy.
The book of anxiety.......2004-01-19
I read this book and it caused me more anxiety than it helped me. I am a type A and very negative things are said about the A bloodtype. Like one other reviewer said, this is like a doomsday book. No way will I ever read this type of book again! I think that the author should have been a little more sensitive.
Definitely in favor of type "O"!.......2003-06-24
Being a type "A" bloodtype, I found this book to be very dooms day for type "A". As a matter of fact, I do not beleive that this book had anything positive to say about type "A". Furthermore, my husband is a type "O" and we have a great relationship. This book neglects to point out that the oriential population is in fact the highest population of type "A"s in the world and happen to have a greater life span. Moreover, the research subjects for type "A"s over type "O"s leave a lot to be desired. Notice how most of the "A" subjects were heavy drinkers and smokers as opposed to the "O" subjects who died of "natural causes." Also, make note that there were a total of 5,000 people in their test group which is questionable in a world where the population grows by at least ten times that on a daily basis. Overall, I do plan on changing my eating habits but feel that the authors could have been more sensitive to "A" bloodtypes. I'm sure they were probably type "O"s.
Amazing research based on proprietary data.......2003-05-31
These guys have analyzed a unique data set of mortality tables segmented by different blood type. Their conclusion supported by the facts are that each bloodtype is associated with very specific vulnerabilities to various health condition. As a result, survival rates at different age are very different. Their analysis extends to nutrition, sexual temperament, and other individual characteristics associated with bloodtype. This is most interesting stuff.
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