The Sixty-Second Motivator
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The Sixty-Second Motivator
Jim Johnson
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Based entirely on research from peer-reviewed journals and randomized controlled trials, The Sixty-Second Motivator is an easily read story that reveals practical motivational techniques. In less than 100 pages, readers will have the necessary tools to enable them to motivate themselves or others. A handy worksheet is also included which guides the reader through the motivational process.

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5 out of 5 stars Sixty Second Motivator.......2007-09-19

This is a great little book. It is written in a light style that makes it easy to read and digest the principles that Jim spells out. If you have ever tried to make a change and been unsuccessful in accomplishing your goal this little book will help you to understand why you failed and how you can increase your chance of success. I found it to be helpful both with my own personal goals and in better understanding what may help to motivate my clients to achieve their stated goals.

5 out of 5 stars It Really Works!.......2007-08-08

Forget the motivational seminars, DVDs, and CDs. This little book has more insights into motivation than anything else I have seen! No hype here.

The author has taken complex concepts and made them easy to understand in an entertaining way. I use the practical tips not only to motivate my patients, but also to motivate myself!

5 out of 5 stars The Sixty-Second Motivator- Book Review.......2007-06-12

Both my husband and I enjoyed this book a lot. We found it to be a neat, well organized little book written in an easy-to-understand, straight-forward style that is genuinely enjoyable while at the same time providing valuable insights about why we do or do not do things. While we found it quite analytical about key factors concerning motivation, the book didn't make us feel intimidated or "preached at". The tone of the book came across to us as friendly, low-key, very helpful, analytical and a valuable "keeper" to refer to in life's future situations.


5 out of 5 stars Excellent read!!.......2007-03-08

This is an excellent read and one book you will finish reading. They say that most poeople don't finish books they buy, but this one is soo relevant to our lives that you will want to read it cover to cover several times! Keeping it in my day planner for a random quick read infusion throughout the day helps keep me on track!!

5 out of 5 stars The missing link!.......2006-09-19

Having read Jim Johnson's No Beach No Zone weight loss book, I knew WHAT to do, plain and simple, and WHY it was important. So why wasn't I doing what the book laid out as a proven plan for weight loss? It's all about motivation. There's even a chapter on motivation in his weight loss book - but this book takes it one step further, into the science of motivation. Personally I think both books dovetail into one another well, especially if your lack of motivation happens to be in the field of losing weight. The science of how to lose weight permanently, and the science of motivating yourself to do anything. Once again, this is all based on research and not what one guy thinks.

One of the best surprises about this book is the way it is written. Without giving away too much, I can tell you that this book is more of a story than a collection of facts, and reads almost like a mystery. One thing's for sure, it's extremely engaging. I read the whole think in one sitting; the research and strategy don't take volumes to explain or lay out. I'm not one to read huge volumes, and Jim Johnson always makes a concise read devoid of medical mumbo-jumbo. The actual motivation chart takes up one page and really makes you think about what makes your own self "tick". The only excuse for not getting motivated is if you aren't willing to give up one hour of your time, and a little more time spent thinking straight.
ATL Internals (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
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ATL Internals (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Brent E. Rector , and Chris Sells
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Written for the advanced C++ programmer, ATL Internals reveals the inner workings of the Active Template Library (ATL), the toolkit of choice for building today's lightweight Internet and server components.

The book begins with a tour of the ATL code generated by the Microsoft Visual C++ 6 AppWizard. The authors introduce fundamental ATL programming issues here, but they do not provide a general introduction to COM or ATL; they assume that readers have a good deal of background in both C++ and COM.

The book focuses on the extremely useful ATL support classes for managing strings (BSTRs), variants, and smart pointers. It covers the classes that help instantiate COM components (and examines support for different threading models and "creator" classes). The guide continues with object internals--covering object maps and the classes used to manage them--and interfaces, including aggregates and various interface design options. Information on ATL's support for persistence, which lets objects save and restore their state; on how ATL supports basic containers; and on interfaces that work with the Standard Template Library (STL) in C++ is well done.

Later sections explain how to work with windows and ActiveX controls. After some material on events (and connection points), the authors reveal ATL support for basic window operations, including dialogs. For building a custom ActiveX control, the authors provide an excellent example of a nicely functional visual control. (This code will prove invaluable since it illustrates all the essentials of ATL component programming.) --Richard Dragan

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ActiveX controls are a Microsoft technology that allows
developers to reuse components. The ActiveX Template Library (ATL) is a
C++ library of class and function templates. ATL is a faster,
easier-to-learn alternative to Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), that
allows Windows programmers to produce compact code quickly.

This book provides practical solutions for programmers, and explains
these solutions on a detailed, technical level -- keeping the technology in
a real-world context that many books lack. Programmers will learn how to
create new ActiveX controls using ATL, and how to modify the thousands of
available ActiveX controls to fit specific needs.

Written by well-respected writer and teacher Brent Rector along with
DevelopMentor's Chris Sells, the content of this book has been taught in
courses for the Technology Exchange Company and Wise Owl Consulting. The
book covers the latest version of ATL, 2.1, a major revision.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars ATL Internals Book.......2006-01-25

Very professional and prompt. The book arrived earlier than the estimated date and in perfect condition.

5 out of 5 stars This is a six star book.......2002-10-10

ATL internals is the final word on ATL. No other book is needed to master ATL.

I have a good number of books on COM and ATL but getting the low down on ATL starts and ends in this book. The coverage in unbeleiveable. It will make you think you were part of the ATL implementation team.
This book is not a short cut for learning COM programming.You should have a good understanding of how COM works and you also need to know your c++ well(emphasis on well. This book does not teach c++)
However, considering the .NET revolution, ATL may not be of much use for much longer.But if for some reason you need to learn ATL, this book is the ATL University.

5 out of 5 stars Don't do ATL or COM without it.......2002-05-05

This is simply one book that you do not want to be without when designing and implementing a COM project. I purchased the book after I found myself in my first COM project and without any coworkers with any experience in this area. As a comment, I've also rummaged around the Internet and purchase ...books in the effort to come up to speed as quickly as I can. ATL Internals is the best source of data on ATL that I've found so far.

ATL Internals not only discusses ATL but also does and excellent job discussing COM's theory of operation and how a Win32 OS supports COM.

As a warning, however, ATL Internals isn't the only book that you need on a COM project because it is specialized on ATL (and on COM in general). While ATL is useful it is not the only thing that you will have to deal with on a COM project. You will probably need to work with IDL files and for that I can unequivocally recommend "Essential IDL" by Martin Gudgin.

ATL Internals accomplishes several things well; I will try to describe the most valuable aspects of this book. One of the best properties of this book is that it is thorough. It covers ATL in depth.

The following is a partial list of the material in ATL Internals:

1) ATL Internals covers using the wizards and explains how to proceed beyond the point where the wizards quit.
2) A though discussion of ATL facilities. For example: CComPtr (a COM smart pointer), CComBSTR (a class wrapped around the error-prone BSTR datatype) classes are covered in detail. The text conversion macros are completely covered here. In other books and on the internet I saw code examples that used them but will little explantion.
3) Bug warnings, both your (potential) bugs and bugs within ATL. The authors point out the buggy parts of ATL and they invest the necessary effort to warn out about aspects of ATL that, if naively used, create bugs. Numerous pages are dedicated to showing both how to correctly use certain hazardous parts of ATL as well as examples of buggy code. Depreciated techniques are also described for completeness.
4) Discussion and examples of various COM issues, including threading issues, connection points, the Service Control manager (SCM)and so on.
5) Detailed discussion of the numerous macros that Microsoft uses to conceal substantial code, (e.g. BEGIN_OBJECT_MAP, COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_IMPL, etc.)
6) One of the appendixes shows a cross reference between ATL classes and header file names. This was a welcome convenience (yes I could have greped, but this is quicker)

ATL Internals not only has great content but it is written in a very readable style. The typeset is easy to read and the diagrams are well done.

5 out of 5 stars The best book for understanding what's REALLY going on.......2002-02-14

I first bought this book because it was the only one I could find that had a discussion of ICollectionOnSTLImpl that I could understand. I was already fairly familiar with ATL - at least how to use the wizards - but found that a lot of the documentation that was available was less than useful, especially the collections stuff.

After successfully using Chapter 7 (Collections & Enumerations) for what I needed, I went back and read the whole book from front to back, and started really to understand what was happening under the covers - the whys and wherefores for all of the seemingly quirky little code chunks that I had seen peppered throughout my code, but not understood fully.

This book has become an indispensible resource, that I keep close at hand. I can't really recommend it as a first book on COM or as an introduction to ATL, but this is not a criticism, because that's not its intended purpose. For in-depth coverage of the workings of ATL, though, I haven't come across a better book.

5 out of 5 stars A great book for ATL.......2001-12-01

If you are a COM C++ developer, this book is great and it answer a lot of your questions. However, it is not for COM beginners. If you are a beginner, definitly buy Essential COM (by Don Box).
After reading Essential COM, you should own this book. It is excellent to learn ATL and as a reference too.
ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8 (2nd Edition) (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
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ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8 (2nd Edition) (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Christopher Tavares , Kirk Fertitta , Brent Rector , and Chris Sells
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ASIN: 0321159624

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3 out of 5 stars ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8 (2nd Edition).......2007-08-16

Most reviews on this book were very good. It was the reason I bought this book. This book covers topic on the ATL 8 as its title says.

However, I don't like this book although I will read this book to the end.
The reason is this. Each chapter discuss about its own topics like strings, and so on. However, it just describes each methods of a given class. It is like that of the MSDN. Why doesn't it show some sample code lines which shows how to use some of them and what the result is? By doing so, it is much easier to understand and read. After reading a few chapters, I started skipping explanations because of the pattern.

Also, just like other books nowadays, it is too descriptive. It will be good if it is a book about explaining concept of the COM, or if it should give some idea on the topic. However, readers of this book already knows about the COM and if they consider "COM", they are already fairly experienced programmers. Then explaining things like the MSDN documents do is not helpful. Probably it would be better if it can explain thing more clearly than the MSDN do, but I guess it is not the case for this book.

Also, what lacks seriously among most COM books is that they fails to describe the automatically inserted macros and their relationship.
Also, for the Visual C++ 2005 IDE, there are some peculiar things. For example, the IDE displays the same interface under class and under interface on its solution pane. You may wonder where to put codes for a certain interface. It could be better if this book explains about them too.

Because COM is designed very confusing way, the Objective-C remote messaging, it needs good explanation. However, this ( and most ) book fails in doing so.

Additionally, it would be better if it has some tutorial chapters.
By following step by step, you can figure out things more clearly, but this book fails in that too. At least the first chapter seems to be written for that purpose. However, it omits some declarations and it is not implied where to put those. So, I gave up writing codes for the chapter.

However, as for the coverage of the topic, it seems to be chosen well.

I know.. people are moving to the C#/C++ .NET remoting.
Nowadays many books on COM/.NET interop are published. So, probably the important of COM is diminishing.
However, COM is still the core of the technology, and I'm not sure if the .NET stands for long-time. Even MS changed things about .NET abruptly so much, and people using .NET seem to use C# instead of C++ generally, I think it is not good idea to rely on proprietary technology. Yeah.. COM is proprietary. But your code using COM doesn't totally rely on proprietary code... at least C++ part...

I hope this book would be improved.

5 out of 5 stars deals with many legacy issues.......2006-08-09

Tavares and his co-authors present a specialised guide to the latest version of Active Template Library. It's for the C++ programmer on a Microsoft machine, who is also familiar with the Component Object Model. The authors specifically state that you really do need expertise in the latter.

The book deals with various legacy issues, mostly dating back to MFC, which is now largely deprecated. But there are also other aspects that are grubby and mostly unavoidable. For example, when dealing with character types, there is an abstraction called OLECHAR. Under Win32, it maps to wchar_t, while under Win16 [and the Mac] it maps to char. The need for this was due to the hardware improvements that took us from 16 bit CPUs to 32 bits. A transition that occurred mostly in the 80s. But for Microsoft, the legacy code remains in use. So there has to be low level logic that maps the character type to an actual appropriately sized memory allocation.

By the way, don't think this issue is confined to Microsoft. C code from that era that was developed for Unix machines, and which might still be in use, often has a similar problem. C macros dealing with this are a notorious source of porting errors.

The text deals with many other aspects of ATL. Some, like collections and enumerations, are very cleanly done. These classes are inherently meant to be high level abstractions. And the C++ code examples that use these are very easy to follow. The discussion of this also includes some sample Visual Basic code. (Most of the book has C++ code.)
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This survey on the "state-of-the-science" of stem cell biology explains the origins of stem cells and describes how they function, how they can cause illness, and how they might be employed to cure or ameliorate disease. In particular, the authors discuss the roles of stem cells in development and organogenesis, in normal tissue turnover, in the repair response to injury, and in carcinogenesis. They also explain how to obtain stem cells from different organs, culture them in vitro, and manipulate them for therapeutic use.

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5 out of 5 stars Impressive.......2007-06-08

Im a student in Biology.

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    The Internal Sell: Encouraging Executive Influence and Accomplishment
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    The Internal Sell: Encouraging Executive Influence and Accomplishment
    Michael E. Friesen
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    Executives at all levels and in every type of organization achieve their executive status in one of two ways: they either inherit it or they earn it through hard work, aspiration, and a bit of luck. Friesen directs his book at executives who wish to improve their ability to sell and implement ideas, and, in doing so, continue their rise up the corporate ladder. This book will also be of value to executives who have a desire to increase their authority and/or their administrative position and to those who wish to inspire a sense of loyalty among their employees, and those who hope to lead their orgaizations into the next century. Friesen explains why organizations tend to be defensive and how recognizing this can lead to greater levels of personal success. He also provides a thorough background on the nature of power, contrasting legitimate power and authority, and helping one understand how to increase it without formal advancement in the organization. A specific process one can use to sell ideas as well as to develop relationships is described and illustrated. The book is intended for specialists in organizational behavior and top-level executives. It is organized to provide value as a reference work and to provide readers with unusual and useful strategies for their personal advancement and the enrichment of their communication skills.

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    5 out of 5 stars This is a good one!.......1998-12-01

    If you have ever wondered why your ideas aren't embraced by your peers and superiors, you need to read this book. I have always been amazed at how often my ideas either get ignored or worse. This book tells how to put your ideas forth so they will be recognized, accepted, and implemented. If you want to do more than just survive in the corporation you must learn to manipulate the system by "selling" your ideas internally... and the book lays out just how to do that. Friesen makes it look easy.

    Give this one a quick read, it was worth it for me.

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent, practical guide to critical skill........1998-11-05

    Michael Friesen has identified a skill and function that doesn't show up on job descriptions or performance reviews, but is probably the most critical tool in determining an executive's job satisfaction and career success. That function is selling internally--to others within your own organization. Anyone working in corporate America will recognize the importance of this function as soon as they read Friesen's thesis on it. But more importantly, readers will learn how they have done with this skill in the past and what they can do to sell internally more effectively in the future by reading this book.

    Friesen outlines a very clear, logical and systematic process for selling ideas within a company. He gives real-world hints on completing each of the steps within the process, so that readers can develop clear plans for selling their own ideas in a very methodical fashion. The approach is common-sense, but one that most do not employ because of a myriad of reasons Friesen identifies, including organizational defensiveness, egoism, personality traits and just plain ignorance of its importance!

    Friesen's book includes lots of anecdotes and cases that we all can relate to easily. These illustrate the fact that one of the most amazing things about this book is that it wasn't written before--the topic is so critical, that one would expect others to have addressed it before this. But Friesen's is a first, and the guide is so definitive that others will not be needed. This is it! A must read.

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent advice for greatly expanding your influence.......1998-09-27

    This book helped me understand that ideas are like goods and services - they can be sold- indeed they must be. Prior to reading this book, I didn't understand this and was frustrated with my efforts to share ideas I have to improve the way my organization functions.

    This book provides clear and productive ways of selling your ideas. Organizations and individuals tend to be defensive and reluctant to consider new ways of doing things. The Internal Sell describes typical rejections an individual will face and how to overcome them.

    Here's what you can expect from this book:

    Lack of understanding of the RESISTANCE of three important realities - organizational defensiveness, differences in personality types, and misinterpretation of power and authority - causes people in many organizations to "give up", get frustrated, "moan and groan", or just take their ideas elsewhere. You can expect from The Internal Sell a new sense of CONFIDENCE in a proven approach that will allow:

    * Creativity to abound

    * Productivity to increase

    * Morale to improve, and

    * Innovations to occur at a rate that will surprise you.

    The concepts and methodology of The Internal Sell work equally well whether you are INSIDE an organization trying to get your good ideas adopted or OUTSIDE as a sales person dependent on someone in the customer organization to be skillful in selling your idea.

    The principles within The Internal Sell are also perfect for the organization that has committed millions of dollars for SAP or some other comprehensive enterprise-changing system. It's still the PEOPLE, their CREATIVITY, and their COMMITMENT that will make these massive investments pay off. The Internal Sell will help you to understand how to make your organization OPTIMIZE individual contributions.

    I highly recommend this book to readers in all types of organizations and all levels of the organizational hierarchy.
    Buy-sell agreements and transfer tax valuation.: An article from: The Tax Adviser
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      Buy-sell agreements and transfer tax valuation.: An article from: The Tax Adviser
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      From the supplier: IRC section 2703(b) provides an exception to the general rule of section 2703(a) which calls for transfer tax valuations that are not adjusted for restrictions on property such as options or other rights. Under section 2703(b), buy-sell agreements are exempt and may have a valuation discount applied to them if the agreements are not a wealth transfer device, are bona fide business agreements and are consistent with arms-length agreements. Agreements with values less than fair market are not likely to qualify under section 2703(b).

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            IRS letter ruling 9306001: a window of opportunity to sell publicly traded stock and use the installment method. (Brief Article): An article from: The Tax Adviser
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            Title: IRS letter ruling 9306001: a window of opportunity to sell publicly traded stock and use the installment method. (Brief Article)
            Author: Richard W. Bailine
            Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
            Date: June 1, 1993
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