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Project Management For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) More than two thirds of American companies use teams to execute their most important projects, making project management a highly valuable skill for advancing your career. Project Management For Dummies, Second Edition introduces you to the principles of successful project management and shows you how to motivate any team to gain maximum productivity. You’ll find out how to:

• Define your project and what you intend to accomplish
• Identify project stakeholders and their expectations
• Develop a project plan
• Establish project schedules and timetables
• Determine which skill sets and resources the project requires
• Choose team members and define their roles
• Launch you project and track its progress
• Encourage peak performance
• Conclude your project successfully

Complete with helpful tips on delegating, shortening schedules, and optimizing your own performance Project Management for Dummies, help you get your project, and your career, off the ground in no time.
Customer Review: Project Management for Dummies
This is a great book like most Dummies books. I’m involved in a Strategy Planning process with a not for profit organization as a volunteer and a little over my head so it really helps.
I would recommend it to everyone who is getting into a project like ours.
Customer Review: Good for a total dummy also
I found the book very helpful. I would have liked to have seen some example documents. ie: Project Charter etc.

The World’s Healthiest Foods, Essential Guide for the Healthiest Way of Eating George Mateljan’s new book takes healthy eating to a whole new level. It presents a unique nutrient-rich approach to the “Healthiest Way of Eating” with 500 Mediterranean-style recipes, most of which take 7 minutes or less to prepare. This book answers the question about what to eat to keep healthy. It focuses on the World’s Healthiest Foods, 100 delicious foods that are nutrient-rich, providing the maximum number of nutrients for the least amount of calories. The book is an inspiration not only for those who want to achieve vibrant health and energy but for those who also want a healthier way to lose weight by making the World’s Healthiest Foods the foundation of their “Healthiest Way of Eating.” The World’s Healthiest Foods are among the most flavorful foods in the world – so you can now eat healthier without sacrificing taste! George also explains why it is not any more expensive to eat healthy. The book complements the material on the whfoods.org website with innovative new ways to maximize the nutritional value of the World’s Healthiest Foods and minimize preparation time using quick and easy recipes that anyone can make.
Customer Review: The Cooking Bible
This book is truly amazing! The book is easy to read and the recipes are simple, fast, and delicious. You don’t need a long list of ingredients for any of the recipes, and the longest part of preparing any meal is cutting up the veggies. My family calls this book the cooking bible, because we refer to it every evening. I have come to love whole foods more than I thought possible and have tried foods that I never knew existed. Thank you George for all your wisdom!
Customer Review: The World’s Healthiest Foods
Fabulous book – Basic necessity for a cookbook for cooking vegetables. Best they have ever tasted. Lots of great information. Brings it all together.

Mind’s Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Inspector Van Veeteren Mysteries) The highly anticipated first novel in the Inspector Van Veeteren series in now available in English. At last, American readers will be able to enjoy, from its very beginnings, this addictive series by one of Europe’s most beloved and best-selling crime writers.

Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when she died at the age of ninety-eight. Her vivid visual vocabulary — sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth — had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence on American art in this century.

O’Keeffe’s personal mystique is as intriguing and enduring as her bold, brilliant canvases. Here is the first full account of her exceptional life — from her girlhood and early days as a controversial art teacher…to her discovery by the pioneering photographer of the New York avant-garde, Alfred Stieglitz…to her seclusion in the New Mexico desert, where she lived until her death.

And here is the story of a great romance — between the extraordinary painter and her much older mentor, lover, and husband, Alfred Stieglitz.

Renowned for her fierce independence, iron determination, and unique artistic vision, Georgia O’Keeffe is a twentieth-century legend. Her dazzling career spans virtually the entire history modern art in America.
Customer Review: Portait of an artist – in living color
Portrait of an Artist is just that – a portrait of a powerful, unique artist. Refreshingly, for those of us who have an interest in art and some knowledge but are not familiar with technicalities, the book is very direct and honest. One comes away with the feeling they have met and experienced a fascinating woman – one who is not always pleasant and kind, but one who is always open and honest. Her art is used as a lens into her deepest feelings, although the only representations of her art are in photographs where she is posing in front of one of her paintings. Her devotion to her art was inspiring, although it seemed to overwhelm everything and everyone that surrounded her. I walk away from this book very glad to have met and experienced Georgia O’Keeffe, but also glad to have experienced her from a distance and not had to endure her intensity personally. This is a great compliment for a fascinating book.
Customer Review: A Portrait That the Artist Would Have Enjoyed
When author Laurie Lisle advised the artist, Georgia O’Keeffe, that hers was a story Lisle “wanted to tell,” O’Keeffe, as was her wont, elected not to participate but told Lisle, “you are welcome to what you find.” (“Forward and Acknowledgments.”) Lisle, equipped with a passion for her subject and steadfastness of purpose – qualities similar to those governing O’Keeffe’s own work and life – pored through museum bulletins and exhibition catalogue notes, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs about O’Keeffe’s artistic peers (including her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz), and O’Keeffe’s letters preserved in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book Library. She spoke with O’Keeffe’s schoolmates, in-laws, and friends. And, of course, she viewed O’Keeffe’s creations.