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Internet Bookselling Made Easy (Book Review)

INTERNET BOOKSELLING MADE EASY!: How to Earn a Living Selling Used Books Online By Joe Waynick (Small Business Press, 2011).Reviewed by Claude Whitmyer, 2011. INTERNET BOOKSELLING - The Website At first glance, when visiting Joe Waynick's InternetBookselling.Com site it looks somewhat like all those "get rich quick on the Internet" scams that are so prevalent these days. Don't let that first impression put you off. Click on the links and you'll find out just how…

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In My Own Way (Book Review)

A Book Review IN MY OWN WAY: An autobiography 1915-1965 by Alan Wats (New World Library, 2007, Second Edition, 385 pp. with index, ISBN:10-1-57731-584-7). Reviewed by Claude Whitmyer for AHP Perspectives. "The reason…I became a philosopher is that ever since I was a little boy I always felt that existence as such was weird! I mean, here we are. Isn’t that odd!" Alan Watts Alan Watts is, arguably, the most influential philosopher of the 20th…

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22 Keys to a Meaningful Workplace (Book Review)

A Book Review 22 KEYS TO CREATING A MEANINGFUL WORKPLACE: Purpose, Direction, Relevance, Dialogue, Fit, Relationship-building, Respect, Invention, Personal, Acknowledgement, Challenge, Validation, Support, Development, Informality, Flexibility, Ownership, Equality, Oneness, Self-identity, Worth, ServiceBy Tom Terez (Adams Media, 2000).Reviewed by Claude Whitmyer for the Association for Humanistic Psychology's newsletter AHP Perspective.What makes a space sacred? Is it the artifacts? The rituals performed there? Charismatic leaders? Followers with deep faith? Perhaps it can it be summed up as…

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Job Shift (Book Review)

A Book Review JOB SHIFT: How to Prosper in A Workplace Without Jobs. By William Bridges. (Addison-Wesley, 1994, 256 pp, bibliography, index, ISBN 0-201-48933-3). Reviewed by Claude Whitmyer for AHP Perspective. A slightly revised version of this review was published in the Journal of Management Consulting, Vol. 9, No. 3, May 1997.Here's a book to make you sit up and pay attention. The job as we know it is dead, and William Bridges makes a…

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Instructions to the Cook (Book Review)

A Book Review By Claude Whitmyer INSTRUCTIONS TO THE COOK: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life that Matters, by Bernard Glassman & Rick Fields (Bell Tower/Crown, 1996). Reviewed by Claude Whitmyer for Shambhala Sun, April 1996. The Ch'an/Zen tradition has a long history of teaching stories that center on the cook. From the Taoist tale of Prince Wen Hui's cook in The Inner Chapters of Chuang Tsu to the koan about Guishan kicking…

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