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The relationship between a mother and daughter is one of the most profound bonds in life. A mother feels her daughter's first kick during pregnancy, labors to bring her daughter into the world and watches as she takes her first breath of life. Similarly, a daughter opens up a new world and range of emotions to her mother, allowing her to feel an unconditional love she didn't know she possessed. For new moms in awe of their daughter's first step, veteran moms in a panic as their daughter leaves for her first prom, or seasoned moms who have just caught themselves saying "Because I said so!", each will be touched and inspired by these heartwarming stories that share the life-defining moments of the mother/daughter relationship. Celebrity contributions include stories by Jacquelyn Mitchard and Joan Borysenko. Chapters include A Mother's Love; A Daughter's Love; Memories; Challenges; Lessons; Like Mother, Like Daughter; Loss and Healing and Timeless Wisdom. This is the perfect book for all the special women in our lives for Mother's Day, a birthday, or any day.
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Broken Hearted Mom.......2007-04-05
This book is a total joke. My daughter and I had several sessions with Frances Firman Solario. She ruined my family. Frances Firman Solario did not encourage forgiveness like she writes in her book. She cast both mother and daughter against one another. My daughter and I were on better terms before we started seeing Frances Firman Solario. My daughter and I are no longer on speaking terms. My family is broken. I highly would NOT recommend this book or recommend that you use Frances Firman Solario as a therapist.
Five stars.......2004-05-12
The stories in this collection are gems that every mother can relate to. If you're a mother or a daughter this book is a must read! The stories will make you laugh and cry and, best of all, you'll recognize yourself in many of the pages. Debbie Farmer, parenting author of 'Don't Put Lipstick on the Cat'
CHICKEN SOUP FOR MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS SOUL IS #1.......2003-04-27
My daughter & I enjoy Chicken Soup For The Mothers And Daughters Soul.It not only touch our souls it touch our hearts.It is very hard to stop reading it.I would like to Thanks the Authors of this book for bringing back an older favorite of my daughter & I ,That was to sit down & read together.Chicken Soup For The Mothers And Daughter will not only touch your Soul it will touch your Heart.I I pray that God continues to bless you.Please write more books soon.I would love to have an complete series of all your Best Seller Book,This book is a treasure that All Mothers & Daughters will enjoy for years to come.Many,Many Thanks,Again***** Frances,You are a hero.You touch so many people near you & very far,That is what makes you a hero to me.Your book will not only warm & touch the hearts & Soul of Mothers & Daughters,It warms up every one that has a heart.Hugs,
Congratulations on a job well done.......2003-04-13
Above average writing sets this book apart from others of its genre. Stories are engrossing without seeming contrived. All in all, a well put together collection of stories, quotes and cartoons that ACTUALLY is inspiring.
love2read.......2003-04-09
This is a beautiful book of short stories about the laughter & tears experienced between mother and daughter and, in some instances, 3 generations of mothers & daughters. There were a few stories that I really didn't see the point in and didn't understand why there were included, but all-in-all, the stories made me laugh and cry. I purchased the book as a mother's day gift for my mom, but had to read it myself first!
It's a great gift for yourself or mother/daughter. It's an enjoyable and sometimes tear-jerking read and sometimes a mirror of a relationship you have/had or would like to have.
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Summarizing the critical changes affecting labor relations in the global marketplace, this comprehensive text outlines problems and provides strategies for success in the dynamically evolving work environment. Blending description, analysis, and empirical research into a thorough overview of the field, the authors discuss court decisions and collective bargaining and labor relations at all levels of government. In addition to a compendium of research resources, this classroom-friendly edition includes more new case studies illustrating key examples. The third edition retains the successful features of previous editions and combines expertise from both academic and professional perspectives.
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Best Single Text Available.......2006-07-21
I teach collective bargaining & labor relations in the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program at the University of New Hampshire. Kearney's book is the sole comprehensive text on public sector labor relations available at this time. Its thorough coverage includes the history of public sector labor relations, the ins & outs of collective bargaining, the impacts on budgets and personnel policies, and much more. I've used it as the primary text in a graduate-level course, supplemented by journal articles and case studies. Several students remarked that the book was detailed yet readable, as well as realistic (students often catch on when an author has never been a practitioner of the subject matter). I recommend this book for courses in public sector labor relations, and it would be useful in most Public Administration programs. A good complement to this text is Najita and Stern's Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: The Experience of Eight States, a reader of case studies that illustrate most of the concepts described by Kearney.
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Civic Service: What Difference Does It Make?
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The history of scenario planning is rich and varied. Throughout the ages people have tried to make decisions today by studying the possibilities of tomorrow. When that tomorrow was more predictable and less fraught with uncertainty, those possibilities had a good chance of being the right ones. Now, however, the only given constant in a world of complexity is change itself. In an environment where information technology is driving an information revolution, and where the rules can be rewritten with breathtaking speed, planning can seem more based on luck than foresight.
There are methods for coping with unpredictability. The Scenario planning techniques described in this book will help to think about uncertainty in a structured way. Based on Gill Ringland's previous book Scenario Planning: Managing for the Future, this updated and expanded version focuses specifically on scenarios in public policy. The use of scenarios to create a framework for a shared vision of the future, by promoting discussion and building consensus outside a business environment, is examined. Ringland also looks at the similarities between organizations which have used scenarios successfully - such as the importance of communication via storyline and image.
Scenarios in Public Policy and its companion, Scenario Planning in Business are both practical paperback books that each expand on specific areas of Scenario Planning. They will appeal to managers looking to learn about and apply a particular aspect of scenario planning.
Reviews of Gill Ringland's prevoius work:
"Nobody can ignore the future. This book is a must-read for any manager aspiring to put scenarios into practice."
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"(Gill Ringland) offers us a mechanism by which to bring structure to information technology and other forms of complexity, offering us the vital ability to understand the dynamics of change."
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Clear and useful.......2003-08-06
This is a very straightforward guide to scenario planning and scenario thinking in the development of public policy and in the public sector. It is relatively short, clearly written, and has excellent references to material on the Internet as well as a good bibliography.
It has four parts. The first two provide case studies of the use of scenarios in public policy and in public sector organizations respectively. Part 3 is a step-bystep guide to the process of scenario planning. Part 4 is titled Scenario Thinking and describes the role of scenarios in catalyzing organizational learning.
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Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: The Experience of Eight States (Issues in Work and Human Resources)
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Useful but Dry.......2007-05-04
I think this is a useful book of case studies, most applicable to a public sector labor relations or public administration class. The cases are structured so that students can easily compare key concepts in public sector labor relations from state to state. For example, having read the applicable chapters, students should find it relatively easy to discuss the scope of bargaining in New Jersey and compare it to the scope of bargaining in Pennsylvania. However, when I have assigned this book, students have given me negative feedback on it, complaining that it is tedious. Despite this, I would consider using it again.
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Pensions in the Public Sector (Pension Research Council Publications)
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A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States (Pension Research Council Publications)
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Some 13 million public-sector workers in the United States--including teachers, police and firefighters, state and municipal employees, judges, and legislators--and another six million federal and military employees participate in government pension plans. These pension systems are extraordinarily diverse in design, investment policy, and governance, and they face substantial challenges as the government-sector workforce ages and governments are asked to take on new and different tasks.
Pensions in the Public Sector explores the diversity of governmental pension plans and investigates how these financial institutions must change in years to come. What can be done to help public-sector pension plans perform more efficiently and thereby enhance old-age security? Should they invest with social goals in mind, or should they convert to defined contribution plans, an initiative just beginning to garner popular support? Contributors to the book show that successful public-pension systems demand careful attention to benefit and financing policy, strong funding and investment performance, and continuous actuarial oversight. Several in-depth case studies illustrate how decisions are made at the individual pension board level, making the book exceptionally useful to policymakers in the coming decades.
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Public Pensions.......2004-06-02
Public employee pensions are in deep trouble in many countries, undermining economic policy and threatening retiree well-being. What can be done to help them perform more efficiently and enhance old-age security? This volume takes stock of public pension developments in the US and Canada, highlighting challenges these financial institutions face in coming decades. The first Pension Research Council study of public pensions in a quarter-century tackles these topics with an impressive team of international actuarial, legal, and economic experts.
Pension in the Public Sector.......2004-05-08
This book explores the diversity of governmental pension plans and investigates how these financial institutions must change in years to come. Public employee pensions are in deep trouble in many countries, undermining economic policy and threatening retiree well-being. What can be done to help these programs perform more efficiently and enhance old-age security? This volume takes stock of public pension developments in the U.S. and Canada, highlighting challenges these financial institutions will face in coming decades. The first Pension Research Council study of public pensions in a quarter of a century tackles these topics with an impressive team of international actuarial, legal, and economic experts.
Sine - qua - non treatise on Pensions.......2001-03-29
This is a sine qua non treatise for anybody having to deal with the subject of pensions. Edited admirably by actuarial scholars Mitchell, representing academia, and Hustead, representing private industry, the book covers all aspects of pensions in the private, public and academic sectors. The editors also write several individual chapters on their areas of super - expertise. Actually the most useful and comprehensive chapter, the one on governmental and military pensions, is written by the team Mr. and Mrs. Hustead. Mrs. Hustead is an expert attached to the White Houses' office of the budget. The most interesting chapter, this by Mr. Hustead alone, is the one with his lucubration on the pensions system, sometimes debacle, of the District of Columbia, Washington DC, the capital city of the USA. Although it was not the obvious intention of the author, it shows in a very peculiar and amazing way the vicissitudes of such a political entity that fully justifies the usage of vehicular license plates with the proclamation of "Taxation Without Representation" kindly exemplified by firmer President Clinton in the First Limousine, and, of course, immediately rejected by the Bush's administration. Finally, the selection of the goddess Minerva for the cover, is a master, and artistic, stroke.
Publisher's Comment.......2001-01-04
What can be done to help public sector pension plans perform more efficiently, and thereby enhance old-age security? In much of the world, public sector pensions are in deep trouble, undermining economic policy and threatening retiree well being. By and large, North American public pension systems have performed better, boasting tremendous assets and offering reasonable retiree benefits. Even here, however, military and civil service systems are not doing as well. This volume takes stock of public pensions in the US and Canada, offering lessons and highlighting challenges these financial institutions will face in the coming decades.
The first Pension Research Council study of public pensions in a quarter-century tackles these topics with an impressive group of international experts from the actuarial, legal, and economic fields. Contributors illustrate how reform options vary across uniformed employees, teachers, legislators and the judiciary, municipal and state employees, and military personnel. This study will be invaluable to taxpayers and their representatives, and those responsible for both public and private sector pensions.
Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, and Executive Director of the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School. Edwin Hustead is Senior Vice President in charge of governmental actuarial and benefits consulting at the HayHuggins Washington, D.C. office.
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Employee Relations in the Public Services: Themes and Issues (Routledge Studies in Employment Relations)
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Tracing the main developments in the public sector since 1979, this book includes issues such as the rise of Thatcherism, decentralization, contracting out, quality and flexibility, and equal opportunity.
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The Public Employment Service in a Changing Labour Market
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In an age of unprecedented turbulence in the labor market, the Public Employment Service (PES) plays a crucial role in many countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia in helping people to adjust to change. This book is a unique survey of the latest developments in the PES in selected industrialized and transition countries across the world. It will be invaluable to those who are interested in labor market policy and how it is delivered.
The book describes the four main PES functions: job brokering, labor market information, the administration of labor market adjustment programs and unemployment benefit. It also looks at how the PES is organized and its relationships with other organizations, addresses the pressures under which today's PES works, and discusses some problems and dilemmas, such as the squeeze on resources, the pressure for privatization, and new opportunities opened up by the Internet.
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Civic Service Worldwide: Impacts And Inquiry
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The public sector seems to be in the early stages of a profound transition, similar in scale to the transformation of private sector industrial relations in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume analyzes elements in what is variously described as reinventing government, re-engineering the public sector, and instituting performance-based government. The contributors suggest the new system will be shaped by two main strategies now being followed. One emphasizes improving the efficiency of government through innovative practices and a movement away from the bureaucratic, civil service model. The other stresses cost cutting as an end in itself. While the first strategy offers improved services and a more involved workforce, the implicit goals of the second are often service reduction, downsizing government, privatization of service provision, and reductions in real compensation. This volume deals with the full scope of public employment relations, including issues of labor adjustment, workplace practices and human resource management policies, as well as alternative dispute resolution procedures and labor-management cooperation in the collective bargaining arena.
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The analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare of different stakeholder groups, particularly on th e poor and vulnerable, has an important role in the elaboration and implementation of poverty reduction strategies in developing countries. In recent years this type of work has been labeled as Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) and is increasingly implemented to promote evidence-based policy choices and foster debate on policy reform options. While information is available on the general approach, techniques, and tools for distributional analysis, each sector displays a series of specific characteristics. These have implications for the analysis of distributional impacts, including the types of impacts and transmission channels that warrant particular attention, the tools and techniques most appropriate, the data source typically utilized, and the range of political economy factors most likely to affect the reform process. This volume provides an overview of the specific issues arising in the analysis of the distributional impacts of policy and institutional reforms in selected sectors. Each chapter offers guidance on the selection of tools and techniques most adapted to the reforms under scrutiny, and offers examples of applications of these approaches. This is a companion to the first volume, which offers guidance on trade, monetary and exchange rate policy, utility provision, agricultural markets, land policy, and education. Also includes a CD-ROM containing chapters from companion volume 1, the PSIA User's Guide, Good Practice Note, E-learning course, and links to resources.
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scan the sectors.......2006-10-01
Across different countries and economies, the World Bank has put out this study of the efficacies of many reforms undertaken. For pensions, both provided by the state and by private companies. For the labour market, in such aspects like the setting and adjusting of a minimum wage and the providing of unemployment benefits. Very contentious public issues in many countries. Where the providing of a social safety net might be widely approved. But where there might also be concern about the arising of a permanent underclass, dependent on and devoted to handouts.
The health sector also takes up a significant amount of the book's discussion. Here, issues of gender arise. Where women might not have adequate access to treatments in some countries, due to discrimination.
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