The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A Cheater's Book
  • Excellent techniques and written very well
  • A Must Have for Magicians
  • Earn 10,000 a day!
  • Good book!!!
The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation
S. W. Erdnase
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486285979

Book Description

Considered by many magicians and card sharps to be the one essential guidebook to attaining the highest level of card mastery. Includes author’s own systems of false shuffling, false riffling and cutting, dealing from the bottom, palming cards, "skinning the hand"—even three-card monte, plus 14 dazzling card tricks.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars A Cheater's Book.......2007-01-19

I bought this book as a gift for my brother, expecting him to learn a few showy tricks to impress me with. However, he told me later that basically the whole book was about cheating. He wasn't really interested by that, and the book is still sitting on a shelf at my house. I wish I'd been better informed about what kind of tricks were in the book.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent techniques and written very well.......2006-08-22

I am fairly new to card magic / artifice / subterfuge and this book was great. I find his way of explaining hand positions superior to that of Hugard and Braue's material. I also enjoy the way he writes far more... The introduction alone is worth the price. The techniques are great because one doesn't have to rely on diversion, most of the sleights can be pulled off with the spectator's eyes directly on the pack.

5 out of 5 stars A Must Have for Magicians.......2005-10-28

Some book are just required. As a professional magician this book is absolutely a must have in my collection. The material is sometimes difficult to understand, but if you are truly serious about it, then you will get through it and the rewards for your performance skills are practically endless.
[...]

5 out of 5 stars Earn 10,000 a day!.......2005-09-17

The tips and strategies in this book were extremely helpful. Now whenever I play with my friends or illegal poker rooms, I always win! Just don't try any of these strategies at the Bellagio.

4 out of 5 stars Good book!!!.......2005-09-08

The book helped me in understanding the basic moves and other subtleties in card manip... Knowing the purpose of each of the moves is worth it.
World's Best Card Tricks
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Very useful, practical advice for the beginner
  • The title is BS!
  • Fabulous for the beginning Magician!
  • For those who are REALLY starting into card magic.
  • THE BEST book I could find on card tricks.
World's Best Card Tricks
Bob Longe
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 0806982330

Book Description

These are 36 of the greatest impromptu card tricks ever invented. Longe shows you not only how each one works, but also how to put them over, with clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations. A special chapter in the back even explains how to bluff your way through a trick if it goes wrong. Great for kids from eight to eighty. 128 pages, 17 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Very useful, practical advice for the beginner.......2005-03-10

I like this book of card tricks for the fact that it is user-friendly and practical-minded.

After a brief introduction, Longe guides the reader through a series of card-manipulating exercises that have applications in hundreds of card tricks. He then lays out a series of card tricks, rated for their difficulty level, and complete with advice on what kind of audience might be best suited for any particular trick. The illustrations are simple and clear, and the tricks range from the basic to the extremely clever and inventive.

There's nothing new under this sun, but a beginner will find this guide much better than average when seeking to learn the basic skills necessary to amaze their friends and strangers.

2 out of 5 stars The title is BS!.......2002-05-03

I have been doing card tricks for a while, and I have to say that anything of Bob Longe's is a waste of money.

The tricks in this book are terrible. These are certainly NOT the "World's Best Card Tricks". I can't believe some of this [stuff] is even in here.

I highly recommend the reader to learn card magic from great authors such as Jean Hugard, S.W. Erdnase, and Arthur H. Buckley.

If you are a beginner, get the "Royal Road to Card Magic" By Hugard and Braue. It is of MUCH higher value and the tricks in this book will be 100x better than the stuff that's in Bob Longe's books. There is absolutely no way you can be the life of the party with these tricks, as the author claims.

5 out of 5 stars Fabulous for the beginning Magician!.......2001-12-03

I'm a magician member of the Magic Castle now, but in my early forays into card magic this book helped wean me away from trick Svengali and stripper decks, so that I could be handed a deck of cards from anyone and perform a nice trick. They're not all home runs. But I still get great responses from several of the tricks contained within here.
...and yes, I now own Card College, have read Royal Road to Card Magic several times, but those books should come after this one. This one will help you decide if you're serious about persuing more card magic or not.
A fabulous starter book, but make sure you practice!!

3 out of 5 stars For those who are REALLY starting into card magic........1999-11-23

If you never read "Royal Road To Card Magic", "Expert Card Technique" or "Expert At The Card Table", you'll find this book a good one. It has some good tricks, but it has some dumb ones too. I recommend this book for those who does not want to learn some sleight of hand before starting doing card tricks. As Amazon warns, this book is juvenile literature. Last word: if you buy this book and you like it, then buy "101 Amazing Card Tricks". It's written by Bob Longe too, and in my opinion, they should be sold together, for their similarity.

5 out of 5 stars THE BEST book I could find on card tricks........1999-09-16

No doubt that this is the greatest book on card magic. No sleight of hand is required and all you require is a deck of 52 cards, preferably the Bicycle brand Bridge sized cards which are easy to handle. Therefore the tricks are easy to learn.

I am not a professional magician, no way close to being even an amateur and yet I could amaze and dazzle my family members and friends. I am just a beginner to this world and now I am genuinely interested in magic in general and card magic in particular. Thanks, Bob for this great book. I am sure I will check out his other books as well.
To Bid or Not to Bid: The Law of Total Tricks
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Could be condensed into 20 pages
  • A fair book on a false law
  • Famous & passionate exposé of the Law of Total Tricks !!
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To Bid or Not to Bid: The Law of Total Tricks
Larry Cohen
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3 out of 5 stars Could be condensed into 20 pages.......2006-03-25

The concept is simple, and had it been better organized the book would have been 20 pages, max. Then the author could throw in a few of his favorite conventions.

Kit Woolsey wrote essentially the same thing in a much shorter chapter in his book MATCHPOINTS 10 years before this book.

Overall, the concept (the LAW) is worth knowing, just be aware taht at higher levels its not as accurate as Cohen and Marty Bergen would have you think.

3 out of 5 stars A fair book on a false law.......2006-03-18

The law of total tricks just simply isn't true...period.

Larry Cohen spends much time exploring this law in detail, and does a fair job, but keep in mind that this "law" is defective, and thus there is only so much you can gain from this book.
Consider

North
S AKQJT98765432
H -
D -
C -

East
S -
H 5432
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South
S -
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According to the law of Total Trump = Total Tricks we see the Total trump is 13 N-S and 13 E-W
The total tricks should be 26 then, so 13 N-S and 13 E-W

However, we see the actual break is 13 N-S and 7 E-W...total tricks = 20.

20 != 26

so, read the book for an explaination of the law...but keep in mind the law is wrong.

5 out of 5 stars Famous & passionate exposé of the Law of Total Tricks !!.......2004-09-24

This excellent bridge book has the fine reputation that it does because it is so thorough and detailed an explanation of the Law of Total Tricks. Larry Cohen is the most passionate supporter of this law in the game; and he does a complete job explaining it, illustrating it with interesting example hands, and summarizing with useful maxims that tend to stick with you after the reading is over. Especially good is his compelling discussion of whether to rebid when the bidding goes 1H-1S-2H-2S-? or even 1H-1S-2H-2S-3H-?. He also makes some good points about bidding at the higher levels with a known long fit.

This is one of the few books we believe should be in every serious player's library; yet it is basic enough and entertaining enough to benefit relative beginners and more expert players alike. No wonder it is an award winning book on bridge!

5 out of 5 stars Winning Bridge Decisions.......2003-06-25

This is an essential book for any serious player. The only concern is that the intermediate player may come to believe that this is a substitute for judgement. Still this should improve the competitive bidding decisions for any player who is somehow not familiar with "The Law".

Those interested in a somewhat different valuation style should look into losing trick count originally popularized in Britain which has been around for some time.

5 out of 5 stars How high to bid in competitive auctions.......2003-05-02

Required reading for any good player. This book will help you to decide how high to bid in competitive auctions. This 1992 Bridge Book of the Year is the best-selling bridge book of the 1990's.
Classic Card Tricks
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    Classic Card Tricks
    Edward Victor
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      Classic Card Games & Tricks
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Not bad at all
      Classic Card Games & Tricks
      Sheila Anne Barry , Inc. Sterling Publishing Co. , Bob Longe , William A. Moss , and Alfred Sheinwold
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      ASIN: 1586636685

      Book Description

      With this gold mine of card tricks and games you'll never run out of ways to entertain your friends. Find out how to keep an audience guessing with sleights of hand. Impress everyone with predictions, discovery, and other amazing tricks. Or encourage camaraderie with friendly rounds of games like Seven Card Stud and Crazy Eights or Linger Longer and Spanish Monte. Whether the goal is to mystify or amuse a group, all that's needed to get things started is a deck of cards and this book.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Not bad at all.......2004-02-06

      This book has helped me win over friends and amaze family members alike. I like the fact that the book is not JUST for tricks or JUST for games, but BOTH. The only reason I didn't give it a 5 star rating was because the author doesn't give enough illustrations.

      The Female Advantage
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      The Female Advantage
      Sally Helgesen
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      Now in Currency paperback -- Sally Helgesen's  classic study of female leaders and how their  strategies represent a highly successful revision of male  leadership styles. Sixty thousand copies in print!  In her bestselling 1990 book, Sally Helgesen  discovered that men and women approach work in  fundamentally different ways. Many of these differences  hold distinct advantages for women, who excel at  running organizations that foster creativity,  cooperation, and intuitive decision-making power,  necessities for companies of the twenty-first century.  Helgesen's findings reveal that organizations run by  women do not take the form of the traditional  hierarchical pyranaid, but more closely resemble a  web, where leaders reach out, not down, to form an  interrelating matrix built around a central purpose.  The strategy of the web concentrates power at the  center by drawing others closer and by creating  communities where information sharing is essential.  She presents her findings through unique, closely  detailed accounts of four successful women  business leaders -- Frances Hesselbein of Girl Scouts  USA, Barbara Grogan of Western Industrial  Contractors, Nancy Badore of Ford Motor Company's Executive  Development Center, and Dorothy Brunson of Brunson  Communications. Helgesen observes their meetings,  listens to their phone calls and conferences, and  reads their correspondence. Her "diary  studies" document how women leaders make decisions,  schedule their days, gather and disperse  information, motivate others, delegate tasks, structure  their companies, hire, and fire. She chronicles how  their experiences as women -- wives, mothers,  friends, sisters, daughters -- contribute to their  leadership style.

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      4 out of 5 stars women as leaders.......2007-01-04

      This carefully conducted research study of how women manage and how women lead provides a baseline for similar studies that follow. Women really do manage and lead differently, and that difference enriches the workplace. I am using this as one of the texts in a web based graduate course focusing on leadership that I am teaching. There are leadership lessons for everyone here.

      5 out of 5 stars A Woman's Touch: Feminine Principles in the Technological Age.......2006-12-12

      The Female Advantage by Sally Helgesen is an insightful and interesting book that questions the efficiency of the standard corporate hierarchal structure. She notes that the business world has evolved significantly since the 1970s, when sports metaphors abounded and the goal was to crush human competition. As we've moved from an industrial age to a technological age, Helgesen interprets the modern business world as needing to rely less upon an "authoritarian chain of command" and more on an innovative, people-centric view in order to survive in the rapidly changing technological age.
      Instead of stopping at mere criticism of the existing system, Helgesen offers a plan for the future: the "web of inclusion". This idea of a "web" rather than a hierarchy came about after extensive research into the leadership styles of women, who are increasingly entering upper-echelon positions in the business world. Helgesen focuses the majority of her research on "diary studies" of four influential female business leaders: Frances Hesselbein, chief executive of the Girl Scouts of America; Nancy Badore, director of Ford Motor Company's Executive Development Center; Dorothy Brunson, a minority owner of several radio and television stations; and Barbara Grogan, president of an industrial contracting company. Helgesen attributes the success of each of these women in their individual sectors to their use of feminine principles: a desire to strengthen interpersonal relationships, treat everyone with respect, share information, and think in terms of the larger group.
      At the center of this revolution of "female principles" is the idea of the "web of inclusion", modeled after a spider's web. This management structure is at direct odds with the traditional hierarchal structure in that the leader of the organization is not "alone at the top", she is right in the middle of everything, "reaching out rather than reaching down". This kind of managerial construction eliminates jockeying for position as there is no up or down, just different spots. In addition, its very nature requires closer relationships between the members of the organization. Whereas in a hierarchal organization information would flow in a limited manner from the top down and a chain of command would be imperative, the web functions more democratically, with everyone being connected through the symbolic threads of the spider web. Thus a leader in the web draws her power from being close to her employees, rather than from keeping them at a distance, as in the standard hierarchal model. The "web of inclusion", then, empowers employees by making them part of a cohesive group, as well as streamlines the everyday workings of a business by eliminating cumbersome chains of command and enabling more direct and productive communication.
      I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in business, feminism, or communication, as well as anyone just looking for something new to read. Helgesen's conversational yet informative book is a fast read sure to spark spirited conversation around the dinner table or water cooler, as well as being an asset to any business or academic course on leadership.

      5 out of 5 stars Time for a Second Look.......2006-06-17

      You may have read this book in 1990, when it first came out, as I did. It's worth another look now, if only for chapter 9 - Reconciling the Efficient and the Humane. In the 90's, some of us speculated that the future of leadership would come from the skills women have posessed for generations. As we look for ways to integrate the human element back into the workplace, as we read books on Emotional Intelligence and Resonant Leadership, it's time to acknowledge Helgesen's foresight. What did she tell us we needed back then? She started with an ambience that represented a different set of values. Next, listening, followed by collaborative negotiation. She foresaw what she terms the end of the warrior age.
      Helgesen's interviews are as interesting today - and as fresh - as they were when the book was first published. We may have heard this message a few times by now, but I don't think it will ever get old.

      5 out of 5 stars Strengths of Women Leadership.......2002-12-05

      In her book, the Female Advantage, author Sally Helgesen distinguishes the basic characteristics among men and women and the advantages of these unique qualities in women when performing a leadership role. Throw out those books that tells you that you have to play the big boys games in order to succeed in the corporate world. Because what really takes to succeed lies in our in our thinking and our basic behavior al differences from men. Instead of blinding to these characteristics to `fit in', she tells us to embrace them and use them to our advantage.

      She entails these characteristics from the female executives in her book, not in an interview but rather in a `diary' format, watching and learning by their behavior. She presents four different women in her book, the President of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. , A Ford Motors Executive, a founder and president of a telecommunications company and a founder and president of millwrighting firm. These diverse group of women are put under the microscope in her book in order to not just define what a female leader is but also the advantages of being a female leader.

      Helgesen points out that women have distinguishing qualities that she calls `feminine principles' that allow them to be better managers and responsible leaders. These feminine principles reflect our culture's basic presumption about differences between how men and women act and establishment of these principles in the public sector results would result in a more enriched life. She challenges the hierarchial structure of the corporate world by presenting female perspective by offering a web construct where direct communication and free flowing of ideas are encouraged and relationships are valued.

      Her writing is loosely structured filled with inquisitive remarks. The stories of the four women she documented are interesting read and provide a window to the private lives and behavior of successful females. Whether you are a woman just planning the first seeds in her career or whether you're a seasoned leader, this is a good book to read to recharge ourselves and claim a stake of our worth in this world.

      5 out of 5 stars The Strengths of Women Leaders.......2000-03-24

      Sally Helgesen's profound book shows how women lead differently...via a "web" instead of a hierarchy. Women in the workplace have long been told that we can't compete effectively because of the games (meaning tea parties instead of competitive sports) we played as girls. But, guess what? Sally Helgesen shows that the world based on hierarchies is spinning out of control...and the games we girls played (which hinged on relationships)turn out to be exactly the right games, giving women the unusual strength our world needs to evolve in a powerful new direction.

      The rules have changed and women already know them. Not only does this book boost all women's self-esteem, but it also charges us to realize our responsibility to the world in which we live: "...feminine principles are entering the public realm because we can no longer afford to restrict them to the domestic sphere, nor allow a public culture obsessed with Warrior values to control human destiny if we are to survive." [p.255]

      How true.
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            Female spies and soldiers of the Civil War: Being a woman had its advantages : (Dissertation)
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                Advantages of coloniality in female boat-tailed grackles.: An article from: Wilson Bulletin
                William Post
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                This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on December 1, 1998. The length of the article is 4346 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                From the author: In a South Carolina cattail marsh, female Boat-tailed Grackles (Quiscalus major) concentrated to nest on predator-safe islands patrolled by American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). I examined several hypotheses regarding colonial nesting behavior of Boat-tailed Grackles. (1) I reject the null hypothesis that colony-nesting and solitary females do not differ in reproductive success. Solitary-nesting females had lower reproductive success (37%) than colony females (63%), a difference perhaps attributable to males' defense of colonies from predatory birds. (2) I reject the hypothesis that the physical characteristics of sites used for colonies differ from those that are not used. Islands occupied by colonies were the same as unoccupied islands in measurements of water depth and vegetation structure. Colony site use is therefore not a result of habitat heterogeneity. (3) I reject the hypothesis that breeding success does not differ between contemporaneous colonies. In two of four years, I found significant variation among colonies in percentage of nests that produced young. Nesting success was independent of colony size. (4) I accept the hypothesis that the reproductive success of colonial females is related to extrinsic factors rather than to differences in female quality. Predation was the main cause of nest mortality, and varied between colony sites, but its intensity was not related to colony size. Although clutch size remained constant over the nesting period, number of fledglings per nest decreased, mainly as a result of the increased proportions of nests lost to predators. Starvation, the second most important cause of mortality, did not vary according to colony size nor to time of breeding. Early synchronized nesting of the whole population may reduce the effects of predation by both a "head-start" effect, and by predator satiation.

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                Title: Advantages of coloniality in female boat-tailed grackles.
                Author: William Post
                Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
                Date: December 1, 1998
                Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
                Volume: 110 Issue: 4 Page: 489(8)

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                Challenges and advantages of a young female litigator. : An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
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                  Challenges and advantages of a young female litigator. : An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
                  Heather L. McCloskey
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                  Title: Challenges and advantages of a young female litigator.
                  Author: Heather L. McCloskey
                  Publication: Los Angeles Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
                  Date: May 8, 2006
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                  Volume: 28 Issue: 19 Page: 40(1)

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                  Discrimination brings advantages: a nurse reflects on the personal and professional advantages he has gained, simply by being male in a predominantly female ... article from: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
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                    Discrimination brings advantages: a nurse reflects on the personal and professional advantages he has gained, simply by being male in a predominantly female ... article from: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
                    Geoff Annals
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                    ASIN: B000823T44
                    Release Date: 2005-07-31

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                    This digital document is an article from Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, published by New Zealand Nurses' Organisation on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 979 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                    Title: Discrimination brings advantages: a nurse reflects on the personal and professional advantages he has gained, simply by being male in a predominantly female environment.(viewpoint)
                    Author: Geoff Annals
                    Publication: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Magazine/Journal)
                    Date: May 1, 2003
                    Publisher: New Zealand Nurses' Organisation
                    Volume: 9 Issue: 4 Page: 23(1)

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                    A female advantage in the serial production of non-representational [An article from: Neuropsychologia]
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                      A female advantage in the serial production of non-representational [An article from: Neuropsychologia]
                      K. Chipman , and E. Hampson
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                      Clinical research has demonstrated a sex difference in the neuroanatomical organization of the limb praxis system. To test for a corresponding sex difference in the functioning of this system, we compared healthy men and women on a gesture production task modeled after those used in apraxia research. In two separate studies, participants were taught to perform nine non-representational gestures in response to computer-generated color cues. After extensive practice with the gestures, the color cues were placed on a timer and presented in randomized sequences at progressively faster speeds. A detailed videotape analysis revealed that women in both studies committed significantly fewer 'praxic' errors than men (i.e., errors that resembled those seen in limb apraxia). This was true during both the untimed practice trials and the speeded trials of the task, despite equivalent numbers of errors between the sexes in the 'non-praxic' (i.e., executory) error categories. Women in both studies also performed the task at significantly faster speeds than men. This finding was not accounted for by a female advantage in extraneous elements of the task, i.e., speed of color processing, associative retrieval, or motor execution. Together, the two studies provide convergent support for a female advantage in the efficiency of forelimb gesture production. They are consistent with emerging evidence of a sex difference in the anatomical organization of the praxis system.
                      The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership. (book reviews): An article from: Human Resource Planning
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                        The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership. (book reviews): An article from: Human Resource Planning
                        Nanette Fondas
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                        ASIN: B00092JFW8
                        Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                        This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Human Resource Planning Society on December 1, 1991. The length of the article is 1374 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                        Title: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership. (book reviews)
                        Author: Nanette Fondas
                        Publication: Human Resource Planning (Refereed)
                        Date: December 1, 1991
                        Publisher: Human Resource Planning Society
                        Volume: v14 Issue: n4 Page: p312(3)

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