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The Princeton Review realizes that acing the AP Economics Exam is very different from getting straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about economics–only what you’ll need to score higher on the exam. There’s a big difference. In Cracking the AP Economics Macro & Micro Exams, we’ll teach you how to think like the test makers and
-Score higher by reviewing the economics concepts most likely to be tested
-Safeguard yourself against traps that can lower your score
-Crack the free-response questions by learning to make
graphs that work for you
-Perfect your skills with review questions in each chapter
This book includes 2 full-length practice tests, one each for the macroeconomics and microeconomics exams. All of our practice test questions are like the ones you’ll see on the actual exam, and we fully explain every answer.
Customer Reviews:
Best AP econ prep book.......2006-07-17
I used it when I was studying econ independently and I found this book to be very helpful in sumarizing all of the major concepts found on the ap macro & micro exams. Like one of the reviewers above, I also made notecards, which were very helpful.
I would however, recommend that you also buy an old edition of McConnel & Brue to go with the book as it expands on the basics. For example, the international section lacked depth as did the section on labor markets. The practice tests are very helpful and do a good job in mirroring the actual exams. Other books (like Barrons) have practice exams that are too easy.
Finally, I took the micro & micro exams this year (may 2006) & got a 5 on both tests.
Totally Amazing.......2005-08-14
This book is truly the same caliber as the Princeton Review's other test prep books. It shows everything you need to know for the AP Micro and Macro Economics tests and explains the concepts behind the economics. The knowledge gained from reading this book is equivalent to what any GOOD AP course can offer. Thanks (in large part) to this book, I got a 5 on both Macro and Micro Economics- something that hasn't been done at my school for many years. THANK YOU PRINCETON REVIEW!
Worthwhile.......2004-07-21
I agree completely with the reviewer above in that using this book alone almost guarantees a 3. I used it without the courses and got 4's on both the macro and micro exams. Write those note cards for small concepts and study past AP extended response questions! They are all basically the same, so study the graphs and you'll do well.
Everything you need to know, and nothing more........2004-02-18
We don't have economics at my school, but it's my intended college major.
Using THIS BOOK ALONE, I made note cards, went over them, and got a 4 on the Micro exam in my junior year. If I'd put in a little more effort, I'd have gotten a 5 (didn't begin studying until mid-April). I'm going to take the Macro this May.
There is a really clear review of all the concepts you need to know, presented exactly as they will appear on the test. It's concise, straightforward, and explicates the necessary graphs. For extra Free Reponse practice, check the AP website.
I'd strongly recommend it.
Book Description
Effective communication is every project manager's most powerful tool. Helping you achieve a high level of communications expertise and success is the goal of this book and CD-ROM package. This practical resource shows you how to coordinate the efforts of teams of project members and maintain an open dialog with senior executives. The book explains how to energize projects, create momentum, and achieve success by talking and listening to your staff. Moreover you learn how to effectively communicate project status and requirements to executive management.
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Effective communication is every project manager's most powerful tool. Helping you achieve a high level of communications expertise and success is the goal of this book. This practical resource shows you how to coordinate the efforts of teams of project members and maintain an open dialog with senior executives. The book explains how to energize projects, create momentum, and achieve success by talking and listening to your staff. Moreover you learn how to effectively communicate project status and requirements to executive management.
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With these two books, youll learn essential skills for leading any project, as well as techniques for using the rich functionality of Microsoft Office Project 2003 to help you successfully complete your project. On Time! On Track! On Target! focuses on the core project management skills you need to manage any project, giving you a practical education in project management and how-to instruction for using Microsoft Office Project 2003 and other Microsoft Office programs. With Microsoft Office Project 2003 Step by Step, you work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and practice exercises to learn exactly the tools and techniques you need. Discover how to develop a project plan with tasks, resources, and assignments; create reports; manage multiple projects and dependencies; and track progress and costs while making real-time adjustments.
Customer Reviews:
Great Value..........2007-01-18
Both books are good references to have with you when working with project, and very affordable.
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Expert Tools and Techniques for Managing Funded Programs and Keeping the Grant Money Flowing in As anyone with a history in nonprofit management knows, a grant recipient's job is far from over once the check is cut. That's just when the real work begins. Especially now, when funders are taking a more active role in seeing that their money makes the desired impact, it is vitally important to the future of your mission that the programs under your stewardship succeed, beyond even your own expectations. Grant Winner's Toolkit can help make that happen. Based on their own experiences and the experiences of hundreds of nonprofit managers nationwide, authors James Quick and Cheryl New provide expert advice and guidance on managing every aspect of your funded projects with the consummate professionalism demanded by your funders—from the drafting of strategies and action plans to the drawing up of budgets, from staff recruitment and team building, all the way through to the writing of the next grant proposal. They also arm you with an extensive arsenal of forms, checklists, time sheets, practice exercises, and other valuable tools that will help you to successfully:
- Organize and manage a grantseeking initiative
- Write comprehensive action plans
- Develop winning project strategies
- Develop realistic budgets
- Find, hire, and manage qualified team members
- Manage all key project resources
- Evaluate project efficacy
- Implement and maintain a policy of continual program improvement
- Replicate programs
The enclosed disk contains customizable forms covering all aspects of project management that make it easy for you and your team to put the methods described in the book to work in your organization.For more information about the Polaris Corporation visit www.polarisgrantscentral.net www.wiley.com/nonprofit
Customer Reviews:
A Grant Winner's Must Have.......2007-08-24
Cheryl Carter New and James Aaron Quick have put together a complete collection of MUST HAVE books for the Grant Seeker. Getting the Grant funded is just part of the process, "The Grant Winner's Toolkit" walks you through the "Now What?" phase of grant seeking. I never put Cheryl and James's books back on the shelf, they are ALWAYS on my desk, where I can easily reach for them...they are the BEST!
Grant Winner's Toolkit : Project Management and Evaluation.......2001-11-26
Too many grant seekers think that winning a grant is a job well done. The reality is that winning the grant is only a first step in a long process. This book has all the information anyone needs to effectively manage their grant programs. The text is well written and easy to read and follow. The examples and sample documents are worth their weight in gold! I would highly recommend this book to begining grant writers who have never had the opportuntiy to work on a grant project. This book will help you avoid the pitfalls many of us had to discover the hard way.
Book Description
Formal project management is no longer limited to big companies. Even small firms are looking for ways to organize and control the flood of details that make up the average project.
At the same time, they're realizing that such efforts need to be coordinated companywide, not merely at the individual project level. That means setting up a project control department or office--a process spelled out step-by-step in this much-needed book. Packed with field-tested checklists and forms, it shows readers how to:
* Fit the project office into the current organizational structure * Determine the necessary software and other tools * Structure efforts for consistent results * Handle slippages in cost, time, and other core factors * Adapt the wealth of templates provided in the book into company-specific deliverables, and more.
Customer Reviews:
The Project Management Office Toolkit.......2002-09-03
I am completly aggre with Leo. This is not a book, its quite simple and general. Definitely its not a good book for its value.
Book is mediocre.......2002-04-30
This is NOT a book. It is a binder. Definitely NOT worth the 100$ U.S I paid for the book. I should have gone to a local bookstore and seen it first before I ordered it, if I would have seen it, I would have never ordered it. Overall, I consider this book to be very general in content.
Leo
Worth its weight in gold.......2002-03-29
This is exactly what I was looking for.........in order to implement a PMO
Book Description
This comprehensive guide illustrates how to establish, implement and manage an effective metrics program for achieving improved performance in your business and in attainment of your professional or personal goals. Featuring an implementation roadmap that can be applied in most any organization,
Value-Based Metrics for Improving Results presents a unique, universal methodology for developing and using metrics as a management tool to baseline, monitor, manage, improve, align and reward performance of most any business function at any level.
Key Features:
• Establishes a shift in thinking from activity, input, and throughput to a focus on appropriate investments of time, effort and money for improving results
• Enables the measurable definition of what constitutes "value priorities" and establishes an objective language and measures for discussing and improving enterprise initiatives and IT investments, teamwork, leadership, quality, and more
• Provides a process for aligning strategic, annual, functional, and departmental objectives at the corporate level and includes an internal monitoring system for responding rapidly to internal or external changes
• Includes a business case for implementing a project management metrics program and over 200 metrics that focus on the specific value of utilization, relation to delivery speed of measured objectives and cultural safety, and fraud sensitivity
• Offers a free downloadable 3Ms metrics maturity model, PMO case study, project management metrics business case and 3Ms metric profile examples — available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center
Customer Reviews:
Common sense - well presented..........2005-06-09
It's quite refreshing to read a project management book which takes the real world and makes sense of it so accurately as this one does - and extends and converts it into a business stratagem - with some good old fashioned common sense thown it. This easy to understand book is obviously the result of one who has walked-the-walk and not just talked-the-talk - and I would recommend it to anyone who is an experienced project manager who now wishes to extend those principles to business process review, growth and consultation. It is also quite refreshing to read a book from a UK perspective - as most of the best PM books are from the US - and this in itself gives another useful angle on the global status which PM now enjoys. In short: tight, neat and impressive.
Average customer rating:
- Treasure trove of information and formulae
- 25 % of the book is not usable
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Software Measurement: A Visualization Toolkit for Project Control and Process Improvement (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books)
Newton C. Ellis ,
Hiroko Fujihara , and
Way Kuo
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Customer Reviews:
Treasure trove of information and formulae.......1998-04-27
This books is the next step in the evolution of Dr. Barry Boehm's seminal work, Software Engineering Economics (it was NOT written by Dr. Boehm, however). It provides a logically laid out format that examines measurement at each stage of the development life cycle. I was impressed with the attention paid to testing and V&V. I have not tried the software that comes with the book (book includes a CD ROM with a product called PAMPAS); however, I view the software as an added bonus. It is certainly not required to gain an extradorinary amount of knowledge from reading the book from cover to cover. Highly recommended!
25 % of the book is not usable.......1998-03-20
The title of the book promises software to aid in software measurement. Unfortunately the software installation is poorly designed. This makes installation diffucult if not impossible. The software support that is mentioned in the book is nonexistent and unresponsive. I don't recommend the book.
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ASTD Trainer's Toolkit : HRD Project Plans
John Wilcox
Manufacturer: American Society for Training and Development (AST
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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ASIN: 1562860712 |
Book Description
This series was developed by ASTD's Information Center in order to respond to the many requests they receive for samples of materials used by other trainers. A vast library of actual assessment instruments, job aids, project plans, marketing materials, lesson plans, and more have been collected from virtually every industry: corporations, government agencies, universities, health-care institutions, and manufacturers. All Toolkits include journal articles for background information and a bibliography.
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Project Management Toolkit
Michael Greer
Manufacturer: HRD Press, inc.
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ASIN: 0874254892 |
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Use Project Management for Workgroups with The Project Manager's Partner for immediate, consistent application of project management skills while developing a project plan.
This facilitated working session using The Project Manager's Partner ends in a fully articulated project plan. Project Management for Workgroups complements The Partner by helping your part-time project managers work through project management processes, using the correct tools, terminology, and techniques.
Project Management for Workgroups is designed to be used either by the novice or veteran facilitator. It includes guidelines for customization to fit different time constraints and work environments.
To ensure performance outcomes are met, an extensive follow-up coaching guide enables the facilitator to guide, instruct, facilitate, and benchmark the participant's project as it unfolds.
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Project Management Toolkit: Supporting Success at Every Stage - IChemE
Trish Melton
Manufacturer: Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
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ASIN: 0852954840 |
Product Description
Successful projects are the basis for a successful company, but many professionals lack the basic skills required to manage projects successfully. The IChemE Project Management Subject Group has recognized the need to provide resources to deliver these skills, and has developed a series of books to share the latest best practice engineering essentials. The first title, primarily written from the perspective of engineering projects within the process industries, it is generic enough to support project managers in many other disciplines. This book provides for those starting out in project management, ideal for students as a university textbook and is also an indispensable reference for established project managers.
Books:
- Critique of Accounting: Examination of the Foundations and Normative Structure of an Applied Discipline
- Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth
- Debating Globalization
- Designing Organizations: An Executive Guide to Strategy, Structure, and Process Revised
- Developing a Cpa Practice: A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Successful Small to Mid-Sized Accounting Firm
- Discontinuous Change: Leading Organizational Transformation (The Jossey-Bass Management Series)
- Economics Today: The Macro View plus MyEconLab Student Access Kit (13th Edition)
- Equity Finance: Venture Capital, Buyouts, Restructure and Reorganizations
- Essential Adam Smith
- Financial Accounting in an Economic Context
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