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  2. Books Published December 2001

December 2001

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published December 2001.

Book Review

Profitable Seminars

by Vicki Gervickas

Expertise: some have it, many want it. That is the premise for this book, which provides a thorough overview of life as a seminar presenter. As an adjunct to a full-time career or an entrée to a new one, seminars are big business, and... Read More

Book Review

Telecommuting

by Patricia Weber

Studies in 2001 by the Social Science Research Center at Old Dominion University reveal that a majority of teleworkers are satisfied with their experience to the extent that their loyalty to their company, whether large or small, is... Read More

Book Review

Electing Jesse Ventura

by Karl Helicher

During the hotly contested 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton travelled to the state to stump for Democratic Farm Labor candidate Skip Humphrey. She described Reform Party candidate Jesse Ventura’s... Read More

Book Review

Tastes of Jewish Tradition

by Susan Berman

In ancient times, Jews counted up days from Passover to Shavuot by measuring out an “omer” of grain. When they had forty-nine omers, they knew Shavuot had arrived. The seven weeks between the holidays is still referred to as counting... Read More

Book Review

Railroads in the Civil War

“Sometime we skirted along the brow of a precipice where one might look down a sheer thousand feet into a sea of foliage of variegated hues, and anon we plunged into the midnight darkness of a tunnel, and then again into the bright... Read More

Book Review

The Fairy Flag

Unattainable women… travel to exotic places… convicts in prison… the subjects in this collection of short stories evoke a medley of sensations, yet a theme runs through the book: elusive or ruined happiness. From brief pieces like... Read More

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