The title story, of a man who tried to hold God to a contract, had echoes of both the Book of Job and, more distinctly, of the parables of the Talmud and Midrash.
Any talented Yahoo must have asked themselves more than once: Am I working at Yahoo or living the real-life tech version of the Book of Job?
The Roycrofters began printing books in 1895, starting with the Song of Songs and the Book of Job, moving on to works by Shakespeare, Coleridge, Emerson, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, to say nothing of Hubbard's own titles.
Much the same could be said of the rest of the book, which does a respectable enough job of Hong Kong's history in a small space but offers little that will be new to anyone who has read a book on the territory before.
Mr. Rybczynski and Mr. Olin do an admirable job of conveying the history of Vizcaya, but their book is not one of those lavishly photographed, coffee-table architecture books that have become so common in recent years.
Doing all of that is pretty much a part of their job description in my book.
This is scary, strong stuff and Silverglate does a brilliant job of analyzing it in this important book.
Based in Chicago, Illinois, with a journalism background, she began writing her book last fall after losing her job as vice president of a Web site for people facing health crises.
Instead of always following the exact by-the-book job seeking formulas, most were simply open to possibilities and got really good at whatever it is they were doing.
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But Catherine Jewell, an Austin, Texas, career coach and author of the book New Resume, New Career, says job-hunters who keep at it are actually more likely to find a job over the holidays.
After a job in the sales department of Dell Publishing, he founded Workman in 1967 as a book packager.
"She chose to live in the shadows and she did a good job of it, " John Theodore, an author who wrote a 2002 nonfiction book about the crime, wrote in an email Sunday.
Robert Fitts, author of the book Remembering Japanese Baseball, thinks it will take a Herculean sales job to convince the proud baseball community to allow foreign ownership.
If you are a white-collar professional, odds are you have committed at least a federal felony or two just in the course of doing your job, or so Harvey Silverglate argues in his brilliant and disturbing book Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.
The book includes dozens of practical scripts, templates and outlines to help you land your next job.
Another alternative, an idea similar to that proposed by my colleague Richard Vedder in his book Going Broke by Degree, would be to offer tenure (or enhanced job security) as one of a number of compensation options for which individual faculty choose from a menu of compensation items, including salary, health and life insurance plans, retirement contributions, and time off, etc.
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Though Hellmann has written a whole book about using online resources, Your Social Media Job Search, he emphasizes how important it is to extend most of your efforts beyond online search.
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