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"When
Reality Hits: What Employers Want Recent
College Graduates to Know "
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After
a successful 25-year career in the
corporate world, Nancy Barry launched
her own company so she could focus
on her love of public speaking and
her desire to make a difference in
the lives of others.
What
do employers want in addition to the
degree you earned?
Graduating
from college and starting a career
is exciting and scary, all at the
same time. You learned a lot in college,
but no one class can prepare you for
what employers want you to know.
Based
on twenty-five years' experience in
the corporate world, Nancy Barry shares
the secrets to success. She will help
you meet and exceed your manager's
expectations by revealing behaviors
that are critically important in the
workplace.
When
Reality Hits is a must-read for recent
college graduates who want to be successful
in their careers.
If
you're about to graduate from college
or have recently graduated, reading
When Reality Hits will be one of the
best investments you've ever made
Order
your autographed copy of When Reality
Hits on www.nancybarry.com
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"The
Complete Early Childhood Resource Book"
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Dr.
Kay (McCrady) Hastings (Class of 1978)
co-authored this this child development
book in 1998. The book has an entire
year of daily plans with circle time
activities, music and movement activities,
suggested books, and learning center
ideas. The information is organized
around units that are two weeks long
for ease of use. The book includes
an extremely useful appendix packed
with words to songs, directions to
favorite games, recipes, directions
for making props, and lots more.
For
more info, click the image to the
left.
Kay
is the Director of The
Lab School in Houston, TX.
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Kay
McCrady Hastings, PhD.
Class of 1978 |
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Has
Authored Various Books and Magazine Articles
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Kevin
Shay is a Lake Highlands alumnus [Class of
1977] who has authored several books. The
latest is called A Parent's Guide to Dallas/Fort
Worth, which has just been released May
2003 by Parent's Guide Press of Los Angeles.
The 192-pp. book includes more than 250 educational
and fun family places in the Dallas/Fort Worth
area. It is the eleventh guidebook in Parent's
Guide Press' Travel Series.For more information
on the book, you can go to the company's Internet
site at http://store.yahoo.com/marspub/parguidtodal.html.
Media coverage on the book includes a story
by NBC
Channel 5 in Dallas/Ft. Worth. Kevin also
co-authored a 344-pp. book called And
Justice For All: The Untold History of Dallas
[CGS Communications, Fort Worth, 1999] with
Roy Williams. The local history book was chosen
in 2003 as one of The Dallas Morning News'
recommendations to read for African-American
History Month.
He
also wrote a 363-pp. book called Walking
Through the Wall that has so far only
been published by electronic publishers,
Bangor, Maine-based Booklocker.com
and Mukilteo, Wash.-based Cyberread.com
. The memoir details my 5,000-mile-plus
walk for peace from Dallas to Moscow,
Russia, in 1984-85, and 600-mile pilgrimage
in India in 1987-88.
Kevin
is a freelance writer who has contributed
to U.S. News & World Report, The Dallas
Morning News, D Magazine, and Dallas Child
Magazine, among other publications. After
LH, he attended Richland College and the
University of North Texas, whereheI obtained
a B.A. degree in journalism. He lives
in Arlington with my wife, Michelle, three-year-old
son, Preston, and four-month-old daughter,
McKenna.
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Novelist
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Kim
Wozencraft is the author of the internationally
best-selling novel, Rush, which was
made into a feature film starring Jennifer
Jason Leigh.
She
has just finished a screen adaptation
of her critically acclaimed second novel,
Notes from the Country Club, currently
in pre-production.
Norman
Mailer called her third novel, The
Catch, “the best novel I’ve
read about drug smugglers and narcs.”
She
co-edited Slam, the Book, a companion
edition to the award winning 1998 film.
She
was executive editor at Prison Life magazine,
has written for HBO Films, and her work
has appeared in The Best American Essays,
Texas Monthly, New York Newsday, the Los
Angeles Times, and numerous literary magazines
and anthologies.
She
holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from
Columbia University and lives in New York
with her husband and their three children.
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Kim
Wozencraft
Class of 1973 |
"The
Third Kiss"
(Silhouette
Romance, 1484)
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Harleqein
and Silhouette Romance writer Leanna Wilson
has written at least a dozen books and is
still actively writing. Bachelor
Blues is currently her best seller with
The
Third Kiss and Open
in Nine Months close behind.
Other
title by Leanna include:
Just Say Yes
Corazones De Acero
Strong, Silent Cowboy
Christmas in July
Babies, Rattles and Cribs... Oh, My!
Lone Star Rancher
His Tomboy Bride
Are You My Daddy?
The Double Heart Ranch
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Leanna Wilson
Class of 1982 |
"Splenda®:
Is It Safe Or Not?"
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Jan's
latest book, Splenda®:
Is It Safe Or Not? is a tool to protect
your health from the hidden dangers of
chemical sweetners.
Her first book,
Sweet
Poison exposed the dangers behind
aspartame. After a personal illness
caused by the artificial sweetener aspartame
found in NutraSweet/Equal, Hull exposes
the hidden truths behind the dangers of
this popular sugar-substitute. Don't pick
up another diet drink until you have read
her riveting story.
Jan has a radio
talk show called "Healthy Alternatives"
and is writing more books.
Jan's Website:
SweetPoison.com
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Janet Starr Hull, PhD.
Class
of 1973 |
"If
Only"
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"If Only"
- Among other poetry by Diana is available
in the book:
"The
Silence Within"
(scheduled to be released on 06/01/2001).
Other poetry titles are
"In
Pursuit of Perfection",
"Lamenting
the Loss of My Girlish Figure",
"Promises
of Love", and
"Remember
Me"
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Diana (Martin) Gronholz.
Class of 1969 |
"Punk
Diary : 1970-1979"
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Punk
Diary : 1970-1979 - Punk expert
George Gimarc presents the ultimate, day-to-day
reference guide to this often misunderstood
rock music era. It's all here--from the great
bands and musicians to the famous and obscure
record labels. Each book is accompanied by
a CD featuring revealing conversations with
artists who shaped the Punk era.
George
has also written
Post
Punk Diary : 1980-1982
George
Gimarc bio & website
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George Gimarc
Class of 1975 |
"Practice-Oriented
Nutrition Research:
An Outcomes Measurement Approach"
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(Ordering
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Practice-Oriented
Nutrition Research - Fourteen medical
researchers (physicians, dietitians, pharmacists,
and other specialists) explore what constitutes
"the right stuff" of outcomes research,
an emerging area distancing itself from the
unregulated "barefoot nutritionists."
This real-world guide for clinicians in the
rigorous study of the clinical and cost-effectiveness
of nutrition disease prevention and medical
care, with case studies of research led by
diversely-licensed successful health care
researchers, provides guidance on: getting
started in, conducting, and presenting statistical
research; preparing grants, papers for publication,
and presentations; and professional obligations
to subjects. Book News, Inc.ฎ, Portland, OR |
Carol S. Ireton-Jones,
PhD, RD.
Class of 1974 |
"Captain
Cupid Calls the Shots"
(Donna's
latest of 15 Regency Romance Works)
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Donna Gimarc, writing Regency period romance
as ELISABETH FAIRCHILD, honored with industry
trade ROMANTIC TIMES' prestigious Reviewer's
Choice Award, for the BEST REGENCY NOVEL of
1994-1995, was nominated for the BEST REGENCY
ROMANCE category every year between 1991 and
1998.
Nominated already for a Romantic Times Lifetime
Achievement Award Donna recently moved from
Dallas to Rowlett, Texas with her best friend
and husband George, and their two dogs, Mookie
and Shellie. When she is not writing, she
is either pouring over the hundreds of history
books she has amassed in her private research
library, canoeing on Lake Ray Hubbard, shoveling
dirt in her ongoing attempts to establish
a new garden in the wake of a drought year,
or papering and painting the bare walls of
her new house.
The award winning author of over a dozen books,
included in four short story anthologies,
and published in Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria,
Fairchild's most recent book,
CAPTAIN CUPID CALLS THE SHOTS, is a February
2001 release.
THE GRAND HOTEL, Signet's first "shared world"
anthology, (Fairchild was asked to create
the "world")--includes her short story, LOVE
WILL FIND THE WAY.
about Elisabeth
Fairchild
(Other
Works by Donna)
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Donna (Ziegler) Gimarc
aka Elisabeth Fairchild
Class of 1976 |
"The
Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction:
Fifty North American Stories Since 1970"
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The
Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
- Selected from a survey of more than 200
English professors, award-winning short-story
writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors,
a remarkable collection of North American
literature written since 1970.
Sherman Alexie Margaret Atwood Toni Cade
Bambara Russell Banks John Barth Donald
Barthelme Rick Bass Richard Bausch Charles
Baxter Madison Smartt Bell Amy Bloom
Kate Braverman Robert Olen Butler ...
Other work by Lex:
MacAuley's
Thumb
(Iowa Short Fiction Award)
Lex's
Homepage
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Lex Williford
Class of 1973 |
"How
to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the
Southwest: Revised and Updated Edition"
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Jill
Nokes has a landscape design and consulting
practice in Austin, Texas, where she and her
associates work with architects, builders,
homeowners, new landowners, and schools to
create landscape designs that reflect the
local region and thrive with a minimum of
resources, especially water.
How
to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest:
Revised and Updated Edition
will be published in May 2001 and can be ordered
now.
"Nokes
draws upon many unpublished observations
by experienced propagators, which should
keep many gardeners from trial-and-error
inquiries of their own. . . .
This attractive, clearly written landscape
materials guide will fill a large gap
in western horticultural literature and
should serve as a model for other regional
guides."
Horticulture
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Jill Nokes
Class of 1969 |
"Wind
in the Meadow"
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Jacqua has
been published in the poetry book
Wind in the Meadow released 05/07/01.
The poem in this book is called "Valentine's
Day". She has two more poems that will
be released in the Under a Quicksilver
Moon Series in the winter 2002. These
titles are "Love Life" and "Father's Day'.
The poems can be found at www.poetry.com
under her name.
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Brandi
Jacqua Simpson
Class of 1996 |
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