NFPA 921: Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: 2004 | ISBN-10: 0064641112 | ISBN-13: 978-0064641111 | Edition: 1

"This brilliant book should be required reading for every student going off to college. . . . Forget about buying the new college student a personal computer, and give them this book instead."--Paul Bracken, School of Management, Yale University

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Product Details

• Paperback: 262 pages
• Publisher: National Fire Protection Association; 1 edition (2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0064641112
• ISBN-13: 978-0064641111
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,775,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth your time, March 30, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Studying Smart Rev (Paperback)

If you are going to college then this book is just as important as any textbook. Better grades and more free time await you, not bad for around 10 bucks. Before this book I was struggling just to get by, now I am on my way to great grades I never thought possible. It does take a while to get use to everything, but once you do your scholastic life will never be the same.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Instruction On Vital Time Management And Other Life Skills, June 9, 2011

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This review is from: NFPA 921: Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations (Paperback)

Heyla and well met!

There are three things that will make a successful student: Solid life goals, excellent time management skills, and good studying skills, which includes knowing how to read a textbook (and understanding that reading a textbook is a much different skill than reading a novel for enjoyment). Studying Smart teaches the aspiring student to develop the first two aspects of a successful student, and it does so quite well, as the book emphasizes the fact that, in order for the student to become successful, the student must first know what she wants from her education, then work from that point. The book helps the student think about what she wants from her education by helping her learn how to identify and develop short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals, then developing time-management techniques that will aid the student in bringing those goals to fruition. From there, the rest is simply up to the student, as the student must understand that this book is NOT a magical tome that will miraculously give the student top grades in the class: rather, it's a book that teaches the student valuable skills that the student must be willing to put into use for life, if she truly expects to gain anything from it.

I was fortunate enough that my father gave me this book when I was a teenager, advising me, then, to develop and practice these skills long before I entered college. After a long period of practice, these skills became so simple that I simply couldn't understand why everyone didn't use it. And, in fact, I attribute my success in community college to these vital life skills. I can say this because, when I transferred over to the university, I became quite over-confident, thinking that I no longer needed to use these skills directly, as I can keep it all in my head. Unfortunately, the sad truth was that this simply wasn't so. Indeed, I needed these skills even more so, because the university operates on the quarter system, rather than the semester system, and with my learning disability, this meant that time was so precious that I really COULD NOT afford to not manage my time correctly. So, of course, my grades managed to slip, lower and lower, and only during those quarters in which I went back to using my time management skills did I manage to return to somewhere close to my performance in community college. So, from my own life experience, the one thing I would like to impart to anyone attempting to learn goal/life planning and/or time management skills, either from this book or another source, is that these are life skills you are meant to utilize for life, not just for a short while, which makes sense: if using the system that works best for you has brought you success, why discontinue it?