Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating Careers

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Opportunities In Interior Design and Decorating Careers offers job seekers essential information about a variety of careers within the field of interior decorating and includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources.

Careers (The "Feng Shui Fundamentals" Series)

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Less than inspiring
ALL THE BOOKS ARE SIMILAR !
Acknowledging ones career
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Careers (The "Feng Shui Fundamentals" Series)
Lillian Too
Manufacturer: Element Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1862041199

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Less than inspiring.......2000-05-05

Sorry but I'm with the other reviewer - Lillian Too's books seem to rehash the same stuff over and over again. Also I find her very confusing. I'm fascinated by feng shui but think there are much better books out there to be honest.

ALL THE BOOKS ARE SIMILAR !.......2000-04-12

I notice that the books written by Lilian Too are almost similar and I agreed a reader from the U.S. that Lilian Too's Feng Shui books are aims for commercial and money making, and not really helping people to overcome difficult and problems by using Feng Shui.

Acknowledging ones career.......2000-02-26

It is beyond examination that Lillian's exemplifies the ideas of feng shui, and brings it about in a really easy and comprehensible manner. It takes feng shui to a new level, adapting the essential elements of theory and incorporates it towards different aspects of one's life.

It embelishes the essence in understanding focal and directing ones energy towards ones center. It is through a center that we as individuals live and affect one another. This book provides a prime example in understanding and able to focus our energy in a series of manner to enhance our productivity and life.

I bought this book 6 months ago ..........1999-01-23

... and after energizing the corners and tapping the directions according to Lillian Too's advice,I have just been promoted. I have been so inspired by her fantasitic career achievements - here in Malaysia she is a great role model... I recommend this and all her other books very highly but this is the best book !

Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating

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Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating
Victoria Ball
Manufacturer: Bt Bound
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0785768580

Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating Careers

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Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating Careers

Manufacturer: VGM Career Horizons
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ASIN: 9990846456

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Opportunities in Interior Design and Decorating Careers

Manufacturer: VGM Career Horizons
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ASIN: 9990846472

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Kitsch as kitsch can

Bead It!

WOW!

The Weekend Crafter: Beading: From Necklaces to Napkin Rings, 20 Easy and Creative Projects to Make in a Weekend
Paige Gilchrist Blomgren
Manufacturer: Lark Books/Sterling Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1579900917

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Kitsch as kitsch can.......2004-09-25

Twenty projects with color details and instructions. The projects are a step up from beginner's kits. However one would not want to be seen with them or give them away as Christmas presents. The only decent project is probably the Drop Earrings design by Linda Rose Nall; however the beads chosen in the example look like Romper School.

It does require some dexterity, visual acuity and little imagination.

Bead It!.......2000-06-12

What a wonderful book! The projects are designed by a number of different artists, so there is a lot of variety in the styles of the projects. There are tons of different kinds of things to do (ie clothing, jewelry, functional items like boxes). Many of the projects are quite simple and can be done with easy-to-find materials. I had a lot of the materials on hand. The projects are straightforward and look great. Many can be used as a jumping off point so that you can be creative and add a personal touch. I am so glad that I bought this book.

WOW!.......2000-03-10

I enjoyed this book so much. I want to make everything in it. It will inspire you in so many ways. Great instructions too. This book is worth buying. I hope there is another book coming with more ideas.

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Bob Eggleton is one of the most prolific fantasy artists of his time. This 128-page journal's cover depicts his painting of a young dragon in profile, seated before a cloud-filled sky worthy of Maxfield Parrish!

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When friendship spans the oceans - it seemed a fair exchange to share the exotic experiences in the Land of the Rising Sun in exchange for hearing of life in the real world. A rare glimpse into the life of an American woman in a foreign and alien land - read her journal.

Emails from the Edge (The Life of an Expatriate Wife) provides a rare glimpse into the life of an American woman struggling to live in a foreign and alien land. Her life is played against the life of her friend back in the States. Emails from the Edge is a collection of actual emails exchanged between Margie, who was living in Japan, and Sandy, who was living in Houston. To Margie, it seemed a fair exchange to share her exotic experiences in the Land of the Rising Sun in exchange for hearing of life in the real world.

Emails from the Edge is sprinkled with running commentaries of the newsworthy happenings in the world. It runs the gamut of emotions from upbeat and humorous to homesick, and sometimes even desperate.

Emails from the Edge shows what true friendship can mean if you have the courage to reach out and embrace it; to forge the bonds of friendship and to hold that friendship close to your heart; to share experiences with another - and each becoming a stronger person for having shared those experiences.

True friendship is a rare thing. Few have the courage to reach out and grab it, to hold on to it. To even recognize that it has been offered to them. To realize that their lives would be richer for having had it. True friendship is to be there for the other in times of adversity as well as joy. True friendship is a precious thing to be guarded like a valued treasure. Remember, that which has been shattered into a million pieces cannot be pieced back together again.

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No. Just no........2004-05-06

As a fellow expatriate, I was ashamed to think that this is how people will see our world. Japan indeed is foreign, and I understand how the woman feels about being isolated. But the way to end the isolation where she is was to use the Internet time she had to look for information in her area. Getting out of her apartment, meeting people where she was and trying to understand the local customs goes a long way toward understanding and adjusting to a new place. Reaching out through email is great--I do it often--but a constant stream of whining does no one any good. This was a book that was a good idea spoiled.

And if she thinks Japan is rough, heaven help her if she ended up in a real hardship post.

This was a silly, slight book.

Disappointed-at best, disgusted at worst.......2003-11-01

I was very disappointed by this book. I had read the whole book because I kept thinking eventually she would find some bit of understanding about the host culture or some revalation about humanity, but I don't think she ever thought about anyone but herself and her friend on the other side. In the early stages of the book Ms. Maguire (publishing name) decided that she would write a book based on the e-mails from a friend who answered her call for help. From that point on she decided not to understand anything about Japan (i.e. misspelling names of places, not even taking the time to understand or learn about the strange things she saw). She called the US the "real world."

Instead of coming to learn how to accept and understand the host culture, Ms. Maguire draws herself into a coccon which centers around herself and her computer and shuts her eyes to all else, calling it either stupid or inconveinent.
There was a point where she could have sought enlightenment when a person told her she was "needy," but that never panned out.

For anyone who is looking for information or stories about living as an expatriate, this serves only as a bad example of how one does not thrive in a foreign land. I would highly suggest the following books if you are looking for more than just personal sob stories:

The Expert Expatriate (it should be called the expatriate's bible, highly reccomended)
Culture Shock: The Wife's Gudie (and other books by the author, Robin Pascoe)
Books related to intercultural communications
Third Culture Kids

I have lived in Japan, the US, Switzerland, Germany and Singapore. I speak fluently three langauges, even though I am profoundly hearing impared (Japanese being one of them). To live abroad is an excellent chance to learn more about and understand the world (even is it is not on your list of things you would like to do). Please refer to the list above for suitable reading material that will prepare you for your move, be it the first or 50th time. Abroad, careful preparation and information is your best friend.

If you want to know how to make the worst of an international move, you couldn't have found a better book than Ms. Maguire's.

The true friend every human being deserves.......2003-05-13

From her apartment in Yokohama, Japan - isolated by barriers of language both written and spoken, with only her husband to talk to although surrounded by millions in the world's largest city - Margie Tovrea sends out a cry for help over the Internet. From her home near Houston, Texas, Sandy Davis answers that cry.

This story of an expatriate wife, who follows her husband while his job assignments take him from foreign country to foreign country (as well as all over the United States), could not have been written in an earlier era even though Americans have been living and working overseas for as long as this country has existed. What makes Margie's Japan experience (and therefore, this book) unique is the immediacy of her correspondence with her friend Sandy, who has more than an inkling about what Margie is going through because Sandy's husband is in the same business. In fact, the two women met while both were living in a Western employees' compound in Saudi Arabia, when their husbands had earlier assignments there.

Sandy becomes Margie's lifeline, offering an almost daily window into The Real World. Where one can buy food that looks and tastes familiar, and has readable labels. Where the tradespeople with whom a woman must deal treat her as a valued customer, instead of as an intruder whose presence in their country gives constant offense. Where there are books to read and people to talk to, and where the bills she must pay make sense - as do the operating instructions on her household appliances!

Being an expatriate wife isn't new to Margie, but living in a land where she feels completely unwelcome and where there are absolutely no other Western residents within reach is something she never imagined before experiencing it. Sandy, the true friend every human being deserves but may not be fortunate enough to find, experiences it right along with her. Gladly and lovingly, responding to Margie's e-mails with messages that make one thing plain to any reader who ever had a close friend: the woman in Texas is drawing just as much emotional sustenance, and is learning just as many lessons from their correspondence, as the one in Japan.

You'll learn a lot about the Far East by reading EMails From the Edge. You'll also learn what life is like for U.S. workers abroad on more typical assignments, and for the families who follow them. But what you will remember about this book, and would not find in any more conventional "travel story," is the friendship that prompted its e-mails.

Highly recommended!

Clever, honest and original!.......2002-11-06

I had to smile when I read `Emails From the Edge', as it reminded me of my many years in the Marine Corps. Seldom did we stay in one place for more than two years. My smile, however, soon turned to a sad awareness as I looked back at the selfishness in my life. When reading this book, I realized the enormous problem it was for my wife who (most of the time) did all the packing and all of the hard work that I took for granted. I never once thought about the loneliness my wife felt living in a foreign country. I had my work, but she had nothing.

The relationship with the Houston housewife was nothing short of a miracle in this clever, honest, and original book. If you want to know what friendship is all about, this is a truly a delightful read. Both the good and the bad are brought out in this non-fiction story of true friendship. These two women are tough. They are true survivors. A must read book that will leave you laughing and crying.

Ms. Maguire's book is definitely a wake-up call to the many spouses of those who move to foreign countries. Military personnel and travel agents should recommend this book to all parties who intend to move their families to a foreign country.

Reviewed by award-winning author, Bobby Ruble, author of Have No Mercy and co-author with wife, Kam, of Black Rosebud: Have No Mercy II.

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.......2002-10-13

EMAILS FROM THE EDGE
ISBN: 1-930252-46-3
By: Kristie Leigh Maguire
(with contributions from Adrianna Larson)

Review by: Joan Moore Lewis, Southern Fiction Author, Georgia USA

A picture postcard description of the exotic Land of the Far East and her husband's job lured Margie Tovrea to Japan in June 1997. Past international assignments had landed them in St. Croix in the U. S. Virgin Islands, Aruba, Panama, Thailand and Saudi Arabia. But nothing had prepared Margie for the isolation she would face in Japan.
The only English words that reached her ears were those uttered by her husband, Stan, and television's CNN International. Due to the language barrier, Margie could neither converse with neighbors nor identify food in the grocery stores.

Then in August 1997, a miracle happened! Margie was reunited via email with her friend, Sandy Davis, whom she had met in Saudi Arabia. While Margie was "losing it" in Yokohama, Sandy, who had returned to the U. S., was "kickin' it" in Houston, Texas.

"Emails from the Edge" is the actual correspondence between an expatriate wife and a Houston housewife who laughed and cried as they shared each other's life on-line almost every day for seven months. You will laugh and cry also as you read this story of deep friendship and understanding.

I highly recommend "Emails from the Edge" to anyone who has at any time dreaded grocery shopping or spending time with family, friends and neighbors.

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A fundamental survey

Lots of details on each country

East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars (A History of East Central Europe)
Joseph Rothschild
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0295953500

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A fundamental survey.......2004-04-15

This book is a comprehensive treatment of the East Central European region between the First and Second World Wars. The narrative is glib, fluid and thoroughly readable. The author provides copious tables and maps for easy reference, but this is not a "statistical" work. His inclusion of abbreviated studies of the Baltic states simultaneously widens the comparative cases (as these countries are a transitional zone between Central and Eastern Europe) and provides an elucidating contrast (as they did not regain nominal independence during the Cold War). His introduction isolates the key historical foci of the time and place, including class relations, peasantism, the Great Depression and Great Power penetration. The concluding cultural survey is brief but well-researched and offers a happy humanistic conclusion to the unavoidably tragic political and economic cases.

Overall, Rothschild's effort is hugely successful and a pleasure to read, though it is not without idiosyncrasies. Some cases receive far more space (e.g., Poland, Yugoslavia) than others (e.g., Bulgaria, Albania). Some pivotal states within the East Central and Baltic region (Austria, Greece and Finland) aren't given their own cases at all. Perhaps this is because of a conceptual conflation of "East Central Europe" with "Soviet satellites", a common simplification among historians during the Cold War. It is more forgivable than Rothschild's sparse mention of East Germany in his follow-up to this book, Return to Diversity.

Another noteworthy feature of the book is its hybrid method. When choosing between true country-specific cases and thematic cases (the latter used in Return to Diversity), Rothschild selects features of both. Yugoslavia is a case study of the politics of ethnic diversity, Romania of radical right movements, etc., and these features are given great weight in each respective narrative. This method allows the author to give comprehensive treatment to the major themes of the region within a relatively short amount of space, but at the cost of sacrificing truly equivalent comparisons across countries. To put it another way, the Hungarian Arrow Cross was just as much an example of rightist radicalism as the Romanian Iron Guard, but only the latter receives a full analysis.

In sum, I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in the region, though please don't stop here.

Lots of details on each country.......1999-09-24

This is an interesting text, rich in details, dates and stastical tables of each country, by chapter, in East-Central Europe. Focusing on the interwar period, it covers the events from an historical perspective with insight into the political and economic and social situations. The only main problem is that the writing style makes for rather difficult reading. However, if you need to understand the sequence of events, the underlying historical facts, or for research, this is an excellent text, volume IX in the series "A History of East Central Europe." The Introductory Survey is excellent as a stand-alone text for college or even advance high school courses. The countries covered by chapters are Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and one chapter on the Baltic States (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia).

EAST CENTRAL EUROPE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS

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EAST CENTRAL EUROPE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS

Manufacturer: University of Washinton Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GOH1KM

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East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars
Joseph Rothschild
Manufacturer: Univeristy of Washington
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000X6OGI8

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As early as the first century of the common era, Jews followed the Romans to live on German territory. For two thousand years Jews and the local population co-existed. This relationship has been turbulent at times but has occasionally been a model of multicultural synergism. Together the two groups have produced a unique and rich culture. Germany's Jewish Community, with thriving congregations, schools, publications, and museums, has been the world's fastest growing group. This work focuses on the present while addressing the underlying question of the future for Jews in Germany: How temperate is the German social climate and how fertile is its soil for Jews? Seventy people were interviewed for this book to establish what kind of relationships are being established across the Jewish and non-Jewish border. The interviewees represent three generations and all walks of life. This text depicts their legacies, fears, and hopes in their own words. Existing German societal conditions are evaluated for possible future creativity and synergy.

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Resurgence of Jewish Life in Germany
Charlotte Kahn
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORD8FS

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Contains the proceedings of a workshop on nonlinear hyperbolic equations held at Varenna, Italy in June 1990.

Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations and Field Theory

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Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations and Field Theory

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