Building a Business: The Jim Walter Story

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Nice reading for a motivation seeker.......1999-08-24

Building a business is a nice book, not a must to read, just to see what a simple men can do when they believe in their success.

The bad side of the story is that it is not the Jim Walker story, because you do not even learn about his marriage, if or if not his marriage was good or suffered from his work, even not if there are children and so on.

Anyway, a nice book that leaves you with some more confidence in the still possible American Dream.

Dr. Rudolf C. King

CEO, princeandprince.com

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Building a Business The Jim Walter Story
Moscow Alvin
Manufacturer: Pineapple Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UIOJUO

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Building a Business: The Jim Walter Story.
ALVIN MOSCOW
Manufacturer: See notes
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RQMR4Y

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Written for fans who dig horror movies, facts about favorite films, shows, stars and more! An informative, refreshingly fun book on the best of horror-film genre. The book covers the early film classics all the way to the horror of today, plus horror posters, comics, magazines, vintage radio, monster toys, and more.

Foreward by Ben Chapman "The Reel Gillman" from Universal's classic Creature from the Black Lagoon.

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The Monster Club.com Guide To Horror.......2002-06-01

Ms. Duran has created a work of genuis for all movie bluffs.
The MCCGTH is one of the three greatest works on horror in the last thirty years.

Check it out!.......2001-10-15

Cheryl Duran has created a useful compendium of the horror field for the neophyte and the seasoned fan alike. Written by a true fan of the genre, this book is a fun overview which includes movies, TV, comics and toys. It turned me onto a couple of vintage movies I had never seen and sent me scrambling to my local video store to check them out!
Clint Hutchison - writer/director of TERROR TRACT

A fun book on all things horror!.......2001-09-21

The Monster Club.com's guide to horror is great fun to read! It really captures the spirit of why I love horror. I've loved monsters and horror films since I was little, and I have a huge collection of books dedicated to horror. What sets this book apart from the rest is the tone. It's obvious that the author is a fan of many of the same films I like, and her enthusiasm is contagious. Instead of taking a clinical approach and analyzing topics or films to death, she takes you on a fun whirlwind tour of many facets of the world of horror. Highly recommended!

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Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920
Roy Rosenzweig
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000R7Z2Z4

Book Description

Bridge players all over the world are familiar with Victor Mollo's incredible cast of characters. Now this new collection of stories from The Griffins Club follows the sage of Mollo's menagerie, as Hideous Hog and Rueful Rabbit bewitch, bother, and bewilder their opponents.

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funny? hilarious!.......2000-08-30

victor mollo was arguably the wittiest bridge writer ever. his "menagery" books were brilliant. so , who more is worty and capable of continuing his life work than the philip and robert king, who proved many times their great abbility of creating clever and funny bridge books. this book is wonderfull, and even mollo, had he been still alive, would probably agree.

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Finally-a book that never forgets photography is an art form

Sure, the technology matters. But you're a photographer first. If the technology doesn't enhance the art, what's the point? Rob Sheppard knows what you want to know about using Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop(r) CS and CS2, because he uses it in creating his own highly acclaimed photographs. In this book, he shares the information you need in a language and context you understand, illustrated in full color with his own images.
* Understand what Raw is and know when to shoot Raw and when to shoot JPEG
* See the benefits of higher bit depth when processing a photo
* Demystify the different Raw formats
* Discover what Raw can fix, and what it can't
* Learn to read a histogram and use it to improve tonality and contrast
* Follow a step-by-step outline to develop an efficient Camera Raw workflow
* See how double processing can actually save you time and frustration
* Learn to achieve maximum quality when processing Raw images

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A must for the RAW shooters and those who don't know if they should.......2007-08-12

I loved this book so much had to purchase Landscape and Nature Photography with Photoshop CS2 by Rob Sheppard also. The way he explains and shows you what he is talking about in a very un bias way . He shares and explains many if not all of the things you experiences in digital photography shooting and working with RAW or RAW-JPEG.
Rob Sheppard Writes "I have a passion for helping Photographers use new digital technologies to the potographer's benefit." That is what I want and need to help me fill my thirst for the knowledge I need to better myself as a photographer from capture to processing . I don't see how you could go wrong with this book . All color illustrations .Don't just look at it, frame it . Happy Shooting!

Photography Magic.......2007-08-04

This was a great book. Gave me lots of good information. Wish I was as smart as this man.

Not much for portraits/skin tone, ok for nature.......2007-06-17

Lots of expamles from nature While I did learn about the raw editing from this book, there was very little about skin tone. The only example they gave was 2 kids watching sharks at the aquarium. The scene had bad mixed lighting and showed ways to fix it. But the faces were turned away from the camera and not much help. I am still looking for a way to get good skin tone out of ACR. The click white balance is not the answer - it's too cool for me. More discussion of portrait color was needed.

For PS Intermediates.......2007-04-10

This book seems extremely informative as most reviewers have noted. I would emphasize, however, that Photoshop is an extremely complex application and the book covers a limited aspect of it. I am still learning how to get in and out of the program, and how to set up a workflow even for the one-off types of work in which I am interested - completing a couple images every month about which I feel good. I have also purchased the LAB color space book, Canyon Conundrum, and would say the same for that. Admittedly, I have not done the tutorials that came with the program, but I think the beginning user probably needs something that simplifies the entire process. If anyone has seen something like this let me know at [...]or maybe put it here. Even PS2 for Dummies does not seem to give one an overall schema into which one fits things like color management and working in RAW. I'm sure I'm not simple minded nor do I have low aspirations, but these books are definitely aimed at the person who is already pretty familiar with the application.

Camera Raw for Tecnical Professionals Only.......2007-03-25

An excellent book but only for phtographers who practice on a technical profesional level. Anyone above the level of rank amateur should get at least a few good ideas from it.

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Library of Sonya Armfield.......2007-07-09

This book was interesting because it offers a different perspective of Malcolm X. Its good to read this book with the autobiography of Malcolm X.

Sonya Armfield

A useful book, the product of much research exposing the FBI.......2002-07-05

Carson is a well-known Black scholar whose most important work has been organizing and opublishing from the Martin Luther King Papers. This book was an effort on his part to expose how the FBI followed Malcolm X from the time he wrote to a radical youth group for information, long before Malcolm X joined the Muslims until his death, a death Malcolm more and more expected would come from the FBI/CIA. Along the way the FBI has preserved speeches and letters and views of Malcolm as they evolved throughout his life. Anyone who treats Malcolm X as some sort of prefabricated god, and not a man whose views developed over time, over experience, and particularly after his exposure to the struggles of the civil rights movement, and the anti-imperialist struggles ongoing in Cuba, Africa, and Vietnam at the time, is in for a rude shock as this book shows how his ideas changed and grew.
I recommend Pathfinder Press's series of books by Malcolm X. Malcolm selected Pathfinder to publish his speeches before he died. The first book Malcolm X speaks was selected while Malcolm was living, though published after he was murdered. Every book has been published in cooperation and with royalties to Malcolm's family. Pathfinder has gone as far as the jungles of Guyana to find every speech or interview available with Malcolm particularly in the last years of his life.

The book was informative...........1999-08-06

The book was informative however the foward by Spike Lee was out of place. It breaks my heart that so many people profit from the life and death of Malcolm X other than his family. Although this is a good book do your self and Malcolm justice by getting this book from your public library!

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Malcolm X - The Fbi File
Clayborne; Introduction by Lee, Spike; Edited by Gallen, David Carson
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IW17T8

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MALCOLM X = THE FBI FILE

Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HGSREI

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Malcolm X : The FBI File
Clayborne Carson
Manufacturer: Avalon New York
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KPJVXC

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Malcolm X: The FBI File

Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HJFC1G

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Malcolm X: The FBI File
Clayborne Carson
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OW7WQY

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Zeepvat examins the lives of individual Romanov family members during the last century of their imperial rule and offers a glimpse into their grand palaces.

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Great!.......2003-12-26

A delightful collection of stories starting with the first Nicholas and Alexandra in 1817, winding it's way to a story about the Tsesarevich Alexei. Many lesser known members of the Imperial Family are here, many who are quite interesting in and of themselves!

Excellent book!.......2003-11-05

Zeepvat didn't write anything short of an amazing book on the 19th century Romanovs. She really got into the intimate details of family life as well as writing of their political role. A must read book for all Romanov fans!

For collectors of all things Romanov, this is a must have........2003-11-04

Very well written series of 'short stories' of different members of the Russian royal family at the turn of the 19th century, some obscure and not normally written about, which I found very refreshing. I am an avid collector of historical biographies, Russian royal family especially, but I have never seen such a comprehensive exploration of the Romanovs. Quite a few pictures I had not seen before also. All in all a great investment, and a very good read.

a fascinating exploration through a complex family.......2003-01-24

This book goes way beyond the normal stories of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna. Charlotte Zeepvat leads us through the personalities in the Romanov family, and what part they played in imperial Russia and its downfall. Through these biographies the reader can understand the slide from a united family to the rival factions that partly brought about the Revolution and its aftermath. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever wondered about the imperial house of Russia , and the fate that awaited them.

A Romanov Tapestry.......2002-11-13

This is a well written book that covers the last century of the Russian Romanov dynasty.

The author has chosen a wide focus rather than a narrow one on Nicholas II and Alexandra. For once we get to meet the other family memebers, learn about their personalities and what events shaped their lives and the fate of the dynasty.

We also get to read in detail about the various palaces and estates the family used. These are often referred to in other books without any real background information on their history or importance to the family being described. This book fills that vacume.

If you know nothing about the Romanovs this is a fantastic place to start as all these people's live stories weave in and out of each other to create an amazing and true story.

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Only Okay.

Has its faults, but a lot of interesting material

Animal Instinct and Human Psychology

Intriguing Accounts of Animal and Street Math

The Math inSTINKS

The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs)
Keith Devlin
Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 156025839X

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There are two kinds of math: the hard kind and the easy kind. The easy kind, practiced by ants, shrimp, Welsh Corgis — and us — is innate. But what innate calculating skills do we humans have? Leaving aside built-in mathematics, such as the visual system, ordinary people do just fine when faced with mathematical tasks in the course of the day. Yet when they are confronted with the same tasks presented as “math,” their accuracy often drops. If we have innate mathematical ability, why do we have to teach math and why do most of us find it so hard to learn? Are there tricks or strategies that the ordinary person can do to improve mathematical ability? Can we improve our math skills by learning from dogs, cats, and other creatures that “do math?” The answer to each of these questions is a qualified yes. All these examples of animal math suggest that if we want to do better in the formal kind of math, we should see how it arises from natural mathematics.

From NPR's "Math Guy," The Math Instinct is a real celebration of innate math sense and will provide even the most number-phobic readers with confidence in their own mathematical abilities.

Customer Reviews:

Only Okay........2006-10-27

I thought there would be a little more substance to this book. I was glad to see the stories and references to some of the street math but I was more intrigued by the examples of babies and math.

I would recommend it to friends that are not that interested in math.

For those that want more depth to the discussion relating math to instinct I'd go elsewhere.

Has its faults, but a lot of interesting material.......2006-09-06

"The Math Instinct" is something of a hodge-podge, and I think it could be written better, but there is lots of really interesting material, and the reader can always skip chapters not of interest to him/her. I say the book isn't written that well, because Devlin doesn't do well enough with the more difficult concepts. I say it is a hodge podge because subjects such as the nautilus's shell have nothing to do with the rest of the book; in fact Devlin waits far too long to distinguish between computational skills of animals, such as their navigational skills, and the results of optimization through evolutionary trial and error (bee's hexagonal honeycomb) which has nothing to do with the animal brain's capacity for doing math.
Amazingly, a numerical sense has been found to exist in baby's only a few days old, as well as in rats, etc. Brazilian children who could not master arithmetic in school, do great when they need to employ math in the marketplace. When math is abstract and rule based, without making sense, it is hard to learn or apply. It actually uses a part of the brain devoted to language rather than a part used for "natural" math (which incidentally grew out of the area used to control digits). Devlin addresses teaching math, but surprisingly doesn't have much too say, emphasizing repetitive practice rather than a change in presentation. For example, for reasons Devlin gives, learning 7 x 8 = 56 is particularly hard, so why not teach 7 x 8 = 7 x 7 + 7, thereby giving the idea of multiplication as a quick way to do some kinds of addition, and taking advantage of the kind of techniques untutored Brazilian working kids use in the marketplace?

Animal Instinct and Human Psychology.......2006-07-27

Although the word "math" appears in the title, this book is mainly about instinct and psychology. About half the book contains discussions on how animals instinctively do certain things that have some foundation in math. The other half of the book looks at how humans perceive and behave in math-related situations - from infancy to adulthood. The book is very well-written, very clear and easy to read. Those who are math phobic have nothing to fear here; in fact, they would likely find this book very interesting in the sense that they would learn something fascinating about themselves. Other than for those who are math phobic, this book has something for psychology buffs as well as animal lovers. But most importantly, it should grace the shelves of math educators as well as those who are interested in the reasons and possible cures for innumeracy.

Intriguing Accounts of Animal and Street Math.......2006-03-05

This book offers a very readable overview for the non-specialist, with many fascinating details on how animals use their kinds of natural mathematics. It also discusses the findings of Brazilian researchers on how teenage street vendors who can't handle school math develop their own effective street math techniques. The author makes abundantly clear that many people can't deal with school math because it is presented as an abstract symbolic system. People can learn best, he argues, by applying math in concrete ways. Unfortunately, he stops short at the end of the book and simply enjoins us to practice because that is the way humans gain mastery over subjects. It would have been useful for him to spell out how such practice can best be done and to give examples. I recall an awful pre-calculus course that spent a full year trying to prove a set of theorems, leaving us students with no knowledge of how to apply calculus to scientific, financial, or other problems (this was the last exposure to math for most of the class). We would have learned much better by applying calculus to real problems, then perhaps concluding the year with a bit of theory. I recommend this book to readers who enjoy popular science literature or want to know more about animal math.

The Math inSTINKS.......2005-08-21

I was suckered by the description and this book fails to deliver....

The reason I gave two stars: some teenagers or true novices to the subject may find some of the stories interesting enough to turn them onto better works in the field.

There is NOTHING new in this book: Devlin desperately looks for a new angle to a Greek philosophical fight- which is not necessarily bad (see "the Anthropology of Art") BUT he doesn't take any new angle- he just searches and speculates - like a tired dog circling for a place to lie down.

The filler of the book is what anyone would expect- scientific research and 'interesting' tidbits about the physical world... once again, nothing new. Save your money.

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