Mary Kay: You Can Have It All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur

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Mary Kay may be the most successful woman entrepreneur in the world today, but she started her company as a single mother supporting three children—using her total life savings of $5,000. Following her priorities—God first, family second, and career third—and some sound, savvy business strategies, she managed to create a multibillion-dollar international company as well as a fulfilling life that reflects her values. Here she reveals to you how she did it, how thousands of other women have done it, and how you can do it, too!

Mary Kay accomplished all her goals without any special advantage—without trying to be a "superwoman." Instead, she rediscovered the timeless secrets of true success and happiness and applied them in her life. These are the secrets she now shares with you.
In Mary Kay: You Can Have It All, you will discover how to:

• Become more confident personally and professionally
• Deal with the male ego
• Plan your work and work your plan
• Do well by doing good
• And much, much more!

Mary Kay will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book to the Mary Kay Ash Center for Cancer Immunotherapy Research at St. Paul Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

Mary Kay Ash is the founder and chairman emeritus of Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc., listed among Fortune magazine's Most Admired Corporations in America and boasting annual retail sales of more than $1.5 billion.

Also available in Paperback.

Customer Reviews:

self-endorsement.......2007-01-02

This book is all about how great Mary Kay thinks Mary Kay is. Though I was interested in learning more about the company (I even was a Mary Kay consultant for a little while), the self-proclamation factor proved too frustrating. I could not even finish the book!

A Very Inspirational Book.......2006-02-28

What a great book, a great lady, who had a great business philosophy. A must read for anyone who wants to do their own thing.

AWESOME AND POWERFUL.......2003-02-09

I AM A MARY KAY CONSULTANT.I WAS A DEVOTED CUSTOMER FIRST.ONCE I WAS ON HER CUTTING EDGE COSMETICS, I DECIDED TO OFFER THE OPPORTUNITY TO MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS. THIS BOOK GIVES YOU ALL OF THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO MAKE IT IN ANY BUSINESS. SHE GIVES YOU INSPIRATION AND MINDSET YOU NEED TO MAKE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS A REALITY. IF YOU BELIEVE IT, YOU CAN ACHIEVE IT. I AM DOING THAT RIGHT NOW.REDUCING MY DEBT, INCREASING MY SELF ESTEEM AND SELF WORTH.DEFINATELY A MUST READ

anonymous.......2001-08-16

Mary Kay Ash is truly an inspiration to all women. Not only does she succeed she lets you know that there will be obstacles to overcome, but you can and will succeed if you keep your priorities in order GOD,Family, and career and work hard. Nothing comes in life easy and through perservence and a dream and goal setting there is nothing you can't do. I LOVED IT!!!

Changed the way I think!.......2001-01-19

Thank you Mary Kay Ash for writing the words that I needed to read! Mary Kay's ideas may seem old fashioned to some, but I found them to be refreshing. It's nice to be reminded once in a while that God and Family should come before Career. This book is an inspiration to all women (not just those who like cosmetics and skin care) who want to be the best they can be at whatever it is that they do. The book will keep all women grounded!

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What a woman!

All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography
Ruth Westheimer , and Ben Yagoda
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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ASIN: 0446677612

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She is everyones favourite sex therapist; a four-foot-seven dynamo who answers the most intimate questions with disarming candor and heartening warmth. Yet few really know the real Dr. Ruthher loves, her losses, and the irrepressible spirit that has helped her through it alluntil now. All In A Lifetime is the revealing autobiography of a fighter who has survived heartache with her spirit intact.

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What a woman!.......2003-03-12

Great autobiography of Dr. Ruth! So many things that I didn't know about her: fled Nazi Germany at age 10, never saw her family again, lived on a kibbutz in Israel, was a soldier for the Haganah, then came to the USA, where she found her career and true love.

Very open and candid, and also tragic at times. It's a book I couldn't put down, once I started reading it! Highly recommended!

All in a Lifetime: Science in the Defense of Democracy
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All in a Lifetime: Science in the Defense of Democracy
Ivan A. Getting
Manufacturer: Vantage Press
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All in a Lifetime
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All in a Lifetime
Ralph Broughton
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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This book is about the author's lifetime adventures and business dealings, some successful and some not but he always looks for new things to try.

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All in a lifetime: An autobiography
Inez Marks Lowdermilk
Manufacturer: The Lowdermilk Trust
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Thought it was a different book...

All in a Lifetime
Bill Frederick
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Thought it was a different book..........2005-01-13

but this turned out pretty good! It is good for people who like inner worlds.

All In A Lifetime An Autobiography by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer

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All In A Lifetime An Autobiography by Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer with Ben Yagoda
Manufacturer: Macdonald & Co. Publishers, Ltd. LONDON
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KA7E68

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Inspirational

All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography
Ruth Westheimer , and Ben Yagoda
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0446347744

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Inspirational.......2000-01-15

This is the inspirational story of the life of holocaust survivor Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Throughout an early life of adversity, Dr. Ruth keeps on soldering through without a hint of self-pity.

At the age of eight, Dr. Ruth was evacuated, with hundreds of other children, from Germany to Switzerland. She lived in an orphanage for Jewish children, and did heavy house-cleaning for half the day and attended school for the other half. She never saw her parents or grandmother again.

At 17 Dr. Ruth emigrated to Israel to live on a Kibbutz, where she was exploited. Living in a tent, her job was cleaning full-time, and no one suggested forther schooling. After a year she left the Kibbutz and supported herself in various jobs and attended school.

The account of her years in France and her early years in the US is riviting. Dr. Ruth's strong spirit shining through every situation is inspirational.

All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography
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All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography
Ruth Westheimer
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Seats in all parts: Half a lifetime at the movies
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Seats in all parts: Half a lifetime at the movies
Leslie Halliwell
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He is "The Best" there ever was on the ice!!!.......1999-08-19

This was a fantastic book compiling the story of the greatest player ever and his comeback from Hodgkins Disease and major back surgery. If you enjoy reading stories of courage this is the one for you!

A great book on the best Hockey player ever.......1998-12-14

This book is a very good summary of Mario career, including highlights and memorable events in his life.

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The movie theater has in many ways served as a barometer of the evolution of urban America over the past century. The Community of Cinema explores how the growth and decline of the inner city has been intertwined with the history of the movie theater, how the cinema helped redefine the use of downtowns to include entertainment and socialization, a sense of social place in our society, and the use of spectacle as a part of our daily experience in shopping, eating, and business. This is the first book to examine directly the importance of the movie theater in the creation and growth of the modern American downtown, and its fostering of its own sense of place and community. The Community of Cinema also attempts to bridge the various fields included in the subject of cinema's impact on culture and form, among them film studies, architecture, urban planning, and sociology. In so doing, author James M. Forsher explores in each chapter the ways in which the community of cinema came about, the changes it sparked in the downtown and neighborhood shopping districts, and the sense of community it added to our society as a whole.

The Community of Cinema: How Cinema and Spectacle Transformed the American Downtown

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The Community of Cinema: How Cinema and Spectacle Transformed the American Downtown
James Forsher
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORGF8A

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The mean and moody leather boy on a thundering bike is one of the strongest, most potent images of popular culture. Rejecting stereotyped bourgeois conformism, rockers crystallised a youth style. This book is about that epic style, evolving from a cross-fertilisation of influences, a love affair with bikes and speed, and a British interpretation of American 'glamour'. All this took on a new perspective with the eruption of rock'n'roll.

Streamlined drainpipe jeans and clean-cut leathers were tailored for the sleek, throbbing British 'iron' and the gutsy music. All were elements of the style, reflecting a raw edginess, a studied cook, a search for excitement, a hint of sex and even of violence. This style survived Mods and flower power, not even eclipsing before today's long-haired 'bikers'.

To explain the myth and magic, the author looks at dream machines, the original heroes and, above all, the ton-up boys themselves. Why the cult endures is encapsulated in the photographs. Rare and eye-catching they explain the enduring fascination of rocker culture.

Customer Reviews:

Cafe Rockers Unite!.......2007-05-29

Neat book about the lives of rockers and racers in the 60's. Basically a look at what was going on in europe during the greaser era in America.

Best book ever written on the subject.......2004-06-30

Rockers! is a great nostalgic ride that takes the reader through the history of British motorcycling at its finest hour.

If you are a fan of the days of the teddy boys (the precursor to today's rockabilly revival) and have a love for the mighty British bikes such as Triumph, BSA, and Norton, you will love this book.

Rockers! is also an excellent companion tome to Richard Barnes' Mods! (the definitive history of the great "opposing force" to the rockers in 60's England).

Rockers! is well-written, researched in minute detail and loaded with great photographs.

Makes me long for my old '67 Triumph Tiger . . .

Rockers! rock.......1999-11-25

Rocker! is a very interesting about the people who were the rockers. This is not a motorcycle book, per se, but a book about motorcyclists of the '60s who lived in a world devoted to motorcycles, a book about kids who wanted to have a good time without going over the edge in rebelliousness, but liked the power of the machine and image of "Bad Boy." I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the life style of the Ton-up boys.

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Welcome to the backwards, wrong-way, mixed-up Kingdom of Lidd. It's the magical home of false logic puzzles, and you have to solve them! Just analyze the situation, test the different options, and search for inconsistencies. Choose a level of difficulty, from one-star "challenging" puzzles to three-star "mind-expanding" ones. When you hit a snag, turn to the Hints section-or if you're hopelessly stumped, go to Solutions for the right answer and the logic behind it.

Customer Reviews:

Challenge your Brain and Expand your Mind.......2006-07-25

Solving logic puzzles is an active way of developing your thinking power. The puzzles in this book are all of a formal logic nature, requiring that you think a problem through and reason deductively in arriving at the solution. Each section on this book contains a different type of logic puzzle, and each presents a different kind of challenge. They also share one thing, they all contains false statements which must be identified before you can come with the correct solutions.

If one needs assistance in solving a particular puzzle or type of puzzle, the hints section will be helpful. The solutions section presents considerations in solving each problem. For each puzzle, these describe an appropriate method to use to arrive at the solution. These will be helpful in solving puzzles of the same type.

The stories that describes the situations associated with each puzzle are developed in the backwards, wrong-way, mixed-up Kingdom of Lidd. If you like solving challenging puzzles, you will enjoy the adventures you will face in this book.

Challenging False Logic Puzzles.......2000-06-28

Although this book is interesting, not all of the problems made sense. The ones that I could understand were well-written, so I give this book 4 stars.

Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook
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Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook
Brett McLaughlin David Flanagan
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A superb account of the American Navy's boldest and most tragically ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole.

"A gripping tale,"--The Washington Post

"Truly exciting,"--The Atlantic Monthly

"Beautifully executed narrative,"--Kirkus Reviews

"...Uncovers intriguing new information, including the reason the expedition's full story was never revealed."--The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Uncommonly stirring,"--John Barkham Reviews

"On all levels, a book worth reading,"--The New York Times Book Review

ICEBOUND : THE JEANNETTE EXPEDITION'S QUEST FOR THE NORTH POLE

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ICEBOUND : THE JEANNETTE EXPEDITION'S QUEST FOR THE NORTH POLE
LEONARD F. GUTTRIDGE
Manufacturer: BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP
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ASIN: B000KUSN2M

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Author overstates case of "conspiracy" in story of lost ship
Plodding narrative diminishes the amazing story
Another Fine Arctic Adventure Tinged with Politica Intrigue
Well-Written Account of Enthralling, IncredibleTrue Story

Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole
Leonard F. Guttridge
Manufacturer: Paragon House
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"On all levels, not least as a psychological tale of polar exploration, Icebound is a book well worth reading." (The New York Times Book Review)

On July 8, 1879, thirty-three men set off from San Francisco on the small sailing ship Jeannette planning to reach the North Pole and return. Their ship became trapped in the pack ice for two years and the survivors were forced to trek on foot across the ice to Siberia. This is their remarkable true story.

"Leonard Guttridge has performed a valuable service in setting the record straight. More to the point, however, he has told a gripping tale uncommonly well." (The Washington Post)

"This is a dramatic story and Guttridge tells it well. He has uncovered some intriguing new information, including the reason the expedition's full story was never revealed." (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

"A beautifully executed narrative of sacrifice for science's sake. Guttridge has researched the story well and spices it up with the gossipy details that made life on the ship the stuff of Victorian soap opera." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Guttridge unfolds a gripping story of suspense and adventure. He has ferreted out the facts about the Jeannette and the ship's company, and the colorful characters abound." (Publishers Weekly)

Customer Reviews:

Author overstates case of "conspiracy" in story of lost ship.......2003-12-23

This was the third nautical disaster book I read in the last couple of years, after Caroline Alexander's "The Endurance" and Nathaniel Philbrick's "Heart of the Sea". I might have liked this better if I'd read it first, but it doesn't compare to Alexander and Philbrick's better-written, more gripping books. (I now realize I only got the book because I confused it with Jennifer Niven's "Ice Master".)

The Jeannette sailed in 1879 hoping to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait. The voyage was based on a disastrous theory then in vogue that a warm current from the Pacific flowed through the Bering and created a temperate, ice-free zone around the Pole. The Jeannette was quickly trapped in the ice, where it remained for two winters until the ice crushed the boat. The crew tried to make the Siberian shore in three lifeboats, which became separated (after dragging the boats a long distance across pack ice). One boat foundered in a gale, and all but two members of another boat died of starvation and exposure.

Guttridge wildly overplays his claims of a "conspiracy" to keep the true story submerged. Over the course a couple of years in the ice, people got on each other's nerves and some petty arguments intensified. This is hardly shocking. Did Capt. DeLong underutilize the half-blinded but hale Officer Danenhower during the ice crossing? Was DeLong too harsh toward the meteorologist Collins? Did engineer Melville wait too long in the village of Zemovialach before going to Bulun to start the search for DeLong's party? Perhaps, but the book never provides any reason to think that the death toll would have been any less otherwise. Guttridge's conspiracy seems mostly an attempt by the Navy to respect the dead by not publicizing the squabbles between crew members. The plodding pacing isn't helped by devoting chapters to DeLong's courtship with his wife and the provisioning of the ship.

(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)

Plodding narrative diminishes the amazing story.......2003-03-26

Pedestrian prose abounds in this tale of an astonishing adventure that has messages for everyone. How vanity and position will cover the truth. How armchair theoreticians do not imagine their speculative webs will claim human lives. How foolish rivalries within the military will cost lives. How the dead are easily blamed whenever convenient. How reputations can be preserved or enhanced by judicious truth telling and equally judicious truth avoiding. How politics affects everything that happens in Washington, and pious politicians can mouth words that they know are a lie, all the while claiming to be "for the children" or some such [slop.]

No, this isn't today's news, but the unknown story of a very early, very poorly planned, polar expedition. No need for a summary, it is already here. But this book tells a tale of amazing endurance and staggering bravery that shames those of us sitting in warm houses with tennis elbow or a sore throat. What man can accomplish is truly astounding.

I wish the author had included a few maps of the locations; these are not easy places to locate in an atlas. And the spare writing wrings some of the joy from it; I had to remind myself of just what an amazing tale this was. I don't want shrieking, but the laconic style diminishes a tale of heroism rarely seen. A worthy read.

Another Fine Arctic Adventure Tinged with Politica Intrigue.......2002-01-04

Icebound (The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole) is not quite as exciting as the same author's, Leonard F. Guttridge, book The Ghosts of Cape Sabine. But this should still satisfy those seeking another chance to spend some time in an arctic adventure (even on this chilly winter days) and will only dissappoint those who seek a hint of cannibalism with their tale. This book has all the other usual elements of these stores, though, including betrayal, heroism, scientic stupidity, and, most of all, sheer perseverance in the face of insurmountable obstacles. This book also has a little political subterfuge to add to the mix. Another exciting re-addition to the polar canon.

Well-Written Account of Enthralling, IncredibleTrue Story.......2000-07-27

Leonard Guttridge has managed to recreate with astonishing accuracy truly one of the most incredible stories of human endurance that I have ever known. I can only wonder why this story has not found its way onto the silver screen. Presenting real-life facts that need no embellishment, Mr. Guttridge paints an enthralling picture of the enormous hardships endured by thirty-three men trapped in the artic in the late 19th century. These men had set sail from San Francisco in the "Jeanette," a small ship by today's standards, in search of the North Pole, where they hoped to find an warm, ice-free polar sea. However, several set-backs caused them to leave later in the year than intially planned, causing the Jeanette and her crew to become caught in the pack ice of the arctic ocean. After spending two winters trapped aboard their tiny prison, suffering through many shipboard ordeals, the Jeanette sank in the treacherous, frigid waters. The crew then for months made their way over ice and open water in horrendous weather. Some perished in the journey and some made it to land in northern Siberia. More died of exposure and starvation, lost in the maze-like delta of the Lena River, while miraculously some made it to civilation and safety. (This knowledge does not spoil the ending of the book, as these facts are made known to the reader early in the tome). The story of these men would be incredible if it happened today, with all of our modern equipment, but is even more so given the relatively primitive means at hand in the 1880s. Not only is this work a great story about some very courageous and determined men, but it is a reflection of the determination and heroism under extreme circumstances embodied in many persons of that era - characteristics that many feel lacking today. Furthermore, this is a poinant reminder of just how strong is man's will to survive.

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Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole
Loenard F. Guttridge
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Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (Harvest/Hbj Book)
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Excellent

WITH THE ENTIRE TRILOGY AN EXCELLENT LIGHT UPON OUR OWN NATION'S AMBITIONS

Very good job

Trilogy is a wonderful account of the British Empire

Final installment of a masterpiece

Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (Harvest/Hbj Book)
Jan Morris
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This concluding volume brings readers up to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. "Morris has written an unorthodox masterpiece...[a] book filled with superb studies of battles, ceremonies, landscapes, confrontations and, above all, characters" (New York Times Book Review). Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2007-06-09

This is a fine ending to what is possibly my favorite series of books, Jan Morris' outstanding "Pax Britannica Trilogy." Although I suppose the book could be read in isolation, it will be greatly enhanced by having read the first two in the series, so if you haven't read them, stop now and go check out "Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress."

Okay. If you're reading on, I'll assume you've read the first two books. The third is more of the same: a similar structure, with subdivided chapters, and the book itself divided into three sections: Part One, THE GRAND ILLUSION: 1897-1918; Part Two, THE PURPOSE FALTERS: 1918-1939; and Part Three, FAREWELL THE TRUMPETS: 1939-1965. The chapters, as in the earlier books, showcase illuminating episodes in the Victorian British Empire: battles, personages, advances in technology, attitudes, etc. In this book, some of the highlights are the Boer War, the invasion of Tibet, Gallipoli, the R101 airship disaster, the move to Irish independence, and the end of the Raj in India.

The book is excellent and highly recommended, though I think it pales a bit compared to its predecessors. Part of that is inevitable, due to the subject matter: imperial retreat is bound to be a more subdued affair compared to the excitements of imperial expansion. It is a bit sad, having journeyed with this country through its imperial prime, to see it all evaporating so quickly -- even as Morris makes us well aware of the injustness and cruelties of imperialism that made its demise a net good for the world. Still, one can feel for the confusion and dislocation of a people as their world collapses around them.

Morris' writing remains strong and vivid in this book, but here too I think it is a bit more slack than in the previous entries -- there is a bit too much of the purple prose and embellishment that Morris would sometimes be criticized for in her later career. This is especially troubling as the book moves into territory more concrete and familiar to the modern reader: the World Wars, Winston Churchill, etc. Still, there are still many chapters that pack a tremendous punch, and rank among some of the best writing I've ever encountered.

Still and all, it's an excellent book and I'd encourage anyone to read it. There are thrilling stories here -- as well as the most delightful footnote I've ever read (you'll know it when you see it). Give it a try -- you won't be disappointed.

WITH THE ENTIRE TRILOGY AN EXCELLENT LIGHT UPON OUR OWN NATION'S AMBITIONS.......2006-07-28

let this trilogy illuminate the process we now encounter as a nation. Not only do we support the still powerful vestiges of BRitish Imperialism in Iraq and elsewhere, but we are also now on the ireversible path of overextension and blind arrogant self-destruction.

Read this real trilogy and weep for our own future, from which none shall save us, despite all the on-going Chinese investment which funds their own industrialization.

Let this trilogy and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire teach us that all things do come to an end, there is nothing new under the sun, and that we must prepare for a rather weakened and darkened future, despite our belief in our own imperial rhetoric.

Very good job.......2003-08-31

This is, in my opinion, how an history book should be written. Jan Morris takes you through the last years of the victorian empire in a way no author has done before. She will transport you from South Africa to Iran, from Bombay to Dublin, with her unique style she will picture the historical events as you were seeing them happening before your eyes. She is particularly good at outlining personalities. You will feel like you know Lawrence of Arabia or Churchill personally, after you read about them in Jan Morris' book. Finally a book about the victorian empire that is not a simple sterile list of dates, places and warship names, finally a book that takes its time to go through the less investigated aspects of an age, giving you interesting and detailed account of how people lived, how soldiers felt about a battle and so on. I recommend this book to anybody who is interested in the history of colonies and victorian empire.

Trilogy is a wonderful account of the British Empire.......2002-05-26

Jan Morris is a fascinating personality. She originally was a he, and he was a guardsman in the British army, an officer from a good family. He left the service, became a historian, and then went to Denmark or wherever, and came back a she. She now writes unusual, affecting, eccentric, entertaining books that are terribly British and a bit disorganized. The Pax Brittanica trilogy is her life's work, near enough, though she's done other books that are very good. This one, however, is three volumes long, quite involved and very detailed. The series includes Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets. The first generally deals with the Empire in the 1840s on, the second follows things through the thirties, and the third follows the empire through its disbandment.

As I said, Morris is eccentric. This means that though the books are sort of chronological, they aren't exactly sorted the way you would expect, and this isn't really a history of the empire or the era. Instead, it's an anecdotal collection of tales, incidents, and sketches, marvelously told. Sort of like the difference between going through a cafeteria once and a sumptuous buffet where you go back and forth, taking time with what you enjoy. I thoroughly enjoyed the books, though I would hesitate to recommend them to someone who wasn't clear on either geography, or at least some basic history of the British Empire. Since this isn't either of those, you need them to understand what she's talking about occasionally.

Final installment of a masterpiece.......2000-06-28

Even if you haven't read the other two volumes in the Pax Britannica trilogy, Farewell the Trumpets is a must-buy. It's worth it just to read the brilliant eulogy for Winston Churchill, where in one chapter Morris does better job of capturing this man and his place in history than lesser authors could do in a whole volume.

My recommendation is to take your time and savor this book. Like Heaven's Command and Pax Britannica, Farewell the Trumpets is episodic in its presentation, each chapter a self-contained nugget, so that you can enjoy dipping into it frequently.

Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat
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Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat
James Morris
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
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ASIN: B000U5777O

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat

Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Farewell the trumpets: An imperial retreat
James Morris
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat: Part Three of the Pax Britannica Trilogy
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat: Part Three of the Pax Britannica Trilogy
James Morris
Manufacturer: Penguin
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ASIN: B000SUDAH2

Farewell the Trumpets, An Imperial Retreat
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Farewell the Trumpets, An Imperial Retreat
James Morris
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
James Morris
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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A FASCINATING INVESTIGATION OF HOW WE NAVIGATE THE PHYSICAL WORLD, INNER NAVIGATION IS A LIVELY, ENGAGING ACCOUNT OF SUBCONSCIOUS MAPMAKING.

Why are we so often disoriented when we come up from the subway?

Do we really walk in circles when we lose our bearings in the wilderness?

How -- and why -- do we get lost at all?

In this surprising, stimulating book, Erik Jonsson, a Swedish-born engineer who has spent a lifetime exploring navigation over every terrain, from the crowded cities of Europe to the emptiness of the desert, gives readers extraordinary new insights into the human way-finding system.

Written for the nonscientist, Inner Navigation explains the astonishing array of physical and psychological cues the brain uses to situate us in space and build its "cognitive maps" -- the subconscious maps it employs to organize landmarks. Humans, Jonsson explains, also possess an intuitive direction frame -- an internal compass -- that keeps these maps oriented (when it functions properly) and a dead-reckoning system that constantly updates our location on the map as we move through the world. Even the most cynical city-dweller will be amazed to learn how much of this innate sense we use every day as we travel across town or around the world.

Both a scientific and a human story, Inner Navigation contains a rich assortment of real-life insights and examples of the navigational challenges we all face, no matter where or how we live. It's a book that is as provocative to ponder as it is delightful to lose yourself in. Don't worry: Erik Jonsson will help you find your bearings.

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Should interest nonscientists as much as scientists.......2002-08-08

Erik Jonsson's lively discourse on the sense of direction comprising Inner Navigation, begins with several stories from personal and colleague experience to demonstrate the idea of cognitive maps, then moves into the science realm to explain how such 'maps' work. How humans and animals get lost, navigate, and recover from being lost makes for an intriguing discussion which should interest nonscientists as much as scientists.

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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1333 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Advocacy update: top ten reasons parks are important: the values of public parks and recreation in America.(priority given to parks)
Author: Richard J. Dolesh
Publication: Parks & Recreation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 41 Issue: 1 Page: 14(3)

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