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Mary Kay: You Can Have It All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur
Mary Kay Ash Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0761501622 Release Date: 1995-07-12 |
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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!Customer Reviews:
self-endorsement.......2007-01-02
A Very Inspirational Book.......2006-02-28
AWESOME AND POWERFUL.......2003-02-09
anonymous.......2001-08-16
Changed the way I think!.......2001-01-19
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All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography
Ruth Westheimer , and Ben Yagoda Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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.Customer Reviews:
What a woman!.......2003-03-12
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!
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All in a Lifetime: Science in the Defense of Democracy
Ivan A. Getting Manufacturer: Vantage Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 053308220X |
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All in a Lifetime
Ralph Broughton Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1412097207 |
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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 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006YXJ8A |
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All in a Lifetime
Bill Frederick Manufacturer: Peanut Butter Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0897164660 |
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Thought it was a different book..........2005-01-13
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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 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KA7E68 |
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All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography
Ruth Westheimer , and Ben Yagoda Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 0446347744 |
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Inspirational.......2000-01-15
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.
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All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography
Ruth Westheimer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0356188086 |
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Seats in all parts: Half a lifetime at the movies
Leslie Halliwell Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0684183862 |
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Mario Lemieux: Best There Ever Was
Dave Molinari , Ron Cook , and Chuck Finder Manufacturer: Masters Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1570281610 |
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He is "The Best" there ever was on the ice!!!.......1999-08-19
A great book on the best Hockey player ever.......1998-12-14
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The Community of Cinema: How Cinema and Spectacle Transformed the American Downtown
James Forsher Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0275973557 |
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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.
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The Community of Cinema: How Cinema and Spectacle Transformed the American Downtown
James Forsher Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ORGF8A |
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Rockers! Kings of the Road
Stuart Manufacturer: Plexus Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0859651258 |
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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.
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Cafe Rockers Unite!.......2007-05-29
Best book ever written on the subject.......2004-06-30
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
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Challenging False Logic Puzzles
Norman D. Willis Manufacturer: Sterling ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0806997206 |
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Challenge your Brain and Expand your Mind.......2006-07-25
Challenging False Logic Puzzles.......2000-06-28
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Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook
Brett McLaughlin David Flanagan Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MU6O26 |
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Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole
Leonard F Guttridge Manufacturer: Backinprint.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595409814 |
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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
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ICEBOUND : THE JEANNETTE EXPEDITION'S QUEST FOR THE NORTH POLE
LEONARD F. GUTTRIDGE Manufacturer: BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KUSN2M |
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Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole
Leonard F. Guttridge Manufacturer: Paragon House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 091372999X |
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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)Customer Reviews:
Author overstates case of "conspiracy" in story of lost ship.......2003-12-23
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.
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Plodding narrative diminishes the amazing story.......2003-03-26
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
Well-Written Account of Enthralling, IncredibleTrue Story.......2000-07-27
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Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole
Loenard F. Guttridge Manufacturer: Berkley Pub Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NX7NAE |
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Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (Harvest/Hbj Book)
Jan Morris Manufacturer: Harvest Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0156302861 |
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Excellent.......2007-06-09
WITH THE ENTIRE TRILOGY AN EXCELLENT LIGHT UPON OUR OWN NATION'S AMBITIONS.......2006-07-28
Very good job.......2003-08-31
Trilogy is a wonderful account of the British Empire.......2002-05-26
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
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.
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Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat
James Morris Manufacturer: Penguin Books Canada, Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000U5777O |
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000BRNIOC |
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Farewell the trumpets: An imperial retreat
James Morris Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0151304041 |
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat: Part Three of the Pax Britannica Trilogy
James Morris Manufacturer: Penguin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000SUDAH2 |
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Farewell the Trumpets, An Imperial Retreat
James Morris Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OJBUU6 |
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Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
James Morris Manufacturer: Harvest Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OJBTDE |
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Inner Navigation: Why we Get Lost in the World and How we Find Our Way
Erik Jonsson Manufacturer: Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0743222067 |
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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
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Advocacy update: top ten reasons parks are important: the values of public parks and recreation in America.(priority given to parks) : An article from: Parks & Recreation
Richard J. Dolesh Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000EPFHOU Release Date: 2006-02-23 |
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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.Books:
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