Wake Up and Smell the Money: Fresh Starts at Any Age--and Any Season of Your Life

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"Are you taking a financial nap?" asks the author of the national bestseller The Money Diet, in her savvy and reassuring new guide to managing personal finances.

In Wake Up and Smell the Money, Ginger Applegarth draws on her years as a financial planner and media personality to guide readers through the often daunting money hurdles we face across the six seasons of our financial lives. Using real-life, sometimes humorous client examples and truly idiotproof charts and worksheets, Applegarth shows you how to:
stop worrying about the past and choose the right investment strategy to achieve wealth right now
save for retirement even if you also have to save for your children's college expenses
stop marital disputes over money using Ginger's "No Argument Plan" for couples
. . . and much more

Whether you're starting out or starting over, building up or scaling back, Wake Up and Smell the Money is the wake-up call you need to put your financial life on the front burner.

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"WAKE UP..." ROCKS! APPLEGARTH IS THE KING OF WORLD!.......1999-04-19

This book is about to change my life...dramatically! Ms. Applegarth delivers a fresh, compelling approach to a subject that is covered endlessly and in general, inadequately. Although I have admired Virginia's advice on broadcast television, it is by definition a medium for sound bites. Here is a chance to listen to this extraordinary woman as she drills down into her subject and offers smart and truly practical advice for making and managing one's money. In case it isn't clear, I LOVE THIS BOOK. With boundless respect and admiration, LAA

Wake Up and Smell the Money: Fresh Starts at Any Age-And Any Season of Your Life

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Wake Up and Smell the Money: Fresh Starts at Any Age-And Any Season of Your Life
Leslie Whitaker Ginger Applegarth
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ2HPI

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This book describes recent advances in the application of biotechnology to the solution of agricultural problems in forage legume production. Forage legumes include alfalfa and clovers and are of major economic importance throughout the world. Methods of biotechnology are being used to improve forage quality, enhance abiotic and biotic stress tolerances, and enhance nitrogen fixation. Several chapters describe how techniques such as plant transformation, somatic embryogenesis, cryopreservation, somatic hybridization, and molecular DNA markers can be applied to forage legumes. Written by leading scientists from Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, the book provides a timely review for workers in plant breeding and biotechnology, as well as agronomists concerned with forage crops.

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This book is intended mainly as an introductory course to the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere and to climate dynamics. The basics in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, radiation and chemistry are given and aimed at explaining the most interesting problems existing in the study of the atmospheres of the Earth and planets. The originality of the book is that it even offers the computer programs to solve these problems. A particular effort is made to approach the different topics intuitively. Among the themes covered is the most recent evolution concerning the ozone hole, the carbon dioxide problem and the chaos theory. The CD-ROM containing solutions with computer models is attached to the book. This CD includes few program listings (in FORTRAN) and the instructions to run them in order to solve a number of problems. There are also two energy balance climate models, programs for the dynamics and a simulation for the ice ages based on the stochastic resonance theory.

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When the aged missing horror legend Lenyard Brock is kidnapped, the kidnappers find themselves submerged in the otherworld of painted dusks, wretched devilry and comely maidens.

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A Great Author - A Great Book

Belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in military aviation history

Chopper

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Chopper: A History of America Military Helicopter Operations from WWII to the War on Terror
Robert F. Dorr
Manufacturer: Berkley Hardcover
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0425202739

Book Description

Real-life stories from the pilots and the passengers.

From its first use in military operations, during a rescue mission behind enemy lines in 1944, to its crucial role in Vietnam, to the Black Hawk combat copters in the current war on terror, the helicopter changed the face of aviation-and the face of warfare. Whether they are bringing supplies and medical help or coming to the rescue of trapped soldiers, the modern battlefield could not function without them.

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Not Impressed.......2006-07-05

Although this book reflects considerable research there are glaring flaws in that research. It is confusing at times and poorly written, because it is full of typographical errors and conflicting and confusing data. I am intimately familiar with two of the stories related in this book and one of them is fairly accurate while the other one has many inaccuracies. I served two tours in SEA in Rescue helicopters and I know a thing or two about the subject matter. It could have been an excellent book if the author had hired a proof reader and considered finding more corroboration for some of the material. Otherwise, it is a great summary of the important role of helicopters in military aviation.

A Great Author - A Great Book.......2006-02-13

I've known Bob Dorr as a friend for about a decade or more. He and I both share a passion for aviation and aviation photography. Bob, however, goes beyond passion when he writes books. His unique ability is to write books that puts readers into the cockpit of helicopters or other aircraft. You feel exactly what other crews have felt while flying missions. Bob's amazing knowledge of aircraft and history and his dogged research makes for truely unique books.

I enjoy Bob's books and encourage others to try them out.

Belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in military aviation history.......2005-12-28

Dorr's "Chopper" belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in military aviation history and the men who were part of it. Dorr interviewed more than 75 pilots and crewmen and these individuals come to life as their remarkable stories are told in this very readable book.

"Chopper" is laid out chronologically. It starts behind enemy lines in Burma in 1944, when a young American pilot named Harman and a mechanic named Phelan flew a Sikorsky "R-4" helicopter on what was apparently the first ever U.S. military helicopter rescue. From here on out, the role played by "whirlybirds" in almost every major U.S. military operation is examined, including: air rescue missions during the Korean War, troop airlift operations in Vietnam, heliborne assaults in Afghanistan and helicopter attacks in Iraq.

I liked "Chopper" because it lets each pilot, mechanic, and crewman tell his story in his own words, and this makes for a readable, entertaining, and often exciting journey through history. All the services get their due as well---Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine helicopter pilots and aircrew are all part of Dorr's narrative.

From what I can tell, "Chopper" also is a true "first" in the history of book publishing: the first book to compile first-person accounts of helicopter pilots and crews who flew military rescue and combat missions; the first book to tell the comprehensive story of military helicopter operations from World War II to the current war on terror; and the first book to combine these personal histories with technical data on each helicopter flown or crewed.

General readers, amateur historians, and professional researches will find this book well worth the money.

Chopper.......2005-11-09

I own and have read a number of books by military author and historian, Robert F. Dorr. Chopper is, by far, the best.

Starting with "eggbeaters" in Burma and continuing through the "snake" in Iraq, Dorr lets the pilots and crews tell their own stories. The stories include a father-and-son combination as well as the memories of fixed-wing aircraft pilots suddenly assigned to fly helicopters. As the pilots and crews recount their experiences, the humor of military personnel in tough situations spreads through the pages.

Dorr has amassed an amazing collection of photographs that accompany the narrative, making it easy and fascinating to follow the development of helicopters from 1945 to the present day. Chapter sidebars telling the reader who's who add to the readability.

This book is a pleasure to read. I recommend it without reservation.

Great Book.......2005-11-05

Great book on the history of America's helicopter missions. Awesome stories about some of our most complex military operations in our history. Robert Dorr hits the mark and his thorough research is apparent. Thanks Robert for being accurate and getting it right!! We appreciate it!

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In a series of brilliantly detailed portraits, this history of the daring art of diving recounts the eccentric exploits and sense-defying feats of the men who turned underwater adventure into a modern science. Spear fishermen and conservationists, treasure hunters and archaeologists, photographers and philosophers -- these pioneers invented and experimented with all sorts of amazing devices to enable them to explore the secretive and seductive depths of the sea. Among the colorful adventurers from the past two centuries included in this volume stand the likes of Guy Gilpatric, who wrote a film for Humphrey Bogart, invented snorkeling, and shot his wife; Roy Miner, who wore a bucket over his head and stole a coral reef; William Beebe, who sealed himself in a metal coffin to dangle a half mile undersea; and John Haldane, who learned how to control human breathing and prevent bends. If you've never even dreamed of diving, this book will make you wonder why -- and may indeed tempt you to try.

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Laugh-out-loud funny!.......2002-05-18

I can't remember the last time I laughed so long and loud over a book. This is very, very amusing, laugh-out-loud funny, yet highly informative and interesting, e.g. the first recorded Dive Club had the singularly unimaginative name of 'The Bottom-Scratchers'!
The book is peppered with excerpts from many other books, but loses nothing by that, rather it shows how much research reading has been done.
We are taken on a biographical tour through the stars of underwater invention, in no particular order, but there are some early pioneers who are not mentioned, possibly because there is little information available to make interesting (and humorous) reading.
Our tour-guide extracts the minutest details for our delectation, again sprinkled with that undercurrent of wit. And our guide is no armchair chronicler either, he was there in the '50s, doing field work in the cold waters of Lough Ine.

Incidentally we find that some of our Stars worked in other fields as well; mining, surgery, explosives, writing, biology, photography, cinema, genetics - with the usual humourous anecdote, in case we were inclined to fall asleep (unlikely!).

A wonderful, refreshing read - guaranteed to liven up your lungs and your life!

Witt, adventurous and engaging.......2002-03-21

This unique book tells the story of a bunch of intrepid and inspired men who pioneered the exploration of the last great unknown: the deeps of the sea. How would you fancy wading out under water with nothing more than an inverted coal bucket over your head? Would you agree to a fight a shark, equipped with nothing more than a knife, all so that some movie company could film the gory encounter? Inventive, adventurous, foolhardy to the point of recklessness, many of the diving pioneers were also world-famous in their own right, like the great biologist JBS Haldane, who worked out how to survive at dangerous depths. Others evolved from treasure seekers to become the first underwater archaeologists, exploring ancient shipwrecks in exotic waters, or, most interesting of all, opening our eyes to the beauty of marine habits and wildlife, including the seriously threatened coral reefs. The author, himself a marine biologist and diver, blends all this into a magical weave of fact and wonder enlivened by a mordant wit and a delightful eye for quirky detail. I would recommend it to any reader.

Splendid story of divers and diving.......2001-05-17

Trevor Norton presents us with a series of vivid portraits of the strange assortment of characters who pioneered diving. Henri Milne Edwards conducted the first expedition by a submarine biologist in 1844 off Sicily. As early as 1865, the mining engineer Benoit Rouqayrol designed a diving suit with a compressed air cylinder at the back, and a demand valve that supplied oxygen only when the diver sucked on the mouthpiece; but the idea somehow lay forgotten for eighty years.

The engineer Otis Barton designed, built and tested the first bathysphere in 1932, reaching a depth of 3000 feet. Jack Kitching was the first marine ecologist. In the 1930s, Guy Gilpatric, who held a world altitude record when he was only sixteen, invented the very idea of diving for pleasure.

John Scott Haldane worked on improving miners' safety and studied the effects of high pressure on deep-sea divers and of altitude sickness in climbers. His son, the communist and geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, was the first to map the genes on a human chromosome. He also worked on solving the problems of pressure experienced by divers and submariners.

In 1942, Jacques Cousteau's colleague Emile Gagnan re-invented the demand valve, the key to developing the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA). Louis Boutan and Ernest Williamson started underwater photography, popularised by those most photogenic photographers, Hans and Lotte Haas, in their 26 BBC television programmes.

Frederic Dumas, Peter Throckmorton and George Bass initiated underwater archaeology. Throckmorton found lost ships all over the world, most famously a 3,200-year-old wreck at Bodrum on the Aegean coast. He was the first to realise that "it was possible to do scientific archaeology under water." He acutely observed, "What historians had missed, the sea remembered."

Trevor Norton's fascinating book is full of humorous stories and conveys masses of information in a charming and easy style.

Brave Oddballs Who Opened Underneath the Sea to Us.......2000-11-02

This is a very rare book. It looks at brave pioneers in an honest and humorous way. You will get a sense of daredevils challenging fate from these stories about the development of undersea exploration by divers.

I called them "oddballs" in my title because most were quite unusual in their personal characteristics, as you will learn from reading the book. Families, personal possessions, and social lives were unusual in almost all cases. They remind me a lot of the barnstorming aviators who pioneered air services.

The book is a series of vignettes about those who first developed diving gear, did underwater biological research, collected samples for museums, learned how to balance gases and pressures to avoid death and injury from diving, hunted underwater with spears, farmed underwater with oysters, took photographs underwater, made movies underwater, and performed archeology on ship wrecks.

The stories are remarkable for three characteristics. First, it took a lot of guts to try these things. The gear wasn't so good, and the dangers were very great. A lot of injury and death did follow. Second, in doing research, these men usually employed themselves as guinea pigs at great personal risk. Many had their lives shortened or their health damaged as a result. Third, almost all of the pioneers ravaged and despoiled whatever area they initially studied. For example, vast reefs were dynamited to bring back samples that museums later discarded. More rare pottery was destroyed in early undersea archeology than was collected. Some of these men thought better of it later, and argued for changed methods.

Some of the people were genuises, uncovering major areas of new knowledge (like the Haldanes, father and son). Others were simply gifted tinkerers. Some were just in the right place at the right time with a yen to scratch. But they all had magnificent passions and harnessed those passions to invent methods that have important applications today.

The stories are enlivened by many drawings and photographs of the people and their work. The newer pioneers were personally known by the author, Professor Norton, and his recollections add much to the reader's enjoyment.

If you have ever marveled at sites under water that you have seen on television, in movies, or in books, you will be riveted by this book. The bulk of the developments that make these accomplishments possible are quite new, and were hard-wrought in most cases.

Professor Norton tells his tales like an old salt holding a pint of grog in a smoky tavern near a fire in a fishing harbor on the Irish Sea. You'll love them!

After you have finished enjoying this book, I encourage you to think about where else you do not know the background of some wonderful modern capability that inspires you. What about cave exploration? Many of the great beauties in caves were unknown until the last few hundred years.

Then go learn more about whatever inspiring subject it is that you do not yet know the development of. This should greatly add to you understanding of what you enjoy. It may even encourage you to employ your passion in this area in a new way!

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A Science Odyssey 100 Years of Discovery
Charles Flowers
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company, Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S5WO0G

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A wonderful experience reading this text

Pretty good book followup on PBS show...

Engaging

A Science Odyssey: 100 Years of Discovery
Charles Flowers
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr (a)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 1559274921

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Foreword by Charles Osgood

Introduction by Charles Kuralt

The Science Odyssey seriesan end-of-the-century look at what we know, what it means to our lives, and what we have yet to learnconsists of five two-hour documentary programs to air nationally during prime time on PBS on January 1115.

The book is a companion, adjunct, enhancement, and augmentation of the series. It explores the sweeping changes that have revolutionized both our lives and our thinking in technology, physics, astronomy, earth science, biology, chemistry, paleoanthropology, medicine, public health, and the behavioral sciences over the course of the century.

Reflecting the organization of the television series, the book is divided into five sections: Bigger, Better, FasterTechnology and Engineering; Mysteries of the UniverseAstronomy and Physics; OriginsEarth Sciences and Life Sciences; Matters of Life and DeathMedicine and Public Health; In Search of OurselvesHuman Nature and Behavior.

This colorfully illustrated, accessible, and enlightening journey over the twentieth centurys astonishing scientific terrain probes the discoveries, the people, and the historical events that have shaped this centurys explosion of scientific ideas.

Visit the companion websiteclick on the link, above left.

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A wonderful experience reading this text.......2007-08-30

The most sweeping and startling scientific changes in human history have occurred during the past one hundred years. From the first Wright Flyer to Mars landings, from penicillin to organ transplants, from the telegraph to the vast realm of cyberspace, this book is just that: a voyage of discovery that reveals mysteries of outer space and the natural world, as as human inventions and ideas scarcely imaginable to our grandparents. The text helps me understand and appreciate the accelerating impact of scientific knowledge today and into the next century.
In five chapters, Flowers shows that science is a human endeavor that can't be separated from its historical, cultural, and social contexts.
The book is filled with stories, personalities, and astonishing discoveries that continually redefine scientific frontiers.

Chapters:
*Mysteries of the Universe
*Bigger, faster, better
*More Ancient, less stable
*Matters of life and death (medicine)
*In search of ourselves (human behavior)

Pretty good book followup on PBS show..........2005-11-04

I found this in the library by accident, and now hopefully I can find the video and it is closed-captioned! Probably wishful thinking on my part, but I'll look.

The book and the science presented is interesting, both in the way it is presented and the pictures in the book. The author of the book actually presented a few of the physics theories in such a way, that it made more sense than the many physics books I have read. I also liked the information of the people, the time they lived in, why some thought a certain way, while others were more open-minded. That has not changed that much in a hundred years.

I just finished reading my grandmother's story of her life. She lived to be 97, and it was astonishing to me how much had changed. Then I think back over my life, and things like ATMS and computers at home that allow me ready access to information and books at any time of the day, and I realize the fast expansion of knowledge continues to outpace our ability to appreciate it.

The only problem I had with this book is the fact that it mentions and obviously uses a lot of other people's books and manuscripts, but there is no references or acknowledgements of their work. That's an awful big mistake for PBS to make. They acknowledge the photography and artwork, but they should have included the written works too.

Karen SAdler
Science Education and Bioethics

Engaging.......1999-01-04

A highly engaging chronicle of discovery. I once heard someone say that the interesting thing about science is that it was thought of by PEOPLE, and the author does a masterful job of communicating the excitement and personal intellectual challenge of science to the lay reader.

A Science Odyssey: 100 Years of Discovery

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A Science Odyssey: 100 Years of Discovery
Charles Flowers
Manufacturer: Morrow
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LBXK50

A SCIENCE ODYSSEY: 100 YEARS OF DISCOVERY. (Foreword by Charles Osgood; Introduction by Charles Kuralt).

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A SCIENCE ODYSSEY: 100 YEARS OF DISCOVERY. (Foreword by Charles Osgood; Introduction by Charles Kuralt).
Charles. Flowers
Manufacturer: NY, Morrow, 1998. 316 pp., illus. in color and b/w. Fine copy of first edition in dust jacket.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDUUIY

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