Management Accounting- Business Strategy November 2001 Questions and Answers (CIMA Q&A)

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Management Accounting- Financial Strategy November 2001 Questions and Answers (CIMA November 2001 Q&As)

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Management Accounting- Information Strategy November 2001 Questions and Answers (CIMA Q&A)

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* Allows students to practice answering exam questions plus gives invaluable help in exam technique

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Games constitute a wonderful tool for engaging learners and reinforcing learning.

This is a practical and entertaining introduction to using games and structured learning activities in training. It is the first book to combine gaming rationale, hands-on advice and sample games.

Susan El-Shamy begins with an overview of the benefits of using games, touches on the learning psychology foundations of game playing, describes the most common types of games, and provides guidelines for choosing games appropriate for given objectives.

She offers seasoned advice on how to set up and conduct games and on how to assess their effectiveness. She concludes with suggestions on how to adapt existing games and activities to new purposes and, beyond that, on how the reader can create and design his or her own games.

The book includes a resource list of commercially available games and related Web sites.

Susan El-Shamy admirably succeeds in demonstrating how games promote serious learning in adult training. If you are new to games, this book will allay your concerns about using them. If you are a veteran user of games, here are new ideas, including an introduction to e-games. All readers will appreciate the Ultimate Training Games Assessment form for evaluating games and as a guide to creating their own.

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There is a missing chapter in the history of astronomy—between the work of Galileo and Newton—and it is a chapter that belongs to England. In the period before the English Civil War, Horrocks was the greatest astronomer in the kingdom. He knew the positions and motions of the planets more accurately than any person of his time, and was the first to appreciate the true scale of the solar system and formulate a valid theory for the wanderings of the moon. Yet he was not an elderly grey-bearded sage, but a young man living in provincial obscurity, who on his death had barely come of age but who left a great scientific legacy.

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The Life and Times of a Genius.......2006-05-21

The accomplishments of Jeremiah Horrocks, as depicted in this book, are truly astounding. The author carefully reconstructs Horrocks' genealogy, his brief life and his ground-breaking work in astronomy, amidst the backdrop of seventeenth century England. The book is well-written, clear and engaging. Less appealing to me was that the book contains many passages reproduced in the original old English. This slowed me down a bit since I found them cumbersome due to the different spelling and sentence structure characteristic of the period. On the other hand, this may be inevitable, at least to some degree, because of the book's subject matter. Overall, this is an interesting read that would likely be particularly appealing to astronomers at all levels.

Lost in Civl War of England, but Rediscovered........2005-04-22

Since the dawn of history, every civilization has seen men who studied the skies. In Europe and Asia, astronomers existed in Babylon, Egypt, India and China. In America, the Incas and Aztecs built pyramids and temples which showed knowledge and fascination with the sun, moon, and stars in the night sky. England had Stonehenge.

There's not much factual knowledge about Jeremiah Horrocks short
life; there has been only one other biography to surface, published in 1859 by A. B. Whatton. Photographs show the area and places he lived as he moved about. Born in May, 1618, he was only fourteen years old when he entered Cambridge on July 5, 1632. Just seven years later (1639), he was knowledgeable about the solar system and his observation of the primitive set-up he used in Carr House to view a rare celestial event, the "transit of Venus" was documented. It is similar to the way we are encouraged to watch the eclipse of the sun so as not to be blinded by the strong rays. He died in 1641.

The Royal Greenwith Observatory was founded in 1675; John Flamsteed was appointed as the first Astronomer Royal. However, Jeremiah Horrock is known as the "Father of British Astronomy. This book was released to coincide with the June, 2004, viewing of Venus moving across the face of the sun (for only the fifth time since the 1639 occurrence: about every 73 years or so).

My son Geoffrey earned his PhD in Astronomy at the University of Chicago and learned how to handle the monster telescopes at Kitt Peak as a grad student way out there in Arizona.

Peter Aughton has written ENDEAVOR, RESOLUTION, and NEWTON'S APPLE. He teaches at the University of the West of England and a Fellow of the Institute for Math. In 1970s he was involved with the Concorde supersonic airliner. He certainly knows his astronomy from primitive times.

A Forgotten Astronomer, Worth Remembering.......2004-08-31

Isaac Newton famously said, "If I have seen further than others before me, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Newton was not always so quick to acknowledge his debt to his fellow scientists, but everyone knows the remark could apply to indisputable giants like Galileo and Kepler. However, he also would have meant a giant who has, almost three centuries later, become almost an unknown within the history of astronomy. In _The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy_ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), Peter Aughton, who has written before on the voyages of Captain Cook and on Newton, puts Horrocks into his rightful place. It would be too much to say that he gives us a full picture of Horrocks and his work, for the mass of materials about the astronomer is just too meager. However, Horrocks was a brilliant astronomical observer and theoretician, and Newton knew it then as we should now.

There was in June 2004 a transit of Venus, only the fifth since Horrocks watched his in 1639. A transit occurs when Venus seems to cross the face of the Sun, and was important in those days because it could be used to calculate how far the Sun was from the Earth. He studied Kepler's work at college in Cambridge, and trusted Kepler, but not blindly; he discovered that Kepler, who had correctly predicted a 1631 transit of Venus, had mistakenly missed a transit that was coming in 1639. Horrocks only realized this with a month to spare, but he was ready to trace the planet crossing the Sun; he did so by training his telescope on the Sun and projecting the picture upon a screen within a darkened room. It was his mathematical analysis of the movements and timing of what he had seen that enabled him to confirm that Venus was moving in an elliptical orbit around the Sun, just as Kepler's laws had implied. However, a clear view of the planet crossing the solar disk showed it to be much smaller than Kepler had thought, and the calculated distance between the Earth and the Sun was far larger than any previous astronomer had come close to considering. Copernicus had estimated the distance to be 7.5 million kilometers, Kepler 22.1, and Horrocks weighed in with 95.4. Even then, he was well below the real figure of 149, but it can be said without exaggeration that he was the first man who had an inkling of how big the solar system really was.

Horrocks wrote up his account of the transit, and also went on to show that the Moon tracked an elliptical, not circular, path around the Earth, although the path of the Moon wobbled irregularly due to the gravity of the Sun. He also showed that Saturn and Jupiter were vastly larger than the Earth. Astonishingly, he made these discoveries when he was only twenty-two; only a year later in 1641 he was dead. There is no evidence about the cause of his death. His account of his researches was not published until 1662, and he was belatedly recognized as a genius by the new Royal Society. His work was revolutionary at the time he did it, but was not as influential as it could have been, if he had been within the mainstream of British science rather than observing and theorizing near Liverpool, if he had lived longer, and if Britain were not torn by its Civil War. Newton, in his monumental _Principia_, gave special credit to Horrocks for divining the elliptical orbit of the Moon. His influence might be small, but his importance as an observer and as a theoretician (those qualities are not often so well combined in one person) is clear. As much as can be known about him is in Aughton's necessarily brief but admiring review, from which readers will get a good idea of how astronomy was done at the time, and a welcome introduction to an original thinker.

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All areas of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) relevant to the separation of amino acid and polypeptide samples are described in these comprehensive volumes. Eighty-four chapters cover the application of HPLC to research in the life sciences. Both basic information and specific details are presented on such areas as commercially available HPLC columns, ligand-exchange chromatography, peptide hormone separations, peptide antibiotic separations and drug-protein binding. Practical suggestions are given to help you avoid pitfalls which can exist in the analysis of biological materials.

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Rashi's Daughters, Book 1: Joheved

Rashi's Daughters - Joheved

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Solving the Puzzle of Talmud from a Woman's Viewpoint

A good Book that should be better

Rashi's Daughters, Book 1: Joheved
Maggie Anton
Manufacturer: Banot Press
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ASIN: 0976305054
Release Date: 2005-01-01

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Rashi, one of the greatest Jewish scholars who ever lived, had no sons, only three daughters. Much has been written about Rashi and his grandsons, the Tosafot, but almost nothing of his daughters. Legend has it that they were learned in a time when women were forbidden to study the sacred texts. Rashi's Daughters tells the story of these forgotten women.

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Rashi's Daughters, Book 1: Joheved.......2007-07-14

Book One of Rashi's Daughters focuses on Joheved, the eldest of Rashi's children. Salomon ben Isaac (later called Rashi in the historical records) was one of the greatest Talmudic authorities that ever lived. He lived and taught the Talmud in the 11th century in Troyes. Like most scholars of his time, Rashi's students included local Jews, future scholars, and merchants trading in the area. However, at a time when basic education for women was extremely rare and the teaching of the Tadmud to a woman was beyond rational thought, Rashi also counted his daughters amongst his most learned students.

Joheved was the oldest of Rashi's daughters. In her own right, she was an amazing woman. She ran the family winery including the vine tending of the vines, bookkeeping, and the financial negotiations with other merchants. She also took on the care of her ailing paternal grandmother, an extremely strong willed woman who had taught Joheved everything about the wine making business. Joheved also served as a loving respectful wife, daughter, and sister. In addition to these fine qualities, Joheved had a love of learning, a thirst for knowledge, a deep devotion to her faith. It was these later qualities, and the fact that Rashi bore no sons, that Joheved was given the very unique opportunity to study the Talmud with her father.

Book One of Rashi's Daughters is a wonderful book that allows the reader to travel back to the 11th century to visit Rashi, his family, and his friends. The author has obviously done a good deal of research and this effort shows in the every word the characters utter, each activity that they undertake, and the way that each of these individuals perceives the world. Beyond these carefully crafted historical accuracies, though, the author has also created an entertaining story that captivates and inspires. After I started reading this book, I found it impossible to put down. I was completely drawn into the story and left the book with the feeling of having had the most amazing visit with a close friend. I eagerly await Book Two.

Rashi's Daughters - Joheved.......2007-07-01

This book, without exception, is the most enjoyable reading experience. Is has it all. Great characterization and outstanding writing. Would like to see it become a movie. Waiting for Maggie's next two. A great book club selection.

No title.......2007-06-14

I love the book! I think Maggie Anton did a great research on this subject.

Solving the Puzzle of Talmud from a Woman's Viewpoint.......2007-04-19

Rashi's Daughter: Johebed by Maggie Anton

Book Review by Arthur L. Finkle

Solving the Puzzle of Talmud from a Woman's Viewpoint

As a long-time educator, I am always on the lookout for the better mousetrap. If you want to learn the rudiments and then some, Rashi's Daughter is just the right fit. A historical novel, Ms. Anton demonstrates many cultural understandings of one of the most famous of the Jewish commentators of the Bible and Talmud.

The background is 11th century France, where Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak (Rashi) lives, interprets and acts in his role of father to three daughters. Not having sons, he indulges his daughters, the oldest of whom (Johebed) wants to make the most of her inquiring mind. She knows Bible. Now, unlike the preponderance of women of her day, she wants to learn Talmud.

Rashi, seeing that Johebed truly thirsts for knowledge of Talmud, begins to teach her in a Tractate in which she is interested. Thereupon, he builds upon this start.

The reaction of his other daughters and his wife is interesting but probably true. Rashi's wife believes that Johebed ought to learn the domestic side of womanhood rather than "wasting" her time building upon a mind that will not be used in Jewish scholarship. So attuned is the medieval culture, that Johebed sisters also do not see what use such scholarship is. Moreover, they fear that a stigma will attached to their own marriage prospects.

Ms. Anton develops Johebed's character in small increments, including the ambivalence she experiences in disappointing the female side of her immediate family and yet reveling in the study of Talmud. This study is generally not about the content of the tractate; rather, it is the process of Rabbinical thinking in order to make rulings about Jewish law, which, generally, governs Jewish life. Such scholarship requires not only a retentive mind but also a reasoning ability not possessed by all. Indeed, although there was universal education in the Jewish communities since the 1st century BCE, fewer than ten of one hundred went on to study Talmud. Johebed is not only in this classification but, in helping other students with their Talmud studies, is actually mentoring male students of Rashi.

My Novel Group found that the amount of superstition played a great part in the French Jewish community. They also were impressed that the roles of men and women were so defined by the 11th century. Moreover, the comity between Jewish and Christian was an unexpected benefit. Even the local Christian scholars asked Rashi to interpret the Hebrew Scriptures for them.

Maggie Anton has published a superior book. To be followed by the stories Johebed's two other sisters. Reading such entertaining prose demonstrates the Talmudic process; French medieval living conditions; the role of women; and the special role of the eldest daughter of this Jewish intellectual giant.

As a teacher, I found that Rashi's Daughter: Johebed, explained the Talmudic process in a way that most people could understand. The explanation of the Hebrew Scriptures in terms of law, values, adages and cultural habits appear in the Mishnah, codified in 200 CE. Then, the scholar studies commentary on the Mishnah, i.e., the Talmud.

Then there is something that is extremely difficult to explain to the laity, that is, that process is more important than the content. Further, there has to be total rationality for all 63 Talmudic tractates. And the lesson preparation is often difficult.

A good Book that should be better.......2007-03-17

This is an interesting telling of the lifestyle of Jews at the end of the first millennium CE, in France. It describes some of the life of the scholar Rashi but is primarily about the early years of his daughter Yochoved, the details of which must be fictional. Customs of the times are given and raise many questions. Hidden in its pages is an appeal for early feminism. While it was good reading, in retrospect I think it is rather shallow. Much is glossed over or skipped entirely. For example, the role of Rashi's wife, and of other women, is almost entirely as child bearers. There is only one reference to the Crusades, occurring at that time. Some of Rashi's interpretations and decisions are given but not with the background for his reasoning. Another volume about his second daughter, Miriam, is about to be released. I was left with no desire to pursue it.

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Lewis Lawes was a man who was quite influential in the correctional history of the United States. His writings and his political contacts put him in a unique position to talk constructively about the important criminal justice issues during the 1920's and the 1930's. The topics debated during this time period, juvenile justice, gun control, the death penalty and what the role of prisons should be, are just as relevant today.

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This lively and exciting tale of the turbulent times from the thirties to the fifties is a dramatic and colorful study of one of the Texas Rangers' best.

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Texas Ranger Johnny Klevenhagen.......2000-08-13

The well told story of dedicated law enforcement officer who was both feared and respected by the criminal element of Texas from the late 1930's to his death in 1958. Doug Mead did a good job of researching and recording the short life of one of the best Texas Rangers of modern times. This book probably meant more to me than the average reader since I knew Johnny Klevenhagen as well as many of the people mentioned in the book, however most readers will find it interesting if you like learning about good people who make a difference.

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The Essential Ronald Reagan recounts the extraordinary life and career of a great American president from his small-town Midwestern roots through his Hollywood film star days to his presidential role as redeemer of the American dream and victorious leader in the Cold War. Fifteen years after leaving the White House, Ronald Reagan is already ranked among our greatest presidents by the American people and an increasing number of historians and political scientists. InThe Essential Ronald Reagan, Edwards analyzes the four essential qualities of leadership that enabled President Reagan to meet every challenge and crisis and to make him an American for the ages.

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Understanding what a real leader represents means understanding Reagan .......2007-05-13

Great book. I did not know all that much about Reagan and I feel as a introductory enthusiast this book is a great start. Compare the Republican of then to the Republican of now and it's amazing the swing in ideology. Ron Paul is the closest candidate to representing the traditional Republican ideology. Today other candidates hardly show a difference from left to right. Understanding Reagan is understanding Barry Goldwater conservatism.

Excellent read!.......2006-01-03

The Essential Reagan is the perfect book if you want to a quick but thorough biography on this incredible man. It is an enjoyable read, and concise. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about Reagan or a diehard Reagan fan needing a "refresher course" on him and his legacy.

Brilliant political biography.......2005-10-14

Brief as it is, this compelling political biography manages to capture the gist of Ronald Reagan in a clear and engaging manner. Edwards investigates Reagan's childhood, his leadership qualities and his accomplishments with keen insight and understanding.

The narrative concentrates on those people, events and circumstances that shaped the great man's character and career path, from his childhood and student days through his movie career, his two stints as governor of California and his presidency.

Both the failures and the great and enduring successes of the Reagan administration are covered. For example, Edwards looks at the Iran-Contra debacle as well as the economic miracle, the benefits of deregulation and the West's victory in the Cold War.

A highlight of the book is Edwards' analyses of the four essential qualities of leadership that Reagan possessed: courage, justice, prudence and wisdom. The author points out how these qualities came into play at various occasions in Reagan's life and career.

He discusses the books that helped persuade Reagan to change his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican and in the bibliographical essay at the end, he reviews the best and the worst books on the 40th President. The Essential Ronald Reagan concludes with copious notes and a thorough index.

I also recommend the books When Character Was King by Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan by Dinesh D'Souza and Ronald Reagan: An American Hero, with an introduction by William F Buckley. The CD set Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches With Personal Reflections, is a most inspiring collection of speeches and observations by the great man himself. God bless Ronald Reagan.

Absolutely Essential.......2005-03-31

This book is essential for anyone wanting to learn about Ronald Reagan--especially those who are reading about him for the first time. It is a favorable treatment of the man and his legacy, and portrays him just as he was, humorous and yet serious in regards to the things that were important. Essential? Absolutely.

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The Essential Ronald Reagan: A Profile in Courage, Justice, and Wisdom
Lee Edwards
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Is it a novel?

easy read told with good humor

Well written but too sad for most folks

Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent
David Henry Sterry
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Release Date: 2003-02-04

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David Henry Sterry's account of his nine months as a male prostitute in Los Angeles could easily have been unrelievedly sordid. Instead, because he relates his bizarre adventures in the boy-toy trade with dark wit and considerable compassion, it proves to be that rare walk on the wild side you can thoroughly enjoy and not hate yourself for in the morning. The frank descriptions of his "dates" range from wickedly funny (two women hire him to clean their house dressed in nothing but a see-through black apron while they have sex with each other) to baroque (at a costumed orgy, he performs various acts with "Tinker Bell" while "Peter Pan" whips her) to extremely disturbing (one client has him dress in her dead son's clothes, then vomits after their encounter). It all seems sadly, even touchingly human, thanks to Sterry's matter-of-fact empathy for his disturbed customers. He's tougher on his parents, depicting them as essentially abandoning their 17-year-old son to the streets, but even here he sardonically steps back for the bigger picture, labeling Mom and Dad "embodiments of the American Dream. They came to this country with basically nothing but the clothes on their backs, and after twenty years of hard work, sweat, and sacrifice, they were getting divorced, totally broke, and deep in therapy." Passages like that give Chicken its bite; the book gets its soul from Sterry's nuanced portrait of his growing anguish as the work takes him to increasingly scary places, physically and emotionally. --Wendy Smith

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I walk all the way up Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre: past turistas snapping shots; wannabe starlets sparkling by in miniskirts with head shots in their hands and moondust in their eyes; rowdy cowboys drinking with drunken Indians; black businessmen bustling by briskly in crisp suits; ladies who do not lunch with nylons rolled up below the knee pushing shopping carts full of everything they own; Mustangs rubbing up against muscular Mercedes and Hell's Angels hogs.

It's a sick twisted Wonderland, and I'm Alice.

Here is a story like no other: The unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp line between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. David Sterry was a wide-eyed son of 1970s suburbia, but within his first week looking for off-campus housing on Sunset Boulevard he was lured into a much darker world -- servicing the lonely women of Hollywood by night.

Chicken -- the word is slang for a young male prostitute -- revisits this year of living dangerously, in a narrative of dazzling inventiveness and searing candor. Shifting back and forth from tales of Sterry's youth -- spent in the awkward bosom of a disintegrating dysfunctional family -- to his fascinating account of the Neverland of post-sixties sexual excess, Chicken teems with Felliniesque characters and set pieces worthy of Dionysus. And when the life finally overwhelms Sterry, his retreat from the profession will leave an indelible mark on readers' minds and hearts.

Customer Reviews:

Not that great.......2007-07-05

Sorry to dissagree with the other's who liked this book. I did not. I was really excited to get it and thought it was going to be very interesting but I found myself turning page after page waiting for the story to get of the ground but sadly it never did. That and I got so tired of every other page he had to tell you he was wearing his 'ball buster/elephant leg jeans', that line just gets repeated over and over and over again. Also, one gets tired of the author 'confirming' his masculinity and interest in women. Sorry, the book is a fast read, an easy read but a bit ho-hum.

Suprisingly Good........2005-12-08

This book proved to be surprisingly good reading. Well written, the author "bounces" back and forth between his character's childhood experiences, and his experiences as a male escort/sex worker. The selections are presented in snippets, and strangely, the story is woven nicely between the 2 "phases" of the character's life. Sometimes brutal, sometimes enlightening, often amusing, this is a book to read for the fun of it. Imagine, reading a book about a male hustler that is overly sordid? Novel concept, huh?

Is it a novel?.......2005-07-24

This first-person account of the experiences of a young male prostitute is engaging light reading, but it barely seems credible as an autobiography.

After I finished the book, I reread all of the reviews on Amazon.com which I had read before I bought the book and I still could not accept that it is a true story. So I did research on the most popular search-engine and among the top four hits was an interview with the author. After I read the interview, I was able to conclude that this book is based on the author's life experience.

The book's form, however, is that of a novel which skips back and forth between the author's years in his unusual calling and various flashbacks to his childhood, rather than being a traditional chronologically narrated autobiogrphy. I am disappointed that it reads like a novel. I had purchased it (fortunately as a used book at a much reduced price) with the expectation from having read the reviews that it would be in traditional chronological autobiographical format.

To start an autobiography with a statement about the author's current life and then go back to the author's childhood and chronologically narrate how the author reached his or her current life situation can add to the reader's involvement with a book.

However, this book is not written in that format. Rather the book's main narrative is interrupted by multiple unchronologically arranged flashbacks to the author's childhood, which are so distracting that I skipped over most of them.

The border between fiction and autobiography is fluid, but the better authors stick to one side or the other. Thomas Wolfe and Chaim Potock come to mind as examples of authors who have written compelling autobiographiical fiction and Franklin and Cellini as authors who have written compelling autobiography.

When an author tries to mix the two genres, it is nearly impossible to succeed at either.

easy read told with good humor.......2004-10-21

I thought this book was very easy read because of the tongue-in-cheek style of the author and the brashness of the telling. My only complaint is that this book is not longer. I felt like I read a long story in a magazine.

I thought his "tricks" were very interesting stories and I wanted to hear more of them.

It's funny he thanks his parents at the end. By the end of the book we hate them. (or is it at the beginning?)

If you liked this book Permanent Midnight by Jerry Stahl and Dry by Augusten Burroughs are even better.

I hope this author writes more books and longer ones.

Well written but too sad for most folks.......2003-05-10

The author is abandoned by his family at 17 and ends up being raped by a stranger. After that encounter he's discovered by a "friendly" manager who sells him to well to do women as a male prostitute. This aint Richard Gere in American Gigolo and it's not Deuce Bigelo either. There's no romance or beauty in the boy toy business.

The book is not fun but it's well written. You get an unfiltered look into an ugly world. Luckily, the author escaped the chicken life relatively unscathed.

How successful will this book be? Somehow I don't expect to see this book on too many people's coffee tables and I doubt that it will be cocktail party conversation.

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Chicken : Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent
David Henry Sterry
Manufacturer: Regan Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA7734

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Chicken : Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent
David Henry Sterry
Manufacturer: Regan Books
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