The Wealthy Pauper

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Wealthy Pauper...how about Wealthy Author?

Mesmorizing Rags to Riches Story

Message-OK, Messenger-very poor

Must read

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The Wealthy Pauper
Fabio Marciano
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In his second book since the breakout bestseller The Secrets of Wealth, Fabio "fabman" Marciano shares with readers the amazing story of The Wealthy Pauper.

What if you were able to have a one-on-one coaching session with a self-proclaimed "millionaire maker"? What would you be able to accomplish in life?

What if there was one book that took you through the teachings of Think and Grow Rich, As a Man Thinketh, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, The Cashflow Quadrant, The Millionaire Next Door, The E-Myth Revisited, and the Richest Man in Babylon and rolled them into one easy to read story, then how much do you think you could learn? How many highlighters would you go through?

Fabio "fabman" Marciano has taken several dozen simple money management, investing, and business-building principles and wrapped them in an amazing story of how one man was able to rise up from poverty and achieve million-dollar status in three short years.

If you're looking for a book to give you a solid foundation on how to manage your money, motivate yourself to achieve greatness, and take the steps toward your path to financial freedom, then this book is for you. The book will show you that it's not really hard to become rich in life, you just have to want it bad enough. In fact, the basic steps you need to take are SIMPLE. Read the book and follow The Wealthy Pauper's lead down the road to financial prosperity.

Customer Reviews:

Wealthy Pauper...how about Wealthy Author? .......2006-10-13

I got this book at the library (interloan) and I have to say this is dead last in financial self help books.

If you have the time and inclination, by all means go ahead and read it...but I would recommend many books before this; Millionaire Next Door, Richest Man in Babylon, Think & Grow Rich, How to Win Friends and Influence People, anything by William Nickerson or John T. Reed...or Stephen King for that matter.

Honestly, after reading 50+ books on financial freedom, this book has the dubious distinction of a singular 'a-ha' moment; I realized that if this guy can write a book like this - anyone can.

In short, don't bother...the 3 hours it takes from your life would be better off with your kids, your pets, or your dentist (come on - you know you need it).

Alternatively, buy it yourself. If for no other reason that encouraging the author in you (but please don't take my word for it).

Mesmorizing Rags to Riches Story.......2006-03-04

The Wealthy Pauper is a book I started and could not put down. Though it sounds like a fairy-tale, it is a true story of how a homeless man one day, decided he couldn't live his life on the streets with no direction anymore. That day, he met a man who saw something in him, something that said Fabio was better than this. That man coached him and in 3 years, Fabio went from a bum on the streets to a humble millionaire.

Message-OK, Messenger-very poor.......2005-06-23

I was appalled at the lack of editing, the poor grammar and the number of typos in this book. Perhaps others could overlook it. I was constantly distracted and therefore found it difficult to muster any respect for the author. In addition, I felt that it was written for a rather uneducated audience, for folks who couldn't analyze and think for themselves. The conversations of the characters were overstated. In general, the concept of the book was ok, not spectacular, but the format was undigestible.

Must read.......2004-02-24

If you are interested in starting your own business and/or becoming wealthy this is a must read. Great story format presenting lots of information that most books like this leave out. This is just not a pump you up story, but includes lots of useful tactics and information for success. If your are an entrepreneur this book needs to be on your bookshelf...

Excellent.......2004-01-14

Excellent material presented in an entertaining manner. A quick and profitable read.

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The Prince and the Pauper (Dramatized)
Mark Twain
Manufacturer: audible.com
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Not, in the end, a compelling read

Captialism Is Ruled by the "Gale of Creative Destruction"

A solid , thought-provoking book on Business Innovation

How to destroy businesses and not destroy your career?

Doesn't deliver what it promises

Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them
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Striving for excellence or building to last is one thing. Sustaining superior performance over the long haul is another matter entirely, as longtime McKinsey & Company executives Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan persuasively point out in Creative Destruction. Based on a concept first advanced some 70 years ago by economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Foster and Kaplan propose that corporations can outperform capital markets and maintain their leadership positions only if they creatively and continuously reconstruct themselves. In doing so, they can stay ahead of the upstart challengers constantly waiting in the wings. The decidedly radical paradigm that they champion has been urged in one form or another by others since Schumpeter, but this effort is particularly convincing because of the massive research the authors cite to back it up: McKinsey studies of more than 1,000 corporations in 15 industries over 36 years.

Citing the specific reasons behind ups and downs at firms such as Storage Technology, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, and Corning, Foster and Kaplan claim that the process of creative destruction must become an integral part of today's corporations from top to bottom if they truly hope to attain lasting excellence (and beat Wall Street's primary indices for more than a few fleeting years). Firms that have mastered elements of this practice have done so by innovatively shedding detrimental processes and operations while cleverly spotting and appending those that add new value. The authors write that the "key to their success is the balance they have struck between creativity and destruction--between continuity and change." Their book offers impressive insight into the acts of both breaking down and building up. If its analyses of past performance mean anything, it should prove very interesting to savvy managers as well as long-term investors. --Howard Rothman

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Turning conventional wisdom on its head, a Senior Partner and an Innovation Specialist from McKinsey & Company debunk the myth that high-octane, built-to-last companies can continue to excel year after year and reveal the dynamic strategies of discontinuity and creative destruction these corporations must adopt in order to maintain excellence and remain competitive.

In striking contrast to such bibles of business literature as In Search of Excellence and Built to Last, Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan draw on research they conducted at McKinsey & Company of more than one thousand corporations in fifteen industries over a thirty-six-year period. The industries they examined included old-economy industries such as pulp and paper and chemicals, and new-economy industries like semiconductors and software. Using this enormous fact base, Foster and Kaplan show that even the best-run and most widely admired companies included in their sample are unable to sustain their market-beating levels of performance for more than ten to fifteen years. Foster and Kaplan's long-term studies of corporate birth, survival, and death in America show that the corporate equivalent of El Dorado, the golden company that continually outperforms the market, has never existed. It is a myth.

Corporations operate with management philosophies based on the assumption of continuity; as a result, in the long term, they cannot change or create value at the pace and scale of the markets. Their control processes, the very processes that enable them to survive over the long haul, deaden them to the vital and constant need for change. Proposing a radical new business paradigm, Foster and Kaplan argue that redesigning the corporation to change at the pace and scale of the capital markets rather than merely operate well will require more than simple adjustments. They explain how companies like Johnson and Johnson , Enron, Corning, and GE are overcoming cultural "lock-in" by transforming rather than incrementally improving their companies. They are doing this by creating new businesses, selling off or closing down businesses or divisions whose growth is slowing down, as well as abandoning outdated, ingrown structures and rules and adopting new decision-making processes, control systems, and mental models. Corporations, they argue, must learn to be as dynamic and responsive as the market itself if they are to sustain superior returns and thrive over the long term.

In a book that is sure to shake the business world to its foundations, Creative Destruction, like Re-Engineering the Corporation before it, offers a new paradigm that will change the way we think about business.

Customer Reviews:

Not, in the end, a compelling read.......2007-01-01

The book starts of reasonably well. Its general themes explaining why large companies tend to behave in ways that make them less effective at responding to change than the market are well described. As the book tries to show examples of companies that did or did not respond well to the forces of change in business they lose their way. Not only do they extol a number of companies seemingly purely because they were founded by friends from McKinsey, they also use Enron as a successful example! Too many of their examples have not done well since the book was published and that undermines their message. The book also lacks concrete advice, though I must confess to skimming towards the end.
My takeaway? The market as a whole will ALWAYS innovate more effectively than any company so get over it and be prepared for companies to come and go and change constantly. There's not much, if anything, you can do about it.

Captialism Is Ruled by the "Gale of Creative Destruction" .......2006-03-11

This is an unbelievably well-written delineation of the state of captialistic economy. 'Creative Destruction' refers to the force behind the expanding capitalistic empire. It is a phrase coined by Joseph Schumpter in the 30's. Business leaders of today that get caught in cultural lock-in will fail tomorrow. A business needs to transform and re-evaluate itself against the currents of the constantly changing market, or fall as prey to those that do. Old-time rates of change were much slower and seemed to give credence to pure branding and operations quality over innovation. However a closer look will reveal that these companies averaged only a sixty year lifespan. Modern companies on the S&P 500 are only averaging a ten year lifespan due to the accelerating rates of change. This is an age of discontinuity. There is no longevity to the conservatism of yesterday.

This book explores the ways of creative thinking... how to foster it... and what fear mechanisms destroy it in the upper levels of corporations. It gives ideas on how to evaluate affiliations and acquisitions.

On a humorus note, Enron is cited as an example of success based on this approach. They are quoted 'we hire smart people and pay them more than they think they are worth.' and there are 'no punishments for trying (risking).' Seems like it is always best to be careful who you let guard the cookie jar.

Truly a great read by the highly respected Senior Partner and Director of McKinsey & Co.

Five Super Stars

A solid , thought-provoking book on Business Innovation.......2004-06-17

Foster's previous work - Innovation, the Attackers Advantage, is a masterpiece, and this follow up is an excellent read. An interesting observation at the start contrasts a company trying to excel and innovate, and the market as a Darwinian force, ruthlessly selecting the `best' irregardless of past performance. The message is the same, stark reminder as Clayton Christensen's - past excellence is no guarantee of future survival.

Having delivered this baleful message, the book distinguishes between typical management techniques - measurement, control, which leads to operational excellence [called convergent thinking], and the type of observation, reflection and debate [called divergent thinking] which may lead to innovation.
The book outlines methodologies which can be used to attempt to combine both convergent and divergent approaches within a firm. The book therefore takes one step further than Clayton Christensen's suggestion of setting up a separate entity to pursue a specific `blue sky' set of ideas. However it in no way underplays the seriousness of the threat of new product or new product cycles to the incumbent, successful corporations - indeed some of the examples given in the book as successes (Cisco, Corning) have since gone through major traumas in subsequent product and economic cycles.

The book seems to take explicit aim at Collin's book `Built to Last', saying that companies which have been longest in the Fortune 500 have underperformed the market - and expands this theme that the market, by having no emotional link to firms, will pick winners and punish the slow remorselessly. From an investors point of view, my interpretation of Foster's guidance would be to periodically pick the top performers in an index and sell those which don't make it to the top, regardless of past position; my interpretation of Collins is that eventually the tried and trusted firms win out.
I think my money would be on Foster.

However in terms of management thinking Foster is definitely in the Thomas Kuhn, Giovanni Dosi, Clayton Christensen, Geoffrey Moore tradition of the intense difficulty of managing to be customer focused, operationally excellent and innovative simultaneously.

How to destroy businesses and not destroy your career?.......2003-04-18

One good thing about books written by McKinsey people is that if they write something, it's gonna be smart. Because otherwise they just keep the silence.
And this book is not an exception to this rule. Whilst the readers could find the idea of a permanent review and renovation of a corporate businesses portfolio fairly old and discussed so many times in books of Drucker, Schumpeter and other authors, there're some issues which make reading of "Creative Destruction" worth the time.
First, unlike two previously mentioned famous gentlemen, Foster and Kaplan bothered themselves with sizable stock market data research and analysis. This approach should really become a standard if we ever want to see organizational behavior and corporate strategy to become scientific disciplines and not a genre of fiction literature with well-known set of rules "how to write more or less good novel".
Second, even readers very familiar with literature about corporate strategy and portfolio analysis methods could find some profound insights on these 350 pages - may be different ones for different people. For example, a clearly stated paradox between operational excellence and innovation definitely deserves thinking about, since it's just so easy to say: "Yes, we need both - tight controlled low cost operations AND creative business development" or "We need to build the great team committed to the corporation AND sometimes we need to kick a part of the team out just to ensure great stock returns", - but isn't it the same as requiring water to become dry at certain moments, convenient for the observers?

Bad thing. Do not expect to find in the book an answer to the question, stated at the very beginning. As well as where to find the businesses worth investing to. The authors do not know. Or they do not say - may be just to give to the reader an idea to invite McKinsey to think together about these issues in corporate HQs.

Doesn't deliver what it promises.......2002-07-04

This book takes some interesting insights from economist Joseph Schumpeter (who coined the term "creative destruction") and leadership expert Ron Heifetz and then goes on to make overly broad generalizations from them, supported by an extensive but questionable data analysis. The authors go on at length about the size and scope of the McKinsey corporate database that provides much of the backbone for the book's conclusions, but anyone who studies excellence or best-practices knows that you dont learn much about them by studying large, general samples; in fact, such samples are designed to rule out the exceptions. (And I'll just overlook the fact that Enron is one of the exceptional performers they highlight.)

At bottom, the book fails to deliver on either of the promises in its subtitle. The primary reason seems to be that little of it is drawn from practical experience with exceptional companies. Despite its scope, the McKinsey database doesn't really answer, from a management point of view, why most companies have underperformed. (Although less systematically presented, you can get more wisdom from a practitioner's book like Tom Kelly's "The Art of Innovation.") This is most obvious as the book moves into suggestions for "how to change" these companies: neither the suggested methodology for strategic planning nor the successful case examples provide anything more than some basic, general ideas that have been better covered elsewhere in the organizational development and management literature.

The subtitle also suggests that the book presents a refutation of the arguments for corporate sustainability that Collins and Porras gave in "Built to Last". Interestingly, Foster and Kaplan disdain to address that book directly or even cite it, except in a buried footnote. This is unfortunate because they present data on some of Collins' and Porras' profiled companies that suggest they have performed far more poorly than "Built to Last" would lead you to believe; it would have been helpful to understand who was overstating what. Collins and Porras also stress in detail that built-to-last companies "preserve the core / stimulate progress"; it is not clear that "creative destruction" differs from this in any significant way. In sum, the issue of how to create long-term value will still be a big question when you've finished reading this book.

It is interesting to note, as the authors are current and former McKinsey consultants, that a majority of the underperformers in their database are McKinsey clients. If these companies failed to turn around after investing in McKinsey advice, what is the likelihood that anyone else will do it from ideas they got reading a book?

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Caraway, the seventh volume in the series Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles, collects together all of the existing information in connection with the biology, chemistry, agrotechnology and utilization of the plant genus Carum. After an overview on all Carum species, it deals mainly with th most important species Carum carvi L. The scientific and economic significance of the genus as well as forthcoming results and future perspectives are discussed. Authors from a number of countries give information about valuable traditions as well as the most up-to-date research results. Physiological, genetic and agrotechnological specialities of annual and biennial types of caraway are discussed seperately. The book provides an overview of the anatomical structure of the most important organs of the plant, and its chemical constituents. it also discusses production practices including post harvest techniques, quality requirements and utilization of the plant's products in pharmacology, and the alimentary and cosmetics industries. The broad scope of presentations illustrated with numerous tables and figures offers excellent material for scientists, teachers and students who are interested in medicinal and aromatic plants.

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Beginning in the 1960s, scientists across a wide range of disciplines cooperated in developing unbiased--or assumption free--stereology, based on stochastic geometry and probability theory, as a way to estimate the parameters of irregularly shaped objects without introducing bias. In recent years these new estimation techniques, which were originally quite painstaking and time consuming, have made a great deal of headway in disciplines such as neuroscience, thanks in part to the development of computer software for their application. Prestigious journals and grant-giving organizations now require the use of unbiased stereology in the projects that they support, and this trend is expected to continue.

Principles and Practices of Unbiased Stereology will fill a need in the biomedical community as a clear, user-friendly introduction to this area for the increasing number of scientists who need to learn these techniques for their research. The work moves logically from a discussion of the historical background of stereology to full explanations of terms, concepts,and tools, with the latter part of the manuscript devoted to typical stereology designs. An associated web site will feature color illustrations and video clips demonstrating stereological techniques.

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Well written and straightforward.......2005-07-01

Stereology refers to a set of methodological tools (e.g. mathematical, statistical, and geometric) for obtaining information about three-dimensional objects from two-dimensional profiles. This book provides the necessary theoretical and methodological framework for beginners in the field, by describing the basic `principles and practices' of stereology. It is primarily written for neuroscientists and biomedical scientists but geologists and other scientists from a variety of different disciplines will find it very useful. The first chapter offers a historical overview of the fundamental concepts of stereology and the events that led to the present era of modern stereology. Subsequent chapters deal with stereological techniques for quantifying first-order parameters (volume, length, surface area, number) as well as issues of experimental design, sampling strategies and possible sources of bias. The concise illustrations and figures that accompany the text help to promote better understanding of the abstract concepts. Complex formulations are avoided and the simple explanations that are provided make the entire book very easy to read and follow. Overall, this book is well-written and straightforward introduction to the basic principles of modern stereology.
Michail E. Kalaitzakis, Ph.D. D.I.C. Candidate, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neuropathology, Imperial College London, University of London, UK.

A fantastic book.......2002-08-28

Principles and Practices fills a much needed niche-- this book excels at introducing beginners to stereology and is sufficiently advanced that more experienced scientists will find themselves using it for reference. The most interesting and useful feature of this book is its organization. Beginning with an historical perspective, the reader learns the importance of stereology as a separate field, as well as its recent impact on the biological sciences. The author does an excellent job of providing pertinent information instead of overwhelming with formulas and jargon. Dr. Mouton's treatment of bias and error is superb; I find myself referring to it frequently.

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Representing the state-of-the-art in neurochemical mapping, Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Developing Mouse Brain provides a complete, full-color look at the developing mouse brain. Hundreds of coronal sections are presented, clearly illustrating structures at progressive stages of brain development.

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Very useful.......1999-01-01

Each section of the mouse brain is shown in color stained for acetylcholinesterase, tyrosine hydroxylase, calretinin, calbindin, and 5-hydroxytryptamine. The Nissl stain, thionin, was also used. The structures in each brain section are labelled on each page. Brain sections from gestational ages E11/E12, E13/14, E15/16, E17/18 and the newborn are shown.

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The Best Tent Camping Guide

Great book, with a couple of reservations

Great guide for locals and visitors alike

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The Best in Tent Camping: Southern Appalachian & Smokies, Third Edition: A Guide for Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos
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If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping should be your constant companion. The Best in Tent Camping: The Southern Appalachian & Smoky Mountains is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper's boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of campgrounds in eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and western North and South Carolina, each campsite is rated for beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness, and cleanliness. Each campground profile provides essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read map making the campground a snap to locate.

Customer Reviews:

The Best Tent Camping Guide.......2005-08-12

The Best In Tent Camping The Southern Appalachian & Smoky Moutains
This book was very easy to navigate. The author divides the book by the four states that he reviews; North & South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Finding the best of the best in this book is easy due to a star rating scale found on each campgrounds page. My husband and I are looking for particular attributes in a campground, so by looking up the number of stars listed for our needs it was easy to narrow the focus. Here are the criteria the campgrounds are rated against, and given stars for; Beauty, Site privacy, Site spaciousness, Quiet, Security, Cleanliness. Thumbnail maps are shown, including how to get there instructions. Key information is listed in a quick list format that is helpful which includes; address, operated by, websites, phone numbers, open dates, what each site has, fee's etc. As you read the narrative portion of the book you can tell that the author was at each and every site. He provides details of each campground such as which tent sites are the most popular for views, secluded etc. That is helpful. We can't wait to get out there and check it all out for ourselves.

Great book, with a couple of reservations.......2005-03-27

I've read several of Johnny Malloy's books, and his Best in Tent Camping books are a great resource for those who want to avoid the RV parking lots that many campgrounds have become. Other reviewers echo my feelings here. However, a couple of things about this particular book could be improved upon. Firstly, the others in this series that I've read by Malloy have maps of the individual campgrounds after each review, which I find to be very helpful in orienting myself, particularly when he recommends certain sites. For some odd reason, this book does not. Secondly, I was unhappy with the amount of material lifted verbatim from his "Best of Tent Camping: The Carolinas." I already own that book, and found that all of the reviews for campgrounds in North and South Carolina were identical in both. I understand that perhaps a lot of new material might not be available to add to/improve upon the descriptions. But had I known this, I might have just purchased his guide to Tennessee and Kentucky instead, since they probably would have overlapped and covered everything in this volume, plus more (with the exception of a few in Georgia). That said, I would still highly recommend this book if you aren't planning on purchasing others in the series covering the same areas.

Great guide for locals and visitors alike.......2003-08-04

I live near the Smoky Mountains, and was blown away by the number of campsites I didn't know existed within a 50 mile radius of my city. This is a great book for weekend trips or a small vacation on the cheap. Especially good for novice campers (like me!) who want to get away without going totally backcountry. This is a beautiful area and, though crowded in spots, this guide points you to some of the more secluded and well-maintained campsites.

Great Smokie Guidance.......2001-04-24

I bought this book and, first try, camped in the nicest campsite that I have ever driven a vehicle into (still can't beat some backpacking sites, but backpacking sites are not the subject of this book). Besides a descriptive narrative for each recommended campsite, there are very helpful "Key Information" and "To Get There..," sections. Use this book once and it will be worth the money.

Don't Buy This Book If ..........2001-02-26

If you like noise, crowds of people near your campsite, large RV's with cable TV, or think the best thing about the Smoky Mountains is Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, this book is not for you. If the your ideal vacation includes none of the above listed things, you will enjoy Johnny Molloy's guide to exploring and enjoying the Smoky Mountains. Well written and well researched, this book is the best I've discovered on finding off-the-beaten path campsites in the nation's most visited national park.

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Plenty of successful guides have been published for hip girls in general, but now the trendsetting black reader has a book of her own. Dedicated to chic sisters everywhere, Beautylicious! shimmers with wit and soul—an irresistible new recipe for loving, playing, and beautifying with verve. Chapters include:

• Soul Power: Sizzle with radiance from the inside out
• Queen Me: Treats to perk you up when the blues have got you down
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Beautylicious!also shares know-how from the Patron Saints of Fabulosity, along with tips for becoming a favorite hostess (and a favorite guest), staying cool in heated situations, and finessing that saucy outlook on life. The ideal gift, Beautylicious! sparkles with fun and flair.

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love it!.......2007-06-20

Absolutely fabulous, I wish there were books like this out there.

not so beautylicious..........2007-03-30

So, I bought this book thinking that it would have a lot more info than it actually had. I was disapointed. I had a friend who had the Modern Girls Guide...so I figured I would by the BEAUTYLICIOUS version...I think I'm gonna go ahead and purchase the Modern Girls Guide...

why is this just the "black girl's guide"?.......2006-11-04

If this was called "the white girl's guide to the fabulous life" it would be called a racist piece of trash. Why does the title of this book say its "the black girl's guide"? I found it had great tips for everyone, but I am disappointed in the phrasing of this title. It excludes.

I'm objecting to the title here. Not the book. The book had great tips for everyone. But its a shame that the title has to be discriminatory.

Loved It!!.......2006-06-13

I am going to order a copy of this for my sister and my friends. It is something every african american female 21-35yrs old should have in their collection. It had some great tips on beauty, health and finances. It also has some great tips on how to get started on appreciating yourself and loving yourself. Take time to remember you and to focus on you. It was just what I needed to get out of the "I don't care I am not going to worry about how I look anymore rut". I keep it in my totebag and pull it out to refer to it periodically. It is chic just to be seen reading it!

Just the right timing .......2006-02-06

I loved this book because it showed me that with the right attitude I "a plain jane from way back" can be a diva too. It also showed me that there was no difference between me and Lena Horne except our attitude about ourselves. It was great and I highly recommend it to any woman not just black who want to take on the world.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent drawing book.......2007-01-18

We got our daughter this book for Christmas because she loves horseback riding and she loves it. She is 8 years old and it has already improved her drawing in the short time whe has had the book. I would highly recommend!!

Hmmm.......2006-06-12

Drawing Horses is a very, erm, basic book about well, how to draw horses. The horses aren't very realistic, and the shading method it teaches isn't very good (cross-hatching, dots, etc.). Maybe good for the absolute beginning artist, but maybe to easy for the more advanced.

Great!.......2003-12-05

My 10 year old daughter chose this book, and she loves it! The author's review is very accurate. Kids of different skill levels of drawing will enjoy this book and get a lot out of it. Mine is not an artistically "gifted" child - but she is happy with her new ability to make her drawings look like horses! Children who love to draw and will spend a lot of time on a drawing will appreciate ALL the wonderful tips and hints to draw and style the horses. The format is friendly - and even if she doesn't "do" all the details herself (the different braided manes, pairings of horses etc) mine LOVES looking at the pictures and having the simple and clear explanations. Highly reccomended!

Finally, a "Drawing Horses" book for young skill levels!.......2002-08-27

Hi, I'm the author, and I wanted to share with you why I wrote this book. All the "drawing horses" books I've ever seen are full of great looking pictures of horses. The drawings would look fantastic in an art class or museum. However, it's tough for kids to draw at that level, and it can be very discouraging. I know, because I've been teaching cartooning and art classes for children for many years.
So, I applied the simple, common-sense techniques I developed as a cartoonist and teacher, and came up with "Drawing Horses That Look Real." There are step-by-step instructions from muzzle to tail, and my special cartooning secrets are outlined in a fun format that kids can master quickly. The book speaks directly to the reader, and nothing is left to chance. Most of all, the level of drawing is just right for kids, and can be enjoyed by anyone with patience and practice! I hope that many kids who love these fine animals will also love my book.

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