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The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past
Lisa Gail Collins Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0813530229 |
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Highly accessible reading; fine and original scholarship........2006-08-03
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The Boutonniere: Style in One's Lapel
Umberto Angeloni Manufacturer: Universe Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0789303884 Release Date: 2000-02-05 |
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Fine guide to an all-too-rare element of men's style.......2003-12-08
This handy little guide is all most men should need to navigate the largely unknown waters of boutonniere-wearing. Much of the book, necessarily, traces flower-wearing through history, with a focus on the British royal family and various dandies of times past. A few profiles of modern men who keep the tradition alive are also included, as well as helpful suggestions about various types of flowers to wear, what to wear with what kind of jacket, and even alternatives to the jacket lapel like vests and overcoats.
Take a stand for personal style and start wearing a flower from time to time. If you're unsure about how or whether, let this book help you get started. Once you do, you may never look back.
A Sense of Style.......2001-03-14
A special book: informative, elegant, and well illustrated.......2000-04-22
The book starts with a historic narration of flowers in men's clothing, moves on, to more recent well-dressed men that wear them, and then to examples of elegant more modern combinations that include the use of boutonnieres.
This is not a "picture book" only, it includes essays on the topics that are well written and inspire the reader to become an impeccable dresser, and this is what Brioni is all about.
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The Big 5-0: A For Better Or For Worse Collection
Lynn Johnston Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0740705563 |
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For more than two decades, For Better or For Worse has captivated readers around the globe. This best-selling contemporary cartoon-syndicated since 1979-now appears in more than 2,000 newspapers throughout the U.S., Canada, and twenty-three other countries. The strip reflects universal family feelings so well it's translated from English into eight languages.What makes creator Lynn Johnston's portrayal of the Patterson family and friends so beloved shines once again in The Big 5-0, a collection comprising cartoons from August 1998 through June 1999. This book follows the blooming romance of son Michael and his girlfriend, Deanna, daughter Elizabeth's last year in high school, and John, the father, turning 50. The book overflows with the heartwarming and realistic family exchanges that have become For Better or For Worse trademarks.Customer Reviews:
a TRUE picture of growing older.......2001-09-09
Fans will relish this collection.......2001-02-01
APRIL IS THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT.......2000-12-17
The rabbit and dog chases are funny. Mr. Bunny Rabbit is a scream, the way he hops after that dog. It's a good thing the two species get along so well. Mr. B. is the best fictitious rabbit to ever grace the funny pages! Drawings of the rabbit really show the sense of speed and motion -- another nod to a great cartoonist.
Grandpa Jim is the best of the family characters. It is such a refreshing treat to see a senior citizen with a regular voice in the funnies. One of the best ones appeared in the paper on Veterans' Day, when he says the lucky ones came home. I also like the one on Memorial Day when he remembers dancing in his sergeant's uniform with his late wife, Marian. Hip, hip, hooray for Grandpa Jim!
The rest of the bunch are equally delightful, but for different reasons. Liz and Michael bring home the realities of college, job and impending marriage; they are wonderful characters who have never once lost their senses of humor.
i LIKE April!.......2000-12-06
April Cost This One Star.......2000-12-03
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The Big 5-0: A for Better or for Worse Collection
Lynn Franks; Johntson, Lynn Johnston Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OSKO22 |
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George Carlin: 2006 Day-to-Day Calendar
George Carlin Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Calendar Similar Items:
ASIN: 0740753061 |
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About as funny as watching paint dry........2006-03-07
Disappointing to say the most:.......2006-01-18
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The Envelope, Please: The Ultimate Academy Awards Trivia Book
Arnold Wayne Jones Manufacturer: Avon Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0380799448 |
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The questions here range from the obvious (most movie fans will be able to identify Babe as the "film about a talking pig [which] won the Visual Effects Award in 1995") to the obscure (only those utterly obsessed with Oscar will answer "1963" when asked the year in which all Best Supporting Actress nominees were foreign-born). But The Envelope, Please is more than just a big quiz. The beginning of each chapter provides a fount of interesting information about the awards. You can read about the Academy's rules for selecting nominees and winners, the reasons unexpected candidates sometimes go home with the gold, and what author Arnold Wayne Jones calls "the glorious kitsch of Oscar." If you're looking to learn more about Hollywood's biggest night, or if you want to stump your friends between commercials at your next Oscar party, grab hold of this nicely priced, brightly written book. --Raphael Efrem ShargelBook Description
The glamour, the excitement, the triumphs, the upsets, the tacky gowns--the Academy Awards: who can remember it all? Whether you're a film fan, award aficionado, or just a pop culture buff, her is, by category, the most comprehensive Academy Award trivia challenge ever to be compiled.A trivia book with attitude, The Envelope, Please is divided into chapters on the various aspects, honors, nominations and telecasts of the Academy Awards. From statistical facts to memorable, and often embarrassing moments (paging Rob Lowe and Snow White!), from the record-holding winners to all-time big losers in a variety of categories, you can test your knowledge of Hollywood's night of nights. There are Tinseltown teasing questions about the Academy's inner workings, noteworthy achievements, heart-breaking omissions, unforgettable ovations, and much more--from high drama to high kitsch.
Complete with informative sidebars, insightful commentaries and tasty tidbits of chatty dish, here's the supreme Academy Awards quiz: The Envelope, Please
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Great idea, badly done.......2003-03-07
Excellent Book.......2001-12-17
This is hands down the best Academy Awards book out there. And on top of that it is the best trivia book I have ever seen as well. The questions are fun to read and filled with interesting anecdotes that you will not find anywhere else. Where else can you find information about Marlon Brando declining his Oscar or the streaker who appeared during the ceremony in the early 1970s?
I especially love the opening introduction by the author in which he talks about his fondness for movies. As a fellow film buff, I can definitely relate.
By the way, be sure to get a copy of this book before this year's awards ceremony. It should be used as a handy reference to be kept nearby while the ceremony is going on.
Jones definitely knows his stuff. I cannot wait for his next book.
That's Entertainment!.......2001-02-25
Don't read this book........2000-06-23
Good trivia quizzes, but not a reference book.......2000-06-09
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The Music of Britten and Tippett: Studies in Themes and Techniques
Arnold Whittall Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521386683 |
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In this classic study of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett, Arnold Whittall builds up a unique double portrait of the two leading composers of their generation. In addition, new information on the Britten repertoire and an updated bibliography are also presented.
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North American Lighthouses Coloring Book
John Batchelor Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0486283127 |
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Excellent service.......2007-01-05
Another fine coloring book from Dover........1999-07-22
Bob Rixon, a poet from New Jersey
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Follow this Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential
Curt Coffman , and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina Manufacturer: Business Plus ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0446530506 |
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When it comes to getting ahead in business, The Gallup Organization has led the way with two landmark books: the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers First, Break all the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths. In its latest guide the world's hottest management consulting firm reveals your company's most valuable asset-and, with groundbreaking new findings and methods, shows you how developing that asset can lead to a quantum leap in cost efficiencies and profits.FOLLOW THIS PATHWhat do the world's greatest organizations have in common? They know that their most valuable resource is human-their employees and customers. And the best companies understand two important facts: people are emotional first and rational second, and because of that, employees and customers must be emotionally engaged in order for the organization to reach its full potential. Gallup research not only bears that out, but has uncovered the secrets of creating and managing an "emotional economy" that will provide boom possibilities for your company.FOLLOW THIS PATH shows you how the traditional ways to engage people no longer apply in today's world. Instead, it offers a system it calls The Gallup Path, based on the proven, revolutionary strategies of the most successful businesses. You'll learn the prerequisites of an effective workplace, forge unbreakable bonds between employees and customers with the book's 34 Routes to Superior Performance, know the three crucial links that drive productivity and growth, discover the best employee and customer motivators, and much more.Ignore the emotional economy-and miss out on financial performance. Helping you build relationships one customer and one employee at a time, this important book offers a unique new path for your organization to follow. All you have to do is value and develop human relationships all around you to transform your business-starting today.Customer Reviews:
Philip G. Trent.......2007-09-11
interesting theory.......2006-12-18
Subtitled "Hire Gallup".......2005-03-15
Manifesto for a Revolution.......2003-08-16
The central thesis of this valuable and highly readable work can be summed up in three words: Feelings drive actions.
This book from The Gallup Organization focuses on applying that briefest but most fundamental truth to business success. The authors' conclusion can be simply stated: The feelings of your employees influence the feelings of your customers, and that drives their buying behavior and your profits.
It works like this: Understand your employees so that they are assigned to do work for which they're really best suited at the deepest personal level ('cuz they'll do that work better than any other). And treat your employees in ways that encourage them to be fully engaged in their work ('cuz that gets you more loyalty and productivity at no extra cost). And then, in turn, your employees will treat your customers in a way that makes your customers feel good about your company ('cuz that leads them to spend more with your firm for a longer time). And, voila!, your company makes more money with less effort.
At this point you might feel compelled to release a loud exclamation of, "Well, duh!"
But hold on.
The premise of "Follow This Path" seems deceptively simple for two reasons:
1) It contrasts markedly with the "rational" model that still shapes most interactions with both employees and customers in most organizations; and
2) It stands in direct opposition to the assumptions underlying most business initiatives that are supposed to improve quality, productivity, or even customer satisfaction. Most, if not all, of those projects are aimed at mechanistically tweaking operational processes. And they don't positively affect the people on either side of the transaction: employees or customers. And so they have little to no effect on fundamentally improving the business. (But they sure do suck up a lot of time, create many distractions, and generate healthy fees for consultants.)
MORE THAN A REHASH
While tempting, it is misguided to characterize this book as a mere rehash of its predecessors from the Gallup Organization, "First, Break All the Rules" and "Now, Discover Your Strengths." Candidly, when first flipping through the book, "rehash" was my impression, too.
However, "Follow This Path" is a significant contribution in its own right. It integrates and extends Gallup's two previous works. This book's insights derive from an expanded data set supplied by Gallup's massive survey-based research, and the book also (as is all the rage in business tomes these days) draws on much of the historical and current research into the origins of behavior from both psychological and biological underpinnings. A smattering of readable anecdotes from real people help to bring the principles to life. (The end notes also are worth reading as the text there is written as a narrative and adds worthwhile insights. In addition, this work contains an appendix of what likely will strike most readers as mind-numbing statistical mumbo-jumbo, aimed, no doubt, at quieting critics who question the validity of the data underpinning Gallup's claims and conclusions.)
The effect is to validate sound, albeit somewhat non-traditional, perspectives on what really lies behind the elusive, mercantile holy grail of successfully competing in today's crazy, cut-throat marketplace.
THE UPSHOT
The good news is that these principles are easy to grasp and make intuitive sense (after reconsidering traditional biases).
The bad news is that for organizations to take advantage of these simple truths, they must unlearn much of what their managers "know" about how business works. The challenge is to move managers from the realm of the rational, definable, and controllable --- the hallmark characteristic of virtually every manager in virtually every corporation (perhaps with the exception of those strange and intrepid folks populating the marketing communications department).
The new reality: To compete effectively, managers must migrate to the still largely uncharted domain of the emotional, psychological, and personal in order to affect both employees and customers. In a gross understatement, this imperative represents a frighteningly major shift and no easy undertaking.
Making such a dramatic and fundamental change in both mindset and behaviors implies considerable adaptations at two levels: In the minds and hearts of individual managers, and in the policies and systems of their employing organizations.
All exaggeration aside, we're talking social revolution here. Undoubtedly, it will keep Gallup's consulting organization, and firms such as my own, very busy for many years to come.
But what if your boss or CEO is a Neanderthal and "doesn't get it"? Press on. Start with yourself and your very own work group. As the research from Gallup and many others makes clear, that's the only level at which real change actually occurs anyway.
Get the book and read it with a scientific mind, skeptical but open. Then get busy charting your own course through the new frontier of what Gallup aptly terms The Emotional Economy.
Chances are, you'll feel better...with rising productivity and profits...because customers feel better...because your employees feel better.
I agree, it's a great book.......2003-08-08
The premise of the book is simple. In an age where prices have been cut to razor thin margins, and businesses have become commodities, the only way to profitably survive is to unleash the human potential among your employees and customers. The authors ask this simple, but profound question: Why would a customer drive past your competition and pay a higher price to purchase your product? The answer: You have an emotionally engaged customer.
The authors demonstrate the world's greatest organizations connect with their customers on an emotional level. When this happens customers return because of the way they feel- they become emotional engaged. The businesses manta for the last century has been based on reason- if you build a better mousetrap, offer it at the lowest price, people will buy. Studies have shown that people are more driven by their emotions when it comes to purchase and repurchase than they are by reason. The same holds true for employees. The Gallop organization also has shown that emotionally engaged employees produce more, stay longer, have less accidents, etc.
Any problems? Maybe one. When hiring, the authors tell us again and again to commit to talent above education, experience, willingness to work hard, and the usual resume items. Inborn talent produces engaged employees; but what they did not address was the integrity issue. Jack Welch points out that the most dangerous employee is not the rude, insensitive, actively disengaged employee; but the one with the talent who does not hold to the values of the corporation. The actively disengaged employee will hurt the company, and yes, if you have enough of them they will destroy the company, but the real danger lies with talented, engaged employees who love their work but who do not hold to the company's values. These are the ones Welch would immediately get rid of.
All in all, it's a valuable book. For a pastor of a small church, or a midlevel manager, the Q-12 (Questions developed by the Gallop organization which identify the conditions of a great work space) are invaluable. By unleashing the human potential in staff, volunteers and members the leader of a nonprofit can build a great organization.
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Follow this Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential
Gonzales-Molina, Curt, Gabriel Coffman Manufacturer: audible.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Download ASIN: B00007EIDV |
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Follow This Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth By Unleashing Human Potential (Simplified Chinese) (Paperback)
Manufacturer: China Machine Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 7111126289 |
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This is the Chinese Version. Simplified Characters. Follow This Path: How the world's greatest orginizations drive growth by unleashing human potential.Books:
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