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This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents the perspectives of activists, scholars, artists, and curators from a broad range of constituencies. Challenging traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries, the book moves beyond any unified feminist historical narrative to present a "relational" feminism of diverse communities, affiliations, and practices. The texts/images partake of many genres: reflective essay, testimonial dialogue, performance piece, digital collage, prose poem, and photomontage. Forging connections between usually compartmentalized areas of knowledge and of activism, the volume helps us to envision alternative epistemologies and imaginative alliances.
Copublished with the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Feminist foreign policy for the new century.......2003-06-06
Technically this work (like many other women's studies collections) is sociologically based, but attempts to be interdisciplinary for appearances sake. After using this book for a previous semester, I also venture public policy is an entirely accurate additional field for this work.
No, this work does not have the seemingly requisite tables and charts in so many more conventional public service books (of all subcategories) and the artwork interspersed throughout may throw people off who have arrived in search of intentionally more traditional academic graphic aids, but they enhance the book's overall presentation of very important (and difficult) issues.
Since it's inception, feminism has attempted to speak for women in general, but has instead too often inadvertently degenerated into self-promotion of relatively privileged white middle-class, heterosexual and non-disabled women who at least have one identification to attempt fallback onto when confronted with the painful reality of discrimination.
The majority of the world's women however do not have such protections, hence magnifying their struggles in unimaginable ways.
Unlike this Bridge Called my Back (1981) and other 'second wave' classics which inadvertently focused on American based women, this anthology also takes the further step of examining such communities outside of the United States and Western Europe.
Evidenced by the 1995 Fifth International UN women's conference in Beijing, real and permanent women's liberation only occurs when intended programs and laws are culturally sensitive and appropriate models as opposed to the 'one-size must fit all' models previously (and some would argue currently proposed) by other western feminists.
Specifically, Isabelle R. Gunning (pp. 203-224) argues Female Genital Mutilation is not simply a pattern of male-on-female violence designed to torture women for the fun of it, but often a procedure that other women and girls (despite the inevitable risks and complications) encourage each other to undergo for fear of isolation and stigmatization. Consequently, the best alternatives to eradicating these same procedures would both explain the health risks experienced by women are directly connected to FGM and search for alternative ceremonies that could be performed instead as a way of symbolizing those same women's transition into adulthood and imparting values of respect and monogamy (this time, explicitly for both genders).
Also intriguing (given the U.S.'s recent history of involvement in the region) is Mervat F. Hatem's (pp. 369-390) Middle Eastern feminism essay. Theoretically, both the increased racial consciousness of journalists (many of whom cut their proverbial teeth in the tumultuous sixties covering the emergent civil rights movement) and a general (if grudging recognition) of sexism prevents the occurrences, but 'liberal' westerners continue to freely engage in the binary portrayal of the Middle East as a totally backwards land for women, also conveniently overlooking the current U.S. Government's (when opposition was then spearheaded in 1998 by socially conservative Congressional Republicans) well-publicized internal hostility toward's women's expanded public sphere role via curtailment of reproductive and other previously won civil rights.
It's easy to point fingers at and condemn other nations for their actions when entire societies are conveniently unwilling to retrack and confess to their own deeply ingrained biases. Clashing deeply with still-publicly voiced ideals of 'democracy' and 'fairness' policy reality is difficult for America to collectively undergo itself.
Having read other 'multicultural feminist' anthologies prior to this course, I naively (and very incorrectly assumed the format would be effective, but totally interchangeable with what I already knew.
Because this was clearly not the case, I heartily encourage anybody interested in feminist public policymaking to get and HEAVILY read through this volume. WHATEVER the price you must pay to obtain a permanent copy will be well worth it!
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Relatively few garments survive from before the eighteenth century, and the history of costume in the preceding centuries must therefore rely to a great extent on literary and visual evidence. This book, the first of its kind, examines Stuart England through the mirror of dress. It argues that both artistic and literary sources can be read and decoded for important information on dress and the way it was perceived in a period of immense political, social, and cultural change.
Focusing on the rich visual culture of the seventeenth century, including portraits, engravings, fashion plates, and sculpture, and on literary sources—poetry, drama, essays, sermons—the distinguished historian of dress Aileen Ribeiro creates a fascinating account of Stuart dress and how it both reflected and influenced society. Supported by a wealth of illustrative images, she explores such varied themes as court costumes, the masque, the ways in which political and religious ideologies could be expressed in dress, and the importance of London as a fashion center. This beautiful book is an indispensable and authoritative account of what people wore and how it related to Stuart England’s cultural climate.
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Writing, drawing and editing a monthly Tarzan comic-book series in the 1970s, Joe Kubert was able to illustrate the adventures of his childhood hero and produce some of the most inspiring pages of his career. Dark Horse Books is proud to present this final collection in a series of Joe Kubert's complete Tarzan comics. Joe Kubert's Tarzan Volume Three features an incredible, four-part adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1934 adventure novel, Tarzan and the Lion Man. Tarzan attempts to protect two beautiful actresses and a Hollywood production crew from the many dangers lurking in Africa's jungles... and from a deranged geneticist who calls himself "God." This volume also includes six pages of Kubert's original Tarzan notes and thumbnails from the early 1970s, the Tarzan stories "Moon Beast," "The Magic Herb," and "Ice Jungle," and a Korak, Son of Tarzan, tale, "Leap into Death," which was inked by Russ Heath.
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Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years Volume 3 (Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years).......2007-03-25
The book came in the mail quickly.
The only problem was that the jacket of the book was a little crumbled.
Joe Kubert jumps ahead to an adaptation of "Tarzan and the Lion Man" for Volume 3.......2006-08-04
The good news is that for Volume 3 of "Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years," editor-writer-artist Joe Kubert adapts another one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels. The bad news is that it is not one of my favorites. "Tarzan and the Lion Man" was the 17th of the Tarzan novels and while it afforded the opportunity for ERB to lash back at what Hollywood did to his creation, the story has to do with an actor who is a Tarzan look-alike and talking apes that talk English. This one is a lot more like ERB's science fiction stories than his usual jungle adventures for the Lord of the Jungle, and while it is a faithful adaptation, it is not one of ERB's best. Volume three includes issues #224, #226-235 (#226 was an issue illustrated by Russ Manning), and while there are plenty of good stories here, this collection does not have anything great enough to justify rounding up this time like I did with the previous volume:
But before we get to the adaptation there are a bunch of one-shot stories: "Moon Beast" (#225), with one of my favorite Kubert covers (a cobra coming out of the eye socket of a skull), finds a strange creature terrorizing the village of B'tunga. Zohar, the medicine man, tries to convince chief Mengo that Tarzan is the Moon Beast. The trial to find out consists of Tarzan being tossed in the viper pit, but that is not exactly how things work out. "Ice Jungle" (#227) has Tarzan decided to be the unseen guardian for you Tulum, the son of Chief Zama, who must go the ice jungle and return with the necklace of fire. Along the way they run into J. Pellington Stone, III, a rich kid sent on safari by his father to become a man, and a tribe of snow apes. "Trial by Blood" (#228) is a bad day for Tarzan. The vine he is swinging on breaks and drops him in front of a saber-tooth tiger, and then he is captured by a tribe of pygmies that want to sacrifice him to a terrible lizard. "The Game" (#229) begins with Tarzan playing a practical joke on some of his great apes, and then becoming part of a more deadly game by Zorina, the albino queen who wants the pale-skinned Tarzan (which is "white skin" in the language of the great apes) to do her evil bidding. Fat chance, lady. After a little introduction of Tarzan musing about one day having a son, "Leap Into Death" (#230) tells a story of Korak, the son of Tarzan, pencilled by Kubert but inked by Russ Heath (if you did not ee the credit you would never think it was Kubert's pencils).
Then we get to the featured story of Volume 3, a multi-part adaptation of ERB's novel "Taran and the Lion-Man." Part One (#231) begins with Tarzan rescuing Stanley Obroski from Hollywood, U.S.A., who was taken by narratives when filming "Lion Man" in the jungles. Obroski not only plays the title character, he looks a lot like Tarzan, which is going to come into play in this story. Meanwhile, the women of the film, female lead Naomi Madison and stand-in Rhonda Terry, have been captured by El-Ghrennem, who thinks the fake map from the movie will actually lead to the Valley of Diamonds. Part Two (#232) has the women captures by apes that speak English and are ruled by an insane English scientist who thinks he is god. At this point everybody thinks that Tarzan is Stanley, so the women are really going to be impressed by him, but really surprised too. Part Three (#233) is the out of the frying pan and into the fire as we go from "God" and his talking apes threatening the damsels in distress to a blonde-haired wild man. Part Four (#234) wraps up the story and gets to the ironic ending for poor Stanley Obroski. Finally we have "The Magic Herb" (#235), where Tarzan rescues a brother and sister, Tommy and Gail, whose small plane crashes in the jungle. Tommy is a victim of a rare disease and they are looking for a medicinal herb that grows somewhere in this area of Africa. The next thing we know there are lizard people standing between them and the flower, and there is something about the siblings that makes them seem untrustworthy.
FANTASTIC 3RD VOLUME OF CLASSIC KUBERT.......2006-07-25
Joe Kubert has worked on a myriad of titles throughout his fifty plus years in the comic book industry but he's perhaps best remembered for his legendary work on Hawkman. However if you had to press me to pick my favorite Kubert work I'd have to say it was his work on Tarzan for DC comics in the 1970's. Kubert continued on a proud legacy of great artists on Tarzan that included Hal Foster and Burne Hogarth. Kubert may even be considered the definitive Tarzan artist. His work was ingrained with a sense of wonder and adventure that was also notable in his Hawkman work. Kubert seemed born to draw Tarzan. His style was so powerful and dynamic--a perfect fit for the "Lord of the Jungle".
This is the third volume reprinting Kubert's classic work and published by Dark Horse Comics. This volume, in archive format, features issues #225, and 227 - 235 of the Tarzan series from DC Comics from 1973 to 1975. Kubert is the writer, artist, and letterer on all of the stories. A true one man army! In issue #225, the B'Tunga tribe is plagued by the Moonbeast that comes during the night, killing the villagers. The tribe's medicine man Zohar blames Tarzan for the killings, hoping to gain control of the tribe from the current chieftain.
Issue #227 features "The Ice Jungle". A young warrior must prove his manhood by undergoing a rite that will take him to the mysterious Ice Jungle in search of the Necklace of Fire. Tarzan follows along to make sure the young man is safe.
Issue #228, "Trial by Fire" finds Tarzan capture by a race of Pygmy warriors. Tarzan and two Pygmy maidens are taken to an area outside of a great wall, much like the one from King Kong, to be sacrificed to the beast, a dinosaur like creature. Obviously influenced by "King Kong".
Issue #230 was the first of a run of 100 issue spectaculars that DC ran in most of it's books around 1974 & 1975. It was one of my favorite DC eras. These 100 page books contained a main story, a back-up feature, and also two or three golden age reprints of characters like Congo Bill and Detective Chimp. Of course, those are not reprinted in this Archive edition, but they are still great issues if you can find them. The book does reprint a story of Korak, Son of Tarzan with art by Kubert and Russe Heath.
Issues 231 - 234 reprint an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' story "Tarzan & the Lion Man". Tarzan meets an actor who looks remarkably like him who is in Africa to shoot a film where he plays the Lion Man. This vast, 78 page tale features a race of talking, intelligent apes and a blonde-haired jungle man that challenges Tarzan in a battle to the death! Wonderful story.
Kubert again provides an introduction to this volume. Simply magnificent! We should all bow down to Dark Horse for reprinting these fabulous stories!
Reviewed by Tim Janson
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This is the astonishing illicit history of Hudson, New York, which for many years was the unlikely setting for a world of prostitution, gambling, murder, and government corruption—with more than a touch of the Keystone Kops thrown in.
In the century or so before 1950, Hudson was famous as a shopping center of vice. There were at least two major illegal horse rooms, a big-stakes floating crap game, and as many as fifteen houses of ill repute. Meanwhile, the church suppers took place and the parades marched up and down as Hudson's respectable citizenry convinced themselves that there was nothing out of the ordinary in this town described as, "ten streets wide and ten streets deep... a Norman Rockwell painting in motion."
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A Two for One: History & Fun.......2006-07-06
I am waiting for a great director such as Bob Altman to buy the rights for the film. I happened upon this gem researching our genealogy. No! Our ancestors were not in the Hudson NY sex scandal. Our ancestor was a founding father of New Rochelle. As the family grew many moved along the Hudson.
In November of '06 Mr Robert Altman, the great director, passed away. G-d bless him for all the wonderful entertainment he created for us.
Would someone ask Robert DeNiro or Sophia Coppula to make this film?
Voted Best Non Fiction 2005.......2006-03-09
It was great to read about this sleepy little town so full of history. I have heard all the stories growing up and this book was a wonderful glimpse into a red hot time. My family has also read this book and recalled a few stores and places that are no longer here in Hudson now. My aunt remembers watching the raid while she was baby sitting across the street. It is a real shame that Hall had another volume of work to follow this book and it was lost. Hudson was know far and wide for it's colorful night life. The Albany members even heard of the stories growing up.
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Hudson the Shapeshifter.......2004-05-28
I grew up in Hudson and never realized the many faces the little city had. Even my parents never told me everything was was to know about this naughty little red light district.
Being a writer myself, Hudson had inspired me to write several short stories that took place in its contiguous towns and districts. Finally, my first novel of horror, Spook Rock, inspired by a place where we once swam, fished, picnicked, and just plain had a wonderful time, takes place in Hudson and once again its surrounding little towns where I once lived.
Who said history can't be fun?
grew up in Hudson.......2000-08-16
Having grown up in Husdon, I found this little book a delightful afternoon read. It was interesting to catch a glimpse of the history of my little town...my goodness, what a history it was! I heard stories from my dad about making 25c runnning for beer or watching a door. Little did I realize what he was watching! I found it eye-opening recognizing the names in the book of places I remember as a child...shopping at Marsh's or Richmann's for school clothes, buying my dad a birthday present at Kritzman's, learning about electricity (finger in electrical outlet) at Rogerson's Hardware, frequenting Sam's Market for devil dogs's after school, going downtown and getting a soda at McKinstry's Drug store to name a few. The author's desrciption of the volunteer firehouses brought memories of my dad racing off, having been a member of Edmond's #1 across from 7th Street Park. I have pictures of myself and friends sitting on Spook Rock and swimming in Keeler's Creek where it sits! I totally enjoyed this little ride into my town's history. The author's way with words often put a smile on my face and a giggle out loud with his descriptions of activities and the dry, wry humor he possessed telling these tales of Diamond Street and my hometown of Hudson.
grew up in Hudson.......2000-08-16
Having grown up in Husdon, I found this little book a delightful afternoon read. It was interesting to catch a glimpse of the history of my little town...my goodness, what a history it was! I heard stories from my dad about making 25c runnning for beer or watching a door. Little did I realize what he was watching! I found it eye-opening recognizing the names in the book of places I remember as a child...shopping at Marsh's or Richmann's for school clothes, buying my dad a birthday present at Kritzman's, learning about electricity (finger in electrical outlet) at Rogerson's Hardware, frequenting Sam's Market for devil dogs's after school, going downtown and getting a soda at McKinstry's Drug store to name a few. The author's desrciption of the volunteer firehouses brought memories of my dad racing off, having been a member of Edmond's #1 across from 7th Street Park. I have pictures of myself and friends sitting on Spook Rock and swimming in Keeler's Creek where it sits! I totally enjoyed this little ride into my town's history. The author's way with words often put a smile on my face and a giggle out loud with his descriptions of activities and the dry, wry humor he possessed telling these tales of Diamond Street and my hometown of Hudson.
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1968 to 1970 was an exciting time for the international cinema. Godard, Truffaut, and Bergman were all at the peak of their powers; in the U.S., Kubrick, De Palma and others were breaking the rules of conventional movie making. The period was also an age of spectacles like Planet of the Apes, The Lion in Winter, and Yellow Submarine. This book reprints all of Pauline Kael's late '60s columns from the New Yorker magazine. In her distinctive and inimitable style, Kael reviews both the movies of this era and the cultural trends of the era itself.
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In Going Steady Kael has deliberately kept her film reviews in chronological order so that the reader can follow 'what was evolving in film during a crucial period of social and aesthetic change' at the end of the sixties. From Godard's Weekend to Kubrick's 2001, via Barbarella, Bullitt and Yellow Submarine.
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Going Steady.......2004-02-24
This book is for cinema enthusiasts. The reviews are old, many of them for movies that passed long ago from public memory. The remaining value is Kael's absolute love affair with cinema, evidence as she waxes on about the movies, what cinema is (or was at the time of the writing) and what it should be. This isn't journalism. Kael's opinion is the star of the book, but her passion for this most modern of artforms is infectious.
It's also fun reading Kael's take on certain well-remembered films. Sometimes her reviews are right on, while other times she denounces moves that would later prove beloved classics. Always, though, Kael is sharp, full of vigor, and entertaining.
It's not that I always agree with her, I don't........1999-11-10
I don't even often agree with her. We love different Bergman films and she likes to rip on Truffaut, who I adore, but never mind. If I wanted to read what I agreed with, I'd read my diary-- and even then I'd probably disagree with myself.
What impresses me about Kael is how much her love of cinema comes through. Everyone uses the word 'passion' when they write about Kael, and really, that word comes unescapably through every page of her books. She is more than passionate, however, and combines that emotion with a real and powerful intelligence and an often hilarious sense of humor. She's a critic in the tradition of Dorothy Parker, with a little bit less nastiness. Whenever Kael is vicious about a film or an actor, you don't have a sense of cynicism, but of real anger at someone defiling her art.
Going Steady can be a bit difficult for youngsters like me, because I'd only seen a fraction of the films she discussed in it. It was originally released the year I was born, and the 60s are not an era whose films I've particularly studied. However, this book contains her famous essay "Trash, Art and the Movies" and for that piece alone it's worth a read.
One of the best collections of film criticism available........1998-08-29
This collection is Kael hitting her stride. It is some of the best film criticism available. Her review of Godard's Weekend is brilliant and her musings on the death of Mae Marsh and Griffith's Intolerance are beautiful. If you care about movies, this is a book you must read!
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Bluegrass Banjo Classics
Fred Sokolow
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Here's a collection of classics for bluegrass banjo players. Many of them were written for the bluegrass repertoire (Blue Moon of Kentucky), some of them for the banjo (Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Flint Hill Special). The rest are standards in bluegrass and country music (Wildwood Flower and Wabash Cannon Ball). They've all been recorded by several of the big names in bluegrass banjo. This song collection was made to be interesting and valuable to all types of players: beginning, intermediate, and advanced by presenting each tune several different ways: Scruggs-style, up-the-neck, and an improvisational break using melodic or chromatic scales. Arranged by Fred Sokolow.
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Almost Impossible Brain Bafflers (Mensa)
Tim Sole , and
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The Big Book of Mind-Bending Puzzles (Mensa)
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ASIN: 1402732740 |
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They’re tough, they’re tricky, they’re thought-provoking…and they’re almost impossible to solve! And that’s why people who love puzzles will snatch up this Mensa-level collection to assess their solving skills. It’s the ultimate challenge, the best test of mental agility and stamina ever. The brain-wracking selection includes logic problems, lateral thinking, mathematic computations, word games, pattern and theme recognition, and conundrums. Some have grids to fill in; others have charts for working things out; and still more have a visual component (including drawings, diagrams, and geometric figures). With more than 100 puzzles, hours of entertainment lie ahead. And while all the answers are included, the order in which they appear is scrambled—to discourage peeking!
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Typo-laden.......2007-10-04
Rampant typos make this book thoroughly unenjoyable. It is really no fun to break your brain for 30 minutes trying to solve a puzzle, only to discover that your effort has been in vain because the premise of the puzzle had a typo. I am talking about critical number typos in number puzzles, not little misspellings. Wrong answers. Inconsistencies.
And trust me on this - I'm no slouch when it comes to hard puzzles.
Poor Proofreading = Baffler.......2007-02-16
A book like this really suffers from poor proofreading in the form of typos that make the problems impossible to solve. I have simply found too many typos to make this book remotely enjoyable. In theory a great book of puzzles, but poor execution and attention to detail makes this book a real disappointment.
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If you answer all 167 of these tricky number, word, chess, logic, and spatial games, you must be impossibly smart. Here are some samples: 1. Find the next term in this series: 1248, 1632, 6412, 8256 2. Discover the word, expression, or name depicted by these letters: T _RN. 3. If 89 players enter a single elimination tennis tournament, how many matches would it take to decide the winner, excluding byes? 4. "Bookkeeper" has three consecutive double letters. What common two-word phrase, if you remove the space, also has three consecutive double letters? Along the way you'll try to decipher a Top Forty song chart. Decide whether you'd rather a tiger chase you or a zebra. Give three boys' names that are anagrams of each other. And...figure out who we're talking about if the mother is three times as old as the daughter was when the father was the same age as the mother is now. Fortunately, the answers are provided. Answers: 1. Regrouping the sequence as 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256, the next two terms in this sequence are 512 and 1024. The answer to the question is 5121. 2. No U-turn. 3. Each match will eliminate one player, so starting with 89 players will require 88 matches to decide the winner. 4. Sweet tooth. 96 pages, 77 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
Customer Reviews:
Brain Teasers are Brain Pleasers.......2001-11-05
I love brain teasers, and this book has a bunch! If you're sitting around on a rainy day, with nothing to do, get this book off the dusty shelf! I gaurantee it will stump you and make you laugh or just smile even.
A collection of puzzles.......2000-05-08
This book brings lot's of puzzles with answers, nothing more nothing else. I bought this book seeking for that. That's a good book.
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Amazing mazes, crafty whodunits, marvelous visual tricks, sly lateral thinking puzzles, and stupefying optical illusions: all these fun challenges--packaged in a cool book that's shaped like a magnifying glass--will give kids a brain workout they'll really enjoy. Every page has a picture of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 magnifying glasses; that symbol indicates how easy or treacherously difficult the puzzle will be. For example, finding the guilty party in "Foul Play," a one-glass Dr. Quicksolve mystery, should be relatively simple for budding sleuths. The "Mystery Ruins" maze (3), where you must get from point A to point B through a series of small and winding paths, is harder. And you'll need very sharp eyes and a sharp mind to solve "Circle Quest," a 5 magnifying glass optical illusion. One thing's for sure: by the time kids are done with every one of these, they'll feel super-smart.
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Brain Bafflers
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GENERAL FEATURES: Brain Bafflers by Sterling Publishing Co. is designed for hours of thinking fun! Get ready for more than 250 ways to baffle and befuddle your mind! Everything is fair game; your name, your friends and family, numbers and words. This book contains 96 pages. Approximately 5 3/8 by 8 1/4 inches.
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A fun little book!.......2001-02-25
This is a fun book to take on a car trip. It has some puzzles that involve math (you know- car A leaves going 60 mph, car B leaves going 30 mph, that sort of thing). Some don't involve math (my personal favorite) such as "name 10 cities with over 1 million people each that start with the letter M (one city per country)".
if you like this sort of thing, you will enjoy the book.
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Brain Bafflers (Number Crunchers)
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Kids of all ages can stimulate their gray matter with this portable box of mind benders, created by puzzle experts. With riddles, mazes, number puzzles, word games, and logic problems--ranging from easy to super-hard. These baffling brain teasers are sure to exercise kids' minds. 75 brain bafflers. Ages 7 and up.
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A One-on-One Financial Planning Session with Suze Orman.
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The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Suze Orman launched a personal finance revolution—transforming the concept of money for the millions of people across the world who have embraced her message of understanding the psychology involved in our relationship with money. Now, with Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook, you have all the tools you need to put the 9 steps to work for you.
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Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook is like having a one-on-one financial planning session with Suze herself. Full of self-tests, thought-provoking questions, and Suze’s own brand of personal finance advice, it will encourage everyone, no matter what their income, to rethink their approach to money. Included in this informative guidebook are:
* The “Money Messages” Exercise: A series of insightful questions about your childhood interaction with money, as well as your parents’ approach to finances
* The “How Much Is Going Out” Exercise: An in-depth analysis of all your monthly expenses, providing a realistic picture of just how much money you have to work with
* The Long-Term-Care Worksheet: A checklist of questions you should be sure to ask if you are considering purchasing long-term-care insurance
* The Financial Advisor Information Sheet: An outline of key questions that every financial advisor should ask you upon your initial meeting
* The Generosity and Cheapskate Quizzes: A revealing exercise that helps determine your attitude toward giving and spending money
Whether you have read all of Suze Orman’s bestselling books or you are just discovering her as the leading voice in personal finance,
Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook is an essential step in gaining control of your money—so your money doesn’t have control of you.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent, comprehensive.......2007-01-03
This is a good companion to the 9 Steps book. If you really want to take your finances in hand, the two books are a great investment. If you are only going to buy one, buy the 9 Steps and skip the workbook.
This book changed my life.
If you are ready to be free....do your homework.... .......2005-08-12
Suze not only shows you how to find out where you need help, but she also makes you figure it out yourself. She gives you the guidelines to use and the task to do it with. But of course, it is up to you to do your homework
Suze needs to go back to the drawing board........2003-01-06
Don't waste your money. All she does is strike poses and wear trendy glasses. A bad source of investment information. The sad thing is there are a lot of good female money managers. Suze is good at marketing Suze.
This is hands-on.......2002-10-30
Reading the Nine Steps To Financial Freedom is one thing, but using the workbook companion along with it makes implementing the steps much easier. For exaample, finding the root of your money issues that are based in childhood, with only the reading book, and without the workbook might be a bit difficult. Sure, there are example stories, but books like this were written for those of us who need a little hand holding when we're attempting to change our understanding of finances and how it all works.
I am not one to want extra books around that I don't love and use, and though I was lucky and found my own copy of this book used, and in pristine condition, had I known it existed before then, I would have ordered it with the reading book, it's that helpful. If you can follow directions, and be honest with yourself, with this book it would be very hard not to implement the Nine Steps in your life.
Fabulous!.......2002-09-28
As a self proclaimed "artsy, spiritual, mushy" type, I absolutely hate left brained detail oriented personal budgets. However, my lack of attention to detail was reflected in my personal financial situation. This booked helped me to look at the details of my finances through a psychological framework that included specific exercises to walk me through those details that I dread. It helped me to get very clear on my financial motivations, dreams and blocks. I loved it!
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