Modern Figurative Paintings: The Paris Connection
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Great reference, great illustrations
Modern Figurative Paintings: The Paris Connection
Martin Wolpert , and Jeffrey Winter
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0764319620

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5 out of 5 stars Great reference, great illustrations.......2004-07-18

Clearly describes the period. Good biographical information on 150 artists. Excellant illustrations.

Creative Machine Knitting
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • One of the best machine knitting books!
  • Disappointing
Creative Machine Knitting
Ruth Lee
Manufacturer: Guild of Master Craftsman
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1861083114

Book Description

The patterns here range from elegant evening dresses to relaxed leisure wear. Some update classic styles, others showcase the most contemporary fashions. Each design has a special feature, perhaps yarns in striking colors or a creative use of beads, sequins, tassels, and buttons. Along with the easy-to-follow instructions and color photos, there’s practical advice on adapting a pattern for specific needs and knitting diagrams.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars One of the best machine knitting books!.......2006-02-15

This is one of the best machine knitting books I've ever seen. While I don't like every single pattern (that's unlikely even with the best of books), it has more attractive patterns than not. It includes discussion of design and embellishments, too, so even when these patterns are out of style - let's face it, it happens - the book won't be useless. Unlike most machine knitting books and pattern leaflets, most of these patterns are not tired, boxy (read: unflattering to most body shapes) grandma sweaters.

A previous review complains that the book was written for Brother machines, but I hardly see the point of a criticism like that - machine knitters chart and measure all the time anyway. It's not a hindrance whatsoever. The instructions are clear, so readers can adapt them to any machine (or hand knitting).

2 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2005-05-13

The garments are gorgeous. However, the book is written primarily for a machine that is no longer available, made by Brother. Other machines can be substituted if the correct gauge, but all measurements are in metric which can be a challenge in the US. Also, since the book is written in the UK, and I have never seen the yarns described widely available in the US I think you would have to be very advanced to do all the substitutions, and if you were that advanced you probably wouldn't need this book.
Owner's Guide to Sewing Machines, Sergers, and Knitting Machines (Creative Machine Arts Series)
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    Owner's Guide to Sewing Machines, Sergers, and Knitting Machines (Creative Machine Arts Series)
    Gale Grigg Hazen
    Manufacturer: Chilton Book Co
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    Serged Garments in Minutes: A Complete Guide to Simple Construction Techniques (Creative Machine Arts Series)
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      Serged Garments in Minutes: A Complete Guide to Simple Construction Techniques (Creative Machine Arts Series)
      Tammy Young , and Naomi Baker
      Manufacturer: Chilton Book Co
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      ASIN: 0801983541
      Creative Machine Knitting
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Country Manor Patterns, but some good ideas
      Creative Machine Knitting
      Sally-Anne Elliott
      Manufacturer: Barrons Educational Series Inc
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover

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      ASIN: 0812059409

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Country Manor Patterns, but some good ideas.......2001-02-04

      First, I admit that I am looking at this from the point of view of a hand knitter. Some machine knitting books have some great pattern ideas to adapt for hand-knitting. The Cartwright-Jones books are really good for this.

      This book had one pattern that I could adapt, a wrap that would be nice with a weaving technique. Also, I liked the pages on pattern drafting and finishing details. The rest of the patterns are rather English--long sweaters, long skirts worn with dark tights, knitted skirt and sweater sets, etc.--and there really aren't that many of them.

      A machine knitter would find this book useful for the techniques. A bonus is that there is a page with knitters' graph paper on it that you can copy for your own charts--hand or machine. The scale is small, so you might want to enlarge it, but that means you can put an entire sweater front chart on one page. Yay! Graph paper is really expensive and hard to find if you need it RIGHT NOW, so this is yet another reason to buy the book.
      Boutique knitter: Make jewelry & other projects the old-fashioned way (Creative American craft series)
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        Mattie Mae Haff
        Manufacturer: Hazel Pearson Handicrafts
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          Sally-Anne Elliot
          Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln Publishers
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            Mendelson
            Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
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              Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson
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                Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson
                Matt Groening
                Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
                ProductGroup: Book
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                ASIN: 0060721782
                Release Date: 2004-07-06

                Book Description

                Bart Simpson is back with another big book dedicated exclusively to that rabble–rousing, misbehaving menace – Springfield's favourite son, Homer's only son, and TV's favourite son – Bart Simpson!

                Following the great success of Big Book of Bart Simpson, Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson – the third comic book compilation in a series dedicated exclusively to Bart Simpson. Join Bart Simpson and the Springfield kids in the newest collection of comics and stories filled with mistaken identities, alien abduction recipes, cereal package prizes, unrequited love, lima beans, facial hair, karaoke, cafeteria shenanigans, talk shows, mail–order brides, sidekicks gone mad, hideous monsters, balloon animals, girl scout cookies, circus popcorn, martial arts, and history gone very, very wrong. It's all here in one ࡲatty' book – all the chaos, commotion, and confusion that can only be caused by one uncontrollable force: Bart Simpson.

                Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson (Simpsons Comic Book)
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                  Manufacturer: Bongo Comics Group
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                    Matt Groening
                    Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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                    500 Great Comicbook Action Heroes
                    Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
                    • So-so reference book
                    • Some Value for Collectors
                    • Rife with errors
                    • Covers a lot of Material - but gets many small facts wrong.
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                    Mike Conroy
                    Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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                    ASIN: 0764125818

                    Book Description

                    Superman, Batman, the Flash, Sheena of the Jungle, Wonder Woman, Captain America, Blade, Vampirella, the Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man! In addition to these well-known masked and costumed crime fighters, readers are introduced to hundreds more relatively obscure but equally fascinating characters in this collection of comic book heroes that spans the decades from the 1930s to the present day. As Will Eisner, the famous creator of many comic book heroes says in the foreword to this book, “Perhaps the most significant contribution of heroes into the popular literature of the 20th century was made by the form of graphic narrative known as comics.” Serious comic book collectors, general fans, and every reader who is interested in pop culture's history will want to add this book to their personal collection. Hundreds of reproduced covers and pages are presented with succinct written histories of all the major comic book heroes from America and Britain. The fabled crime fighters are presented under categories that include male heroes, female heroes, teams, newspaper heroes, war heroes, western heroes, and sci-fi heroes. Combining detailed text with a wealth of full-color archive reproductions, 500 Comic Book Action Heroes celebrates the great caped crusaders and fabulous females from the fascinating world of comics.

                    Customer Reviews:

                    3 out of 5 stars So-so reference book.......2007-03-23

                    If I had to pick the most important feature of a reference book, it would probably be accuracy of information. Almost as important would be the comprehensiveness of information; a dictionary, for example, would be of little use if it only covered the letters A and Q. Finally, a reference book should have easily accessible information; that same dictionary would be hard to work with if the words weren't in order. Mike Conroy's 500 Great Comic Book Action Heroes scores well enough on the first point and decently on the second point. On the last item, however, it is not very good.

                    In terms of accuracy, the book does a good job. While I am a comic book fan, I am not nearly enough of one to truly say if every detail is accurate; for all I know, the fact that the first Blue Beetle appeared in 1939 may be right and may be wrong. On the other hand, the information I do know fits with what is presented in the book, so I'll take the other stuff as true until told otherwise.

                    Comprehensiveness is harder to judge. Certainly, most major superheroes (and other action heroes) are here, but anyone familiar with the genre can probably name a few that are not mentioned. For example, such "classic" heroes from the 1980s as Rom, the Micronauts and Ka-Zar (all of whom had decent runs) are basically omitted, as well as other folks like the Moon Knight and Luke Cage (Power Man) and the Question. On the other hand, we do get to read about some interesting but obscure heroes such as the Badger and Congorilla. It's a mixed bag. Are there even truly 500? I never bothered to count.

                    The big problem is with organization. While the heroes are basically listed in alphabetical order by category (such as Male, Female, Teams and War Heroes), each section is interrupted by special items on specific items and trends. There's a lot of fun information here, but it's often hard to find. The Table of Contents does provide some help, but the lack of an index is a major problem.

                    Overall, the book looks nice, with plenty of art and nice paper, but I am hard-pressed to give it more than a high three stars. On a fundamental level - organization - this book is sub-par, so as a reference book, it doesn't do the trick as well as it should.

                    3 out of 5 stars Some Value for Collectors.......2005-08-15

                    I had hoped that this volume would prove an informative guide to assorted characters and series in the comic book world, and it is true that it covers a lot of ground. It doesn't just focus on the "Big Two", Marvel and DC, but also has plenty of information on some of the current so-called independents, various defunct companies from the Forties to the present day (many of which were absorbed by DC), and also a smattering of entries on non-American comics.

                    However, a heck of a lot of the detail that is presented is in the way of simple timelines about when a given series was published or resurrected and who might have been writing or drawing it. So we learn a lot about the year in which a title first debuted, when it was canceled, when it was re-started, and what issue numbers were involved in each run. There's just a good amount of strangely mundane detail that would be of little interest to anyone but the specialist. This book is sort of the equivalent of one of those super-focused tomes on the military costumes of the Napoleonic Wars. Sure, somebody wants to know that stuff, but most people want to get to the good parts about battles and generals and kings and campaigns, and not dwell on what kinds of buttons and flashings your average Austrian grenadier had in 1805. So the relative lack of commentary on the actual characters themselves and the key plots is rather disappointing.

                    The organization is also idiosyncratic and a bit off-putting (a simple A-Z listing would've sufficed), and there are a fair number of spelling and grammar errors. The entries themselves basically give equal weight to every selected character or group, so the Avengers get the same number of paragraphs as comparative unknowns such as the Challengers of the Unknown.

                    Really, this book is best used as a resource to learn about some of the more obscure non-mainstream or now-unpublished characters or to find out see which artist or writer was working on which title. Definitely not for the casual fan.

                    1 out of 5 stars Rife with errors.......2005-08-09

                    This book has good intentions but is full of grammatical mistakes, factual errors, and other problems including ignorance of many key characters in the topic it purports to address. Skip it and wait for someone else to do a more thorough job. Was this thing even fact-checked and proofread?

                    3 out of 5 stars Covers a lot of Material - but gets many small facts wrong........2004-11-26

                    This book covers a lot (and I mean a lot) of material. As a nice, quick overview of Comic Book heroes and their history, as told from a loving and friendly point of view, this is fairly good. There were characters in here I did not know about, or had forgotten about (and I'm a lifelong comic fan).

                    However, Mike Conroy could have used some fact checking. With the sheer amount of detail, I suppose we can forgive a few small errors, but here are a couple of details I found to be more than incidental:

                    On page 149, he refers to the character Starseed as "malevolent." In fact, the opposite was true. Starseed did drop a mountain in the middle of Sunset Blvd. - but he was merely returning it from when he took it ages ago. He was actually benevolent, and offered to cure Morbius, Man-Thing, Ghost Rider and Werewolf by Night of their afflictions. Unable to control their monstrous selves, the monsters killed Starseed rather than accept his gift. The tale was a tragedy, with Starseed as the hero that dies in the end. Next time, read more closely, Mr. Conroy.

                    On page 141 he refers to the character of Blade, the Vampire Slayer as "African-American." I find it hard for a man who was born and raised in England to be an American, but maybe his citizenship changed later in life (although all Blade's early adventures take place in or near London, where he was living with his girlfriend Safron).

                    If these two small errors don't bother you (they actually don't bother me all that much), then the other errors likely won't bug you either.

                    A good, solid book of capsule histories and an accessible, quick reference work.

                    Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945: An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II
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                      Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945: An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II
                      Michael S. Shull , and David E. Wilt
                      Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
                      ProductGroup: Book
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                      From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war. This enormous and exhaustive reference work first analyzes the war films as sociopolitical documents. Part one, entitled "The Crisis Abroad, 1937-1941," focuses on movies that reflected America's increasing uneasiness. Part two, "Waging War, 1942-1945," reveals that many movies made from 1942 through 1945 included at least some allusion to World War II.

                      Travis the Complete Chord Songbook
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                        Manufacturer: Music Sales Ltd
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                        Powerful Profits From Casino Table Games
                        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                        • Excellent book about Casino Table Games
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                        • An excellent book!
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                        Victor Royer
                        Manufacturer: Lyle Stuart
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                        Customer Reviews:

                        5 out of 5 stars Excellent book about Casino Table Games.......2006-07-16


                        Casino Table Games are not just Craps, Blackjack and Roulette. There are many other games, such as Pai Gow, Let It Ride, Caribbean Stud, and so on. In this book the author does an excellent job of explaining these difficult games, and how to play them well. As you will see if you read the review by "Casino Ace", here below, you will understand the value of this book to you.

                        As good as this book is, I have recently noticed that there have been reviews by persons who are posting plainly incorrect and highly prejudicial and skewed negative reviews. If you read the other reviews posted here, and for this author's other works -- and the books themselves -- it is obvious that those who are posting these skewed negative "reviews" have no clue, and are trying to somehow assert themselves without understanding anything at all about the material they are criticizing.

                        I have reviewed a few of this author's books, and for good reason. As you can plainly see, there are many other reviewers who have agreed that this author's books are terrific, and offer great instruction and well-written commentary on the subjects under discussion. This is also the case for this book.

                        This author is very careful in all his books to help the readers through all the stages of the games, and everything that goes along with them.

                        This is a very good book, and I hope you will give yourself an opportunity to find this out for yourself.

                        1 out of 5 stars Absolutely Awful!.......2006-07-15

                        There is no usful information that is written in this book. The book is also poorly worded. Don't waste your time or money on this book. The author provides no strategies for playing the games he talks about in this book.

                        5 out of 5 stars An excellent book!.......2005-08-31

                        This is a very good book for people who may be interested in playing table games like Baccarat & Mini-Baccarat & Roulette & explains it in away that's they are not too difficult to play or that you have to be rich to play them. And that they are really not hard to win playing them, DESPITE THE FACT that they are house-banked games. I also love how he explains how to play Pai Gow poker. I was always confused in playing it, even through I read many books on how to play it. It's enjoyable game & can also be very profitable too. The man does know what he's talking about since I obviously made a lot of money following his advices. His line of books are really excellent. If you have other books from him, please make sure to add this one to your collection. You won't be sorry. I'm sure not!

                        5 out of 5 stars Baccarat, Roulette, Poker, Pai Gow, Caribbean Stud and more!.......2005-01-27


                        In this book you will find all the casino games that most people don't really know all that well, but should. Here the author includes all those popular casino games whose players should really find out what it is that they are actually playing.

                        Like numbers? Here in this book you will find an analysis of the odds and house edge for all these games: Baccarat, Mini Baccarat, Roulette, Progressive Caribbean Stud, Double Down Stud, Pai Gow Poker, Three Card Poker, Caribbean Draw, Super 9's, Let It Ride and Casino War. Included as well is an analysis of card-counting for Baccarat, and two general introductory chapters on Texas Hold'Em and Seven Card Stud.

                        There is a lot to be gained from reading this book. Even if all you get from it is knowing how the odds and house edge in some of these games will effect you, then it is well worth the price. Just one bad bet saved from what you learn in this book will be worth more than it's cost. Even if you are just curious, this book is sure to satisfy that curiosity. There's a bunch of great information here about all these casino games. It'll open your eyes, for sure.

                        The Last Word on Power
                        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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                        • An Incredible Personal Transformation Reference Book
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                        • Not just for those who want to do the impossible
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                        Tracy Goss
                        Manufacturer: Currency
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                        Release Date: 1995-12-01

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                        Today's leaders are reinventing everything but themselves, and this is why so many attempts to revolutionize business fail. The last word on power is the key method in reinventing executives so they can take on "a mission impossible" based on a course designed and run exclusively for the past fifteen years by Tracy Goss. Do you want to do work that is worthy of your time and talent? Do you want to make your mark on your company, industry, community? Are you dissatisfied with the fact that reengineering, quality improvements, and other changes never make a lasting impact? Then you need to go beyond the techniques of improvement and learn the skills of being extraordinary. The power to be extraordinary is not one we are born with. It's not the power to fix what's wrong or improve what's right. It is a power one learns in a course that for the past fifteen years has been designed and run exclusively for top executives by consultant Tracy Goss. For the first time, Goss makes her coursework available to the general reader in The Last Word On Power. Goss's unique methodology shows how "you can put at risk the success you have achieved for the 'possibility' you can be." She positions executives to take on the future they dream about. She teaches how to behave differently so you can be free of constraints from the past. She shows how you can be at home in an environment in which you are constantly surrounded by threats, and how to transcend the ordinary so that you can make the impossible happen. Her work has resulted in important life changes and organizational reinventions throughout the world.

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                        4 out of 5 stars An excellent book on leadership and transformation... AND..........2007-04-07

                        I have to say that I don't feel it gives enough credit to its source which is Werner Erhard and 'The Landmark Forum' which he created. The credit to Werner is about 5 lines in the introduction and yet the book basically is the 'guts' of The Landmark Forum with an application to business. Graduates of the Forum will be familiar with all the concepts since there's relatively little changes or adaptation of them, just an application to the business and leadership context. The book is good, very good even, although major credit should be given where major credit is due, and this is Werner's work, ideas and philosophy and not the original ideas of the author. Let me move on :) The author has applied Werner's concepts to a business context and provide lots of examples in this book from her consulting practice and experience which makes it even more valuable.

                        That said, I the ideas are powerful. As another reviewer stated, it will be most powerful for those who have the background of the Forum or EST who will be familiar with the tools, ideas and 'distinctions' and (hopefully) will have used them. Some people may have an issue or judgment with either of those bodies due to their experiences, biases, hearsay or opinions of either Landmark, The Forum, EST or Werner himself although that doesn't take away from the power of the tools or the work. I'd prefer to take what works and leave what doesn't. I've had 'interesting' experiences with the organisation and their staff and methods... however, that doesn't detract from the value I've received from the tools.

                        For those that don't have that background, there's a lot in there anyway. In my rough and ready summary, it's basically a look at how we frame up the world and are in the world and how that can be unwound so that we're not trapped by our past, habits and ways of thinking and being. Once we understand that we can step outside of that 'paradigm' as such and create the kind of powerful results in our lives that may have eluded us... or not... and that's the game. Some of the ideas include how we listen, the power of context, our winning strategy for achieving success in the world and how that limits us, and how to reinvent ourselves as leaders and create possibility. (I note here that Amazon says some people bought The Art of Possibility instead of this book - that's another exceptional book, yet very different from this one). There are exercises and reflections in this book that are powerful (although many times more powerful when you experience them as in the Forum) and the book is applied to the business context and has plenty of examples.

                        I highly recommend this book for people looking for new ways of thinking about business and leadership. I think that people unfamiliar with the concepts and language (which are quite unique to Landmark) may actually experience difficulty in applying them without a guide or having 'experienced' them. Nonetheless, most readers would most likely take away several powerful ideas and tools should they decide to apply and learn from them. However, the greatest benefit would come from experiencing the work directly, either.. through the author's workshop or something like the very powerful Landmark Forum... the source of this work!

                        5 out of 5 stars An Incredible Personal Transformation Reference Book.......2004-02-21

                        Are you committed to, or even interested in, accommplishing something that looks impossible to achieve? Are you willing to transform yourself to make the impossible possible? If you are, this book by Tracy Goss will provide you a roadmap to reinvent yourself. The work is not easy; it's like developing mastery in any field, this one being the reinvention of yourself. The stages or practices related to your personal transformation are written in an easily-understood way, yet when used as a continuing reference, develop deeper and more valuable meaning as you go back to them time and again in your quest for mastery.

                        5 out of 5 stars A must read book for successful managers and executives.......2003-11-10

                        There are many success 101 books available today. This is not one of them. This book is written for people who have been successful and find themselves stuck at a plateau arising out of the very strategy that made them successful. The Last Word on Power is the critical next step, which invite its readers to leave the restraining safety of what has worked in order to do what has up until now been impossible.

                        For managers and executives living in a world where simply making attainable continuous improvements is not enough, "The Last Word on Power" is a must read. Written in powerful thought-provoking language, readers will find this book impossible to put down until finished and unforgettable thereafter.

                        I highly recommend it.

                        Joe Santana,
                        Coauthor Manage I.T.

                        5 out of 5 stars Good Enough to Recommend to Clients!.......2003-09-11

                        Tracy Goss departs from the tired worlds of either the boring or sophmorically enthusiastic management books and gives us a book good enough to recommend to our own clients. One of my clients, a highly intelligent executive and a voracious business book reader, said "Whoa! You didn't tell me I would actually have to think to read this!" Tracy takes management consulting to unprecedented heights and gives those of us who pay sharp attention to the human factor as it relates to business success a book worthy of our profession.

                        5 out of 5 stars Not just for those who want to do the impossible.......2003-08-14

                        I found this a fairly easy book to read and yet it had a significant impact on how I see myself and my approach to my work. And each time I read the book I get more out of it, there's another layer of the onion to peel back. This is not just for those who want to do the impossible, it's for anyone who wants to see the mechanisms that control their life - and with seeing comes power!
                        Death-bed scenes: Or, Dying with and without religion, designed to illustrate the power and truth of Christianity
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                          Death-bed scenes: Or, Dying with and without religion, designed to illustrate the power and truth of Christianity
                          D. W Clark
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                          Death-bed scenes: Or, Dying with and without religion, designed to illustrate the truth and power of Christianity
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                            Death-bed scenes: Or, Dying with and without religion, designed to illustrate the truth and power of Christianity
                            D. W Clark
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                            A MILE BEYOND THE MOON: Make Mine Mars; The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy; The Little Black Bag; Everybody Knows Joe; Time Bum; Virginia; Kazam Collects; The Last Man Left in the Bar; The Adventurer; The Words of Guru; Shark Ship
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                              A MILE BEYOND THE MOON: Make Mine Mars; The Events Leading Down to the Tragedy; The Little Black Bag; Everybody Knows Joe; Time Bum; Virginia; Kazam Collects; The Last Man Left in the Bar; The Adventurer; The Words of Guru; Shark Ship
                              C. M. Kornbluth
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                              The power of the cross
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                                The power of the cross
                                Robert D Lindsted
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                                Capitalizing on improved computing power.(the last word)(Interview): An article from: Food Logistics
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                                  Capitalizing on improved computing power.(the last word)(Interview): An article from: Food Logistics

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                                  Release Date: 2005-07-26

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                                  This digital document is an article from Food Logistics, published by Cygnus Business Media on June 15, 2005. The length of the article is 841 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                  Title: Capitalizing on improved computing power.(the last word)(Interview)
                                  Publication: Food Logistics (Magazine/Journal)
                                  Date: June 15, 2005
                                  Publisher: Cygnus Business Media
                                  Issue: 78 Page: 42(1)

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                                  The knock.(The Last Word)(the soldier who delivers the bad news): An article from: Commonweal
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                                    The knock.(The Last Word)(the soldier who delivers the bad news): An article from: Commonweal
                                    Brian Doyle
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                                    Release Date: 2007-08-08

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                                    This digital document is an article from Commonweal, published by Thomson Gale on February 9, 2007. The length of the article is 863 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                    Title: The knock.(The Last Word)(the soldier who delivers the bad news)
                                    Author: Brian Doyle
                                    Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Journal)
                                    Date: February 9, 2007
                                    Publisher: Thomson Gale
                                    Volume: 134 Issue: 3 Page: 39(1)

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                                    Whose finger on the button? (The Last Word).(regulations of the executive branch)(Brief Article): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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                                      Whose finger on the button? (The Last Word).(regulations of the executive branch)(Brief Article): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
                                      William M. Arkin
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                                      ASIN: B0008EYFDQ
                                      Release Date: 2005-07-29

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                                      This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 709 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                      Title: Whose finger on the button? (The Last Word).(regulations of the executive branch)(Brief Article)
                                      Author: William M. Arkin
                                      Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
                                      Date: March 1, 2002
                                      Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
                                      Volume: 58 Issue: 2 Page: 73(1)

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                                      A brief history of the lives and death-bed scenes of M. Voltaire and Thomas Paine: With some examples of the power of truth upon the minds of the skeptical
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                                        A brief history of the lives and death-bed scenes of M. Voltaire and Thomas Paine: With some examples of the power of truth upon the minds of the skeptical
                                        A. T Rankin
                                        Manufacturer: Elm Street Print. Co
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                                        ASIN: B0008A83PQ
                                        Death bed triumphs of eminent Christians: Exemplifying the power of religion in a dying hour
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                                          Death bed triumphs of eminent Christians: Exemplifying the power of religion in a dying hour
                                          Jabez Burns
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                                          1. Monumental Coins: Buildings & Structures on Ancient Coinage
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                                          5. Ornamental Turning: A Work of Practical Instruction in the Above Art ; With Numerous Engravings and Autotype Plates
                                          6. Painting the Town: Cityscapes of New York (Paintings from the Museum of the City of New York)
                                          7. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice
                                          8. Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865
                                          9. Pit's Letter
                                          10. Pre-Raphaelite Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum

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