Persian Etching Designs (International Design Library)

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Clothing serves as a system of signs that helps to order social interaction by identifying and locating individuals and groups within society. In the first in-depth study to analyze the communicative character of uniforms and other types of clothing, Nathan Joseph examines how clothing functions in a variety of social contexts to enforce norms, maintain institutional power, identify group membership, and express or suppress individuality.

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A 13-year old girl sets off on a journey to become a witch. In the process, she learns how to be a woman. Based on the movie of the same name, this prestige format, lavishly illustrated hard-bound book gives fans a rare glimpse into the creative process of Academy Award-winning director Hayo Miyazaki.

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A great book for artists .......2007-05-09

I'm an artist, and I bought this book because I like to see how other artists work. This book has lots of sketches by Miyazaki, who is tremendously facile at sketching. He also adds loose watercolor washes to some pictures. I'd like to see him at work, because it all looks so effortless. There are also pictures from the actual movie, of course, and work by other artists who prepared the film, as well as a complete plot synopsis.

Wonderful art book.......2007-01-04

The Art of Kiki's Delivery Service is a wonderful art book for fans of Miyazaki's film who also happen to be artists. The background paintings are phenomenal and the quality of the printing brings them out so very clearly. If you're an artist, you'll drool over the artwork.
It is a collector's item.

Miyazaki Rules.......2006-11-03

If you're an artist or a fan of this type of work, the "Art of" series of Miyazaki's movie books are just precious, essential, exhaustive, and very satisfying.

An Excellent Read!!!.......2006-05-21

This book is excellent, you'll love it. I read it, and it probably the best reads I've had in a while! The shipping is fast, and priced perfect!
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The Art of Kiki's Delivery Service
Eiko Kadono
Manufacturer: Fukuinkan Shoten Pub.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J0VPX2

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Funny Read on the South

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Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War
Michael Graham
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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Forget the mint juleps and the debutante balls, for every slack-jawed yokel who swears he saw The Lizard Man out by the dump, there's a failed televangelist with a family full of hare-lips holding a position as lofty as, say, the President of the United States. Because it's America that's ever more like the South, says Graham, not the other away around. Wafting up from the Mason-Dixon line and spreading like kudzu, redneckery has been absorbed from Bangor to Baha, he claims. The only real difference between Brooklyn and Birmingham is that you can't get a gun rack in a Trans Am.

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Funny Read on the South.......2007-02-03

I used to listen to Michael Graham when he was on WBT 1110, an AM radio station based out of Charlotte NC. He eventually went to I believe Charleston SC and now I believe he is currently based out of Washington DC.

If I understand the book's premise correctly, it is this:

1. The writer left the South as soon as he could because he was embarrassed to be associated with the culture.
2. After spending some time in Northern locales, he came to understand that the rest of the country is just like the South, only with a different accent.

Graham covers Southern culture and attitudes in a number of areas: racism/slavery, education, economics, living quarters, the American Civil War, etc. and comes to the conclusion that he sees similar attitudes throughout the United States.

I found myself both snickering at some of the phrases and jabs directed at Southerners (I am born and raised in the South and am proud of it!) and Northerners. Quite frankly, I found myself agreeing with him on a number of issues, particularly that racism is wrong.

However, I did not like some of the saucy language and phrases I read (quite a few cuss words). In my humble opinion, Graham could make his points without that kind of language. If the language was tamer, I would have given the book 4 stars.

Complaint aside, I still thought the book was very funny and made good points.

A strange, strange book.......2005-06-21

If you enjoy reading the rantings and ravings of a radio personality who says he is a Southerner but hates his upbringing down South, then this book is for you. (Really, there must have been some positive experiences that could have been mentioned.)

Graham was onto a good idea for a book; but, he is so full of himself and has such disdain for Southerners that it hurts to read his thoughts. Moreover, he takes on Northerners too, but in a backhanded, insulting way.

Truthfully, this author needs a shrink to understand "who he is and where he came from." If you can buy this book for $1.99--get it for the last chapter. Otherwise, be warned that you are spending way too much.

One of the best right-wing offers...(and I'm liberal).......2005-01-09

It has been some time since I first read this book (about three years), and after re-reading it, I found it just as well-written and entertaining, but was even more baffled about the right-wing tendencies of its author.

Essentially, the thesis of the book is as follows: Michael Graham, a southerner, always thought that the North was a place where good ole boy politickin' was abhorred, intellectualism is celebrated, and idiocy was absent. But after living there and observing Northerners like me (although I live in Tennessee as the profile says, I was born and raised in Chicago), he has concluded that the general lunacy that is commonplace in the South is actually commonplace everywhere, Northerners just don't realize it or admit it if they do.

Good premise because I agree wholeheartedly, though I do have to believe that this is more prevalent down south, having lived here for six years and counting and finding stereotypes reinforced everywhere. But anyway, the book itself goes beyond the premise to a much deeper and effective arguement, and that is the demise of intellectualism in the country as a whole is not something to be celebrated or treated lightly. He consistently, and hilariously, points out example after example of things that are thought of as trivial, or not representative of the status quo, being just the opposite. People like to think that diminishing social standards and scary addictions to pop culture trash are not really that bad, that they are just little guilty pleasures. Like Graham, I am very troubled by that notion, and have never understood why the intellectual in this country is mocked and admonished, rather than thought highly of.

Graham touches on this as well when he says that the root of Southern anger at the North lies in the fact that not only do Southerners know that Northerners think of themselves as superior and more intelligent, but that Southerners often suspect that the "Yankeeboys" are right, although they'll never admit it. He touches on the idiocy of many fundamentalist Southern religious groups, where he produces one of my favorite quotes about groups like that which is, "In the South, the true measure of devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ is to be a complete and utter idiot on his behalf."

In the end, I really enjoyed the main points of the book, but did not appreciate how Graham framed the context, which in some instances morphes into a right-wing slant, with rants on extreme multiculturalism and school choice. But what really is odd, the previous sentence nonwithstanding, Graham comes of as fairly moderate in this book, politically speaking. All of the values he champions in this book, like the praise of the intellectual, his anger at the rejection of reason, evidence and science in favor of "my way or the highway", his admonishment of extreme religion and faith as the guiding forces in life, and his bemoaning of decisions and appointments made through friendship and back-slapping relationships instead of by quantifiable results (among other examples in the book), are all thoroughly rejected in the neoconservative power we have today in America. And while Graham tries to be fairly moderate in the book, I have visited his website frequently and listened to his show a few times and he is very much a supporter of modern conservativism. That just makes me wonder why, being that he identifies himself with a group that has made no secret of championing what Graham says he hates most.

All in all though, a very effective book and can still be enjoyed by liberals who appreciate a well-written and defended conservative viewpoint, although they might not always agree.

I Laughed, I Cried, I Spit Terbacky Through My Teeth.......2004-08-07

This here Redneck Nation that Michael Graham done jawed about is purty funny. But iffn I'm ta make sense of this hyar review, I reckon I'd best render this in Ainglish. Lucky fer me I got a trans-lay-ter program.

*Click* There.

Graham's thesis, if this were a dissertation, is that The South, defeated in war, was victorious in its ideas. How so? Traditions emanating from our sweltering swamps have somehow been absorbed by our Northern brethren. Such as the Redneck tradition of victimhood, that is, whining about the consequences of one's own actions, screaming "racism" or "discrimination" for every imagined injustice."

The thesis runs into little buzz-saws of history.

The author took a bus to Oral Roberts University because it presented itself as a place where "reason and deep-seated faith could coexist." Turned out to be otherwise. Surprised? Not me. But I'm astonished the author was. He must have missed the press releases of Oral Roberts himself ascending the Golden Tower (yes, there is such a thing). I guess he couldn't get a bus ticket to some Jesuit institution.

Graham offers the Florida mayor, Carolyn Risher, who signed a proclamation two years ago on city letterhead declaring that Satan was officially banned. Goofy? Sure. Goofy on the level of the Pilgrims who escaped religious persecution for the freedom to practice a little persecution of their own with the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. There are plenty of other goofisms: American Transcendentalism, Shakers/Quakers, the Oneida community - the first proto-Marxist community, and - Father Divine? Some guy in New York who was actually God. Really. He said so.

What the North lacks in fundamentalist fervor it makes up in exotic lunacy. I recall an opportunity-seeking swami who moved to Oregon and started his own ashram. His followers changed the name of the town to Poona, all under the rubric of democracy. The IRS, however, was less indulgent of his beliefs and confiscated dozens of his colorful Rolls-Royces and sent him packing back to India, which, climate-wise, is a lot like the South. Maybe humidity is the glue of Southern-ness.

The Ku Klux Klan, the only organization that is allowed to be more hated than even the Taliban, reared its ugly head throughout the South, and yet no less than Democratic Senator Robert Byrd was a genuine sheet-wearing member of the brotherhood from West Virginia which was carved out of the Old Dominion because it was stickin' to the Union.

Graham complained about nepotism and left South Carolina for Chicago where he discovered a fundamental difference: "In Chicago, they deliver." Oh, really? Has this guy ever read any columns by the late Chicago columnist Mike Royko?

Finally, is it too much to ask a fellow Southerner to get the contraction of "you all" straight? Graham employs two versions - y'all/ya'll - on two consecutive pages, yet.

For the record, the correct contraction of "you all" is "y'all."

Brilliant and Funny.......2004-01-25

As an expatriate South Carolinian (but who is returning soon and nailing his feet to the ground) I have thoroughly enjoyed Michael Graham from his days on public radio and writing for the Free Times of Columbia. Redneck Nation followsw in the Graham tradition of bludgeoning into submission any attempt for the Old South to rise again. So, obviously Graham sees the needs to point out that the rest of the country, paticularly the self-important intellectual elites, have adopted the Old South's ideals and called them enlightened. Read this book, and you'll be surprised at hoe accurately Graham skewers both the North and South equally. This book is also laugh out lous funny. Buy it, read, and definitely give one to your Yankee friends. They'll love it, too.

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This ambitious study offers a panoramic survey of musical thought in the eighteenth century and, at the same time, a close analysis of the important theoretical topics of the period. The result is the most comprehensive account ever given of the theory behind the music of late Baroque and early Classical composers from Bach to Beethoven.

While giving preeminent theorists their due, Joel Lester also examines the works of over one hundred eighteenth- and seventeenth-century writers to show how prominent theories were received and applied in actual teaching situations. Beginning with the influence of Zarlino and seventeenth-century theorists, Lester goes on to focus on central traditions emerging from definitive works in the early eighteenth century: species counterpoint in the writings of Fux; thoroughbass as presented by Niedt and Heinichen Rameau's harmonic theories; and Mattheson's views on melodic structure. The author traces the development and interactions of these traditions over the remainder of the century, through the writings of Albrechtsberger, C. P. E. Bach, Kirnberger, Koch, Marpurg, Martini, Nichelmann, Riepel, and many others. This historical overview is leavened throughout with accounts of individual composers grappling with theoretical issues--Haydn's careful study of Fux's treatise, Mozart's instructions on harmony to his composition students, Beethoven's own student exercises.

The links between various theoretical traditions, the pervasive influence of Rameau's harmonic thinking, and the harmonic theories of Koch are just some of the numerous topics given their first full treatment here. Many of the theorists Lester cites are either unknown or often misunderstood today. By bringing their contributions to light and placing them within the context of theoretical tradition, Lester offers a fresh perspective, one that will inform and enhance any future study of this magnificent era in Western music.

Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century.: An article from: Notes

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Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century.: An article from: Notes
Floyd K. Grave
Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1775 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: Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century.
Author: Floyd K. Grave
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1994
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v51 Issue: n1 Page: p122(4)

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Discover the who, what, when, where, and how of the great state of Maine. This fascinating guide is filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful and historic state. Designed for use in a wide variety of settingshome, office, school, partiesit focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of the intriguing Pine Tree State. Youll read about:
- When Maine achieved statehood
- Its longest river
- Maines snowmobile clubs
- Who designed the states capitol
- And much, much more Easily adaptable for use with trivia format games, Main Trivia will provide hours of entertainment and education.

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The Maine Book on Trivia.......2006-05-20

If you're a fan of America's northest easternest state, you will LOVE this book. Don't let the title fool you, there is nothing TRIVIAL about THESE FACTS!

Did you know that the world's largest boulder is located in Fryeburg, Maine? I did. And it only cost me $10! Pick one up. Please.

Bow Wow!: Maine Dogs in History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore &

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Bow Wow!: Maine Dogs in History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore &
Carole Marsh
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More than 12 thousand years ago the first dog was domesticated, and dogs have been a favorite pet ever since! This book includes Famous Maine Dog Tales, A Breed Apart, Obedience School, Doggone Trivia, Hot Dogs, Canine Cuisine and more + bibliography, glossary, appendix and index. Read about dog clubs and shows in Maine, the ten most popular dog breeds in Maine, and the rarest and strangest dog breeds anywhere! Which breed has webbed feet, white eyes and loves Cajun food? Which breed was declared a national treasure in Japan? Where did your breed of dog come from? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this book. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. Put some bite into history! No matter what the subject, you can count on Carole Marsh to cover the history, geography, science, math, literature & many other aspects. That's her trademark - she can charm the smarts into kids - they have fun & learn too!

Bow Wow!: Maine Dogs in History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore & More! (Carole Marsh Maine Books)

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Bow Wow!: Maine Dogs in History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore & More! (Carole Marsh Maine Books)
Carole Marsh
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This was an amusing, entertaining book.

Fun Trivia Facts of Maine
John F. Crowder
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This was an amusing, entertaining book........1999-01-31

A reader from Newburyport: This was both a fun and a great learning book.This book presents interesting, sometimes obscure facts about Maine. Subjects covered include historical figures, legends, geography, wildlife, stories, and other little known facts about the state. You can learn a lot by reading it and another interesting feature is that the book is designed so that you can also use the book to play a family or group trivia game! A great book for adults, young readers, or teachers.

Northern New England Trivia: Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire

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Northern New England Trivia: Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire
Daniel Ramus
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Maine Christmas Trivia (Carole Marsh Maine Books)

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Maine Christmas Trivia (Carole Marsh Maine Books)
Carole Marsh
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On what day does the sun rise twice, water flow backward and the poke salad flower? Christmas, of course! This book is bursting with interesting trivia, games and recipes and PLENTY of ideas for easy inexpensive gifts for kids to make. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. Bring the holiday home to your students!

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Maine Classic Christmas Trivia
Carole Marsh
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Maine Hard-to-Believe (But True!) History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend,

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Maine Hard-to-Believe (But True!) History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend,
Carole Marsh
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In this book you'll discover unusual facts, some historic, some as recent as today's headlines, that you'll find hard to believe, but they will be true! A compilation of the strange people and strange happenings that always seem to get left out of the history books. Serves both to reinforce knowledge about Maine and introduce new ideas. Bite- sized bits of information are interspersed with longer pieces; why not read aloud one of these hard-to-believes to your class each day?! Also makes a very popular check-out book for the library. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. As you can see, Carole Marsh finds quality education under many guises!

Maine School Trivia! (Carole Marsh Maine Books)

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Maine School Trivia! (Carole Marsh Maine Books)
Carole Marsh
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ASIN: 0793305357

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Would your students believe that a 3-month school year might not be a good thing? Would you believe that Nintendo is concerned with children's education? Believe it or not, there's lots of fascinating information about schools in Maine. You won't believe how much things have changed, and how much they've stayed the same. Maine students once wrote on birch bark and had to make their own ink; now they use pink candy-filled erasers! In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson lamented the lack of science teachers - this sounds familiar today! This book will teach you about the history of schools in Maine, but mostly it will help you and your students see that school can be interesting . . . and there's always more to learn. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. Something students & teachers can enjoy equally together - perhaps the best lesson of all?!

Maine Silly Trivia! (Carole Marsh Maine Books)

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Maine Silly Trivia! (Carole Marsh Maine Books)
Carole Marsh
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1556095937

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This is the state book we've had in print the longest, it's that popular! Features a reproducible, multiple-choice, factual, yet humorous quiz that checks-out a student's knowledge of Maine history, geography, people & more. Makes a great classroom activity and is also good for individual learning. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. Not everything that kids need to know is in that textbook, you know!

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Easy & Motivating Reading...

Good reminder of Nothing new..

Value Depends on Where You Are in Small Business Cycle

Worth the read...maybe not a buy.

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ver dream of starting your own business? According to USA Today, more than 47 million people want to own their own businesses and over 20 million actually do. In How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business, bestselling business author Jeffrey Fox offers sound rules to succeeding in small business, whether you're running a bookstore, consulting business, or restaurant. In short chapters that range from administration and cash flow to marketing and hiring, Fox reminds entrepreneurs what's important and what's not, what makes a business succeed, and what causes it to fail.

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HOW TO MAKE BIG MONEY IN YOUR OWN SMALL BUSINESS is an extensive collection of unusual, unpredictable, but sound rules to succeed in starting your own business and making it a success.

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Easy & Motivating Reading..........2007-08-30

The book inspired and motivated me to do bigger things. There were lots of free space between the chapters whereon I took numerous notes that created my topics for brainstorming. I wished that all the books are published in the same manner, so that we have free space to take notes-think and create new ideas.

Good reminder of Nothing new.........2007-08-20

You will probably not find anything new in this book. However, it lists you several things that we tend to forget in our everyday activities.

Easy to read and motivational.

Value Depends on Where You Are in Small Business Cycle.......2007-08-07

The book is divided into roughly 3 sections: for the budding entrepreneur, for the micro (i.e. one man) shop, and for the small (under 50 person) business.

Pages 1-25 and then 129-144 focus on what to do/understand before you actually start your business. Based on my own mistakes in the professional service field, I'd like to have seen a statement or two about don't quit your day job until you have a paying customer, but Mr. Fox gets close enough to the ideal. That said, if you are a micro-sized business (10 or under people), this is good refresher stuff and may even give you some ideas to tackle to improve your business. If you are over 10 people in your business, consider skipping these sections.

In between page 26 and page 128, the advice applies equally well to micro and small businesses, although pages 92-97 are only applicable if you have more than 10 people working for you.

Throughout are some real gems of advice ... and more importantly ... the logic behind the advice. The ones that I found most intriguing and resonating were:

1. Cash in the bank is more important than "to be collected" profit
2. Stay off committees, boards and other time-intensive activities that networking gurus often proclaim as key to building business
3. The difference between a penny-saver and a penny-pincher, and why you want one but not the other.

I've read nearly all of Mr. Fox's books, and this is certainly a good one that deserves to be read by anyone thinking about starting up their own business or anyone currently running their own business...or anyone working in a small business.

Worth the read...maybe not a buy........2006-11-07

I've decided, as I've started to do some more extensive reading in the area of small business, in the hopes of shortly starting our own family business, to provide some more thorough reviews for books, whether good or bad. I started with this one, from the library I might add and I have to admit some of the recommendations and the fact that it seems more of a motivational book almost geared towards some type of stereotypical "soccer mom" or "housewife" wanting to start her own business put me off.

The book, though short (150 pages) makes for a good read I must confess. It seems centered on providing a lot of good motivational passages and some of the later chapters that I'll mention make it worthwhile in the end. He starts off early on by giving a nice little small biz priority list one should keep in mind at all times.

I'll start off with the negatives. The author makes several over the top suggestions by the author, you be the judge. In section XII, "Hire ex-paperboys", he suggests that those who were (and you can imagine the millions that were...) are "mentally tough", "independent" are better businessmen because of this. I tend to disagree seeing that any work done in teenage years can teach the importance and value of working. But what really disturbed me is that he went on to say "good child labor produces good adult employees" and last but not least "if you interview someone who washed out as a paperboy, wash your hands of that job candidate". Advice I think most business owners would be wise enough NOT to follow.

It however gets worse when the author makes the suggestion that in order to "maximize" your time and money, we hire I kid you not, a personal driver. He goes at some length to explain the benefits of this, suggesting it's not a luxury, but that driving is a "time thief", doesn't allow an owner to maximize his time and money and that there are plenty of retired people and part time works who would fit the bill. Unfortunately for me this is just a ridiculous point that I could only see happening in either Manhattan or possibly LA, if even that, especially if meeting clients or going to them is part of your job and what you enjoy.

I also disliked the following chapter on how to cope with the loss (firing or quitting) of an employee in that you should treat it as a death! The section itself is entitled "What if he had died". Not something I think needs to be brought up in such a way for a small business book especially in such a sinister comparison. He ends that section with "What if he had died? You can't care. You have customers to sell, to serve. You have a business to run. Get on with it."

As for the positives, and there are many spread throughout the book including tips such as the difficulty of truly doing productive work from a home office, and the difference between "fame" and "fortune" when stating "unless fame is part of your marketing plan, fame is for ego. You can't put ego in the bank."

What I enjoyed the most from the book, not necessarily being a numbers person but rather someone who understands its importance in day to day operations, was the chapters regarding the break point analysis. I don't believe many small business owners consider it from the get go, especially in retail, and it is definitely more applicable for those types of businesses versus "service" businesses (consulting, landscaping, painting, etc).

This is obviously a very if not overly thorough summary of this book but hopefully one that will provide the best possible insight into what you can get out of it. I would have given this book most likely a 2.5 out of 5 if not for the last few chapters that actually could benefit many small business owners as well as for some of the useful motivational tips the author often quotes, some of which can definitely be ignored and others that provide more food for thought.

Tax Deductible Purchase.......2006-03-27

I am impressed by the simplicity of this book. The text says what it has to say so you can get through it quickly and start applying the lessons. Sure, many of the things are common sense approaches to business but they work. Whether you have one employee or several, the book gives equal advice on the importance of continuous learning and training with the customer in mind throughout the book. I highly recommend this book. Remember: it's tax-deductible as a business expense. What do you have to lose?

How to Make Big Money In Your Own Small Business: Unexpected Rules Every Small Business Owner Should Know

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How to Make Big Money In Your Own Small Business: Unexpected Rules Every Small Business Owner Should Know
Jeffrey J. Fox
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