Old master drawings from the collection of John and Alice Steiner

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See Betty Grable, John Wayne, Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, 106 great stars in 163 fascinating photographs. Innovations in pose, angle, composition are still major influences on modern Hollywood professionals. "An outstanding bargain, sure to please any movie nut." — Newsweek. Introduction. Captions.

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Mom's favorite stars.......2007-05-19

I bought this book because it reminded me of my mother, who loved the movies. She used to buy the star magazines of the times and cut and pasted three scrapbooks with pictures, some of which I recognized in this book. My kids played with the scrapbooks, which got a little ragged, so I threw them out....oh, the unsentimentality of youth. I would love to have the books now, but since I can't ,Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties comes in a nice second. The pictures are beautiful and even if you don't remember the stars, (I do), you will enjoy the glamour and real sexiness of those movie stars of yore.

Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties.......2007-02-16

If you like black and white portraits your at the right book; a source of inspiration for my photography assignment.

Great images and inspiring for photographers.......2007-01-11

If you love old style Hollywood photography this book is a must for your collection. My only wish was that it showed some of the lighting and techniques used to take the images. But as far as a straight forward picture book goes even if your not a photographer you'll enjoy the great looks and drama from the past.

Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties.......2006-07-22

Beautiful pictures! They sure don't make stars like these anymore. Wonderful glamour shots, men & women. Bygone era but at least we have these gorgeous photos to remember or to discover.

Old Hollywood Glamour.......2005-08-29

if your looking for book with old hollywood glamour pictures
this is the book for you. You cant go wrong 30+ photos of mostly dead actors and actresses

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Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties

Manufacturer: Dover Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0844655945

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An amnesiac Kuno challenges Ranma to a duel at the beach — wearing a watermelon on his head! Will another watermelon on the head bring his memory back? Or will Ranma's meddling unleash a fate more terrible than he can imagine? Meanwhile, a special sauce makes Ranma sick, and Ranma learns that to prove they're a loving couple, he and Akane must spend the night in the same room!

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Love and trials.......2005-10-19

When a boy regularly turns into an attractive girl, he can expect to have suitors of both sexes. And Ranma Saotome has serious trouble with that in the seventeenth volume of Rumiko Takahashi's "Ranma 1/2," where food is lethal and a certain creepy little man returns to the spotlight.

Kendo crazie Kuno challenges Ranma to a seaside duel, but turns up with a watermelon on his head. Worse, he has amnesia. Ranma tries to cure Kuno's amnesia, but ends up with Kuno pursuing "the pig-tailed girl" with amorous intent. Now Ranma's trapped with Kuno on a deserted island full of watermelons... and Kuno doesn't understand the word "no."

Later, Ranma, Soun and Genma are all called to deal with the "Living Octopus Trap," a jar that is wreaking havoc on a seaside village. Problem is, it has a very familiar little underwear weirdo inside. More problems arise when Happosai uses a magical pill that sticks him to Ranma's body, and creepy classmate Gosunkugi tries to win Akane's heart with magical paper dolls.

Finally, Ukyo opens the legendary Sauce of Ten Years... and finds that it's toxic. Ten years ago, Ranma spilled it and hurriedly made a substitute. Now, feeling guilty, he offers to let the grieving Ukyo stay with them. Unfortunately, his relentless caring for his old pal/fiancee makes Akane miserable and jealous. And after an ill-fated attempt to convince Ukyo that he and Akane are already married, Ranma sets out to make Ukyo dump him...

The biggest events of the seventeenth volume are Ukyo's okonomiyaki problems and Happosai's return. When we last saw the little underwear fetishist, he was being dropped into the ocean by Pantyhose Taro. Now he returns to Japan -- and his old ways, right down to getting Ranma beaten up by a gang of girls.

And Ranma's romantic problems reach new climaxes. At first, he's in danger in being raped by Kuno. Then he's on a date with Gosunkugi (due to the magical paper dolls). Then he ends up in a love triangle with Akane and Ukyo, not sure how to make it up to Ukyo without making Akane mad. Add the fact that he keeps eating toxic sauce, and has a dream about having Kuno's babies, and you can see why the poor boy is stressed.

And we get to see a new side of Akane in this volume -- the insecure side, which fears that he likes Ukyo better than her. It's very touching when she thinks to herself that they share a bond she can't understand. Out of her bedroom, of course, she gets jealous when she sees things like Ukyo wanting to scrub Ranma's back in the tub.

Romantic troubles, nightmares, lethal sauce and dangerous watermelons make life difficult for poor Ranma Saotome. Takahashi's seventeenth volume only ups the romantic comedy factor again.

Love and trials.......2005-09-30

Watermelons?.......2003-07-31

Yup, watermelons. A lot of them. As in a whole island. See, Kuno goes there to train for his next fight with Ranma, and comes for his opponent wearing a watermelon on his head. And he has amnesia. He gets Ranko (Ranma's female side) to the island, where she is knocked unconscious. She has a very funny dream too! Anyway, I forgot what happens in the rest of the book, but I liked the watermelon segment!

Bwa ha ha ha!.......2003-05-13

When Kuno loses his memory and is found unconsious on a beach where Ranma and co. are visiting and Happosai tries to improve his and Ranma's "master/disciple" relationship and they end up being stuck together anything can happen!

un manga culte.......2002-01-18

Ranma 1/2 est un des mangas cultes de ma génération. Rumiko Takahashi a crée un super manga qui est accessible à tous les âges et qui est basé sur des histoires quelques fois farfelues et sur une bonne dose d'humour.
En bref, c'est pour tout le monde.

Ranma 1/2 (new edition) Vol. 17 (RANMA 1/2 (SHINSOUBAN)) (in Japanese)

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Ranma 1/2 (new edition) Vol. 17 (RANMA 1/2 (SHINSOUBAN)) (in Japanese)
Rumiko Takahashi
Manufacturer: Shogakukan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Comic

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I contributed to this book

Humor for a Teacher's Heart: Stories, Quips, and Quotes to Lift the Heart (Humor for the Heart)
Various
Manufacturer: Howard Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Teachers Jokes Quotes And Anecdotes

ASIN: 1416533710

Book Description

The newest book in the popular Humor for the Heart series, Humor for a Teacher's Heart, is sure to become a favorite. This collection of humorous stories illustrates the lighter sides of the joys, challenges, and adventures of being a teacher.

With best-selling authors like Martha Bolton, Marilyn Meberg, Teresa Bell Kindred, and Jeanne Zomes, this hilarious book will lift teacher's spirits on their roughest days and give them a renewed passion for their career.

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I contributed to this book .......2006-07-09

If readers would like to see the "bloopers" that we teachers make in our rooms, you need to read this book. We have days and situations that are just too much fun and people don't believe how much we, and the students enjoy our days. With so much negative press available about NCLB and teacher quality, this book is a must read to see that it is not all bad on the chalkboard front. If you have a teacher who is new to the field, make sure this is a part of their "equipment" for the first day of class. They will love you for it.

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A Screenplay for Students of French.......2005-12-16

I'm a French teacher in a college prep high school. This book is nothing more than the screenplay for the movie of the same name. It doesn't pretend to be anything else, so if all you want to do is enjoy the movie there's no reason to read the book. But for students of French, what a wonderful way to learn! Just read the book, with the help of a good dictionary, then see the film. But I warn you that you have to be fairly advanced in the language before attempting to read the book. However, the rewards are considerable. First, it's a wonderful, touching story that has lessons for all. Secondly, your knowledge of the language will increase exponentially.

dissapointed.......2003-11-11

This is just a short screenplay of the movie and not really a memoir. Rent the excellent movie.

Wonderful book: one of the bests.......2001-08-26

When I read the first time this book I cryed. This is wonderful book about olochaust. It's wiewed by the eyes of a children. He study in a French college, where we meet an other student, a jewish student. They became friend. But as they try to look away from the war, that reality will overwhelm them, break their friendship and break up them for ever. It's the story of olochaust's injustice, that hit also the lamb: the children. It's a book very sad and will reduce you to tears. I suggest everyone to read it.

Very good and very sad.......2000-04-14

I loved this book and the movie. It was great how it showed France being occupied by the Germans during World War II through the eyes of a child. I saw the movie in my French class and I was so touched and so sad about what these kids had to go through. I would reccomend this book to anyone and everyone.

Quentin Tarantino Liked it..........1998-08-21

First of all, the book was great, and that's all that needs to be said about that... Now, I'm not Quentin Taratino, but, when he worked in a video store, this movie was one of his favorites. He referred to it as "The Reservoir Film" because he couldn't pronounce the frech title. This movie was supposedy one of th reasons he named his own film, "The Reservoir Dogs"...

The Films of Louis Malle: A Critical Analysis

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The Films of Louis Malle: A Critical Analysis
Nathan Southern , and Jacques Weissgerber
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0786423005

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With films like Les Amants and Le Souffle au coeur, Atlantic City and Au Revoir les enfants, French writer-director Louis Malle compiled a remarkable 40-year career, creating thirty acclaimed features and documentaries. Despite this success, Malle's work has not received the critical attention it is due--largely because for nearly thirty years, several of his films remained unavailable to the public.

This is the first book-length critical study of Malle's entire oeuvre, covering The Silent World (1956) through Vanya on 42nd Street (1994). Here, Malle's work is approached non-theoretically on a film-by-film basis; each motion picture is examined as an individualistic, self-referential exploration of its own subjects and themes, with form and style relative to content. The darker, more provocative side of Malle's films is also explored, and the director's need to challenge his audiences ethically is addressed. Film analyses are supplemented by interviews with those who have worked with Malle.

A bibliography of major American, French and British books and articles on Malle is included, as is a Malle filmography, including cast and crew information, running times, years of release, production company data and a list of awards and award nominations for each film.

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Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories (French Modernist Library)
Boris Vian
Manufacturer: Bison Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Boris Vian's Manual of St. Germain des Pres

ASIN: 0803296096

Book Description

"[This collection] displays Vian's range from gallows humor to verbal fireworks, and happily serves to give visibility to this important writer."- Publishers Weekly. "Ultimately, Blues for a Black Cat is a collection of moral fables, albeit fables told in a cynical, mocking voice and set in a skewed version of the real world. Under the surface absurdity and verbal play, they offer serious indictments of human weakness and pretensions. Further, they reveal the spiritual emptiness just beneath our civilized façade. Vian's blues are not only for a black cat, but for a society without meaning."- Manoa. "[Blues for a Black Cat] brings back the nimble Vian in a collection of his short fiction, initially published as Les Fourmis in 1949. The work has the unmistakable flavor of the time and place, Claude Abadie's jazz band, the coded and absurdist messages of rebellion, the wistful fables, verbal riffs and goofy anarchic encounters; the mise-en-scene includes an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a cat with a British accent and a piano that mixes a cocktail when "Mood Indigo" is played."-Boston Globe. Boris Vian (1920-59), a trained engineer and jazz trumpet player, was a major literary figure in World War II France. Julia Older is the author or editor of many works. Her stories, translations, and poems have appeared in New Directions, the New Yorker, and many other journals.

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Atlantic City
Louis Malle
Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Poster
ASIN: B000JD0API

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Au Resevoir Les Enfant
Louis Malle
Manufacturer: Cideb
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 8877544007

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Au Revoir Les Enfants
Louis Malle
Manufacturer: Orion Pictures
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Binding: Poster
ASIN: B000JD0EB8

Au Revoir Les Enfants and Lacombe Lucien

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Au Revoir Les Enfants and Lacombe Lucien
Louis Malle
Manufacturer: Faber Faber Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0571141439

Au revoir, les enfants. Drehbuch zum Film. (Lernmaterialien)

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Au revoir, les enfants. Drehbuch zum Film. (Lernmaterialien)
Louis Malle
Manufacturer: Klett
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 3125972620

BLUES For A BLACK CAT & OTHER STORIES. Translated by Julia Older. Foreword by Louis Malle.

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BLUES For A BLACK CAT & OTHER STORIES. Translated by Julia Older. Foreword by Louis Malle.
Boris [1920 - 1959]. Vian
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MZE83S

Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition

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Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition

Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0262133865

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Social interaction requires social cognition--the ability to perceive, interpret, and explain the actions of others. This ability fundamentally relies on the concepts of intention and intentionality. For example, people distinguish sharply between intentional and unintentional behavior; identify the intentions underlying others' behavior; explain completed actions with reference to intentions, beliefs, and desires; and evaluate the social worth of actions using the concepts of intentionality and responsibility.

Intentions and Intentionality highlights the roles these concepts play in social cognition. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it offers cutting-edge work from researchers in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology and in philosophy, primatology, and law. It includes both conceptual and empirical contributions.

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WONDERFUL RESOURCE.......2004-10-31

This is a wonderful book by an almost legendary late American viol player. If anyone is interested in the Bastarda repertoire this book is a must have.

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THE MUSIC FOR VIOLA BASTARDA
Jason, and Houle, George and Glenna (editors) Paras
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQA8L6

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Marginally worse than the second one.......2007-01-12

While I am not familiar with the universe this is based on, I enjoyed the first one thoroughly. This book is marginally worse than the second one. While the second one started okay and went downhill, this one starts at the bottom and digs. The charachters are hollow, the plot uninteresting and poorly executed, and it nearly abandons everything done in the first book.

Thanks but no thanks, Thorarinn........2003-11-30

I am going to review this trilogy as a whole because no one book stands out in my mind as being any better or worse than another. They were all equally terrible.

The three books, Dragonlord of Mystara, Dragonking of Mystara and Dragonlord of Mystara make up the 'Dragonlord Chronicles'. I should have been suspicious from the start given the obvious play upon the immensely popular and infinitely better concieved 'Dragonlance Chronicles' from the same publisher.

These books are set within the Dungeons and Dragons world of Mystara and chart the course of the cliched farm boy orphan of unknown parentage on his meteroic rise to his righteous destiny among the stars.

It could be reviewed in one of two ways, as a fantasy novel in its own right, or as a piece of the Mystara universe. Neither would be flattering. For a fan of the Mystara universe this book is an abomination, totally disregarding the world's established fan base and re-writing the history past, present and future of a much loved world. It adds nothing, nor appears to be derived from much resembling the world the fans know and love.

As a fantasy novel it relies greatly on cliche, we have the stoic Dwarf Fighter, the independant Amazon, the Wise Old Mentor and the Impressionable Do-No-Wrong Orphan Hero-Boy. That is about as far as the characterization goes. After ploughing through the entire trilogy I could tell you little else about the main characters. I could mention that they all 'talk' for the author, the unsurprising advancements of plot are simply revealed all too often in unbelieavable dialogue rather than revealed by events and actions. Likewise the character's thoughts and motivations are never revealed through action but always in a very clumsy monologue fashion. They also often talk in obvious D&D game terms, even going so far as to describe each other by class and level.

The dragons of the books are just awful. I cannot stress this enough. At once described as wise, powerful, majestic beings we then learn that regardless of colour or species they are such a territorial race that if two or more are around each other for very long they degenerate into wild beasts and savagely rip each other apart. This is stressed time and again in the first book, but yet the second two books have literally thousands of dragons on each page and unfortunately this never happens. The dragons are also laughably weak. Our uber-powerful hero, in one memorable moment kills six with a single blow from his sword.

The bad moments are too many list but I will try. The hero is simply impervious to all damage by anything, and can kill anything effortlessly - this does not help to add any dramatic tension whatsoever to the story.

His mysterious origins are really very predictable and boring and I found I could really care less.

An army of several thousand dragons surrounds a city, trying to get to our hero - but they fear him too much to attack! Come on, these are dragons! In the meantime, a couple of allied armies 'sneak' into the besieged city under cover of darkness without the supremely wise and knowledgable dragons noticing.

I could go on, but I will spare you. I am, and ever will be a fan of fantasy novels and the Dungeons and Dragons genre lines. I have read the good, the bad and the indifferent. This trilogy falls way below the bad. It is the dire, the terrible, the abysmal and reallyshould not have been written much less read.

Thanks but no thanks, Thorarinn.

About dragons, from the dragon's mouth.......2002-06-05

Right then, what did I think about this series? Well, I have to say that personally, I found it to be far and away the best published dragon series I have found to date. Gunnarsson accomplishes, in this piece, somthing that is all too rare among dragon literature, that is, he shows them as individules of a wise and noble people, but more importantly, as individules. It does for dragons what the "Black Gryphon" series does for gryphons.

Better than it seems.......1999-05-13

I recieved this book as a gift. It sat on my shelf for months before i read it. I didn't put it down until I finished. Gunnarsson Is a wonderful author.

i loved it.......1998-08-28

this book is the third book in a great series. this book only wraps upa wonderful world of secrets and surprises. it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. thank you

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Dragonmage of Mystara Dragonlord Chroni
Thorarin Gunnarsson
Manufacturer: TSR INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000PL2PHK

THE DRAGONLORD CHRONICLES - Book (1) One: Dragonlord of Mystara; Book (2) Two: Dragonking of Mystara; Book (3) Three: Dragonmage of Mystara

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THE DRAGONLORD CHRONICLES - Book (1) One: Dragonlord of Mystara; Book (2) Two: Dragonking of Mystara; Book (3) Three: Dragonmage of Mystara
Thorarinn Gunnarsson
Manufacturer: TSR Mystara
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NRRY8Q

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More than 6,000 words and phrases that make the difference between "yadda-yadda-yadda" and copy that sells

Looking for a better way to say "authentic?" Words That Sell gives you 57 alternatives. How about "appealing?" Take your pick from 76 synonyms. You'll even find more than 100 variations on "exciting." Fully updated and expanded, this edition of the copywriting classic is packed with inspiration-on-demand for busy professionals who need to win customers--by mail, online, or in person.

More than 75 lists of powerful and persuasive words and phrases, including 21 new lists for this edition
Cross-referencing of categories to jump-start creative thinking
A crash course in basic copywriting techniques
Helpful lists of commonly misspelled words, confusing words, pretentious phrases to avoid, and more

Roget's is fine for writing term papers and letters to the editor, but when it comes to the business of writing copy that translates into sales, there is no substitute for Words That Sell.

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FABULOUS BOOK!.......2007-06-20

This book and its sister book, More Words... -- are the handiest and great must haves in my editorial and office service business library! I highly recommend them!

Great Canned Words/Phrases.......2007-05-12

This is a book in which the author has collected words and phrases from different sources over time and made into a book - a great collection at that. If you are looking for some great ideas - this book doesn't have any. The book is divided into 4 sections; Grabbers, Descriptions and Benefits, Clinchers, and Special Strategies. And the painstaking collection of various words and phrases collected over time are shown under each head with the bulk of book taken up by the Descriptions and Benefits. A must have book by your side if you are groping for words or phrases while writing a business letter, etc. Had I been a copywriter I would have given the book 5 stars.

Great for writing copy.......2007-04-05

If you need to look for words you can
use for your copy in emails or sales letters
this a a great book to pull down and look
for words or phrases you can use.

Matt Bacak
Author of Secrets of the Internet Millionaire Mind
and The Ultimate Lead Generation Plan

Very Helpful.......2007-02-07

Recently I bought this book and immediately made some textual changes to my company website based upon the contents of this and "Hot Button Marketing" by Barry Feig. The two mixed together have already begun to pay dividends in terms of conversions of visitors into prospects which will lead to customers and/or partners.

The lessons I learned as I read some of the material:
1) You may believe you're using the right words to sell (as I did prior to reading over the book), but there are always improvements that can be made.

2) Have fun--if your current campaign isn't working as well as you'd like, tweak the copy by using some of the suggestions in this book to see if a different word sprinkled in here and there improves things. It's interesting to see what a little change can do as enough of them can add up to one big success over time.

In a nutshell, this book is a great reference to have handy regardless of what you're selling.

Pump new life into your copy and sell more.......2006-12-14

I've been a copywriter for 14 years, most of the time as an independent practitioner. I've also been a senior copywriter for an advertising agency and worked in the creative department for a major newspaper.

The expanded edition of "Words That Sell" by Richard Bayan gets to the heart of an issue copywriters and marketers constantly face: How can we communicate the same old tired ideas in new, different and even exciting ways?

For example, I can't tell you the number of times I've been asked to position clients as experts in their field. There's nothing wrong with that -- they truly are experts. But we're all besieged by experts. (The fill-in-the-blank experts. And so on.)

Bayan offers a list of 75 or so entries for communicating experienced or expert. And throughout the book he provides hundreds of entries for many other common copy points and marketing messages.

Besides supplying a good resource, Bayan provides a good reminder that to be memorable copywriters and marketers must write it, say it and show it in a fresh, interesting way. And that usually requires at least a little extra creative effort.

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