Adding Value: The Joseph M. Bryan Story from Poverty to Philanthropy

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Joseph McKinley Bryan, Sr. could be intransigent one moment and disarmingly endearing the next. But he was a man with a vision that never faded until a failing body stilled his alert mind just short of his 100th birthday in 1995.

Bryan overcame poverty, a mother's mental illness, a father's desertion, a distrusting set of in-laws and a lack of formal education to become a builder of people as well as institutions. His good works, and those of his family, are widespread.

He was instrumental in the creation of both commercial and public television in North Carolina and helped build universities and medical facilities. At one time, Bryan was the largest single donor to Duke University, except for the Dukes. Bryan family resources led to creation of the Alzheimer's research facility at Duke, as well as a student center and major advancements for the Duke Eye Center. But when Duke didn't fulfill some promises, he withdrew an additional $15 million he intended to give.

For all his attributes, successes and good works, however, Bryan couldn't succeed within his own family, a failure he was never able to overcome and one that privately tormented him. Ned Cline interviewed scores of people, including family, friends, associates, and acquaintances to tell the story of this complex and fascinating man.

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When Tina Basich grabbed her rented snowboard and headed to the mountains in Lake Tahoe, snowboarding wasn't even considered a sport ... yet. It was the beginning, and could have easily gone the way of many other sports and become dominated by male-driven competition.

But not with Tina on the scene ...

Comments like "You're pretty good ... for a girl" only pushed her harder to be the best and to prove she was more than just a token player on the slopes. Representing for women everywhere, she became a snowboarding all-star, started her own signature board and clothing lines for women, founded Boarding for Breast Cancer, and followed her heart, which led her on the adventure of a lifetime.

This is her story.

Customer Reviews:

Pretty Good for a Girl is entertaining and humorous.......2007-09-01

I have never been snowboarding and I loved the book. The author is an accomplished snowboarder who tells her personal story in an entertaining, personal, and humorous way. At times the book reads as if the author is talking to you as a personal friend sharing her adventures. There are some very funny stories in the book. I highly recommend it.

Great.......2006-10-08

I read this after reading P3: Pipes, parks, and powder. At first, I thought of it as the girl version of Todd Richard's book (P3) and didn't want to read it. But I read it, it's not just for girls. Any boarder will enjoy it. Maybe the pink cover turns off guy readers, ha, ha.

cant right good.......2006-04-30

Having graduated college, I think I was too well educated to read this book. It was so, like, 7th graderish. This book isn't very well written. It jumps around a bit, leaving the reader confused. For example, Tina talks about how she got a car soon after getting her drivers license, but then mentions that she crashed it a year later. So after reading about how she crashed it, she continues talking about how she drove everywhere. Fortunately, you can tell that Tina starts to mature a little bit as a writer near the end of the book. The other problem that I had with this book is that she tries to make women seem more disadvantaged than they really are. While there are 10x less professional women snowboarders, there are 10x as many male snowboarders, so it all evens out. Women have been a big part of snowboarding since it's inception, so I am therefore not convinced of her adversity. She does get credit back, though, because of her participation in the Boarding for Breast Cancer program. Overall, I'd skip this book and read "Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder" if you are into the "Action" sports books or "Swimming to Antarctica" if you want a women-pushing-the-sport type of book.

Beginner Snowboarder.......2005-02-26

This book is awesome. I opened it and finished it in its entirety in one sitting. It was such an exciting read. I just recently started snowboarding and am totally psyched about it. Tina's changes in life are definitely relatable. She is an inspiration to me because there are so many girls who side-track themselves due to heartbreaking, intellectually debased boys. I've seen it happen all too often and has happened to me as well. To stay focused on your own goals and not let life get in the way is so difficult. Guys seem to have no problem doing it, but she proved that girls can pull it together too.
oh yeah, the foo fighters suck.

Pretty Good for an Autobiography.......2004-02-10

I don't know anything about snowboarding and wasn't especially interested in it, but the title of this book caught my attention. God knows I heard "pretty good for a girl" often enough when I was growing up. Once I started Tina Basich's book, I was hooked.

She tells of growing up in a Sacramento suburb and going to an alternative school where art and music were stressed. Her parents kept the TV in a closet only to be brought out for special occasions, such as the Olympics. Basich and her younger brother entertained themselves by drawing, composing and playing music, staging shows, skateboarding, and reading. By the time she went to high school (a public high school), she was accomplished in a number of fields and her hero was Nadia Comaneci.

Basich tells of discovering snowboarding, becoming a pro, losing a friend to breast cancer and organizing snowboarding events to raise money for cancer research and education, and having several close calls of her own on the slopes. She talks about competitions, travels, and romances. She has a easy-to-read conversational style and the book is filled with photos and drawings.

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An Athlete's Journey.......2003-12-10

Ms. Heywood has written a compelling story of a female athlete (runner) coming of age. She presents her memoir in a straight forward manner and does not hold back. She had a sexual relationship with her high school coach. She presents her story with all the emotional ambiguity I'm sure it carried. Ms. Heywood later struggled with an eating disorder. Again, this is presented in a very real manner. Ms. Heywood is also a very gifted writer. I found this book a compelling read and it should have a wide audience.

Pretty in Pink: Why It's Good to Be a Girl!

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Pretty in Pink: Why It's Good to Be a Girl!
Bob Elsdale
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Photographer Bob Elsdale's pink-curlicued piglet in Pretty in Pink: Why It's Good to Be a Girl! offers a myriad of specific reasons why it's far superior to be made of sugar and spice and all things nice, as opposed to slugs, snails, and puppy dog tails.

Through pinkly hued photographic spreads, Pretty in Pink: Why It's Good to Be a Girl! epitomizes girl power and piglet style. From a rub-a-dub-dub in the tub to an innocent indulgence of chocolate chips to rocketing across the sky and chasing dreams, we're reminded that:

·"A girl's best friend is . . . always her best friend."

·"A bit of indulgence is fine."

·"The sky's the limit."

·"Sometimes your best assets are behind you."

Author's web site: http://www.bobelsdale.com/home.php

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22 Great New Year's resolutions (and 6 pretty good ones). (GL Life).(Brief Article): An article from: Girls' Life

Manufacturer: Monarch Avalon, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008IHFP2
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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This digital document is an article from Girls' Life, published by Monarch Avalon, Inc. on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 421 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: 22 Great New Year's resolutions (and 6 pretty good ones). (GL Life).(Brief Article)
Publication: Girls' Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Monarch Avalon, Inc.
Volume: 8 Issue: 3 Page: 40(1)

Article Type: Brief Article

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Couldn't put it down
very true to life, a must read
An excellent story about one girl's need to be #1.
A memoir of a true champion and a role model
Pretty Annoying for a Girl

Pretty Good for a Girl
Leslie Heywood
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0684850702

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Leslie Heywood wants to be seen for who she is--by her family, by her coach, and by the boys in her new high school. Of the latter she writes, "They don't see me. They see some blank girl instead, some chick." A talented runner, Heywood quickly finds in the high-school cross-country team a sense of purpose, and eventually some authentic friendships among the group of guys, "long, gangly misfits" who run with her. But that's not enough--this girl is itching for greatness. Faced with family troubles and the pre-Title IX sexism of high school athletics, her drive to conquer her sport grows ferocious. She tears up the mountains in her Arizona town (in 110-degree heat, no less), she piles weights on in the gym "like they were dimes," and, finally, afraid of not being quite fast enough or fat-free enough, she stops eating.

The painful consequences of Heywood's relentless drive toward physical perfection are at the center of this heartfelt memoir. But the moments of exhilaration and strength that running brings to Heywood suggest what women--given the right support--have to gain from participation in athletics. Regardless of her missteps, the author, now a professor and bodybuilder, remembers the boon sport brought to her shaky teenage sense of self. "Running was the way I first carved myself into the world," she writes, "how I learned to claim a space, throw my shoulders back, and fly." --Maria Dolan

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You are a girl. You are a girl and you want to show the world what you're made of, blood and steel and backbone, guts. So you start running. Running so all those eyes who see just a girl will know what you can do. Your legs take the hills, eat up the road, the sky, the birds, parts of your heart, strong through your chest and then your throat, stride by hungry stride. And you do it really well, too, you run and run and run. Better better best. Breathe and deeper breathe. Until the exhaustion creeps into your bones, steals the fire from your face.

Sports is the quintessentially American dream ticket out of an unhappy life. For Leslie Heywood, champion high school miler, running was just such an escape, her feet flying away from a childhood filled with violence and enforced silence. On the track she mattered, on the track she was certain of who she was. But the world of sports was still a world uncertain of whether it wanted to allow girls in, and Heywood ran headlong into the arms of her coach and then into a collegiate team whose standards for body-fat percentages and diets and training left every athlete struggling with eating disorders and serious injuries from overuse. She kept running, and winning, until she ran too far. No one knew how to help her or stop her. She almost ran herself to death -- until she had to learn to stop.

Today Heywood still loves the challenge of sports, and she has found a way to live with a more balanced relationship to her body and the world. But as she looks at the explosion in the number of girl athletes around her, she asks, "How can we make it safer for them than it was for me?"

With rare candor and tremendous power, Heywood's story reveals what is at stake for a generation of girls who have come of age since Title IX prohibited discrimination against women in federally funded school athletics. Pretty Good for a Girl explores why girls need and want to participate in the American dream of competition and individual achievement; it also reveals the obstacles they still face -- such as traditional ideas about what girls should be, which disfigure their competitive spirit and limit their potential. Heywood's gripping memoir brings the untold story of female athletic experience to vibrant life. She gives us a road map of possibilities, a story of mistakes, courage, and determination that points to more positive ways for girls to experience themselves in the world of sport that is fast becoming their own.

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Couldn't put it down.......2004-04-19

I couldn't put it down. I literally read it cover to cover in less than a day. It was an honest look into her life that was absoltely brilliant. It's the best book I've read in a long time.

very true to life, a must read.......2003-10-14

This is a wonderful book. It may be a bit deep for some people (judging from one of the reviews), but go ahead and jump right in as long as you're not afraid to think outside of the box. I have been a female athlete since I was 8 years old, and totally understood everything Heywood writes about. Performing... the drive to make a name for yourself... the way life can seem to get out of control when you're trying so hard to control it... this book is very true to life. I really think any parent of a hard-core athlete should read this; it just might help them understand where their daughter is coming from.

An excellent story about one girl's need to be #1........1999-08-18

I suggest every father or mother who has a young girl interested in sports read this book. It is apparent everyone can take something away from Leslie's mistakes and triumphs. She has written a clear,captivating and disturbing memior. It is truly an eye opener and a page turner. Leslie, "Keep on Rocking in a Free World."

A memoir of a true champion and a role model.......1999-03-01

I am a 17 year old girl and a distance runner on my high school track team. I found Leslie Heywood's book to be an abosutley incredible memoir that touches the soul. There are so few people in this world with the drive, determination and dedication to make themselves the absolute best they can be. It is obvious that Heywood has the true heart of a champion, that not only made it in the world of athletics but struggled and conquered things like sexual harrassment, (and just harassment in general), bulemia, the tourturous colligate track life, and made it through all of it to write an extremly powerful and well written novel. She is a role model to the girl athletes who strive to do what she did.

Pretty Annoying for a Girl.......1999-02-19

I am the same age as the author of this book. I graduated from a high school a few miles from the one she attended. I should have enjoyed this book more than I did. I found Ms. Heywood's prose style irritating: "It is 4pm. I am writing a customer review for Amazon. My feet are cold but I do not put socks on. Breathe, deeply breathe." One sentence in the book simply reads "My legs are big in the world." In the world? As opposed to Mars? Annoying prose style aside, I felt that the book lacked a truthful core. I feel that the author presented herself in a positive but not entirely honest light. Did she abuse drugs as a teenager? Was she promiscuous? Though she was taken advantage of by a reptilian coach, one wonders how impaired this girl's judgment was. I did not get a strong sense of Ms. Heywood as a person, of the time and place in which the events of the book occurred, of the other people in her life, or of the particular difficulties women athletes face. For me "Pretty Good for a Girl" was not a very successful memoir.

6 Book Set By Mary Higgins Clark; While My Pretty One Sleeps; Nighttime Is My Time; Daddy's Little Girl; Two Little Girls in Blue; Before I Say Good-bye; No Place Like Home

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6 Book Set By Mary Higgins Clark; While My Pretty One Sleeps; Nighttime Is My Time; Daddy's Little Girl; Two Little Girls in Blue; Before I Say Good-bye; No Place Like Home
Mary Higgins Clark
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WKC024

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6 Book Set By Mary Higgins Clark; While My Pretty One Sleeps; Nighttime Is My Time; Daddy's Little Girl; Two Little Girls in Blue; Before I Say Good-bye; No Place Like Home.

A first book to read for a good boy & girl: Being pretty stories in words of four letters : with several cuts (Mackenzie's educational books)

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A first book to read for a good boy & girl: Being pretty stories in words of four letters : with several cuts (Mackenzie's educational books)
Eminent literary lady
Manufacturer: E. Mackenzie, 5, Wine Office Court, (146), Fleet Street
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008BHQEO

Judy's guide to health, wealth, & happiness: Chiefly designed for the delectation and improvement of good pretty, and pretty good girls, (but men also may read it)

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Judy's guide to health, wealth, & happiness: Chiefly designed for the delectation and improvement of good pretty, and pretty good girls, (but men also may read it)
Charles H. (Charles Henry) Ross
Manufacturer: "Judy" Office
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008B4F16

Pretty Girl, a Guide to Looking Good, Naturally

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Pretty Girl, a Guide to Looking Good, Naturally
Judith McGrath
Manufacturer: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books. N
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QMHYF6

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A superb, instructive book!

One of the best endgame books

Rate Your Endgame
Edmar Mednis
Manufacturer: Everyman Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1857441745

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A superb, instructive book!.......1998-06-19

This book is a must-read for anyone who knows the basic mates and understands the opposition who doesn't know what to study next in this all-important phase of the game. The exercises are enjoyable, tough, thought-provoking, and instructive, and working through them is almost like having a master-level teacher at your side.

One of the best endgame books.......1998-01-02

For most chessplayers, even very strong ones, studying the endgame is painfully boring. This book is one of the few genuinely entertaining and instructive books available on this subject. The book concentrates on practical endgame situations, rather than bore the reader with such stuff as mate with B and N, which one may be required to perform once every five thousand games or so.

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Rate Your Endgame

Manufacturer: Macmillan Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 008037803X

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This best seller provides a balance between theory and practice, useful career information, and a comprehensive package of ancillaries. It takes a strategic approach to decision making. The volume provides an overview of strategic retail management, and provides a careful examination of situation analysis, targeting customers and gathering information, choosing a store location, managing a retail business, merchandise management and pricing, communicating with the customer and integrating and controlling the retail strategy. For retail training directors.

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Excellent for Retail.......2005-01-05

Retail Manangement by Barry Berman is an excellent book for people getting into Retail business. It covers from basics to advance level of Retail management.

A full coverage of all major retailing topics.......1997-03-10

A very useful book, not only for students, but for any person envolved in retail business.
For students it is a comprehensive companion text. A good teaching package.
For the managers and entrepreneurs, including those living outside the USA, giving a full coverage of retail market in USA, this book widens the horizonts

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