Royal Subjects : A Biographer's Encounters

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Here is a touching and funny memoir of how one mans life became interwoven with the Royal family. While also a reflection on royalty and writing, the gems youll discover along the way are hilarious descriptions of lunching on a scotch egg (and Scotch) with Margaret, bizarrely gracious teas with the Queen Mother, tales of the ageing aunts in Kensington Palace and much more.

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Royal Subject is "Revenge".......2001-12-28

After hearing Theo Aronson talk about the pending publication of his latest book on a radio show, I hastened to order it. It sounded like it would be a lively insider's account of less-known incidents and anecdotes about the British Royal Family. Instead it turned out to be a thinly-disguised autobiography of Mr. Aronson with very few interesting stories and some very hissy jabs at the Windsor family. Perhaps his other biographies may be more interesting, but this one was very disappointing.

An Affectionate But Realistic View.......2001-10-15

Theo Aronson is a well known biographer of European royalty past and present. Royal Subjects is a description in diary form of twenty years or so of contacts with British Royals both well known (The Queen Mother, Prince Charles) and almost unknown (Colonel Sir Henry and the Lady May Abel Smith). Aronson clearly enjoyed meeting these people and likes most of them quite a bit, but he is not blind to their character flaws and is on the whole refreshingly unidolatrous. (Not to say he isn't loyal, as he obviously has little truck with republican sentiment)

Royal Subjects will appeal to you even if you are not a royal aficionado because Aronson very humorously describes the day to day sillinesses he puts up, from inane phone calls and letters to being interviewed by people who have obviously not read his books. Most appealingly of all, Aronson never takes himself or his subjects too seriously, even when he has to deal with prostate cancer. He has had a full life which he has enjoyed immensely, and you will enjoy this glimpse of part of it, too.

"A Jewel of a Book" says the Sunday Times of London..........2001-08-24

Based on the annotated information in the journals he's kept for years, Theo Aronsono has written a light and interesting book on the English Royals. As he's interviewed many of them for his other books, this is a chronoligical walk through his memories (from 1979 to the present). It's fascinating. I ordered this book after I heard an interview with him on the radio. It arrived yesterday, and I read it in its entirety last night. If you're interested in the Windsors, this is a slice of life from a man who doesn't pull any punches. And yet he still remains a gentleman. I really enjoyed it.

Royal Subjects: A Biographer's Encounters

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Royal Subjects: A Biographer's Encounters
Theo Aronson
Manufacturer: Pan Books Limited
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUJC78

Royals Subjects : A Biographer's Encounters

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Royals Subjects : A Biographer's Encounters
Theo Aronson
Manufacturer: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORF950

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Illustrated by Bruce Langton

Like most boys growing up in Michigan in the early 1900s, George Gipp enjoyed playing sports. But even as a small boy, his athletic skills set him apart from the others. When he is awarded a baseball scholarship to the University of Notre Dame, his future seems set. An afternoon's horseplay with a football, however, brings George to the attention of assistant football coach Knute Rockne, and Notre Dame football is transformed forever. Setting records and winning fans' hearts, George seems unstoppable -- until cruel fate intervenes. Now, for every young reader who has ever wondered about the phrase "Win one for the Gipper," comes the inspiring story of the legendary George Gipp.

Kathy-jo Wargin has written such bestselling titles as The Legend of Sleeping Bear, The Legend of the Loon, and The Edmund Fitzgerald: Song of the Bell. She is a faculty member of the Bear River Writers Workshop, sponsored by the University of Michigan. She lives with her family in Petoskey, Michigan.

Bruce Langton's unmistakable style and unique ability to capture not only sporting and wildlife scenes, but also contemporary landscapes has won him numerous awards including the 1998 Featured Artist for the Northern Wildlife Art Expo. Win One for the Gipper is Bruce's seventh book with Sleeping Bear Press. He lives with his family in Granger, Indiana.

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One for the Gipper
Patrick Chelland
Manufacturer: Arrowhead Classics Publishing Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1886571112

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The most authoritative and only recognized story about George Gipp. Story of George Gipp, Knute Rockney and Notre Dame. Recognized by Notre Dame University as the most accurate story. First written in 1973, it has been in print since then.

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One For The Gipper

One for the Gipper
Patrick Chellan
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The Life and Times of George Gipp

ASIN: 1886571015

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He was a loveable rougue - a gambler, billiards champion, cardsharp, dance contest winner, college student - and perhaps the finest all-around athlete the world has ever known. He was a maverick, a loner, his own man, almost reclusive - yet he was loved and admired by millions while he was alive and mourned nationwide after he died at the young age of 25. He helped make the small midwestern college he attended the most famous university in the land. He was truly a "winner" - yet he sould never win the heart of the only woman he ever really loved. He was the legendary George Gipp of Notre Dame, whose deathbed request to his coach, Knute Rockne, to "Win one for the Gipper" has long been a part of the American lixicon. But exactly who was this man? Why has his memory endured for more than three-quarters of a century? Author Patrick Chelland explores the legend and separates the myth from the truth and, as is often the case, truth is stranger than fiction. Chel! land talked to Gipp's contemporaries - his family, friends, teammates, sportswriters - and has written by far the most comprehensive biography ever undertaken on the elusive Gipper. One For The Gipper is a piece of Americana that is a definite must-read.

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One For The Gipper.......2000-03-09

George Gipp is credited for being the "single biggest reason" Notre Dame football grew to its fame. After reading this true accounting of the Gipp's life by Patrick Chelland, I believe it. Knute Rockne coached at Notre Dame, but George Gipp became the icon. Why hasn't this become a movie?

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One for the Gipper
Patrick Chelland
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JVVVX0

ONE FOR THE GIPPER [GEORGE GIPP, KNUTE ROCKNE, AND NOTRE DAME]

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ONE FOR THE GIPPER [GEORGE GIPP, KNUTE ROCKNE, AND NOTRE DAME]
CHELLAND PATRICK
Manufacturer: HENRY REGNERY CO. COPYRIGHT IST EDITION
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MN2GMU

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One for the Gipper George Gipp, Knute Rockne, and Notre Dame
Patrick Chelland
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More French Speaking Women Film Directors........2005-05-13

Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide by Janis L. Pallister, Ruth A. Hottell (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press) When French-Speaking Women Film Directors was published in 1997, two things became evident: (1) It was an essential tool for students, instructors, and scholars of francophone women filmmakers, serving a vital purpose for all levels¡ªfrom the novice looking for guidance to the seasoned scholar checking a fact, date, or other specific detail. (2) It would be necessary to continue immediately the important task of cataloging women's cinema; for although they still meet with obstacles even in Occidental cultures, their artistic productions have increased exponentially in recent years. Similarly, technological advances (particularly in the various video formats) now make even somewhat minor productions significantly more available to the general public at affordable prices. Hence, more films and great accessibility demanded furthering the research.
In this volume, Ruth A. Hottell has joined Janis L. Pallister in filling the gaps of the 1997 volume, and following the progress made by women since its publication. Like its predecessor, Francophone Women Film Directors is both a teaching tool and a directory for use by scholars and students of film and literature. Unique among guides dealing with film, both for its breadth and for the very fact that it is devoted exclusively to francophone womenthroughout the world, most of whom are omitted from other directories and studies, this guide contains listings of nearly three hundred francophone women filmmakers and their films. Whenever possible, dates, brief biographies, descriptions, and short critical analyses by Professors Pallister and Hottell, as well as by others, are included. These two authors have painstakingly researched film journals and the Internet, attended film festivals and conferences around the world, monitored TV listings in various countries, and traveled around the world to work in film libraries and view recent releases. Their efforts have produced the most comprehensive guide available today.
The reader will see that the filmmakers included in the book are from all parts of the world: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Latin America, Quebec, even Thailand. Users of this guide will be able to set up a truly global program on the subject. Moreover, this book, like its predecessor, offers a section called "core concepts," designed to enable instructors to organize a course or a program around a theme of interest to feminists, drawing from world cinema by both women and men directors. These core concepts and themes include such subjects as abortion, pornography, prostitution, and mother-daughter relationships. A list of film sources, an extensive bibliography, and an index of film directors and the titles of their films, as well as geographical subdivisions, maximize the directory's usefulness.
Within this framework, why concentrate especially on French-speaking women directors? Firstly, as a service to (French) teachers and professors who now incorporate film¡ªand women's art¡ªinto many of their courses. Next, because in spite of the problems etched above, one cannot deny that a number of the women filmmakers of France, Qu¨¦bec and Belgium have become virtually as well known as many male directors: Chantal Akerman is quite famous; her film Couch in New York has frequently aired on television; L¨¦a Pool, too, is known in many circles, and can be considered as almost on a level with Atom Egoyam. But especially famous are Claire Denis, Catherine Breillat, and Agn¨¨s Varda, the latter's recent film, Les Gl¦Áneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I), having received widespread recognition, and having been, for example, the fifth of the top ten sales made by Facets in the spring of 2002, while Breillat's Une vraie jeune fille (A Real Young Girl) came in sixth. This is from all sexes and countries. Virginie Despentes's sensational and controversial Baise-moi was ninth in the top ten rentals (from all countries) and figured as ninth of twenty-five top-selling foreign films.
This compact volume seeks, then, to answer questions not only about the works of renowned artists, including the remarkable success of such works as Breillat's and Despentes's, but about those of lesser-known artists as well. Striving to complete the picture through 2002, it is compiled from many sources, and presents information in English, but with reference to French copy, in order to increase the guide's versatility.
The authors have found the presentations and catalogs of the Cr¨¦teil Festival of Women's Films to be of particular value. On the web, there are sites devoted to women's films and women in films, many of which are cited in our bibliography. Catalogs and Web sites of the NFB (ONF) are also a rich source of information, and we are especially grateful to this entity for its kind permission to borrow generously from its copy.
They have excerpted material from all of these references and from others besides¡ªwhether in English or in French¡ª, for the convenience of those who wish to use this guide book. Wherever this has been done, the source of the information has been given. It should be noted that dates and run times vary considerably from one source to the other; in most cases we have made no effort to adjudicate these matters, but have given sliding dates and dur¨¦es. These variations in date occur for a number of reasons among which one might suggest that: 1) the film was planned for one year, but in fact, was held up for some reason or another; 2) sometimes a new copyright date has been put on the USA version, both on the film and on the video; 3) some-times, even, a new date was put on the video when it came out. For similar reasons the running time can vary from film to video, etc.
Many Shorts of a few minutes are to be found in Cr¨¦teil catalogs. The information regarding them has been only partially reproduced here. Similarly, virtually all documentaries have been excluded here; they and their directors will be treated in a separate guide to French-speaking women documentarian.
One more note is in order here. Those referring to this guide should be aware that its use is maximized when it is consulted in tandem with the 1997 guide French-Speaking Women Film Directors; for it has been the authors intention to include here, by and large, only such filmmakers, films and critiques as did not figure in that volume. One should consult as well the Internet Movie Database Site (http://us.imdb.com/); some but not all of the information on certain directors has come from this site, and from other internet sites as indicated in the body of the guide.
This book is not intended to be a critique of films by women directors, but rather a compendium of their films and selected criticism of them, including an effort wherever possible to give places in which the films are discussed in French, thus making for a bilingual reference work. And indeed the establishment of this text has been an arduous job: The internet was used extensively, along with many other guides, journals, catalogs, library resources¡ªconsulted in situ¡ªand so forth. In many cases, the information contained herein has not been easily established, even when found¡ªafter extensive searches ¡ªon the internet. Thus it is our hope that this guide, when used in conjunction with Pallister's French-Speaking Women Film Directors, will be an important and handy tool, a point of departure, a quick source of information; for that was our intention in preparing it. We have refrained for the most part from entering into controversies or displaying our own likes and dislikes. Similarly, for the sake of remaining objective, they have chosen not to include our own analyses.

French-Speaking Women Documentarians: A Guide (Francophone Cultures and Literatures)

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Janis L. Pallister , and Ruth A. Hottell
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French-Speaking Women Documentarians is a guide for teachers of French and others interested in selecting and researching the work of female French-speaking documentarians. Represented in this book are filmmakers from Canada, various African nations, the Antilles, Lebanon, Switzerland, Belgium, and several other countries, with emphasis on Agnès Varda of France-arguably the greatest female documentarian of all. The book includes information on each filmmaker, classified by country of origin, and lists and describes her works, giving factual information such as date, duration, credits, and synopses, and pointing out critical treatments, both in English and in French, of her most important films. Shorts, docudramas, and works of animation are also discussed, as they, too, reflect history and culture. This guide will lead to the viewing of films that shed understanding on the culture being portrayed and to a greater appreciation of the contribution of French-speaking women filmmakers to this important, if not always objective, film genre.

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French-Speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide
Janis L. Pallister
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Innovative games promote learning through play -- the proven path to success in school.

At last Dorling Kindersley quality is available in a new group of games designed for the younger set. Full-color photos and bold graphics plus traditional and original, specially created games make these the playthings children will return to again and again.

My First Picture Dominoes: Number fun for preschool children.

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OK...so it reads like an infomercial at times

fraud

For a beginner...give this book a chance

I paid for an infomercial!!!

Do NOT waste your money

How to Make Million$ in Real Estate in Three Years Starting with No Cash, Third Edition
Tyler Hicks
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Buy, Rent and Sell: How to Profit by Investing in Residential Real Estate

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Release Date: 2000-07-04

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Updated to reflect current market trends and economic realities, the ultimate insider's guide to transforming a minimal, or even zero investment, into a personal real estate empire.

Stocks may soar and crash, but one investment constantly increases in value: choice real estate. Tyler G. Hicks, a world-renowned authority and best-selling author on the subject of real estate investments, shares his proven strategies for finding and financing properties with wealth- building power. Current, comprehensive, and reliable, this guide delivers the know-how and hands-on tools to build a real estate fortune in a few short years--with little or no cash required.

Filled with true stories of men and women who have followed Hicks' methods with amazing, get-rich-quick results, How To Make Million$ In Real Estate In Three Years Starting With No Cash emphasizes "safe" risks, savvy borrowing, and pyramid investments. Exploring a wide range of options--from single-family homes to malls, from vacant land to offshore waters--this resource leads the way to not only fast but lasting financial success.

Page after page, this book comes through with incredible insider secrets--including how to sell the rights to thin air for hard cash. This completely updated edition also features an extensive directory, listing thousands of sources for additional information and guidance.

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OK...so it reads like an infomercial at times.......2006-10-17

By page 3, upon reading "if you decide to come visit me at my office, give me a heads up..." I knew I was in for a laugh. The guy comes off as some kind of naive country bumpkin / used car salesman at times. True. Nevetheless he does lay out some interesting Real Estate financing methods, most of them real long shots though, but hey who's counting...

Table of Contents

World's Best Borrowed Money Business
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fraud.......2005-06-23

fraud. don't buy.
this guy and the guy that sells "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About" are probably best friends.

Here's the sequence of steps I took reading this book:
1. started reading it.
2. found out it's a fraud. (you can tell after about the 3rd page)
3. ripped book in half and threw it in garbage. (congradulations! this is the ONLY book I have ever done this to in my ENTIRE life!)

tyler hicks, like practically all infomercial and telemarketting sales people - is a money grubbing shyster.

For a beginner...give this book a chance.......2005-01-17

This was the first real estate investing book I have ever read. Let me tell you...This book pumped me up. I was so motivated to start investing that I immediatley read three other books on investing. In my opinion, he really gets the "creative juices" flowing.

Are there many details and how to's in the book? No. However, he does give you the big picture which is all you really need to get started. After I read this book, I made about 100K on a little condo by the beach. I learned many things along the way...but this book at least got me motivated, gave me some simple ideas, and got me off to a good start. If you want some more details take a look at some other books. But to get started....hey why not...read this book. Oh and by the way, he will try to sell you a newsletter..who cares? The guy know how to make money, so i think you should listen. Good Luck

I paid for an infomercial!!!.......2004-09-08

Don't be ripped-off! HONESTLY, the only reason this book rated 1 1/2 stars is because there is no zero-star option. Almost every page is a shameless plug for the author's newsletter and other financial wares. In between these nauseating self promotions is advice such as "when dealing with a commercial lender, try to negotiate a lower interest rate." DUUUHHHH!!! I never would have thought of that! If you need such advice, I will gladly sell you my slightly used book . . . and I have a bridge in Brooklyn. Seriously, don't waste your money!

Do NOT waste your money.......2004-05-04

Readers, If you are curious about real estate investing, then take my word for it, this book is NOT what you are looking for.
The author spends the whole time pretty much giving you a pep talk about just getting out and and making offers to people for a hundred percent plus in financing and while im not saying that you couldnt get that, I am saying that this book does not tell you anything that a little common sense wouldnt tell you. And common sense is free. Plus the whole book is like one big plug for the authors other businesses that hes trying to sell you. I felt like I paid money for an infomercial!!!! I dont know what book to recommend to you, dear reader, but this is NOT it.
Thanks for your time.

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