The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and Our World

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This book inspired the CauseShopper website..........2006-08-22

Marc Allen's Ten Percent Solution, and it's larger counterpart "Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success" inspired me to start giving as corporate philosophy and responsibility. This book and Paul Newman's company inspired me to provide an online directory of these "ten percent" businesses called CauseShopper.

I highly recommend the book, and I hope that you will try these practices in your business.

John Huff, President
CauseShopper

100% Praise for The 10% Solution.......2006-06-06

I enjoy non-fiction. I especially like books on business, finance, self-help, and whatever I can learn from to better myself. I especially enjoy easy to read books and this is one of them. I read the book in just a few hours compared to books that take days. This is a book for real people with a normal vocabulary and average intelligence, like myself. The author asks the reader to dismiss many of the negative thoughts that we've all been given over the years. The book explains how just a 10% saving commitment from income (regardless of your income) can multiply into some serious savings for the future. The formula on page 48 is startling as to how money compounds, whether you have $100 a month or $1000 a month available. Start TODAY!!! Any book that teaches (or reinforces) ideas or lessons is worth its cost. Learn how affirmations can turn your dreams into realities and how only 10% of your income can be used to build a better life for yourself and for others. Don't just put this on your wish list... Buy It Now!!!

Small Percentage = Big Gains.......2006-04-19

This book was a great, easy read about the basics of simplicity with your life and finances. I would recommend reading it with other financial books to give you a well-rounded balance of ideas regarding money.

Brilliant, concise outline of New Age personal finance.......2005-11-05

Like many other self-improvement books, the author draws life lessons from his own experience, in this case facing down the financial pressures many middle class Americans feel and finding meaning in the solutions he found to deal with them. In a nutshell, he advocates saving ten percent of one's earnings, donating another ten percent, and becoming socially active. Numerous other authors have prescribed these remedies, most notably Dominguez and Robin in "Your Money or Your Life", but none with such economy of language. This is great inspiration for those just starting to think about getting out of their ruts, particularly for those with the imagination to apply the ideas in their own situation without specific guidance from the author.

The Place Dreams are Born.......2002-06-21

In the Steven Spielberg film Artificial Intelligence, there is twice the reference to "the place dreams are born". The Ten Percent Solution is that kind of place, a place in our heart and mind, a place of genuine goodness, simple honesty -these days called "transparency"-and healthy idealism. It contains practical keys to personal fulfillment and, if widely applied, to planetary paradise. These truths may be age old, from the richest of spiritual traditions, but they are one hundred percent applicable now, and desperately needed. We need only read and put into practice this little masterpiece.

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Federal Labor Laws: 1998
West Group
Manufacturer: West Pub Co
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Official Guide to the Perkins Act of 1998: The Authoritative Guide to Federal

Manufacturer: Association for Career & Technical Education
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1997-1998 guide to state & federal drug-testing laws: Including relevant workers' compensation and unemployment compensation statutory and case law : legislative ... and legal requirements in the private sector
Mark A De Bernardo
Manufacturer: Institute for a Drug-Free Workplace
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1998-1999 guide to state & federal drug-testing laws: Legislative and legal requirements in the private sector, including relevant workers' compensation ... compensation statutes and case law
Mark A De Bernardo
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Federal Labor Laws, Twentieth Edition 1998
West Group
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Higher Education Act Amendments of 1998 : report of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, together with additional views to accompany S. 1882 (SuDoc Y 1.1/5:105-181)
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
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The impact of federal workplace agencies, programs, and laws on the American worker: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of ... held in Washington, DC, April 28, 1998
United States
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ASIN: 0160577144

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Information technology is arguably the most important scientific topic needed for understanding and participating in our increasingly complex technological world. Using simple physical arguments and extensive examples, Information and Measurement, Second Edition shows how this theory can be put into practice. Twice awarded the UK National Metrology Prize by the National Physical Laboratory for his outstanding contributions to measurement science and technology, the author includes the basic mathematical, physical, and engineering concepts required, illustrating their interrelationship in a clear, concise manner. The broad coverage includes topics taught in a variety of courses. This book will be an invaluable study aid for senior undergraduate and graduate students in physics, electrical engineering, and computer science, specifically studying instrumentation, measurement science, and information science. It will also be a useful reference for practicing scientists and engineers.

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A penetrating look at Bob Stupak, controversial casino owner and builder of the Stratosphere Tower, the tallest structure west of the Mississippi. Between his early years as the son of a notorious gambling operator in Pittsburgh and the grand opening of the Stratosphere, Stupak raced motorcycles, hustled coupons, gambled for high stakes, and battled the mob while he ran the infamous Vegas World casino.

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Love this one..........2004-04-21

stories of these types of guys are fascinating. His first hour ever in Vegas and he blows 12,000 bucks, on marker. Proceeded to go right back to the airport and flew home to Pittsburg. But he fell in love with the place. He didnt go back as a gambler, but to get where the real money is, with intentions on becoming a casino owner. After more than 7 years(most of them in Australia - you'll have to read it) he had acguired a substantial grubstake and headed off to Vegas. He runs an ad in the paper looking investment opportunities. Although the ad did not directly produce investment results, it did provide him with some very important connections. He buys a vacant lot far off the strip, gets licensed, builds a casino, adds a hotel and self-promotes his ass off. To fill in the blanks and know the rest, you gotta read it yourself. He even had ties, loosely at best, to Anthony Spiltro, the real life mobster the Joe Pesci character was based on in Casino. I love this one.

The Stratosphere.......2002-10-29

Most interesting...biography of Bob Stupak. Easy read. If you wonder where did the idea of the Stratosphere come from... this has the answers. Bob Stupak is a fascinating gentleman, this tells his story. I just returned from a visit to Vegas and went to the top of Stratosphere, road the High Roller Roller Coaster and took the Big Shot...came across this book while in Vegas and couldn't put it down. Gives background of several casinos and the personalities involved with them... recommend it.

Dull Treatment of a Fascinating Subject.......2001-03-13

I almost bought this book but was fortunate enough to find a copy at my local public library. (I heartily recommend that alternative to buying the book if you have a choice.) I started reading it with great anticipation, but was disappointed off the bat by all the filler material on Bob Stupak's father, Chester. Yeah, sure, the old man was a great influence on his son, but two paragraphs would have sufficed! Next, I kept expecting to read interesting anecdotes about Vegas World, one of the funkiest gambling joints the world will ever know--the very epitome of cheesy. However, the stories just aren't there, and it is a major shortcoming. Finally, even the manner in which the author addresses the great plunge the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino took after it opened in 1996 makes that event--the repercussions of which are still felt today in Las Vegas--seem anticlimactic and irrelevant.

In short, the tower, which Stupak originally conceived as a cash cow, turned out to be his biggest folly and the instrument of his demise. That is the real story of Bob Stupak, but you won't get it in this jumbled, incoherent tome.

Fascinating.......1999-04-14

Great book. Being a regular Las Vegas visitor I have always been intrigued by the incredible Stratosphere Tower and Casino, and wanted to learn a bit more about Bob Stupak, the Stratosphere creator and infamous Vegas personality. What a fascinating life Stupak has had. Everything from his motorcycle racing days, to his early struggles of trying to succeed in the cutthroat Vegas gaming industry. Here is a man with an 8th grade education that overcame staggering odds to become one of the most successful independent operators in the city. He survived a heavy handed Nevada Gaming Control Board, as well as a motorcycle accident that nearly killed him. There is a lesson in this book for all of us. The key word is DETERMINATION! I hope one day my travels in Vegas will give me the opportunity to meet Mr. Stupak, who no matter what you think of him, has left a lasting impression on the Las Vegas skyline that will be a reminder of him for years to come.

In this book Smith wrote a much better story than the hatchet job he did on casino mogul Steve Wynn. Hey John how about a book on one of the true gentleman gaming legends in Vegas, none other than Jackie Gaughan? If written in the even handed manner of your Stupak book, I'll be the first buyer in line!!

Very good read for those interested in Las Vegas.......1998-05-18

Stupak is a figure who inspires strong (and usually negative) reactions in those interested in Las Vegas. Smith, however, delivers what seems to be an even-handed discussion of the man, and what he's done for Las Vegas, both good and bad. A quick and fascinating read.

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Losing It
Wonderful
A chilling look at gambling and love.
Barthelme's Best Book
A slamming book.

Bob the Gambler
Frederick Barthelme
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss

ASIN: 039592474X

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A New York Times Notable Book In this darkly funny story, Ray and Jewel Kaiser try (and push) their luck at the Paradise casino. Peopled with dazed denizens, body-pierced children, a lusty grocery-store manager, and hourly employees in full revolt, this is a novel about wising up sooner rather than later--"a wise and funny tale" (New York Times Book Review) that is "masterfully observed" (John Barth).

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Losing It.......2003-06-27

The night after I finished this book I found myself before a slot machine in a small casino. I had a feeling and put a quarter in. I won and won again. I stuffed the quarters in my pockets but there were no buckets available. When I lost two quarters in a row I left. Unfortunately this was a dream and I awoke empty handed. Bob the Gambler is a beautifully observed, enviably perfect novel by a master who doesn't seem flashy because he stays within his means. It is also a surprisingly, even surreally loving story. The novel centers around the fissioned nuclear family of down-on-his luck Biloxi architect Bob Kaiser, a plump transplant moved by the Mississippi coastal decay before it was invaded by "gussied-up Motel 6 hotel rooms [and] an ocean of slicked-back hair," his pretty, witty, and wonderful wife of nine years Jewel, who is tough and stable, and yet the first to thirst for casino action, Jewel's daughter RV, an amazingly rendered, very sweet fourteen year old mid-90's teenager whom Bob adores, and Frank, the family dog. All the principals, as well as Bob's mother, whom we meet later in the book, are expert at the art of the cryptic tough-talking but secretly loving epigram. One of the great charms of this book is the depths of love of the family members both concealed by and revealed by their fragmented banter and quips. There are some wonderful moments and descriptions of daily life and teenage rearing, the euphoric swirl of casino gambling, and the decrepit Mississippi coast. The lasting impression one is left from this book, aside from the controlled brilliance of Barthelme's prose, is in my opinion a meditation on the meaning of money vis-à-vis love. Bob's wife's name, Jewel, is a token of facets of wealth unobtainable by any number of markers or wild infatuation-like risks; theirs, an irreducible love that includes and absorbs others (such as RV) in its understated wake, is the multicolored antithesis of liaisons such as those between David Duke (who make a cameo appearance)-and a sprightly young thing-of any coupling that can be price tagged, exchanged, or discarded. The casino and noncasino lights that surround Jewel, in her preternatural (and perhaps ultimately unrealistic, or at least extremely rare) stability, enact a preciousness beyond money and its temporary accumulations. They symbolize the nonmonetary values of the gift of being, the privilege not of accumulating but of existing-of the privilege of being alive, a spectator of phenomena in a world whose mortal decay, far from being its downfall, guarantees the preciousness of the light show it displays. Anyone who has taken junkets to Atlantic City may have noticed how on the flight there everyone chatters; they are full of excitement on hope. The way back is different. Everyone, or almost everyone has lost. They are quiet-until the plane lands, at which point they clap. Why? Because, although they have lost their money, they are newly appreciative of the far more precious gift of being alive. That is the mini-miracle, the lottery ticket, the stiff Barthelme hits for us in this wonderful paean to human frailty and true, tough love. In a way, Barthelme, his heart bigger than any red chip, says in this book the exact opposite of comedian Steven Wright's quip, "You can't have everything, where would you put it?" Barthelme says (with mathematician Paul Erdos) you do have everything, you have it all, already-you are infinitely rich.

Wonderful.......1999-12-01

I read this book as soon as it came out, have recommended it to friends, and just now purchased another copy as a gift. It's one of the best books I've read in years. The characters are so acutely observed, the dialogue so on target, that I got carried away with it. The well-written gambling scenes made my hands sweat at points. And the ending -- the ending is absolutely perfect.

A chilling look at gambling and love........1999-06-22

Barthelme's new book is fantastic. Rich in detail like his earlier "Two Against One," and chilling in its ability to paint the down and out life of its characters.

Barthelme's Best Book.......1998-09-25

Gambling that brings you on the riverboat and gives you a glimpse of WHY people do it w/o maudlining out in a 12-step quagmire, ennui that doesn't make the book drag, hilarious man versus teenager (as funny/insightful as richard ford got it in Independence Day), interesting take on close/distant couples, and Mississippi like it is-- channel surfing, fast food eating, forget the mimosas and petticoats. And Piggly-Wiggly for one and all.

A slamming book........1998-08-30

Barthelme's latest may mine some of the same territory as his other books, but he handles the dark world around the pathetic gambling boats on the Gulf Coast so deftly that it all plays like a miniature masterpiece.

Bob Ryalls, Clubman, Lover, Gambler: An Anglo-American Story

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Bob Ryalls, Clubman, Lover, Gambler: An Anglo-American Story
J. Alexander Sheridan
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 054836883X

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Bob The Gambler
Frederick Bathelme
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co./Mariner
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Binding: Paperback
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Bob the Gambler 1ST Edition Signed
Frederick Barthelme
Manufacturer: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO@
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Gamblers Grifters and Good Ol' Boys
Bob Mason
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Bob The Gambler
Frederick Barthelme
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Bob the Gambler
Frederick BARTHELME
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