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Any avid snow visitor will find this guide to the top European resorts compelling and useful.......2006-06-24

Any avid snow visitor will find this guide to the top European resorts compelling and useful, picking the top 50 of such resorts for close inspection. 'Close' means that details include overviews of instruction, schools and academies, descriptions of resort mountains and ability ranges, tips on events, accommodation, and eating out nearby: in short, everything a planner needs to make the most out of snow season in Europe.

Diane C. Donovan
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Today the telephone can supplement-in some cases even replace-traditional means of marketing and selling. This guide shows how to generate more leads, sales, repeat business, and referrals by phone and will be welcomed by small- and medium-sized businesses as well as by professional telemarketers and sales representatives.

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Too Basic.......2003-04-22

Not a bad book, but too basic for anyone but a real beginner in telephone selling. Contains a few pieces of good information, but not worth spending money on this book for the small return on investment. Get it from the library if you must read it. Spend money on books for your library that you'll refer to again and again such as Successful Cold Calling by Lee Boran, High Probability Selling by Jacques Werth, and I'd Rather Have a Root Canal Than Do Cold Calling by Shawn Greene.

Impressive TITLE!.......2003-02-09

Impressive TITLE is ONLY what this book it is all about. The author Robert W. Bly begin terrifying the lectors by narrating negative remarks about our economic in general. Scaring the enthusiastic entrepreneurs to Fly Solo.

Great Starter or even Refresher........2001-10-13

I found the book an easy read and there were a few important nuggets that made the book worth the money. I have been selling for years and prospect and provide customer service via phone, but most of my 'selling' occurs in person. This book focuses on selling on the phone. Bly makes this distinction up front between telemarketing and teleselling, which I found helpful.

If you are new to telesales and need help really putting some framework to your day, this is a great book to start with and then move on.

The reason I did not give this book 5 stars is because there were no "Aha's" in it. But I will give it to my new salespeople and have them read it.

Buy all books from Robert Bly... except this one.......2001-07-13

Bly is a GREAT author and consultant on: direct mail, copywriting, writing in general, selling services and consulting services, business-to-business marketing. This book reflects what a marketing oriented copywriter might say about a field he's not intimately experienced with.

This book is appropriate for someone in the consulting area that is just beginning telephone sales. For someone who is already doing it, or has a small library of books in this area... you might be disappointed.

However, BUY ALL THE OTHER BOOKS BY BLY... and I'm serious. He is a great author on marketing and copywriting. Some of his other works are real gems (like the ones on business-to-business and direct marketing). I get the feeling that he wrote this book to flesh out his line of marketing books, and that has weakened it.

The better books in telephone selling are done by people who do it day in and day out. I bought all the materials from Bill Good, and also from Art Sobsczack (sp?) who has a newsletter is especially good for professionals. The kind of person who writes this kind of book needs to be a SALESMAN first, and a marketer second because most of the problems deal with tactical issues. Selling with paper (direct mail) is a different kettle of fish than figuring out what to say the gatekeeper.

John Dunbar

The Best Book Out There For Anyone Selling Over The Phone!.......1999-01-11

For someone just starting out in the sales business or someone that has been doing it for years, this book will be considered your bible. It gives you over 200 pages of pure useful information that you can put to test immediately. If you want to learn cold calling, scripts, techniques or just where to start, then this book is guaranteed to give you all the information you need and then some! Try it and see for yourself. No telephone salesman should be on the phone without first checking out this book. IT'S GREAT!

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This ever-popular series has been completely updated with new prices to reflect recent market trends. The fully illustrated pocket guides make the world of antiques accessible to a wider audience than ever before.

Each book provides a simple question-and-answer checklist for a broad range of representative items, telling readers what to look for and how to distinguish between the genuine article and a fake, an original, and a copy.

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Delightful.......2000-08-07

When we imagine heaven, we picture gardens. If there is a heaven with gardens, they must surely be like Vita Sackville-West's gardens at Sissinghurst. Mind you, when I read this book, I'm over-whelmed by a few sins, like greed and envy, and possibly lust, and I hope that doesn't disqualify me from heaven. I want gardens like these, never mind that the only thing green about me is envy, or that most of the plants won't grow in my climate.

This is a selected collection of gardening articles Vita Sackville-West wrote for The Observer, and charmingly illustrated with photographs and coloured sketches. Although there are gardening tips, it's a book to be read for pleasure. She wrote passionately and we can recklessly follow in our imagination, if not in reality.

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V. SACKVILLE-WEST: THE ILLUSTRATED GARDEN BOOK: A NEW ANTHOLOGY
Robin Lane Fox
Manufacturer: Atheneum
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0718126602

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"...Because of Bosworth's artistry, her ability to choose the right details, and her own immersion in the subject...[this book] is an amazing excursion into a life." -New York Times Book Review "It stands as the definitive work on the gifted, haunted actor." -Los Angeles Times "Here it is - the real thing - inside Montgomery CLift. I've known other actors as well, but none with such a harrowing tale. I kept wondering, could Patricia Bosworth have been there? Everywhere? The book is that vivid and intimate." -Elia Kazan

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a fantastic gossipy read.......2007-09-07

I read the whole thing in almost a day..you won't be able to put it down..I had no idea he was so messed up..I think an institution would have did him well. His own private shrink took his money but never truly tried to help him. His friends deserted him when he got really bad..it's pretty sad..but that's fickle Hollywood..
It's too bad he didn't believe in himself alittle more..seems he was very hung up(vanity) on his good looks and he must have thought that was his only vehicle at staying in the movies. Perhaps Hollywood agreed. They treated him very poorly after his car accident. Hollywood was obsessed with putting beautiful people on film. really too bad. He was also hung up on being a real and true "artist" trying to rewrite all the scripts of the movies he was in and being combatitive with directors. He really caused his own anguish most of the time. Get over it Monty!

I'm So Sorry.......2007-03-19

I'm not at all attracted to biographies of Hollywood stars although I must have read at least one of the many bios of Marilyn Monroe. Ms Patricia Bosworth's biography of Montgomery Clift got such universal praise I decided to give it a go. Having read the book I now understand why she was heaped with praise. It is, quite simply, one of the most compelling bigraphies I have ever read, a story of beauty, privilege and talent gone seriously wrong. Ms Bosworth unfolds the story of Clift's life at a wonderful pace in clear, strong language that gave me the sense of being in Monty's presence not being removed at a distance observing him. She takes us through all of the triumphs and tragedies of his life supported by an interesting cast of mid-20th century characters ( both famous and unknown) with an even hand and a fine eye for detail. I couldn't help liking Clift although by the conclusion of his life he was so screwed up that there wasn't much of a person left. Bosworth completely engaged me from beginning to end with this tragic life story and by the time I was finished I wept saying out loud "I'm so sorry", "I'm so sorry". Highly recommended!

Hollywood Hell.......2007-01-30

A broken life and talent... drugs and alcohol used to soothe the stress of having to cover up being gay... I'm a hetrosexual female but I've seen too many gifted friends go down this road. Montgomery Clift could be a poster child for the misery of leading a double life. This is such a well-written book that you may find yourself wanting to cry for this Hollywood star's lost life.

Monty: Going Over The Clift.......2006-09-13

Montgomery Clift was certainly a troubled darling of the later 1940's and early 1950s,an actor who starred in "A Place in the Sun," "From Here to Eternity," "Suddenly Last Summer,"and "Raintree County." He played gentle and sensitive, empathetic, suffering, almost androgynous. He was extremely handsome before the serious automobile accident that nearly killed him; he got to play with Hollywood's best (and its worst), and he surely followed the adage "live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse."

This biography, by the former actress, and experienced, well-connected journalist Patricia Bosworth is more than fair. She has done a great deal of research: Clift was secretive about his life and kept his friends in compartments. She found a lot of people, and got them talking. Furthermore, she tackles his life with understanding and sympathy.

Clift was born to an overpowering, suffocating woman who was a demented snob: she allowed her clouded descent from two of the South's finer families to ruin her own, and her children's lives. His weak father was bankrupted by the Depression of the 1930s, giving Monty, the beautiful teenager, the chance to escape Mom and head for the New York stage. He was an immediate hit, taken up by such esteemed actors as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, and taking up,, in turn, with the older torch singer Libby Holman, and many others, male and female: he seems to have been a true bisexual. He went to Hollywood, and was again an immediate hit, worldwide. But he continued to live around the corner from, and have to fight his mother for, breathing room. He did not handle either his fame, or his family problems well, and drifted into drink, drugs, and unpleasant perversions. In the late 50's, he left Elizabeth Taylor's California house stoned, and had the car accident that devastated his face, and his nerves. Despite the interventions of Taylor and other devoted friends, he was broke and considered unemployable when he died young, but not particularly prematurely, if you consider his life. He is buried, oddly enough, in Brooklyn, New York, in the famous Green-wood Cemetery.

Bosworth is quite deft in describing the interiors of Clift's life, and his inner circles. One man reminisces about his first meeting with Clift,"' ....he stared at me with those strange unblinking eyes of his. It was as if he was stripping me bare psychologically.'"

She quotes a friend about Clift's relationship with his mother,"'He may have said he hated her, but Sunny remained the most important person in his life, and he was maddened by this. They still had a very close, almost conspiratorial relationship. Early on she had confided in him all of her secrets--now they were two-faced with each other. Sunny was always tender and affectionate when they were together; when speaking about him to other people she was often unduly harsh.'"

And another friend,"' It didn't matter what sex you were. If Monty really liked you -- man or woman you ultimately went to bed with him. If he liked you, he couldn't keep his hands off you-- touching --caressing-- hugging-- he was very physical, and very, very affectionate. And of course he was always passing out with you and then you were undressing him and putting him to bed and finally you were ending up in bed with him too.'"

Montgomery Clift was always compelling in his performances. So is his life, as recounted here by Bosworth, though you are watching him go over the cliff.

Fascinating Bio for new fans and diehards, alike.......2006-04-24

Bosworth has written a comprehensive and highly readable biography of this immensely talented and troubled actor. A compelling page turner with plenty of interesting photographs, too, this juicy read presents a balanced, objective look at one of the 20th Century's most intriguing artists.

Whether you have an extensive or only passing knowledge of Montgomery Clift, you will find his story worth reading...along with one of the most colorful supporting casts in modern history!

A note to the editor: there are several typos in this edition! How the heck does that happen???

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Brilliant record of a unique star

Montgomery Clift: Beautiful Loser
Barney Hoskyns
Manufacturer: Grove Pr
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Brilliant record of a unique star.......2000-03-02

Montgomery Clift was called, by Spencer Tracy, "the finest actor" of his generation. This is a truthful, candid, but respectful record of his life and times, from the constraints of his overprotected childhood, through his early theatrical and movie fame to his untimely death of heart failure at 45. It is illustrated with both movie stills and rare, previously unpublished candids, which show Monty's strengths and weaknesses as an actor and as a man. Barney Hoskyns has written an engaging, often amusing text. He does not try to provide any glib answers to Monty's decline and fall, but does share some wry insights. The book is beautifully presented. While it is obviously for the fans, it is no vacuous, "pop-star" style work, but a solid tribute to a great star.

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montgomery clift, a biography
patricia bosworth
Manufacturer: harcourt brace
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Binding: Hardcover
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homophobic bio of a homosexual
soap opera version of monty clift
It's almost if you were right there watching Monty!
A short, talented, and tormented life -- Montgomery Clift

Monty: A Biography of Montgomery Clift
Robert Laguardia
Manufacturer: Arbor House Pub Co
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homophobic bio of a homosexual.......2006-03-20

This book is worth reading for its information, and the author's style is not bad, if a little wooden. However, the book drips scorn of 'homosexuals' and Monty's lovers are referred to by pseudonyms. Even for a book published in 1977 this is irritating to have to put up with. Laguardia apparently felt that the three chief loves of the actor's life - all men - should be ignored as much as possible, while even his most minor hetero friends are given center stage. I have not yet read the other bios, but surely there must be something better than this.

soap opera version of monty clift.......2000-01-24

this book has a few redeeming qualities but overall it is a book written to fit robert laguardia's belief that monty was some sort of god cast out of heaven due to his own hysterical behavior.there is very little in depth knowledge regarding films or montys approach to acting, only vague stereotypes meant to fit in laguardias angle.i highly suggest you read Patricia Bosworths bio. still in print. she actually knew him and is partial in her writing. one more thing the only other book r.la guardia wrote was a book about the days of our lives soap opera.

It's almost if you were right there watching Monty!.......1998-10-18

An excellent book. I recommend it to anyone interested in Post-World War II film history. Mr. Laguardia truly brings the life of this tragic actor into your heart. It will make you want to run out and rent Monty's movies. Because you know what he went through to make it. Laguardia's biography makes you want to truly be there to help Monty throught all his troubles. While I was reading the biography, I wanted to go back in time and be there. I loved the book. This is my third time reading it. It's a book you don't want to put down.

A short, talented, and tormented life -- Montgomery Clift.......1997-07-05

Raised in an unconvential family, giving him nearly unlimited access to exceptional opportunities, Montgomery Clift reached a pinnacle of dramatic achievement. Due to unknown reasons, or perhaps due to a chronic back injury he sustained in a car accident, Clift became involved in heavy narcotic usage such that his credibility as an insurable actor was compromised. LaGuardia states that the film "Freud" was filmed in 'a state of chaos,' with severe frustration and criticism from director John Huston, due to Clift's 'inability to function.' Ironically, the night one of his finest films was shown on TV, Clift lay in his bed in the dark, unable or unwilling to join his houseman in watching it. The next morning he was found dead, apparently from a heart attack.

Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, who together accomplished and popularized the "extreme close-up" in films with their on-screen radiance in "A Place in the Sun," were close friends until his death. When Clift was considered "uninsurable" due to rumors of his narcotic addiction, Taylor put up an exorbitant bond to cover his appearance in "Raintree County."

LaGuardia demonstrates a wealth of detailed information throughout this chronicle of one of the most skilled actors of our time. It is worth the read for those interested in the actor or in film history. I have read other bios of Clift and there is no comparison to the detail LaGuardia offers. I was even able to walk past the apartment in which Clift died in NYC and imagine what the floorplan inside might look like. I recommend this book to Clift aficinados as the primary source of information on his short, talented, and tormented life.

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Monty - A Biography of Montgomery Clift
Robert LaGUARDIA
Manufacturer: Avon
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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The Films of Montgomery Clift
Judith Kass
Manufacturer: Lyle Stuart
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Solid Research and skillful writing

Five for Hollywood
John Parker
Manufacturer: Carol Publishing Corporation
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Solid Research and skillful writing.......2006-01-18

This book is a portrait of the lives and times of five of the biggest stars of the 1950's- Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Natalie Wood, Monty Clift and James Dean. As well as the long extinct HollyWood Studio system that played a large role in helping to create almost all of them. (James Dean as everyone knows pretty much created his own image in defiance of the system.}
There may not be much new information in this book, but some of it was based on personal interviews and correspondence. Once such correspondence was with Elizabeth Taylor as late as 1988.(The first Edition of the book came out in 1989)
The book is definitely worth reading. It is well researched and I liked the way the writer was able to condense the tumultuous events of 5 lives and the books time span of 40 years or so into
297 pages without taking any of the depth away from the extraordinary lives of these remarkable people.

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Montgomery Clift

Manufacturer: Limelight Editions
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Montgomery Clift
Maurice Leonard
Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton
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Montgomery Clift (Outlines)
David Lancaster
Manufacturer: Absolute Press
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Lanfranc of Pavia was archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089, and so for nineteen critical years in the history of the Anglo-Norman church and kingdom after the Norman conquest of 1066. He came to Canterbury with long experience of intellectual and ecclesiastical currents, including reforming currents, in mid-eleventh-century western Europe. At first concerned with the liberal arts, after migrating to Normandy he turned to sacred study; he commented upon the Pauline Epistles and engaged Berengar of Tours in eucharistic controversy. He became prominent in the fourishing monastic life of Normandy at Bec and as abbot of Duke William's foundation of Saint-Etienne at Caen. At Canterbury, he was King William's loyal and effective collaborator in renewing and reordering church life, using councils as a principal means. By no means a 'court-prelate', Lanfranc may be best characterized as a monk-archbishop, a role in which he was reinforced by being ex-officio abbot of a cathedral monastery at Canterbury. Canterbury's prestige and interests were a major concern; Lanfranc claimed for the see a primacy over the whole British Isles. Towards the great pope of his day, Gregory VII (1073-85), he was surprisingly cool. This is the first full scholarly study of Lanfranc for thirty years. It reconsiders his career and outstanding achievements in all major aspects, focusing on his qualities of wisdom, diligence, and statesmanship. It is an intelligent and considered historical biography which brings Lanfranc out from the shadow of his successor, St Anselm, and reveals him as among the very greatest of the archbishops of Canterbury.

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Lanfranc Scholar, Monk, and Archbishop
Herbert Edward John Cowdrey
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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