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Biology and Chemistry of Compositae
Manufacturer: Academic Press Inc.,U.S. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0123468019 |
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Slovakia: The Heart of Europe
Olga Drobna , Eduard Drobny , and Magdalena Gocnikova Manufacturer: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0865163197 |
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Jelkanem.......2007-01-03
Slovakia - Heart of Europe.......2006-07-05
A paen to all things Slovak.......2001-11-03
Enchanting introduction to the gateway country.......1999-02-05
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Slovensko Moje (Slovakia: The Heart of Europe)
Olga Drobna Manufacturer: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0865163189 |
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Slovakia is called the Heart of Europe. Slovakia: The Heart of Europe illustrates the culture and history of Slovakia -- its arts, architecture, cities, songs, holiday celebrations, leaders, mountains...Slovakia's past, present, and future..
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Changes of Changes: Society and Politics in Slovakia in the 20th Century
Manufacturer: Academic Electronic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8088880505 |
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Chief Joseph Guardian of His People
Elizabet Montgomery Manufacturer: UNSPECIFIED VENDOR ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UPC4AE |
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Chief Joseph Guardian of His People
Elizabeth Rider Montgomery Manufacturer: A Yearling Book/ Dell Publishing Co Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NPPS6I |
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Chief Joseph Guardian of His People
Elizabeth Rider Montgomery Manufacturer: A Yearling Book/ Dell Publishing Co Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000J1BNCY |
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Chief Joseph, guardian of his people (Garrard Indian books)
Elizabeth Rider Montgomery Manufacturer: Garrard Pub. Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0811666069 |
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Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement
Anthony Robbins Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0684845776 |
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Anthony Robbins calls it the new science of personal achievement. You'll call it the best thing that ever happened to you.If you have ever dreamed of a better life, Unlimited Power will show you how to achieve the extraordinary quality of life you desire and deserve, and how to master your personal and professional life. Anthony Robbins has proven to millions through his books, tapes, and seminars that by harnessing the power of the mind you can do, have, achieve, and create anything you want for your life. He has shown heads of state, royalty, Olympic and professional athletes, movie stars, and children how to achieve. With Unlimited Power, he passionately and eloquently reveals the science of personal achievement and teaches you:
* How to find out what you really want
* The Seven Lies of Success
* How to reprogram your mind in minutes to eliminate fears and phobias
* The secret of creating instant rapport with anyone you meet
* How to duplicate the success of others
* The Five Keys to Wealth and Happiness
Unlimited Power is a revolutionary fitness book for the mind. It will show you, step by step, how to perform at your peak while gaining emotional and financial freedom, attaining leadership and self-confidence, and winning the cooperation of others. It will give you the knowledge and the courage to remake yourself and your world. Unlimited Power is a guidebook to superior performance in an age of success.
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Required reading for life, possibly the best book ever on personal achievment.......2007-10-12
I LOVED THE BOOK...EXCEPT FOR ONE THING.......2007-07-03
The Best of Its Kind.......2007-07-03
Important, well-done, and inspirational.......2007-04-30
A True Inspiration! .......2007-02-25
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2-book Set By Anthony Robbins; Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical & Financial Destiny! & Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
Anthony Robbins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WBK502 |
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2-book set
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Unlimited Power : The New Science of Personal Achievement
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HNRDC8 |
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Unlimited Power The New Science of Personal Achievement
Anthony Robbins Manufacturer: Nightingale Court ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: B000UXVDEE |
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Quest for Excellence: Hanover Shoe Farms--The First 75 Years
Dean A. Hoffman Manufacturer: Russell Meerdink Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0929346742 |
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Here is the story of Hanover Shoe Farms, truly one of the great breeding farms of the world. Hanover began breeding horses before Lindbergh flew the Atlantic, before the first Hambletonian was run, and before Al Jolson starred in the first talking motion picture.Through the years, Hanover-bred horses have earned about $400 million and the offspring of its stallions over the years total nearly $1 billion. The Hanover story is about the people who made the farm great and those who continue the tradition of excellence. It is about the great broodmares and stallions that produced some of the best horses the harness racing world has seen. It is about the vision and work of the Hanover team as they embark on a new century.
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Price Guide for Collectible Playing Cards: Non-standard
harry Wastrack Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1413493297 |
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Playing cards have been around a thousand years or more and are infinite in their variety. This makes playing cards and complete decks rich in history and every bit as collectible as coins and postage stamps.The Price Guide for Collectible Playing Cards is intended to be a basic resource for collectors of playing cards and decks of playing cards and to give at least some idea of what different decks of cards may be worth among other collectors.
Volume I presents examples of different decks in the categories of Advertising, Humor, Patience, Pinup, and Transportation.
Volume II presents examples of different decks in the categories of Standard and Souvenier.
Volume III presents examples of different decks categorized as Non-Standard.
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Country Living Gardener Gardening Basics: How to Design, Plant & Maintain Your Garden
Ken Beckett , Steven Bradley , Noel Kingsbury , and Tim Newbury Manufacturer: Hearst ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0806924292 |
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The Vedic Morning Litany - Prataranuvaka (Asian Studies)
J. Gonda Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 9004064214 |
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Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters
John Gielgud Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1559707550 |
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A Visit To How It Was..........2007-04-30
To Be or Not to Be? Find out about John Gielgud through his letters.......2005-09-08
Wonderful Summertime or Anytime Read.......2004-06-25
So, here's not just a life ideally presented, but a life worth knowing about, since Gielgud was one of the three or four greatest English-speaking actors of the twentieth century.
Also, we have the experience of Gielgud's films, which flesh out for us this man of letters (literally and figuratively, since Gielgud was the first actor to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford.) As was also pointed out in the Post review, Gielgud was not just a great actor but a gifted writer, so we have the treat of beautiful prose, rendered in the service of a rich history: this man knew and had opinions about almost everything and everyone that mattered in the performing arts, especially the stage and screen.
Through thess letters, we also end up knowing something about the luminaries of the world Gielgud inhabited and moved about in with complete ease. Gielgud writes conversationally, candidly and competently to and about people we only dream of knowing - Shaw, Coward, Gish, Lunt and Fontaine, Olivier and Leigh, Selznick, Richardson, Guinness, Stravinsky, Brando.... Amazing! And in such a natural, unassuming way that there's not even a hint of name dropping or self-promotion, which is so tiresome in today's celebrity interviews and memoirs.
Here is a great actor, director, producer and impresario, who takes his work seriously and has a glorious time doing it, who loves and is loved and who lives into his 90s. If only everyone could be so lucky. On second thought, it wasn't just luck...
One quibble: The picture selection is very poor. If one didn't know better, they might think that Gielgud was born middle-aged. But this is Gielgud's book, and kudos to John Mangan, whose enormous work of collecting, collating and editing has made it so.
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Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000
Jonathan Croall Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0826413331 |
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Theatrical and Human Excellence of the Highest Quality.......2002-08-14
Croall necessarily discusses Gielgud's homosexuality and does so with intelligence and sensitivity. This dimension of his private life is of interest to me, frankly, only insofar as it helps me to gain a better understanding and appreciation of an actor so compelling on stage or screen. It remains for Croall and others better qualified than I am to suggest to what extent Gielgud's homosexuality guided and nourished his talent.
Of all that Croall reveals about Gielgud, the qualities I found most appealing are his kindness, generosity, and moral courage. There are dozens of examples of each. I was also amazed to learn the nature and extent of his career which began in 1921 and continued almost until his death in 2000 at the age of 96. Croall interviewed more than 100 of those who knew Gielgud best. It is worth noting that most of his co-workers were among his closest and most devoted personal friends. True to character, he endured criticism and betrayal by others with uncommon style and grace. Even after his beloved companion John Perry left him for the producer Binkie Beaumont, for example, Gielgud continued to assist Perry's career, directing and acting in plays he had written. In comparable circumstances, few others would have been so forgiving, much less so supportive. Gielgud's life does indeed illustrate both theatricality and humanity of the very highest quality.
The definitive Gielgud.......2002-04-24
What I appreciated most about Croall's book was that he doesn't accept much of the Gielgud legend at face value, but looks at it logically and sometimes ponders the accuracy of many famous stories. The most stunning example of this is the famous swapping of the roles of Romeo and Mercutio by Olivier and Gielgud in the famous New Theater production of 1936. Legend has it that this swap was intended as a way of showing off the King of Shakespearean Tragedy (Gielgud) and the Heir Apparent (Olivier). Croall points out that this is probably hindsight talking: that in fact Olivier had no significant classical experience at that point in his career, and that the swap was probably intended by Gielgud and producer Binkie Beaumont as a means of insuring the production against failure if Olivier's reviews were poor (they were). The narrative is studded with such interesting and well-thought theorizing, while at the same time laying out Gielgud's life with intricate and accurate detail.
Croall paints Olivier as a fascinating antagonist in the narrative, but he also provides so many interesting details of Gielgud's professional and personal life that the reader finishes the book feeling that he has lived one of the most distinguished theatrical lives in history along with the book's topic. Croall's work is a fascinating study of a fascinating man.
Length Without Depth (keep it on top of the tank).......2001-10-19
4.6 stars: A silver trumpet muffled in silk.......2001-08-11
Gielgud's early career was, of course, spent on the stage; he balked at making films with any regularity until he was about 50 years old. His performance of "Hamlet" at the Old Vic is legendary, and he was justly lionized. We learn more than we ever knew about some of the figures in those early days: Mrs Patrick Campbell, Edith Evans, Sybil Thorndike, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. Of course, the legacy of his mother's side of the family, the Terrys, was continued in Sir John (his great-aunt Ellen Terry was the actress of her age, & recipient of many tributes from, among others, Oscar Wilde). We learn that the family name "Gielgud" is Polish, and was originally "Gielgaudski."
There is the expected contrasting of Sir John with Laurence, Lord Olivier; and in Croall's book, Olivier does not come off very well, intensely competitive to the point of being resentful, brash to the point of arrogance.
We learn of Gielgud as director for many stage productions, and the ideas that bubbled forth from him with an ebullient profusion that proved vexing to many actors, bewildered by many changes suggested and usually retracted; but none (or very few) of the actors who worked with him in this capacity doubted his good intentions, or his dedication.
We learn of Gielgud's arrest in 1953, shortly after his knighthood, for "the importuning of male persons for immoral purposes." We need not be ardently progressive to deplore the atmosphere in England and elsewhere during that time; and we cannot help but admire the grace & the humility with which Gielgud, supported by many friends in the theatre, handled the distressing episode.
We learn of Gielgud's frequent collaborations with Sir Ralph Richardson, a partnership that lasted until Richardson's death in 1983, and encompassed material from Shakespeare to Harold Pinter; we see Gielgud working with Alec Guinness and Richard Burton in the early stages of both men's careers; we are witness to the Gielgud/Burton collaboration on a production of "Hamlet," Burton as Hamlet and Gielgud as director, and the almost uncritical admiration that the younger man had for the older.
We learn of Gielgud's innumerable -- mostly unmalicious -- conversational gaffes, usually generated by his forgetting who was in the room or who he was talking to. Sir John became known as "the London Brick Factory" for dropping so many conversational "bricks." Once when dining with a friend named Eddie Knoblock, Sir John was spotted by someone in another part of the restaurant; this "someone" waved hello, and sat down. Gielgud turned to his dining companion and said, "Thank God he didn't join us; he's a bigger bore than Eddie Knoblock."
Mostly, we are reminded of John Gielgud's formidable accomplishments in Shakespeare, and his fluency in speaking verse. It was Alec Guinness who described Gielgud's voice as "a silver trumpet muffled in silk."
The first three-fifths of Jonathan Croall's biography deal with the first 40 or 45 years of Gielgud's life; many of the actors mentioned have since faded from prominence or from memory, as have a few of the plays. Whereas John Simon in his New York Times review says that Croall's book is perfectly proportioned, this reader was eager to get to the 1950's and beyond, when Gielgud played in films both good and bad ("Arthur" and "Providence" among the good; "Scandalous" and "Caligula" among the bad), always imbuing the role at hand with a seemingly effortless elegance. Characteristically, Gielgud spent his ninety-sixth and last birthday working. It was indeed a life immersed in acting, if not precisely "a theatrical life." And for all the accomplishments and justly rendered honours (including the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue), Arthur John Gielgud played his part with grace & an admirable humility.
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JOHN GIELGUD AN ACTOR'S LIFE
BRANDRETH Manufacturer: SUTTON ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000S5YO9A |
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John Gielgud: An Actor's Life
Gyles Brandreth Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0750926902 |
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This celebration of John Gielgud tells the extraodinary story of a unique actor, film star and director who, at 78, won Oscar for his role in Arthur.
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John Gielgud: An Actor's Life
Gyles Brandreth Manufacturer: Sutton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000ME2H1E |
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The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings
Colin Richmond Manufacturer: Manchester University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0719059909 |
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The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings. .(Book Review): An article from: Albion
Lori A. Gates Manufacturer: North American Conference on British Studies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008G42NC Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Albion, published by North American Conference on British Studies on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 847 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.Books:
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