Uncommon Cents: Benjamin Franklin Secrets to Achieving Personal Financial Success

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Great Money Management Guide

It's back in print ! One of our favorite books.

A Must Read

Best ... book I ever bought

ESSENTIAL

Uncommon Cents: Benjamin Franklin Secrets to Achieving Personal Financial Success
Lynn G. Robbins , Lisa Vermillion , and Dennis Webb
Manufacturer: Franklin International Institute Leatherbound
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ASIN: 0939817063

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What if Benjamin Franklin were to manage your money?

Ben Franklin had an uncommon sense for sound money management. In this book we share the secrets which made him one of the wealthiest and most successful men in early American history. You will learn how to 1) control debt, 2) manage spending, and most importantly, 3) realize your financial dreams. Plain and practical advice for your money!

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Great Money Management Guide.......2007-01-20

This is one of the best systems to manage personal money accounts. A concise system if one uses it as it is laid out will provide the information to make informed personal financial decisions.

It's back in print ! One of our favorite books........2005-02-05

It's back in print!! My wife and I read and have tried to follow the advice in this entertaining and useful book. (We've read a lot of books on money management, but we think this one has the most practical ideas). We even had each of our teenagers read it through (with a small bribe!) -it was a good introduction to the real world of money they could understand. They were drawn more to the cartoons and quotes, and the stories of doctors and school teachers and their money problems.... Ben Franklin happens to be one of our heroes and we found that this book is based on the principles he followed, enabling him to retire when he was only 42. We especially appreciated what they call the "Spending Window.' It seems to have changed the way we look at our money and has solved a few disagreements on what to buy next. That was refreshing. The book teaches the foundational principles of saving, spending and investing.... We gave it to a few newly-married couples, and have heard back from some of them so far, who also said they really liked it and hoped to implement some of its ideas.

A Must Read.......2003-11-25

I also agree its a shame this book is out of print. Learning the basics of earning, saving and spending should be as essential as learning your ABC's. How can schools attempt to
prepare students for life as adults without a basic knowledge of
money. This book provides in a very basic, easy to read format the basics of saving, spending and accumulating wealth. Without
this knowledge the average persons spends an entire life making
financial mistakes while they chase an illusory dream of financial independence.

Best ... book I ever bought.......2002-10-02

I have been a student of personal finance for many years (Charles Givens, and others) spent over a thousand dollars on what is good information, too. However, the biggest bang for the buck has to be Uncommon Cents. What they do in 114 pages is concise, entertaining, loaded with cartoons, and right on! The plan to get out of debt works, a personal testimonial, and the financial myths timeless. Highly recommended reading!

ESSENTIAL.......2002-04-29

This is a must read book. It explains in such a simple format as to how to control your expeditures and curb instant gratification. I first bought it in 1990, and now I have bought a number of copies as presents for friends - and even my accountant. I highly endorse this publication. It is the best financial planning advice.

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Confederate General William Wing Loring had been soldiering since he was 14 -- for the Republic first and then for the Confederacy. But "even his enemies bore him tribute: a man of unflinching honor and integrity'. . . ." As part of the Army of the Republic, he had led a regiment, with 600 mule teams, some 2,500 miles across the mountains to Oregon, "without losing a man." Years and a generation later, this was called "the greatest military feat on record."

Loring began his career in Seminole wars in Florida at a time when most young men attended West Point. Later he studied law, and when Florida became a state he was in the state Legislature. When the Mexican War began, 27-year old Loring abandoned law and politics forever. He became a captain, a major, a lieutenant colonel. At Mexico City he led an assault on Belen Gate and lost his left arm. "Thereafter his empty sleeve bore its eloquent testimony to his courage and gallantry."

Loring left few personal letters to rely on for information about his life. He did not keep a diary and died before he could write his memoirs.

Author James W. Raab had to become a literary detective. After six years of research, Raab sets the record straight about "Old Blizzards."

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A true, first-person account by the victim who survived the crimes committed by the rapist and killer made famous in the movie Dead Man Walking. Debbie Morris takes readers beyond the story of those crimes and into the journey of her faith as she wrestles with the question all of us face at some point in life: Is there any crime, any hurt, any person beyond the power of forgiveness?

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Check out another.......2007-07-18

Along with this, Michael Varnado's "Victims of Dead Man Walking" gives excellent insight into the true story of the murders/rapists and their victims. Those crimes did not just affect the ones directly involved, but the entire community.

Moving but unsatisfying.......2006-05-09

This was written by, or on behalf of, Debbie Morris, one of the victims of Robert Willie, a death row inmate supported by Sister Helen Prejean, as recounted in her book Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty In The United States. As such, I think anyone interested in Prejean's work will want to read it, and I recommend reading Michael Varnado's Victims of Dead Man Walking (also issued as Losing Faith) and Dead Family Walking: The Bourque Family Story of Dead Man Walking by D.D. Devinci for other points of view.

I read this book when it first came out, and I have pondered it for all the years since. As an account of enduring and surviving a grotesque crime, this is a very moving account. As a comment about dealing with such issues, I found it unsatisfying.

The first problem is the ambiguities of the relationship between Morris and Prejean. Let me say that I have considerable admiration for Prejean, certainly more than for most people on her side of the death issue. At least she doesn't dismiss the victims as irrelevant. This story is told as a memoir, so Morris attempts to recount her feelings at the time, which are not necessarily how she feels looking backward. Before she met Prejean, Morris tells us that she was extremely critical of her for accepting without question what Robert Willie told her. Her anger was quite justified. It wouldn't have been difficult for Prejean to find other accounts. But now that Morris and Prejean are such great friends, does this criticism still stand? Further, it becomes clear that Prejean has no qualms about lying through her teeth to further her claims. She said in her interviews prior to Willie's execution that he was remorseful, a changed man. Willie contradicted her in his own interviews. She admits to Morris that Willie wasn't, and probably wasn't capable of being remorseful. Neither she nor Morris seem to have dealt with this untruthfulness.

I am bewildered by Morris' remarks about forgiveness. Many people who write on the issue of forgiveness have the odd idea that if one hasn't forgiven someone, one thinks of them obsessively, eaten up with anger. I had a friend who was murdered; I certainly haven't forgiven the murderer. He received a sentence that satisfies my sense of justice and I have almost forgotten him. I often think lovingly of my friend, but the only time that I think of him is when someone brings up this forgiveness issue. One of the proponents of forgiveness insisted that I must have forgiven him in some sense, but I insisted that I am the arbiter of my own feelings - he is not forgiven one whit. Forgiveness can be just as active and require as much energy as anger.

I'm glad that Morris has learned to cope with what happened to her, but I don't understand it as forgiveness. If she had forgiven him before the trial, would she have refused to testify? If it doesn't affect the course of the law, then what does it mean? Salvation is between the individual soul and God, so that is no explanation either. These are familiar platitudes, which people throw out so unthinkingly, confident that they are self evident, that when they are challenged to explain, they often cannot.

Personally, I recommend Forgiving and Not Forgiving:: Why Sometimes It's Better Not to Forgive by Jeanne Safer as a nuanced look at anger and forgiveness.

Superb story from a teen abducted by two rapist-murderers.......2006-01-08

It's hard to find enough words of praise for this book. Two vicious killers escape from jail and chance on a 16-year-old Christian girl talking with her boyfriend in his car in a small town in Louisiana. The escaped prisoners abduct them at gunpoint and head for Florida. They shoot the boyfriend on the way and leave him for dead on a fire ants' nest. They keep the girl with them, and rape her whenever they feel like it. She finds out they raped and killed at least one other young woman before her.

Debbie Morris survived this terrible ordeal and her testimony put the abductors back in jail. Later she found that a nun had befriended the main killer, Robert Willie, and he was now becoming something of a celebrity, even while headed for the electric chair.

It would have been easy to produce a book that was full of bitterness at the legal system, at the world, and at God. But this book doesn't do that. It is gripping yet sensitive, informative yet reserved, and as forgiving as it is powerful. What I like most about it is that the writers (professional writer Gregg Lewis put it together for Debbie Morris) know exactly when to give details and when to restrain them. For example, many writers would play up the rapes for their sensationalism, but in this book Debbie Morris says "he raped me" and leaves it at that.

This is factual writing at its best. I found it hard to put the book down. And it moved me more than books usually do. I cannot find a thing wrong with it to give it less than a five-star rating.

1st hand truth.......2005-07-12

I remember this crime all too well. My cousin (Mark) was Debbie's boyfriend. I was only 9 at the time, but I remember the frantic phone call from my aunt and my dad joining other members of our family as they drove through town looking for Debbie and Mark. I will never forget overhearing the details of the wake of horror that Robert Willie left behind.

Debbie's book is full of courage, honor, and forgiveness. If should be in every victim assistance program and every victim of crime should read it. If you've read Dead Man Walking, you owe it to yourself to read this as well as Mike Varnado's book (he was the investigator who found Faith Hathaway's body). Helen Prejean cannot tell you about the "real" Robert Willie... only his survivor can.

To Forgive But Not Forget........2004-12-11

As a sixteen year old victim of rape, torture, and attempted murder by Robert Willie in Louisiana, Debbie Ceuvas survived the brutality this killer used to subdue her during the kidnapping. After fifteen years of remembering the nightmarish ordeal, she was able to overcome the trauma and start speaking out.

Her appearance on the t.v. show, 'Frontline,' to tell what really happened to her as opposed to Hollywood's version of 'Dead Man Walking' proved a pivotal point in her recovery. It served as a turning point whereby she was invited to speak at conferences where other participants had endured their own form of confinement and torture.

At the Cleveland, Ohio, conference in 1997, titled "Forgiveness in a Violent Society,' she shared the platform with Beirut hostage Terry Anderson. At seminars directed by Terry Hargrave, a therapist and psychology professor from Amarillo, Texas, she learned the steps to inner healing through forgiveness: insight, understanding, remorse, compensation for past hurts, through two areas, salvage and restoration.

Though she was never mentioned in the film, her testimony led to Willie's conviction. In FORGIVE AND FORGET by Lewis Smedes, she found the section, "Forgiving Monsters" relevant to her experience. Refusing to forgive meant submerging the pain, shame, and self-pity.

Forgiveness seems so hard and you wonder, "Is it really worth it?" She learned that by forgiving that human monster, she was able to trust again -- to experience the giving and receiving of love. She married Conner Morris and is now a mother.

She writes, "People often ask how I feel about the death penalty now?" Her response: "Justice didn't do a thing to heal me. Forgiveness did." I've always been opposed to the death penalty due to the fact that so many 'criminals' on death row are there through revenge and lies.

This is the previously untold other half of "Dead Man Walking,' the movie starring Sean Penn, which depicted the death row relationship he had with spiritual advisor, Helen Prejean, author of the book, DEAD MAN WALKING. Sister Helen, though she tried to save the life of a killer, admires Debbie's refreshing honesty as she dealt with the 'traumatic aftershock and the long, painful road to become whole again.' This true story of the young woman whose testimony sent Willie to the electric chair is one of courage, faith, and forgiveness.

This book is Debbie's "walk" on an incredible journey which was life-changing. THE DAILY VARIETY describes her as 'a woman who is Prejean's equal in strength and virtue.' We are asked to contemplate, "Is there any crime, any hurt, any person beyond the power of forgiveness."

FORGIVING DEAD MAN WALKING &RUNNING NORTH VOL 1 1999

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FORGIVING DEAD MAN WALKING &RUNNING NORTH VOL 1 1999
BERG& COOK
Manufacturer: READERSDIGEST
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000V018C8

Forgiving the Dead Man Walking/Lindbergh/Running North/Killing the Dream (Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction, Volume 52: 1998)

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Forgiving the Dead Man Walking/Lindbergh/Running North/Killing the Dream (Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction, Volume 52: 1998)
Debbie Morris with Gregg Lewis , A. Scott Berg , Ann Mariah Cook , and Gerald Posner
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Association
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ASIN: B000GP3S12

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Forgiving the Dead Man Walking
Debbie Morris , and Gregg Lewis
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Prepare Your Own 501(c)(3) Application
Sandy Deja
Manufacturer: Sandy Deja
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0972464492

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Applying for 501(c)(3) tax exempt status is a vital early step in creating a non-profit organization. This book focuses on the details of completing this process, including how to fill out the form, helpful research resources, and what to expect from the IRS.

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With increasing water scarcity, there is greater pressure to re-allocate water from agriculture to other uses, and to put in place institutional arrangements to promote higher value uses of water. Based on research by the International Water Management Institute, which reviewed developed and developing countries around the world, this book describes and applies functional theory of river basin management, based on the idea that there is a minimum set of functions that must be carried out for successful river basins.

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The present volume, translated from the monumental Russian biography by the composer's brother, is the result of a careful selection of material. The leading idea which the editor has kept in view has been to preserve as far as possible the autobiographical character of the book, preferring to let Tchaikovsky himself tell the story of his life. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries.

Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

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Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Modeste Tchaikovsky
Manufacturer: John Lane
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I9Q3BI

Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (ONE)

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Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (ONE)
Modeste Tchaikovsky
Manufacturer: Vienna House
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ASIN: B000GT4010

The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

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The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Manufacturer: John Lane,
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The life & letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
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The life & letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky,
Modeste Ilitch Tschaikowsky
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Sun Will Rise: Parents Relive the War Years - The Struggle and the Survival (Artscroll Series)
Miriam Dansky , and Avrohom Reifer
Manufacturer: Mesorah Pubns Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1578195659

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War, Poverty, hunger and crime are caused by the fear that surrounds money and its scarcity. Money is energy, and energy is limitless. Only our fear and our limited way of thinking make money seem scarce. Using the tools and the exercises in Chapter Three, you can reconnect with the sacred origins of money, and direct the flow of money through your life and the world on a current of love, joy, goodwill and abundance.

Money is energy, and according to quantum physics the universe is made up of energy, which becomes matter only when information is focused on it. Wood is wood and not iron because of the information that forms the two different kinds of matter. Too many of us labor under the belief that money is "a necessary evil," which is, more often than not, difficult to obtain. By changing our feelings about money from fear, anger, greed and scarcity, to love, joy, abundance and goodwill, we can change the way money moves through our lives and the lives of others all over the world. "MONEY IS LOVE" teaches that as we begin to remove the negative thoughts and feelings that surround money and redefine money as love, we bring the power of love into all of our monetary transactions. This in turn opens our hearts to allow money to flow abundantly into our lives, creating a place of peace and joy. From this place of harmony we can then send money back out into the world on a flow of love and gratitude. Money healed can begin to heal all that it touches. And because money flows like blood through the planet, diseased it causes disease, but infused with love, money can become rejuvenating. This work stands out from other transformational money theories, because it deals with not only healing our personal relationship with money, but with healing the money itself, returning it to its sacred roots and then using this money infused with love as an agent for healing "Money is the blood of the planet. Heal the money and we can heal the world." Page 82.

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Healing The Money Issue.......2007-01-03

This book takes a radical approach on money and how healing the issues around money could heal the world on so many levels.
I personally related much to what the author has to say about the 3 Gs in money.....Greed, Guilt, and Gut. It is a small but beautiful book that makes one look at money in a positive way and release if any of the negative attitudes around the money issue; realizing that the source in money is related to our being and our vibration in the world. This book inspired my poem "Where Abundance Lives."

Slim on Content.......2004-11-07

I was very disappointed. The author struggles to make a book from what could have been a short high school paper. There is not much content on the 96 pages. Try George Kinder's Seven Stages of Money Maturity instead.

Excellent Book.......2004-06-22

I purchased this book because I was trying to work past my negative associations with money that were limiting me. This was the only book that was very helpful in transforming all the negative feelings and associations that I had with money to the positive and allowing that blockage to open up and flow freely. It was also the only book that I could find that explained to me why I had those feelings, where they came from and how to cure them. I hope it will help others experiencing the same.

Slim Book Heavy on Helpful Material.......2004-02-19

I was attracted to this book because it tied together the words "Sacred" "Money" and "Love". So much of what I observe in the world is so contrary to these words (especially together!) that I was intrigued and simply had to see what Wilder had to say.

I was not disappointed.

The book is not very long, so I wasn't sure at first, especially when the first 41 pages were basically all introduction, including a Brief History of Money.

All was interesting AND I wondered... "Where's the beef?"

The last sentence of the "Brief History" hit the nail on the head with these words: "The trick is to reunite money with its spiritual roots. To make money love."

The rest of the book does exactly that: teaches, informs and inspires the reader exactly how to interact with money as love and then live that experience out in the world so as to reunite everyone with that experience.

The informed, inspired reader could take that message and literally become a "Money is Love" evangelist.

Try it out: do the exercises and see for yourself. Money IS love.

Do you have a loving relationship to Money?.......2003-08-02

I bought this book on the recommendation of an store owner who has used the principles in this book successfully(a $10000 investor). She had heard about it from a customer who had used it successfully. Within one day of reading and beginning to apply the principles and do the exercises, I had solved a seemingly unsolvable financial dilemma. Within 5 days, I had been offered $5000 part time job. I now recommend it to all my friends. There is a chain of miracles happening down here in Georgia (USA). Let's get it spreading throughout the world. If you are ready to change your relationship to money into a loving one, buy this book, read it and do the work.

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Kevin Costner where are you.......2000-06-22

A great read, full of Crocketism that I grew up with. Someone should make a proper movie of this book, similar to Last of the Mohicans, with a bit of grunt Disney might have got it right. Maybe Kevin Costner could change his Lincoln Green outfit to Buckskins and give it a go!

A great book, capturing a colorful first-hand look at the US.......1999-08-14

A great personal record of historical events in the early 1800's. Colorful language and a first hand look at such timely subjects as politics, politicians, women in the work place, Indians, war, and freedom; before the revisionists have a chance to make history politically correct.

Davy Crockett's own story as written by himself;: The autobiography of America's great folk hero

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Davy Crockett's own story as written by himself;: The autobiography of America's great folk hero
Davy Crockett
Manufacturer: Citadel Press
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DAVY CROCKETT'S OWN STORY As Written By Himself, The Autobiography of America's Great Folk Hero
Davy Crockett
Manufacturer: Citadel Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VBPJK4

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great book.......2007-05-07

I think that it is a must read. I certainly learned a lot from it.

Good attempt, but tarnishes scholarly character.......2003-05-05

I found this book to have a wealth of valuable information about the lives of many black leaders. I for one have come to associate scholarly integrity with Ivan Van Sertima's name, which contributed heavily to buying this book. However I found that impression tarnished by the obvious ommission of Elijah Muhammad from this book. I am continually seeing authors make a concerted attempt at writing him out of history, when the Nation of Islam under his charge, is on the history books having impacted Black people around the world very significantly. I could see if Malcolm X, who was included, was responsible for a significant portion of the Nation of Islam's affect on Blacks in America as has been incorrectly perpetuated for the last 15 years or so, but that is not accurate. If Van Sertima is going to group "Black Leaders" together who have impacted blacks, I am baffled as to why he would put leaders such as Hannibal, Shaka Zulu and Kwame Nkrumah and then put a student of a true leader, who, according to the same criteria the above men were chosen, is actually greater in stature. It is equal to omitting Martin Luther King in an effort to over-exaggerate the accomplishments of Jesse Jackson (MLK's student). Many other "so-called scholars" have made their efforts suspect with the same overt attempts. Perhaps if they would leave their emotions and political correctness out of their scholarship, the rest of us would take them seriously.

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Many people give more thought to choosing a car than they do a house, probably the biggest investment they'll ever make. They buy without much knowledge of the marketplace. Without good counseling. And without a plan for the future.

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Great Book!.......2000-07-23

Very interesting book. Really made me think about what I want in my next house purchase. Written very clearly in easy to understand language.

Excellent Choice for Self-Analysis Prior to Home Purchase.......2000-03-27

I first took this book out at the library and decided that it was so helpful that I needed to purchase it. It provides many questionnaires to help you determine what kind of house purchase is best for you (ex. new construction, fixer upper, etc.)as well as what kind of house is best for your tastes and lifestyle (ex.ranch,contemporary, split level, etc.). It's an excellent resource for first time homebuyers who may not be exactly sure what they are looking for in a home. However,I would not recommend this book to anyone who won't take the time to complete the questionnaires.

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This Book is not of value to you!!!!!!!!!!!

Extremely disappointing

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Should be required reading for Jr/Sr High School girls

Death of a Dancer: Pcos in a Dancer's World
J. Hildegarde
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1403330522

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Death of a Dancer focuses on the true-life events of the author's never-ending Tango with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the disturbing effects of PCOS on the lives of women and their families. A detailed and informative reader.

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This Book is not of value to you!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-07-11

Please do not waste your money! After reading the online reviews I had a bookstore special order this book for me (they didn't carry it). I read the book at the store since it's so short and triple spaced with big print. Then I nicely handed it back to them and said No thanks!
First of all, the book has a ton of typos. More than once she refers to PCOS as POCS. POCS! Did they even proof read? It's very low quality.
Second, the book is not in chronological order, so it's hard to really understand this personal expierience. It's very repetitive and repeats the same points.
Third, PCOS does entail many issues with the body, however I felt like this person kept refering to emotional/mental issues. While I certainly agree these are a huge part of PCOS, this writer seems to have other mental issues going on. (Seriously, no offense is meant by this.) Just that she simply goes on an on about how everyone with PCOS will call home from college and drop out. So, it's a little ridiculous.....not everyone is going to have the same expierience. And she did not really focus a lot on other issues with PCOS.
This book is very poor quality, poorly written, and edited. Please check it out from a library. You will see it's not worthwhile. It does not give good information, or even a clear picture of the condition, or ways to overcome.
I would not recommend this to a young reader, even though it's an easy read- as it is extremely negative.

Extremely disappointing.......2004-04-26

I was excited to find a book on PCOS that was a full-length personal account, but this book was surprisingly disappointing. Like the previous reviewer mentioned, there are numerous typing and grammar mistakes that distract the reader. I could ignore one or two, but there are several per page. I also found the book to be poorly organized (not by aspect of disease, not even chronologically!). It offers very little in the way of factual information; in fact, the author makes some unsubstantiated assertions that could be dangerous if readers take them as fact.

The book was neither informative nor enjoyable. Women would be better off reading some of the more biomedically-based books, intimidated or not. I had high hopes for "Death of a Dancer", but it fell short.

disappointed.......2004-01-07

I was kind of upset when I got this book in the mail today. I got my hopes up from the previous person who reviewed the book. I do agree that high school girls might benefit from reading this, but only if more techincal information had been included. I am not exactly sure how the book was even published, being that there are approximately 3 typos that are blatantly obvious due to the large print and triple spacing. I myself have PCOS and was looking for something/someone to identify with and this was definitely not the answer. I am very sorry that I wasted $13 on something I read in 25 minutes.

Should be required reading for Jr/Sr High School girls.......2003-06-15

There are a couple of good things about this book - number one, it's a short read. You can give it to your doctor, husband, boyfriend, parents, etc., if they are unfamiliar with PCOS - it explains the devastating effects that PCOS can have on a woman's life in an easy to read format. It is not the most well written book I have ever read, in fact, it's badly in need of editing, and amateurish. However, it is easy to get thorough and explains the syndrome in terms of how it affected one person's life and self-esteem.

Number two, it's like no other book on the market about PCOS - in other words, it's non-technical. It won't intimidate.

Many women with PCOS get the "street level" diagnosis of being fat (i.e., out of control) lazy (why do the two necessarily have to go together - like there's no such thing as a lazy skinny person?) and lacking in ambition - even by medical professionals, who should know better. This book will explain why that perception is totally off-base and how PCOS can devastate a woman's life.

I was surprised at the author's discovery of Diane 35 as a remedy for her symptoms. Apparently Diane has been in use in Europe for the management of PCOS, but not in the US, where it has not been approved by the FDA. Of course, any medication should be investigated before use - not all work the same way with everyone - but I am going to give Diane a try.

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