Millionaires in Training : The Wealth Builder

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Millionaires in Training : The Wealth Builder
George B. Thompson
Manufacturer: Prosperity Publishing
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ASIN: 0967485819

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Millionaires in Training is a step by step guide that will teach you how to: Live beneath your means, Get out of debt and live debt free, save money, run a effective budget, fully comprehend stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, Use your dollars in a Wealth Building Manner, pick stocks, develop a discipline for investing, Understand Strategies to Build Wealth, Develop an investment game plan that will last you the rest of your life!!!

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A must read for newbies!.......2001-01-11

This book is a great guide for how to start small and end up big. This guy is for real!

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I was a fellow pilot in fighter sqdn with subject of book........1998-02-11

From first hand knowledge I can verify facts portrayed in this expert insight into combat flying in both bombers and fighters from England during WW2. Best way I could imagine to accurately describe experiences of those days to the present generation. Pity so much history gets distorted ;these days

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Adopted daughter knows not what she is doing - forgive her

The "other" Mother's Review

Why not use the truth?

a good short story

If you are a "found" adoptee, you should read this book

ITHAKA: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found
Sarah Saffian
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ASIN: 0385334516
Release Date: 1999-10-12

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When 23-year-old Sarah Saffian picked up the phone in January 1993 and heard a woman's voice on the other end say, "I think I'm your birth mother," she embarked on a journey both longed for and feared by almost all adopted children, the parents who raised them, and the ones who gave them up. Saffian's case was unusual: her birth parents eventually married and had three more children, her full-blood siblings. She honestly depicts her feelings of wariness and sometimes annoyance as they gently pressed her for a reunion. It was three years before Saffian felt ready to visit Hannah Morgan and Adam Leyder.

As befits a topic of such intimacy, Saffian sticks closely to specifics. She not only delineates her own shifting emotions with precision, she quotes extensively from her birth parents' letters to vividly reveal their personalities (Hannah understands her caution, Adam is needier and pushier). Saffian does not identify any of the players as villains or victims, despite the tricky emotional space they navigate, but finds human beings doing their best to give and receive love in circumstances for which there are no fixed guidelines.

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The voice on the other end of the line was soft, yet forthright: "Sarah, my name is Hannah Morgan. I think I'm your birth mother."

The phone call, wholly unexpected, instantly turned Sarah Saffian's world upside-down, threatening her sense of family, identity, self. Adopted as an infant twenty-three years before, living happily in New York, Sarah had been "found" by her biological parents despite her reluctance to embrace them.

In this searing, lyrical memoir, Sarah chronicles her painful journey from confusion and anger to acceptance and, finally, reunion--but not until three soul-searching years had passed. In spare, luminous prose, Sarah Saffian crafts a powerful story of self-discovery and belonging--a deeply personal memoir told with grace, eloquence, and compassion. At once heartbreaking and profoundly uplifting, Ithaka is sure to touch anyone who has grappled with who they are.

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Adopted daughter knows not what she is doing - forgive her.......2005-12-03

The story of Sarah Saffian (born Sarah Morgan but given up for adoption) is a story of promise but one that quickly drizzles down into one long whine. Imagine the luck of finding that the parents who had to give you up stuck together against all odds (parents' wishes, lack of money), eventually married, and produced three siblings for you! How often does such a thing even happen???? Is our didactic, deliberating, depressed daughter delighted by her parents' phone call at age 23? No, indeed, and the reader must, it seems, be dragged through all her misery, too. Her parents are alive, healthy,in their mid-40's, married, employed, financially stabled, and educated. They adore their children and are totally welcoming to the daughter that they had to give up in 1969, dark pre-legal-abortion days. Does she accept, jump on the bus and go? Oh, no!

Assuming that a reader can stomach a full-novel-length's whining, one has to say, that if it were written in a more engaging style, for example, with more information about her real life, her adopted parents, her schooling, her half-siblings, and general world view, then we could have a better sense of her. WE might even sympathize with her great ambivalence about meeting the real parents, Hannah and Adam. But this reader, for one, cannot get a grip on who Sarah really is. She's a Brown University kid, grew up in a brownstone in NYC, has plenty of money, works in publishing and writes for a living, has had one abortion at age 21, likes to look out at the snow from her apartment window. That's all I could gather. Does she have any real interests, hobbies, all-consuming passions? Does she have problems or conflicts at work? Does she like to cook, or what does she eat, just bagels and coffee? Does she like movies? What kind of books is she reading? Does she hang out somewhere, like bookstores, libraries, cafes, parties? Her birthparents, especially her father Adam, tries to get her to open up and tell about her life, her problems, her views. She is unresponsive to him as she is to the reader.

The abortion, did you say? Oh yes, there's a fellow...her boyfriend Chris seems completely peripheral, likes to go to junkshops with her. Gee whiz! Perhaps he's too poor for her to marry him - just like her mother Hannah's problem back at age 21 when Adam, a non-Jew, a dropout, and unemployed fellow, didn't suit her future plans. Otherwise, what's wrong with him, why she is just drifting along with him, well, readers must guess.

This poor woman wrote a novel of herself, her disaffected, detached, and depressed view of reality. What she really wants or will ever achieve in her life is hard to say. I'll admit it's possible that the knowledge of being adopted sapped her of any life force from a very young age, from having no mother-love, as she says.

This woman needs desperately to open up to others, to see their pain and problems. She's even been to see a psychiatrist already, but it didn't help. The reader feels like bashing the book on the woman's head and shouting, "For God's sakes,woman, wake up! You are alive, young, healthy, rich, and you have two sets of parents! GEt a MOVE on!"

I am not adopted but was well acquainted with a fellow my age (now mid-40's) who tried to find his birth parents in his 30's. He went through heck and high water, only to find that the father was long dead, a disreputable man who'd been married at the time of conceiving my friend, therefore could not marry his mother. The mother was dead only six months, and had died a miserable woman - alcoholic, diabetic and sickly. She'd married later in life, had a couple of kids, and these half-siblings took one look at my friend and essentially said, "Scram, man". She came from Irish immigrants in Oakland, California, and was forced through the Irish Catholic adoption service nuns to give up the baby, although her father had tried to see about keeping the child somehow and even raising it himself. AMongst Catholics in the late 1950's, that was inconceivable, and "it would ruin her chance to marry". Sure enough, she found someone,but was sad her whole life, or so he was told.

He is STILL Raging about her, against her, with no conception what the Catholic Chuch was like in those years, especially in regard to women. I caught the tale end of it myself, having Irish immigrant parents, and tried to tell how his mother must have felt. He could look in the mirror and see how Irish he looked. He did not know his heritage or faith, adopted by agnostics/Anglicans in Walnut Creek, given a priviledged suburban life, but in the end, drank and smoked himself into poverty, ill health and unemployment. I have cut the friendship because of his terrible attitude towards his dead birthmother and towards almost all women as a result. YOu can't talk to him.

I only bring up this side issue of a similar case to show that this woman has nothing to weep about, and indeed, has the insight to realize that the abortion she had at 21 was exactly the same choice,given the circumstances, that her own birthparents made when they were 21: not able to be parents yet.

And will she ever be? I wonder? She would now be in late 30's. Poor little rich girl, I hope she turns out okay and doesn't fall into drink, smoking and drugs....

The "other" Mother's Review.......2005-10-07

Recently, I was reunited with my daughter whom I gave up to adoption 34 years ago. I was unprepared for what this reunion would do to my life and the roller-coaster emotions that came to the forefront of our "relationship". After our "honeymoon" phase ended after much emotional and verbal conflict (and all contact between us ceased), I began to reach out for help. Many of the "other" Mom's suggested this book.
Though my daughter and I have not renewed our relationship, this book, more than any other (so far) has helped me understand somewhat of what she was/is going through emotionally. Factors I had not considered that Saffian points out have helped me cope with this "silence".
It is not a perfect book. There are questions that remain: why did it take Saffian so long to have a face-face meeting; did the reunion last (are they still reunited); etc.
Though I am unlike Sarah's "other" parents, the book is helpful in that it also shows what they are going through (via personal letters and phone calls) and glimpses into her parents' feelings as well.
All in all, a good read that will help all in the adoption triad struggling the initial phases of contact. I wish I had known of the book sooner.

Why not use the truth?.......2004-08-16

What I don't understand about this book is how it and the Amazon reviewers of it can be so brainwashed by the adoption industry that they do not respect Sarah Saffian's natural parents as being such. The demeaning word "birth mother" is used not only throughout Sarah's book but also in reviews of it. In addition, Sarah seems to refuse to acknowledge her parents as what they really are: her parents. Sarah's lack of thinking for herself and her inability to understand and respect natural family relationships is sad indeed. May she one day take a few steps away from denial and from the adoption industry, which she obviously supports, and realize how terrible mother and child separation is. I'd like to read the book that she writes after she wakes up from her adoption fantasy.

a good short story.......2003-12-05

Unlike many of the other reviewers, adoption is not a part of my personal history. I found the author's intense focus on her thought process to be tedious. Perhaps if adoption were something that I have a strong connection to, I would have found her slow (and I mean SLOW) personal growth to be more compelling. I pretty quickly got the point that it took her a long time to feel ready to meet her birth parents, but she kept on saying it over and over and over...While reading some sections, I really wondered why the author ruined a very good short story/magazine article by turing it into a full length book.

If you are a "found" adoptee, you should read this book.......2003-03-28

Also, if you're a birthparent thinking of searching, or an adoptive parent whose (adult) child has been found by a birthparent, you will gain much understanding from the ideas expressed in this book. I am an adoptee who was found by my birthmother, and the author's writing put into words many of the feelings I had been struggling to express.

Ithaka, a Daughter's Memoir of Being Found, Author's personal Account of Being "found' By Her Birth Mother

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David Nicholls has provided annotations and an explanatory essay. The essay traces the sources for the book, compares its text with that of the original manuscript, and attempts to place Cowell's theories in the broader context of musical modernism.

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While these resources aren't new anymore, I have used some of his ideas as springboards for some of my own compositions. The section on rhythm as well as the section on Tone Combinations were particularly interesting. These are some ideas that I wish would influence music outside of the classical realm more. Too many kids are stuck in a bland world of 4/4 rhythm, and tonal theory learned from half a**ed guitar lessons.

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A Pioneering Look.......2003-07-01

Hicks ventures where few have had opportunity to go. This well-documented, in-depth look at Cowell, his philosophically anarchistic parents and the young composer's formative years paints the portrait of an inquisitive youth raised by struggling authors from the San Franciscan Bohemian Club of the early 20th century.
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The first step a homeowner should make.......2006-09-24

Has your home stopped working for you? Usually homeowners think that means moving time - but remodeling is also an option, and REMODEL OR MOVE? MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION offers one of the few remodel books to consider the pros and cons of different projects. Chapters explore when to make changes and when to consider selling, offering tips on how to avoid costly options, how to lower costs, and how to make a decision. From gut feelings to real experiences, REMODEL OR MOVE is the first step a homeowner should make in the decision process.

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Great award winning book on remodeling!.......2006-03-18

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If you are on the fence and not sure if it makes more sense to remodel or to move this book is the perfect resource. It is full of useful information on making a move or on how to go about a remodel. Not only has it helped with the decision but it has given me the tools I need to get started on my remodel.

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Keep your house in order the William Hague way.......2001-05-10

"If it ain't broke beyond fixing, then fix it" says William Hague in this tremendous guide to home maintenance. As Hague says in his introduction, it is the dream of many homeowners to move house, but in many cases (such as his own hilariously unrealistic aim of moving to a quiet street in Whitehall) these are just pipe dreams. This book gives you excellent advice on how to make do with what you've got, such as the no-nonsense chapter "Keep the Buggers Out", on how to keep unwanted bogus intruders out of your home. The style of his home-improvements is best described in the the author's own words - "compassionate conservatism for the 14 pints of bitter a day man."

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Bold, but only partly successful........2005-06-29

Stephen Berg, X= (University of Illinois Press, 2002)

X= is, above all, an audacious book. Put aside the actual subject matter for the moment. The form of these poems itself is hubris in the extreme, a lone guy in chainmail hoisting a longsword to the heavens and cursing the gods in the midst of a lightning storm. Sixty-two pages of sprung-rhythm chant, with almost every line in the book beginning with the word "he." It's an invitation to the muse not of poetry, but of boredom. That Berg manages to keep it interesting is in itself a triumph of, perhaps not the human spirit, but... well, something, anyway. For that alone the man deserves some mad props.

And now, back to the subject matter. The "he" of these poems is involved in your basic midlife crisis (one marvels at the lack of mention of the protagonist buying a cherry-red Corvette). Obsessed with attempting to figure out meaning behind various chaoses ranging from Rwandan genocide to his own failing physicality, our humble narrator stumbles around in circles, with each attempt to find answers raising only new, equally unanswerable, questions.

Put it all together and it's obvious that the chant form here is meant to convey an immediacy to all this, the alternating revelations and confusion of the protagonist. And, in the books' best segments, it works. The immediacy is palpable, urgent. The problem is that it doesn't work all the way through. If it did, this would be a book to be devoured in one sitting, that would command the reader to not put it down until the final page had been turned. It is not. Why this is is likely a debate best left to people who do that sort of thing for a living, so I won't try to figure it out here.

There is some good to be had, enough for a hesitant recommendation, but if you've got other books of poetry on your TBR stack, this one can wait. ** ½

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Encyclopedia of Native American Biography, The: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller
Bruce E.; Grinde, Donald A. Johnsen
Manufacturer: Henry Holt & Company, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KY6ZS2

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