The Frugal Mind: 1,483 Money $Aving Tips for $Urviving the New Millennium

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This book pulls together hundreds of money saving tips including savings on automobile expenses, clothing, communications expenses, energy costs, funeral expenses, gifts, health care, home furnishings, housing costs, insurance, vacation expenses, and much more. It is written in an easy-to-read style and the table of contents and index help the reader go directly to areas of interest.

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An absorbing, first-person Civil War memoir from the perspective of a foot soldier looking back some thirty years later.

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Best of it's kind.......2007-08-17

This is a superb memoir of the Civil War. First published in the 1890's like so many other memoirs it differs in that the author is writing from his dairy. While other memoirs from the period seem nostalgic and full of bravado Andrews tells it like it was, with few tangential passages to muddy the flow of his narrative. The matter of fact recounting of this soldier's life is a melody of endless boredom in camp, child-like wonder at a world he otherwise would not have seen, heartrending pathos and sometimes side-splitting humor. A modern editor's footnotes correct Andrews sometimes mistaken beliefs regarding large-scale events and historical details and add addition context for the narrative. This is a great book, both for the Civil War scholar and the casual reader.

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In this hefty single-volume reference, one of the world's most trusted public libraries dispenses business information on subjects ranging from sexual harassment in the workplace to methods of organizing files. Ever wonder if your sales letters are in the correct format, or where to find the small-business loan you need to expand operations? The New York Public Library Business Desk Reference answers these and thousands of other questions in its far-ranging pages. Subjects covered include business writing and speaking, personnel administration, emerging technologies, accounting and budgeting, office design, record keeping, marketing research, and much more. Extensive cross-referencing and a thorough index help keep track of interrelated topics, and directories of consultants, recruiters, and government resources give you the contact information you need to learn more. If you're in business, this indispensable reference belongs on your shelves next to the dictionary and thesaurus.

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Essential Information for Every Office—at Your Fingertips.

Marketing Tips.

Hiring and Firing.
Letters That Work .
Home Office Do's and Don'ts.

Small Business Advice.

A Selection of Book-of-the-Month Club's Money Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Doubleday Select's Executive Program.

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Outdated !.......2003-03-06

Being an Accountant/Controller for smaller corporations (75-200 employees) ... I can state that this book would be Out-of-Date as of 05 March 2003 .... since it was published in 1999!! (and who knows when it was actually 'written'??).
Personnel issues & laws are changing too rapidly (so is the business world in general) to buy a book on business that is FOUR YRS. old !

An Essential Reference in our small office........2000-08-16

I own a small geoscience company in the petroleum sector; Rocks make sense to us, not files, office procedures or office equipment. There are three of us in the company but nobody wanted to do the filing, bill-paying or book-keeping because none of us had experience with these things. Initially, we created our own system(s)of getting things done by giving it 2 or 3 seconds of thought. It worked fine until something changed, which it always does in this world. To straighten things up, I bought this book. It looked as useful as the much larger Desk Reference, which is a convenient source of information that would take hours or days to locate any other way. The Business Desk Reference has kept us out of trouble with its brevity and accuracy. We discovered that our office was a plain vanilla setup and all we needed were a few 'tried & true' procedures to keep us out areas where we don't know what we're doing and, instead, making money, which we do know how to do.

A must have reference!.......2000-04-12

I have been using this book in the reference section of the library. I am sure that all of my family members will want a copy for work after they browse through my purchase. After thirty years in education, I have found it to be my best source for career change information. The business etiquette, and employment law information has been most helpful. It is a refernce book that one can read for pleasure. It is hard to put down.

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The not-for-profit world is huge and continues to grow. The Charity Commission in Britain registers up to 50 new organizations each month. As a result, the environment in which nonprofits operate is becoming ever more competitive, and the need for organizations to make themselves distinct and to stand out from the crowd has become increasingly pressing.

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Fabulous resource and creative gift

"29 Days: 2nd Edition", makes me want to move... again!

A Moving MUST!!!!

29 Days to a Smooth Move: 2nd Edition
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Stressfree Moving.......2007-04-19

Great help with complete and useful guidelines for a stressfree (or almost) move. Even though I had less than 29 days to prepare, it covered everything I needed to know. Be sure to heed the advice of the authors and don't try and take shortcuts with recommended items. Two thumbs up!

funny..informative.......2006-02-28

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Fabulous resource and creative gift.......2005-11-18

Moving is so incredibly overwhelming! I truly wish I'd had this fabulous resource when I moved from Chicago to Las Vegas in 1999. No matter how large or small your move, moving is a pain. This book is on my "must buy" list for friends and family members planning a move. The book is well organized and full of fabulous tips and tricks to take some of the pain out of the moving process. And it's funny, too. It's obvious these womenknow what they're talking about when it comes to moving. They are experts.

"29 Days: 2nd Edition", makes me want to move... again!.......2005-11-08

This second edition of "29 Days" is even better than the first. It contains more information and has been repackaged in an easier-to-use format and size.
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A Moving MUST!!!!.......2005-11-08

I would have had no idea what I could and could not pack in a moving van if it wasn't for this book! The worst part of moving is cleaning and sorting, and the tips in 29 Days made the process easy and helped keep me on track.
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Get organized and get motivated with 175+ pages of the most vital household moving information ever compiled!

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Must-have Toolkit for Moving.......2005-02-03

This book is an amazing resource for anyone anticipating a move or just dreaming about the possibility. The personal anecdotes and lessons learned are enlightening and fun, but this is far more than just an enjoyable read. It is a comprehensive and well-organized toolkit to get you ready for and through the process of moving. The beauty of this book is that it is a working document that keeps you on track. You won't read it and put it aside--it will become your constant companion leading up to, during, and after your move. This book is invaluable--I would have been lost without it!

Moving Made Simple.......2004-08-06

Moving can be a nerve-racking experience regardless of the situation. However, if you read "29 Days to a Smooth Move" it not only makes the whole process easier, it makes it pleasurable. The book's practical yet clever suggestions make moving simple.

This book manages to cover millions of details that I, the average mover, overlooked. Since this was my first move, the budgeting section was considerably helpful; it saved me a substantial amount of money. I would have never had the time to find all the answers to my questions without this book. While trying to decipher between which moving book to purchase, Kozik and Maras's book offered numerous unique qualities. For instance, it allowed me to stay organized through its lists and important dates portion. From this whole experience I realized there are three necessities I needed while moving cross-country; water, gas, and "29 Days to a Smooth Move".

No other moving workbook out there!.......2004-05-29

I think that this book is unique in getting someone more organized for a move, how to pack, how to prepare budget for move, etc. It is in workbook style, thus has many checklists and charts to fill in. The only part that you would have to do more research on own is to know which moving company to choose, and to decide between professional mover vs. finding company that allows you to pack but they will drive the stuff for you vs. doing it completely on own and renting truck yourself. Most of the info that they provide may be found on websites but nicely organized and fun to read in ring-bound version. Also would have been helpful if had chapter dividers.

moving doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg................2004-01-08

It was great to come across moving advice just at the right time in my life. I'm a single gal packing it up to try something new. After reading 29 Days to a Smooth Move and realizing I wouldn't have to sacrifice any limbs as collateral to pay for moving expenses, my plans were set in motion. I followed the book's recommendations and saved a considerable amount of money on my move.
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Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life, Based on Material Found in Diaries and Letters Volumes 1 & 2
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Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life Based On Material Found In Diaries And Letters - Vol I
Berthold Litzmann
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Text extracted from opening pages of book: CLARA SCHUMANN AN ARTIST'S LIFE BASED ON MATERIAL FOUND IN DIAEIES AND LETTERS BY TRANSLATED AND ABRIDGED FROM THE FOURTH EDITION BY GEACE E. HADOW WITH A PBBFACE BY W. H. HADOW YOL. I ILLUSTRATED MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON AND BREITKOPF & HARTEL, LEIPZIG 1013 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. The task of translation can never be a light one, since every language has not only its own peculiar shades of meaning, but also its own peculiar charm a fragrance which evaporates as soon as the national frontier is crossed. This is especially true of the German of Robert Schumann. His delicate, poetic imagination found perfect expression in the language of his hero, Jean Paul, and the endeavour to render his love letters, and still more his poems, in another tongue is foredoomed to failure; the original words alone fitly express the poet's thought In the following pages an attempt has been made to give as far as possible the spirit of the German, but only a poet could hope for success in such an enterprise, and I am conscious of many shortcomings. It is with great pleasure and the warmest gratitude that I acknowledge my indebtedness to Miss BL C. Deneke and to Miss Eugenie Schumann,, both of whom read through the manuscript and gave me much valuable advice and criticism. Miss Schumann went through the translation word by word, and to her never wearying patience and consideration is due whatever in it there may be of good. It was unfortunately found necessary to turn the original three volumes into two in the English edition, and by so doing the balance of the whole had necessarily to be re adjusted. Prof. Litzmann in his prefaces explains the principle which underlies the whole work. I have endeavoured to interfere as little as possible with his method, though some Translator's Preface. slight changes were necessary in order to avoid any abrupt break between the volumes, vol. ii of the German edition being divided between the two volumes of the English edition. It is with sincere apologies and deep regret that I have ventured to make what omissions were called for by reason of space, and I have to tender my thanks to Prof. Litzmann for his courtesy in permitting such changes. Cirencester 1912. Grace E. Hadow, PREFACE. The reproach is commonly brought against musical bio graphies that they are monotonous : and indeed the life of the musician has not often afforded much scope for incident or variety. If he be a composer he treads the accustomed course of early struggles, hard-earned victories and posthumous fame: if he be a virtuoso his career is one triumphal progress which leaves little to record except the successive trophies that he has planted and the successive laurels that he has won. The concentration required by his art removes him in some degree from the stir and stress of public events: for the most part he dwells in an ideal city of his own and breathes the more freely when he has shut its gates upon the world. To this it may be added that the biographers of our great musicians have too often tended to merge the historian in the advocate. They are full of a generous enthusiasm for their subject; they are anxious above all things to present it in an attractive light; but they sometimes neglect Cromwell's advice to Sir Peter Lely and spoil their portrait by giving it a classic regularity of feature. No doubt every biographer is something of a partisan ; it is no use writing a man's life unless you think well of him: but the worst of all ways to arouse interest in your hero is to represent him on a faultless pala din and to treat as a paynim and a miscreant everyone who ever offered him the least opposition. No man can build the monument of departed greatness if he is using up all the stones to pelt his adversaries. VI Preface. It may be said that the interpretation of character is less important in music than in any other arts or pursuits because music is more detached th

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Text extracted from opening pages of book: CLARA SCHUMANN AN ARTIST'S LIFE BASED ON MATERIAL FOUND UN DIARIES AND LETTERS BY BERTHOLD LITZMANN TRANSLATED AND ABRIDGED FBOM THE FOURTH EDITION BY GRACE E. HADOW WITH A PBEFACE BY W. H. HADOW TOL. II ILLUSTRATED MAOMILLAN & 00., LIMITED ST. MAETm'S STREET, LONDON AND BEEITKOPF & HARTEL, LEIPZIG 1913 CLARA SCHUMANN AN ARTIST'S LIFE BASED ON MATERIAL FOUND UN DIARIES AND LETTERS BY BERTHOLD LITZMANN TRANSLATED AND ABRIDGED FBOM THE FOURTH EDITION BY GRACE E. HADOW WITH A PBEFACE BY W. H. HADOW TOL. II ILLUSTRATED MAOMILLAN & 00., LIMITED ST. MAETm'S STREET, LONDON AND BEEITKOPF & HARTEL, LEIPZIG 1913 AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO YOL. H That the second volume has been so long delayed is ac counted for, and I hope excused by, the fact that it was im possible to find any time for the work except during the leisure of my spring and autumn holidays. These have been devoted to it, almost without a pause, and by this means alone has it been possible for the continuation to appear even now: the continuation, not the conclusion for the latter a third volume will be necessary. The over-abundance of material, the full mass of which revealed itself only as I worked through the preceding volume which grew into a dual biography of Robert and Clara Schumann has necessitated this deviation from the original plan. Those to whom the former volume appealed will find the continuation a surprise and possibly a disappointment, since in the second volume the actual letters of Robert and Clara, which gave the first a peculiar character, have far less pro minence, and in their place the biographer speaks, if not ex clusively, yet to far greater extent The critical reader will, however, realise that this was necessitated not only by the difference in the material available for this period of their lives, but also by the peculiar artistic problems of these years. In conclusion it is scarcely necessary to state that in the third volume which is to come which includes a period of IV Author 1 ! Preface to VoL HI. 40 years the present system of following the heroine step by step through her life will have to give way to a method of grouping events in larger masses. The portrait of Robert Schumann is from a drawing by Eduard Bendemann made in 1859 from the Hamburg Daguerreo type of March 1850; tho frontispiece is from Sohn's painting, with which Clara surprised her husband at Christmas 1868. Dated the 65* wedding-day of Robert and Clara Schumann, Sept 12* 1905. Rlnggenberg on the Lake of Brien*. Berthold LiUmann, AUTHOR'S PliEFAOK TO VOL. HI. The third volume has also been delayed longer than all those concerned in it author, publisher, and readers could have wished, and for the same reason as that which made the production of the two former volumes BO difficult This time, in addition, my holidays in Interlaken where alone the material was at my disposal were thrice interrupted by ill-health. The subject itself, and the material for this third volume, wsre not without their influence on the pace of the work. In one place in her diary, Clara writes: In an artist's life, as in every other, things repeat themselves more or lass, so that there if much on which 1 barely touch. 19 If she herself ia her diary feels a certain monotony in the externals of a life which goes on in the same groove year after year, naturally the Author's Preface to Vol. III. biographer, who has to represent forty such years, is still more conscious of it. But though it was plain from the first that on no account was each one of Clara's tours to be followed in her diary from place to place; yet, on the other hand, the positive side of the work was by no means so clearly defined. For in these isolated, constantly recurring episodes lay the chief meaning of her life. The reader, then, must be made to see and feel this without its being unduly pressed upon him, with out more space and attention being devoted to its consider ation than is absolutely necessa

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surely a worth .......2006-06-13

I hate some books which offer good ideas but never will they be well-organized; however, this book is not the case at all. Kessler has her own brilliant ideas and has organized them excellently. She divides the different time periods with more than enough supporting materials and yet she never forgets her key-position. The perspectives are convincing, the bibliography is reachable and useful (I have found a few more applicable materials through the very bibliography); the only tiny problem is the pictures offered. There are many monuments or coins or even statues on Sacajawea. Amazingly, Kessler offers only one in page 182. However, this problem can be covered due to Kessler's encyclopedic and also provocative writing. (Sandie Y.R.Lo, Taiwan)

What a find!.......2004-06-11

I just finished reading this book as part of some research I am doing on Sacagawea. I couldn't put it down from the moment I read the first page. Ms Kessler does a wonderful job of placing her literature review in a coherent theoretical framework. I have read most of the books and articles written about Sacagawea cited in Ms Kessler's work; I deeply appreciated her analysis of how each of these authors fits into the larger picture.

Best of all, Ms Kessler provides a thoughtful discussion of Native American contributions to the literature. Most of the Native American authors she cites do not specifically address the question of Sacagawea. Rather, they provide an essential (but usually overlooked) point of view of the Native American experience over time.

Thank you, Ms Kessler!!

A Scholarly Debunking of a Classic American Myth.......2000-05-09

As a student of Colonial history and a professor of economics, I have often been amazed at the historical errors and myths one finds in Early American literature. Donna J. Kessler has taken on one such myth that will amaze you in its depth. She reveals how some infrequent references by Lewis and Clark to the Indian woman's helpfulness are embellished and just plain ignored by novelists and other writers during the past two centuries. These writers have turned a simple woman into a princess, an early American feminist and maybe a suffragette. I plan to use this material when teaching courses in "Critical Thinking" to illustrate how easily we can be mislead by zealous misrepresentations from the past. Ms Kessler's definitive work is very difficult to read. I suspect it was her dissertation for a Ph. D. Nonetheless let me heartily recommend it to you as a classic example of fine scholarship. It is one that any truth seeker can learn from. Just don't plan to speak on it at a feminist convention.

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