Five Easy Steps to Setting Up an Irs-Approved Retirement Plan for Your Small Business (Incorporated Or Unincorporated, With Forms)

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On the night that John Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln, 20-year-old Lewis Powell burst into the house of William Seward and attempted to assassinate the Secretary of State. Under the alias Lewis Paine, he was convicted and hanged three months later along with three other Lincoln conspirators. A former Confederate soldier, Powell's role in the Lincoln conspiracy has been the subject of a great deal of debate. Was Powell simply a Southern sympathizer who participated in an organized plot to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners of war? Or was he recruited from Mosby's Rangers for special duty directed at the president and his cabinet? Through research on his life and military activities, these questions and others are answered.

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Lewis Paine.......2001-06-14

Lewis Paine was a dashing young man in the 19th Century. Why would Booth tempt Lewis Paine into kidnapping Mr. Lincoln? I liked Lewis Paine since I was little. Now that I'm 20 yrs old now, I still dream of him. I know he's dead already. (Don't think I'm insane for this guy.) If Lewis Paine was like he was in the 1860's today, I'll freak out. My husband's name is Lewis but not Powell. I have collected several pics of Powell since I was 12 to 13. I drove my mom & dad crazy about Lewis Paine when I was 9. Hope you like my thoughts about Lewis Paine.

Love, Carmen

BEST BOOK OF ITS KIND.......1998-02-15

Without question this is the best researched study of one of John Wilkes Booth's main co-conspirators ever written.

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A seller's manual to teach homeowners how to prepare their homes for the market, to "set the stage for a performance", and learn what issues, like radon, underground oil tanks and home inspections, are important to the buyer.

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Extremely Informative and Helpful.......2001-09-26

I found this book to be invaluable in presenting and selling my house. I didn't realize there were so many things that I could do to properly show my home. I have recommended this book to my friends and associates who are planning on selling their home.

Helpful Book.......2000-03-16

I was disappointed when I first received this book because it was so small. However, I found it packed full of many practical suggestions. My copy is well underlined. I feel it really helped us sell our home for full price two days after it was listed. I also found Terry Eilers' How to Sell Your Home Fast and Kiplinger's Buying and Selling a Home most helpful.

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A dazzling tour through the world of singular entertainers, con men, and unusual phenomena.

For the past four years, the multitalented Ricky Jay (sleight-of-hand artist, author, actor, film consultant, and scholar of the unusual) has published a unique and beautifully designed quarterly called Jay's Journal of Anomalies. Already a coveted collector's item, the complete set is gathered here for the first time. A brilliant excursion into the history of bizarre entertainments, the journal covered such subjects as dogs stealing acts from other dogs, an anthropological hoax involving the only survivors of a caste of ancient Aztec priests, and the ultimate diet: ingesting only air.In a delectably deadpan and winning style, Jay conveys his admiration and affection for the offbeat that characterized his bestselling Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women. He explains how wags since the sixteenth century have cheated at bowling; he explores the ancient relationship between conjuring and dentistry; and he chronicles the exploits of ceiling walkers and human flies. Crammed full of illustrations drawn from the author's massive personal archive, Jay's Journal of Anomalies will baffle, instruct, and, above all, delight.

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The Crass, the Odd & the Clever Gamut of Popular Entertainments through the Ages. .......2007-04-12

"Jay's Journal of Anomalies" reproduces all 16 issues of Ricky Jay's quarterly that was published by Antiquarian Booksellers in Los Angeles for a subscription rate of $90 per annum from Spring 1994-2000. The publications are numbered Volume One, Number One through Volume Four, Number Four, and I assume they appear much the same as they did originally. The "Journals" have essentially been bound into book form with a few additional illustrations and an "Afterword" in which Mr. Jay talks about the publication of the Journals, provides additional information about the subjects therein that he obtained after their original publication, and makes the occasional correction.

Ricky Jay is master of the magic arts and perhaps the foremost scholar on their history as well as the history of "peculiar performance" in general. His 1986 book Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women chronicles some of the most creative and amazing performers in the annals of popular entertainments. That is probably the book you should start with if you're new to Ricky Jay's writing. The entertainments explored in "Jay's Journal of Anomalies" are less spectacular but no less curious. This book cuts a broader swath, including the unvirtuous origins of bowling, the first successful attempts to mimic the human voice mechanically, and an American buffalo exhibited disingenuously as a startling new species. No contents of "Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women" are repeated in this book except in passing reference.

Mr. Jay's prose is, as always, erudite, wry, and a pleasure to read. He loves this stuff. And the reader can't help but love it too. Each Journal is dedicated to a different subject and includes extensive endnotes, in which you will discover interesting tidbits of information and references to Jay's sources. The subjects covered in these 16 Journals are, speaking generally: dog performers, exhibiting obesity, common animals exhibited as rarities, performances of crucifixion (real and fraudulent), performing fleas, facial contortionists, 18th century showman Isaac Fawkes, ceiling walkers, nose amputation (fake), the "Aztec Lilliputians", the athletic legless Harvey Leach, the artful history of bowling, fasters (who starve themselves for profit), the shared history of dentistry and legerdemain, early levitators, and early machines that replicated human abilities.

There are over 130 black-and-white and color illustrations throughout that reproduce playbills, engravings, broadsides, woodcuts, lithographs and more from the author's collection. Also included are 2 large fold-outs: One is a 1931 photo of the cast of the "Dreamland Circus Side Show" in New York, which featured a "crucified man". The other is a drawing of the Bartholomew Fair in 1729, which featured Isaac Fawkes. I offer a bit of trivia for Amazon shoppers: The Automaton Chess Player built by Wolfgang von Kempelen and described in Jay's last Journal is the same that inspired the name of Amazon Mechanical Turk, an Amazon subsidiary that solicits humans to perform tasks that we do better than computers.

You have to like your humor dry.......2005-01-20

Ricky Jay is an odd bird, and I guess most people would consider his fans (myself included) odd for liking him. I can't imagine that anyone unfamiliar with Mr. Jay and his trademark deadpan delivery, use of archaic multi-syllabic synonyms, and fondness for esoterica will be interested in Anomalies. But for those who are into him (and you know who you are) the book is quality through and through. The topics are interesting, fun and wide-ranging. The research is, of course, top notch. The genuine admiration he shows for the entertainers he writes of and his respect for their craft are abundantly clear.

As far as the appreciation of Jay's writing and his selection of content, you either get it or you don't. And if you get it, then by all means get the book. The fact that the book is a reprint of his newsletters, and therefore various subjects can be read in a single sitting, makes this compilation all the more enjoyable. My only itty-bitty complaint would be that the updates would be more accessible if they came immediately after the individual articles rather than a collection of endnote.

'An Anomaly of Anomalies'.......2004-05-27

What wasn't quite clear to me when I got this book is that it is exactly what it says it is: a compellation of a quarterly 'newsletter' or journal written by magician Ricky Jay over a period of six years. The newsletter combines Jay's interest in entertainers of the outrageous kind with high quality publication; as he says,"a magazine printed letterpress on mold-made paper, with tipped-in color plates to present the illustrations I cherished with dignity and clarity." Although I have not seen either the original newsletters or the paperback version of the book, I can testify that the hardback retains these fine qualities.

As one might expect given the nature of the project, the quality of individual chapters evolves with time. Each chapter of the book is one volume of the newletter, preserved with the original masthead; the first few chapters show Jay warming to his subject. Chapter one, on trained dogs, is only 6 pages long; Chapter two, on Edward Bright and other early "Fattest Man/Woman/Child" is eight pages. Honestly, these opening chapters did not particularly interest me. But then the topics became more interesting to me and Jay seemed to 'hit his stride'--the final chapter, on the Amazing Chess Automaton, is twice the length of the first. Nonetheless, I still found the book a bit uneven--the chapter on bowling begins superbly, with a short description of Matthew Buchinger, born in 1674 who became a bowling wizard in spite of having neither arms nor legs. But after a single paragraph and picture, this singular character is not mentioned again. Instead, Jay concentrates the remaining pages on a general discussion of cheating at bowling--substitute "pool" for 'bowling' and the situation is pretty much unchanged today; and the association of bowling with amorality in the Victorian mind. Moderately interesting, but give me a ceiling walker, chess automaton, or Bonassus any day. It would be churlish of me to make more of this--it is, after all, Jay's Journal of Anomalies, not Coleman's Journal.

Among the more fascinating chapters are those on fasters, where Jay brings in the modern example of the Breatharians, who supposedly live on air alone; the Aztec Lilliputians; and a quirky chapter on "nose amputations". The common but unspoken thread among all the chapters is that odd but universal human quality--an eagerness to be deceived. The Amazing Chess Automaton, a device which has been treated at great lengths elsewhere, is a real testament to this quality; having been purchased by not one, but two members of royalty!

Each chapter is thoroughly footnoted, so that the book stands not only as an entertaining collection of quirks, but also as a scholarly source of information. One of the highlights is the Afterward, in which Jay publishes, presumably for the first time, additional material and pictures supplied by his readers in response to the original newsletter. All in all, Jay has succeeded admirably in creating (in his own words) 'an anomaly of anomalies."

Odd Tastes? Read This Book........2002-03-16

Wonderfully entertaining and enjoyable scholarship on extremely odd topics: flea circuses, hunger artists, nose-removal devices, and humbug of all sorts. Jay proves himself once again to be not only a supremely talented performer on the stage but on the page as well. Peruse this and be amazed at what people found entertaining a century or two ago... it's not so different from what you watch every evening on the TV (especially if you watch Fox).

Perfectly Odd.......2001-12-28

A superb book stuffed with bizarre topics and weird old illustrations. The previous reviewer's remark about "there's nothing in here I need to know" totally misses the point. Of course you don't NEED to know this stuff! It's the simple joy of human weirdness that makes this book worthwhile. Where else are you going to learn about recreational nose-slicing and the fine art of ceiling-walking? Also check out Jay's "Learned Pigs", Bondeson's "Feejee Mermaid," Collins's "Banvard's Folly," and Standage's "The Turk" ... all great stuff in this same line.

Jay's Journal of Anomalies (16 issues reprinted in one volume)

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Jay's Journal of Anomalies (16 issues reprinted in one volume)
JAY (Ricky)
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OWOD70

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Comprehensive and accurate depiction of Grey Owl........1999-07-27

"The life and history of Grey OWL, without Donald B. Smith, is only conjecture." Donald, without a beat takes the reader, from the get go, into a detailed , informative , and throughly documented decription of the life of Archibald Stansfeld Belaney. Like a bible to a preacher, this work is replete with fascinating and delightful insights into a most remarkable character who did, in fact, realize a fantacy. The story of Grey Owl is complex, full of adventure, and quite exciting. Like most men he had some peculiar behavior traits; however, Donald Smith does a sensitive and objective analysis which offers the reader the opportunity to make up his or her mind as to the motives and desires of Grey Owl's heart, mind and inner spirit. The book is so well documented it brings to mind the thought that this work is a masterpiece, and if one has the opportunity to experience the Canada that Grey Owl describes, he or she will come to appreciate, the effort put forth by the author is a work, couched in love; e.g., every question I have raised in the pursuit of the Grey Owl Saga, can be found directly or by implication in this book. I was so moved by it I contacted the author personally. If one desires, especially if he or she has read any or all of Grey Owl's books, to know the facts concerning any and all aspects of his life (G.O.), simply read, and have handy Donald's book, as it will guide you to a deeper appreciation of Grey Owl and his marvelous accomplishments. I am a better person for having read 'From the Land of Shadows' five times. Rich Gralewski, Pres. Jelly Roll Enterprises Santa Barbara, Ca. USA

The Shadow-Lands of C.S. Lewis: The Man Behind the Movie

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Fantastic!!!
Truly great primer

The Shadow-Lands of C.S. Lewis: The Man Behind the Movie
C. S. Lewis
Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Classics | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

ASIN: 0898704936

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Fantastic!!!.......1998-12-18

I just finished reading this book and it has helped me tremendously. I now know which direction to go in regards to Lewis' works. I'm not quite ready for "Mere Christianity", "The Four Loves", or even "Suprised by Joy." I know that based on the excerpts I read from this great book. I will now read "The Pilgrim's Regress" It should be good. I reccomend this book for anyone wanting to know more about Lewis and his works. Peter Kreeft does a fine job.

Truly great primer.......1998-11-28

You can find a primer much better than this. Lewis may well be the most influential Christian of this century, and deservedly so. His writings should be read by all Christians. No one has better given Christians a real sense of how the present (the shadows) and eternity (the real thing) interrelate.

From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Gray Owl

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From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Gray Owl
Donald B. Smith
Manufacturer: Douglas & McIntyre
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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FROM THE LAND OF SHADOWS
Clive James
Manufacturer: Pan Books Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUGDP2

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From the Land of Shadows
Clive James
Manufacturer: Jonathan Cape
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0224020218

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From the Land of Shadows
Clive James
Manufacturer: Picador
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P9SD6O

In the Shadows of the Morning: Essays on Wild Lands, Wild Waters, and a Few Untamed People

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In the Shadows of the Morning: Essays on Wild Lands, Wild Waters, and a Few Untamed People
Philip Caputo
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1585745200

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Philip Caputo's passion for travel and adventure was inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Herman Melville, and through the years this passion led to a rugged writer's life, filled with hair-raising experiences in the jungles of Vietnam, the rubble of Beirut, and the savannas of Africa. In the Shadows of the Morning collects Caputo's essays for the first time, each imbued with the powerful and memorable writing for which he has become so well known. In "The Ahab Complex," Caputo recalls a life-and-death struggle off the coast of Florida with a majestic giant blue marlin whose quarter-ton body "lit up as if a gigantic light had flashed in the water." He recounts his travels in Kenya's largest national park among the only lions to have a natural tendency to stalk and eat human beings, and where the accounts of their gruesome escapades invaded his dreams. In "The Last of the Big Open," he reflects on a harrowing trip down the Alaskan river that nearly claimed his son's life, nature's indifference to human loss, and an evocative account of letting go. In the Shadows of the Morning is a fascinating journey through a lifetime of profound experiences. Adventurers and lovers of great writing will welcome this collection of finely crafted essays by one of America's most gifted writers. (6 x 9 1/4, 288 pages)

Philip Caputo is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of several critically acclaimed novels and works of nonfiction, including Delcorso's Gallery, Exiles, The Voyage, Means of Escape, Indian Country, Equation for Evil, and the national best-seller A Rumor of War, praised as the most accurate portrayal of combat yet written. He lives in Connecticut.

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Friendship conquers fear in the Land of Barely There

Shadow Chaser: From the Land of Barely There
Stephen Cosgrove
Manufacturer: Multnomah Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0880702362

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Friendship conquers fear in the Land of Barely There.......2006-01-24

Gabriel Groundhog is afraid of shadows and does not want to leave his burrow on Groundhog Day. He even lashes out at a "bundled bunny" who knocks on the door several times to rouse him. The creatures of the forest get together and decide that if they can't take Gabriel to his shadow, they will take shadows to Gabriel. They enter his bedroom and make shadow figures on the wall, showing him that there's nothing to be afraid of. Together they laugh, and together they emerge into the world -- with Gabriel in his red and white striped pajamas, purple robe, gold scarf, blue jacket, and green slippers -- where the animals give him room to check for a shadow. He doesn't see one. The moral of the story is that friends can help you through tough times, if you just give them a chance. Pages of intricate and exquisite full-color illustrations give this story a classic feel and make "Shadow Chaser" one of the best Groundhog Day picture books currently available. See my Listmania list for more recommended Groundhog Day titles.

Shadow land;: Or, Light from the other side,

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Many realities, and many mansions

Shadow land;: Or, Light from the other side,
E. d' EspeÌrance
Manufacturer: George Redway
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Spiritualism | Occult | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000874TW0

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Many realities, and many mansions.......2006-10-15

This is an excellent page-turner yet If you are not into this kind of things do not read the book because as a skeptic on the subject this well written narration will upset and annoy you for sure.

Yet for those who are open minded, receptive enough and willing to accept the fact of the mental nature of everything; that physical death is merely the relocation of a person, animal, plant, or object from one reality into another, then the book would turn out to be a source of inspiration for you.

The author, a late 19th Century highly psychic British woman, since childhood is able to see into the astral and etheric planes. Yet her parents, in their ignorance on the subject, discouraged her to the point of affirming that she was going crazy.

Not until her late twenties did she realize that other so gifted people were also able to see, and to communicate with those who were active in other dimensions of life.

Some of the people from other realities in her séances were able to make visible plants of all kinds from their reality into ours, which were as real as any physical one we can grow here.

By the way not long ago at the post office there was a lady with a 3-year-old who has a dog invisible to everyone but to the kid. I was surprised to see the girl talking to that invisible (to me) dog.

Was that 3 year old girl imagining a dog, or does she actually see an animal which seems to be invisible to others? As they left she called out to it, the pooch most probably went right through the wall.

I recommend this brilliant narration to anyone.

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Shadow Lands: Selected Poems
Johannes Bobrowski
Manufacturer: Anvil Press Poetry
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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