Administrative Office Management: An Introduction
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Administrative Office Management: An Introduction
Zane K. Quible
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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Out of Date.......2007-01-09

The book would have been good about 10 years ago, but I've already found several major errors. For example, one certification that the book recommends, harps on, and tests on doesn't even exist anymore. Also, even though this edition was copyrighted in 2005, most of the online supplements put out by the publisher and emphasized in the book are not available anymore. In a nutshell, this book is woefully out of date.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for administrative office managers........1999-07-01

I found this book to be authoritative, credible, full of easy-to-read material that is up to date and that will enable any administrative office manager to become more proficient at his/her job. I've become so much more knowledgeable after reading it.
Administrative Office Management: An Introduction, 7th Edition
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    Administrative Office Management: An Introduction, 7th Edition
    Zane K. Quible
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    Administrative Office Management: an Introduction. (7th Edition). (book review): An article from: International Journal of Commerce and Management
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      Administrative Office Management: an Introduction. (7th Edition). (book review): An article from: International Journal of Commerce and Management
      Autumn Renee Goodfellow
      Manufacturer: International Academy of Business Disciplines and Eberly College of Business Information Technology
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      Author: Autumn Renee Goodfellow
      Publication: International Journal of Commerce and Management (Refereed)
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        Zane K Quible
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            Zane K. Quible
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            Beyond Enlargement: Trade, Business And Investment In Changing Europe
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              The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
              Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
              • Two American Presidents
              • Good read, interesting
              • Beware This Book!
              • Mediocre Bio of Davis, Mediocre Bio of Lincoln
              • Good reading but exhaustive
              The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
              Bruce Chadwick
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              Customer Reviews:

              1 out of 5 stars Two American Presidents.......2007-01-14

              I can make this short and sweet. This book is trash. Chadwick should stick to journalism or fiction and leave history to the historians. Definitely a lack of research or knowledge about either of the subjects. I read about 1/3 of the book and placed it in file 13.

              3 out of 5 stars Good read, interesting.......2005-11-08

              As the subtitle says, this is a dual biography of US President Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The book is arranged so that equivalent periods of time are presented in consecutive chapters (eg childhood of Lincoln, then childhood of Davis, etc) with the emphasis, of course, on the Civil War years.

              I found this book to be an easy read, despite several typos and some awkward syntax. There were not very many slow spots, but it never really took off, either. I am barely more than a casual Civil War buff, so I found much of the book informative. However, a more serious enthusiast may not gleam much (s)he doesn't already know. Chadwick takes pains to point out how the one-party system (which breeds factionalism) of the Confederate government limited Davis' power and effectiveness, while the North's two-party system allowed Lincoln to be much more effective; an interesting concept I hadn't thought of before. I also thought Chadwick's assessment of Northern and Southern attitudes was right on the mark (with one exception: I can't see fiercely independent poor southerners blindly following the rich planters just because "well, they're rich, they must know what's right").

              I would recommend this book for those who have more than just a passing interest in the Civil War.

              1 out of 5 stars Beware This Book!.......2003-04-27

              It seemed like such a good concept -- parallel bios of the two great antagonists of the Civil War. However, after a promising beginning, this book becomes so wildly inaccurate and in parts so "Oliver Stone-ish" that I personally will submit my copy for recycling rather than allow anyone else to read it. Some errors are errors of detail (the General commanding the Confederate troops on Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg was James Longstreet, not "Stonewall" Jackson). Some are chronological. Chadwick places Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign after the Seven Days' battles, where in reality it was the indispensible prelude. Sometimes the chronology becomes so muddled that events seem to occur twice. The way the text reads, it seems that Union General John Pope was beaten at Second Bull Run twice. And can anyone truly imagine Salmon Chase leading Union forces in the field?

              I was particularly disturbed by the assertion that Ohio "Peace Democrat" Clement Vallandigham was arrested on President Lincoln's authority. Every other source I've ever seen asserts that General Burnside acted without any authority other than his own, and that he quickly received orders to arrest no other politicians and suppress no more newspapers without consulting Washington first. What evidence did Chadwick find that eluded Allen Nevins, Shelby Foote, and Stephen B. Oates (to name but three) missed?

              When Chadwick comes to the Kilpatrick/Dahlgren raid to Richmond, things get very worrisome for anyone who's read much Civil War history (and I have). No one else that I have have read has ever asserted that the raid's purported goal of killing or kidnapping Jefferson Davis and/or other members of his administration was authorized by Abraham Lincoln himself. What evidence has Chadwick unearthed that hundreds if not thousands of other historians had never found? In addition, Chadwick is the only author that I have read that flatly pronounces the papers purportedly found on Ulric Dahlgren's body genuine. All others have at least acknowledged the possibility that they were forgeries. (For the record, incidently, Judson Kilpatrick's not-too-flattering nickname was "Kill Cavalry", not "Kill Patrick".)

              I gave up on this book at page 340. My time is too precious to waste it on conspiritorial pseudo-history. I'll bet yours is , too.

              1 out of 5 stars Mediocre Bio of Davis, Mediocre Bio of Lincoln.......2001-01-09

              Where's the Beef?

              With all of the attention lavished by historians on Abraham Lincoln, and with the growing number of works on Jefferson Davis, it is curious that there have been so few comparative studies of the two men. Aside from Bruce Catton's Two Roads To Fort Sumter (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963), and a few scattered articles and monographs, no scholar of the Civil War has attempted a comprehensive, systematic comparison of Lincoln and Davis. Bruce Chadwick has attempted to fill this hole with The Two American Presidents.

              As the title suggests, this is a dual biography, a two-track narrative which switches back and forth between Lincoln's and Davis's stories. These twin narratives are not bad history in the sense of being inaccurate or sloppy. Chadwick wrote competently and with occasional dramatic flair, he made good use of the available primary sources, and he utilized an impressive amount of newspaper research. A casual reader without much prior knowledge of the Civil War could read The Two American Presidents and come away with a basic understanding of each man's life and career.

              But Chadwick really unearthed nothing new about either man; his book is for the most part merely a pedestrian rehashing of oft-told tales. His story of Lincoln follows the standard arc which one could find in a dozen other biographies: Lincoln the savvy politician and prairie lawyer with the large measure of common sense who is smarter than most everyone around him, and who is dedicated to finding a pragmatic means to the idealistic end of killing slavery and establishing a new birth of freedom. Likewise, Chadwick's Jefferson Davis is not very original: he is the Calhounian planter and Mexican war hero who never questions slavery; a principled yet rigid man who relentlessly pursues Confederate victory but is hobbled by serious character flaws and political ineptitude. Chadwick's narrative is sprightly, but in the end this is still old wine in a new bottle. It is so old, in fact, that I found very little material worthy of substantive criticism; hence the brevity of this review.

              According to the book's dust jacket, Chadwick argues that "one of several reasons why the North won and the South lost can be found in the drastically different characters of the two presidents." This is perhaps a reasonable--though by no means foregone--conclusion. It is not the "fascinating new perspective" and "startling answers" the book's jacket claims; Davis Potter made this exact argument forty years ago in a widely read essay which Chadwick does not cite (see Potter, "Jefferson Davis and the Political Factors of Confederate Defeat," in David Donald, ed., Why the North Won the Civil War [New York: Collier, 1960]).

              But where does Chadwick draw these conclusions, let alone support them with evidence? I have quoted the book jacket at some length because in 490 pages of text I was unable to locate anything resembling an actual argument. The Two Presidents is a comparative study with no substantive comparative analysis. Chadwick seems to have assumed that the mere placing of a mediocre biography of Davis and a mediocre biography of Lincoln within the same cover somehow constitutes an "argument," an original contribution. It does not.

              Chadwick somehow missed the point of his own book. The only value such a study might possess would lie in the new light it shed on either Lincoln and Davis themselves, or on larger subjects -- presidential leadership, for example -- which are illuminated by but transcend the two men's individual stories. Chadwick did neither, and in the end wrote a book which is of little real value to serious scholars of Lincoln, Davis or the Civil War.

              Reviewed by Brian Dirck, Assistant Professor of History, Anderson University . Published by H-South (September, 2000)

              Copyright © 2000, H-Net, all rights reserved. This work may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author and the list. For other permission questions, please contact hbooks@h-net.msu.edu.

              2 out of 5 stars Good reading but exhaustive.......2000-11-14

              I am sure people who are interested in the American history of the latter part of the 19th century will find this book useful.

              Dictionary of the Physical Sciences: Terms, Formulas, Data
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                Cesare Emiliani
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                This comprehensive dictionary provides clear, concise definitions of terms from chemistry, physics, the geological sciences and astronomy. The breadth of coverage and the accuracy of the entries are unsurpassed, symbols and abbreviations are spelled out, and unfamiliar terms used in
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                  Cesare Emiliani
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                    Developing the Nonfarm Sector in Bangladesh: Lessons from Other Asian Countries (World Bank Discussion Paper)
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                      Shahid Yusuf , and Praveen Kumar
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                      Bite Me!: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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                      • The Best Buffy Companion Out There
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                      • My Buffy Bible
                      Bite Me!: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
                      Nikki Stafford
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                      Buffy fans thirst for details about Gellar's life. This bio will answer their questions. It's filled with dozens of exclusive photos, and original information on every aspect of Gellar's career, including her first acting experience at the age of four; her award-winning role on All My Children; her work in the box-office hits Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer; and, of course, her double-sided persona as a high-school student by day and vampire slayer by night.

                      Bite Me! spotlights Sarah's role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and features entertaining commentary on each episode of the show, as well as background information about the myths that have influenced the storylines. It also includes short bios of the actors who play the other characters in the series - Xander, Willow, Cordelia, and Angel. Fan-oriented, Bite Me! also provides information about how to join the best Buffy clubs and mailing lists, plus other information about how to get into Buffy's latest act. A must-have for all Buffy and Sarah Michelle Gellar fans.

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                      Customer Reviews:

                      3 out of 5 stars Entertaining at times, annoying at others..............2005-06-14

                      I got this book as a present and was immediately excited. I am a HUGE buffy fan and relish any chance to delve deeper into my obsession. While I enjoyed most of the book including the bios, mini analyses of the episodes, I was bored by the fan and party coverage (who cares? it was like 2 years ago!), and a little offended by the author's off-putting feelings towards some of the characters (give Riley and Joyce half a chance). The most annoying part however was the obvious mistakes this so-called "fan" Nikki Stafford made in relating her "nitpicks" of each episode. She points out each "oops" the show made as far as bloopers but I guess she failed to pass this on to an editor because there were a lot of mistakes made concerning her knowledge of the buffyverse. When she couldn't find something substantial to write she floundered, the most obvious point being in the "Buffy vs. Dracula" nitpick section. Ms. Stafford complains that even though Dracula breaks most of the vampire rules, he would still need an invite to enter Buffy's room and you can feel her arrogance when she points out that somehow the writers messed up this technicality. However, later in the episode it is revealed that Joyce had invited him in for coffee and then there is a whole 5 minute scene between Joyce/Willow/Tara discussing her inviting a man into the house. Then, in the next episode it is mentioned again that Joyce mistakenly invited Dracula in. I really wouldn't care about Ms. Stafford's rants if this weren't a "guide to Buffy" written by someone who does take the show seriously and is a little too arrogant when every now and then there is an inconsistency in the show.
                      Bottom line: I enjoyed reading it, but I enjoyed correcting it even more.

                      2 out of 5 stars Even being the best...........2005-02-07

                      This book may be the best guide about Buffy around, but this not means that it's a stisfactory product. Because it's not.

                      The enormous volume of pages dealing about parties, whatever, are useless. And, most importanyl, it lacks an index to the world of Buffy, something that would run something like this:

                      "Willow" - Buffy's best friend. Went from a very shy girl to one one of the most powerful witches in the world, blá,bla;

                      "Ethan" - Gile's old friend from England, when both them, along with some friends, dealed with the black arts. Appeared for the last time in the episode bla, bla, bla..."

                      It would have been a huge task, but that was what I was looking for when I bought this book, and was dissapointed when I did not find it.

                      The part of Angel I don't care, bcause I still did not watch this show (I intend to start buying the DVD sets).


                      5 out of 5 stars The Best Buffy Companion Out There.......2004-06-01

                      This is the absolute best Buffy guide out there. The book includes DETAILED episode synopsises through the sixth seaons of Buffy and the third season of Angel. Unlike the Watcher's Guide's, these synopsis's are very thorough, as are each actors profile. The book also chronicles the show from its movie beginnings, through each season, to the show's move to UPN. Each episode guide includes the writer's personal favorite moment of the episode, interesting facts, Did you notice moments, Nitpicks, and bloopers from each episode that are fun to scope out.

                      The book also has an incredibly challenging trivia section, which prompts one to go back and watch the episodes over and over again. Also included are each actors personal websites, as well as good fansites, are included. Having bought many companion guides to this show, I personally say this is the best, for any looking to wise up on Buffy, or maybe simply to extend their Buffy collection.

                      5 out of 5 stars Best Buffy guide out there.......2004-03-24

                      Yes, I admit it, I've become a Buffy addict - not normally a TV watcher, I became sucked in by its blend of great writing, humor, drama, and honest portrayal of emotions. In addition to all the seasons on DVD, I've picked up quite a bit of the buffy literature - guides, essays, etc. - and this is the one I keep coming back to. I much prefer it to the more often-cited Watcher's Guides. What some reviewers criticize - the emphasis on Stafford's reviews and opinions - are what i consider the book's strength. None of the other guides offer such a personal take on the series or episodes - and it's a series people relate to in a highly personal way. I don't always agree with the author, and even disagree that a few of the "nitpicks" she found were actual errors, but her opionated views make for much more interesting reading. In a few cases, her opinions made me more clearly define my own, or see an episode in a new light.
                      I love the information on music at the end of each episode, and the other chapters - on the actors' biographies, the posting-board parties, the internet following for buffy - are all pretty comprehensive. This is a fan's take on a show she loves, in addition to being a guide - which, in my opinion, makes it more interesting for another fan to read. So what if she's unduly harsh on Joyce and Dawn? She backs up her opinions with valid reasons, which others are free to disagree with. I disliked some eps ("Gingerbread," "Beauty and the beast," "As You were") that she liked, liked others better than her, and agreed with her on many more. But I always enjoy her take.
                      I do wish the section on angel was more thorough - she acknowledges it's pretty cursory compared to Buffy, and my hope is that a future book will flesh it out. But if you want a good buffy episode guide, skip the watchers guides and just get this one. My copy is worn i've gone back to it so often.

                      5 out of 5 stars My Buffy Bible.......2003-09-29

                      I absolutly love this book. It is entirely complete (well, up to season six anyway... I'm really hoping they do another revision with season seven added... I'd buy the whole damn book again if they did it) and full of information. This one book gets in all the good stuff that the watcher's guides do in two. When I bought this book I had only seen up to season three, and I was beginning to watch seasons 4-6 in reruns, and I read this book right along with watching the episodes.

                      Some people have a problem with the opinionated way the author writes the book, but to me it enhances the feel of it being a fan's book.

                      In short, I love this book, and you should too! ^.^
                      Bite Me!: The 10th Buffyversary Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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                        Nikki Stafford
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                        It&rsquo;s been 10 years since Buffy Summers first walked into the Sunnydale High library and came face-to-face with her Watcher, who told her she was the Chosen One who would save the world from vampires. In the seven seasons that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was on TV, we watched her kill her true love (but he got better), graduate high school (by blowing it up), discover she had a sister (who uh was always there?), sacrifice her own life (but she got better), watch her sidekicks become heroes (and villains), and, essentially, grow up.

                        Bite Me!, Nikki Stafford&rsquo;s critical analysis of the show, was one of the bestselling and most critically acclaimed books on Buffy when it was released in 2002. Current up to season 6, the book examined Buffy&rsquo;s development, and outlined the mythical, religious, and historical backgrounds to the episodes. Nikki&rsquo;s guide to season 7 appeared in her Angel book, but there was never one place where fans could get their Buffy fix all in one place. Until now.

                        Revised and updated, the 10th Buffyversary edition of Bite Me! contains all seven seasons of this groundbreaking series, chronicles what happened to all of its stars, gives the background story to why the series ended and what legacy it has had, and even contains information about the new Buffy “season eight” comic book series from Dark Horse. Bite Me! is the definitive guide for all Buffy fans.

                        Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
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                        Betty Jean Lifton
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                        A reissue of the classic 1975 memoir that Elie Wiesel called "deeply stirring…important and enriching."

                        In this significant and lasting account, Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adopted, tells her own story of growing up at a time when adoptees were still in the closet. Twice Born recounts her early struggle with the loneliness and isolation of not knowing her birth parents; her identification, as a journalist in the Far East, with the orphans left behind by American soldiers in Japan and Vietnam; and the guilt she experiences over what feels like a betrayal of her adopted parents as she sets off on a forbidden quest to find her roots.

                        With the mounting suspense of a detective novel, Twice Born explores the difficulty of searching for one's past when records are sealed, and the complexity of reuniting with a birth mother from whom one has been separated by both time and social taboos. More than a vivid and poignant memoir, Lifton has given us a story of mothering and mother-loss, attachment and bonding, secrets and lies, and the human need for origins.

                        Customer Reviews:

                        5 out of 5 stars Enlightening.......2007-04-30

                        In this wonderful volume, BJ Lifton conquers the ghost territory known only to members of the adoption triad--adopted children, birth parents and adoptive parents.

                        That is to say, each member of the triad traverses the adoption journey haunted, as it were, by spirits of "would have's" "could have's" and "should have's"---those beings they imagine they could have had, or been--- if only their birth parents had raised them, if only they had not forsaken their birth children, if only they could have born biological children themselves.

                        At the time this book was first published, in 1973, this topic was still quite taboo. Adoptive children were supposed to be grateful for the new lives they had been given and never to look back, just as birth parents were supposed to give their children to those better suited to raise them than they, and as adoptive parents were to raise their new children and never reflect on the ones they might have had, if only....

                        But for all three members of the triad, and especially for the children, the ghost beings---who they might have been, and who their birth parents might have been---are powerful psychological forces with which, even today, the educational, medical and psychological communities are all too unfamiliar.

                        People assume that adoptive children (barring illnesses of any kind) will develop in the same ways as all other children, but as BJ Lifton shows us from her own upbringing, this is far from true. Such children carry other beings with them, secret selves, and secret birth parents, who live in their imaginations, and whom they need to discover and meet in order to develop a complete sense of self.

                        Herein, Lifton offers readers the very daring, candid observations she made concerning her own journey through self-discovery, the process of determining what it means to be adopted, and what it means to each and every adopted child to discover the biological roots from which they hail.

                        This book is superbly written, and should be required reading not only for adoptive parents, but for all members of the educational, psychological, social services and medical communities who ever come in contact with adopted children. Reading it was truly enlightening.

                        --Alyssa A. Lappen

                        5 out of 5 stars Traces her journey and feelings........2006-11-06

                        The author's written several books on the psychology of the adopted, but here provides her own autobiographical experience, telling of a life where adoptees were still kept in the dark about their identification. As an adult she not only identified with orphans left behind by American soldiers in Japan and Vietnam; she embarked on her own journey to discover the forbidden knowledge of her own adoptive parents and her roots. TWICE BORN: MEMORIES OF AN ADOPTED DAUGHTER traces her journey and feelings.

                        Diane C. Donovan
                        California Bookwatch

                        4 out of 5 stars A powerful memoir that should not be generalized.......2003-09-11

                        This is a truly moving book with poignant descriptions of Lifton's suffering as a child. She was adopted at age 2-1/2, told of her adoption at age 7 and warned by her harsh and controlling adoptive mother never to tell anyone, especially her father, that she knew the secret. Lifton grew up with the poisonous idea that an adopted child is the product of an "evil deed that hangs over most adoptions." The little girl was told that her natural parents were dead, which was a lie. It is easy to see how the adult author of Twice Born came to the view that a person is "fragmented" as long as she lacks a link with biological kin, that an adoptee is forced out of the natural flow of generational continuity, as others know it, and feels as if having been forced out of nature itself. Seen in these terms, adoptees become impotent creatures who have been denied free will. I am very moved by the story but want to say that this is the voice of one adoptee whose experience we should take careful note of but at the same time refrain from universalizing. Not all adoptees are raised by such harsh and emotionally vacant parents and also never had adopted friends with whom to discuss things. I am an adoptive mother of a daughter whom we adopted at age 4 days and who grew up into a contented, strong-willed and self-reliant young lady. Of course, we told her of her adoption, but she was not interested in searching for her natural parents. Unlike Lifton who as a toddler had experienced separation, loss, grief, mourning...going from mother to Infant's Home to Foster Home to Adoptive Home, our daughter and the other adoptees in our neighborhood were spared such miseries. Luckily, our birthmother looked for us and today we have a wonderful relationship with her and her family. Our daughter, however, does not feel she changed since meeting her birthmother, or that she became "whole" as if she had been fragmented before. Several of her neighborhood adoptee friends are also not interested in searching and consider themselves well-adjusted adults and parents. I wonder whether Lifton would have become a happy adoptee if she had been raised by loving and honest adoptive parents. Unhappily, when she found her natural mother and the link with biological kin was made, she discovered that now she "had two mothers instead of one, but since both had disappointed me, I had none." Yes, the bitter search for one's roots may take one to an empty place. It seems that the impulse of the adoptee to find the original mother, an urge traceable through the ages, exists as a force independent of the desired object, and continues even when the object has been found. Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?

                        5 out of 5 stars Thought provoking enough to prompt me to write my own story!.......2001-08-21

                        Twice Born is a wonderful and thought-provoking account of one adoptee's journey. I related on so many levels that it prompted me to write my own story.

                        Happiness is truly found in healing.

                        Kasey Hamner, Author of "Whose Child?:An Adoptee's Healing Journey from Relinquishment through Reunion and Beyond"

                        5 out of 5 stars Excellent writing in an adoptee's view of adoption.......1999-06-04

                        One thing's for sure: BJ Lifton can write. And she understands adoption intimately. This book really tells it like it is, from relinquishment to long after the reunion. As a birthmother, I found "Twice Born" an extremely valuable look into the mind of the adopted person.
                        Twice Born:Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
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                          Twice Born:Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
                          Betty Lifton
                          Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Paperback
                          ASIN: B000OJ3770
                          Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter, by Lifton
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                            Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter, by Lifton
                            Betty Jean Lifton
                            Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Paperback
                            ASIN: B000OTIDCY

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