How to Make a Million Dollar First Impression

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Big Hat, No Cattle

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How to Make a Million Dollar First Impression
Lynda Goldman
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How important is your first impression? It's crucial to anyone about to embark on a career change, working towards a promotion, or looking for a job. It's also vital to anyone in sales, customer service or marketing, or business professionals looking for clients. When we meet someone new, we instantly form an impression. Accurate or not, once this impression is stamped onto the psyche of another person, it is difficult if not impossible to alter.

"How to Make a Million Dollar First Impression" is a powerful link to success that can help you land your next contract or job. You will get a wealth of tips and techniques that can help you feel confident in any business situation. You will zero in on information fast,with this compact, one-idea-per-page format. You will gain insights about what makes a positive impression, with quotes from "industry players." With 105 new ideas, this book gives you a quick and easy way to maximize your image in a minimum of time.

How we present ourselves is up to each of us. Knowing a few tricks of the trade can help you make a powerful first impression that will help you reach your business goals.

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Big Hat, No Cattle.......2006-06-02

This book features a great title, but the content sure doesn't live up to that promise. I got the feeling this was created to give the author something to sell to suckers who come to her speeches.

The material presented is old and tired. The concepts are puerile at best. I would assume most people learned these concepts when they turned about sixteen - basic stuff like how to shake someone's hand and whether to wear a hot pink pantsuit or the charcoal one to a business meeting. Very, very elementary stuff. I can't imagine who her audience is.

The best title for this book, so it reflects the concepts it contains, would be "How To Quit Your Job in Fast Food and Move Up To Shipping Clerk". I'm returning the copy I just bought. How sad - she could have done something great with this if she'd put in just a little thought and effort.

More likeThe Complete Idiot's Guide on How to Be Presentable.......2004-12-25

First of all, this book only focuses on how to make a business impression. So if you're looking to impress at any other occasion, forget it, this book doesn't do it. And even at that, it only touches on the very basic and doesn't go into detail about how to do it, just what to do. I was very disappointed with the book (wouldn't pay five bucks for it) because most of the advice given are no-brainer and pure common sense, especially the section on clothing. This book would not be useful for those who are remotely socially adept and aware of others' perception and reactions toward them. People who have been well-socialized and have much common sense should already know 99.9% of the stuff mentioned by the author. I would only recommend it to those who are extremely introverted and don't know how to communicate well or present themselves properly (for example, if you think it's appropriate to wear bright yellow with slippers to an interview, then you need this book). For those who want to polish their skills at a more advanced level, I suggest Arch Lustberg's "How to Sell Yourself: Winning Techniques for Selling Yourself." It's a much more useful and detailed book that offers a lot more than the pure basics, and the advice given is not only meant for the business environment. I guess this book isn't half bad if you're completely clueless to how others perceive you. But I simply can't imagine someone who doesn't already know most of the stuff in it.

Etiquette.......2003-08-20

It's a good, short, simply worded guide to modern business etiquette.

This book will give you an unfair advantage!.......2003-03-22

Whether you are looking for a new job, beginning a career, entering the world of business for the first time, or building a business, today you need all the advantages you can get. Often, these advantages come from so-called "soft" skills, which we ignore at our peril.

From this book you'll learn how to use unspoken communication skills to send the right message in any business situation. Whether you want help with the impression you create as you enter a room, the message of your language skills or your ability to hold a conversation, you'll find it in this invaluable book.

As the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Make the most of your only chance by reading and practising the advice in "How to make a million dollar first impression". It's a great investment in yourself!

Good precise content........2003-02-12

The content of this book is really precise and to the point. The book could easily been 400 pages long by adding fluffly material if the authors wanted. But they have packed everything into 162 pages giving us only the powerful stuff. It makes for fast reading and doesn't bore you or make you go to sleep. It gave me back my moneys worth. And then some more.

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Great Reading.......2003-08-30

Great reading. Goree has a way with words and this is primary source reading at it's best. Entertaining, insightful as only a member of Longstreet's inner circle could be. Best of all, he doesn't say much about the endless brohauhau concerning Gettyburg. What a relief. Great appendex. Letters to and from Gen. Longstreet, etc. A good read for anyone.

A valuable source -- but..........2001-01-17

Obviously, as a primary source, this is valuable material, but I have to admit that I found it rather dull. Naturally it isn't fair to judge someone's personal letters on their literary quality, but I wish Goree had seen fit to describe his tasks as an aide, battles (Gettysburg, to my recollection, never appears here), or, well, anything. He focuses primarily on how all his various relatives are doing and so on. At the end of the book letters between him, General Longstreet, and other aides have been appended which will interest those studying the various controversies which have surrounded Longstreet. I really can't see how the non-specialist will enjoy this.

Longstreet's Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree

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Longstreet's Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree

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Fascinating Story of Holocaust Survival & Ultimate Success.......2005-05-29

As a small child, Peter Cukor survived a Nazi workcamp along with his mother and grandmother. As a young adult in Hungary, he took part in the Revolution of 1956 and escaped to the US. There, he earned a PhD in Chemistry and had a successful career. He married, raised a family and became an important contributor to his community. His book "Before the Silver Cord is Snapped" is a fascinating account the challenges he faced and how he succeeded despite them.

I recommend the book as a personal history of the Holocaust and post-war Hungary, and also as an account of how an individual succeeded despite enormous difficulties.

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Misconceptions in economic assumptions and policies

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Correctives to prevailing wisdom.

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Playing with the Numbers: How So-called Experts Mislead Us about the Economy
Richard Alden Stimson
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Prof. Stimson addresses serious controversial issues affecting the livelihood of most people. He exposes the misconceptions so often presented in public debate and rarely questioned by the news media, politicians or purported economic experts. He challenges conventional wisdom about national production, budget balancing, money management, employment levels, privatization, global trade, and market-oriented democracy in a shrinking world.

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Misconceptions in economic assumptions and policies.......1999-10-31

Draws attention to the misconceptions permeating economic assumptions and policies in the United States and suggests alternative solutions to today's economic problems....-Journal of Economic Literature (An American Economic Association Publication)

Author offers explanations for a non-academic audience........1999-10-09

"The author has a long list of credentials which include university teaching in economics, management and finance (U. of North Carolina), and jobs in both government and private industry that have involved public relations and financial institutions. He expresses opinions and offers explanations for a non-academic audience on a host of topics including taxes, government accounting, the global economy, and elections." - Reference & Research Book News, Nov. 1999.

Correctives to prevailing wisdom........1999-09-03

Stimson's book is a handy guide for those who are skeptical about official economic statistics. It's a gold mine of useful correctives to prevailing wisdom and should be on the shelf of researchers, policy makers and ordinary citizens.

Replete with balanced reasoning and sound judgments........1999-08-13

A lively and competent dialogue about many current economic issues is the focus of this readable and cogent book. Social security, corporate welfare, HMOs and health care, the Savings and Loan debacle, international finance and trade policies and many other contentious issues are discussed. Frequently assailing the conventional wisdom Stimson presents his own independent and wise positions on these matters. The style is lucid and succinct. Replete with balanced reasoning and sound judgments, the book should be of interest to a large audience. Thomas J. Leary, Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Aug. 10, 1999.

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Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy is the first biography ever written about this eccentric genius of early-twentieth-century filmmaking. Goulding (1891–1959) was by turns a writer, producer, composer, and actor, but it is as a director that he made an indelible impression. He is most remembered today as the director of Grand Hotel, the great Event Movie of the Depression. At the dawn of sound, he wrote the story for the Academy Award–winning musical The Broadway Melody and collaborated memorably with Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy for The Trespasser. He excelled at anti-war drama (White Banners, The Dawn Patrol, We Are Not Alone), fantastic Bette Davis weepies (Dark Victory, The Old Maid, The Great Lie), lilting romantic dramas (The Constant Nymph, Claudia), big-budget literary adaptations (The Razor’s Edge), and even film noir (Nightmare Alley). The London-born Goulding was a complicated and contradictory man whose notorious orgies, bisexuality, drinking, and drug addictions were whispered about in Hollywood for years. Yet his well-crafted plots and compelling characters set a new standard in American cinema and had a profound influence on the future of filmmaking.

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Matthew Kennedy Does It Again!.......2004-11-17

As I read Mr. Kennedy's first book about Marie Dressler and neared the end, I didn't want the book to end because it was a perfectly written book about a great lady who lived with great style. I was delighted when his Edmund Goulding book was published not a long time later, a feeling shared with my large book club that quickly spread to other book clubs in my city. Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy is impeccably researched and, although Mr. Kennedy is a scholar who also teaches, it is quite evident he knows the mechanics of good writing yet it is not stodgy. More succinctly, he writes a rollicking, gossipy book that dishes the scandal.

Mr. Kennedy writes about Mr. Goulding's exalted place in Hollywood's golden age, how he got there, and what guaranteed Mr. Goulding's place in Hollywood history. I learned about Mr. Goulding's background and gained insight into why he also led a tortured existence even at the top of the heap.

My book club and I look forward to Mr. Kennedy's new Joan Blondell book that promises to tell all. We are encouraged by the news that Miss Blondell's family is cooperating all the way!

Poorly Written Bio of Director who desserves better.......2004-10-01

I'm sorry to have to do this but the sheer torture of reading this book prompts this negative review.I have been reading this book for the past 2 weeks normally I read movie bios in a matter of days.The author has offered no insight into this man's life and worse he does no critcal thinking in regards to the films,in fact on the silent films I question if he has even seen them.But what promted me to even expend the energy to write this review is when I got to page 66.On that page there is a still which the caption says is from Love when in fact it is from the talking picture remake Anna Karenina and the author is a teacher of film history and he misses this mistake-give me a break.Sadly this is a case of a bad bio happening to a good director.

A Film Biography to Cherish.......2004-09-04

Matthew Kennedy has done a tremedous service in detailing so thoroughly and captivatingly the life of one of Hollywood's most fascinating directors. Goulding was not only a director (and a favorite one of such stars as Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, and Gloria Swanson), but also a writer, composer, set designer, and cinematographer.

Kennedy details Goulding's scandalous lifestyle well, but is even more interested in Goulding's accomplishments as film director, screenwriter, composer, etc. The author effectively captures the complex and paradoxical nature of the English-born Goulding whose excellent scripts and extraordinary directorial talent set standards in American cinema that are still influencing filmmaking today.

This well-researched, illuminating, and highly entertaining biography is a must for anyone interested in the golden age of Hollywood and, for that matter, anyone else who just wants to read a fascinating biography.

Goulding of Hollywood's Golden Age.......2004-07-24

Author Matthew Kennedy does director Edmund Goulding (and films fans everywhere) a great service by bringing Goulding's story to life in his straightforward, well-researched, and highly readable biography. Although there's enough talk about Goulding's notorious orgies to satisfy gossip aficionados, Kennedy is more interested in the man's feats as a film director, screenwriter, composer, and all-around talent. The author emphasizes Goulding's creation of "Grand Hotel," one of the first Best Picture Oscar winners, his handling of numerous female stars (including Bette Davis in three films, Joan Fontaine, Gloria Swanson, and Ginger Rogers), and his deals (and troubles) with the powers-that-be at MGM, Twentieth-Century Fox, and Warner Bros. Highly recommended for those interested in the behind-the-scenes history of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Film writing at its best.......2004-07-18

I must add my chorus of praise for Matthew Kennedy, who has given us not only the life of a director with amazing talent, but also a new way of looking at both silent and sound films. Maybe you've heard of Goulding, and certainly you've seen a number of his films, but never before has anyone been abel to put together all the facts, do all the right research, and conduct an amazing number of pertinent interviews to produce such a stunning result.

If Goulding had only directed "Dark Victory" and "Grand Hotel" his place in film history would be assured--and even higher. It's his lesser efforts and indeed misses that have complicated his stature.

Goulding's work in music could be a book all of its own. I had no idea he wrote the music for so many films, including such notable songs as "Love Your Magic Spell is Everywhere" (from The Trespasser), "Mam'selle" (from The Razor's Edge) and "Dodie" (from "Teenage Rebel"). Given all that you'd think he'd be a natural filming a musical, but Kennedy's account of "Friendly Island" a/k/a "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" gives one pause.

Now I'm dying to see "We are Not Alone" and "The Constant Nymph." I've read both novels but are these films on DVD? Sounds like not. Oh well, something to look forward to. Thanks, Matthew Kennedy. You do San Francisco proud!

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Edmund Goulding's "Dark Victory": Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy
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What could be more romantic than living in an ancient fortress, dining in its rooftop garden, and sleeping under the stars? English artists and intellectuals like the author's parents (painter Aubrey Waterfield and journalist Lina Duff Gordon) have traditionally adored the Italian countryside, and their daughter's enchanting memoir describes the happy haven they found near the Tuscan town of Aulla. Kinta was only 5 in 1916 when she made her first trip by pony trap up the steep road to their hilltop abode, and neither exile to English boarding school nor the Second World War could keep her away for long. Famous friends like Bernard Berenson and D.H. Lawrence make cameo appearances, but the real stars are the earthy, dignified Tuscan peasants who worked for her family. Through them, the author immersed herself in the timeless rhythms of rural existence. The text's highlights include a vivid account of vendemmia, the grape harvest, and the glories of Italian cuisine. Anyone who can read her descriptions of the local polenta, zuppa di verdura, and other meticulously prepared dishes without feeling a rumble in the stomach truly has no interest in food. Though Beevor's final chapters note the changes that have come to Tuscany in the postwar era, her recollections pay loving tribute to a way of life that truly seems eternal. --Wendy Smith

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The enchantments of the Tuscan countryside are captured in this memoir of the idyllic Bohemian life the author shared with her family in their Italian castle in the years between the two world wars.

When Kinta Beevor was five years old, her father, the painter Aubrey Waterfield, and her mother, a writer, settled their family into a castle near the Tuscan village of Aulla. It became the center of an artistic world that included D. H. Lawrence, Robert Trevelyan, and Rex Whistler. While the adults wrote and painted, Kinta and her brother explored the castle and the nearby Florentine villa of their great-aunt Janet Ross. They helped with the grape and olive harvests, accompanied the stonemason in his search for wild mushrooms, learned how to "tickle trout." They spent their summers in tents in the mountains, with shepherds and their charcoal burners. The family fled at the approach of war, which destroyed the town and damaged the castle. But Kinta would return to witness the courage and skill of the Tuscan people as they rebuilt the castle, the town, their lives, and her memories.

Engaging, lyrical, and witty, A Tuscan Childhood evokes the splendors of rural Italy and what it was like to be a child blissfully ensconced there.

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Tuscany, between the world wars.......2006-03-10

This book really takes you to Tuscany, as it was for British ex-patriates between World War I and World War II. Everything is here - the people, the landscape, the food. Highly recommended!

Wonderful book.......2003-11-27

Kinta Beevor, author of only this book, comes from a family of writers, including her son, the reknown author, Antony Beevor. It must be a genetic feature that families produce wonderful writers.
She draws you into her world, like a welcoming friend. You will experience historic events and the world as it was in Tuscany in the 19th century and the early 20th century. You will get to know many of the distinguished and famous persons who visited the Waterfields and best of all, you will become acquainted with "Aunt Janet", the famous English writer, Janet Ross.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Tuscany and in warm and inviting family experiences and how they are influenced by world events.

Charming story of one woman's love for all things Italian.......2003-05-08

The only book Kinta Beevor ever wrote, it was perhaps the only book she could have written. Her obvious love for her magical childhood in Tuscany (esp the years before she was shipped off to England for school) shines forth from every paragraph as she recounts her life as one of the benignly-neglected children of a pair of English aristocrats who owned a 15th century castle, the Fortezza della Brunella, as well as a villa above Florence.
Centered around two very different periods of the author's life, the rural castle and the more urban villa, A Tuscan Childhood is full of famous people (her parents were part of the literati), beloved peasant farm workers, nursemaids, and Aunt Janet, upon whose death the villa falls into the hands of Ms. Beevor's mother.
Toward the end, in diatribes against Mussolini, the Allies, death taxes, and everything and everyone else, an old lady's peevishness with changing times mars what is otherwise a lovely and evocative piece of writing.

Out of Italy............2002-02-02

Prior to her death, Kinta Beevor wrote only one book -- A TUSCAN CHILDHOOD -- which would have been better titled "My Life in Tuscany" as it really is the tale of her connection to Tuscany over period of 40 years that included her childhood. Beevor, whose maiden name was Waterfield, was the daughter Aubrey the artist and his wife Lina Gordon, both British ex-pats who lived and worked in Italy during the first half of the 20th Century. The family owned the fabulous 15th Century Fortezza della Brunella which the family called "the castle" and Lina inherited Poggio Gherardo which was almost as old. Both properties came with extensive farm lands. As a result the Waterfields lived lives of comfort -- socializing with the rich and famous (D.H.Lawrence for one) and feeding them to-die-for meals and sending their much neglected children back to England for schooling.

Though I became weary of name-dropping, I found Beevor's book an enjoyable read. Her mention of various rich and famous folks is as natural as can be--just tiresome in the same way a story told over and over by an older person can be. She says her son encouraged her to write down what she could remember, and I suspect he did so after he heard her stories several times. Fortunately, someone had the good sense to publish the book for a wider audience.

Ms. Beevor obviously loved Tuscany--her father's castle where the family restored and maintained a beautiful garden on the roof, her mother's house which Beevor's mother gained the use of on the death of her Aunt Janet, and the beautiful Tuscan countryside. Beevor's description of the sea as the train approached Aulla for her summer vacations from school in England is as well written as anything Lawrence ever wrote, and no doubt she was quite knowledgeable of his works given he was a family friend.

After WWII, faced with death duties on the Poggio Gherardo following the death of Beevor's brother John, and huge expenses owing to the damage inflicted on both properties during the war (the retreating Nazis and the encroaching Allies made a mess, the latter found an autographed photo of Mussolini in the castle and wrecked havoc) the family was forced to sell up and return to England.

Beevor's book contains passages that reminded me of bitter-sweet scenes in "The English Patient", the "Jewel in the Crown", "Tea With Mussolini", "Out of Africa", "Room With a View" and other works written by European ex-pats returned to their home of origin. Ms Beevor was undoubtedly well read and understood the withdrawal of the British Empire following WWII, and in her closing chapters she shares her thoughts about the effect of that withdrawal on Italy. Italy of course was not a colony, but the British had truly made themselves at home in Italy before the war (and may have done so once again).

Charming childhood story brings Tuscany to life.......2001-08-31

If you want a colorful and romantic yet realistic picture of Tuscany in the years between the two world wars, you will love this book. It captures the heart and soul of the Italian people in a way that only someone who grew up with them could do. I loved all the descriptions of the traditions surrounding the harvest times, the almost sacred preparation of food, the love of wine and the warmth of the Italians. It is the great fondness with which the author writes that makes this account so enjoyable. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves to escape to Italy.

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