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Over 30 books covering individual states!

How to Incorporate and Start a Business in... covers every essential topic you need to understand to start a business right. Protect yourself and your business with expert knowledge provided in this book. The easy-to-follow steps and worksheets guide you through every aspect of incorporation and starting your own business. This book discusses in detail:

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From the multi-million selling author of Think and Grow Richreg;No matter who you are or what you do....every time you meet someone, explain an idea, talk on the telephone, or give your opinion, you are selling your most valuable asset: YOU! Let Napoleon Hill teach you how to sell yourself. The author spent thirty years investigating how the most successful people got to be that way. His studies resulted in the biggest-selling self-help book of all time, Think and Grow Rich. Now, Selling You!, a major success in book and audiocassette editions, is available for the first time on CD. It demonstrates how to put Hill's philosophy of personal achievement to work for you, every day of your life! It's fun and easy to learn how to present yourself in a positive and successful way. Here's just part of what you'll find inside this inspiring audiobook: - Napoleon Hill explains the philosophy behind his most effective theories - Joe Slattery narrates highlights from Napoleon Hill's bestseller How to Sell Your Way Through Life - Includes a special introduction by world-renowned philanthropist W. Clement Stone

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Good tape program by Hill!.......2005-10-01

This great program contains two tapes and a 32 page guidebook which include 12 little chapters and concludes with a 30 question test. Hill shows you how to build a successful sales personality. Who better to teach you than the man who walked beside the giants of his time?

Great supplement to Succeed and Grow Rich.......2004-06-11

If you have already read Succeed and Grow Rich by Hill and/or Think and Grow Rich, Selling You will show you how to put Napolean Hill's philosophy to work for you, every day of your life.

The program includes two powerful tapes with narrations by Joe Slattery. There is an introduction by Clement Stone who gives a powerful testimony to how Hill's principles benefitted him. Talk about a successful endorsement! And there is a 32 page booklet that offers additional techniques.

All in all a great program that will seriously impact any salesman's bottom line.

Not just for sales people.......2004-03-05

Napoleon Hill was ahead of his times in many ways. One of which addressed by this book is the realization that *everything* is sales. When you are talking with someone and want them to take an action or even accept something you are saying, you must sell not only what you are suggesting, but yourself as well. This insight (and its explanation) make the tape worthwhile. Beyond that are suggestions to make you more successful. The biggest downside is that some of the book/tape is hard to understand as the usage of certain words (such as faith) are far from their common usage.

Another Excellent Napolean Hill Creation.......2002-12-01

A must have for any sales professional. A timeless classic to liten to several times a year.

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Cooking in the Nude : Quickies (Cooking in the Nude)
Debbie Cornwell , and Stephen Cornwell
Manufacturer: Howell Press Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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Cooking in the Nude: Quickies comes with a warning on the back cover: "While impromptu passion in the dining room can be fun, we must advise you to be 'Ready for Action' before you start 'Fooling Around.' Be sure you read both these sections before you try anything." In Quickies, authors Debbie and Steve Cornwell offer up a slew of recipes that can be prepared in an hour or less (how you spend the time you've saved is up to you). Obviously, the Cornwells have written this cookbook in the spirit of fun, and with corny puns for recipe names such as Halibut My Place, Fetish-ini, or Caesar and Please Her Salad--plus goofy tips on seduction--they've succeeded in making Quickies, one in a series of Cooking in the Nude cookbooks, as much fun to read as it is to cook from.

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This unique cookbook is chock full of fun and playful recipes for two that can be prepared in under an hour. QUICKIES has creative dishes such as Chicken Porno Bleu, Promiscuous Prawns, and Fondue Me. Within all the innuendo and double entendres are elegant yet easy dishes.

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Good Cooking.......2000-04-17

This book has some great recipes, it is one of the first cooking for 2 books I bought. The names are a bit wimsical (A Grape Fantasy, Lovers Lure, Vealing Lusty) which makes the index a little chalenging but the actual dish is in parenthesis. The recipes are also listed in a subject index (beef, chicken, etc.). There is a pantry list that has common ingredients in the recipes that makes stocking easy, and the recipes themselves are very clear, easy, and quick as the title sugests. There are categories for appetizers, salads, dressings, entrees, and vegetables. Each main dish has a suggested menu using other recipes in the book if you are uncomfortable planning your own, and they work fairly well, though I must say that the wine recomondations are not the best. There is no nutritional information. All in all this is an excellent book and I think you'll be very pleased.

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Charlatans of the stock market

AAAA+ Great Book WADE. I fired my boss, Thanks WADE!

Powerful strategies to cash flow the stock market

Funny thing I noticed.....

Don't listen to those 1 star stock brokers

Wall Street Money Machine: New and Incredible Strategies for Cash Flow and Wealth Enhancement
Wade B. Cook
Manufacturer: Lighthouse Publishing Group
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Charlatans of the stock market.......2006-02-15

Spare us your suicide tactics WILL YOU??? Tell the truth for once WILL YOU?? About your getting kicked out (sued) of half the states in the union for your reckless tactics... And your damned suicide tactics of telling people to go ON MARGIN and lose their cash twice as fast with your damned stupid reckless ideas...
Every broker on this planet laughs your foolishness out of the building!
What next??
Why don't you restore ALL THE PEOPLE YOU MAIMED WITH YOUR TACTICS???

AAAA+ Great Book WADE. I fired my boss, Thanks WADE!.......2005-10-04

The fact is, you can create a great income by using Wade Cook's winning strategies. The stock market will always be around. How is your company doing? Do you feel safe? I didn't. that is why I left.

[...] The only problem is that they are copycats and all they know is what they stole from Wade Cook. As a result, they will always be playing catch-up. Prior to 1995, who else was talking and teaching covered calls, stock splits, buy the option as a play in itself instead of the usual way and so on? Answer: NO ONE!

And if you want the facts about Wade, go to his website wadecook.org. To paraphrase what a famous man once said; "The rumors of Wade Cook's demise have been great exaggerated."

You may not enjoy the same success that I and others have had, or you may do even better. The greatest testimentof Wade's techniques lies in the fact that I have several friends who lost their homes in New Orleans and other parts of the southeast, moved but are still generating income from the stock market by using Wade's techniques. Meanwhile others, less fortunate, lost their homes and their income.
[...]

Powerful strategies to cash flow the stock market.......2005-10-04

The first time I heard about Wade Cook was at a real estate seminar that I attended in Florida many years ago. Cook was a guest speaker and was disclosing his techniques on how to cash flow real estate. I tried his techniques in concert with other strategies that I picked up from that seminar and some other books like Robert Allen's Nothing Down and flipped a no money down deal in a month and made a nice $10,000 profit.

Many years later, 1997 to be exact, I was browsing a bookstore in Orlando, Fl and came across this book by Wade Cook. To be blunt, trading in the stock market scared me. Up to that point, I had been only a mutual fund investor and felt that individual stocks were only for the extremely sophisticated who could watch the market every day, all day long.

But this was a book written by Wade Cook. I remembered him fromt hat real estate seminar and I remembered how effective his techniques worked for me. And he was talking stock market strategies that were very similiar to what he taught in his real estate programs. So I bought the book.

Boy was I nervious. My first play was a 3/2 stock split play on a bank stock. I invested $250 on only one contract (last of the big spenders huh?) Three weeks later, post-split that option was now worth $1500! Do the math and figure out that rate of return.

Next I bought a railroad stock that was doing a 3/1 split. I made $4,000 in three weeks!

Then I invested in Schwab and Wade Cook's stock, both of which were doing stock splits at the same time. Again, I averaged 1,000%+ returns in weeks!

Then I bought into a drilling company that was also doing a 3/1 stock split. You guessed it! I bought the options post split this time. The stock ran from $25 to $40 in a month. One mistake I made with this play was that I held on too long as the stock started to pull back. But I still sold at a nice profit.

So I was sold, sold, sold on Wade Cook. My best play was on Amazon.com (AMZN) I made $7,000 in three days on a 3/1 for stock split. My $15 options soared to $8,500! I felt like I had the Midas Touch and was on cloud nine!

Later I played DELL and LUCENT and made in some cases $1,000 a day on stock splits using options and having very little money tied up.

On the other hand, I knew people who were losing money on stocks like IOM, CPQ, NOVL and others. My mutual funds were still doing well too. The fund I bought @ $7 was now up to nearly $45. So I knew that there was something other than luck in play here.

What impressed me about Wade was his constant beating that the stock market is very risky. To paper trade first and start with small amounts of money and only with play money, don't use retirement money or rent.mortgage or food money.

His strategies still are working for me today. And speaking of the strategies, they really are nothing new. Many investors knew about stock splits, option plays, covered calls and so on. Wade Cook just refined and fine tuned the strategies and delivered them to the masses while others kept this to themselves.

Aside from stock splits, I have also done well with the covered call strategy as well. A great way to generate cash flow from your stocks. Rolling stocks have also made money for me. But caution, these you have to get in and out of very quickly. The section 29 tax credit stocks were also a great strategy when they were offering tax credits and pay butt killer dividends. Great for your IRA, but you have to be careful with these as well and any stock for that matter.

I would recommend Wade's newer books which have updated strategies for the times such as Wall Street Money Machine Vol. I, III, III, IV, V and VI and Wade's newest book Stock Market Money Machine. And of course I also recommend Wades real estate book Real Estate Money Machine.

If this book is so great whay all of the negative reviews? In my opinion, there are a couple of reasons:

1) Some people who know these strategies work are afraid that if
the masses find out, they will lose their effectiveness. In
other words, they want to make money and the heck with you.

2) Many of these people are Wade Cook imitators and in many
cases, former employees of Wade Cook.

3) Some are stock brokers who prefer that you pay them a comm
for their brilliant advice which has your portfolio bleeding
RED!

4) Discount brokers in particular don't like Wade Cook because
he recommends full service brokers and explains why a full
service broker can make you more money and actually cost you
less in the long term.

Funny thing I noticed............2005-10-02

I was doing some independent research on WADE COOK. I had heard about him from a friend who is making some OBSCENE MONEY in the stock market with WADE COOK'S TECHNIQUES. So before I came here, I did a google on Wade and read all of the negative fluff against the man. Guess what else I found? Every supposedly negative complaint against WADE COOK was a website which also sold products similiar to what Mr. Cook sells. They were selling seminars and after bashing Wade Cook they conveniently sell you on the idea that if you want something that works, CLICK HERE and you'll get the information you need. Who is this guy trying to kid? Does he think we just fell off the tulip truck?

Two of the websites I checked had links to brokerage firms! HELLO!!!!

All of the negative complaints were listed as "anynomous" or R.K. or something else. In other words, they were creating their own negative stories against Wade Cook. Isn't it obvious what these clowns and flat out liars are trying to do? It sure is obvious to me.

Well I don't know about you, but they made me even more positive about Wade Cook and even more negative about them.

Don't listen to those 1 star stock brokers.......2005-10-02

Doesn't it seem just a little funyy that people are still giving this great classic by Wade Cook a 1 star, bash him and still insist that cook went bankrupt and is no longer in business?

(...)

This one tells the truth about what Wade Cook is really doing now. That other websites sends you to another website which leads you to investing seminars by one of Wade's competitors.

Regarding stock market investing, it is a very risky business. there are no guarantees. You don't see these same 1 star reviewers (really just one person reposting over and over and over and over. Gary Walls no doubt. Ask Mr. Walls why his tabloid website which mercilously attacked Wade Cook and was filled with lies got shut down) Notice that this same 1 star reviewer never wants to talk about all the crimes occurring on wall street. How many brokers and mutual fund managers have been busted?

Brokers don't want you to read this book either. Then want you to go to them for their expertise. The fact is the reason these guys are called brokers is because they make your accounts get broker! Discount brokers in particular are very nervious about Wade. These guys are hanging on to their job's by a thread as it is and along comes Wade Cook teaching people that you can save and make more money by using a full service broker. It's sort of like getting better nourishment from a restaurant that carefully prepares a meal for you (full service)as opposed to a fast food restaurant (discounted) where it appears to cost less, but????

I am sure that the 1 star hysteria will continue and I am sure that the deleting of five star reviews like this one will also continue. And I am sure that tabloid like websites like Gary Walls now defunct website will continue. As long as some people like to read garbage, parasites like Gary Walls (now using another name and not surprisingly going after another best selling author) will continue.

My question is, what good does it do? Wade Cook is still around and strong. The other best selling author has gone far beyond what Wade Cook has ever done and he is getting bigger, bigger, bigger and bigger.

This 1 star reviewer should stick to using Wade's advice (successful investors have been applying Wade Cook-like techniques for years, long before they became fashionable), read and assimiliate Wade Cook's advice and strategies, forget the tabloid websites and then he will start making some serious money and maybe even for at least once in his, feel good about himself and do something good for mankink.

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Wall Street Money Machine: New and Incredible Strategies for Cash Flow and Wealth Enhancement
Wade Cook
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Wall Street Money Machine, New & Incredible Strategies for Cash Flow & Wealth Enhancement

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Wall Street Money Machine, New & Incredible Strategies for Cash Flow & Wealth Enhancement
Wade B. Cook
Manufacturer: Seattle, Washington: Lighthouse Publishing Group, Inc. 1997
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Wall Street Money Machine, New & Incredible Strategies for Cash Flow & Wealth Enhancement
Wade B. Cook
Manufacturer: Kent, WA: The Light House Publishing Group, 1996
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Binding: Hardcover
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3 WADE COOK Books - 1) - Wall Street Money Machine: New Incredible Strategies for Cash Flow and Wealth Enhancement / 2) - Stock Market Miracles: Even More Miraculous Strategies Cash Flow Wealth Enhancement / 3) - Bear Market Baloney - (Unboxed Set)

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3 WADE COOK Books - 1) - Wall Street Money Machine: New Incredible Strategies for Cash Flow and Wealth Enhancement / 2) - Stock Market Miracles: Even More Miraculous Strategies Cash Flow Wealth Enhancement / 3) - Bear Market Baloney - (Unboxed Set)
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3 WADE COOK Books - 1) - Wall Street Money Machine: New Incredible Strategies for Cash Flow and Wealth Enhancement / 2) - Stock Market Miracles: Even More Miraculous Strategies Cash Flow Wealth Enhancement / 3) - Bear Market Baloney - (Unboxed Set), in either Hard or Softcover, (See Seller Condition Comments), Shipped in one package to save on shipping costs.

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Wall Street Money Machine, New & Incredible Strategies for Cash Flow & Wealth Enhancement
Wade B. Cook
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Partnerships for Profit: Structuring and Managing Strategic Alliances
Jordan D. Lewis
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Faced with new levels of savage competition, tens of thousands of companies, including fierce competitors, are sharing their resources and expertise to develop new products, achieve larger scale economies, and gain access to new technology and new markets. These strategic alliances are justifiably hailed by many as the competitive weapon of the 1990s. But because they are blurring and reshaping the very structure and boundaries of corporations in unprecedented ways, the process of designing and managing these alliances confronts managers with the awesome task of inventing theory and practice on a daily basis. Up to now, they have had few places to turn for guidance.

In Partnerships for Profit, Jordan D. Lewis, an internationally recognized expert on strategic alliances, now provides the first full-scale analysis of this surging global phenomenon. During five years of intensive field research, including 500 interview hours with more than 100 executives from some 40 American, European, and Asian firms, Lewis has observed firsthand some of the most successful strategic alliances and alliance practitioners in the world. Drawing on the experiences of IBM, Fuji Xerox, Ford, Dow Chemical, Intel, Komatsu, Corning, Sony, Apple Computer, Ciba-Geigy, and many other companies, Lewis brilliantly describes in detail how managers at each of these pioneering firms structure and manage various kinds of alliances -- from informal cooperation, minority investments, and risk-sharing contracts to full-fledged joint ventures and strategic networks. Through actual examples, Lewis shows for the first time how alliance partners build trust, develop mutual understandings, and make joint decisions, and at the same time protect core interests and critical technology -- a major concern of direct competitors. Lewis explains how to avoid the "Trojan horse" blunder many American firms made when they gave their Asian manufacturing partners key information about tailoring their products to local preferences. Particularly important is an entire chapter devoted to working with other cultures. The employment of strategic alliances, Lewis concludes, requires nothing short of a revolution in the conduct of business. Unlike arm's length relations, in which initial commitments govern, alliances involve shared risks and ongoing mutual adjustments. Lewis shows how alliances inevitably shape the business strategy of an entire firm, since the decisions to target certain markets and commit resources involve groups of firms acting in concert. Finally, Lewis shows how the use of alliances will affect internal management policies and practices, especially methods to bring about an outward focus and overcome the "not invented here" syndrome. We have entered the age of strategic alliances.

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Partnerships for Profit : Structuring and Managing Strategic Alliances
Jordan D. Lewis
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Throughout the Clinton administration we have been bombarded with scandalous reports of adultery and infidelity, yet it never fails that in Monday morning's newspaper, we almost always see a picture of the President and his wife walking out of church, Bible in hand.

The secular population may find this endearing and say, "He goes to church; he can't be that bad," while the conservative Christians cry, "Hypocrite!"

In light of these shameful trysts, we seem to be on the receiving end of a double message. On one hand, Bill Clinton obviously goes to church. On the other, Bill Clinton has also come dangerously close to losing his job while disgracing the White House and the American people with his sexual liaisons.

There has to be more to this story than what we have heard and seen thus far. We can't label Bill Clinton as a hopeless case because none of us are. His sexual misbehavior is only symptomatic of a much greater problem. Moody Adams has done an effective job in uncovering and exposing the root of Clinton's problem: Sin!

In addition, Adams has done a tremendous amount of research, presenting the facts in black and white, while leaving out any presuppositions he may have about Clinton.

This work is not a defense of Bill Clinton's actions. There is a message of greater importance screaming from these pages!

Bill Clinton, along with everybody else who sits under the preaching of the Word of God has a major responsibility to compare the fallible "spoken word" with that of the infallible "written Word" and conform his behavior to it.

If Bill Clinton is attending church on Sunday, yet living a double life, what exactly is being preached from that pulpit? In this ground-breaking book, How the Clinton Clergy Corrupted a President, Moody Adams documents many direct quotes from the "men of God" whom Clinton has allowed to mold his thinking.

What is being preached in our churches today? What messages are being conveyed to saved and unsaved alike? Do these messages line up with what the Bible teaches? Are we, as Christians examining what we hear, see, and read in light of what the Bible says?

You will find the answers to these and many other questions in this sobering account of the condition of today's clergy and how they corrupted a president.

Customer Reviews:

Great Job!.......2006-07-09

I have read the book and I have read the reviews posted here. Look, if you are looking to be entertained by reading about another family's tragedy, this is not the book for you. I took the book for what I believe the author intended it to be, a tool or a reference for others who might find themselves in a similar situation, and in that regard it is informative and raw and insightful. It leads you through both the "nuts and bolts" and the emotional aspects of dealing with this. I would suggest that if this book helps even one other family that finds itself engulfed in a paralysis rehabilitation, it certainly deserves a high rating. From what I have read in these reviews and in the authors blog, it certainly has already done that and will most likely do so again.

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due.......2003-06-18

The tragic figure in this book wrote the last review and made the following statement "One of the few requests I could still make, and expect to be honored, was that my family not disrupt their lives, but continue living them as best they could under the circumstances." So my question to you is --- did you make that request to anyone else? From my reading of the book, the girlfriend Rachel must have certainly disrupted her life to give you daily care...not the pat on the back every few months care that the mother gave. Where would you have been if not for the girlfriend's care of you? Did the mother give you baths, take you to the bathroom, feed you, clean for you? The girlfriend was given a samll bit of credit for your recovery in the book...but not nearly as much as she obviously deserved. After all, family is SUPPOSE to take care of each other, but this girl was nothing to you and she still CHOSE to help you as much as she could. Someone ought to write a book about her giving qualities instead of what was written.

Maintain the high road..........2003-04-17

My Mother's book...there are plenty of accounts available as to the victims take on this journey, but words are sparse when contributed by those placed in a support role. My Mother dealt with my situation as a tower of strength. Some may question that, considering the "time spent" and "distance" mentioned in a previous review, but those two points combined to show the true love, strength, and courage my Mother displayed throughout this journey. My Mother arrived to find her son completely powerless as to the current goings on in his life. One of the few requests I could still make, and expect to be honored, was that my family not disrupt their lives, but continue living them as best they could under the circumstances. Despite Mom wanting to be by my side throughout, she respected me enough to allow me to do it my way. This book details the struggle of a Mother to do everything she could for her twenty-seven year old child, and to then do for herself. Although every case is dramatically different, "The Ghost Behind The Wheelchair" may produce for you a bit of logic...a little understanding...some comfort...and hope...from the perspective of a loving Mother. If you are looking for an account rendered by others...your search continues.

Don't Waste Your Time.......2003-04-09

A complete waste of time to read this book. It seems as though the mother was expecting a martching band and blue ribbon for actually helping (at least some) her son to get re-hab!

Uh, note to the author ---- that is what you're suppose to do!

Not Sure What To Make of It.......2003-04-02

my best friend's daughter was in a car accident about a year ago and has not been able to walk ever since. i can say that my friends experience as a mother was not at all like the mother in this book. there are some good moments, but overall not very helpful to people actually going through this sort of thing. many of the "mothering" moments, that the mother seems to want patted on the back for, are so obvious and basic to mothers that her feelings and thoughts were just not useful.

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