2001 New Jersey Manufactures Register (New Jersey Manufacturers Register)

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This book concerns the most important relationship most people have outside the family: the relationship between an employer and an employee. That relationship is crisscrossed by a complex web of laws and regulations. This book describes those laws in a direct, straightforward fashion.

The Florida Employer's Guide provides the "lay of the land" of personnel law and regulations and integrates the state and federal law that is relevant to an employer. Each section of the book attempts to include both the underlying concept and a simple, straightforward rule.

This book is written in small, self-contained sections. The reader does not need to refer to the rest of the chapter, much less the rest of the book, to find information about a topic. Although this method of writing causes some duplication, it more than repays the reader in the efficiency of its use.

The Florida Employer's Guide is supplemented at least yearly, and more often if major legislation or court cases require. In order to incorporate updated pages easily, the book is published in a three-ring notebook. The Florida Employer's Guide is, and will continue to be, one of the most current employment law books available anywhere in the nation.

"Memo English" is used throughout this book. Whenever possible, the author has avoided terms not found regularly in a newspaper and discussions that would appear out-of-place in a business memo. This book is a non-technical discussion of technical topics.

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The World Class Project Manager: A Professional Development Guide
Robert K. Wysocki , James P. Lewis , Robert K. Wycocki , and Doug DeCarlo
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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There's always room at the top. Those seeking to stake their claims can turn to The World Class Project Manager: A Professional Development Guide for expert planning advice on setting and reaching their management career goals. Authors Robert K. Wysocki and James P. Lewis and contributor Doug DeCarlo have extensive experience in training project managers, and their simple, direct style helps readers define their assets and devise a career development strategy. Through stories about clients and interviews with professional development consultants, the authors personalize the process and help readers understand and overcome the obstacles to success in project management.

The World Class Project Manager is well illustrated and packed with examples of simple steps to improve people-oriented and more strategic skills. Plentiful self-assessment exercises, including an expanded Meyers-Briggs and the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, help organize the prospective PM's strengths and talents to best direct their assignments and advance their careers. Finishing with concrete advice for handling the day-to-day problems and mini-crises that inevitably arise on the job, the book gently steers readers toward confidence and competence in all things mission-critical. --Rob Lightner

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A soup-to-nuts guide to developing superior project-manager skills and competencies--from two of the most respected authorities in the field.

Effective project management is becoming a critical mission skill for individuals and organizations in every industry. Faster product life cycles, the widespread adoption of cross-functional teams, and the increasing demands of customers are all contributing to the growing need for professional managers who know how to marshal resources, make decisions, and ensure the smooth flow of projects from idea to launch. In The World Class Project Manager, Robert Wysocki and James Lewis offer a highly practical handbook for anyone who aspires to achieve superior project-manager skills. Featuring self-assessment tools, showcasing best practices from the field, and drawing on their own extensive experience in training project managers around the world, the authors provide a comprehensive program for crafting a career development plan and putting it into action.

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Don't judge a book by its cover!

Beautiful garden photos and quilt patterns

Luscious!

Garden-Inspired Quilts: Design Journals for 12 Quilt Projects
Jean Wells , and Valori Wells
Manufacturer: C&T Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1571201319

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Mother-and-daughter team Jean and Valori Wells share beautiful garden photography, quilt patterns, and creative inspiration with these 12 quilt projects and a pillow. Quilters' journals take you step by step through the process of turning photos, memories, and ideas into finished quilts. Readers will also see how to design their own garden-inspired quilts with Jean and Valori right by their side!

Customer Reviews:

Don't judge a book by its cover!.......2004-08-13

I anticipated receiving this book because I was drawn to the photo on the cover - a flower represented in half photo, half quilt. I expected the quilts inside to be replicas of nature. Instead there are one or two like this and the rest are not "garden-inspired" at all, as far as I can tell. The first quilt is a basic log cabin quilt. The second is a folk heart type quilt. I was really hoping for more artistic, realistic quilts. The photos are so lovely... I wish the quilts compared!

Beautiful garden photos and quilt patterns.......2002-07-11

Blend beautiful garden photos and quilt patterns and you have Garden Inspired Quilts, an impressive collection of twelve projects suitable for all quilter levels which offer quilters' journals of stepbystep techniques for translating garden designs to quilt styles. The flower photos are outstanding and the patterns quite useful.

Luscious!.......2002-05-11

The beautiful photography and unique quilts will inspire you!

Book Description

The critically praised biography of "the man who discovered poverty" and inspired a generation-now in paperback for scholars and anyone else interested in American politics, the politics of poverty, and the history of the New Left.

Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly tracks Harrington's beginnings in the Catholic Worker movement, his abandonment of his once deeply held Catholicism, his life in 1950s Greenwich Village, and is evolution as a thinker. Along the way he dispels numerous myths, including several Harrington himself encouraged. And he explains why Harrington, who more than any other single individual seemed perfectly positioned to play the role of adult mentor to the New Left in the 1960s, instead fell into disfavor with young campus activists, and lost the opportunity of a lifetime to make his Democratic Socialist perspective a relevant force in American politics.

The Other American received rave reviews in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune and more.

Customer Reviews:

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.......2002-07-12

This is a well-honed biography of a man and his persistence in an idea, and the trials of that venture through thick and thin, against all odds. Harrington is a unique witness to the tribulations of real social change, and the living question, what is the fate of the capitalist circumstance? A persistent critic of the Bolshevik episode, his question endures. He is suddenly revealed here both in his quiet heroism, and as slighly skewed or 'out of phase' with respect to the sudden upsurge of the sixties left, yet his endurance and vision remain at the end as a permanent challenge to a system of overwhelming force, against which easy change is forever substracted. It is this factor in the account that stands out, the studied contrast of the political background, as a prism revealing the reality of liberal politics as it is.

Thoughtful Look At Socialist Activist Michael Harrington.......2001-04-01

Anyone familiar with the tortured history of American socialism can appreciate this fine and pensive biography of one of its leading 20th century luminaries, fabled socialist and humanist author Michael Harrington. Noted historian Maurice Isserman ("America Divided"-see my review) delivers a wonderful account that passionately and comprehensively covers the long and eventful arc of Harrington's amazingly productive and prolific writing and academic careers as well as his exhaustive involvements in socialist politics and social activism. A stream of notables ranging from folksingers Peter, Paul and Mary, SDS's Tom Hayden, intellectuals like Irving Howe, and political figures like George Meany rub shoulders with Harrington, and we come to see his personal intellectual and political journey toward a better and fairer America as one with which we can each take common cause.

Educated in Massachusetts at Holy Cross, Harrington adopted the Jesuit perspective of enlightened social engagement early, and soon found himself rejecting his own comfortable middle class background to work among the urban poor. According to Isserman, it was inevitable for Harrington to act on his own antipathy to the gross materialism that surrounded him, and to extend this distaste for those living in luxury amid the squalor that surrounded them to his own philosophy and politics. Indeed, his own intellectual and philosophical journey provides the reader with a splendid portrait of the nature of American socialism in the middle of this century, and we find ourselves delving into remote nooks and crannies of the movement as Harrington makes his philosophical odyssey toward his own mature view of an open and democratically based contemporary socialism.

Along the way we learn a lot of important details about socialism as well as about how politics works in America. One at times becomes a bit winded at Harrington's sheer level of energy and capacity for work, for he sometimes seems to be everywhere doing everything at once. And it is this frenetic pace and sheer level of productive energy that one comes to admire in Harrington. In this day of self-satisfied torpor and delirium tremors from over-consumption, it is interesting to read about a man whose life was centered so energetically and so passionately around moral imperatives and ideas. Whether discussing his failure to successfully meld his old-style moral socialism with the new-left politics of young mavericks like Tom Hayden or his failure to actively engage the American Socialist Party in the debate over the war in Vietnam, Isserman brings Harrington and his times to vibrant life in these pages.

Of course, it was the publication of his overwhelmingly successful and influential book, "The Other America" that made Harrington a permanent fixture on the American scene, and everyone from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton have made reference to the importance of the book in forming their own perspectives regarding poverty in America. My recommendation is to first read "The Other America", because it is such a historical book both in terms of its content as well as in its effect on social policy for the last half of the 20th century. Then read this wonderful biography to understand the complex and troubling life of its author, one of the 20th century's most misunderstood and yet ultimately influential intellectuals. Enjoy!

An American Socialist.......2000-11-03

The Other American is required reading for any activist on the left with an interest in how the recent past affects movements of today. Maurice Isserman, one of the leading chroniclers of the recent American left, has given us not only a highly engaging portrait of the outstanding American socialist of the last half of the 20th century, but also a narrative of the left politics of the 1950s through 1960s that makes the often complicated political twists and turns of that period both comprehendible and interesting.

Isserman's thorough and well-researched portrait of Harrington's early years illustrate how his Jesuit training in high school and at college at Holy Cross informed his ideas and actions long after he rejected the Church itself. Not only did these institutions instill a "moral gravity" and lessons in commitment. "Catholic social teachings were from the beginning antipathetic to the assumptions of a capitalist world," Isserman writes. "Disciples of Thomas Aquinas knew from their master's teaching that `it is impossible for happiness, which is the last end of man, to consist in wealth.'"

Given this background, it is not difficult to understand how this young man from a comfortable, middle-class background sought to put his ideals to practical experience by ministering to those less-fortunate souls who sought out the Catholic Worker. Among those drawn to the Worker, it was, Harrington would say, a "perfectly rational and legitimate thing to say that one's ambition in life was to become a saint" - even as he eagerly experienced the bohemian nightlife of 1950s Manhattan during his free time.

Less understandable - apparently to Isserman as well - was that when Harrington left the pious cocoon of the Catholic Worker, he jumped directly into the sectarian squabbles of socialist politics. Isserman does show that during his two years at the Worker, Harrington was becoming increasingly convinced that the human ills he saw in the Bowery could not be fully addressed though acts of charity, but required political solutions. Nevertheless, "it all seemed very unlike Michael," writes Isserman, to step directly into the faction fights of the Socialist Party, becoming co-founder of the Young Socialist League, a sectarian group with a Trotskyist twist. Isserman offers a variety of factors: the unfortunate influence of Socialist factionalist extraordinaire Max Schactman; the influence of Jesuit doctrines of discipline and commitment; his friendship with experienced faction-fighter - and later DSA co-founder - Bogdan Denitch. Whichever the case, none of the explanations is fully convincing.

It took some two decades of socialist activism to complete Harrington's evolution from sectarian infighter to proponent of an open, inclusive, non-sectarian democratic socialism. His disastrous collision with Tom Hayden and Students for a Democratic Society at Port Huron may have torpedoed hopes for an alliance between the old and new lefts in the 1960s that could have given the social energies of that decade a stronger ideological grounding. Harrington spent years apologizing for his intemperate criticisms of the Port Huron Statement and its authors and, as Isserman demonstrates, he learned painful lessons from this mistake. Harrington them mostly spun his organizational wheels for the remainder of the decade, as the Socialist Party's infighting and its failure to oppose the war in Vietnam made it largely irrelevant to most activists. In 1972 he finally broke with his old mentor Schactman - who was leading the SP hard to the right in an effort to curry favor with cold-warrior George Meany and his AFL-CIO - to lead the formation of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC).

Nevertheless, during the 1960s Harrington built his own public presence, largely of the strength of his first and most popular book, The Other America: Poverty in the United States, published in 1962. It was a case of writing the right book at the right time: Many journalists and policymakers were only then coming to realize that the postwar prosperity had not benefited everyone. Harrington, despite his experience at the Catholic Worker, had never considered himself an expert on poverty. Nevertheless, the book made Harrington "the man who discovered poverty" and brought him a measure of public fame and affluence that clashed with his self-image as a socialist warrior.

While Isserman thoroughly covers Harrington's life and politics up to the early 1970s, he gives his last two decades - including the entire history of DSOC and its successor, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), during Harrington's time - relatively short shrift. He devotes a 45-page chapter largely to the writing and influence of The Other America, while he devotes only some 60 pages to the last two decades of Harrington's life - a time in which his political ideas flowered into maturity. Even as Harrington urged the left "to put aside the quarrels of the 1960s and to unite all who could be brought together into the democratic socialist movement," Isserman seems to regard this period of Harrington's life as largely a failure. While his effort to make democratic socialism the left wing of the Democratic Party collapsed with Reagan's victory in 1980, Harrington kept DSA together and - through his own hard work, his credibility and his notoriety as "America's Socialist" - visible and active in a difficult political environment. Isserman also scarcely touches on Harrington's other books, which may be his most valuable legacy. In particular, Socialism and Socialism: Past and Future, while hardly bestsellers, are likely to inspire future generations of left thinkers and activists.

Nevertheless, The Other American rewards the reader with its insights into the man and the movement. And it ends on a note of melancholy - not only on Harrington's premature death from cancer, but also on what his demise meant to the socialist movement. Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas and Michael Harrington represented the face of socialism to many Americans. "No claimant has emerged to pick of the mantle of Debs and Thomas and Harrington," Isserman writes. Will it take another Harrington-like leader to revive American socialism?

Michael Harrington Still Matters.......2000-07-31

Mr. Isserman's biography is neither sentimental (but it is written with plenty of sentiment) nor uncritical in its appraisal of the late Michael Harrington. This book is not intended to answer the question, 'What is socialism?'; however, because of the amazing amount of details concerning the socialists (obviously, especially Harrington), their ideas, party dissolutions and rebirths, one will be quite prepared for further study of Harrington and socialism. Isserman has an uncanny ability to use narative to reflect the pace of events -- especially when desciribing how quickly the 'war on poverty' was started and lost by the duplicity of Democrats and Republicans -- he picks up the pace of his words he needs to and uses more reflective words when he needs to. If one is not interested in learning about Micahel Harrington, Isserman is a good story teller who's book can be read for the narrative alone.

A First-rate Biography.......2000-03-23

Maurice Isserman has written several books focused on the American left, principally the Communist Party. In this book, he focuses on the late Michael Harrington, "America's foremost democratic socialist." The book is highly successful in giving us a look at Harrington the man, although anyone interested in a history of the democratic socialist movement may be somewhat disappointed. Isserman fills many gaps in Harringon's two semi-autobiographical books. While not completely impartial (Isserman was a member of Harrington's Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, and clearly likes his subject), the author neither fawns nor engages in iconography. Taken together with Robert Gorman's book, and Harrington's own work, Isserman's biography is as comprehensive a picture of Harrington as I suspect we're likely to get anytime soon. Highly recommended.

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The autobiography My Blue Heaven is a forceful and gripping story where fact is more unforeseen and unpredictable than an imaginary tale.

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Fact Is More Unexpected Than Fiction.......2001-11-22

Sometimes the events in one's life seem to go beyond our plans and expectations and exceed beyond the best fiction of anyone's imagination. So it is with "My Blue Heaven" as the life and times of one lonely soul confronts reality in his pilgrim's journey to never stop learning.
It's a book that reads quickly and one that is difficult to put down once you start to read it. All the events progress rapidly as history is being made in parallel.

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A step-by-step guide for designing and implementing the right initiatives every time
Process Visualization presents senior managers and executives with an innovative method for understanding, designing, and approving business processes. It offers readers a way to express their design ideas, test innovative approaches to solving problems, and be assured that their designs work-all before the start of a major initiative. This guide gives executives a step-by-step approach to simulate and experiment with new business models, emerging technologies, and marketplace relationships before going down the complex and expensive road of implementation. Results-oriented and successfully tested in the real world, Process Visualization will help managers and executives cut costs, improve return on investment, and increase effectiveness across the entire supply chain.

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A GREAT BUY!

Buyer beware!!! This is NOT a Mail Order Resource

Just an Ad for his Course

WARNING!! Reading this book WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE...

What Crap

Mail Order in the Internet Age
Ted Ciuba
Manufacturer: Morgan James Publishing, LLC
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Ted Ciuba shows you how, using only your computer with an Internet connection, working part-time from your home, you can quicky, easily, and safely earn well over $100,000 per year in "Mail Order in the Internet Age."

Customer Reviews:

A GREAT BUY!.......2006-01-02

This book is an excellent buy! This proves to be worthy of purchase simply for the practical, useful advice for Internet marketers. Ted has outdone himself with this book! A great read and MUST HAVE advice for all Internet marketers...or those who want to be successful on the Internet.

Buyer beware!!! This is NOT a Mail Order Resource.......2004-12-17

I ordered this book when I was researching the Mail Order industry. I was looking for resources - the title and publisher reviews looked hopeful. In retrospect and now having reviewed the book, I agree with one of the other reviewers that this book is only an advertisement for the author's other courses. No new information was gleaned from this book.

Just an Ad for his Course.......2004-06-22

Look for some of the books on Mail Order and Direct Mail that have 5 stars. This isn't one of them. It's mostly an ad for his fairly expensive course.

WARNING!! Reading this book WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE..........2004-04-21

This was my first experience reading a Ted Ciuba book. I didn?t know what to expect.

Ted you?ve EXCELLED!!!

Having had an interest in Mail Order and the Internet I was SOLD after reading this book!

Ted sets out to let the reader know just how EASY it is and boy, does he get that point across! Just by using a couple of the strategies from this book I am already experiencing EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH in my new direct response business. In fact I am using some of these strategies in my own challenge to make $4M US in 9 months on my website www.InsiderSecretsCoaching.com where if you visit you can see them in practice.

I must say that after reading ?Think And Grow Rich? by Napoleon Hill (which the author so kindly gave to me at freecopyofthinkandgrowrich.com) I never thought I'd find another book to compare to it. Well I was wrong!! Although ?Mail Order In The Internet Age? is on a different topic to ?Think And Grow Rich? it is a MATCH in the information stakes!!!

?Mail Order In The Internet Age? IS a GREAT INFORMATION RESOURCE!!!

There is SOOOO much value in it I believe it is well UNDERPRICED. Another testament to this is the page folds and markings I've made throughout the book after only one read! I'll need a new one soon.

Ted, when will you take note of me and increase the price!!!

?Mail Order In The Internet Age? qualifies to be in my DO NOT GO WITHOUT library and I have it marked to re-read at least twice more in the next six months. I guess it won't be long before I'll be back to Amazon.com to purchase another copy.

This is an EXCELLENT book that is set up for the beginner to the advanced Mail Order entrepreneur wanting to get ONLINE, REAL-WORLD ORIENTATED and NO B.S. information and don?t forget the PARTNERSHIP OFFERS included in the book to actually help beginners or advanced entrepreneurs MAKE MONEY from just partnering with Ted.

A SUPER-INFROMATIVE book - A MUST HAVE if you want to make money from Mail Order on the Internet.

Thanks Ted, you?re a legend!!!

Review by Brian Lord - brian@InsiderSecretsCoaching.com

What Crap.......2004-01-14

This book is a piece of trash. Do not be fooled into buying it.

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The tenth edition of this up-to-date teaching-learning system is written in an easy-to-understand style and provides comprehensive information about all facets of business law.

Material is presented in nine sections, which include relevant case studies featuring excerpts from the court's opinion. Content has been updated to reflect the many recent changes in the legal field and color photos throughout the text help students relate the material to their own lives.

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Business Law w/UCC App Cram101.......2007-03-25

The Business Law w/UCC App (Cram 101) was not what I had expected. Having had a previous class with a study guide book, this previous book included further questions reviewing the chapters content, thus being very helpful to prepare for testing. The Business Law w/UCC App (Cram 101) had only vocabulary words, some not even pertaining to the chapter information and Cram 101 requested a membership fee. Thanks, but no thanks. Just not what I was looking for or expected to find in a workbook.

Study Guide.......2006-11-10

This study guide was not as thorough as I thought it would be. Yet, it helped me get through the tough essay questions on the exam.

Informative.......2000-04-01

This book saved my life! It had the most information on Laws pertaining specifically to business.

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"This is the remarkable story of an amazing life. Cody not only lived the adventure of the frontier, he helped create the American West of the imagination. A fascinating story and a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of the Western myth." -Casey Tefertiller, Author, Wyatt Earp:The Life Behind the Legend

Who was the real Buffalo Bill?

This engrossing biography brings to thrilling life the frontier hero who is responsible for creating the lasting legend of the Wild West. Author Robert Carter takes us back to the Great Plains, where William "Buffalo Bill" Cody emerges in his many incarnations:as a buffalo hunter, a Civil War cavalry scout, an Indian fighter, a Pony Express rider, until, finally, he conceives of the show that made him famous throughout the world-the Wild West Exhibitions.

In Buffalo Bill Cody, the first full biography in over thirty years, we are given an intimate glimpse into the exhilarating life of this one-of-a-kind frontiersman and enormously popular showman, from his famous exploits to the lesser-known dramas surrounding his life. We gain fresh insights about many of the mysteries of Buffalo Bill's life, including whether he indeed killed Yellow Hand-the "first scalp for Custer." Elegantly written, Buffalo Bill Cody is a spellbinding achievement that not only reveals the truth behind this legendary subject, but also explores the myths of the Wild West that he created, which live on to this day.

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A legend redeemed and a new perspective.......2001-02-15

This is an edit of my original review. I was chastised in a kindly manner by the author for some of my original statements, and as I reread my review I belive with good reason. Though I am entitled to my opinion I don't have the right to presume that which I do not know for a fact. Based on Mr. Carters comments I will remove the those which he has refuted or corrected. Mr. Carter, my humble apologies. The boys of my generation have a firm tribal memory of Cody. His career as a pony express rider, the "first scalp for Custer", the Wild West show performance before Queen Victoria is the kind of knowledge one just seems to "know". Perhaps the generations that have followed my own have forgotten and this book will redeem his reputation as well as rescue him from the haze of the 19th Century. It is a "good read" and is full of facts and anecdotes. Mr. Carter often presents the evidence and leaves it up to the reader to decide the verity of the story. This is a great technique and it leaves the reader with the feeling he has uncovered the truth. It might be called the multiple choice method of biography. However, it is the use of this technique that detracts from a well researched study. That said and in spite of some barbs on my part I do think this is among the finest and possibly best researched treatment of the man.

A sure besteller!.......2000-10-25

Robert Carter has brought Buffalo Bill back from near oblivion, and presses his case that Cody was a major American figure in graceful and masterfully written prose.

A biography that reads like a page-turning novel........2000-10-09

Here is that rare kind of book that's equally rewarding to two kinds of readers -- people looking for a ripping good yarn, and serious students of the Old West. It's beautifully written in clear plain language that captures the epic sweep of the period, its tragedies, and even its bawdily comic moments. The text is tastefully sprinkled with excellent photos and illustrations. Thorough source notes are also included -- at the end, where they don't get in the way of your reading, along with a bibliography and useful index.

"Buffalo Bill Cody, the Man Behind the Legend" is the first complete biography of this marvelous old cuss in more than 30 years, and far and away the most accurate one ever written. It traces the life and many careers of Buffalo Bill from ox-driver, prospector, and Pony Express rider barely out of his childhood to adult adventures as Army scout, Medal of Honor winner, and finally as the boozy myth-making old showman whose geniality could accommodate both Sitting Bull and Annie Oakley under the same tent.

Buffalo Bill Cody knew virtually everyone worth knowing in the Old West, and most of those people make guest appearances in this book -- Wild Bill Hickock, Bat Masterson, George Armstrong Custer, and many others.

Robert A. Carter manages to tell the vivid story of his subject while also treating the reader to insights into the sights, sounds, smells, and ethos of the period in general, and he does it in a writing style remarkable for its wit and charm. I intend to keep this book in my personal library, both as a reference and to read again.

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The Depression in America. Hard times forgotten--but never forgotten by those who lived through a long period when a family spent all its energy in simply trying to get enough to eat. Multiple illustrations, black and white line drawings, by author.

Customer Reviews:

great.......2007-06-05

this is book is so spectacular. i just wanted to sit down and talk with the author the whole time. he's a great guy. read this book

Immigrant Son: An Armenian Boyhood (Chinchinian, Harry. Immigrant Son, Bk. 1.)

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Chinchian-buy this book without hesitation

Immigrant Son: An Armenian Boyhood (Chinchinian, Harry. Immigrant Son, Bk. 1.)
Harry Chinchinian
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The Depression in America. Never forgotten by those who lived through it. Humor and good luck is examined--especially growing up in a grocery store. Twelve chapers of uplifting thought in spite of hardships endured.

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Chinchian-buy this book without hesitation.......2004-05-14

This book shares great insight on the human experience. The author's unique perspectve is marvelously conveyed through his charming and intelligent style.

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Immigrant Son - An Armenian Boyhood

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