The Only Business Guide You Will Ever Need: The Ultimate Book for a Successful Business from A to Z!!!

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the only business guide you well ever need !!!.......2002-01-05

best investment for those who want and need to make MONEY AND BE SUCCESSFUL in today global business wolrd.

I AM AN MBA.......2001-12-12

WELL ORGANIZED AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS GUIDE ITS A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE WHO WANT DO WELL IN THE BUSINESS WORLD.

I AM AN MBA.......2001-12-12

WELL ORGANIZED AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS GUIDE ITS A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE WHO WANT DO WELL IN THE BUSINESS WORLD.

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Interviews of two dozen of America's most successful and talented women entrepreneurs who offer their insights and strategies for success. It is an inspiring and often humorous journey into the world of women in business and the power of passion. If offers solid, track-tested advice on such business basics as goal setting, conducting feasibility studies, and networking, as well as a section devoted to business resources and support organizations.

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PASSION FUELS SUCCESS.......2004-04-12

Alexandra Powe Allred brings an inspiring and informative book based on 25 examples of women who have achieved astounding success in business, along with what drove them to their heights. You will learn how to "identify your chosen field" how to break down boundaries, "doing your homework" how to "market yourself and your business" and much more. One of my favorite examples for strategy is about Jenny Craig, and the "recommended steps for success" provided: "Set your goal;" "Understand your market;" "Research several aspects of the business and your product"; "Identify your resources"; "Learn what you need to know"; "Develop your marketing skills"; "Hone your people skills"; "Believe in yourself and your goal."

Most importantly, this book will inspire you to hopefully look within and discover what you are absolutely PASSIONATE about doing and being in your life. It is your heart-felt passion that fuels your energy to do what it takes to live your dreams, while you joyfully create the success you deserve along the way.

Highly recommended for the inspiring stories of HOW women started from scratch and created the life and success they deserve, as well as for the in-depth resource guide at the back of the book, bringing you complete contact information for excellent organizations and publications, that can aid you in creating the success you deserve.

Barbara Rose, Ph.D. author of Stop Being the String Along: A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE and If God Was Like Man
Editor, inspire! magazine

Truly Remarkable!.......2001-02-18

Too often women in our culture are discouraged and prevented from becoming independent businesspeople. The Western capitalist business paradigm desprately needs the passionate and nurturing influence of our creative women. Passion Rules focuses on the struggles and experiences of 25 successful women entrepreneurs. Their inspiring stories serve as powerful mentoring tools for any person with a creative independent spirit. We are looking towards a new definition of successful business and women in our society stand poised at the forefront.

Inspiration and Incite.......2001-02-04

I just received my copy of Passion Rules! and I had to immediately sit down and read it. Of course the next thing I had to do was recommend it to everyone :) This book covers many of the basics in starting up a business and also points out some of the pitfalls that might befall someone who is going into business for themselves. This book is easy to read, clearly written, and very entertaining. I think it is a must-have for any woman thinking about going into business.

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Not for OM majors.......2001-09-25

This books does a good job supporting a contemporary approach to Operations management. It does not assume everybody wants to major in Om nor does it assume everybody wants to go into manufacturing. It is very readable and does a good job helping the studetn understand the basic trade-offs of OM.

Integrated Operations Management: Adding Value for Customers

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Integrated Operations Management: Adding Value for Customers
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Totally brill, and he makes you laugh, too

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The buzz created by the hardcover of this "engaging, tart, saucy, and very frank memoir" (Liz Smith) ran from a first serial in W to an "Absolut Doonan" ad to Hollywood film rights. For twenty years Simon Doonan, the creator of the hottest window displays in the world at Barney's New York, has collaborated with the biggest names in fashion and the most notorious names in art. Whether he's making fun of blondes, sending up Sigmund Freud, or creating caricatures of celebrities, his work has been fearless and entertaining kitsch. Confessions of a Window Dresser illustrates his work in glorious full-color photographs and wickedly witty commentary on the trends and people of the fashion and entertainment world. Here's a dazzling gift of glamour, laughter, and fashion history.

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Totally brill, and he makes you laugh, too.......2006-06-03

Not really sure how Simon Doonan managed to fail the Eleven Plus; he's (among other geniuses) a Comic Genius. Confessions of a Window Dresser has (surprisingly!) turned out to be an excellent read-aloud.
Mr. Doonan's life is awfully fascinating even without the window dressing (hehe), but if you're interested in display in general, and window dressing in particular, I recommend this book as a Must Have. The archived photos merit close study.
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Pluses & Minuses.......2005-07-19

This book is a ride for sure, an artistic roller-coaster with a nice beginning, no ending and a meandering middle. I think it would be appropriate to call this book self-absorbed and it is up to you to decide if that is what you want to read. Some of the problems I encountered: First, I really should have bought the hardcover; the [paperback] book literally fell apart in my hands. By page six, the cover was off and soon after that I was picking little bits of glue off my lap. About one third the way through the book, I gave up and tried to stay ahead of the mess by picking the glue off the binding myself. I have read hundreds of books, many of them paperbacks, and I have probably never seen a book so poorly bound; by the end of the book it started to look and feel like a newspaper! Additionally, for what is mostly a color-picture book the quality of paper used is also astonishingly low; the total lack of quality of this book is depressing. Perhaps this is what you get when you manufacture in China and don't have someone watching who speaks Chinese.

Second, I found the text of this book hard to follow. The whole thing should have been arranged better, the captions for the volumnous pictures were all ploped down in paragraph-form and the main text was constantly cut up for random, unpredictable, lengths by the pictures. On the other hand, with careful reading I thought the captions explained the pictures very well.

Third, I would have liked to learned more about his early career in London and L.A. It felt to me that the middle of the "how-I-got-to-where-I-am" story was a soft, like part o the story was missing. Overall, I enjoyed the story.

Wise advices by Doonan himself..........2002-06-20

Fashion Marketing is everywhere, especially in Fashion Windows where's the retailer's most economical form of advertising; bring glamour, fun, theatre and art to the streets, while visibly expressing the store's image. Of his approach to visual merchandising, Simon Doonan brings a wealth of personal experince and insight to these window displays. The ones who are interested in Fashion Windows, Fashion Marketing and Fashion Advertising, must have this book. (P.S. I bought this book from Amazon and received it at the right time and with no harm. Thanks Amazon.com )

A Fascinating & Colorful Memoir.......2001-10-13

I bought this book for a gift, but was so intrigued by Doonan's windows I had to read it myself. From the minimal and sometimes upsetting displays of his early years to the more recent, gaudy and pop-influenced windows of Barneys, Doonan's book shows and tells the craft, work, and often times controversy that went into his displays. An incredible glimpse of one man's work, and the importance of a store display to grab and interact with the customer. Never bores, never falters.

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Simon Doonan gives us a gift in this delectable bon-bon of a book! The self-professed "Lucky Leprechaun", Doonan proves it does indeed take more than luck-it takes talent, drive, and vision to become a success. Dispelling the myth that all "window dressers" are poisonous, bitter, queens, this insanely funny, engaging, and gorgeously illustrated biography is the perfect late summer book. A must read!

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6 x 9 Never-before-published letters from more than thirty American presidents. Rare insight into the personalities of leaders and the issues that affected them. Presidents since Washington have written to children. In a less hectic era, presidents even went through White House mail themselves, choosing which letters to answer and often confiding in young people in ways they rarely would to peers. The letters span a broad emotional spectrum: from James Polk's heartwrenching letter informing his nephew of his mother's death to Teddy Roosevelt's lighthearted "picture letters." How each president, from Washington to Nixon, responded to his young constituents often revealed an unusual view of the private man. Taken together, the letters offer a glimpse of how the presidency has evolved. This is the Weintraubs' fifth book. Rodelle Weintraub is now a travel consultant; Stanley Weintraub is a biographer and historian, now Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University.

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A Sneak Peak.......2000-12-07

It is wonderful to be able to see the real personalities of the presidents, without the coverup that is seen today. The book allows the reader to see how the earlier presidents responded to their children, especially when they were not up to the standards. The letters of the later presidents are charmingly witty. It is a great book to read, especially when you only have a few minutes, you can stop at the end of each letter. Great to go to bed with.

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The Who, What and Why of the Counterculture movement.......2001-12-15

This novel is the unequivocal history of both Leslie Brody, and to a larger degree the counterculture movement of the 1960?s and 1970?s. Leslie relives her experiences of many of the major events during this time period including Woodstock, the Chicago Democratic Convention, the underground high school press and the "San Francisco Peace Treaty". With utter fascination at the woman that she was before, Brody goes over her experiences with as much interest into who the girl in the picture and write the poems is.
For the novice Vietnam War reader, or even one who would like to learn what the Vietnam War stood for in the protest marches, there is no better source of information than The Red Star Sister. Without first hand accounts of the actual motives of the protest movement, hippies would be smudged into history as a group full of drugs and free loving. However, this book shows the utopianism that hippies everywhere were seeking, a state that had peace and no need to attack other countries.
Red Star Sister gives a breath of fresh air and reason to the hippie movement and is a must read by all people who did not go through what she has, which is roughly 99% of the population. If you are interested in reading a well-constructed and fair version of events that took place during America's hippie movement, then you must look no further than this book. However, if you ardently believe that the Vietnam War was the correct American foreign policy and the thought of the protest movement makes your stomach curl, then this book should be passed over. Either way, one cannot argue that Leslie Brody lived a truly remarkable life.

Anonymous.......2001-12-14

After reading the book, and knowing that Leslie Brody is a professor at a college, which is a well-respected and honored job, people would not think that the things she explains in her book Red Star Sister would actually be things she did. She took a big social risk in writing her book because she took the chance of getting ridiculed because of her past. Anyone who reads this book will have a different opinion about it, but mostly it could be expected that they would respond positively to it, and praise her for a job well done. While reading a novel written as an autobiography, the reader feels as if he or she were in the position of the author because everything is told first hand, so it gives the feeling of reality and truth. That is how people would feel if they read Brody's book, she makes people feel as if they were experiencing everything she had; they would feel like war protestors from the 60's.
Because she writes the truth, as she understands it, readers may think that her reality is being forced upon them. Except she states clearly in the book "I am writing this the way I remember it. I do know I'd have to be some kind of zealot to believe that what I say is the only truth" (5). She is writing what she knows, and whether or not that is the truth for others she does not know, but this book is her recollection of the past in the way she experienced it.
As well as the narrative style and her opinion of truth, she represents an image of independence to women who read her literature, just as the women in the novels Summer, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jane Eyre, and Wide Sargasso Sea. Brody is a woman of defiance and she differs from these other women in that she does things on her own and is independent from the beginning of her life. She may hold men on pedestals, such as Tim Lowenthal, just as Charity held Lucius on one. And her love life may be just as confusing as Janie's. Or she may have the same rebellious attitude as Jane does, and like part of the title of her book, she may have madness like Antoinette but she is the only one of all of them that obtains her independence as a child, and is not afraid of it. She is proud to be different because being normal is too boring. This image she portrays allows women to see themselves as independent and be proud of their unique or different qualities. She helps women to find their truth in life, by finding their independence.
Since part of the title of her book says "Between Madness and Utopia" she clearly does not think that anything can be the same or have just one meaning or truth. By definition madness and utopia are opposites and so somewhere in between the confusion and agitation of madness and the perfection of utopia, there lies the truths that people understand and comprehend as their own. Through her book she explains the truth that she knows; she explains the places between madness and utopia where she found her truth.

A Personal Journey Through An Anxious Time.......2001-12-14

Red Star Sister promises no more than "one woman's point of view", a glimpse at a period in our shared history that was marked by turmoil and upheaval, but strife and idealism. This one point of view is more than enough to give the reader what Leslie Brody hopes for, namely a glimpse at an "often shadowy, anxious time", and through the retelling of the events therein, she hopes for herself a chance to recapture the utopian image of self and society that drew her generation together while they were being rived apart by the events of the day.
Brody takes the reader through her childhood on Long Island, replete with insecurity stemming from her middle class upbringing to reprimands for her defiance and intelligence at the local public schools. Through a surprisingly personal and unflinching recounting of her teenage years, through her mother's death, her anger towards her father and the men in her academic life, and her ever increasing political awareness, Brody prepares the reader, through recollections and journal entries, for angst filled state of mind that could take a young hippie girl from Long Island to a White Panther commune in Chicago where she was trained in the art of guerilla warfare, should the ideal for society need to be defended, with force if need be. The ever pressing war in Southeast Asia translated into an intensely individual war at home, as Brody struggles to retain her idealism and even sanity as she comes to grip with her dreams clashing with reality.
In the end what has been offered here is an unapologetic glimpse into the mindset of a woman who shared the life of a generation, without the recriminations or glorifications to be had within the memoirs of contemporaries, done, perhaps, as much for her own sake as that of the reader she takes with her on the journey.

Patriotism and Passion.......2001-12-13

This is the autobiography of a feminist "hippie" from the 60's whose witty writing style portrays her as a woman who does more than blindly preach against the Vietnam War. Readers of this book will find out that she is a true American. Brody, who grows up in a Jewish family, integrates Yiddish into her dialect. As soon as I read the word "zoftig" and "vildechaya," I felt connected to her through the culture we've shared. This culture connection, by the way, is a timeless generation bridge. It was as though I understood where she was coming from because she had the same grandmother, the same self-awareness, and similar prejudice problems as many Jews know quite well. Red Star Sister, in this respect, is timeless.
My favorite anecdote of the story was her experience at Woodstock. This is because I could picture my mother somewhere in the crowd, while everyone at the concert was thinking and talking about the same things- either peace, drugs, love, or absolutely nothing at all. Of course we have all read about these things in other books that are probably better publicized. But the reason why this one is so good is that she developed my trust first. Brody captures me with commonalities of religion, language, and crazy-but-thought-out actions.
I would especially recommend this book to women who want to read about themselves or read what they could have done if they wanted an exciting, politically active life. This book combines the location changes of the James Bond series, the class struggles and racism issues of Their Eyes Were Watching God, a witty personal perspectives like that of Virginia Woolf, and an effective writing style like Tim O'Brien. Brody shows herself as an American with the type of patriotism we are lacking today. The passion that comes with patriotism.

Red Star Sister is Good.......2001-12-13

Leslie Brody's autobiography recounts her young life as an activist at the height of the counterculture movement, giving readers the inside scoop on the life of a radical hippie. With the body count for the Vietnam War on Cronkite as her background music, Brody leaves her home in a Long Island suburb to single-handedly save the world. She packs her red suitcase and heads into the unknown, stopping for episodes at White Panther collectives in Chicago and Ann Arbor, Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, and finally, Europe, where she hopes to attend the Vietnamese peace negotiations. Its rich detail, humor, and awareness of self and world make Red Star Sister a fascinating memoir.

Brody gives readers a strong sense of the euphoria felt by radicals in the 60's and early 70's. She explains how the goal was to off the pig, and "the fashionable rhetoric encouraged kids not to trust anyone over thirty and, furthermore, to kill our parents". Adults represent the death culture, and hippies idealistically set out to recreate Woodstock all over the world, where love and community would reign over war, napalm, and lies.

Brody's use of detail and allusion is effective in illustrating the counterculture atmosphere. She evokes the music of Phil Ochs and Country Joe McDonald, political role models Che Guevara and Mao Tse-tung, and of course, her literary heroes Doris Lessing, Joan Didion, and Anais Nin. With enjoyable candor, she recounts her experiences with hashish, Yellow Sunshine, and free love. Even as a young person born a decade after this time period, I still get a powerful sense of what the world was like for the radicals.

In the midst of revolutionary zeal, however, Brody presents herself as a character with an undeniably human side to which I can relate. She is plagued by concerns that any young woman might experience--"I would wonder if I was a coward," Brody says. She engages in free love still wondering, "Does he just like me because he can have me? Does he even think I'm pretty?... Is it counterrevolutionary to want to be pretty?" I have no problem sympathizing with Brody as she blunders through her early life.

In this tension between counterculture hero and regular girl, Brody holds a naive enthusiasm that manifests itself in a passion for the romantic and the literary. She takes solace as she wanders the streets of France, broke, in the fact that "I felt, despite my discomfort, emotionally pure, careless and thoughtless, down and out, a little crazy, and awfully literary". The irony through which the older Brody frequently views her youthful romanticism adds humor to the narration and conveys a well-rounded sense of self.

Brody's memoir is more outward-looking than what one might expect from an author writing for the "me generation". She admits early on that "I'm sure brats abounded as they do in every age," and presents a balanced account of her youth by describing the bad drug trips along with the good ones. Brody does not proclaim that she and her comrades were the ultimate saviors of society, or that hers was the only valid experience to be had during that time. Instead, she says, "I offer you one woman's point of view". Fortunately, Brody has an interesting perspective and a talent for poignant narration.

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