This Business of Publishing: An Insider's View of Current Trends and Tactics

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Essential to understanding how the publishing world works!.......2003-01-21

Whether you're an author pursuing a deal with a major publisher or trying to decide if self-publishing is for you, This Business of Publishing is essential to understanding how the publishing world works. Curtis examines everything from the method used to sell books to the effects of mergers on editors, writers and agents as well as publishers and bookstores to the effects of technology on all aspects of the industry. This Business of Publishing will aid established authors, aspiring writers, and self-published authors in understanding the business of the book industry therefore helping them plan their career strategy.

Well written book. Excellent information........2000-02-25

Mr. Curtis has been around the publishing business for many years and his commentary shows it. He provides searingly honest information that illuminates "warts and all." At the same time, his love of the industry comes through. And the last chapter is laugh out loud funny - and very telling.

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In this updated version of her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics. Vella sees the path to learning as a holistic, integrated, spiritual, and energetic process. She uses engaging, personal stories of her work in a variety of adult learning settings, in different countries and with different educational purposes, to show readers how to utilize the twelve principles in their own practice with any type of adult learner, anywhere.

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The Need for Dialectic and Active Learning.......2007-01-02

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach is designed to demonstrate the power and value of dialogue over monologue, and active over passive learning when it comes to educating adults. Vella demonstrates through real life examples how her twelve transcendent principles flesh out in a variety of specific contexts all around the world. This book is designed to help all adult educators embody and model a more effective way to facilitate actual learning. Not only does the book clearly explain and illustrate the twelve principles, but it also calls us to engage and analyze the principles along the way. This book demonstrates what active learning is all about.

A quick summary of the principles for effective adult learning:
1. Needs Assessment: The First Step in Dialogue
It is important to have a need-oriented approach to learning, where the scratch meets the itch by asking the www (political) question - "Who needs what as defined by whom?"
2. Safety: Creating a Safe Environment for Learning
Creating an atmosphere where learners feel safe: where they can trust in the feasibility, relevance and sequence of the learning objectives; where the learners can be both "creative and critical" in their response to the program in an affirming environment.
3. Sound Relationships: The Power of Friendship and Respect
The relationship between the teacher and student is vital. The more that the teacher can formally and informally create a relationship of mutual respect, the greater the motivation and learning potential of the adult learner.
4. Sequence and Reinforcement: Knowing Where and How to Begin
Based upon the needs assessment, the teacher designs an appropriate sequence of lessons moving from simple to complex and from group supported to mastering the lessons alone, in a way the reinforces the learning outcomes. The Seven Steps of Planning: Who, Why, When, Where, What For, What and How help design and reinforce the achievement-based objectives.
5. Praxis: Action with Reflection
Praxis is practice in dynamic relation with thought, where the learner engages in the practice of a new skill, attitude or concept - then immediately reflects on what they just did. The process of action and reflection, practice and thought is repeated in a cyclical process, each informing the other.
6. Respect for Learners: Learners as Subjects of Their Own Learning
In as far as it is possible, allow adult learners to determine what occurs in a learning event, based on their need assessment and the seven steps of planning.
7. Learning with Ideas, Feelings and Actions
Active learning is more effective than passive learning and requires learning objectives that help people think, feel and do.
8. Immediacy: Teaching What is Really Useful
Inviting people to immediately use a skill and see its benefit, gives them motivation to continue to learn more of the skills set out in the learning sequence.
9. Clear Roles: Reinforcement of Human Equity between Teacher and Student
The goal is to do whatever is necessary to foster honest dialogue, so that adults can learn together - while at the same time clarifying who has a deliberate voice and who has a consultative voice.
10. Teamwork: How People Learn Together
By using small groups in healthy competition with each other, the learners are able to provide reinforcement and constructive feedback with each other, enabling effective learning.
11. Engagement: Learning As an Active Process
The goal is not to cover a set of materials, but to allow the learner to engage in an active process of learning by doing.
12. Accountability: Success Is in the Eyes of the Learner
In the end, the educator wants to understand if the learner has actually learned the achievement-based outcomes. The best way to determine if someone has learned is to see if the learner is able to put into action what they have learned and if they have confidence that they "know that they know".

This is a great book to help teachers engage their students in active learning.

How to be a Listener yet a Teacher.......2006-11-09

This is an excellent text for today's teachers. It helps the teacher move from the monologue style (lecture style) of teaching into a more improved style of teaching (the dialogue style). It shows how to get the students more involved in the class and how the students will be able to retain what the teacher is presenting over the lecture style. Students retain more when they take part in the teaching process. I highly suggest this text for those who want a more interesting class.

Quantum Change.......2006-05-16

Jane Vella's, Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults challenged me to intentionally adopt several principles in my ministry to university students. I'm convinced these principles are useful for church ministries as well. That is why I recommend this book to you.

Jane Vella educates adults in many cultures and for many different groups, mostly community development projects. I'm very familiar with this kind of work and many of the places and people she writes about. One of the goals I have set for the summer teams of student interns serving in community development projects is for the students to have the best learning experience of their lives. Vella refers to this learning as the `quantum' concept, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
I need to encourage my staff to participate in the process of writing their own job descriptions. I need to be more effective at listening and giving open questions, especially in the teachings I give. Those open questions need to be put to the `safe' environment of small groups. I have practiced this sort of thing at some level, but I see I need to be more intentional. For example, I have asked the question, "What was your best learning experience?" Sometimes, but not always, I send the participants to small group to discuss the question. I need to be more effective at defining learning tasks and follow through on them so that the participants truly participate in the learning process.

1. How can I adopt principles of Vella's dialogue education and quantum thinking?

Vella's key assessment principle, `Who needs What and defined by Whom' or `WWW', is what we will adopt in all of our student ministry programs. To do that, I need to keep a journal. As I pray for individuals in my team and network around the world, I am writing a WWW assessment for YWAM Campus Ministries staff and their projects.

2. Which of the quantum thinking principles have I already practiced and how can I improve on them?

The Field Ministry Internship programme is a serving/learning outreach project for university student teams integrating their field of study with ministries cross-culturally. Vella's book referred to so many things that I have been attempting to do since 1989. For example, to help students feel `safe' we form small teams of 4 to 7. During the first few days in the host country, we typically send small teams out on a `scavenger hunt' in order to learn how to get around with some measure of independence within the safety of their small group. We send small teams to integrate well as a short-term team on a long-term field project. In this way, the students also gain a greater level of participation in the serving/learning process. The students design their own field projects on site as they assess the needs of the long-term personnel and projects they are serving.

I can see how we practice a learning needs assessment, but we do not involve the students enough. We are concerned for safety in the learning process, but I can see that some additional structure and demonstration of concern for the students learning process will raise the energy level and create an environment where learning can take place even when there is much uncertainty. We have structured the outreach program with four phases: Orientation to Cultural Awareness to Ministry to Debriefing. I have learned that we need to add a fifth phase, an Assessment Phase, before the Ministry phase. To date it has been assumed by the leadership, but students have had little understanding of that important phase. To show more respect for the students, we need to document the Assessment phase. By doing so we will be showing more respect to the students giving them more opportunity to participate and take responsibility to decide.

This book is providing a guideline for a full team leader training program. I am very excited about the potential increase in skills that our team leaders can develop through a week-long seminar for FMI team leadership.

Summary

I have created a matrix grid in my journal with Vella's 7 steps for course design for follow up. The key words, RESPECT and ENERGY, are at the top of the list to encourage me to focus my attention on these key values for the adult learners. I have placed a column on the page for each of the 10 different student internship and YWAM leadership training programs I am leading or developing. For each of the seven steps I am considering the different approaches for each of the different programs, depending on the participants, the outcomes, the context, the content, and how learning can be measured and sequenced for greatest effectiveness. I'm expecting quantum changes in all of our programs.

Fabulous.......2006-04-29

Jane Vella does an incredible job of providing "laymans" terminology to get underneath the 12 principles of effective adult learning. I read a colleague's copy and rushed out to buy my own for my personal library.
Trinice Speight Moses
Mount Holly, NJ

Excellent, thought-provoking book.......2005-08-09

This book should be on every educator's shelf. No, it should be on every educator's DESK - well worn and used!

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults

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Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults
Jane Vella
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MAFUJ4

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What are the factors that will enable a company to get inside the heads of its workforce and empower people to drive the business forward? Smart Things to Know About Motivation asks what we want from our careers and tells us how we might go about getting it. It also looks at motivation from the organization's point of view.
Motivations can and will vary hugely from person to person, and Donna Deeprose gives all the tools to make sense of a multitude of needs and demands. Topics covered include work/life balance issues, flexible working, costs of poor motivation, the critical motivation theories, incentives and long-term development, and self-motivation.

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This Quantitative Survival Guide for Operations Management comes from a desire to help students understand and succeed when faced with the quantitative portions of a course in Operations Management. If you have struggled with math and statistics in earlier courses, this is the guide for you! This supplement gives examples of the types of problems that a student will encounter in a typical Operations Management textbook. The first section reviews some basics of algebra and pre-algebra. Each of the following sections reviews quantitative material by topic covered in an Operations Management course.

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Keeping it simple never looked so beautiful with these delightful designs. Easy-to-cut and handle applique pieces produce clean and crisp results. These patterns are perfect for the applique beginner and for those who prefer to work with larger applique pieces. Full-sized patterns for about three dozen applique blocks are featured. Six setting examples included. AUTHORBIO: A love of sewing naturally evolved into quiltmaking for Eula Mae Long. Her mother taught her to sewwhen she was old enough to hold a needle and thread. Eula took four years of sewing in high school, as well as every adult education sewing class offered after she was married. Her first attempt at quilting was when her grandchild was born, and she has not stopped quilting since. Residing in Oregon, Eula teaches quilt classes and has discovered a love of designing applique patterns. REVIEW: Keeping it simple never looked so beautiful with these delightful designs. Easy-to-cut and handle applique pieces produce clean and crisp results. These patterns are perfect for the applique beginner and for those who prefer to work with larger applique pieces.

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Easy Floral Applique Patterns.......2004-04-15

Please be sure that when you purchase this book, you only want patterns. I mistakenly thought it would be about applique techniques, but it does not!

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This book examines the early American cotton industry through British perspectives. The book covers the period from the 1780s to 1880, and concerns mainly Lancashire and New England, although there are many references to Scotland on the one hand, and to Pennsylvania and New York on the other. By concentrating on the spinning branch of the industry, which was far more affected by technological advances than the weaving branch during this period, Cohen is able to contrast different types of technologies, workers, markets, and goods. For example, the book contrasts how American industrialists acted differently than the British millowners and deals with the response of American factory workers to industrialization as distinct from the British operatives. Three interrelated themes emerge to define the theoretical subject matter of this study: mass production versus craft production, technology and organization, and craft control. Significantly, this study recognizes the often overlooked importance of mule spinning to the industry. The volume examines the craft workers' rise to and struggle for power, the rise of the foreman, the role of unions, and an exploration of strikes--how they happened, why they happened, and what happened because of them. In the final chapter, the book expands its focus to examine the relationship of cotton to the coal, iron, and steel industries.

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The Society of Illustrators Annual of American Illustration remains the original and most comprehensive compilation of illustration on the market. Innovative, exciting work by established illustrators and newcomers makes this book the best reference source for trends in an ever-changing industry. This edition presents over 400 examples (selected from over 6000 entries) of classic solutions and novel approaches to clients' needs for illustration that stimulates and informs the viewer. Illustration categories featured include "Editorial," "Book," "Advertising," "Institutional," and "Uncommissioned."Additionally, this year's annual features the Society's newest category for "Sequential" illustration which celebrates artwork that tells a story (i.e. comics, children's books, and graphic novels.) Additionally, this annual notes the Gold and Silver medal award winners and profiles of the newly elected members of the Illustrators Hall of Fame: Milton Glaser, Daniel Schwartz, Jean-Leon Huens and E. Simms Campbell, along with this year's Hamilton King Award winner, Peter de Seve. In all, this annual stands as a compelling and insightful testament to the talent and personalities of illustrators past and present.

Messerschmitt Bf 109 in action Part 1 - Aircraft No. 44 and Part 2 Aircraft Number 57

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Messerschmitt Bf 109 in action Part 1 - Aircraft No. 44 and Part 2 Aircraft Number 57
John R., Jr. & Jerry L. Campbell with (Don Greer, Illustrator) Beaman
Manufacturer: Squadron/Signal Publication
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VVXFY6

Theatre: Sigfried in Stalingrad, Hippy End, Love Song (Orazero; 44) (New Italian Theatre)

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Theatre: Sigfried in Stalingrad, Hippy End, Love Song (Orazero; 44) (New Italian Theatre)
Luigi; Pagliari, Rosemary (translator); Gregorio, Catherine (translator) Candoni
Manufacturer: Orazero
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LQVT3K

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"Mister 44"
illustrator E. J. Rath; George W. Gage
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap, New York, (1916)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W76FWI

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Management Decision-Making in Chinese Enterprises (Studies on the Chinese Economy)
Yuan Lu
Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0312158505

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As a consultant you will have the power to make your own schedule, work at your own pace, and pursue the clients that will be most beneficial to your business. But protecting yourself from liability is a priority. A Legal Road Map for Consultants will teach you how to maintain a safe and legal enterprise in a clear, easy to understand format. You will learn how to choose a good business lawyer and what kinds of liability you may face. You will also find out how to protect yourself, why you should maintain professional liability insurance, why you should be using consulting contracts, and how the Internal Revenue Service will determine your tax status.

A Legal Road Map for Consultants uses real-life examples to explain these issues, and includes sample consulting and subcontractor agreements. While most guides for consultants focus on generic business laws, this book hones in on what you need to know to maintain a profitable and protected business. It is not a substitute for professional legal advice, merely a clear-cut guide to help you head off potential legal encounters.

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An Excellent Roadmap To Follow.......2002-12-02

Judy Gedge provides a very easy to understand explanation of the legal issues I need to know about as I build my business practice. The examples she uses are very realistic and her explanations are clear and to the point. This book has saved me significant time and future legal headaches.

Important information for all consultants to know........1998-12-29

This book is a must read for any individual thinking about getting into the consulting game.

The author explains potential liability, and the ins and outs of forming a Corporation, LLC, or LLP without putting you to sleep.

Learn how to protect your assests no matter how small or big they may be. Unlike the many unfinished business books I have bought in the past this book is an easy read and will leave you truly knowing what's important for surviving the consulting business.

This book could easily save you big bucks down the road.

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work is NOT life

Very highly recommended: it provides specifics rather than theory.

From self-defense to exit strategies

Abuse in the Workplace--What's Your Response?

When You Work for a Bully

When You Work for a Bully: Assessing Your Options and Taking Action
Susan Futterman
Manufacturer: Croce Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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There are many books on how to deal with bullying managers, but what if you'd rather relieve yourself from workplace abuse than be forced to confront the problem? "When You Work for a Bully: Assessing Your Options and Taking Action," which has been profiled on CNN and in "Men's Health" magazine, is one of the few resources available that helps you leave an abusive situation in the workplace in a dignified and financially practical manner. Futterman, founder of online community "My Toxic Boss" and former reporter for "Investor's Business Daily," outlines the exit strategies available and how to manage your finances during this stressful time. Further, she offers guidance on bullying and the law, workers compensation and protecting your health coverage. With Web resources, a list of laws prohibiting job discrimination and dozens of real-life stories of victims of workplace abuse, this book is among the most practical and comprehensive guides for those who wish to cut their losses and move on with their careers. Hailed as "highly recommended" by "Midwest Book Review," "When You Work for a Bully" is destined to become a modern business classic.

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work is NOT life.......2007-05-12

Many, maybe most people identify themselves by their profession or the company that they work for. Many times it is a happy, fulfilling part of their life, but if is isn't, there is a good chance someone at your workplace is making you miserable.
If that person is your boss, who constantly undermines your work to the point you question your very self, and when works becomes a source of stress, causing physical ailments, this book will help you decide the path you need to take.
Bullying is unfortunately very real in the workplace and, at least in the US, a legal (though unethical) way to manage employees. I strongly suggest this book to anyone who is physically ill at the thought of going to their place of employment every day.

Very highly recommended: it provides specifics rather than theory........2007-01-07

Employees who work for a bully face daily and constant confrontation with little recourse - but WHEN YOU WORK FOR A BULLY: ASSESSING YOUR OPTIONS AND TAKING ACTION offers such recourse, from exit strategies to leave an abusive situation to learning how to identify a bully and utilizing self-defense tactics to keep ego intact. From financial concerns to preserving job integrity and seeking government assistance, WHEN YOU WORK FOR A BULLY juxtaposes case history examples with practical tips. Very highly recommended: it provides specifics rather than theory.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

From self-defense to exit strategies.......2006-03-18

Abuse in the Workplace--What's Your Response?.......2005-08-23

I am in the process of doing a workshop and needed material. I reviewed the book and found that it had the information I needed. I know that this workshop will be a help to our participants.

When You Work for a Bully.......2004-10-08

This is an excellent book for helping an employee understand what bullying is and how to deal with it before it affects a persons health and well-being. Ms. Futterman's book outlines the options you have when confronted with a bully at work. I highly recommend it for anyone in the workplace who may be feeling undue stress brought on by bullying managers or co-workers.

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Get ready for 50 recipes that will turn you on to the Italian open-faced version of the American sandwich. Thick slices of bread, toasted and piled high with flavorful toppings, will make your mouth water.

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I book worth reading if you can find it!

I checked out the 1960 vers from the library and it's nice

Granville's New Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profit
Joseph E. Granville
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0133634329

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I book worth reading if you can find it!.......2007-05-12

Granville's New Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profit
by Joseph E. Granville.
This book you can still find in the library and its worth a read first and understand it. I still use the OBV to trade stocks even today as an indicator to look at when I trade. Its a stock indicator used almost in every charting software today.
This was a Technical breakthrough in the 1960's and his newsletter was hot in those days and could move markets.

Joseph E. Granville has now a great book out there called "How to Read the Stock Market" (The Granville Commentaries). You can do a search on Googles and try to find his website since amazon does not have it listed. You can too time the market if you work at it after reading through this book. It may not be available soon and hard to find!

This book you can learn a lot from a trader who has been trading over 40 years. Learn from a veteran trader then you won't make the same mistakes in your future.
Stock market longterm prediction are very hard to forecast. I try to look from anywhere from 1 day to 2 weeks and that all I really need to know when I trade short-term stocks.

I checked out the 1960 vers from the library and it's nice.......2002-10-28

The book smells like 40 year old books do. Inside are a lot of nuances that the non-novice could appreciate. Granvile was a market master for a time and then fell from glory (FYI) like most do. He still has some good insight and the pros might appreciate that here.

GRANVILLE'S NEW STRATEGY OF DAILY STOCK MARKET TIMING FOR MAXIMUM PROFIT

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GRANVILLE'S NEW STRATEGY OF DAILY STOCK MARKET TIMING FOR MAXIMUM PROFIT

Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H41DXC

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Granville's New Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profit
Granville Joseph E.
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover
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Granville's New Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profit
Joseph Ensign Granville
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Joseph E. Granville
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KM111K

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Taxation and Economic Behaviour offers a number of broad introductory surveys in the areas of public economics and public finance. Divided clearly into two parts - measurement issues and taxation and economic behavior - this innovative collection of articles consists of published refereed papers and several new and previously unpublished pieces.

Initially, the book focuses on measurement issues, and includes chapters on income inequality, poverty, tax progressivity, income dynamics and welfare changes. It then goes on to explore the wider theme of taxation and economic behavior, including material on taxation and labor supply, behavioral micro simulation modeling, and general equilibrium. Throughout the book, John Creedy makes use of numerical examples which help to illustrate the structure and use of the various models.

Providing introductory material and syntheses of a wide range of topics, Taxation and Economic Behaviour will be welcomed by students, teachers and researchers with an interest in public finance and public sector economics.

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Abraham Lincoln, His Words & Deeds
Oscar Taylor Corson
Manufacturer: Dansville, N.Y.: F.A. Owen Publishing Company, 1927
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXB594

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Abraham Lincoln: His Words and Deeds
Abraham) Corson, Oscar Taylor Lincoln
Manufacturer: F.A. Owen Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NHVXLK

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Abraham Lincoln: His Words and Deeds
Oscar Taylor Corson
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0766161560

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In the preparation of this volume, all the more important Lincoln literature was carefully studied. Just as the white light from the sun, when passed through a prism of glass, reveals the seven primary colors of the solar spectrum, so the white light emanating from the soul of Abraham Lincoln, when passed through the prism of a sympathetic study of his words and deeds, reveals the seven primary virtues of his great character - humility, reverence, loyalty, honesty, simplicity, humor and magnanimity. To each of these a chapter is devoted.

The Soul Of Abraham Lincoln As Seen Through His Words And Deeds

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The Soul Of Abraham Lincoln As Seen Through His Words And Deeds
Oscar Taylor Corson
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Author Identifies with Women's Life Issues with Humor,Personal Experience

Girls... Just Let Your Mascara Run

Girls. . . Just Let Your Mascara Run
Lillian Elizabeth Anne
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1410769380

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Girls...Just Let Your Mascara Run, is a look on life, from birth to mid-life. It covers many of the things we go through, as we go through the many stages of growing up. This book is written much like we think and express ourselves in these different stages of growing up.

Those born in the '50's will relate to this book, more, because of the styles, products, and songs the book mentions. But this book is enjoyed by all ages. It is recomended for all ages, from the teens on up.

Although it is written for women, men have enjoyed it too. There are so many things the men can relate to.

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Author Identifies with Women's Life Issues with Humor,Personal Experience.......2005-08-20

Lillian Elizabeth Anne takes readers on an exhilarating ride of emotions experienced at various stages of womanhood. Sharing from her personal journey, she offers a slideshow of slices of life that elicit feelings ranging from joy to sorrow. She creatively and effectively injects humor.This encourages the reader to "let their hair down" and not take life so seriously,as the book title suggests. As a baby boomer I enjoyed the ride. I was encouraged to embrace all of life and its rich intensity and view it through the eyes of faith. Woman of all ages will enjoy this fun narrative!

Girls... Just Let Your Mascara Run.......2003-10-16

After reading this book, which is very entertaining, I found myself remembering things that otherwise I would not have remembered. But even more ineteresting, it challenged me to think of things in ways I had not thought of!! I feel this book should be read by all, and especially those in the impressionable years of 12-25. The writer has a wonderful sense of humor and an honest and heartfelt desire to help others. It would make a great gift!!!

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