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1894 Print Captain James C Dailey Heavyweight Boxer San Francisco Boxing Career – Original Halftone Print $124.95 “Captain J. C. Dailey.” This is an original 1894 halftone print portrait of Captain James C. Dailey. A heavyweight boxer from San Francisco and an exponent of scientific boxing, he was knocked out by James John Corbett in a four round fight. On the reverse is an account of his boxing career. (Please see both images.) Period Paper is pleased to offer a rare collection of original halftone print … |
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1962 Ad Monsanto Transit Satellite Transmitter Space – Original Print Ad $38.95 This is an original 1962 black and white print ad promoting careers and professional employment from Monsanto Research Corporation, a world leader in chemicals, plastics, and petroleum products located in Saint Louis, Missouri…. |
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1962 Ad United States Air Force Officer Career Moon – Original Print Ad $38.95 This is an original 1962 black and white print ad for the United States Air Force promoting a position as an Air Force Officer. Information available from Officer Career Information located at Dept. EM210, Box 805, New York…. |
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Shine a Light $3.29 SHINE A LIGHT – DVD Movie… |
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Bob Dylan – No Direction Home $8.46 NO DIRECTION HOME:BOB DYLAN – DVD Movie… |
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Sparkle $3.11 Irene Cara (Fame) and Lonette McKee (Round Midnight) sing and struggle their way to show-business glory in a Supremes-like girl group. Dynamite Curtis Mayfield soundtrack.Running Time: 98 min…. |
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A&E Biography – William Shakespeare: Life of Drama (1996) [VHS] $14.95 Though Shakespeare is heralded as the world’s most influential and admired writer, little is known about the man himself. That didn’t stop A&E Biography from weaving together a substantial birth (in 1564) to death (in 1616) portrait from spotty documentation, historical accounts, and interpretations of the master’s work itself. It won’t give away all the video’s surprises to reveal here that Shake… |
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B and E:a to Z [VHS] Nearly two full hours of step-by-step instruction detail the use of computer-generated curve picks, rockers, magnetic lock picking, lock-aid guns and electronic picks in this revolutionary video. You’ll see the craft of picking pin tumbler, wafer, tubular cylinder and padlocks; quick, undetectable methods for beating the most popular locks in the U.S.; and opening safes via drilling, burning bars,… |
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Wallmonkeys Peel and Stick Wall Decals – Choice of One Road from Three. – Removable Graphic WallMonkeys wall graphics are printed on the highest quality re-positionable, self-adhesive fabric paper. Each order is printed in-house and on-demand. WallMonkeys uses premium materials & state-of-the-art production technologies. Our white fabric material is superior to vinyl decals. You can literally see and feel the difference. Our wall graphics apply in minutes and won’t damage your paint or l… |
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The Bells of St. Mary’s $8.07 Features include: •MPAA Rating: NR•Format: DVD•Runtime: 126 minutes… |
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Managing Your Career for Dummies $3.98 Career expert Max Messmer shows you step-by-step how to become the CEO of your own career These pages are brimming with cutting-edge advice on finding the work that you love — whether it involves climbing to the top of the corporate ladder, starting your own company, working from home, or turning your hobby into a career. |
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From High Heels to Bunny Slippers: Surviving the Transition from Career to Home $3.98 Psychotherapist, mother, and author Christine Conners never doubts that the decision of a professional woman to stay home with her young children is the right one. In From High Heels to Bunny Slippers, she supports their decision to personally care for their children with compelling new research on childcare and its potential negative effects on young children, as well as her own firsthand experience as a co-founder of the NASA child development centers. Unlike previous books aimed at this growing readership, Conners recognizes and addresses mothers’ adjustment problems that, like any major life event, arise from the decision to quit your job and stay home. She offers tools and strategies that gently lead the professional woman from the challenge of her work world into the new challenges of parenting full-time. She sympathizes, as a stay-at-home mother herself, with the immediate frustrations of loss of personal identity, financial difficulties, depression, and marital discord. As a mental health professional, she offers her proven techniques for forming a strong new identity as a parent when you leave your career, for addressing financial woes through part-time work and money-saving strategies, for overcoming social isolation, depression, anger, and stress, and for finding personal fulfillment during this special time with your young children. |
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Etiquette for the Career Woman $27.98 Not your Grandmothers’ Etiquette book This beautifully written and colour illustrated page turner absolutely revolutionizes Etiquette as we know it. "Thank goodness for this book…it is wonderfully simple yet a very powerful approach on how to best present oneself. Absolutely perfect " – Anna M Smith, Sales and Marketing Manager, NEW Holiday Inn Express, Riverport. If you want to have more money, feel great, love your career, expand your company, improve your relationships, and enjoy a life of joy and ease then this is your book Increase your income and attain Personal and Professional Excellence as you achieve success in the areas of: Strategic Introductions, Conversation and Rapport Building, Image, Wardrobe and Grooming, Social and Dining Etiquettes, Effective Phone and Email Techniques, Business Cards and much more Includes must know Etiquette for Employers and Employees, The Home Office and tips for International Relations. Etiquette for the Career Woman will give you the confidence to approach every situation with ease. Imagine how great you will feel as you learn significant techniques quickly and easily. Be a leader in your industry with grace and style. Using proven Universal Laws and the Science of Neuro Linguistics Programming, this powerful book delves deeper into the thought patterns and beliefs behind behavior and response; decoding the premise behind etiquette and offering valuable interactive tools that you won’t find in other etiquette books. Packed with wisdom, wit and humorous stories from the authors, Etiquette for the Career Woman goes beyond rules and ‘must do’ formats giving insight and understanding on living and doing business with Excellence. Already attracting the attention of corporate leaders throughout North America and the UK this book will undoubtedly find its way into the hands of woman and men everywhere. A must read for all employers and employees whether you own a business, are a corporate executive or starting out in an entry level position Etiquette for the Career Woman is an enjoyable read and valuable reference that will have you revisiting it time and again. With well organized sections, navigating your way to specific topics is quick and easy. Here’s what people are saying about Etiquette for the Career Woman…Finally an effective Etiquette book that is fun, interesting and entertaining "Whether you are seeking to improve your understanding of etiquette in the business market or looking to polish your business image, this book would be a valuable tool for anyone." -Penny Demming – President SHEfinancial Group Inc. "It has been said that ‘manners are the oil that lubricate society’ – They just make everything work better – including business Congrats to Lynn and Jolienne for this excellent reminder of etiquette and manners…a must read…and a must do for every woman…(and man )" – Judi The Manners Lady, President – The Manners Club and Life Skills International |
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Alex Rodriguez 600th Career Home Run 4×6 Dirt Plaque $19.99 Alex Rodriguez 600th Career Home Run 4×6 Dirt Plaque Club 600 has a new member. Alex Rodriguez is the youngest player to ever hit his 600th Career Home Run. Rodriguez hit a majestic blast making him only the 7th player in history to reach the sacred mark. Reaching this exclusive mark is a true testament to his longevity consistency and explosive natural talent. At 34 years-old and showing no signs of slowing down Rodriguez remains on pace to eclipse Barry Bonds as the All-Time Home Run Champion. Commemorate Alex Rodriguez major milestone with this 4×6 mini dirt plaque collage with game used dirt from his Yankee Stadium. This piece features a collage which highlights ever major HR milestone Alex has eclipsed and where and on which date he did so. A Steiner Sports Certificate and MLB Hologram of Authenticity are both included. |
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Train at Home to Work at Home: How to Get Certified, Earn a Degree, or Take a Class from Home to Begin a Work-At-Home Career $21.98 Begin a Work-at-Home Career with the Training and Education You Need "Train at Home to Work at Home" This unique guide provides comprehensive resources on more than 200 distance-learning programs that can teach you 27 of the most popular and profitable work-at-home careers. Distance-learning programs have exploded in the last few years—courses are now available online, via e-mail, via teleclass, through the mail, on audiotape, on videotape, and even on CD-ROM. You can learn: graphic design at UCLA professional writing at Washington State University life coaching at CoachU Web site design at Penn State financial planning at University of Alabama interior design at the Art Institute International medical transcription at the Health Professions Institute and many more. Plus, extensive resource lists (organizations, books, and Web sites) complete each section. Full contact information, tuition rates, and course descriptions make comparisons and contrasts a breeze. |
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How to Start a Career in Information Technology $17.48 PRAISE FOR THE BOOK "Ian Fisher has produced a comprehensive and eminently useful volume. Anyone contemplating entering the Information Technology workplace, and even those already there, will benefit from this thoughtfully considered and beautifully organized guidebook that addresses every relevant topic, including a frank discussion of outsourcing and its impact on the IT job market. Enthusiastically recommended." Dennis Green, Director Information Technology programs Columbia University – School of Continuing Education "Ian Fisher’s new book is an indispensable compass for those beginning their career journey into the largely-uncharted information technology field. Like the best maps and field guides, it provides a complete and clear exploration of the varied and often confusing IT terrain–from identifying the personal skills prerequisite for different IT career paths to navigating the myriad IT educational and training options and ultimately arriving successfully at that first position. Don’t leave ‘home’ without it " Dr. Richard Vigilante, Executive Director Jesuit Distance Education Network New York, NY "Very few people consciously select their careers. Most start a profession without really understanding the associated field, responsibilities, compensation, and sacrifices; this is especially true in the volatile Information Technology industry. Ian Fisher’s excellent "How to Start a Career in Information Technology," provides step-by-step guidance on making that choice, from exploring the basic question of "Is a career in Information Technology right for me?" to presenting suggestions on how to find one’s first IT position. It comes highly recommended." Cynthia Cravens, DirectorInformation Technology Program Jewish Vocational Services San Francisco, CA "Ian Fisher’s book ‘How to Start a Career in Information Technology’, is an excellent resource to anyone considering a career in the IT field. The High Tech world is here to stay. This book provides the kind of information needed for the prospective techie. Many schools and programs offer IT training; this book teaches how to target your interests, and develop that interest into an IT career." L’esa Guilian, Ph.D. Director Human Resources California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA "A great source and step-by-step guide to the career assessment and job search process. This book is an easy read and the ideas can be readily implemented" Dr. Lois Blades-Rosado, Executive Director State University of New York-Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center Brooklyn, NY "This book written on the field of Information Technology, is one of the best resources of its kind on this field of work. Mr. Fisher has concentrated on this one career area in a very thorough fashion. The book gives the user ideas and information on the pluses and minuses of a bachelor’s degree vs. a certificate, and how this may impact earnings p |
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Career Ideas for Teens in Information Technology $5.48 Computers and the Internet are indispensable resources in today’s world. Millions rely on computers at work and at home, and e-mail is a convenience that many take for granted. Information technology professionals develop, create, maintain, and operate computer-related technologies. From the technical to the creative, the 35 jobs detailed in Career Ideas for Teens in Information Technology offer something for everyone. |
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Memoirs of My Indian Career $40.98 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER X THE CENTRAL PROVINCES Sir John Lawrence had been ready to give me a Chief Com- missionership if nothing higher was available, and provided I could get rid of my character of judge?and after the Famine Commission was ended, he pressed on me the acceptance of the Central Provinces. I hesitated a good deaL I was entitled shortly to retire on an annuity. I had had a long spell of work?was rather home-sick, anil hardly thought a Chief Commissionership sufficient promotion. Seeing how great a function the Chief Commissioner exercises, it now seems rather folly that I should have had such ideas at the age of forty-three;?but then I had come to a sort of kingdom in the Cis-Sutlej States at thirty-one, and now I seemed to myself very mature. However, I formally resigned the judgeship of the High Court, in accordance with the previous stipulation that I should be entitled to do so, and I was then gazetted Chief Commissioner. When I accepted the office I had told the Governor-General that I must go home for a little time, and that I was not sure that I should stay in the Central Provinces very long. But he was very kind, and humoured me in that respect; I was appointed on my own terms. In the spring of 1867 I went home to complete my famine inquiries and see my family. That reunion, however, was much damped by domestic losses. A few months before both my brothers had lost their wives, and very shortly before my return my very dearyoungest sister died. I was then in London little more than to enable me to look up the old famine papers in the India Office, and get materials for my final report, which I shortly sent in. For a short period in the summer I occupied Edenwood, which some years before had become entirely my own?my obligations to the trustees having been finally… |
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Working Mom’s 411: How to Manage Kids, Career, & Home $3.98 The Working Mom’s 411 provides parents with the options, tools and solutions that will enable them to make educated and informed choices for their family and successfully navigate the waters of the two parent working household. It’s an all in one resource that will rescue moms trying to put together the how to do it all puzzle. With informed insight, a healthy sense of humor, and a fresh, expert perspective, Michelle LaRowe shares time saving tips and practical solutions to the common complications working mothers face Here are at your fingertips current childcare options, including an assessment tool for moms to evaluate which option best suits their needs; solutions to everyday problems working parents face from scheduling to overcoming the stigma often associated with moms who work outside the home; and practical tips on managing childcare, school activities, self care, home life and marriage. |
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Proud Servant: The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador $8.98 Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976) entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1925. During the next 37 years he was ambassador to seven countries: the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Peru, Brazil, and Greece. An eighth appointment, to Spain, was cancelled when he retired due to illness. He also served in Cuba, Chile, Liberia, and China. His memoirs are an exuberant record of a gifted diplomat. Briggs reached the highest rank attainable in the Foreign Service — Career Ambassador — and received the Medal of Freedom from President Eisenhower for his service in wartime Korea. He gained a reputation for successfully handling large diplomatic missions and dealing with difficult situations. But his greatest virtue was his honesty, his passion to report things just as he saw them and make policy recommendations regardless of conventional wisdom in Washington. He employed a high sense of humor, often to devastating effect, on bureaucrats at home as well as adversaries abroad. His strong views about policy sometimes placed him in conflict with others; fellow Dartmouth graduate Nelson Rockefeller had him fired from the Foreign Service because of disagreements (Briggs soon returned to the Service). A down-to-earth New Englander with an abiding love of the outdoors, Briggs was devoted to his wife and family as well as to his country. Proud Servant is full of insights about the practice of diplomacy in this century and provides a fascinating account of the modern Foreign Service. |
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Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-At-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work $3.98 If you’re a stay-at-home mom considering going back to work, these are some of the questions that have likely come to mind. Returning to the workforce can be a daunting prospect. It requires reigniting old contacts (including those with coworkers once your junior), marketing yourself strategically, and building confidence-whether you’ve been out of the workforce for two, six, or fifteen years. Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin understand, because they’ve been there. As Harvard MBAs who successfully relaunched their own careers after staying home full-time with their children, they know it can be done-with careful planning, strategizing, and creativity. Now, in BACK ON THE CAREER TRACK, they offer a prescriptive, seven-step program that includes: – Assessing career options and updating job skills – Networking and preparing for interviews – Getting the family on board. Packed with expert advice from career counselors and recruiters, and insightful stories from others who have been through the process, this book also offers an inside look at what employers and universities are doing to help relaunchers today-including how many businesses are recognizing them as valuable assets. As frequent speakers to women’s groups, professional schools, and corporations, Cohen and Rabin provide a thorough, unique program from two experts on the topic of career reentry. BACK ON THE CAREER TRACK is sure to become the classic guide in the field. |
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Gregor Piatigorsky: The Life and Career of the Virtuoso Cellist $54.98 Forced to provide for his family from the age of 8 and thrown out of his home into a bitter Moscow winter at age 12, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky began his career as an archetypal struggling artist, using secondhand and borrowed instruments. When the October Revolution forced his escape to Warsaw, he enjoyed initial success with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Relocating to Berlin a few months later, he again struggled in poverty before eventually emerging as solo cellist with the Berlin Philharmonic. Settling in the United States during World II, Piatigorsky continued a brilliant career that cemented his place as one of the twentieth century’s greatest musicians. This all-embracing chronicle of Piatigorsky’s tempestuous life and career finally reveals the full life story of a musical legend. |
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Career Year $25.48 Career Year is a story about an intellectual who mentors a professional baseball player. The book is an entertaining blend of self-improvement, philosophy, business, and baseball. This is a self-help book not afraid to poke fun at its own advice. Coaches, teachers, athletes, mentors, business executives, entrepreneurs, sales professionals, musicians, and baseball fans will benefit from this short and easy-to-read book. The story includes a collection of practical ideas to help you personally and professionally. The characters are fictional, but the challenges facing them are real. The fable has plenty of "what if" scenarios and thought-provoking material you can discuss with friends, co-workers, and colleagues. Baseball fans will love Career Year. |
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The Career Coward’s Guide to Career Advancement: Sensible Strategies for Overcoming Career Fears $3.98 Succeeding in your career takes hard work, skills, and dedication. But it also takes courage to face some of the tougher situations of life in the career fast lane. Career counselor Katy Piotrowski helps you overcome the fears that are holding you back from achieving you full career potential. The Career Coward’s Guide to Career Advancement will help you define motivating, rewarding career paths and goals, master the art if negotiating with bosses and decision makers, develop ordinary jobs into extraordinary career opportunities and implement small career improvements that yield huge results. |
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Career Mapping $16.48 The world of work has changed forever. Not only have jobs been lost, many will never return—at least not in the same form we are used to. "Career Mapping" guides you through the tangled expressways of career options to help you design your personalized road map to create job and career choices. Ginny Clarke wrote this book with one purpose: to help people like you discover the path to a rewarding work life. A template for figuring out who you are and what you can offer to the work world, this book emerged from Ginny’s own experiences as a college recruiter, executive recruiter and a woman who broke through to the executive ranks in two male-dominated industries. No matter where you find yourself—just starting out, navigating the corporate maze, launching a new business, or in anticipation of retirement, "Career Mapping" is written for you. It offers case studies of people at different stages of their careers, and provides a step-by-step process for customizing your own job hunting and career management strategies. Each chapter presents thought-provoking questions, candid revelations from her own inspiring journey and vital advice from Ginny’s experiences interviewing, recruiting and coaching thousands of professionals and executives. "Career Mapping" explains the oft-misunderstood executive search process and demystifies how you can make yourself a more desirable job candidate—as well as how to avoid the devastating pitfalls that have derailed careers. |
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Career GPS $3.98 The workplace is constantly in flux, and even now there are new opportunities open to women. But to take advantage of these possibilities, it’s essential to know the current rules for corporate success. This isn’t your father’s or your mother’s workplace anymore Whether it’s the CEO seat, an executive manager slot, or a more intrapreneurial position, women who follow "Career GPS" will have what it takes to gain their professional goals. Dr. Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D., an authority on career development, has worked with women across a variety of fields and in different kinds of corporations, from Fortune 500s to start-ups. Here she offers guidelines to help women forge their own pathways to professional ascent, providing tips for maximizing a review, networking in a relevant way, and much more. According to Dr. Bell: Think working hard is enough to be recognized? It’s not enough to assume your effort will speak for itself. You have to "socialize with the decision makers." It might not mean you have to pick up the golf clubs, but you do have to figure out what works in your own organization. "Parlez-vous FranCis?" Learning Mandarin? If you work for a global company and aspire to an extreme job or higher, make it known that you would take an "overseas assignment" to advance your career. Nowhere to go right now? Even in hard times there are options. "Learn a lateral skill"–such as accounting–so when the company is firing on all engines again, you will impress through the breadth of your knowledge. Drawing from her work as a consultant to some of the country’s most prestigious Fortune 100 companies, Dr. Bell helps readers succeed at every level in a dynamic corporate marketplace. "Career GPS" combines Dr. Bell’s academic knowledge and expertise with dozens of heartfelt first-person stories from smart women who rose through the ranks. Here is a book that will guide women of all cultures, ages, and levels of experience to their career goals. |
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Stay-At-Home Handbook: Advice for Parenting, Finances, Career, Surviving Each Day & Much More $3.48 Is your "home number" your "work number" too?If you are a stay-at-home parent, you know the workday never really ends. And every day brings both all-too-familiar challenges and unexpected joys. How do you keep it together–physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually?Cheryl Gochnauer’s previous book, So You Want to Be a Stay-at-Home Mom, helped parents consider what staying home requires and whether that choice was the best for them and their families. In this new guidebook Gochnauer tackles common–but often difficult–questions and challenges that beset stay-at-home parents: retaining an individual identityfeeling appreciatedviewing childrearing as a valid career choicespending wiselyresisting guiltevaluating work-at-home opportunitieshandling sibling rivalryvolunteering at your child’s schoolsucceeding as a stay-at-home dadavoiding the TVgetting help with choressetting a godly examplenurturing your spiritual growthForty-two brief chapters cover a variety of topics and can each be read in about ten minutes. Gochnauer also includes an appendix on networking opportunities for stay-at-home parents and a helpful listing of ministries and organizations that offer parenting resources, services and conferences (all accessible on the Internet).If you are a mom or dad at home part-time or full-time, you’ll find immense encouragement–plus practical advice from one who has been there (and still is )–in Stay-at-Home Handbook. |
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The Cole Porter Song Collection: Highlights from Cole Porters Entire Career. $19.48 This easy piano collection presents highlights from Cole Porter’s entire career. The book includes a song-by-song analysis, rare images of original sheet music, informal shots from Porter’s scrapbooks, and publicity stills from motion pictures and Broadway. Titles: All of You * Another Op’nin’, Another Show * Anything Goes * At Long Last Love * Be a Clown * Begin the Beguine * Blow, Gabriel, Blow * C’est Magnifique * Do I Love You * Don’t Fence Me In * Easy to Love * Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye * Friendship * From This Moment On * Get Out of Town * I Concentrate on You * I Get a Kick Out of You * I Love Paris * I Love You * In the Still of the Night * It’s All Right with Me * It’s De-Lovely * I’ve Got You Under My Skin * Just One of Those Things * Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) * Love for Sale * Miss Otis Regrets * My Heart Belongs to Daddy * Night and Day * Ridin’ High * So In Love * Take Me Back to Manhattan * Too Darn Hot * True Love * Well, Did You Evah * What Is This Thing Called Love? * Wunderbar * You Do Something to Me * You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To * You’re the Top. |
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Career Girls $8.49 Director Mike Leigh follows up his Oscar-nominated SECRETS AND LIES with CAREER GIRLS, a bittersweet drama that deals with the passage of time between two friends. Annie (Lynda Steadman) and Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) were college roommates in London. Six years later, Annie is taking the train back into London to reunite with her friend. The resulting connection sparks flashbacks from the past, where we learn that Annie was even more shy and defensive than she is currently. Helping to pull her out of her shell was Adrian (Joe Tucker), a fellow student who had an affair with both girls while they were still in school. While apartment hunting for Hannah, they bump into Adrian, who is now a real estate agent. Sadly, he doesn’t remember either of them. The reunion also triggers memories of Ricky (Mark Benton), an overweight, self-conscious friend whose fragility seemed ready to cave him in at any moment. When Hannah and Annie track Ricky down, they find that he has only gotten worse and are forced to reevaluate their current lives and face up to their muddled discontentment. Steadman, Cartlidge, and Benton deliver subtle yet deeply engaging performances in CAREER GIRLS, another moving character study from acclaimed director Leigh. |
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A Brilliant Career $21.48 On July 9th, 1980 I broke my neck in a waterskiing accident, which resulted in quadriplegia. A Brilliant Career proceeds in three parts. In Part I, I discuss my eight-month hospitalization, with flashbacks to an able-bodied trip to the East Coast taken ten days before my accident and ending with my narration of the accident. Part II contains vignettes of life in a wheelchair, difficult facts often retold with humor. Part III contains one-sentence to five-page reflections on what the disability might mean, this radical slowing down, from the perspective of having lived for twenty-six years between wheels. |
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Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman $32.48 Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman by James W. Coleman During his career as a writer-intellectual, John Edgar Wideman in his personal life has overcome feelings of alienation from the black community and has reoriented himself as a participant in black culture. In his fiction, as James W. Coleman, the author of this study, shows, Wideman has effected a similar shift, using modernism and post-modernism to bring his intellectual characters out of their isolation and into contact with the needs, concerns, and traditions of black people. Before he could write about this shift, Wideman had to inform himself about black culture. An eight-year period of immersion in the works of nineteenth and twentieth century authors gave him the resources he needed. Using them he was able to circumvent modernism’s dead-end, pessimistic world view and at the same time chart a new course for other, similarly estranged black intellectuals. Coleman identifies three main stages in Wideman’s career: the early books (A Glance Away, Hurry Home, and The Lynchers); the Homewood trilogy (Hiding Place, Damballah, and Sent for You Yesterday); and the recent books (Brothers and Keepers and Reuben). Blackness and Modernism is the first comprehensive study of Wideman and his novels, and it shows him to be a writer emerging as a major figure in black and American literature. It shows him too as a writer whose progress has been to move away from such modernist masters as Eliot, Faulkner, and Joyce into the rich world of black culture, while retaining modernist techniques. Included also in Blackness and Modernism is Coleman’s interview with Wideman, conducted in 1988. James W. Coleman is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Career Opportunities $12.71 John Hughes strip-mines familiar terrain — in this case his own past successes — in this comedy that Hughes produced and scripted, directed by Bryan Gordon. Frank Whaley stars as Jim Dodge, a 21-year-old con-man who goes from job to job but likes to put on a facade of success. As Career Opportunities begins, he has just been fired from another job and has been hired by the local Target store manager (played by an un-credited John Candy) as the night cleanup boy. After the manager locks Jim in the store overnight, he goes on a binge — playing with the skates, eating candy, watching television, and blasting the stereos. But then Jim discovers that he is not the only person in the store. Also there is rich girl Josie McClellan (Jennifer Connelly) who is spending the night in the store to get her father worried about her. Although Jim knew Josie in high school, when Josie wouldn’t even give him the time of day, here they click like two castanets and they romp around the store aisles to a pounding rock score. But just at the moment when Jim and Josie plan to run away together with the $52,000 Josie holds in her purse, two low-rent comic thieves — Nestor Pyle (Dermot Mulroney) and Gil Kinney (Kieran Mulroney) — break into the store and Jim and Josie decide to stick it out, saving the store from the bumbling crooks. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi |
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Mommy Wars: Stay-At-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families $14.98 With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and breathed every side of the "mommy wars." Rather than just watch the battles rage, Steiner decided to do something about it. She commissioned twenty-six outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood. Ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-two and scattered across the country from New Hampshire to California, these mothers reflect the full spectrum of lifestyle choices. Women who have been home with the kids from day one, moms who shuttle from full-time office jobs to part-time at-home work, hard-driving executives who put in seventy-hour-plus weeks: they all get a turn. The one thing these women have in common, aside from having kids, is that they’re all terrific writers. Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley vividly recounts how her generation stormed the American workplace-only to take refuge at home when the workplace drove them out. Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minsky describes what it felt like to hear her kids scream "I hope you never come back " when she flew to L.A. to launch the show that made her career. Susan Cheever, novelist, biographer, and New York Newsday columnist, reports on the furious battles between the stroller pushers and the briefcase bearers on the streets of Manhattan. Lois R. Shea traded the journalistic fast track for a house in the country where she could raise her daughter in peace. Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff, chief operating officer of the Women’s National Basketball Association, argues fiercely that you can combine ambition and motherhood-and have a blast in the process. Candid, engaging, by turns unflinchingly honest and painfully funny, the essays collected here offer an astonishingly intimate portrait of the state of motherhood today. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives. "From the Hardcover edition." |
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Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women $3.48 For the first time in history, career women — women who have worked outside the home for most of their lives — are retiring. Without role models, they look to one another to face the changes this life transition brings. Career women from the Baby Boom and pre-Baby Boom, or Silent, generations are approaching retirement. They want to know what it means to suddenly find themselves back inside their homes after having devoted their lives to careers outside of them. These women are highly skilled, educated and successful.They have achieved visibility, status and influence. And because they are the first large group of American women to define themselves by their work, they have few, if any, models for retirement. "Project Renewment" will show women that giving up their careers does not mean giving up who they are. "Renewment" is a term the authors created as an alternative to the word "retirement, " which they associated with negative stereotypes and cliches. A combination of "retirement" and "renewal, Renewment" suggests optimism and opportunity, growth and self-discovery. "Project Renewment" is a grassroots movement among women who are close to retirement or recently retired and looking to connect with one another. The women of "Project Renewment" believe that retiring is a process of change and increasing self-awareness. As they redirect the commitment and passion previously dedicated to their careers, they transform and reshape their lives. "Project Renewment" provides these women with an enriched and safe environment in which to explore and confront the challenges that lie ahead as they leave behind a lifetime at the office, hospital, studio or courtroom. Diverse topics are discussed, such as Who am I without my business card? What if "he" retires first? What is productivity anyway? Why do I feel guilty reading a book on a Tuesday afternoon? How do I feel about not earning another dollar? Divided into two sections, "Project Renewment" offers insight and support in a friendly, humorous and meaningful way. The first part of the book addresses the challenges that career women tackle when looking to retire. The second teaches readers how to start and maintain their own "Project Renewment" group, so they can find support, inspiring relationships and even a few laughs as they look to get the most out of the rest of their lives. |
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Lord Reading and His Cases – The Study of a Great Career $39.98 LORD READING ND HIS CASES the Study or Great Career By DEREK WALKER-SMITH NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1934 Copyright, 7034, by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. lKINTEl IN THE UNITED STATES Ob AMERICA BY THE POLYGKAPHIC COMPANY OP AMERICA, N. Y. LORD READING Reproduced by courtesy of the London Evening News AUTHORS NOTE I wish to make it clear that, although I informed Lord Reading of my intentions with regard to this book and have by his courtesy seen him from time to time in the course of its preparation, the book is in no way inspired by him 5 it follows that he does not take responsibility for its contents. The book is primarily an account of the principal cases in which Lord Reading figured prominently as counsel or judge in what is perhaps the most interesting period of his brilliant career. It aims to present a balanced and impartial estimate of the career of a man happily still living, and it would on that account have been clearly impossible to exercise the independent judgment necessary to such a task, if my responsibility for the book had been less complete. The life of a great advocate is a social document p. 117. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAQB I. Rufus Isaacs the Man …. i II. Rufus Isaacs the Boy 10 III. Apprenticeship at the Bar a Famous Turf Case . . . . 20 IV. A Growing Practice Allen v. Flood . 33 V. K. C., and an Incursus into Politics . . 47 VI. A Political Libel Action and a Boer War Prosecution . . . . 59 VII. Annus Mirabilis theLiverpool Bank Case …… 76 VIII. The Hartopp Divorce Case and Taff Vale 92 IX. The Gordon Custody. Case . . . 118 X. Rise and Fall of Whittaker Wright . 133 XI. The Reading Bye-Election of 1904 in Parliament . . . . .155 XII. The Defence of Sir Edward Russell . 164 XIII. The Liberal Triumph of 1906 the Trades Disputes Bill . . .179 XIV. Rufus Isaacs and Carson the Gaiety Girl Divorce Case. . . .190 XV. The Acquittal of Bob Sievier . . 209 XVI. Commercial Magnates v. Press Lords . 220 XVII. A Political Chapter Solicitor-General . 235 XVIII. The Archer-Shee Controversy . . 243 xi xii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAOB XIX. Troubled Politics Parliament Bill and Home Rule 251 XX. The Honour of the King . . .260 XXL Rufus Isaacs and Marshall Hall the Seddons Trial …. 270 XXII. The Titanic Disaster …. 297 XXIII. Suffragettes and Trade Unions . . 316 XXIV. The Marconi Scandal … 324 XXV. Wartime Lord Chief Justice . . . 343 XXVL Treason and Death of Roger Casement . 353 XXVII. Conclusion and Estimate . . . 387 Index 393 LORD READING AND HIS CASES |
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The Librarian’s Career Guidebook $54.98 Sage advice and career guidance is offered by sixty-four information professionals from diverse positions and workplaces. This practical guide addresses a wide variety of career issues. The advice is aimed at librarians in various stages of a career: prospective librarians, M.L.S. students, and entry-level librarians, as well as experienced information professionals. |
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Expert Resumes for Career Changers $15.48 This collection of resumes is aimed at people who are transitioning from one career to another. This book gives strategies as well as 180 pages of sample resumes for successful career changes. |
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Making Your Living as a String Player: Career Guidance from the Experts at Strings Magazine $13.98 You’ve dedicated years of hard work to learning the skills needed to play the violin, viola, cello or bass. Now what? The talented contributors to Making Your Living as a String Player come from all walks of life – from symphony members to street musicians, educators to impresarios. But all share one thing: each has crafted a successful career as a string player, learning to pay the bills by doing what they love the most. And you can learn to do the same. Inside this volume, culled from the pages of the award-winning Strings magazine, you will find practical tips on writing a resume, starting a freelance career, getting an edge in the workplace, creating your own chamber music series, setting up a successful teaching studio in your home, and much, much more. Let Making Your Living as a String Player help you jumpstart your career as a professional string player. |
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Career Moves $4.99 For everything you do, there’s a song that hits the spot. MOG brings them all to you: a world of music on demand, unlimited mobile downloads and ways to discover music free from the limitations of Pandora. The music you love, with you everywhere you go. |
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Career Of Evil $4.99 For everything you do, there’s a song that hits the spot. MOG brings them all to you: a world of music on demand, unlimited mobile downloads and ways to discover music free from the limitations of Pandora. The music you love, with you everywhere you go. |
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Career Suicide $4.99 For everything you do, there’s a song that hits the spot. MOG brings them all to you: a world of music on demand, unlimited mobile downloads and ways to discover music free from the limitations of Pandora. The music you love, with you everywhere you go. |
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The Physician Scientist’s Career Guide $38.48 The Physician Scientista (TM)s Career Guide provides a complete guide to having a successful career as a Physician Scientist. Filled with first-hand experiences and practical advice, it guides readers through each step of this career path, from choosing a degree and training program, to navigating the tenure track, and through the intricacies of applying for and obtaining funding. The volume is unique in that it will provide an overview of this entire career path, allowing readers to envision and prepare for their futures. The Physician Scientista (TM)s Career Guide fulfills a unique and crucial need and will be an invaluable guide for medical students, fellows and newly appointed faculty members interested in a career in research. |
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Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style $20.98 ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit. -Cab Calloway, "The Hepster’s Dictionary," 1944 Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or hip-hop, there was the zoot suit, a striking urban look of the World War II era that captivated the imagination. Created by poor African American men and obscure tailors, the "drape shape" was embraced by Mexican American pachucos, working-class youth, entertainers, and swing dancers, yet condemned by the U.S. government as wasteful and unpatriotic in a time of war. The fashion became notorious when it appeared to trigger violence and disorder in Los Angeles in 1943-events forever known as the "zoot suit riot." In its wake, social scientists, psychiatrists, journalists, and politicians all tried to explain the riddle of the zoot suit, transforming it into a multifaceted symbol: to some, a sign of social deviance and psychological disturbance, to others, a gesture of resistance against racial prejudice and discrimination. As controversy swirled at home, young men in other places-French zazous, South African tsotsi, Trinidadian saga boys, and Russian stiliagi-made the American zoot suit their own. In "Zoot Suit," historian Kathy Peiss explores this extreme fashion and its mysterious career during World War II and after, as it spread from Harlem across the United States and around the world. She traces the unfolding history of this style and its importance to the youth who adopted it as their uniform, and at the same time considers the way public figures, experts, political activists, and historians have interpreted it. This outre style was a turning point in the way we understand the meaning of clothing as an expression of social conditions and power relations. Zoot Suit offers a new perspective on youth culture and the politics of style, tracing the seam between fashion and social action. |
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Encyclopedia of Career Development $54.48 With more than 300 articles, the Encyclopedia of Career Development is the premier reference tool for research on career-related topics. Covering a broad range of themes, the contributions represent original material written by internationally-renowned scholars that view career development from a number of different dimensions. This multidisciplinary resource examines career-related issues from psychological, sociological, educational, counseling, organizational behavior, and human resource management perspectives. |
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A Strange Career $25.48 The History of the American West Collection is a unique project that provides opportunities for researchers and new readers to easily access and explore works which have previously only been available on library shelves. The Collection brings to life pre-1923 titles focusing on a wide range of topics and experiences in US Western history. From the initial westward migration, to exploration and development of the American West to daily life in the West and intimate pictures of the people who inhabited it, this collection offers American West enthusiasts a new glimpse at some forgotten treasures of American culture. Encompassing genres such as poetry, fiction, nonfiction, tourist guides, biographies and drama, this collection provides a new window to the legend and realities of the American West. |
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Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design $3.98 First published in 1991, Zen and the Art of Making a Living is the life-changing book that helped revolutionize the career planning field by offering a new vision of work. This new edition has been updated throughout with up-to-the-minute contact information and hundreds of new biographical resources. In addition to traditional material on assessing career skills and conducting a job search, Laurence Boldt provides innovative ideas and strategies, with more than 120 worksheets and more than five hundred inspirational quotations from sages of every stripe. A book that goes far beyond other career guides, Zen and the Art of Making a Living brings creativity, dignity, and meaning to every aspect of the work experience. — Internet job resources added throughout — New sections on the opportunities in today’s rapidly changing workplace, participating in the field of home-based business, and developing an effective support group to find fulfilling work |
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Choosing a Career as a Professional Photographer $3.48 This book is a great resource for anyone interested in the world of professional photography. Written in a clear and concise manner, the author provides detailed information on all aspects of a variety of career options — ranging from travel photography and portrait photography to a photography career in the United States military. |
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Career Opportunities in the Music Industry $21.98 From making and selling records to managing the technology that helps record companies and musicians create and distribute music, the music industry offers a wide variety of exciting career options. Career Opportunities in the Music Industry, Sixth Edition provides current information on more than 90 specific jobs, including job duties, salary ranges, skill and education requirements, helpful organizations, tips for entry, and much more. A valuable starting point for career research, this book offers important information about positions of interest to job seekers. Each profile features a special Career Ladder charting the path for advancement. This new edition includes updated salary ranges and employment opportunities, as well as comprehensive, updated appendixes of organizations, periodicals, associations, schools, and resources. Along with recent statistics and data, Career Opportunities in the Music Industry, Sixth Edition also contains a new appendix listing music career Web sites. |
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Managing Your Career in Education $17.98 With practical advice on making contacts, self-marketing, interviewing, career strategies, and much more, the indispensable books in the new Ferguson Career Coach series are essential resources for readers looking to enter–and excel in–the workforce. Each industry-specific guidebook acts as a personal coach, helping them get their foot in the door of the featured industry and navigate their chosen career paths once in–with basic advice, industry secrets, and tips from the personal experiences of successful professionals in the field. The volumes in this new series are packed with invaluable insider tips for career success in exciting but competitive fields ranging from health care and sports to music and theater and more. |
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Acting Career Start-Up $23.48 Are you new to this business of acting and not really sure if you’re doing the right things to start your career? Or maybe you don’t really know where to begin? Or do you just simply want more out of your acting career? If any of those things are true for you, you have two choices. Either continue doing what you have been doing and hope that something will change, or you can change your approach by aggressively and systematically going after what it is you desire-the acting career you really want. Acting Career Start-up: 4 Key Factors For Success is about a proven four step method of goal achievement. It is first and foremost about figuring out what you really and truly want, first from your life and then from your career. Secondly, you’ll learn how to create the motivation you need to do the things necessary to achieve success. Then, step-by-step, you will be guided through a personalized planning process that will undoubtedly get you closer to your goals. Lastly, you’ll begin to apply basic, must-know business principles that will help you successfully manage your career. Acting Career Start-up will help you to take control of your acting career right from the start |
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All Moms Work: Short-Term Career Strategies for Long-Range Success $14.98 This book is for moms who decided to stay at home to care for their children but who are now ready to — or need to — go back to work. In "All Moms Work," career-expert and mom Sharon Reed Abboud offers sound, sane short-term strategies to supplement the family income — working from home, finding a good part-time job, or tackling a full time job to meet economic and/or career goals. Her book helps you plan wisely and devise short-term strategies that will lead to long-term career goals. And, yes, it offers you ways to continue your career and still be a hands-on, primarily-at-home mom. "All Moms Work" helps women concerned about raising their children and making ends meet the practical advice they need to keep skills, contacts, and resumes fresh; to earn serious money while working primarily from home; and to transition back to professional part-time or full-time employment when they’re ready. This is a career guide that will help you re-enter the work force or stay home now and work full-time again in the future. Vital topics covered in "All Moms Work" include: * Reinventing yourself and deciding if it’s time to change careers* What is your brand?* Plum jobs for career changers in sales, healthcare, and education* Do you need a website?* How to handle initial re-entry job interviews, and much moreAll Moms Work is a must read for every woman who has ever worked or ever intends to work. It will no doubt become a bible for women who are grappling with the dilemma of how to strike a balance between work life and parent life. Each chapter breaks down the choices that career women have to make, and provides essential information to inform and educate the reader about all their options. As a career coach and consultant, I will be putting this book on all my clients’ reading lists. –Cheryl Stein, Canada’s Monster.com Personal Coach"Abboud takes a sledgehammer to the myth that women must make an either/or decision about working. The reality is that part-time work is a meaningful option for millions of women who want to step back, but not completely away, from the full-time job market. All Moms Work is a valuable resource for any woman looking to combine work and family."–Kathleen J. Wu, Andrews Kurth Attorneys, LLP"Smart, practical, inspiring–and respectful of all mothers’ choices This is a book for mothers to read for themselves and to lovingly share and discuss with other mothers who are working out their dreams for work and family over the short and long term."–Hannah Riley Bowles, Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School"Sharon Reed Abboud’s book is an extraordinarily rich resource for today’s mothers (and fathers). This easy-to-read, insight-filled, and downright useful book is a must read ‘fave’ for moms linking them in to career savvy advice, imaginative options, and terrific tips."–Nanette Levinson, Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University* |
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Seasons of Your Career $3.98 In this innovative book, expert career coaches Kathy Sanborn and Wayne R. Ricci illustrate the predictable, seasonal patterns our work lives follow–from the Spring of opportunity and challenge through to the Winter, the end of the career cycle, with new opportunities just around the corner. The authors then demonstrate the best ways to make the most of each stage. Upbeat and practical, "The Seasons of Your Career" is an excellent guide for all phases of career development. |
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Career Opportunities in the Visual Arts $4.98 Art remains an attractive field to many creative people, but it is traditionally difficult to break into the business. Career Opportunities in the Visual Arts is the perfect guide for anyone looking for an advantage in planning a career in art. This informative guide showcases more than 65 jobs, ranging from painter to art director to museum curator. Career profiles include art director, art teacher, artist’s representative, ceramist, exhibition designer, framer, furniture designer, graphic designer, illustrator, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and more. |
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Career Opportunities in the Armed Forces $57.48 Military service remains a current and sometimes controversial topic, with U.S. Armed Forces remaining in action overseas and with news media covering recruitment statistics, length of duty tours, and other high-profile issues related to the military. Career Opportunities in the Armed Forces, Second Edition is a complete, up-to-date guide for those wondering if a career in the armed forces is right for them. Profiled here are more than 80 jobs from all branches of the service, with emphasis not only on the career opportunities available in the military, but also on how military experience can be applied to a career in the civilian world. |
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Career Development and Systems Theory $169.98 The Systems Theory Framework was developed to produce a metatheoretical framework through which the contribution of all theories to our understanding of career behaviour could be recognised. In addition it emphasises the individual as the site for the integration of theory and practice. Its utility has become more broadly acknowledged through its application to a range of cultural groups and settings, qualitative assessment processes, career counselling, and multicultural career counselling. For these reasons, the STF is a very valuable addition to the field of career theory. In viewing the field of career theory as a system, open to changes and developments from within itself and through constantly interrelating with other systems, the STF and this book is adding to the pattern of knowledge and relationships within the career field. The contents of this book will be integrated within the field as representative of a shift in understanding existing relationships within and between theories. In the same way, each reader will integrate the contents of the book within their existing views about the current state of career theory and within their current theory-practice relationship. This book should be required reading for anyone involved in career theory. It is also highly suitable as a text for an advanced career counselling or theory course. The first edition of this book appeared under the title Career Development and Systems Theory: A New Relationship. Reviewers’ comments on the first edition: ."a thought provoking addition to career development literature." Canadian Journal of Counselling ."a landmark in the field of career development." Australian Journal of Career Development ."itis written in an admirable clear and concise style." British Journal of Guidance and Counseling |
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Don Mattingly Autographed Bat / Details: Hitman $599.99 “During his 13 years in Yankee pinstripes Don Mattingly terrorized opposing pitchers winning the American League batting title in 1984 and the American League MVP in 1985. Don would go on to win 9 Gold Gloves and be named to All-Star teams from 1984 thru 1989. His on field tenacity and his power at the plate earned Mattingly the title of “”Donnie Baseball”". He finished his illustrious career with 2,153 hits, 222 home runs, 1,099 RBI’s, and a .307 lifetime batting average. He is quite possibly the best Yankee player to have never played in a World Series with the team. On August 31, 1997 the Yankees retired his number 23 and dedicated his plaque for Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The plaque calls him “”A humble man of grace and dignity, a captain who led by example, proud of the Pinstripe tradition and dedicated to the pursuit of excellence, a Yankee forever.”" The Louisville Slugger bat is personally hand signed by Yankees great Don Mattingly with the inscription “”Hitman”". Officially licensed and authenticated by Major League Baseball and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity card (COA) and hologram from Mounted Memories. This product is officially licensed by Major League Baseball and comes with an individually numbered; tamper evident hologram from Mounted Memories. To ensure authenticity, the hologram can be reviewed online. This process helps to ensure that the product purchased is authentic and eliminates any possibility of duplication or fraud.” |
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Guardian Guide to Careers $18.8 New – A comprehensive guide to finding a new career, divided into three main sections: 1.- Discover your niche. The ‘inspiration’ section, which includes ten feature packages (including case studies) along the themes of wanting to work from home, working abroad, being creative, doing something that matters or starting a business. 2. – Find the facts. The ‘information’ section and the engine room of the book, which gives an overview of each major industry sector (entry opportunities, qualificatio |
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Property Ladder: The Developers Bible $1.49 Used – Whether you want to start a new career as a developer, buy a single property as an investment or just add value to your home, Property Ladder: The Developer’s Bible provides all the information you’ll need to profit from property. Building on the solid advice of the previous two Property Ladder titles, this book takes readers further, providing a thorough assessment of the market and housing stock in the UK, as well as detailed plans and charts to guide you through the best development op |
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Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds: The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Theodore Laidley $4.8 New – Lieutenant Theodore Laidley, a West Point graduate whose army career spanned forty years until his retirement as a colonel in 1882, was a young officer during the Mexican War. Like so many of his fellow soldiers he wrote long letters home describing new and unusual sights and events. His letters home to his father in Virginia begin on August 23, 1845 (from Watervliet Arsenal, New York) and end on May 13, 1848 (from Mexico City). They reveal the horrors of the battlefield, his low opinion o |
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Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds: The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Theodore Laidley $2.94 Used – Lieutenant Theodore Laidley, a West Point graduate whose army career spanned forty years until his retirement as a colonel in 1882, was a young officer during the Mexican War. Like so many of his fellow soldiers he wrote long letters home describing new and unusual sights and events. His letters home to his father in Virginia begin on August 23, 1845 (from Watervliet Arsenal, New York) and end on May 13, 1848 (from Mexico City). They reveal the horrors of the battlefield, his low opinion |
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12.5 Kastehelmi Dewdrop Plate in Light Blue $60 IIT2070: Professor Oiva Toikka is one of the greatest names in Finnish glass. His imaginative, rich and bold glass art deviates from the streamlined aesthetic of Nordic design. He has worked in the performing arts for as long as he has in glass. The Birds collection is Toikka’s best-known work. He has enjoyed an international career and received numerous awards, among them Lunning Prize, Pro Finlandia Medal, World Glass Now 85 Award, Kaj Franck Design Prize and the Prince Eugen Medal. The Kastehelmi range of glassware that Toikka originally designed in 1964 was also the outcome of a technical challenge. To celebrate Toikka’s 50th, Iittala reintroduced a selection of the most popular pieces in the range in year 2010. The idea of using droplets of glass as decoration came to Toikka when he was thinking of ways of covering the joint marks left on the surface of pressed glass pieces by the production process. Designed by: Oiva Toikka Features: -Pearls glisten like a string of pearls on grass in the morning sun. -Ideal for consumers who are adding decorative glass to their everyday tableware collections. -Made at Iittala with a centrifugal machine. -Dishwasher safe. -Diameter: 12.5 . |
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14102-8ft-rnd – Sphinx Andy Warhol – Signature – HM Circle Area Rug – 8′-rnd $899 Andy Warhol was known for breaking the rules, harnessing the latest technology to express his ideas, and creating a new movement in Twentieth century art to be studied and imitated for years to come. The Andy Warhol Home Collection is divided into six design categories. The Signature category contains interpretations of his most recognizable works from every era of his career. |
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14102-8ftx11 – Sphinx Andy Warhol – Signature – HM Rectangle Area Rug – 8′ x 11′ $1299 Andy Warhol was known for breaking the rules, harnessing the latest technology to express his ideas, and creating a new movement in Twentieth century art to be studied and imitated for years to come. The Andy Warhol Home Collection is divided into six design categories. The Signature category contains interpretations of his most recognizable works from every era of his career. |
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1951 $152.63 Fifty years have now passed, yet it remains a baseball moment frozen for eternity. New York Giants slugger Bobby Thomson will seemingly always be a 27-year-old ballplayer in his prime, blasting a home run against the archrival Brooklyn Dodgers to vault his team into the World Series against the neighboring New York Yankees. Servicemen and servicewomen stationed in Korea were able to share in the moment via radio, helping to make it famous as the shot heard ’round the world. It was the biggest baseball highlight in a year in which the game witnessed many significant moments and stories. Future superstars Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle would make their debuts with their respective New York teams early in the 1951 season, just as legendary Yankee hero Joe DiMaggio was embarking on his final big-league campaign. Baseball commissioner Albert Happy Chandler was being ousted from office, just as maverick owner Bill Veeck was bringing his entertaining antics back into the game as the new owner of the St. Louis Browns. All-time great hurler Bob Feller was tying a record for career no-hitters, while Yankee pitcher Allie Reynolds was tying a record for no-hitters in a single season. As baseball celebrates significant milestones in 2001 — the American League’s 100th anniversary and the National League’s 125th — there will be much reflecting on the game’s glorious past. What better time to roll the clock back 50 years to 1951 and relive one of baseball’s most noteworthy seasons, 1951: When Giants Played the Game. |
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2 X 4 Backyard Projects: Simple Outdoor Furniture You Can Make in One Day $76.89 With Home Depots crowded with do-it-yourselfers and interest in home building projects at an all-time high, the idea of creating a home-made work of art in wood quickly is alluring indeed. Ian Kirby, whose career in fine woodworking spans more than four decades, addresses this trend with 2 x 4 Backyard Projects. All projects feature simple, attractive furniture that can be created from start to finish in a single day. The instructions are step-by-step, easy to follow, and are illustrated with four-color photography for every step. The book starts off with an explanation of techniques, tools, and materials, and covers a wide range of projects that every member of the family can enjoy. They include tables, chairs, a children s playhouse, a porch swing, a barbecue stand, benches, plant stands, a potter s bench, and arbors. With some power tools and a few hours to spare, even novice builders can turn out a useful, pleasing project. |
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2 X 4 Backyard Projects: Simple Outdoor Furniture You Can Make in One Day $65.99 Used – With Home Depots crowded with do-it-yourselfers and interest in home building projects at an all-time high, the idea of creating a home-made work of art in wood quickly is alluring indeed. Ian Kirby, whose career in fine woodworking spans more than four decades, addresses this trend with “2″x 4″ Backyard Projects.” All projects feature simple, attractive furniture that can be created from start to finish in a single day. The instructions are step-by-step, easy to follow, and are illustrat |
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8 x 4.1 Toikka Annual Bird 2011 Coral Eider $325 IIT2038: Professor Oiva Toikka is one of the greatest names in Finnish glass. His imaginative, rich and bold glass art deviates from the streamlined aesthetic of Nordic design. He has worked in the performing arts for as long as he has in glass. The Birds collection is Toikka’s best-known work. He has enjoyed an international career and received numerous awards, among them Lunning Prize, Pro Finlandia Medal, World Glass Now 85 Award, Kaj Franck Design Prize and the Prince Eugen Medal. The Iittala Birds originated in 1972 with Toikka’s small Flycatchers. Today the collection grows with collectors all over the world who enjoy these art objects as simple reminders of poetry in everyday life. These lyrical creatures are a feat of craftsmanship each bird is as diverse and individual as those who collect them. Toikka’s visions are still brought to life by craftsmen at the Nuutaj rvi factory in Finland, where the Iittala glass workshops have always been located. Each bird is signed O. Toikka Nuutaj rvi as a proof of authenticity. Designed by: Oiva Toikka Features: -Mouth-blown in blue glass. -Clear glass added on top and blown into a relief mould. -Opal white and orange thread of glass wounded around the form and heated in the furnace until the thread breaks to form the dots. -Gray head is then added to the bird. -Dimensions: 8 H x 4.1 W. |
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A Big Little Life $5.04 In each little life we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. DEAN KOONTZ thought he had everything he needed. A successful novelist with more than twenty #1 New York Times bestsellers to his credit, Dean had forged a career out of industry and imagination. He had been married to his high school sweetheart, Gerda, since the age of twenty, and together they had made a happy life for themselves in their Southern California home. It was the picture of peace and contentment. Then along came Trixie. Dean had always wanted a dog had even written several books in which dogs were featured. But not until Trixie was he truly open to the change that such a beautiful creature could bring about in him. Trixie had intelligence, a lack of vanity, and an uncanny knack for living in the present. And because she was joyful and direct as all dogs are, she put her heart into everything from chasing tennis balls, to playing practical jokes, to protecting those she loved. A retired service dog with Canine Companions for Independence, Trixie became an assistance dog of another kind. She taught Dean to trust his instincts, persuaded him to cut down to a fifty-hour work week, and, perhaps most important, renewed in him a sense of wonder that will remain with him for the rest of his life. She mended him in many ways. Trixie weighed only sixty-something pounds, Dean occasionally called her Short Stuff, and she lived less than twelve years. In this big world, she was a little thing, but in all the ways that mattered, including the effect she had on those who loved her, she lived a big life. |
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A Bountiful Harvest $36 A Bountiful Harvest introduces the work of a newly discovered photographer, A. M. Pete Wettach, whose career spanned the early to mid twentieth century. Wettach photographed the people of farming communities in and around his home state of Iowa during the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar years, leaving behind an incomparably rich account of a way of life that has nearly vanished from the rural Midwest. At the time of his death in 1976, Wettach left behind an enormous collection–some tens of thousands of images–that provides a breathtaking complement to the work of other American photo-journalists of his time. A self-taught photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration as a county supervisor in southeast Iowa during the 1930s and 1940s, he carried his camera as he traveled across the countryside visiting clients. Although Wettach was not hired as an FSA photographer, his pictures provide a fascinating parallel to the more famous work of his FSA colleagues Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Russell Lee. Yet unlike their photographs, his reveal an amazing intimacy and familiarity with his subjects, who were frequently his friends, neighbors, family members, and clients. Leslie Loveless has carefully selected the images that best represent both the creativity of the photographer and the poignancy of midwestern farm life during some of its most difficult years; she has also provided an informative essay on Wettach’s life and times. The pictures and corresponding written record provide a fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking account of these families’ lives. A Bountiful Harvest is as much a tribute to the people living today who have so much to share about atime and a way of life, as it is to the man who helped record it in so much detail. The work of Pete Wettach, hidden for decades, is poised to become a new national treasure. |
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A Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965 $14.99 Used – A Bountiful Harvest introduces the work of a newly discovered photographer, A.M. “Pete” Wettach, whose career spanned the early to mid twentieth century. Wettach photographed the people of farming communities in and around his home state of Iowa during the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar years, leaving behind an incomparably rich account of a way of life that has nearly vanished from the rural Midwest.At the time of his death in 1976, Wettach left behind an enormous collec |
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A Career in the Law at Home and Abroad; Oral History Transcript ] 1986 $27.27 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Subjects: Miller, Henry, 1827-1916 Madison, Marshall P Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 Standard Oil Company of California Civil Air Transport Corporation Caltex Petroleum Corporation Exxon Company U.S.A Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute, 1951-1954 Law firms — California San Francisco Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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A Cycle of the West $7.72 New – Fen works in a bookshop and is devoted to her young son, Connor, but she keeps herself to herself. Haunted by guilt and a terrible secret, Fen lives a compromised life, isolated from her family, far from home and too afraid of the past to risk becoming close to anyone. She is constantly looking over her shoulder, knowing that one day the truth will catch up with her. Sean, on the other hand, is enjoying a seemingly perfect life. He has a successful career, lives in his dream home and adore |
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A Dangerous Dance $3.91 In a state where corruption is an art form, political outsider and talk radio host Remy Mistral has spent his entire career fighting for reform. The opportunity for him to finally make a difference has come, and his chance to get into the Governor’s mansion is here. Only two things stand in his way . . . one is a killer and the other is a woman. Remy isn’t sure which of the two is more dangerous. Dorothy Morgann Merlinn’s father was assassinated in front of her ten years ago while making his bid for Governor of Louisiana. She’s spent the time since running his financial empire and figuring out which of his many enemies has profited the most by his death. She’s come back to Louisiana to catch the real villain and get her own life back, not the one she inherited from her father. All she needs now is a candidate to back with her substantial wealth, someone who will serve as unwitting bait in a dance where a single slip can lead to death . . . Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Pauline Baird Jones currently calls Texas home – after an 18-year sojourn in Louisiana. Pauline’s been a fictional killer since the first Gulf War. It’s very cathartic, she asserts. If someone annoys me, I just smile, then make plans to kill them in my next book. |
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A Friend Like Me $0.99 Used – Melanie’s career distances her from her home, family, and Calvert. When Melanie learns of her father’s ill health, she accepts a television news reading job. Then she discovers that Cal is moving out of the village. Is she too late in discovering what Cal really means to her? |
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A Hand on My Shoulder: Memoirs of John Willem Gran: Set of Two $39.95 Used – From the jacket: “Neither my established Protestant family background nor my becoming an avowed atheist at fourteen, nor indeed my persistent ambition to follow an artistic career, in any way foreshadowed my ending up as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Oslo at the age of forty-three.” John Willem Gran left his home in Norway as a teenager to pursue a career as an opera director. His path took him to England to study theatre, to Munich just before the Second World War, and then to Rome. As he |
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A History of the Four Georges, Volume I $19.36 Used – Justin McCarthy (1830-1912) was an Irish nationalist, historian, novelist, politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1879 as a Liberal Home Ruler. He began his career as a journalist, aged 18, in Cork. From 1853 to 1859 he was in Liverpool, on the staff of the Northern Daily Times. In 1860 he moved to London, as parliamentary reporter to The Morning Star, of which he became editor in 1864. He gave up his post in 1868, and, after a l |
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A History of the Four Georges, Volume I $21.54 Used – Justin McCarthy (1830-1912) was an Irish nationalist, historian, novelist, politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1879 as a Liberal Home Ruler. He began his career as a journalist, aged 18, in Cork. From 1853 to 1859 he was in Liverpool, on the staff of the Northern Daily Times. In 1860 he moved to London, as parliamentary reporter to The Morning Star, of which he became editor in 1864. He gave up his post in 1868, and, after a l |
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A Horseman For The Emperor $29.99 Galloping into danger-on and off the battlefieldJean Baptiste Gazzola’s memoir of his life in Napoleon’s cavalry regiments is a remarkable and exhilarating one. He tells his story vividly-almost certainly with advantages-for it is one of passionate love affairs, attempted murder, duels, flight from retribution, hard campaigning and violent battles. This Italian centaur joined the Revolutionary French Army in the early days of Napoleon’s career, for engagements in his home country before depar |
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A Horseman For The Emperor $18.99 Galloping into danger-on and off the battlefieldJean Baptiste Gazzola’s memoir of his life in Napoleon’s cavalry regiments is a remarkable and exhilarating one. He tells his story vividly-almost certainly with advantages-for it is one of passionate love affairs, attempted murder, duels, flight from retribution, hard campaigning and violent battles. This Italian centaur joined the Revolutionary French Army in the early days of Napoleon’s career, for engagements in his home country before depar |
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A House for Mr. Biswas $15.95 The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul’s father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels. In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous-and endless-struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas. |
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A Life $15.83 Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering remains of this late sister’’s house and the realization that he is now completely alone. As though in a trance, he sets out once again, this time to find his first adult home, a dusty sheep farm in the southwest, preparing to meet the fate that ultimately awaits him.Of such deceptively simple ingredients is this brilliant portrait of the last hours of an old man’’s life composed. Floyd Warner, who first appeared in Fire Sermon, is perhaps the ultimate characterization in the career of a writer who has been called quite simply the best novelist now writing in America (John W. Aldridge). |
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A Little Bit Of Larceny $12.95 What does a naive young woman from a small town in Iowa do when she finds herself confronted with two life-threatening situations? Run back home? No, she gets angry!Joanne Moore is a young woman who moves to Chicago to pursue a career in publishing. She grows up very quickly when she marries David, who becomes her worst nightmare. Not even a divorce can protect her from his constant harassment and threats to kill her. However, before her problem with David can be solved, she learns |
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A Local Man: A Play About Ben Chifley $15.83 Used – This title presents an intimate portrait of a great Australian statesman. Ben Chifley has been called Australia’s best-loved prime minister. His life story, from engine driver to prime minister, with his steadfast loyalty to his humble origins throughout his political career, has become one of Australia’s iconic legends. Late in the afternoon of 9 June 1951 in his modest home in Bathurst, Ben returns to write a key speech he is to deliver the following day at the ALP conference in Sydney. |
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A Local Man: A Play About Ben Chifley $17.13 New – This title presents an intimate portrait of a great Australian statesman. Ben Chifley has been called Australia’s best-loved prime minister. His life story, from engine driver to prime minister, with his steadfast loyalty to his humble origins throughout his political career, has become one of Australia’s iconic legends. Late in the afternoon of 9 June 1951 in his modest home in Bathurst, Ben returns to write a key speech he is to deliver the following day at the ALP conference in Sydney. |
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A Long Way from Home $24.95 In his memoir, Brokaw writes of his quintessential American experience, from his parentsU life in the thirties to his early journalism career in the tumultuous sixties to the present day. |
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A Long Way from Home $3.79 New – In this autobiography, renowned television journalist looks at his days growing up in South Dakota and how that experience has stayed with him, influencing his various career decisions. |
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A Long Way from Home $1.46 Used – In this autobiography, renowned television journalist looks at his days growing up in South Dakota and how that experience has stayed with him, influencing his various career decisions. |
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A Long Way from Home $125.04 In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw recalls his quintessentially American experience: From his boyhood on the prairies of South Dakota in the 1940s to his early journalism career in the tumultuous 1960s up to the present, this is a personal reflection on the people, the culture, and the values that shaped him then and still do today.Abridged. 4 CDs. |
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A Long Way from Home $3.94 In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of his quintessential American experience: From his parents’ life in the thirties, his own boyhood growing up in the heartland, his early journalism career, the tumultuous sixties, and up to the present. This is a personal reflection on the family, people, culture, and values that shaped him. |
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland $117.51 New – In this autobiography, renowned television journalist looks at his days growing up in South Dakota and how that experience has stayed with him, influencing his various career decisions. |
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A Perfect Arrangement: A Novel $23.95 Mirella and Howard Cook-Goldman are living the American dream – two careers, two kids, a golden retriever, a historic colonial home in a quaint New England village – and it’s a nightmare. Both children are troubled, the house is a wreck, Howard’s architectural career has stalled just as Mirella’s law practive is taking off. Plus the au pair just quit. Then one damp spring morning, sweet, eager Randi Gill appears on their doorstep, the ideal nanny. Armed with impeccable references from a top c |
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A Quest for Life: An Autobiography $65 Early in A Quest for Life McHarg presents us with an arresting image. Describing the view from his boyhood home on the outskirts of Glasgow, he tells us that in one direction he could see the industrial miasma of smokestacks, tenements, and treeless streets, and, in another, the glories of the Scottish countryside. I was born and bred , he writes, on a fulcrum with two poles, city and countryside . Confronted with such a stark contrast, the man who was to become the founder of ecological planning began at an early age to turn literally from inhumane urban development and toward the beauty and power of Nature. Each chapter of this book illuminates key stages in McHarg’s life and in the evolution of his environmental awareness. We see him as a youth standing on a hillside beside the impressive Donald Wintersgill who, with the wave of his cane, lays out an entire village complete with lakes and forests, and thus introduces the astonished McHarg to the profession of landscape architecture. In some of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War he witnesses the magnitude of human destructive capability. Later, when he faces a crisis of conscience over his religious training and its exhortation to gain dominion over life and subdue the earth, he begins to develop a deep spiritual appreciation for the sanctity of Nature itself. His training as a designer and planner in the Modernist Bauhaus tradition, with its neglect of the environment; his bouts with tuberculosis that showed him the link between public health and city planning; his famous Man – The Planetary Disease speech before powerful industrialists – all stand as emblematic of battles that are still being fought today. A Questfor Life also chronicles the many triumphs in McHarg’s career. It offers fresh insight into the revolutionary design method behind his groundbreaking book, Design with Nature, and explores the development of geographical systems. We learn firsthand about his work on the celebrated regio |
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A Rush of Wings $0.99 Used – Spoiled heiress Noelle St. Claire breaks off her engagement to her father’s business protegee and sets out to make it on her own. Now living in the town of Juniper Falls, Colorado, Noelle begins to pursue a career as an artist and finds a home on the ranch owned by handsome, God-loving horseman Rick Spencer. As Noelle confronts a traumatic episode from her past, she struggles to find her way back to God and finds herself falling in love with Rick. |
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A Rush of Wings $0.99 New – Spoiled heiress Noelle St. Claire breaks off her engagement to her father’s business protegee and sets out to make it on her own. Now living in the town of Juniper Falls, Colorado, Noelle begins to pursue a career as an artist and finds a home on the ranch owned by handsome, God-loving horseman Rick Spencer. As Noelle confronts a traumatic episode from her past, she struggles to find her way back to God and finds herself falling in love with Rick. |
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A Stew or a Story $15.95 Like the savory, simple dishes she favored, M. F. K. Fisher’’s writing was often short, stylish, concentrated in flavor, and varied in form, writes Joan Reardon in her introduction to this eclectic, lively collection. Magazine writing launched and helped to sustain Fisher’’s long, illustrious career and in these fifty-seven pieces we experience again the inimitable voice of the woman widely known to have elevated food writing to a literary art. A Stew or a Story covers five decades of Fisher’’s writing for such notable and diverse publications as Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Ladies Home Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’’s Bazaar, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vogue. But collected here also are articles nearly impossible to find from lesser-known, more ephemeral magazines. Essays on people, places, and of course food, mix here with delightful fiction to become a delectable feast. |
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A Time to Heal $3.87 New – Dreams of glory came easily to handsome, talented baseball player Clay McCain. However, when he returns home to Liberty from the bloody beaches of Tarawa, he is physically and emotionally shattered with no baseball career and his lifelong love a distant memory. |
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A Turn in the Road $22.78 New – A new novel of mystery and romance from the popular author of the Hampton sagaOrphaned whilst still in her teens, and forced to give up her illegitimate baby for adoption, April Winston must make her own way in life. She forges a career as a successful New York lawyer, and enjoys the wealth and respect that come with it. But there’s something missing. She yearns to know what has happened to her long-lost baby daughter, and envies her married friends Bob and Nicole their happy family home. |
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A Winter Haunting $7.99 The characters from Summer of Night return as adults. Having sabotaged his career and his marriage, Dale Stewart returns to Elm Haven, his boyhood home, and moves in to the one-time residence of his friend who died in an accident in 1960. But Dale is not alone–he’s been followed by private demons who twist his reality into horrifying new forms. |
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ADA in London: Surviving the Traumas $16.03 New – With names changed to protect their privacy, this is the story of Ada, who leaves her home, her six children, her husband, and her beloved career in Nigeria to work in London to “salvage” the family from financial disgrace. |
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ADA in London: Surviving the Traumas $16.03 Used – Ada leaves her home, her six children, her husband her beloved career in Nigeria to travel to London. Fred, her husband, had recently lost a substantial sum of borrowed money abroad. He brings serious pressure to bear on Ada to go and work in London to “salvage” the family from financial disgrace. Despite her protests and warning that “such a separation could cost us our marriage,” Ada is persuaded by her husband and children to go to London. Ada’s traumas, losses, failures and successes |
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ADA in London: Surviving the Traumas $21.15 Used – With names changed to protect their privacy, this is the story of Ada, who leaves her home, her six children, her husband, and her beloved career in Nigeria to work in London to “salvage” the family from financial disgrace. |
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ADA in London: Surviving the Traumas $21.15 New – With names changed to protect their privacy, this is the story of Ada, who leaves her home, her six children, her husband, and her beloved career in Nigeria to work in London to “salvage” the family from financial disgrace. |
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ADD in The Workplace $27.5 It’s one thing to deal with attention deficit disorder in the doctor’s office, or at home — but quite another out there in the workplace. This unique guide focuses on adults living with ADD, and illustrates various ways to initiate and maintain the best possible work situation. Kathleen Nadeau brings her vast experience to bear on this central concern of adult life. The book is packed with helpful advice and practical suggestions on everything from day-to-day problems to career issues that can affect a lifetime — and it emphasizes that people with ADD can be just as successful in their jobs and careers as anyone else.The book features a user-friendly large, open format with summaries at the beginning of each chapter — perfect for ADD adults. It offers an easy-to- follow progression from a general understanding of the situation to various specific issues, including ADD and social skills, job performance, and career choices for young adults with ADD. |
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Abraham Lincoln $1.29 Used – The American Lives series focuses on great Americans throughout history. This first set of books concentrates on the lives of six presidents, following them from their childhood homes to the White House. In addition to learning about each president’s career accomplishments, readers will learn about him as a person, including his home life, his family, and his unique personality traits. |
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Abraham Lincoln $3.9 New – The American Lives series focuses on great Americans throughout history. This first set of books concentrates on the lives of six presidents, following them from their childhood homes to the White House. In addition to learning about each president’s career accomplishments, readers will learn about him as a person, including his home life, his family, and his unique personality traits. |
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Abs of Steel, Buns of Cinnamon $9.95 The saga of one woman’’s quest for romance, career fulfillment, and the perfect bowl of double-fudge ice cream.Millions of women have commiserated with America’’s favorite frustrated female as she struggles with dieting, work, and romance in a world filled with chocolate, evil bosses, and the ever-present opposite sex. Abs of Steel, Buns of Cinnamon is filled with some of the funniest comic strips that follow every woman’’s frazzled friend as she battles everything from the all-too-honest dressing room mirror to a mountainous IN box.Join Cathy as she rationalizes her way from one neurosis to the next with her trusty dog, Electra, and her aging, well-intentioned mother by her side. You”ll feel right at home curling up with a bowl of Rock Road as Cathy copes with reality and what creator Cathy Guisewite calls the four basic guilt groups: food, love, mother, and career. |
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Act of Will $7.99 From beloved bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the enthralling saga of three generations of extraordinary women–of the fate that befalls them, and the choices that define their lives… IN THE NAME OF LOVE.Orphaned after the death of her mother, well-bred Audra Kenton rose from selfless nurse to servant of an affluent suffragette, to a fiercely independent bride whose passionate marriage was overtaken by an unforeseeable tragedy. Now Audra has but one dream–to bestow upon her brilliantly artistic daughter, every opportunity that she was denied… AT THE HEART OF AMBITION.Given the world, the stubborn Christina has forsaken the wishes of her noble mother to forge the career of her choice–that of a glittering Manhattan fashion empire she hopes to bequeath to her own daughter. But in young and beautiful Kyle stirs a spirit that is inherently headstrong, equally independent, and just as ironically resistant to the sacrifices made in the name of love. FOR THE SAKE OF A DREAM.From the picturesque Yorkshire Dales to the haute couture luxuries of Paris and London to the bittersweet respite of home and family, three women face stunning betrayals and astonishing reversals of fate as each brings her own intimate struggle to their need of personal success and to a triumphant and heartening understanding of devotion, duty, and destiny. This novel continues the Bradford tradition of spirited romances peopled with memorable, self made women…fetching. — Booklist |
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Acts of Faith $7.99 They met as children, innocents from two different worlds. And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy: Abandoned at birth, he finds a home–and a dazzling career–within the Catholic Church. But the vows he takes cannot protect him from one soul-igniting passion. Daniel: The scholarly son of a great rabbi, he is destined to follow in his father’s footsteps. And destined to break his father’s heart. Deborah: She was raised to be docile and dutiful–the perfect rabbi’s wife–but love will lead her to rebellion. And into world’s the patriarch would never dare imagine. Reaching across more than a quarter of a century, from the tough streets of Brooklyn to ultramodern Brasilia to an Israeli kibbutz, and radiating the splendor of two holy cities, Rome and Jerusalem, here is Erich Segal’s most provocative and ambitious novel to date–the unforgettable story of three extraordinary lives…and one forbidden love. |
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Adam Copeland On Edge $12.99 Adam Copeland on Edge is what the author describes as “a mental picture.” It’s also a dream — “one of many” — that he decided to realize while at home convalescing from potential career-ending neck surgery. And it’s a journey that explores not only his life but also his innermost thoughts.In the small town of Orangeville, Ontario, Copeland was raised by a loving mother who, while working multiple jobs just to pay the rent, nurtured her son’s passion for Spider-Man comics and KISS |
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Adam Copeland on Edge $16 Adam Copeland on Edge is what the author describes as “a mental picture.” It’s also a dream — “one of many” — that he decided to realize while at home convalescing from potential career-ending neck surgery. And it’s a journey that explores not only his life but also his innermost thoughts.In the small town of Orangeville, Ontario, Copeland was raised by a loving mother who, while working multiple jobs just to pay the rent, nurtured her son’s passion for Spider-Man comics a |
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Adam Dunn signed Cincinnati Reds 8×10 Photo Custom Framed $69 Adam Dunn is a Major League Baseball first baseman/outfielder. He bats left handed throws right handed. At six feet, six inches in height and weighing 275 pounds, Dunn was given the nickname Big Donkey and is one of the National League’s most feared sluggers. On July 4, 2009, he became the 123rd player to hit 300 career home runs. Adam Dunn has hand signed this Cincinnati Reds 8×10 Photo. Certificate of Authenticity from Athlon Sports. Custom White Mat and Premium Mahogany Color Framed as shown. |
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Adam Dunn signed Cincinnati Reds 8×10 Photo Custom Framed $69 Adam Dunn is a Major League Baseball first baseman/outfielder. He bats left handed throws right handed. At six feet, six inches in height and weighing 275 pounds, Dunn was given the nickname Big Donkey and is one of the National League’s most feared sluggers. On July 4, 2009, he became the 123rd player to hit 300 career home runs. Adam Dunn has hand signed this Cincinnati Reds 8×10 Photo. Certificate of Authenticity from Athlon Sports. Custom White Mat and Premium Black Color Framed as shown. |
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Add in the Workplace: Choices, Changes, and Challenges $24.45 New – It’s one thing to deal with attention deficit disorder in the doctor’s office, or at home — but quite another “out there” in the workplace. This unique guide focuses on adults living with ADD, and illustrates various ways to initiate and maintain the best possible work situation. Kathleen Nadeau brings her vast experience to bear on this central concern of adult life. The book is packed with helpful advice and practical suggestions on everything from day-to-day problems to career issues t |
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Add in the Workplace: Choices, Changes, and Challenges $5.15 Used – It’s one thing to deal with attention deficit disorder in the doctor’s office, or at home-but quite another “out there,” in the workplace. This unique guide focuses on adults living with ADD, and illustrates various ways to initiate and maintain the best possible work situation. Kathleen Nadeau brings her vast experience to bear on this central concern of adult life. The book is packed full of helpful advice and practical suggestions on everything from day-to-day problems to career issues |
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Afl Premiership 2005 $57.45 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. AFL Premiership 2005 is a simulation game for PlayStation 2 based on the AFL. It is the ninth game in the AFL video game series.The game includes, season mode, where the player can select to play as one of the 16 teams to play in the 2005 AFL season. Career mode,” which lets the player play in the pre-season, home and away season, and finals. There is also, player |
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Afl Premiership 2005 $57.42 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. AFL Premiership 2005 is a simulation game for PlayStation 2 based on the AFL. It is the ninth game in the AFL video game series.The game includes, season mode, where the player can select to play as one of the 16 teams to play in the 2005 AFL season. Career mode,” which lets the player play in the pre-season, home and away season, and finals. There is also, playe |
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After the Rain $1.36 Headlights off, a panel truck drives by moonlight across an open field, following tracks that have been there for decades … Nina Pryce and her husband, Phil Broker, couldn’t have more opposite views of the military. Broker’s loyalty to the men he served with in Vietnam is matched only by his certainty that they shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Nina, though, is a new breed, a decorated and ambitious vet of the first Gulf War. As Nina proceeds along her chosen career path, Broker — until his recent retirement, Minnesota’s most effective, unorthodox, and controversial undercover cop — finds himself struggling in the role of patient military spouse. The driver is a local entrepreneur taking advantage of a decades-old tradition of smuggling and bootlegging by crossing a border too vast and undermanned to be effectively patrolled … Incommunicado for months as part of a top-secret Delta anti-terrorist operation, Nina, with daughter Kit in tow, suddenly emerges in Langdon, North Dakota, a town in the heart of the Cold War Minuteman II missile belt. When Broker arrives to take Kit back home, he realizes that the legacy of those warheads still casts a sinister shadow across the desolate north border country, in the person of a damaged psychopath. Somewhere in the middle of this empty field he will cross, undetected, from one side of the U.S.-Canada divide to the other. He and his cargo — illegal cigars, whiskey, machine parts, or something much more terrifying — thus slip undetected across the longest undefended border in the world. Broker discovers he’s been drawn into an elaborate con within a con, made an unwitting participant in a black-bag anti-terrorist detail. But his anger toward Nina for involving him and putting their daughter at risk quickly fades as a larger, more deadly reality becomes evident. With time running out, husband and wife unite with local North Dakota law enforcement to form a last line of defense |
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After the Storm $13.58 New – Shandra Hillman, a New Orleans native, is an ambitious accountant who has been living alone in Atlanta, GA for the past 8 years. She moved to Atlanta to not only start a career, but to also get away from the drama that always surrounds her relatives back in New Orleans. Everything changes on August 27, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, a category 4 hurricane, hits the Gulf Coast and forces Shandra to provide shelter for 13 of her relatives in her 3 bedroom home in Atlanta. AFTER THE STORM is an ins |
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After the Storm $13.58 Used – Shandra Hillman, a New Orleans native, is an ambitious accountant who has been living alone in Atlanta, GA for the past 8 years. She moved to Atlanta to not only start a career, but to also get away from the drama that always surrounds her relatives back in New Orleans. Everything changes on August 27, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, a category 4 hurricane, hits the Gulf Coast and forces Shandra to provide shelter for 13 of her relatives in her 3 bedroom home in Atlanta. AFTER THE STORM is an in |
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Against Gravity; A Novel $2.18 Growing up in a dreary hamlet along the Hudson River in upstate New York, Gwyn Stickley, nicknamed Stick , is determined to escape from her seemingly static yet volatile world. Obsessed with her rail-thin body and estranged from her parents and her self-destructive peers, Stick feels trapped in a world where nothing ever seems to happen. As she soon finds out, even small towns can hide disturbing secrets. She begins to look at her surroundings with fresh eyes when her friend JoAnn becomes pregnant, and is dependent on Stick to both hide and resolve her dilemma . Suddenly, Stick sees new divisions emerge between old friends and neighbors, and even between her father and mother, whose troubles have roots in mysterious relationships established long ago. Learning to master her body and her emotions through dancing, Stick eventually flees to Manhattan in search of a career on Broadway. Although gifted, she ultimately finds that her gift should assert itself not just in control over the steps but also through passion. With this discovery, she finally returns home, where surprising new demands assert themselves. Stick prematurely takes on adult responsibilities by caring for her father after a gruesome fall. The legacy of JoAnn’s pregnancy and a startling revelation about her mother’s past force Stick to assume an unexpected family role. These new responsibilities, however, also free her to express her need for sex and intimacy, and she finally learns to accept the uncontrollable nature of love and pain. With bold precision, Lucy Ferriss paints the numbing routine of lives that appear stagnant but are fraught with violent change. Against Gravity poignantly illustrates a world where flightis a continual yearning and gravity an unconditional force. |
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Ain’t Misbehavin: The Story of Fats Waller $11.22 New – This informal narrative of Waller’s life and music-a moving memoir of a musical genius and an outstanding human being-was written by Fats’ personal manager, Wallace T. ‘Ed’ Kirkeby. Reviewing Fats’ brief but stellar career, Kirkeby reveals a life that was filled with paradoxes and a man who moved with ease from a middle-class church-going home to New York’s speakeasy subculture. The life-of-the-party who improvised at the piano for stag films, Fats would periodically retreat to the organ l |
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Ain’t She Sweet? $7.99 Sugar Beth Carey, the one-time wild child of Parrish, Mississippi, returns home to face a slew of old enemies, enflame a new passion or two, and turn her small town upside-down in the newest blockbuster by the New York Times bestselling superstar.From The Publisher:Sugar Beth Carey’s come back to Parrish, Mississippi, and she’s brought her reputation for wreaking havoc with her. She’s broke, desperate, and too proud to show it, even with her old enemies lining up for a chance to get even. Her former girlfriends have their eyebrow pencils sharpened into lethal points. Winnie Davis, her longtime rival, is fully armed with the money, power, and prestige that had once been Sugar Beth’s. But worst of all is Colin Byrne, the man whose career Sugar Beth had destroyed — and not exactly accidentally. Now Colin’s a famous novelist living in Sugar Beth’s old mansion, and this modern day dark prince is using his writer’s imagination to figure out how to bring the town’s beautiful former princess to her knees. But despite her sassy mouth, feisty spirit, and hardheaded ways, Sugar Beth’s no longer the spoiled rich girl they all remember. No, now she’s a woman to be reckoned with … and a great big reckonin’ is about to happen, not least of all for one dark prince who might — just might — be thinking about falling in love with the wickedest girl in town. Ain’t She Sweet? A funny, heartwarming, oh-so-spicy story of love, friendship, and the possibility of happily-ever-after.About The Author:Award-winning and critically praised bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips has found fans all over the world with her warm and wonderful contemporary love stories that manage to touch hearts as well as funny bones. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, and she has two grown sons. |
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Airframe $39.95 This textbook covers the middle section of the FAA’s required curriculum for Aviation Maintenance Technicians (AMTs) and gives an overview of airframe construction theory, maintenance, and inspection. Containing up-to-date information that meets 14 CFR Part 147 requirements and Subject Matter Knowledge Codes from the FAA mechanics knowledge tests, this comprehensive guide covers specific concerns such as metallic and nonmetallic aircraft structures, hydraulic and pneumatic power systems, and landing-gear systems. Complete with updated full-color graphics, an extensive glossary, and additional career information, this revised edition is ideal for at-home, classroom, or university-level training. |
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Al Kaline signed Detroit Tigers Gray Cooperstown Collection Jersey HOF 80 $195 In 1955, Kaline ended the season with a .340 batting average, becoming the youngest player ever to win the American League batting title. On September 24, 1974, Kaline became the 12th player in Major League Baseball history to reach the 3000 hit plateau. Kaline finished his career with 3,007 hits, 399 home runs, and 1583 RBIs. He batted over .300 nine times in his career to finish with a lifetime batting average of .297. Al has hand signed this Gray Detroit Tigers Majestic Cooperstown Collection Jersey and inscribed it with HOF 80 . AAA Hologram and Certificate of Authenticity from Athlon Sports. |
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Al Kaline signed Detroit Tigers Gray Majestic Jersey 3007- Kaline Hologram $175 In 1955, Kaline ended the season with a .340 batting average, becoming the youngest player ever to win the American League batting title. On September 24, 1974, Kaline became the 12th player in Major League Baseball history to reach the 3000 hit plateau. Kaline finished his career with 3,007 hits, 399 home runs, and 1583 RBIs. He batted over .300 nine times in his career to finish with a lifetime batting average of .297. Al has hand signed this Gray Detroit Tigers Majestic Jersey and inscribed it with 3007 . Kaline Hologram and Certificate of Authenticity from Athlon Sports. |
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Alejandro Faurl N $80.76 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alejandro Dami n Faurl n is an Argentine football midfielder, who plays for Queens Park Rangers in the English Football League Championship. Faurl n began his playing career in 2004 with Rosario Central in the Primera Divisi n Argentina, he made his debut in a 1-0 away defeat to Quilmes on 9 May 2004. After making only one appearance for his home town club he join |
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Aleksandar Prijovi $50.51 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aleksandar Prijovi is a Swiss-born Serbian footballer. Prijovi started his career as a youth player with his home town club FC St. Gallen but moved to Italy at the age of 16 to start his football career with Italian side Parma, making the first appearance of his career as a substitute for Parma on 27 April 2008 in a match against Reggina Calcio. Prijovi ’s contrac |
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Alex Rodriguez $22.74 New – Coming from humble beginnings in New York City, the Dominican Republic, and Miami, Alex Rodriguez has developed into one of the living legends of Major League Baseball. His superb swing has carried him to the top. A three-time MVP, he has achieved in a short time what few others have achieved over the course of an entire career. He has hit more than 500 home runs, and has won the American League’s Most Valuable Player award three times. From his first season with the Seattle Mariners to th |
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Alichino 2 $102.88 Beautiful creatures called Alichino grant any wish to those who find them–but at a price. A young lady searching for an Alichino wants to bring her brother back to life. When she meets a handsome young man, it turns out he has a connection to these rare creatures.From The Publisher:In the enigmatic world of Alichino, the beautiful creatures known as Alichino grow stronger by eating the souls of humans. However, the power of kusabi also grows stronger when it releases the spirit of an Alichino. When the mysterious Matsurika makes an appearance at Tsugiri’s home — and threatens to kill those close to him — he will need to pursue this predator to protect his friends.About The Author:Shurei-sensei won the prestigious Cobalt Illustrator’s Award in 1995. Her career has included illustrations for several series of novels. She also drew doujinshi with the ‘Shi no Tenshi’ (Angel of Death) circle. Alichino is her first major manga. Her birthday is July 6, she’s a Cancer, and her bloodtype is 0. |
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All American Boy $20 “Would you come home, Walter? Please?”With these desperate words from the mysterious, distant mother he hasn’t seen in ten years, Wally Day finds his carefully constructed world falling in on itself. For years, the handsome actor has made denial his own particular art form – from his stalled career to his emotionless embrace of the hard-edged boys who regularly traipse through his bedroom. But now, faced with this sudden intrusion from his past, Wally must confront the reasons he left his hom |
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All American Boy $13 “Would you come home, Walter? Please?”With these desperate words from the mysterious, distant mother he hasn’t seen in ten years, Wally Day finds his carefully constructed world falling in on itself. For years, the handsome actor has made denial his own particular art form – from his stalled career to his emotionless embrace of the hard-edged boys who regularly traipse through his bedroom. But now, faced with this sudden intrusion from his past, Wally must confront the reasons he left his hom |
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All Balls and Glitter: My Life $8.82 New – In the paperback edition of “All Balls and Glitter”, Craig once more turns the spotlight on himself, with an updated chapter that includes gossip from the 2008 Strictly competition and the 2009 tour, plus new photographs from his private collection. “All Balls and Glitter” is Craig’s remarkable life story, beginning with the tale of his escape from his small-town home in Ballarat, Australia, aged just fifteen, to embark on a career as a song-and-dance man (and drag queen), and revealing th |
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All Will Be Well $14.95 From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer. McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father’s violent nature and the early death of his beloved mother. Tracing the memories of home through both people and place, McGahern details family life and the beginnings of a writing career that would take him far from home, and then back again. Haunting and illuminating, All Will Be Well is an unforgettable portrait of Ireland and one of its most beloved writers. |
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All Will Be Well $14.95 From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father’s violent nature and the early death of his beloved mother. Tracing the memories of home through both people and place, McGahern details family life and the beginnings of a writing career that would take him far from home, and |
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All for You $2.25 Used – Valentin, a recent college grad, takes a job overseas in order to pursue Maria, his true love. When things don’t work out, the distraught Valentin throws himself into his career — and into a whirlwind relationship with Irina, a gorgeous coworker. Too young to realize that office romance is a no-no, Valentin is unceremoniously fired. Then, Irina dumps him. Heartbroken once again, and thousands of miles from home, Valentin must decide whether to return home and start over, or stay and figh |
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All-Star Baseball 2003 $23.2 The boys of summer have returned. Pick your team and begin your quest for the World Series with All Star Baseball 2003. Amazing graphics, realistic gameplay, real players – this baseball game has it all. Features: Official in-game Donruss player trading cards enables users to collect, trade and unlock cheats. All-new player models feature 3-D Cyberscan technology giving All-Star Baseball the most realistic representation of player faces ever seen. Incredible depth with 10 game modes: Exhibition, Season, Career, Franchise, Expansion, All-Star Game, Series, Manager, Home Run Derby(TM) and Batting Practice. All-new Expansion Play allows baseball fanatics to choose a city, stadium and team logo and add that team into Major League Baseball. A 3-man broadcast booth with Bob Brenly, Thom Brennaman and Steve Lyons for the most in-depth commentary. Franchise mode allows users to play and build their favorite team for up to twenty consecutive seasons. All-new Expansion draft: users will draft from a pool of unprotected players and build a team from free agents and Minor League(TM) players. National Baseball Hall of Fame(TM) team featuring your favorite sluggersfrom the past like Mike Schmidt, Reggie Jackson and Yogi Berra. All 30 Major League(TM) teams and over 900 players all with official stadiums, logos and uniforms. Over 50 stadiums to choose from including 8 classic stadiums and 10 expansion stadiums. |
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Alvar Aalto 4.75 Water Green Vase $95 IIT1886: (1898-1976) Born in Kuortane, Finland. Thanks to his original style and unique talents, Alvar Aalto is one of the greatest names in modern architecture and design. During his career, he designed many buildings in different parts of the world: concert halls, libraries, hospitals, museums, and private homes, including the Villa Mairea. His furniture and lamps, often starting out as a part of the buildings he designed, are produced together with Finnish Artek. Alvar Aalto created the Aalto vase in various shapes, sizes and colors for Iittala and the World Fair in Paris in 1937. Supposedly, it is based on sketches made with the intriguing pseudonym The Eskimo Woman’s Leather Breeches , but Alvar Aalto was the son of a cartographer perhaps the shapes are derived from the Finnish landscape and lakes. Whatever the case, his intention was for the user to decide how and where the pieces would be used. The freedom and interpretation of both origin and function are what keeps the pieces fresh and contemporary. Designed by: Alvar Aalto, 1936 Features: -Mouth blown non – leaded crystal. -Not dishwasher safe, hand wash only. -Height: 4.75 . Guarantee: Iittala products are built for life. iittala Guarantee |
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Alvar Aalto 6.25 Frost Vase $200 IIT1885: (1898-1976) Born in Kuortane, Finland. Thanks to his original style and unique talents, Alvar Aalto is one of the greatest names in modern architecture and design. During his career, he designed many buildings in different parts of the world: concert halls, libraries, hospitals, museums, and private homes, including the Villa Mairea. His furniture and lamps, often starting out as a part of the buildings he designed, are produced together with Finnish Artek. Alvar Aalto created the Aalto vase in various shapes, sizes and colors for Iittala and the World Fair in Paris in 1937. Supposedly, it is based on sketches made with the intriguing pseudonym The Eskimo Woman’s Leather Breeches , but Alvar Aalto was the son of a cartographer perhaps the shapes are derived from the Finnish landscape and lakes. Whatever the case, his intention was for the user to decide how and where the pieces would be used. The freedom and interpretation of both origin and function are what keeps the pieces fresh and contemporary. Designed by: Alvar Aalto, 1936 Features: -Mouth blown non – leaded crystal. -Not dishwasher safe, hand wash only. -Height: 6.25 . Guarantee: Iittala products are built for life. iittala Guarantee |
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Alvar Aalto 6.25 Water Green Vase $145 IIT1888: (1898-1976) Born in Kuortane, Finland. Thanks to his original style and unique talents, Alvar Aalto is one of the greatest names in modern architecture and design. During his career, he designed many buildings in different parts of the world: concert halls, libraries, hospitals, museums, and private homes, including the Villa Mairea. His furniture and lamps, often starting out as a part of the buildings he designed, are produced together with Finnish Artek. Alvar Aalto created the Aalto vase in various shapes, sizes and colors for Iittala and the World Fair in Paris in 1937. Supposedly, it is based on sketches made with the intriguing pseudonym The Eskimo Woman’s Leather Breeches , but Alvar Aalto was the son of a cartographer perhaps the shapes are derived from the Finnish landscape and lakes. Whatever the case, his intention was for the user to decide how and where the pieces would be used. The freedom and interpretation of both origin and function are what keeps the pieces fresh and contemporary. Designed by: Alvar Aalto, 1936 Features: -Mouth blown non – leaded crystal. -Not dishwasher safe, hand wash only. -Height: 6.25 . Guarantee: Iittala products are built for life. iittala Guarantee |
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Alvar Aalto Dual Colored Vase White / Black $200 IIT1887: (1898-1976) Born in Kuortane, Finland. Thanks to his original style and unique talents, Alvar Aalto is one of the greatest names in modern architecture and design. During his career, he designed many buildings in different parts of the world: concert halls, libraries, hospitals, museums, and private homes, including the Villa Mairea. His furniture and lamps, often starting out as a part of the buildings he designed, are produced together with Finnish Artek. Alvar Aalto created the Aalto vase in various shapes, sizes and colors for Iittala and the World Fair in Paris in 1937. Supposedly, it is based on sketches made with the intriguing pseudonym The Eskimo Woman’s Leather Breeches , but Alvar Aalto was the son of a cartographer perhaps the shapes are derived from the Finnish landscape and lakes. Whatever the case, his intention was for the user to decide how and where the pieces would be used. The freedom and interpretation of both origin and function are what keeps the pieces fresh and contemporary. Designed by: Alvar Aalto, 1936 Features: -Mouth blown non – leaded crystal. -Not dishwasher safe, hand wash only. -Height: 6.25 . Guarantee: Iittala products are built for life. iittala Guarantee |
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Always I am Caesar $69.51 By examining his military and political career, home life and relationships with women, Always I Am Caesar provides a vivid portrait of Caesar’’s life and the times of ancient Rome during its transition from republic to empire.Provides a richer portrait of Caesar’’s life by viewing him from multiple perspective and relating him to broader Roman societyExplores aspects of Caesar’’s career in cultural and social termsEngaging and witty style will appeal to general readers |
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Always I am Caesar $29.95 By examining his military and political career, home life and relationships with women, Always I Am Caesar provides a vivid portrait of Caesar’’s life and the times of ancient Rome during its transition from republic to empire.Provides a richer portrait of Caesar’’s life by viewing him from multiple perspective and relating him to broader Roman societyExplores aspects of Caesar’’s career in cultural and social termsEngaging and witty style will appeal to general readers |
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Amberville $10 What does it mean to be bad? Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he’’s been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed-animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn”t as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List and that he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb from limb, and reduced to stuffing. With a nod to the best of noir and the wisest of allegories–interlaced with greed and gangsters– Amberville depicts an alternate world that mirrors our own realities and moral concerns, and reminds us of the inextricable link between good and evil. |
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America Back on Track $1.01 With his first major policy book in more than 40 years, Senator Edward Kennedy reveals a critical plan to revive the lapsed values of the nation.From the Publisher:Senator Edward Kennedy reveals his inspired plan to revive the lapsed ideals of our nation.With a Senate career that has spanned more than four decades, Edward M. Kennedy has become one of the strongest voices in American politics. In America Back on Track, he argues that America is at a crossroads, having reached a point where it has departed more deeply from its fundamental ideals than at any time in its modern history. In response to the erosion of the nation’s basic values, he presents a sweeping agenda for reform and renewal, speaking to the country’s most significant needs at home and abroad. National security, the war in Iraq, terrorism, and key domestic challenges such as jobs, health care, education, civil rights, energy, and the environment all receive major attention in his proposals to counter the harmful policies of the current administration, restore America’s respect in the world, and create a better America here at home where democracy, individual opportunity, equal justice, and innovation can flourish.With his first major policy book in more than twenty years, Senator Kennedy takes an in-depth look at our modern political landscape and offers innovative policies that he genuinely believes will guide the country effectively to the future.About the Author:Senator Edward M. Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate since he was first elected in 1962. He is currently the senior Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and is a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Judiciary Committee. |
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Amma Naidoo $52.13 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naidoo was of South African Indian Tamil descent and was born in Asiatic Bazaar Pretoria. She had her primary school education in the Pretoria primary school. She was the only daughter and had 8 brothers. Her parents had a family business. She had to care for the family and home and hence she did not pursue an independent career. In 1934 at the age of 26 she marri |
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Amma Naidoo $52.13 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naidoo was of South African Indian Tamil descent and was born in Asiatic Bazaar Pretoria. She had her primary school education in the Pretoria primary school. She was the only daughter and had 8 brothers. Her parents had a family business. She had to care for the family and home and hence she did not pursue an independent career. In 1934 at the age of 26 she marr |
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Amulet Aventurine Carnelian Frog on Leaf Lilypod Silver Necklace $42.99 Very Unique Natural Gemstone and Crystal Frog Silver Necklace Comes in Genuine Aventurine and Carnelian Gemstone, Size: 1 and 1/2 inches Carved Frog Totem in Carnelian sitting on Carved Aventurine Lily Leaf Comes with 925 Sterling Silver 18 inch Infinity Style Chain Necklace Comes with Gift Box Very Unique, Special and Attractive Amulet Pendant. It comes Naturally Filled with two Gemstone Powers of Protection and Good Luck in Financial Situation. Frog Totem is Carved in Genuine Carnelian Gemstone and Lily Pod Leaf is Carved in Genuine Green Aventurine Gemstone. This Amulet comes with 925 Sterling Silver 18 inch Italian Infinity style chain necklace. FROG is symbol of Joy and Luck . For many centuries, Frog has been a Symbol of Abundance, partly due to the very large number of eggs it lays at one time. It has been used as amulet and talisman. Many cultures believed Frog brings Good Luck to their home. In China Frog is Considered as God of Wealth, and they strongly believe in this legend, by keeping one close. If you are about to experience a change in your current stage of life, you can learn from the frog. Frog totems can also provide Very Powerful Protection for children and have been known to give good dreams. MONEY POWERS and NATURAL FORCES of AVENTURINE GEMSTONE: Aventurine has been used as a lucky talisman and is a popular stone for gamblers. Green Aventurine is like the good luck shamrock of the mineral kingdom. It helps bring in good fortune, money, abundance and overall happiness. Its name is derived from the Italian word aventura that means by chance. Green Aventurine is extremely powerful. Green Aventurine is often referred to as the Money Stone. It is thought to help those who enjoy games of chance and attracts money and luck to the owner. Has a reputation as a gambler’s stone , bringing luck into the game of risk and chance. Good career stone for those in stressful situations at work. |
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Amulet Double Lucky Money and Protection Frog Silver Necklace $42.99 Very Unique Natural Gemstone and Crystal Frog Silver Necklace Comes in Genuine Aventurine and Carnelian Gemstone, Size: 1 and 1/2 inches Carved Frog Totem in Carnelian sitting on Carved Aventurine Lily Leaf Comes with 925 Sterling Silver 18 inch Infinity Style Chain Necklace Comes with Gift Box Very Unique, Special and Attractive Amulet Pendant. It comes Naturally Filled with two Gemstone Powers of Protection and Good Luck in Financial Situation. Frog Totem is Carved in Genuine Carnelian Gemstone and Lily Pod Leaf is Carved in Genuine Green Aventurine Gemstone. This Amulet comes with 925 Sterling Silver 18 inch Italian Infinity style chain necklace. FROG is symbol of Joy and Luck . For many centuries, Frog has been a Symbol of Abundance, partly due to the very large number of eggs it lays at one time. It has been used as amulet and talisman. Many cultures believed Frog brings Good Luck to their home. In China Frog is Considered as God of Wealth, and they strongly believe in this legend, by keeping one close. If you are about to experience a change in your current stage of life, you can learn from the frog. Frog totems can also provide Very Powerful Protection for children and have been known to give good dreams. MONEY POWERS and NATURAL FORCES of AVENTURINE GEMSTONE: Aventurine has been used as a lucky talisman and is a popular stone for gamblers. Green Aventurine is like the good luck shamrock of the mineral kingdom. It helps bring in good fortune, money, abundance and overall happiness. Its name is derived from the Italian word aventura that means by chance. Green Aventurine is extremely powerful. Green Aventurine is often referred to as the Money Stone. It is thought to help those who enjoy games of chance and attracts money and luck to the owner. Has a reputation as a gambler’s stone , bringing luck into the game of risk and chance. Good career stone for those in stressful situations at work. |
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Amy, Amy, Amy: The Amy Winehouse Story $16.95 Author Nick Johnstone unravels the life and career of one of Britain’s most brilliant and troubled stars. Amy, Amy, Amy tracks Winehouse’s erratic journey to fame from her North London Jewish family home via three schools to discovery by Simon Fuller’s 19 Management Ltd. and a signing to Island Records at the age of 18. Johnstone details her meteoric rise to stardom, two albums catapulting her to the top even as her open use of alcohol and drugs was setting the scene for a personal life plagued |
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An Image of Death $24.95 Who knew that a career in video documentaries could lead to crime? Such is the fate of Chicago’s Ellie Foreman whose shoots hook her up with misdeeds past and present. Here she is producing a video about foster children that’s being financed by a successful Chicago real estate developer. Her plans get thrown for a loop when a mysterious package appears at her door one winter night. Inside she finds a surveillance video showing the murder of a young woman. Who was this woman and what is her connection to Ellie? The cops shunt her aside, but the urgency she feels to find answers, coupled with her professional knowledge of film, compel her to sleuth despite the difficulties borne from a complex history with her lover, David. A little digging reveals that the murder victim was a courier with a dark history forged in Eastern Europe at the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse. And a little more digging reveals dark happenings here at home, money laundering, and the deadly price of dealing in diamonds…. This dangerous case for Ellie follows 2002’s Anthony-nominated An Eye for Murder and the 2003 Picture of Guilt, all three published in hardcover by Poisoned Pen Press and in paperback by Berkley Prime Crime. |
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Andre Dawson signed Chicago Cubs 8×10 Photo $30 Andre Dawson is an 8-time National League All-Star and he was named the league’s Rookie of the Year in 1977 after batting .282 with 19 home runs and 65 runs batted in (RBI), and won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1987 after leading the league with 49 homers and 137 RBI. He is one of six MLB players, and the only one not to have played for the San Francisco Giants, with at least 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases during his career. He led the NL in outfield putouts three consecutive years (19811983), and won eight Gold Glove Awards for fielding excellence. Dawson will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 25, 2010. Andre Dawson has hand autographed this Chicago Cubs 8×10 Color Photo. GTSM Hologram Certificate of Authenticity from Athlon Sports. Hall of Fame Class of 2010. Private Signing held 12/4/2004, Somerset, New Jersey. |
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