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Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, ...
Plume, 2007
Make your life matter!
"If I see something I don't like, I try to change it, and if I can't change it, I change my position of looking at it, and then by seeing it from a different angle, I might be able to change it; or I might find some good in it that I can use, which might make it change ...
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Build Your Own Electric Vehicle
Seth Leitman, Bob Brant
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008
Great resource for DIY electric car designers
I've read several books on Electric Vehicles and this is, by far, the definitive resource for the DIY Electric Vehicle designer. It provides details and pictures on every topic necessary to design and build an electric vehicle from an existing gas vehicle.
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras
Collins Business, 2004
The "Core Values" of Corporate Business of the Yesterday and Today
Let me just say, I have read two books by Jim Collins and his research team and I have not been at all disappointed. All chapters were explained without complex sentence writings and without all the extra stuff. For example, "Resiliency (not perfection) is the ...
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Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang
Hyperion, 1999
Wake Up Call
This book will awaken the hidden passion within. It shows what you can do if you are passionate about something. Quick read and a page turner every step of the way.
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Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual
Nigel Calder
International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2005
A must have
Every boat owner who plans on doing work on their boat should have a copy of this book. You will be able to do the work correctly the first time and fix what was done before you. Just an incredible reference.
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Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of "The House That Ruth Built"
Harvey Frommer
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008
Yankee Stadium will never be forgoten now!!
Well it was the book that took 86 years in the making but Harvey Frommer's Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of "The House That Ruth Built" has finally hit the shelves. While most of the Yankee Stadium tributes hit shelves in the spring, it was ...
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
Thomas E. Woods Jr
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005
What did the Roman (Catholics's) ever do for us?
You can't read this book without thinking of the famous Monty Python scene from Monty Python's Life Of Brian - The Immaculate Edition where the People's front of Judea inadvertently lists every improvement that the Roman have ever brought to their land. This would be ...
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Sew U Home Stretch: The Built by Wendy Guide to Sewing Knit Fabrics
Wendy Mullin, Eviana Hartman
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
awesome
The author's attitude that anything can be done--just try it, is liberating for any kind of sewing. Lots of good inspiration and just a good instruction book for knits.
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Sew U: The Built by Wendy Guide to Making Your Own Wardrobe
Wendy Mullin, Eviana Hartman
Bulfinch, 2006
Great how to for the beginner or refresher for the not so beginner
I borrowed this book from my library and after reading through it on the first day decided to buy the book and it's sister book Sew U home stretch( which I have not seen) It is a great book for the beginner like my daughter, and it is a great book for someone like ...
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Trim Carpentry and Built-Ins (Build Like A Pro)
Clayton Dekorne
Taunton, 2002
Beginner to Expert, Something for all.
I am a firm believer in the KISS method of doing things. (Keep It Simple Stupid") Every step is covered in this book so that anyone can learn from it. The "Build Like A Pro" series of books are all laid out like this one. The "Expert Tips" are great. They show you ...
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How to Succeed in the Game of Life: 34 Interviews with the World's Greatest Coaches
Christian Klemash
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2006
An outstanding read
A thoroughly enjoyable and motivating read. This is a remarkable collection of exclusive interviews with the best American sports coaches of the last 40 years. The author has packed a voluminous amount of wisdom, inspiration and facts into what amounts to a road map ...
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If I Built a Car
Chris Van Dusen
Puffin, 2007
I LOVE this book!
I can't begin to say enough good things about this book by Chris van Dusen. His story about a boy on his quest to build the perfect car is genius. What an imagination! The illustrations alone would be reason enough to buy the book, but the catchy rhyming verse keeps ...
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How to Build Motorcycle-engined Racing Cars (Speedpro)
Tony Pashley
Veloce, 2008
Building a Motorcycle Engined Race Car
This book is great. It is informative, well written, and entertaining. If you sense a qualification here it is only that the book is really about building a race car for a very specific class and type of racing. You do get lots of information that is general, because ...
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The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty
Wilfrid Sheed
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
The House that George Built
It is amazing to think that there were people walking about the streets of Hollywood and Broadway with those fabulous songs ringing in their heads yearning to be written down for the first time. and Wilfred Sheed writes like a happy man expounding on a theme at a ...
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Tea Time for the Traditionally Built: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (No. 1 Ladies' Detective ...
Alexander Mccall Smith
Pantheon, 2009
The tenth installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents. Mma Ramotswe?s ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise. Of course, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni?-her estimable husband and one of Botswana?s most talented ...
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