books about: columns     books:     Columns      My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962 Eleanor Roosevelt Da Capo Press, 2001 Historical, political, personal My favorite way to learn about history is through the voice of a person who lived in that time. Often, however, the most readable first-person narratives leave something to be desired in breadth, since a single real person cannot be everywhere and have opinions on ...             Help Me, Mr. Mutt!: Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems Janet Stevens, Susan Stevens Crummel Harcourt Children's Books, 2008 CALLING ALL DOGS It all starts with a weener dog on a forced diet; she's writing to Mr. Mutt to ask if she looks fat. Mr. Mutt's answer is, "Of course not!" He also recommends the doggie food pyramid which of course has no place in it for dry dog food. Because Mr. Mutt is a nationally ...             The Art of Column Writing: Insider Secrets from Art Buchwald, Dave Barry, Arianna Huffington, Pete Hamill and ... Suzette Martinez Standring Marion Street Press, Inc., 2007 Exceptional resource for columnists... I have a pet peeve. Well, I suppose truth be told, I have several pet peeves. But the one most relevant to this book review is the trend of "how-to" and "you-can-do" books, often written by people with dubious credentials, or occasionally - no credentials at all. ...             A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide Michael Meyers, Scott Jernigan McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2003 Exceptional A+ Preparation Book This book is a very good book for anyone planning to take the A+ certification exam. It covers every area thoroughly and the practice exams that it provides are very good.             Asking For Murder (Advice Column Mysteries) Roberta Isleib Berkley, 2008 Reviewed for Midwest Book Review When psychotherapist Rebecca Butterman's friend, therapist Annabelle Hart, misses a luncheon engagement and does not return her calls, Rebecca becomes concerned. She goes to her friend's house and finds Annabelle badly beaten. Annabelle is rushed to the hospital, where ...             The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008 CC The New York Times Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2008 The New York times book I ordered this book for my husband for Christmas and was pleased it arrived in a timely manner. I'm disappointed that the 1st part of the book can only be read by a magnifying glass, (though I understand that's the type the papers were using at the time ) My ...             Reaching Audiences: A Guide to Media Writing (4th Edition) Jan Johnson Yopp, Kathy C McAdams Allyn & Bacon, 2006 Great package A book which I bought was good. Just several markers on pages but it does not problem. Package was orifessional and the book arrived in adequate time.             Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Rick Reilly Rick Reilly Sports Illustrated, 2008 Soon after best-selling author Rick Reilly started writing a weekly back-page column for Sports Illustrated, he tackled the subject of cheerleading. Reilly wrote: "I don't hate cheerleading just because it's as safe as porcupine juggling. I hate it because it's dumb. Cheerleaders have no more impact on the game than the night janitorial staff. ...             Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly Rick Reilly Sports Illustrated, 2007 I laughed, I cried, I got angry I feel a sports columnist's job is to evoke emotion in the reader. Make him/her laugh, cry, get angry, just don't bore them. Riley does that better than anyone. He's an amazingly gifted writer and I loved nearly every bit of this book. I'd already read most of these ...             The New York Times 1000 Gardening Questions and Answers: Based on the New York Times Column "Garden Q & A." Garden Editors of the New York Times, Leslie Land, ... Workman Publishing Company, 2002 Excellent Gardening Resource, high recommend I love to cook, and I decided to try my hand at gardening to see if I could grow some of our food. Needless to say, I had no idea what I was doing. I found this book at Smith and Hawken and it and helped me to obtain reasonable results the first year. My garden now ...             Almost a Foreign Country: A Personal Geography in Columns and Aphorisms Manfred Wolf iUniverse.com, 2008 Stimulating, Provocative Reading I've been reading Manfred Wolf's columns with great interest for years and am delighted to see many of them collected in this volume, "Almost a Foreign Country." I've shared the book with several friends, and we've all found the columns thought-provoking, ...             Barbarians Inside the Gates: And Other Controversial Essays (Hoover Institution Press Publication, No. 450) Thomas Sowell Hoover Institution Press, 1999 I am in agreement with the other reviewers Thomas Sowell is more than just a critical thinker: he has a penchant for expressing his ideas with a clarity with which it is difficult to argue. He uses that uncommon commodity known, for some strange reason, as "common sense." Sowell points out`the ludicrous ...             Floating Off the Page: The Best Stories from The Wall Street Journal's "Middle Column" (Wall Street Journal ... Simon & Schuster, 2003 Interesting to read and useful as a gift A few times a year we need a gift for someone whose tastes and interests are not well known to us. After perusing the many brief essays that make up this book, I know this will be a choice we'll use again and again. First, the editor chose widely among dates available, ...             Today's Military Wife: Meeting the Challenges of Service Life Lydia Sloan Cline Stackpole Books, 2003 helpful for new wives This is a good read for new military wives (like me!) who are having some trouble figuring some things out. It's cleared up a few things for me so far and I'm not even that far into reading it, maybe 60 pages. It talks about a lot of things... some history of the ...             Architectural Trim: Ideas, Inspiration and Practical Advice for Adding Wainscoting, Mantels, Built-Ins, ... Nancy E Berry Quarry Books, 2007 A Great Design Tool I found Nancy Berry's Architectural Hardware such a great design tool that I had to have this book as well. Great series!          products you might be interested in search for books architectural, certification, cheerleaders, controversial, illustrated, inspiration      toavi.com    web we recommend Exceptional A+ Preparation Book randomly chosen book: Texture segmentation in Williams syndrome [An article from: ...