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The Articulate Executive: Learn to Look, Act, and Sound Like a Leader
Granville N. Toogood
McGraw-Hill, 1996
A practical guide to excellence in communication
For most occasional speakers, help offered by a book used to be very limited. I have read a lot of communication books talking about smoke and spirits but, Granville N. Toogood offer us a comprehensive guide, plenty of examples, techniques and rules to apply. Do you ...
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The King James Bible (with book and chapter navigation)
Diana Mecum DianaDoesIt.com, 2008
God: The Comple the Works in two volumes
A Zondervan Corp sales person with an overstock of new NIV Bibles to sell may tell you, "Do not listen to the 'KJV-Only!' crowd." He may tell you that King James I of Great Britain was "a flaming, red-haired homosexual Scot who nearly every weekend buggered the members ...
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Appalachian Trail Data Book 2008
Appalachian Trail Conference, 2007
An Indispensable Guide
The Appalachian Trail Data Book, updated annually, has proven time and time again to be the indispensable Guidebook for those contemplating spending any length of time hiking on the A.T. Among thru-hikers, (those attempting to hike the entire Trail in one continuous ...
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Margaret Macmillan
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
Why the Versailles Treaty was an abject failure
This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of American military affairs. In Margaret MacMillan's impressive book Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World her thesis was that many of the monumental problems facing the Allied peacemakers at the ...
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The Conference of Birds (Penguin Classics)
Farid al-Din Attar, Afkham Darbandi
Penguin Classics, 1984
Wisdom of the Sufis - for any faith.
The writings of the Sufis are, without a doubt, some of the most beautiful and challenging spiritual works in existence. Rumi's works are currently undergoing something of a renaissance in the Western world but the name of Farid Ud-Din Attar is not as well known. ...
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Event Planning : The Ultimate Guide to Successful Meetings, Corporate Events, Fundraising Galas, Conferences, ...
Judy Allen
Wiley, 2000
Very useful Hand Book
It was very useful to me as I used it to brak into the wedding/event business. It presents a very corporate approach, yet it seems to uncover all kinds of secrets of the event world that are hidden to the public eye.
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Dixieland Delight: A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference
Clay Travis
Harper Paperbacks, 2007
The funniest sports book I ever read
I'm always searching through Amazon looking for the latest sports book. I bought this one based on some solid reviews I had read for it. I wasn't prepared for how much this book made me laugh. One time, I had to put the book down and walk away from because I ...
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SEC Football: 75 Years of Pride and Passion
Richard Scott
Voyageur Press, 2008
Great read, great gift
This is probably the best history of the SEC I've ever read. Richard Scott selected great pictures, and with his style of writing, this is something everyone can enjoy, from the football history buff, to your children.
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Creation and Evolution: A Conference With Pope Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo
Ignatius Press, 2008
An Intelligently Designed Conference Based on Reasoned Debate and Discussion
CREATION AND EVOLUTION is a book based on papers and discussion presented by well known scholars at a Conference at Castel Gandolfo hosted by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. The men who wrote papers and engaged in intelligent debate offered "food for thought" to those ...
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Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy That Reign over College Football
Stewart Mandel
Wiley, 2008
A glorious and uniquely American bar brawl
"(NFL) scouts are to football what the third base coach is to baseball - an excuse for a whole bunch of old-timers to stay a part of the fraternity and collect a paycheck to boot." - Stewart Mandel
There are two U.S. sport seasons: Football and No Football. As far ...
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Order of Christian Funerals Including Appendix 2Cremation: Approved for Use in the Dioceses of the United ...
Catholic Book Publishing Co
Catholic Book Publishing Company, 1999
The Price was right
I ordered the book in the first place because I needed it, but I didn't want to pay full price for it. So I was happy to get it at the right price through Amazon. I am very happy now that I have the book. The book is in perfect condition. I was surprised when I got the ...
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Meeting & Event Planning for Dummies
Susan Friedmann
For Dummies, 2003
The perfect guide
Meeting and Event Planning for Dummies provides detailed instructions and lists and made organizing an event simple and successful. Do not be without this incredible resource.
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35 Must-Have Assessment & Record-Keeping Forms for Reading (Grades 4-8)
Laura Robb
Teaching Resources, 2001
VERY HELPFUL!
This book goes hand-in-hand with Laura Robb's, "Teaching Reading in Middle School." The activities and lessons that she presents in the mentioned book are available in this book. All you have to do is copy the page - everthing else is done for you! Although you do ...
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)
Barbara Ransby
The University of North Carolina Press, 2005
a decisive American life--and a first rate biography
Ella Baker must be the most underrated figure in U.S. history. There are plenty of Presidents who have done less to shape their own times than Ella Baker. She decisively shaped two of the most important national civil rights organizations--the National Association ...
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Churchill's Triumph: A Novel of Betrayal
Michael Dobbs
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2008
To classify it as historical fiction would be to rob it of its realism and distinctiveness.
Michael Dobbs in his most recent historical novel, Churchill's Triumph: A Novel Of Betrayal spins another mesmerizing portrayal of one of the greatest statesman, Winston Churchill who, as we are reminded at the very beginning of the book stated: "History with its ...
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