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An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse: An Essay on Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective ...

Jens Soering

Lantern Books, 2004

Destroying and exposing the myths of the need for more prisons in the U.S.
Jens Soering's insights into the prison system in this country are based on his ongoing personal experience and in-depth research into a prison system that is reeling from ever expanding costs. A system that is failing miserably in terms of any social benefit to a ...

My Life with George: What I Learned About Joy From One Neurotic (and Very Expensive) Dog

Judith Summers

Voice, 2007

Such a page turner!
This story, for the likes of myself, a truly passionate Cavvie owner, is so 'familiar' and yet continually enlightening and heartwarming. This little guy is not an easy subject as he gets himself into so many scrapes over the years, and I found myself regretting ...

Rapid Relief from Emotional Distress: A New, Clinically Proven Method for Getting Over Depression & Other ...

Gary Emery

Ballantine Books, 1987

most helpful book i ever read...
i have a copy of this book i have referred to many times since the 80's. i do not know the authors, nor do i have any vested interest in a submitting a complimentary review. i have never submitted such a review before. i attest that this book is the single most ...

The Beginning Dressage Book: Expert Advice on How to Train Your Horse in Dressage without Expensive Equipment

Kathryn Denby-Wrightson, Joan Fry

The Lyons Press, 2004

Perfect BEGINNER book!
I bought this book to help me teach a TB mare that had trouble taking the canter with the same lead in both ends. I liked that this book was an easy read; not a text book style manual. She explains her reasoning behind her techniques and tells you exactly what to do. ...

egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability)

David Marcum, Steven Smith

Fireside, 2008

Egonomics
egonomics is the kind of excellent, well-researched book that only comes along every few years. The content plays a vital role in our journey from good to great as part of a major service organization in a large, global company. Specifically, the principles, ...

Bad Boys With Expensive Toys

Nancy Warren, MaryJanice Davidson, ...

Kensington, 2004

A hot and steamy read
Bad Boys With Expensive Toys has three hot and steamy stories by three favorite authors. The Fourteen Million Dollar Poodle by Nancy Warren has Vince Grange a tough and manly labor negotiator who inherits a rich toy poodle. This poodle only answers to French, so ...

Expensive People (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Joyce Carol Oates

Modern Library, 2006

surrealism of suburbia
Joyce Carol Oates writes a Nostradamus-like prediction in "Expensive People". She delves deeply and sympathetically into the mind of a maddened child, and what events and conditions have played upon this child to reduce him to his psychotic state. Her description ...

Expensive Taste
Tiphani

Life Changing Books, 2008

Meet Mirror Carter, a hood chick from Shady Grove Trailer Park who would die to forget her past, and bask in a more sophisticated lifestyle. Although Mirror gets a small taste of the glamorous life, her appetite for wealth continues to grow as she constantly searches for the next big moneymaker. That is until she meets, Brice Tower, the handsome, ...

The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

Benjamin Wallace

Crown, 2008

caveat emptor
as good as an Ian Rankin mystery! If you have ever bought or sold anything at auction, this is required reading. It's a great story...runs from Jefferson to the nuclear age without missing a beat! Fraud? it's there. Greed? it's there. Ego? it's there. Revenge? it's ...

45 EFFECTIVE WAYS FOR HIRING SMART: How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive ...

Pierre Mornell

Ten Speed Press, 2003

Simply a "Must-Read" Tool for Employeers
Hiring Smart is an exceptional "must-read" tool for any hiring manager... and anyone looking for a job. In today's world when hiring poorly can lead to expensive mistakes, it is more important now than ever to get the "right" person in an organization. Hiring Smart is ...

Trials Without Truth: Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need to ...

William Pizzi

NYU Press, 2000

The Truth at Last, but is Anyone Listening
Having served as a judge in a large city for the last seven years, I can tell you that this book is exactly on point. Sadly, though, few are willing to engage in the public policy debate Professor Pizzi's book ought to trigger. Pizzi exposes the failures of our ...

How to Have The Best Trained Gun Dog, Taking Advantage of Proven, Unique Training Methods, All Natural - No ...

Joan Bailey

Swan Valley Press, 2008

The Best Trained Gun Dog...The best book yet
It is the end of first day of the 2008 hunting season here in Maine. I have a full game bag, a tired Wirehaired Pointing Griffon asleep at my feet, and a copy of Joan Bailey's latest book, "How to Have the Best Trained Gun Dog" in hand. I would not have any of the ...

Cooler, Faster, More Expensive

Peter York, Olivia Stewart-Liberty

Atlantic Books, 2007

Talleyrand Knew...
Talleyrand is supposed to have said that no one who grew up after 1789 could understand how sweet life had been under the Ancien Regime. I suppose the same thing applies to the Sloane Ranger world. I remember reading York's "Sloane Ranger Handbook" when it first ...

Political Waters: The Long Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of ...
Eric Jay Dolin

Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2008

Boston Harbor served as a colonial gateway to the world, witnessed the Boston Tea Party, and helped the community transform itself from an outpost of a few hardy settlers into a bustling metropolis and self-proclaimed hub of the universe. Yet for hundreds of years Boston Harbor was also a cesspool. Long before Bostonians dumped tea into the harbor ...