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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
The Ultimate Company to work for
Yvon Chouinard began his foray into business as a way to create a product for himself and his climbing colleagues. His desire to life an unconventional lifestyle, along with his mother's philanthropic influence, led him to create what Patagonia is today: a socially ...
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
Harvest Books, 2008
Small book that packs a tremendous emotional wallop!
It's only 184 pages and a fast read. But don't let the size of this book fool you. It has a tremendous emotional wallop. It pulled me in, turned me inside out and then slammed me down again. It's rare for a book to do that to me.
A bearded Pakistani man, ...
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The Reluctant Widow
Georgette Heyer
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2008
One of my favorites by Georgette Heyer
I have been reading and collecting Georgette Heyer novels since I was 18. I actually discovered them by accident in a used bookstore where my older brother had a job. (One must patronize establishments where family members are employed.)
I have loved her novels ...
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution ...
David Quammen
W. W. Norton, 2007
On the Evolution of Darwin
I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a quick read on the life and works of Charles Darwin. David Quammen beautifully integrates excerpts from primary sources into this biography, really making the work a book, and not just a really long research paper. ...
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How to Get Your Child to Love Reading: For Ravenous and Reluctant Readers Alike
Esmé Raji Codell
Algonquin Books, 2003
great reference
I am very pleased with this purchase and found it to be a great value. I didn't realize what a huge book I would receive and I am thrilled with the information crammed inside. There are so many wonderful ideas with book lists galore. I have actually carried this book ...
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The Reluctant Welfare State: Engaging History to Advance Social Work Practice in Contemporary Society
Bruce S. Jansson
Brooks Cole, 2008
The most enjoyable textbook I've ever come across!
I was assigned this book for a course I took on social welfare policy (I'm studying for my masters in social work) and actually LOVED reading it. Jansson's writing style is very fluid and engaging, and the material covers issues that I'd wanted to study since I was a ...
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The Reluctant Welfare State: American Social Welfare Policies--Past, Present, and Future (with InfoTrac®)
Bruce S. Jansson
Brooks Cole, 2004
reflects American social attitudes
Jansson describe the evolution of the US welfare state over 200 hundreds. He shows how it grew from the frontier mentality that so shaped American society and thought. Then, going into the Progressive Era and into the Great Depression and the New Deal, we see how the ...
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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
Dell, 1989
Illusions of the Universe
Richard Bach has created an Illusion for all of us to investigate. Is it real or is the Reluctant Messiah our hope? Might we find the meaning of our life and discover that it is all an illusion? The questions are engrossing and the book thought provoking.
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Reluctant Disciplinarian: Advice on Classroom Management From a Softy who Became (Eventually) a Successful ...
Gary Rubinstein
Cottonwood Press, Inc., 1999
Just Laugh...
One of the best qualities a person can possess is the ability to see folly and laughter in the things we do. Mr. Gary Rubinsetein is that kind of person. He looks back at his first year and laughs, and with that act of laughing, he learns that there is a better way to ...
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The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Frederick
University of California Press, 2008
In a way, a happy ending
I picked up the book out of curiosity and now am glad that I read it. Before reading the book, I thought of him as a strange man who defected to North Korea of all places, lived the good life as the token trophy, and now decided that he had had enough. I now feel ...
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Deliver Us from Evil: A Pastor's Reluctant Encounters with the Powers of Darkness
Don Basham
Chosen, 2005
A Pastoral Perspective!
This is the first book I think anyone should read regarding the subject of deliverance. There is no better introduction to this topic in print that I know of.
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What's the Matter With Mommy?: Rantings of a Reluctant Stay-at-Home Mother
Kelley Cunningham
Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2006
HILARIOUS - I want to give it SIX STARS!!!!
This book is absolutely hilarious and truly hits home by pointing out the comedy in today's crazy and stressful parenting world! Lately I've been on a kick of reading humorous parenting books and this is BY FAR THE BEST one I've read.
The author's wit and writting ...
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The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of York (Queens of England Novel)
Jean Plaidy
Three Rivers Press, 2007
Jean Plaidy Never Dissapoints
I have to admit up front that I'm a devoted Jean Plaidy fan and I'm thrilled to see her books being reprinted. Having discovered her in the past fifteen years or so, I've had to "treasure hunt" out of print copies in various corners of the earth (not a bad thing!) Her ...
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The Reluctant Dragon
Kenneth Grahame
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 1988
Wag the Dog.
This delightful story tells the tale of a boy who meets a kindly dragon on the edge of town. The boy and the dragon become friends and start spending a lot of time together. Then the people of the town find out about the dragon and send for St. George. The boy meets ...
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The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian
Phil Doran
Gotham, 2006
tuscan
The book came as promised, in excellent condition and in a timely manner. Would recommend this seller.
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