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The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies
Steve Miller
Collins Business, 2008
The Turnaround Kid
Very interesting read--both the business as well as personal. I felt as though the author was speaking to me on a one to one.
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Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
William Pollack
Owl Books, 1999
Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
I needed this book 20 years ago for my oldest son whom may be lost to me forever. William
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Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes
Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
A MUST READ!!!
Great book! As a Life Coach for women/girls of all ages in recovery from an Eating Disorder or suffereing with body images issues, I highly reccommend this book to parents and kids to read together!! I do coach hover the phone as well! ...
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Not Left Behind: Rescuing the Pets of New Orleans
Best Friends Animal Society
Yorkville Press, 2006
Captures The Moment (and Piglet as the covergirl!)
Having worked at the sanctuary in Tylertown, MS where many of these animals were taken after the rescues documented in these extraordinary photographs, this book helps one vividly see what so many of these animals went through after the hurricane and before they ...
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A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care
Dr. Arnold Relman
PublicAffairs, 2007
Excellent and Authoritative Information
Dr. Relman begins by asserting that America's health care system is much too expensive and its costs are rising at an unsustainable rate. Further, care is not available to many who need it most, and it is provided inefficiently and with highly variable quality.
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Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish
Mark R. Levin
Pocket Books, 2007
Therapeutic and healing after losing my best "friend" this summer.
I purchased the book after losing my favorite of three Labradors to a disease that took her in less than three days after my initial visit to our vet. I had just done an agility match with her less than a month earlier. I had no idea she was ill. Losing Tara so ...
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Rescuing Justice and Equality
G. A. Cohen
Harvard University Press, 2008
In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people?s material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate ...
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The Six Month Fix: Adventures in Rescuing Failing Companies
Gary Sutton
Wiley, 2001
Fascinating and Distinctive
This is a fascinating book and a distinctive one. To begin with, the author does not claim to have a magic formula for success and instead focuses on the many conceptually simple but difficult tasks required to make a success of a failing business. Some of the ...
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Rescuing Da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis Stole Europe's Great Art - America and Her Allies Recovered It
Robert M. Edsel
Laurel Publishing, LLC, 2006
Wonderful Gift, Wonderful Book!
I was really surprised by this book. I thought it was going to contain more text but it's really all about the art and the people who rescued it. The result is a very impressive, easily readable 'coffee table' style book that's beautiful and informative. Teachers ...
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Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture
John Shelby Spong
HarperOne, 1992
An excellent overview of biblical scholarship
When I looked at this on Amazon, I KNEW that the reviews would be polarized. There are people who don't know anything about biblical scholarship who will give it five stars automatically, because it's all eye opening. There are devout Christians who don't want the ...
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Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting
Carl Honore
HarperOne, 2008
What are we doing to our children?>
From the very first page, information galore. Makes you sit back and think about how to pull back a little and let our children make some mistakes -- at least let them have something of their own!
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Yes, Your Marriage Can Be Saved: 12 Truths for Rescuing Your Relationship (Focus on the Family Books)
Joe Williams, Michelle Willians
Focus, 2007
When marriages hit rough spots, the men and women in them need wise and informed help. Through personal experience, Joe and Michelle Williams have learned what works and what doesn't in the tough times of marriage. Having experienced several divorces each before becoming Christians, Joe and Michelle write with insight and authority that can't be ...
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Rescuing Jeffrey: A Memoir
Richard Galli
St. Martin's Griffin, 2001
Sharing Experiences
When my son was also injured in a diving accident in 1991 just pior to his 29th birthday, one of the counselors talked with me about the variances in each level of injury... and the variances within each level. This book relates totally ... and likewise, not at all. ...
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Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
Lester R. Brown
W. W. Norton, 2006
Best Yet
Plan B. 2.0 is the most comprehensive book I've found yet on the converging crises that we are facing in the world today. In Part I of the book, Lester R. Brown lays out each crisis, explaining the causes, and then goes on in Parts II and III, lays out a rational, ...
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The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years
Richard M. Phd Lerner
Three Rivers Press, 2008
Outstanding book
Neat outlook on adolescence. Very positive approaches that are well explained, supported by sited studies and easy to apply immediately.
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