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Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One
Edward O. Thorp
Vintage
, 1966
The Book that Started the Blackjack Revolution
Edward O. Thorp started the blackjack revolution way back in the early 1960s with a difficult but successful card counting system. This book explains that early system and why blackjack is a beatable game. There are now many easier card counting systems such as the ...
The Twenty-One Balloons
William Pene du Bois
Puffin
, 1986
Great Book
The 21 Balloons, By William Pene Du Bois A man wants to stay up in the air a year in a balloon, but he crash lands on the island Krakatoa where he meets nice and civilized people. This is a very good book that is very unpredictable William Waterman Sherman wants ...
Twenty-One Great Stories (Mentor)
Signet
, 1969
Brilliant
To describe this book would exhaust superlatives. From familiar favourites such as "The Tell-Tale heart" (Poe) and "What Stumped the Bluejays" (Mark Twain) to stories almost unheard of - "Eve in Darkness" (Kaatje Hurlburt) and "So Much Unfairness of Things" (C. D. B. ...
In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a ...
Paul Newman
,
A.E. Hotchner
Broadway
, 2008
Thank you...
May you rest in peace... you were the originator of social capitalism by shifting the paradigm to one of good products/services, word of mouth marketing, and a corporation's focus on the social good. Hats off!
Twenty One Days to a Trained Dog (Fireside Books (Fireside))
Dick Maller
Fireside
, 1979
Good ideas
This book addresses training issues simply and straightforward. I tried it with our 9 month old cairn terrier and it really works. I recommend it for any dog owner who wants to teach their dog manners in a kind fashion. Only thing is we don't believe in collars but ...
Epica Book Twenty One: Europe's Best Advertising (Epica: Europe's Best Advertising)
AVA Publishing
, 2008
Journalists from 32 leading European magazines have judged these 900 ads to be the very best. Taken from print publications, Internet sites, commercials, direct marketing organizations, and packaging design projects, they are the honorees in the 2007 Epica, Europe?s premier creative awards show. Drawn from over 5,642 entries received from 732 ...
Twenty-One Days: The Legacy of Ray Ramirez Through the Eyes of His Daughter
Amy Paulsen
BookSurge Publishing
, 2008
In Twenty-One Days, Amy Paulsen takes us through a dramatic and poignant voyage of love, loss, grief, and faith. We meet her family?husband, children, parents?and share with her the generous and exuberant character of her father during his last visit to their home. As the author moves back and forth, from the joyful days before her father?s ...
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
Kevin Sites
Harper Perennial
, 2007
Immensely readable!
Sites' book is just fantastic. He chronicles his experience as an online journalist, giving background information that goes beyond the stories and features on his website. The most striking thing about the book is its structure: Each chapter is divided up into ...
The Sower's Seeds: One Hundred and Twenty Inspiring Stories for Preaching, Teaching and Public Speaking, ...
Paulist Press
, 2004
The Sower's Seeds: One Hundred Inspiring Stories for Preachi
What a treasure for parents, grandparents, teachers,and youth leaders who want to plant seeds that will produce compassion, generosity, honesty, and appreciation in the lives of their favorite children. Readers of all ages will find in these stories the inspiration to ...
The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal
Victoria Zackheim
Grand Central Publishing
, 2008
I WAS AND AM THE OTHER WOMAN
This is an amazing book I read it in a weekend I read the book because I was the other woman my husband was married and had two kids I was married and had 3 kids we meet feel in love and broke up 2 families my ex husband has moved on and has forgiven but his ex wife ...
Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing
April Jones Prince
Houghton Mifflin
, 2005
It reads with the drama of fiction but is based on fact, which is even more intriguing
It took fourteen years of construction to build the Brooklyn Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and New York - but some wondered how much weight the new bridge could safely handle. One man decided to show them it was strong enough to hold even the heaviest passenger -- and ...
Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad
Jim Lacey
Naval Institute Press
, 2007
GREAT BATTLE NARRATIVE
This is easily the most interesting account of the invasion of Iraq yet written and it covers not only the American perspective on the fighting, but also the Iraqi's viewpoint (based on interviews with Iraqi generals). Virtually every other history I have read has ...
Twenty One Days To Stop Smoking
Dee Burton
Pocket
, 1986
Excellent!
This book is motivating, inspiring, and supportive. After smoking heavily for over twenty years, I managed to quit simply with this one book. It has been four years now without cigarettes, and I occasionally refer back to it for its uplifting thoughts and ideas and ...
Tara's Enlightened Activity: Commentary on The Praises to the Twenty-one Taras
Khenchen Palden Sherab
,
Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal
Snow Lion Publications
, 2007
Finally a thourough commentary on Tara and the 21 Taras
Anyone interested in Tara, Buddhism, Vajrayana, Goddesses, Dzogchen, the Bodhisattva path, or mysticism could benefit from this beautiful and clear commentary on the praises to the 21 taras. Tibetan Buddhists in the Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug sects can also greatly ...
Twenty-One Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Graham Greene
Penguin Classics
, 1993
Master storyteller of 20th century Britain
Graham Greene just doesn't get the recognition he deserves as a short story writer. As a novelist, his reputation has been well-established, fortunately. This collection, "Twenty-One Stories" is a fine sampler of Greene's abilities in the shorter genre. Many of the ...
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