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Want to make it in Hollywood? The mountain isn't coming to you? Then use this book to get you on the road to becoming a legit working actor. Arloa has done the research and development and is a union working actress, now you too can follow her trail and get paying acting jobs. Just make sure this book is in your back pocket when you do.

Arloa's book is a fast, concise read to get you up and going as an actor with minimum stress. In this book you will find Arloa's charm and experience shining through its pages with loads of helpful hints, tips and ideas to get you on your way to becoming a star. The road to stardom is a rough one. Why make it even rougher? Get the book and save yourself a ton of headaches and research. I hardily recommend it and give it two thumbs up!

An extremely detailed guide to the latest knives. Thousands of photos are scattered throught the book. The book is devided into several sections, including one with articles on general knive topics, listings of all of the best knives of specific class, and company by company guide. Any knive enthuisiast's
dream.

From folding knives and pocket knives to military knives and knives which are small swords, this newly updated and expanded edition of 2003 Sporting Knives provides a clear guide to knives for outdoor enthusiasts who use sporting knives. Knife experts provide articles and reviews of the newest and most useful commercial sporting knives on the market, while catalogs of prices and sources add to the details on their use. An indispensable guide for not only collectors, but outdoorsmen.

I loved this book so much that I had to buy 2 more to give as gifts!

A cooking bible can be so helpful when it comes to unusual ingredients, and cooking techniques. I have often been left wondering, and been forced to go through multiple sources to find out information on a particular ingredient. For example did you know Cilantro is also known as Chinese Parsley?

Jeni Wright makes a book that is made for the kitchen. The cover of the book can be wiped off from splashes and splatters, as the cover was designed for use in the kitchen. I like that with each entry, she will tell you how to choose the ingredient, what it will taste like, how to store it, its preparation, and what it can be used for. Often small recipes are given to have demonstrate the use of the ingredient.

The book also spends much time going over meat of many varieties and dairy products. When covering the meat, she tells you about the different cuts of meat, what they should be ideally, and then how to prepare these cuts. A few recipes are given as well so you can prepare food. When it comes to the poultry she gives all of the information about cuts, what they should look like ideally, and how to prepare, but she also spends time telling you how to cut up a chicken, duck, and even pheasant.

21st Century Cook is a wonderful book packed with all sorts of information. With this book, I can easily find information about techniques and ingredients. I like that she covers the common, and not so common techniques and ingredients. This book would be a great addition to anyone's cooking library.

I was pleased to find a book that addressed the practical concerns of Americans moving to France. My husband and I vacation in France each year and want to live there part of the year when we retire. This book was the first I've found that addresses issues like taxes, insurance, buying property and the relative cost of living. We have rented houses in the countryside, and I found that most of the observations and advice are right on with our experience. Although the author obviously loves France, the downside of moving there was presented as well as the many wonderful things about daily life. I would highly recommend this book to anyone considering spending an extended period in France.

What a fantastic reference! I'm in Paris now and it was absolutely instrumental in finding a place to stay and just acclimating in general. I would recommend this book to anyone who is considering a long or short term stay in the country. Well done!

This book is the most important investment we made when we decided to adopt our daughters. It is relatively easy to understand, the tables are helpful, and the understanding it provides as to who is actually paying for your AAP, provides the adoptive parent with the tools to negotiate an AAP agreement that will truly be beneficial for all parties involved. Child welfare workers, adoption workers, etc. are not well-versed on this topic and may present the basic rate to you as the only thing available. Read on...adoption is a win/win situation when you understand your rights financially. Read this and then negotiate your AAP agreement armed with accurate information. The only thing I would recommend is that the authors should update the tables to a more current year's standard. Regardless - this book is an absolute necessity for adoptive parents.

I wouldn't adopt a special needs child without reading this book. The authors lay out the highly-complicated world of adoption subsidy in a manner that is easy for a novice parent to follow. Chances are your social worker will probably not know much about adoption subsidy or at least won't have it all right so it is crucial that adoptive parents read this book carefully. You can take the information in this book and use it to advocate for your child's subsidy and service rights. The authors also provide important policy decisions and laws that will help anyone who has to go back and fight for subsidy and services after their adoption is complete. I plan to keep this book by my side as I negotiate my own adoption subsidy agreement and I am telling every prospective adoptive parent I know to read it.

Read this aloud, standing up and alone, or risk missing the experience completely.

I once heard that the two things that can't be taught in creative writing were metaphor and rhythm. If that's true, Spitzer came out of the lifeshoot endowed with extraordinary gifts. Poems here live in the mouth instead of on the page; and the physical pages seem only to present poems out of obligation, barely keeping them from running off the paper as the form literally follows gravity - down and to the right.

Everything about the book is awesomely wrong. The sections, as if about to be replaced by subordinates, have their own sections, which are right-justified procedural poems that suggest the books maddness comes from outside instead of in. The poems themselves are not marked by titles, but instead (and probably in a small effort to avoid comparisons to Dickinson) are marked by asterisks; and even then, several times, the tone and content of consecutive poems run together and disrupt the category distiction of "poem." Words are invented to suit the sound, punctuation is delightfully overused, taboo is finds itself revered instead of marginalized, and nearly every formal convention Spitzer establishes is at sometime or another broken (a few "normal" stanzas sprinkled throughout, for example, lend a few well-chosen moments a certain seriously-treated silence). Despite all of this, Spitzer avoids the powerful suction of the "Postmodern" label with shear emotional intensity and consistency.

More than anything, the book is music. And more than any other living poet, Spitzer is a master of sound. Spitzer's sound has been evolving in subsequent books. And it has all been for this. Sound has been an important part of his previous works, most notably his "Junkyard" poems and "The Pigs Drink from Infinity;" but it has always been controlled. Here, it is released. Any reader who reads this silently, hell, even in a whisper, is both missing a one of the only truly unique poetic experiences available and doing Spitzer (and themselves) a disservice.

Spitzer breaks away from the pack here.

In a standard book review, this is where I'd try to relate Mark Spitzer's latest poetry collection, Age of the Demon Tools (ahadada books, 60 pages, $12.95), to his other books. I can't.

In a standard book review, this is where I'd attempt to place Age of the Demon Tools into a poetical evolutionary progression, comparing it to earlier books by other poets, shooting for a bookmarks magazine-type of sidebar you could clip n' carry with you on your next safari to Border's. I can't.

I can't do either of those things because this is not a standard book review. It can't be, because Age of the Demon Tools is a wholly unique, totally original book of verse. No kidding, people; Spitzer, like an erudite Huck Finn of the 21st Century, takes us out into the Indian Territory. It's vision quest time.

This is truly uncharted country. Stanzas creep and slither across pages like psychedelic snakes. The reader is bathed in a kaleidoscope of images and characters---a "tiny christ", an "anorexic possum/retching in the ethersphere", "Captain Tracheotomy". Words are spelled phonetically or flat-out invented---"a Flapalooza of Flinging Fladdle!/Uvulas of Udder Grubbage!"---as Spitzer riffs off the King's English like a jazz master bending musical scales to serve his vision. This is a new, intriguing language.

But this isn't mere surrealism for surrealism's sake. Sandwiched between the lights and sounds is telling commentary on a modern society drowning in its own bile. The corporatization of America, the Iraq War and the systematic destruction of the environment are among the topics addressed in honest and engaging ways.

Hear that? It's the sound of Mark Spitzer breaking new poetic ground. Buy this book now, so you can say you were There When It Happened.

This book is an amazing merging of the experience , knowledge and wisdom of three experienced developers that gives the reader concepts, stories, tools and exercises to develop the type of skills any leader of this new millennium should own.
I believe that any Executive should have it and use it in his everyday activities and that the ones who help Executives in companies like HRD, coaches and facilitators should own the whole package for their greater results.
It's a very enjoyable book, a good manual that makes itself be read with interest, fun and ... action. We need more 'Alpha Leaders'!!!

Some talk about the emotional intelligence of leaders, others talk about level 5 leadership. This book focusses on what a leader should do in practice. It is written around a simple model I really like. It consists of 3 basic dimensions: Anticipate-Align-Act and 9 principles that come with these 3 dimensions of leadership. Anticipation requires that one can detect weak signals, has the agility to understand them and that the organization is flexible enough to respond. Align, the second dimension, is about assuring that the core purpose, values and beliefs of the organization are aligned with the actions of their leaders and their people. People's attitudes, values and the company culture need to be compatible with each other and this book lists attention areas and tools to increase this alignment. Finally, the third dimension has to do with acting fast enough, with attention for the 20% that makes the biggest difference and with the willingness to pursue goals with enough determination and patience. Simple as it seems, one wonders why so few leaders in companies apply this model today. I hope this book will be the stepping-stone some people need to become real "alpha leaders".

It's so well written that's irrelevant whether you have ever heard of NLP. When I wrote "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence", I wanted to make my book accessible, helping people to develop a practical EQ, using the findings of behavioral sciences such as NLP. The authors of this book have done the same for the field of management, and I think they've done wonderful job! The result is a practical book that fits amongst the top business books, and I hope that Wiley will be able to put the needed marketing efforts behind it to turn this masterwork into a bestseller.

It's fully applicable by anyone leading an organization, so that doesn't leave many excuses for not being a good leader...

Patrick Merlevede - co-author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"

What a great book! The clear, concise explanations guide me step by step and I don't need to be a master craftsman or artist to turn my projects from stictly plain-practical to exciting and beautiful.
Most helpful was the way the author showed how to use and improvise tools to make my designs come to life in wood. My lamp project will light up the room in more ways than with bulbs when I finish.
Thank you, Mike Burton, for taking my woodworking to another level.

Common sense innovation, a sense of humor and a 'can do' attitude are the ingredients in creating the masterful works of art by Mike Burton. He writes in a way that sounds like he's talking to a friend.
Don't have a lot of funds to buy those certain do-all, can't-live-without-tools that you see the other pro's use? That's just fine, because Burton will show you how to make what you need and keep your wallet intact.
He even explains how you can resharpen rotary burrs and an old, rusty rasp by using some toilet bowl cleaner. Anybody else would have told you to buy new stuff. If you've ever thought about getting involved in architectural carving, or just want to further your mental horizons of how these works of art are made, then, this is a must-have book.

This book is very easy to follow. I took so much away from this book. If you want to improve your communication with your family, business partners, or friends, this book will definitely help you do it. Putting things into words that makes so much sense, you'll wonder why you never put it in that perspective before. I was preparing for a speech I had to give and this books helped make that speech so much better than it would have otherwise been. Everyone should read this book.

The Art and Science of Communication delves into the science of communication offering straightforward, universal patterns that reveal the keys to communication success. This book will guide readers as it clearly presents the connection between the systemic power of the word and self-fulfillment.

It combines valuable communication expertise with practical, universal principles that produce life skills. These life skills are what individuals, couples, families, groups, teams, organizations, people are desperate for. A program that works for each participant presented in a one size fits all pattern, yet highly individualized. This book identifies and accesses the personal limitless work power that belongs to everyone.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to succeed in the workplace and in life.

hello? publisher??? an updated version is badly needed for this excellent book!

Excellent book on art materials. Modern and informative. I would recommend it to any artist. Very hard to find this book.
There is a definite need to re-publish this book. I trust this book more then many others that I have on art materials.