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Jennifer wrote of familiar experiences that brought you back to the simple things that taken collectively become spectacular and life changing.
I paricularly identified with the poem on page 61 about Buffalo where I went to Grad School and where I also felt love and loss of someone who eerily resembles her lost love.

She is a gifted poet who paints very vibrant images with words.

CMP will live forever in many hearts!!!

"How I became an American" is a terrific read for anyone (adults included!) who is interested in a fascinating time in our nation's history-- early 20th Century immigration to America from Europe-- and who wants a readable and compelling account of what things were like for the millions of immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island around 1900. The "Bonferts" family, a German-speaking family from Romania, risks everything for the hope of a new and productive life in America. For the most part, they find it, but in doing so they learn that everything good also comes at a cost.

I had never known a lot about this time period but learned, even though this is "historical fiction," a LOT about immigrant populations, working conditions for immigrants (and others) at that time, and about how people lived back then. The protagonist ("Johnny", 11 years old) tells of his experiences firsthand in a way that is fun to read and compelling for young readers. I think that this book is a VERY relevant one for young people today, especially as the issue of immigration is still a huge one in our country, and one we are sometimes having difficulty grappling with these days. The translation from the German is beautifully done (it won a national award for this).

This novel would also be a great choice for language arts/American History classes for elem/middle school (4th-6th grade).

And the book is a FUN too.

This is a great book but then again I'm prejudiced - I wrote it. I am currently working on a 2nd edition/printing with some updated and additional materials. More than 20,000 free copies have been distributed world-wide and over 100,000 people have read it on the net where it is available for free as either a download or read on-line.

This absolutely delightful book has been updated and re-titled The Quotable Writer.

As the author of 113 books (including revisions and foreign-language editions) and over 500 magazine articles, I highly recommend this book to writers, publishers and bibliophiles. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.

This is a great book that gives a very brief history of Ohio and it's sights and symbols. It gives a page each of information on things like the state flower, bird, tree and flag and shows you how to draw them, step-by-step. The state seal, the Capitol, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Neil Armstrong Air and Space museum are also included. I used this in homeschooing activities for my 2nd grader and she learned a lot from it and had fun. The directions are easy to follow, and facts about each symbols are fun and easy to understand. Highly recommened!

This is a valuable book (resource) for budding entrepreneurs. It seems to try to cover all the bases for starting a small business, but it can't do them all well in the space available between its covers. The book is only 288 pages long. If you are in the planning stages of starting a small business, then I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. Read it, study it, and outline it. There are helpful checklists to help you grasp the subjects. You will come up with a plethora of keywords and terms that you will want to google to find Web pages giving more detailed (and maybe more current) information.

I am a SCORE counselor (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) who typically does face-to-face counseling sessions three nights a month. It would really be neat if my clients would read this book BEFORE they came to their session with me because they would pretty much be "educated customers" ready to ask educated questions. Our sessions would be so much more beneficial.

My favorite chapters were:

1. Initial business concerns
2. Your business' structure
3. Business start-up details
5. Sources of business assistance (SCORE is mentioned here)
7. Your smart business plan (and a good sample plan is included)
8. Obtaining the financing you need

The book is weak when it comes to how the Internet can be used in corresponding, hiring, and marketing. But this is just one example of how googling keywords and concepts found in the book will make the book more complete. Don't treat the book as authoritative on the law. It isn't. Nor was it ever intended to be. It is light on tax information as it relates to small business.

I was particularly impressed with the material presented in Chapter 2: Choice of Legal Entity. That subject is sorely ignored in most small business books, and it is critically important. It is a subject I regularly must spend a great deal of time discussing at my SCORE sessions. This book does a pretty good job on the topic.

Chapters 4 and 9 through 12 are easy to find fault with. The topic of each could fill a book. But having these topics covered definitely will help a budding entrepreneur know some of the issues they raise.

I would have liked the book more if Chapter 6 (marketing) had been less superficial. When I read it I got the impression that the author was more a public relations expert than a marketing expert. I generally categorize public relations as a subset of marketing. Marketing includes advertising, public relations, and a whole host of other promotion techniques. I did not get this message when I read the book. I also would have liked the book better if the Internet, email, and Web sites had been discussed more. But there are many books on those subjects. Therefore, I can't complain too much about the limited discussion of computers.

When you read this book it may feel a little like it was produced on an assembly line. Maybe it was? There are 51 versions of this book sold; one for each state and the District of Columbia. Content is king, and this book has it. 5 stars!

It's an Excellent book full of color pictures of the IC's engine's and field locations.

If you are really interested in the Ohio Great Lakes region pick up this interesting book fast! Books like these tend to go out of print fast and then sell for high prices on the used market.

Gracefully written and heartfelt. Procacci throws a wide net (Italian history since the year 1000), but the format of his book helps the reader keep things straight: each chapter covering a certain period consists of subsections on five different city-states, so that a reader wishing to read only about, say, Florence, can easily follow just that strand.
Procacci focuses on political history -- he characterizes his approach as "ethical-political," -- with the occasional foray into social, economic and cultural history when necessary.
This book was originally was written for a French readership; I read it in Italian. I hope the English edition features the 1997 the afterword, which is quite moving: Procacci reflects soberly and sincerely on his formation and his practice as a historian, and yet he is writing about events that he lived through, and he keenly conveys his own hopes and disappointments.

This book has amazing pictures and is well worth owning. Not only is it packed with pictures of the different characteristics and features of this pattern, the pictures are large and bright. It is a really great reference if you love the Imperial line of lace edge or crocheted glass.