November 2011 | Quotes From Hitch

Lessons in Excellence from Charlie Trotter Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)What does a $100 per person, prix fixe', 7 course gourmet dinner have to do with your business? Everything, if you believe Paul Clarke.For those who might not know, Charlie Trotter's is an award-winning restaurant located in Chicago. I haven't yet been able to save up the $300 needed to eat there, but,...

Kara Goucher's Running for Women: From First Steps to Marathons Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was a little disappointed with Kara Goucher's book Running for Women. It wasn't horrible, but I think it could have been a lot stronger and more informative, given her experience.An Average Run on An Average Day- Great tips for beginners in regards to getting started, staying motivated, gear, and developing...

Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you are interested in reading about Buffett and his investment approach, this book is useless. This is a very short collection of quotes, most of which you will run into anyway.If interested in Buffett as an investor, one good book is The Essays of Warren Buffett. If you want to save money even on...

I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I never met a Mardy Grothe book I didn't like. And "I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like" is certainly no exception. In his Introduction, the author describes himself as "a serious quotation collector," and in this newest of his four books, containing nearly 2,000 analogies, metaphors and similes, he provides...

Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read this book a couple of years ago (to my son). We both loved it. The events that happen to the boy as he travels along the Oregon Trail gave my son a realistic account of what it was like for the people who lived it. At the end of each letter he would beg me to go on, and it was so interesting I...

Words of Love: Romantic Quotations from Plato to Madonna Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Quotes have an intriguing quality to them; They offer new and often differing viewpoints on any and every aspect of life. This book claims to have a 'collection of over 3000 quotes.' Seeing its daunting size, there is little doubt to the accuracy of that statement. While mostly about love, the quotes...

Cigars, Whiskey and Winning: Leadership Lessons from General Ulysses S. Grant Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is an excellent summation of the lessons learned by Ulysses S. Grant in an easy-to-read format. The book is well-paced and divided, following Grant's victories and defeats in military, civilian and personal battles from his childhood through the Civil War, his presidency, and Kaltman even manages...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Companion: Quotations from the Speeches, Essays, and Books of Martin Luther King, Jr. Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)For a good while I've been speechless.Oh I talk, sure, but it has been obscured by my being distracted.By my flaws, by others flaws. A waste of energy sometimes, a drain on my heart when not directed to a love purpose.On Amazon this included a person that deliberately improved a false god standing by...

No Excuses : Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If there's any book that works like a coach in a locker room giving a half-time pep talk, this is it. The tone is inspirational and invigorating and Carter identifies several important points that educators need to tune into in order to be better teachers. Yet....Yet there is something bothering me....

Tweet This Book: The 1,400 Greatest Quotes of All Time in 140 Characters or Less Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This short book combines our endless fascination with memorable and pithy quotes with the recent rise of Twitter. All of the quotes in this book were chosen so that they can fit the Twitter microblogging format - they are all at most 140 characters long. Some of the quotes are centuries old and are attributed...

Star Trek: Quotable Star Trek Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you ever sat there and said, "Wow! That is so true. I wish I said that!" Now you can. Relive some of the most "Mind Opening" moments in the world of STAR TREK. By reading the same words and lines, that kept Trek going for over 30years! Broken down by topic, you can easly find the quote to fit your...

Bridge Called Hope: Stories of Triumph from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch is a place of hope and healing. In this sequel to the best-selling Hope Rising, Kim Meeder continues her stories of hope and healing at the non-profit Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch, a place where broken horses and broken kids rediscover life and living. The stories in A Bridge Called...

Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Robert Moses, whose life traces the best aspects of the civil rights movement, always grasped the relationship of organizing for justice and good teaching. This accessible book addresses much more than math education, but equity, justice, and democracy-and shows how they fit together quite nicely. It's...

Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Her public persona was that of the blonde bombshell Hollywood star. She was married to the great Yankee baseball star Joe Dimaggio and famed play write Arthur Miller. She appeared to have lived a life most could only dream of, but behind the public persona was a tortured soul. This books brings to light...

Your profile has very much liked me.: A collection of funny scammer quotes Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Internet love scammers are perhaps the most vile creatures on the planet. They will say and do anything to scam innocent, vulnerable people for money. They do not have an once of empathy in them for their victims at all. Some are very good at what they do and some are not, but all of them say something...

Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a wonderful way to begin your own Journey to your Heart. It has literally changed my life. It talks of feeling all your feelings, good or bad and helped me to realize that pain as well as happiness are all part of life. I want to thank Melody Beattie for writing this book and sharing her...

Oprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book really gets to the heart of what Oprah is all about. The book is filled with quotes taken from Oprah's childhood and throughout her entertainment career. The quotes are inspiring because they allow you to figure out ways to relate them to your own life. Janet Lowe's biography about Oprah is...