July 2012 | Quotes From Hitch

The 30-Day Plan to Whip Your Career Into Submission: Transform Yourself from Job Slave to Master of Your Destiny in Just One Month Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Don't buy the idea that you have to give up your life for your job. Read this book!Click Here to see more reviews about: The 30-Day Plan to Whip Your Career Into Submission: Transform Yourself from Job Slave to Master of Your Destiny in Just One MonthDon't Stay Stuck in a Job Rut--Take Control of Your...

Communion with God: The Divine and the Human in the Theology of John Owen Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)During the last century with the rise of Pentecostalism some had said the 20th century was the century of the Holy Spirit. With the influx of reprinting of Puritan works and works on the theology of Puritans, it could easily be said that perhaps the 21st century is the century of the Puritans. In this...

Beginning Perl Web Development: From Novice To Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The focus of this book is on interacting with the Internet using Perl. It assumes some very basic knowledge of programming such as the concepts of scalar variables, arrays, if/then/else, and similar items. If you are not familiar with these items in a Perl environment then it is still all covered pretty...

Scoundrels to the Hoosegow: Perry Mason Moments and Entertaining Cases from the Files of a Prosecuting Attorney Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Swingle hits a home run with these stories of the interesting cases he's handled in South East Missouri.Ranging from the hilarious to the not-funny-at-all, Swingle proves with his intelligence and wit why he's been re-elected as Cape Girardeau Missouri's prosecutor for many years, and will continue to...

A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In 1995 my Dad, Ben Benthien, allowed Stephen Lyons a glimpse into his world. Today (May 2008) I gave him this book for his 66th Birthday. Prior to today he had read a short magazine article about his time with Stephen. Through laughter & sadness induced tears he read the essay about himself. It...

Writing from Sources Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I ended up having to return the book because it was no longer being used for the writing class I was taking. I got it in time for the first day of class. Highly recommend this company to anyone who is purchasing books. Great way to save money!Click Here to see more reviews about: Writing from SourcesWriting...

Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try to Control You Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Patrician Evans has developed a wonderful and plausible theory as to why certain people are compelled to control others.All people have four internal functions available to them to use as internal guidance: their ability to think, their emotions, their physical sensations and their intuition. Controlling...

J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book is very well researched and detailed. If you ever wanted the facts (I got the feeling all of them) it's here. It kept me interested for about 500 pages, but after a while, it just got a bit relentless.Not to say the book is written poorly, but be ready for a heavy, fact filled, hugely referenced,...

Good Girls Don't Get Fat: How Weight Obsession Is Messing Up Our Girls and How We Can Help Them Thrive Despite It Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I think the title of Dr. Robyn Silverman's book (Good Girls Don't Get Fat) really says it all. We've trained our girls to think they are bad or less of a person if they are fat. Whether it's through magazines, television, the internet or ironically, the people who are supposed to love these girls the...

I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought this book because I saw an interview with the authors on 20/20 and thought that it would be an interesting and funny read. I actually went to my local bookstore and bought it the next day and looked forward to curling up and digesting it from cover to cover. When I started perusing it, I was...

The Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens: 161 Quotes, Excerpts, and Passages Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is attractively presented with short introductory passages before each chapter.In the course of this Dickens' life- story is concisely told. But what surprised me was that the Dickens' texts themselves were not brief aphoristic or humorous 'lines' but rather true excerpts of paragraph length...

The Lost Gospel Q: The Original Sayings of Jesus Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is based on the theory that the Gospel of Mark was written before any of the other synoptic Gospels. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke were then written with the help of those from Mark and another unknown source which is called the Gospel Q. In 1838 a German noticed that there were many sayings...

Driven from Within Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There is no one in sports that I love more than MJ, being a Bulls fan since the 1960s. I still love Michael, but this book was a supreme disappointment. By and large, it is an all too detailed history of the design and sales success of his shoes and newer clothing line, peppered with Michael's passages...

Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As I write this I my three little monkeys are noisily attempting to go to sleep in the other room. The fourth little monkey may only be the size of a raspberry, but from a cozy position in my womb he or she is making his or her presence felt (headache, queasiness, fatigue...). I have 60 nails on 60 fingers...

The Quotable Founding Fathers: A Treasury of 2,500 Wise and Witty Quotations from the Men and Women Who Created America Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Met my needs as a writer and speaker. What better source to use to make your point.Click Here to see more reviews about: The Quotable Founding Fathers: A Treasury of 2,500 Wise and Witty Quotations from the Men and Women Who Created AmericaNo group is quoted-and misquoted-more often than America's founders....

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Michael J. Klarman's book From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality is the best book written about civil rights in America in quite some time. Klarman's book is one of the few works about the civil rights movement that analyzes the significant change that occurred...

I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse: Insider Business Tips from a Former Mob Boss (NelsonFree) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Its a pretty good book and an easy read at only 155 pages (even though the Amazon site lists this book at 224 pages, where are my other 69 pages?) I enjoyed the mob stories, and I could understand the connection between mob business and honest business. Although the more I think about that last sentence...