From a professional level or just a beginner this is the guide for you. The information collected from over 100 of the best look and sound alikes in the field is invaluable. In my opinion as a pro it is the best read at a great price. Just the how to part of the book is worth its weight in gold. A short cut from one of the most respected impersonators in the biz, filled with agents phone numbers, info on promoting, Tv, and enough stuff to help any one trying to become a look alike. It is the coolest Coffee table book to. Thanks for the help.

Everyone says I look like someone all the time. Finally there is someone who wrote a book to tell us regular (non performers) people how we can get into this business & make some extra income! A beautiful book with lots of great advice & photos! The author is a great Madonna look-alike and she wrote an awesome book!

"Made you look" is a wonderful book about look-a-likes. The writer, a fantastic Madonna look-a-like herself, has done a good job on sharing some great experiences with the reader about the look-a-like business, detailed with superb photographs. It's highly recommended to those who want to become a look-a-like or for those that like to be entertained.

First published over twenty-five years ago and recently reissued by The Feminist Press of the City Univesity of New York, Edith Konecky's "Allegra Maud Goldman" soars with life, tingles with humanity and snaps with feminist tang. Its theme of self-discovery, a staple of coming-of-age novels, however has a distinct slant; "Allegra" insists that its protagonist, a precocious girl growing up in late Depression Brooklyn, hurl herself against familial and societal restraints imposed on her due to the simple reason of her sex. Konecky has created a masterwork; her novel is neither strident or didactic. Instead, her protagonist, Allegra Maud Goldman tells her own story -- directly, ironically and courageously. It is this unadorned, unaffected point of view and voice which enriches the novel and elevates it to mythical proportions.

Cursed with a memory which forbids her forgetting any sexist reduction of her self, Allegra's childhood unfolds as an unending conspiracy to eviscerate her unbridled enthusiasm for life and undermine her incredible intellectual talents. Unsaddled from the urban poverty afflicting most Americans during the 1930s, Allegra lacks little material comfort but suffers, at an early age, from existential oblivion. Her distant and chronically-absent mother, a social butterfly who has made peace with her marriage to a quietly tyrannical dress manufacturer, provides little to copy as a role model. Allegra must set out to develop, define and fortify her own sense of self in a world seemingly set to reduce her to docile femininity.

In a revealing conversation with her mother, Allegra expresses discontent that her family focuses attention on her older brother David, who suffers from his own lack of confidence. When she asks, "How come nobody around here is at all interested in whether I am finding myself?", her mother dismisses her by telling her that she will "grow up and marry some nice man and have children." Against this biology is destiny environment, Allegra launches her battle. As her childhood evolves, Allegra challenges the different ways boys and girls are indoctrinated to handle their emotions, does battle with a public school system that diligently attempts to socialize girls into subordinate domestic. Her sardonic friend Melanie has one of the best lines of the novel: "If they're prepring us to be housewives...why don't they teach us something useful like sexual intercourse?"

By the time Allegra has come to grips with her evolving body, she has developed a passion for writing and a talent for poetry. Her epiphany is hard-earned and promises a life of rebellion. After having one of her poems purchased for publication in a daily newspaper, her father chooses to take her letter of acceptance instead of her creation to work as a means of validation. Stunned and bewildered by how her family "managed, with nothing but good intentions, to make me feel so dismal," Allegra repeats her own mantra of self-validation, her own declaration of independence: "You're a person. You're a person."

We tend to forget how hard girls have had to work to obtain what boys perceive is their birthright: the need for self-definition, praise for ambition and affirmation for struggle. Strong women come from strong girls. Strong girls come from the crucible of their own experiences and the will to face the hurricane. Edith Konecky's "Allegra Maud Goldman" will be a treasured companion for girls and women who savor the creation of an independent, autonomus self and will be valued by the boys and men who cherish girls and women who are strong, vibrant and proud.

I loved this book with all my heart- it told the story of how Allegra travels from childhood to young adulthood, dealing with ideas we all must cope ith- death, sex, love, and friendship. And, as a plus, her name is Allegra, a rarely seen name in the modern world, considering most people think its a drug. This book is one I recomend to all, even the most cynical of people.

This is a wonderful coming-of-age novel. Allegra Maud Goldman sees past the limitations of her conventional family, her teachers and peers. Her father is only interested in his fashion business, her mother mostly too busy meeting friends. She notices, and usually points out, what they can't see, especially when they treat her differently from her brother because she's a girl. For the most part she remains bright and clever, and her frustration rarely turns inwards or outwards - she rises above everyone and everything with the help of a friend.

It's very funny, very easy to read and stands up to being re-read.

Yesterday, 26 April, I wrote a review for you of this book under the above title, & I'm wondering if it is possible to add 2 words to the final sentence of that review. The final sentence said, "It breathes with life." What I'd like for it to say is, "It breathes with life and love." I hope it's possible to make this addition. Thanks!

First & most basically, this is a geography & history text, complete with dates, stats, maps, data, 329 footnotes & a 253-item biblio. But it is unlike any such book I've read. As the title says, it describes life on the land of central Siberia by focussing on the tiny village Djarkhan, representative of 250 such hamlets in the huge Republic of Sakha. Djarkhan is in "polar land," less than 300 miles south of the Arctic Circle (1200 miles north of Chicago!), with 8 or 9 months of what I can only call winter. How the people have managed to survive there since 1600, from pre-Czarist to post-Communist eras, is an enthralling, almost unbelievable, story. But the sub-text of the book tells another tale, of 3 Djarkhan natives -- a grandfather who was honored in distant Moscow as the Sakhala record-holder for hay cutting, a mother who was "the most famous plastic oral surgeon in Sakha," & a daughter who is the co-author of this book with her husband, a distinguished American geographer. Thus its 112 pages of text are enriched with 62 personal photographs, reminiscences by villagers & on-the-spot observations. It breathes with life.

I was lucky enough to have a chance to assist the authors in the manuscript typing for this book, getting to read it as I typed. Without any education in geography, this book was easy to understand, but educational at the same time. I have never enjoyed an academic book more than I enjoyed this one. The people and places in the book come to life as stories are told as only a native villager could tell them. A must read for anyone interested in cultural studies.

A sparkling novel. How diminished British postwar fiction would have been without Pollen. Her prose mixes soaring meditation with streetsmart wisecracks.These tastes of her incandescent intelligence leave the reader gasping for her next novel. "All About Men " gives eloquent expression to the significant issues of modern life whilst leaving room for hilarious fun.This is a book that will raise its readers to fever-pitches of the kind of passionate excitement and involvement only real art can inspire.

Transplanted from her native New York to the English countryside and boarding school, 13 year old Deli grows from perfect student, to bully, to wild child and then to successful fashion designer. Along the way she tries to nab the perfect man, but encounters many less than perfect specimens through the years. Eventually she finds that being female and juggling a baby, husband, self employment and fame in the middle of the recession is more than she can cope with, and the reader wonders what on earth will happen to Deli in the chaos that surrounds her. "All About Men" is a lively, funny book with the sort of dry humour that will appeal to Bridget Jones fans. Though easy to read it is very well written, and intelligent. The linear narrative is nicely broken up by the inclusion of letters, faxes, flashbacks, and even a How-To guide to the fashion industry, which makes it an entertaining and engrossing read. If Bridet Jones left you hankering for more, try "All About Men"!

A very magnetic story, couldn't put the book down until I finished it. The charactars in the book were great. I had not read a book for over two years. Natalie Lukinova has awakened my love for reading. I can't wait for more of her work to come out.

My last weekend was completely ruined when I bumped into "The Bride from Moscow". Inspite of terrible sense of guilt I dropped everything that was scheduled to be done for I couldn't tear myself off this book. My washing was left unwashed, my veggie garden remained neglected, our family dinner was replaced by Pizza. And I put all the blame on the author of that beautiful story! Thanks a lot, Bella-Natalie. My friends and me, we are waiting for a sequel!

A quote from my tutor, Ruchama Schechter, (she is from Jerusalem) "Teaching Hebrew with this book made me realize again how much I love Hebrew!"

This is a text book that kept me interested at all times. Each unit begins with a story - each one is warm, funny, and/or touching. They involve everyday life, as well as bible stories. The book is alive, and if you put in only a few hours per week, you can finish it in three months or less. After finishing the first book -Level 1- and this one, you will then be able to read Hebrew text from the Chumash, and it will change your sense of the Five Books of Moses

this is my favorite book. if anyone has similar taste to me then i highly recommend them to read it. i was getting so into reading it that i never wanted it to end. to last forever. so i tried to do so by reading a limit of pages each day. i live in NYC and by reading the book i had grown a stronger love for the city and thats another reason i loved the book. the down fall of the book? well, it was and made me sad. it was kinda a depressing book. you now. like a heart-acher.

it was indeed a pleasure to read and in the future, if you do read it, i hope you injoy.

thats my review! i hope i helped!

Streets: Memoir Of The Lower East Side was written in 1922 and published for the first time in 1955. This remarkable memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in the tenement slums of New York's Lower East Side is gritty, candid, vivid, engaging, sensitive, and streetsmart. Bella Spewack overcame obstacles of gender, background, and religious discriminations to succeed as a celebrated journalist, playwright, and screenwriter. Streets is highly recommended, articulate reading and will prove of special interest to students of American Jewish history, Women's Studies, and biographies reflecting the triumph of the human spirit over social and cultural barriers.

This is a coming of age story depicting the harrowing early life of an extraordinary talent. Told with an amazing eye for detail and a highly developed sense of humor, this is one of the most moving autobiographies I have read. Bella Spewack writes of her thirst for knowledge and determination. In later life Bella invented the Girl Scout cookie, became a noted journalist and wrote successful plays and movies. Streets tells of the difficult circumstances of her childhood.

This amazing book introduced many topics that I was totally unfamiliar with. The historical relationship with Haiti, for instance, was definitely enlightening. I was slightly embarrassed by my ignorance on the subject of a culture located so close to mainland USA, and with a resident Dominican population numbering in the thousands, sharing our communities! We need to learn more about this country with such a long and turbulent history. The Dominican Republic is of course much more than the wonderful Sammy Sosa.Cambeira's book places in firm historical and cultural perspective the meaning of Caribbean identity. This is truly a haunting tale, written in a magnificent, untraditional style that readily appeals to persons like myself...who usually found history texts boring. Cambeira's work is far from boring... this is outstanding.

This book presents much fascinating information about a culture and its people we here in the States know very little about....because of our own stubborn and narrow ignorance. The author interpretes the cultural evolution of his native land in such a way as to make history exciting to read. This is certainly a fresh approach.

Never have I read such a rich historical and cultural perspective of a country as what I have encountered in Quisqueya . The book is Excellent. Once I began reading it, I couldn't put it down. Before reading Quisqueya la Bella, I knew very little about the culture or people from La Republica Dominicana. Now, after having read the book, I am enlightened. Because everything was an issue of interest to me, I will highlight those issues that were most fascinating to me: *The miscegenation of the people of Hispaniola >The African influence of the people. *The great divide between the two countries of Hispaniola >The disdain of Haitian by the Dominican. *The US's influence throughout the entire book >The Us invasion and influence in the political arena.

I will be definitely reading the book over and over again., because to me is as oustading job. Dr. Cambeira you go, Excellent Book.

Ora Band and Bella Bergman have shattered the rules of Hebrew instruction with this ground breaking work. The "Shelabim," in the vernacular, works with all sides of the brain to ensure total absorption of grammar, language and usage. One can use this text for young and older adults, teens and younger kids with equal ease. Students will come away from this work really having learned something. I used this text on a college level, and the students learned a great deal without feeling they had overly exerted themselves. this is a measure of how finely attuned this work is to the way people actually think.

I used this book when I was a kid and thought that it was the best Hebrew book that I had. I am now using it to teach my own students. It is a very great book because it does not assume that you have outside knowledge. The texts build on each other like you would hope that a language text would. The series is aimed at adults however I would recommend it for any age group.

This book assumes that students aren't in an ulpan or other immersive environment, which is good because I'm not and most American students aren't. It takes it slowly with lots of exercises. The other thing I really like about this series is that it uses examples from Jewish culture, the Bible and other Jewish writings. It goes beyond teaching language to teach culture.

An intense and yet, humorous look into a girls growing years.
A book well worth the read.
E.J.Willmann

The title "Marriage, Kidneys and Other Dark Organs" by Venera DiBella Barles, would seem likely to be the perfect reading companion for a long wait in the radiology clinic, but is devoid of literal references to kidneys. It is actually a visceral trail of the author's real life experience growing up in an immigrant family household where a colorful but dominating father leaves the family raw and vulnerable. Between tears, I laughed my kishkas out. There are powerful emotional strains in these memoirs that anyone, regardless of background, can relate to, whether the understanding stems from the "school of hard knocks" or from the comfortable voyeuristic vantage point of the den recliner.

Wow, what a great piece of work. It was a rollercoaster, I laughed and cried, I could not put this book down. I thoroughly enjoyed the journey with the author. Di Bella Barles is so generous, she shares so much with her reader.